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, March 26, 2015

SHOOT!!!!!

There are like no more ladybugs!! I can only count 3 or 4 ladybugs (chilling in the food). Hopefully the others are having more luck then we are!

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

OK

so today we put the ladybugs outside and there was a lot of escapees. they are all the same. and there seem to be left.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

AWWW MANNNN!!!!! :-()

SERIOUSLY!!?!?!! How come the pea plant had to die??!!?

But i guess that it DID actually live a long life. All of the ladybugs are fine. And everyone is eating. So in other words everything is the same.
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Monday, March 9, 2015

wow

So somehow there is magically spiderwebs in the tank. I don't know how they got there unless there is a spider in the tank. Otherwise everything is just fine and normal. And there is still NO eggs; hasn't it been at least a month??!!? I mean, at least it doesn't launch until June      :-)     :-(


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Friday, March 6, 2015

Day 28 - Rest

Wow. Yesterday was quite the day. From being interviewed by the news to being honored at our local school board meeting.

All I gotta say is WOW.
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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Day 27 - Are they fighting??

Today we were interviewed by the news (that was so cool - I was nervous) -  Mom got some pictures of me too (embarrassing). The reporter was asking about if ladybugs fight - I think I caught it on tape!! What do you think?


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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Day 26 - Look how they walk around!

 
So we were doing our normal watering cycle - I take off the lid, Ayden watches those bugs, I take out the food and, since the bugs seem to LOVE hanging out in the food bowl, I have to cover it up with my hand, and mommy sprays the plants. I totally got a kick out of these two trying to escape - partners in crime!

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Day 25 - Nothing happening

Well, it's been a while since I've blogged... Today is the same as all of the other days; nothing happening. :-(                

We have noticed though, that there are other mite type bugs - they look like gnats maybe? We don't know how they got there, but I suspect it's due to the moisture and the dirt.

I just put more water in the tank. It is funny; yesterday I was talking to Dante and A.J. about how my ladybugs are trying to have eggs. But over all, I am supprised that they STILL haven't done ANYTHING!!!! But I am still glad that some of them are alive.
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