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.

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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