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.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Day 2 - Water?

We decided to experiment with water. We weren't sure how to efficiently give them water, so we decided to soak some cotton balls in water and put them on a string so we could easily remove them from the tank. We tried to be responsible and use a control cotton ball that was outside of the tank so we could see when we needed to change the cotton balls. Man, those things dry up fast! When we woke up today, the control cotton ball was almost dried up. So we decided to change them out. The cotton balls in the tank were more moist than the control cotton ball - probably because of the humidity in the tank, but, still seemed pretty dry... Gonna  have to change them out every day (maybe even 2 times a day) I think...





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  1. UnknownFebruary 10, 2015 at 5:43 PM

    We re-watered them once a day. We have no eggs either! Dang you ladybugs, lay eggs already! hahahaha

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