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, March 12, 2015

Not much is happening

3/12/15-
We are down to about 20 bugs and no eggs. The ladybugs are not doing much and there are about 8 bugs still in the cup of hard food. We are scheduling a meeting with Mary Ann Hamilton to meet her and talk to her about our experiment. We put the bugs to bed at sunset which is now at 7:04.
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