Learn how this midge has a unique strategy for surviving what most organisms couldn’t.

An international team of scientists led by Osaka Metropolitan University revealed how Antarctica sole known native insect–the Antarctic midge, or Belgica antarctica–survives the extreme cold.

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 ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called Belgica antarctica manages to live in the freezing continent by essentially ...

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 ...

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 ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment. Picture an ...

The Antarctic midge is the only known insect native to Antarctica. (photo credit: Yuta Shimizu / Osaka Metropolitan University.) An international team of scientists led by Osaka Metropolitan ...

This mechanism helps the insect cope with freezing temperatures and may have implications for human cryopreservation. “We were able to establish a method for rearing the Antarctic midge over a ...