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, February 11, 2015

Day 6... Feeding time

2/11/15  
  The Ladybug Tank Landia light wast  turned on at 7:30 a.m. Not much activity so far except for one bug that was eating the nectar. There's about 5 to 7 bugs in the top right corner. They moved to a different corner, it is the other top right corner right across for the other one.

3:00-
     All the ladybugs moved back to the other corner! Seriously people, find a spot to stay and stay  there come on people! 5 bugs are eating right now, I guess it is feeding time. Many bugs are crawling around the leaves and there are 2 in the aphid cup.
Also this morning there were tones of ladybugs on this one tiny leaf front and back.




   
      We turned the light off at 9:00.

   
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