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 5, 2015

Day 1 - They have arrived!

Today the ladybugs arrived. We were really surprised because of the storms in the east.

They came in a little cup - it looked like a restaurant to-go cup, and there were so many of them! You could hear them walking around (wish I would have taken a picture).

We placed the ladybugs in our tank and left them in the cup so they could get used to their surroundings and get out at their own pace. Man, did they seem happy! It looked like they started mating almost right away!





We added the aphids as their food source too, they really seemed to enjoy those guys! Wonder  how long they will last...



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