But Dr Bob Winter, president of the Intensive Care Society, is more cautious.

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"If you start using face oils and heavier creams now, you might avoid the dry-skin trap of winter, " said Dr. Colbert.

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"The aim is to find out where these larvae go - where they over-winter, " said Dr Roger Key, a senior invertebrate specialist from English Nature, which is working on the project with Leeds University and the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

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