Me and my 2 teammates are going on the ISS but we have to have larvae to send up so we are breeding bugs. There are 150 bugs between the 3 of us. Before we put the bugs in the tank we put the garden fabric courtesy of Jeana on the reptile cage cover and duck taped it. We did this so the bug wouldn't get out because the garden fabric has holes that are so tiny but still breathable. We had to do a lot of cutting so the garden fabric would fit the reptile cage cover. We also made a "cotton ball on a string" like Meghan had did. We used red thread for that. We already had plants from our last batch of bugs so all we needed was dirt so we got a pot from the backyard old summer planting that had no flowers but soil and we pored it in the tank. Then the bugs were released.
We released the ladybugs at 7:31 p.m.and right when we let them out and closed the lid, the bugs immediately started to mate.
The first ladybug ate an aphid at 7:42 p.m. They ate many after that.
We turned the light off at 8:44 p.m. to put the ladybugs asleep.
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