An international team of scientists led by Osaka Metropolitan University revealed one of the mysteries of the life cycle of the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica, which offers clues to humans about ...

A global research team led by researchers from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has found that Antarctica’s only native insect is already ingesting ...

Across the South Pole's frozen expanse, there lives only one purely terrestrial animal: a tiny insect called the Antarctic midge. This flightless creature, just 0.2 inches long, has eked out an ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that somehow survives the extreme climate. How the Antarctic ...