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.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Day 10

Yay!!! Today we put new dry food in the tank! (1/2 of a teaspoon). And the pea pod is HUGE!!!!! It is almost to the top of the tank. On the other hand, everything seems to be doing well. All they want to say is: "Yea yea yea. We are fine now get out of our sight!"



 
 
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