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 12, 2015

Cannibalized eyes

2/12/15-
     It was a depressing day, one died! He was eaten alive. The one ladybug was laying down like he was dead. Another bug came up and eat him. The dead looking one started to move his arms and shake but he couldn't move because he was on his back and somehow he got half way buried under the dirt.The one eating him just kept munching and munching but he wouldn't move, it is like he had to eat him. I needed to try to save him, I knew that if I helped him fast enough he might still have a chance to survive. So me and my mom opened the tank to get the rampage eater off the poor bug. When we opened the tank about 5 bugs got out of the tank. Once we got the bugs back in the tank I noticed that the eaten bug had moved to a different spot. I was so relived that he was alright and was still alive. When we got home from the post office i noticed that the eaten bug had moved again but then I realized he wasn't moving. At that point I was heart-broken. This death was so sad because I watched him get eaten alive and I cried during that moment.

     So at 8:19 p.m. we put the ladybugs to bed at a sad note with one less soul in our happy cannibalized tank.
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