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.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Day 6 - I'M HUNGRY!!

Ok, gotta change things up. I'm not convinced that there are any aphids left, so I'm guessing that the poor bugs are hungry. We decided to add some of the dry ladybug food to the tank.

We added 1/2 tsp of dry food (mixture of brown sugar and powdered milk) to a small bowl and added it to the tank. Haven't seen any bugs get excited about it yet, but let's give it some time! I just don't want these cuties to go hungry! Oh, cuties... Wonder if they like oranges?? Maybe I will have to Google that one to see - they did come in a container that had something that looked like fruit... Maybe an orange would work?

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