Since 2004, University Distinguished Professor of Biology Richard Lee has studied this extremeophile, the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica. This wingless midge is the only true insect found on ...

Tiniest Insect Genome SequencedLike other flies, the midge has 13,500 functional genes. Among these, the team found an abundance of genes associated with development, regulation of metabolism, and ...

See About archive blog posts. “Whoa! That’s so cool!” Julian Guzman shrieked as he spotted an image of wingless midge larvae.

The wingless midge that he studies, along with a colleague at the Ohio State University, live in the rocky islands near Palmer Station. At 6 to 7 millimeters long, they are the largest land ...

Over tens of millions of years, the wingless midge Belgica antarctica has perfected the art of freezing itself to push through the darkest and coldest of Antarctica's winter months, carving out an ...