#Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Summer Williams for the inception of the idea to get Science Cheerleader involved in space research. Also thanks to Carl Carruthers at Nanoracks LLC for managing our space payload. We are also grateful to Holly Menninger and Rob Dunn for sharing data from the Wildlife of Our Homes pilot project, and Steve Kembel for publishing the original version of Figure 6 in an open-access journal, as well as sharing the underlying data. Many organizations and funding agencies made Project MERCCURI possible, including the Space Florida ISS Research Competition (www.spaceflorida.gov/iss-research-competition), SciStarter.com, ScienceCheerleader.com, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, UC Davis, SpaceX Cargo Resupply Mission 3 (www.spacex.com), and NASA (NASA.gov).