do any insects live in antartica or is it too cold?
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Yes there is\n\nThe largest native land invertebrate on the Antarctic continent is a tiny, wingless midge that is about 1/4 of an inch long. There are also several other types of insects that can be found, which include springtails and tiny mites. Most Antarctic insects live under rocks and stones in the soil and among lichens. Springtails are especially common around penguin colonies. They are black and shiny, and they jump around. No insects in Antarctica have wings, but they all do have a special "anti-freeze" in their cells that is a lot like the liquid that we put in our car radiators for the winter. In Antarctica, there are very few different species of insect. However, in some areas there may be millions of insects per square yard!
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All depends where you are. For instance, way up north or on the antarctic where you have permafrost (frozen ground all year round) the temperature is going to be below zero up to 3 below ground, though, probably at 3 m you're looking at the maximum depth.. I'm not exactly sure about that, but if you can find mamoth you can dig it up and eat it as the meat is supposed to be fresh.\nHowever, at this depth the average temp is going to be around 15 deg C higher than the ambient ground level temp. \nIn hot places, the reverse is true and temperatures around 3 m below ground level are going to be around 15deg Cooler. \nThe main factor working here is the specific heat of dirt.. Not easy to work out exactly but has a general average which works.\nSeasonal changes do vary but if we go back to the permafrost situation we can see that the ground is frozen constantly to this depth, even though on the surface we may get a bit of thaw and things get damp and sticky.\nThe same is true for warmer places.. Ground temperatures as with sea temperatures at depth, do not change that much from season to season, and with the ocean we can talk about from decade to decade.
200818
Do you live in a really cold climate?
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At the antartic circle, the sun never sets.\n\nThe antarctic circle is on the continent of antarctica.\n\nCompasses do not work within the antarctic circle.\n\nNo stars are visible in the antarctic circle.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antartica
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Mosquitos don't care to much about how cold it gets in their dormant phase, so long as there is some warm time for their active phase\n\nI have been savaged by Mosquitos in Alaska a couple of hundred miles north of Anchorage.\n\nI assume there are some of the little buggers that come out for the brief summer in Nome.
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no because cold blooded animals are dependant of the  environment temperature \nif the temperature outside drops to 0 C you would die
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There is little precipitation at the Antarctica because of the low temperatures. Cold air does not hold as much moisture as hot air. In the winter for exsample the humidity is lower than in the summer ( humidity is scale of how much moisture is in the air). Moisture in the air rises and settles in the clouds to produce snow or rain. When the temperature stays as cold as in does in Antarctica little moisture is present to create snow or rain. The snow that is on the ground in pictures and movies that you may see has been there for sometime. There is stays so cold that when snow does fall it takes it a long time to melt. I hope this was helpful.
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based on the weather forecast for the next week in capetown, it's between 15 to 25 degrees Celsius. So don't think it'd be too cold. Look at the website below. Can learn more about South Africa.
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Just a quick thought here that may help you.  Under "cold blooded" - or ectothermic - we understand an organism that does not produce a relatively constant body core temperature by means of metabolitic activity etc., but rather regulates its temperature by shutteling between warmer and coller areas.  It takes on the temperature of its environment.  That would be detrimental in case of an animal living in antarctic conditions.  A penguin's blood would freeze, there would be crystalization, and the cells would eventually burst.  In other words, the penguin would be a very cold toast.\n\nNow, there are however ectothermic organisms in arctic and antarctic oceans, which maintain blood flow by using a chemcial anti-freeze.  This has been found, for example in some fishes (the plural is allowed here, since we aretalking about more than one species).  But penguins don't have anything like that and do not need it.  As others have mentioned above, they are very well insulated endotherms (maintain a relatively stable core temperature).\n\nHope this helps in addition to the other answers.
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Hottest Place:  El Azizia, Lybia (150 Degrees)\n\nColdest Place:  East Antartic Ice Sheet (-89.4 Degrees)
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Yes.\n\nUnder the North Pole is just water- the americans and Russians have been sending submarines under there for years.\n\nAntartica was first recorded as being mapped centuries ago- some guy called Peri Reis (something like that) got credited for it but the map was around too long ago for them to have had the technology to see under the ice. The suggestion being that Antartica used to be warmer. Then Antartica disappeared from maps for several hundred years and only started reappearing fairly recently.\nEven then it has only been in the last 50 years or so that we've managed to be able to establish the shape of the rock below the ice and yes, it matches the Peri Reece (or whatever his name was lol) guys map!
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I'm not sure about in Australia, but I know here in Western Canada we have flying ants called Carpenter Ants. As the name would suggest they are like termites in that they go after wood for a place to nest. Each year in late spring through till early summer you will see Queen Ants and Male Ants which have grown wings. They fly to find a mate, and once one is found they fall to the ground, loose their wings, and attempt to start a new colony.
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The answer depends on the species of butterfly. Each species is adapted to a habitat and their life cycle places the proper life stage at the proper time of year. So each species has evolved flight muscles that are most efficient at a particular temperature range. Early and late season butterflies are better adapted for flying in cool weather than mid-summer species.\n\nThere are several moth species (not butterflies) that live and fly in mid-winter. When temperatures are too cold to fly, they use shivering to heat their muscles up to flight temperature.
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The film took place in a harsh part of Antartica where it's the coldest, driest and windiest.  It was about the animals that live there and the scientiests who work there.  I don't know if it ever came to DVD after IMAX.
661985
Few complex life forms we know of can survive exposure temperatures that low for more than a moment. However, if pockets of milder temperatures could be found (thermal vents, well isulated hybernation dens, etc) some life would likely adapt. Life forms that could mature and reproduce in one warm season (such as a plant that produces spores capable of surviving such a harsh winter) would have a great advantage. Plants such as trees woudn't stand a chance, as is true of many things humans and other complex life depend on for food and shelter. \n\nAnother consideration would be the erosion due to lack of any plants capable of maintaining a root system to stablize soil. Between the turbidity from erosion and likelyhood that all rivers would freeze solid through most of the winter, most life in rivers and lakes would become extinct. Since the upper temperature is not much if any higher than what we have now, the average temperatue is much lower. This would concentrate vast amounts of water in the icecaps, possibly enough to greatly increase the salinity of the oceans, which would also see a major drop in temperature. Most marine life is more sensitive to temperatue changes than terrestrial or freshwater life, so a great number of extinctions there also.\n\nSo no, life would not survive other than perhaps a few simple life forms. Even a drop of a dozen degrees in average temperature would be devastating in the long run for life as we know it.
41980
No human LIVES in antartica, but there are research stations there...