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, February 24, 2015

New friends in our home

2/24/15-
      Sorry it has been so long! I was sick so i couldn't blog. A lot has been going on since I last blogged. I have seen some new kind of bug in our tank. We think they are nats and they fly around. We poked holes in the top of the landscape fabric so that we could use our squirt bottle to squirt water in the tank. We did this because when we opened up the tank to re water the cotton balls and to give them more food, they got out every time. And this is really effective. Give or take a few bugs the one in the picture are the only ones left. There are some crawling around everywhere else but they are mostly in the food. We need to to change out the food but I'm not quite sure how we will do that with all the bugs in it.
     We put the bugs to bed at sundown. We have now decided to put the bugs to sleep at sundown so that we follow their normal schedule.
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