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Home > Blogs > Birds and Butterflies > Archives > 2009 > November > 13 > Entry

Butterflies in Space

By Beth Burke | Friday, November 13, 2009, 02:09 PM

When the space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on November 16th the astronauts will be joined by Monarch and Painted Lady butterflies. The habitat was designed and built by BioServe Space Technologies at CU-Boulder. The study will compare the development of butterfly larva on earth and in the weightless environment in space. The neat part about this experiment is that school children will be raising the caterpillars here on earth. Students K-12 will take part in classrooms across the country to care for and document the growth of the larva. Read more about this at www.sciencedaily.com or www.monarchwatch.org.

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