Plagued by swarms of midges, Italian beach town wants emergency declared
Residents of the Tuscan beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of ...
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How Antarctica’s Only Native Insect Survives the Extreme Cold
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 ...
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Antarctica’s only native insect’s unique survival mechanism
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 ...
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Antarctic midges mating (IMAGE)
The Antarctic midge is the only known insect native to Antarctica. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of this paper only.