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, February 18, 2015

Day 12 - OMG!

Man! You should look at our pea pod plant!! No joke; it is literally touching the top of the tank! (to the lid). Everything is totally fine and awesome!!! Every single ladybug is eating and mating. But, unfortunately A TON of ladybugs have died from falling off the roof and couldn't get back up. :-(

FEBRUARY 10TH


TODAY!
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