What Our Experiment is About

Ladybugs in Space will show how micro-gravity will affect the life cycle of a ladybug. We feel that it is important to discover how micro-gravity could affect ladybugs so that in the future, if there are gardens in space, astronauts and scientists will be able to prevent pests like aphids from destroying food resources.

We expect that micro-gravity will speed up the process, that typically takes 26-54 days (from egg to adult) on earth.

While the ladybugs are in space, we will be conducting a ground truth test to monitor our findings and document our results. We will compare our findings after the mission returns back to earth.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

COOL :-)

So a few days ago me and mommy put new ladybugs in the tank (and I'm sorry I haven't been keeping up with my posts) and these ladybugs are so much more active in the tank! So me and mommy have decided to keep the lid closed more and not open it. But then it was sooooooo bad when the Easter bunny decided to put an egg in the tank. And I have NO idea how he put it in there without ANY ladybugs flying out. But then again he DOES have the power to make animals do whatever he wants them to. And when I was watering the ladybugs today, I accidentally got a bunch of water in the dry food bucket and the ladybugs made it so hard to put the lid back on.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Hooray!! :-)

Today Mommy and me put new ladybugs in the tank! I think we put 150 but like 5 of them were dead.
But it is soooooooooooooooooo nice to see red ladybugs in the tank!! :-)


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Thursday, March 26, 2015

SHOOT!!!!!

There are like no more ladybugs!! I can only count 3 or 4 ladybugs (chilling in the food). Hopefully the others are having more luck then we are!

Sunday, March 15, 2015

OK

so today we put the ladybugs outside and there was a lot of escapees. they are all the same. and there seem to be left.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

AWWW MANNNN!!!!! :-()

SERIOUSLY!!?!?!! How come the pea plant had to die??!!?

But i guess that it DID actually live a long life. All of the ladybugs are fine. And everyone is eating. So in other words everything is the same.

Monday, March 9, 2015

wow

So somehow there is magically spiderwebs in the tank. I don't know how they got there unless there is a spider in the tank. Otherwise everything is just fine and normal. And there is still NO eggs; hasn't it been at least a month??!!? I mean, at least it doesn't launch until June      :-)     :-(


Friday, March 6, 2015

Day 28 - Rest

Wow. Yesterday was quite the day. From being interviewed by the news to being honored at our local school board meeting.

All I gotta say is WOW.