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.

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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