species of the day: Sergentia koschowi

[eub]

The deepest-living insect known, a bloodworm from the near-anaerobic abyssal oozes of Lake Baikal. Chock full of hemoglobin.

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[fuzzycoffeebean.livejournal.com]

But there is no species of insect that completes its life cycle in an extreme aquatic environment. Again, just like the oceanic Halobates, only a part of the Chironomidae life cycle is in that environment (larvae and pupae), midges are mosquito-like and the adults are air borne.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

what? no pictures?

yaaay lake baikal. if my loose grasp of russian geography has not failed me, i will not be anywhere near there later in the week. (but i'm planning on a boat ride up and down the moscow river, though...)