Studying the Life Cycle of Butterflies and Spiders in Space

[horace2264]

Just sharing this interesting piece of news (http://www.universetoday.com/2008/11/11/studying-the-life-cycle-of-butterflies-and-spiders-in-space/).

They will be studying the life cycle of Painted Lady in the space station. :gbounce:

[horace2264]

Oops, typo in the thread title. :embrass:
Could the admin assist to correct it?

[Sky Blue]

1st thing I thought of is that the butterfly when hatch without gravity, will have problem hanging it's wings downward & spread it correctly :-(

[horace2264]

1st thing I thought of is that the butterfly when hatch without gravity, will have problem hanging it's wings downward & spread it correctly :-(
Interesting thought. :thinking:
Will the fluid-pumping process to inflate the wings be affected by the lack of gravity? Hopefully, the life history so documented will be made available for the public to view.

[horace2264]

Oops, typo in the thread title. :embrass:
Could the admin assist to correct it?
Thanks, admin for the speedy corrective action. :thumbsup:

[Glorious Begum]

imaging the sh!ts floating over the place. :bsmile:

[atronox]

I dun think it cn pump the lymph properly.
Interesting article. Thx for sharing, Horace.:grin2:

[Silverstreak]

I dun think it cn pump the lymph properly.


Dun need fully inflated wings to "fly" space ..... :bsmile:

[atronox]

Dun need fully inflated wings to "fly" space ..... :bsmile:Haha, yeah, mvt will be a prob.:bsmile:

[horace2264]

An update on the spider portion (http://www.universetoday.com/2008/11/22/spiders-adapt-to-space-weaving-a-near-perfect-web/)of the study. The spiders were able to overcome the initial problem of weaving a proper web.