Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Smallest fly in the world?

Posted by atylotus on 03-01-2012 17:05
#14

To Crex:
world famous I think is the chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki whose larva is able to resist a temperature from -270 C to +102 C (although this will not occur anywhere in nature, I hope :o
see for instance: http://www.nature...336a0.html

Edited by atylotus on 03-01-2012 17:06