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.

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Day 15 - hip hip hooray! hip hip hooray! hip hip hooray! for Meghan!!!

"HOORAY!!!! I am sooooooooo glad that you gave us some food!!!" said all of the ladybugs that were in the tank. All of the ladybugs are doing just fine. But the pea plant on the other hand; is so big that I had to nock it over. Even though I knocked it over, it is still at the top of the tank.
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