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.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Day 4 - Changing things up a bit...

Well, we decided that the cotton ball wasn't going to be a sufficient source of water, so we're trying to mist the tank every day or so with water. This should make the plants moist and also give the bugs enough water too. We are still keeping with the watered cotton balls, and actually added one into a little cup of water so it would remain moist, but I'm afraid that they might drown if they accidentally get into that cup of water...

It does look like they are using the cotton ball (for water) still though - just caught a bug chilling out on one...


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