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.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Day 13 - Eh

Today nothing is happening. But I  can tell you that the pea plant is literately the tallest house grown plant I have ever seen!! when you open the lid it is poking through. But otherwise all the ladybugs are fine and eating and mating. A lot of ladybugs are dying from drowning and falling off the roof and can't get back up.
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