Connected on 2007-03-19 11:30:00 from Touchet, Washington, USA
- 10:43am
- Bugscope Team Denise, can you see the chat text here?
- Bugscope Team Hi Denise, we need to make sure you can see this chat text? Can you?
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Bugscope Team We are waiting for the vacuum to get a little better; then we'll be able to start th 'scope and make presets right away.
- Bugscope Team PLEASE let us know, from the school, whether you are seeing this...
- Bugscope Team Denise, if you can'
- Teacher Yes, I can see it, sorry I was setting up the students' computers
- Bugscope Team Cool! Hi!
- Bugscope Team Ahh Cool.
- Bugscope Team yay ok
- Bugscope Team We are running a little behind, we still need to make presets, we are waiting for the scope vacuum to build up to good levels first.
- Bugscope Team We are off to a slow start but have the best people workin' on this on our end.
- 10:48am
- Teacher I'm setting them up as guests because it keeps on coming up as teacher :) Don't want them to do that!
Bugscope Team Good thinking Denise, that is fine.
- Bugscope Team Should be making presets in a matter or moments.
- Bugscope Team After the teacher has logged in, it should automatically offer to log new users in as students
- Bugscope Team You don't see anything about students then?
- Teacher Cool, it's all right if we're running a little late-they're third graders so their attention span is about 40-45 min. anyway
- Teacher I only saw students come up on the first computer I logged in.
Bugscope Team Don't worry about it, guest if fine for now.
- Bugscope Team It doesn't affect how the session runs anyways
- Bugscope Team So no big deal
- Bugscope Team Vacuum is almost ready, at that point we'll start making presets and you'll see some images. After the presets are made, we'll unlock the session and then you (dspain) can start controlling the scope.
- Bugscope Team okay the 'scope is up and on
- Bugscope Team you can see the carbon tape and part of a walking stick
- Guest cool!
- Bugscope Team June bug
- 10:54am
- Bugscope Team Chas is adjusting the microscope so future images will be perfect as possible.
- Teacher Should I be seeing this on the other computers?
- Bugscope Team yes you should
- Bugscope Team you may have to refresh
- Bugscope Team going for the ant now
- Bugscope Team yes, you should see the same image on all computers, there may be some lag, but it should be close to the same. is it?
- Bugscope Team Chas is driving the microscope; Alex is saving the presets.
- Teacher a little, I think the students' computers are a little older than my laptop, so the lag is a little longer
Bugscope Team that's okay, chas is moving the scope fast now, so the lag is intense.
- Bugscope Team when you are driving the lag will be less
- Bugscope Team the walking sticks were pretty flat, and something else in there was totally smooshed like Santa Claus had stepped on it with one of his boots, and rubbed it around.
- Bugscope Team So we put some other stuff in here as well.
- 11:00am
- Teacher That's okay, I wondered how well they would travel across the country
- Bugscope Team the smooshed stuff in the bag was all part of the bigger walking stick
- Bugscope Team you could not recognize some of the stuff
- Bugscope Team But yeah, we're good.
- Bugscope Team Chas is looking around for interesting places.
- Guest heyy!!!!
- Bugscope Team Oh Yeah.
- Bugscope Team Hello Annie from the West.
- Guest hello!!!
- Bugscope Team How are you doing, Annie?
- Guest I am good
- Bugscope Team we've getting two more presets, and then we are ready. another 4-5 minutes denise.
- Guest it is a little cooler out here that I want it to be, but I bring the rain and the rain is needed
- Bugscope Team Annie is our entolomogist, and she is logging in from California today, at least I think that's where she is now.
- Guest Yees, I am in Valencia CA
- Bugscope Team one more preset
- Bugscope Team whoops entomologist
- Guest home of many strip malls
- Bugscope Team I made up a new discipline
- Bugscope Team annie you are in california!
- Guest mogist
- Guest Yes, I am in California
- Bugscope Team wow, i'm so jealous.
- Guest Yesterday I went collecting in the desert and fought with spiny bushes
- Bugscope Team I'm jealous too...
- Guest I look like I got in a fight with a cat
- Bugscope Team ouch
- Bugscope Team Pirate Girl.
- Guest The worst thing about it is that I have to come home eventually :(
- Bugscope Team denise, we are ready for you to control the scope!
- 11:05am
- Guest yay
- Bugscope Team right now you are looking at a stickbug tarsi.
- Bugscope Team notice the controls the the upper right of your screen.
- Guest phasmatodea
- Guest tarsi are insect feet
- Teacher Are we about ready?
Bugscope Team we are totally ready!
- Bugscope Team yeah go ahead and use the controls on the right
- Bugscope Team Driving may take a little bit of getting used to
- Bugscope Team I'd try click-to-center first
- Guest ooh, I just noticed the scale bar...that is really cool
- 11:10am
- Bugscope Team I am back as an admin
- Bugscope Team Great!
- Bugscope Team haha
- Bugscope Team I always forget
- Bugscope Team are we looking at a deflated eyeball?
Bugscope Team i think so
- Guest What kind of bug is this
Bugscope Team This is the head of a stickbug
- Bugscope Team Yeah, in the lower left there
- Bugscope Team Check it out up close.
- Bugscope Team See if it is really an eye.
- Guest what is the part
- Bugscope Team umm, if we zoom out a bit I can tell what kind of insect it is
Bugscope Team We are waiting for Denise to get control of the class, then she will start drivign the scope.
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team This is one of the walking sticks.
- Bugscope Team it says we are at64x, i dont think we can move out much farther
- Bugscope Team ahh, ok, big insect
- Bugscope Team Yeah they have pretty big heads.
- Bugscope Team It's a bit out of focus now though, so it could be sharper
- Bugscope Team class, then 'scope
- Guest what kind of part is this
- Guest what part
- Guest What limb is this?
- Bugscope Team this is the head
- Bugscope Team head
- Guest what is this part called
- Guest what kind of bug
- Bugscope Team we're seeing several things, but this is all on the head of the stick bug
- Bugscope Team A stick insect
- Guest is this a boy or a girl
- Bugscope Team the eye is at the lower left, but it's in bad shape so it's all deflated
- Bugscope Team this is the stickbug that you sent us!
- Bugscope Team hard to tell--was this a big fat stick or a skinny small stick
- Guest girl
- Guest what part of the body is it
- Bugscope Team the head
- Bugscope Team i'm not sure you will be able to tell if this is a boy or girl, it's really just a part of it
- Guest how many bones does it have?
Bugscope Team It has an "exoskeleton", which means that it's bones are all on the outside, as it's skin
- Guest is this a boy or a girl
- Guest the brain
- Bugscope Team no bones
- Bugscope Team if the stick insect was big and fat when it was alive, it was a girl. If it was really small and thin, it was a boy
- Guest How do they grow up.
- Guest 22
- Guest what part is this
Bugscope Team we're still looking at the head
- Bugscope Team Stick insects are what we call hemimetabolous
- Guest how long is it
- Guest how come there legs come off
- 11:15am
- Guest how many bones does it have
- Bugscope Team when they hatch from the egg they look like miniature adult stick bugs
- Guest what food do they eat
- Bugscope Team and that means they have like half a metabolism?
- Guest female or male
- Guest ?
- Bugscope Team then they molt and get bigger and bigger and at their last molt they get their wings
- Guest male
- Bugscope Team it means that they don't have complete metamorphosis...egg, larvae, pupae, adult
- Guest How do they grow up
- Guest what do
- Bugscope Team they have egg, nymph, adult
- Guest butterflies
- Guest what is tiht
- Bugscope Team stick insects eat leaves from the plants where they live
- Guest How old can it live
- Guest it*
- Bugscope Team click again to stop moving denise.
- Bugscope Team if you are using click to drive, remember to click again to stop
- Guest jkdrkkjuiuryuitgef4d
- Bugscope Team Comp8, stick insects have incomplete metamorphosis---they have three life stages, egg, nymph, and adult
- Bugscope Team denise, if you get lost driving, try clicking on a preset (lower right) and that will take you to a good image
- Bugscope Team Denise -- it can be hard to find new things to look at just by driving. You should try clicking on a preset in the list to the right of the chat
- Bugscope Team comp7 this was the head
- Guest what does the bug do
- Bugscope Team Comp: stick insects usually live one year (one summer)
- Guest what is the bug called
Bugscope Team this is also the walking stick bug
- Guest Do they have bones
Bugscope Team not on the inside. their skin is very hard (called an exoskeleton) and serves the same purpose as our bones
Bugscope Team Hello, sorry for joining late. Bugs don't have bones - rather they have a hard outer shell called an "exoskeleton".
- Guest What kind of bugs are we going to look at
- Bugscope Team but now we're seeing the leg
- Bugscope Team Stick insects don't do much, they live on trees and eat leaves
- Guest how big is it
- Guest what part of the bug are we looking at
- Guest what kind of body part
- Bugscope Team leg
- Bugscope Team Comp: this is the insect's foot
- Bugscope Team leg
- Bugscope Team ok
- Guest no they don't have bones
- Bugscope Team we're seeing the different joints in the leg
- Bugscope Team connecting all the leg segments
- Guest what dose the brain look like
- Guest IS IT A GIRL OR A BOY
- Teacher they shed their skin
- Bugscope Team The exoskeleton is hard, and very similar to what your fingernails are made out of.
- Guest How big is it?
- Guest what bug is this
Bugscope Team This is the stickbug, and you are looking at one of its legs.
- Bugscope Team denise, try increasing the mag, try focusing on the hairs on the leg.
- 11:21am
- Guest is it a girl or a boy
- Bugscope Team Comp8 and 4: if the insect was fat--it is a girl, if it was skinny, it was a boy
- Bugscope Team so there are parts of two walking sticks in the microscope, plus an ant, a ladybug, and a June bug.
- Bugscope Team You'd better clarify that a bit, Annie! :-)
- Guest is it a walking stick
- Guest what does the rhino betles brain look like
Bugscope Team a small blob of mushy stuff, most likely
- Bugscope Team This is the leg of one of the walking sticks.
- Guest does it have bones
Bugscope Team it's bones are on the outside of its body, which is called an exoskeleton
- Guest where does it live
Bugscope Team in trees mostly.
- Bugscope Team And these individual segments are called tarsi
- Guest do they lay eggs
- Guest WHERE DID THEY COME FROM
- Guest wich leg
- Guest how many bones do they have
- Guest Why does it look scary?
Bugscope Team BOOOOO!
Bugscope Team Stick bugs aren't all that scary, though there was a funny scene in the "X-Files" where Fox Mulder talks about seeing a stick bug for the first time and screaming. Stick bugs are harmless, even though they do look like sticks moving around!
- Bugscope Team Insects do not have bones, they have an exoskeleton, which means it has tubes of chitinous cuticle on the outside of its body
- Bugscope Team they don't have bones -- they have an outer shell of chitin, which is sort of like your fingernails
- Teacher is that hair in side them
- Bugscope Team it only looks scary if you are afraid of sticks
- Bugscope Team the tiny hairs are called 'setae.'
- Bugscope Team did we have a rhino beetle? is that what got smooshed?
- Bugscope Team insect brains are very small, it looks like little strings and tiny balls of tissue
- Guest what is the strange about it
- Guest it live's inthe desert
- Guest how many bones do they have
- Bugscope Team what lives in the desert?
- Bugscope Team the rhinoceros beetle perhaps?
- Bugscope Team they do not have any bones whatsoever
- Guest Where are they most common?
- Bugscope Team this is the claw (hand) of another stickbug
- Guest what color can it chance into
- Bugscope Team stick insects are most common in the tropics, as are most insect groups
- Guest what is it
- Guest what kinds of food does it eat
- Bugscope Team they eat leaves
- Bugscope Team these range from green to brown, I think -- the ones we have seen
- Guest how old is it
- Bugscope Team insects that only eat plant matter are called herbivores
- Guest what bug is this
Bugscope Team This is from the top of the leg you were just looking at, this is the claw that it uses to hold onto things
- Bugscope Team Stick bugs can be brown like the bark of the plants they live on, or they can be green, and even shaped like leaves.
- Guest 100
- Bugscope Team Stickbug
- 11:26am
- Guest what kind of stick bug
- Bugscope Team stick insects usually can live one "season"--in temperate areas that means on summer
- Bugscope Team one summer
- Guest How old is it ?
- Guest what color can bugsbe
Bugscope Team walking stick bugs are always going to want to blend into their surroundings, so they're going to be greens and browns
- Bugscope Team It is less than one year old
- Bugscope Team It's probably 8 or 10 months old
- Guest what is this
- Guest What part of the body is that?
- Guest what part is it called
- Bugscope Team they can be black, green, brown, yellow, blue, red...
- Bugscope Team these look like sensory setae
- Teacher Is that dust on the hairs?
- Bugscope Team but walking sticks are brown or green
- Bugscope Team yup, dust or dirt or goo
- Bugscope Team yes we will see dust for sure
- Guest does it have entenas
Bugscope Team the walking stick bugs got pretty violated by the postal service so I didn't see the antennae anymore, but there are some very visible antennae on the ant and beetle
- Bugscope Team when insects die, they have a tendency to get a little dirty
- Guest what kind of body part is it
- Bugscope Team yes, all insects have antennae
- Bugscope Team If you see long thing fibers, they may be fungal. In this picture, this is dust or dirt.
- Bugscope Team One set of antennae
- Bugscope Team It had antennae but they may have been lost.
- Guest do they have lice
Bugscope Team They don't usually get lice, but there are some insects that will have other insects feeding on them! These feeders are called "parasites" and we usually see parasites on earwigs.
- Bugscope Team as opposed to crustaceans that have two sets of antennae
- Guest DO THEY HAVE DIFFERENT KIND OF BONES
- Guest what color can bugs be
- Guest What are these ,spines?
Bugscope Team They can be almost any color, red, yellow, black, brown, blue
- Guest are they slow
- Bugscope Team they do not have bones at all -- no bones whatsoever
- Guest What do they use their anntenaes for
Bugscope Team for sensing the world around them. feeling vibrations, air movement, etc
- Guest where are the celes on this bug
- Bugscope Team that didn't work
- Bugscope Team shoot
- Guest what is it
- Guest Where do they live?
Bugscope Team They live in trees and on plants
- Teacher do they eat
Bugscope Team Yes, they eat leaves
- Guest Where are they most common?
Bugscope Team like most insects, they are most common in the tropics
- Guest what part is it
- Bugscope Team they eat the leaves that they live among
- Guest what part is this
Bugscope Team we're still near the claws at the end of the foot I believe
- Bugscope Team try going to the ant.
- 11:31am
- Guest do they drink water
Bugscope Team Umm, probably, or they get water from the food they eat
- Bugscope Team Yeah, the ant is neat
- Guest WHAT KIND OF BODY DOES IT HAVE
- Bugscope Team These are spines on the foot.
- Guest it is a leg
- Guest are we looking at a boy or a girl
- Guest what is it
- Guest is it scary looking
Bugscope Team only scary if you are afraid of sticks
- Bugscope Team they probably get water with the leaves they eat -- they may not drink water directly.
- Bugscope Team this is closeup of the exoskeleton of a stickbug
- Guest what is it
- Bugscope Team As Annie said...
- Bugscope Team These are pretty tame-looking dudes.
- Guest is it spikes
- Guest can they live walla walla
Bugscope Team definitely
- Guest Somehow,this freaks me out.
- Bugscope Team After you've gotten a close look, you should zoom out to see the context of where you are
- Guest is it scary looking
- Guest what kind of insect is it
- Guest what can it do
- Guest What is the exoseliton made of
Bugscope Team it's made of chitin, much like your fingernails!
- Guest why is it creapy
Bugscope Team It is only creepy if you are afraid of it
- Guest were do they live at
Bugscope Team They live in trees or on plants
- Guest WHAT KIND OF INSECT IT IS
- Bugscope Team Chitin (a proteinaceous material similar to our fingernails ) and protein
- Bugscope Team doh
- Bugscope Team We're still looking at the stick bug here
- Guest how big can it get
- Bugscope Team they can be about a foot long in some places
- Bugscope Team usually they are smaller but for an insect they are large
- Guest how do they grow up
Bugscope Team They hatch from an egg to a nymph (a small stick insect), then they molt to larger and larger forms until they molt to adulthood
- Guest What is that?
- Bugscope Team they are long
- Bugscope Team They just eat more and more and get bigger and bigger.
- Guest WHAT KIND OF INSECT IT IS IN IT'S BODY
- Guest do they live in texes
Bugscope Team Yes
- Guest What limb is this?
- Guest probly it is about 6 ponds
- Guest is it scary looking
- Bugscope Team This was on a part near the head I believe
- Bugscope Team we have not found any other bugs on this dude
- 11:36am
- Guest what bug am i looking at
Bugscope Team stick insect
- Guest is this inside of it
Bugscope Team no, this is the outside. we call it the exoskeleton, but that's because their skeleton is where we have our skin, on the outside!
- Bugscope Team You guys should check out the ant and the beetle too
- Bugscope Team so when they molt they lose the shell, which cracks off, and there's a new larger one underneath that expands
- Teacher that looks like water
Bugscope Team it does look like waves. there are some absolutely fascinating patterns on bugs that are just too small to see with the naked eye
- Bugscope Team denise, try clicking on the beetle head preset, that gives a great front on look of a beetle head
- Guest Where are they most common?
Bugscope Team like most insects they are most diverse in the tropics
- Guest Is our skin wrinkly like threre
- Guest were do they live
- Guest why is their body bumpy
- Bugscope Team they have a shell, or exoskeleton, made of chitin, and chitin is like the shell of a shrimp -- the part you don't eat
- Guest does it live in californeu
Bugscope Team yes
- Bugscope Team Phew.
- Guest how are they alike to people
Bugscope Team they are both alive, they both eat, drink, reproduce
- Bugscope Team This is a Junebug.
- Guest how many bones do they have
- Bugscope Team We're seeing the whole head right now
- Guest Is that the head?
- Bugscope Team No bones ever whatsoever never.
- Bugscope Team the antennae are near the bottom, the moutparts and palps are in the middle near the top
- Guest HOW MANY EGGS COULD THEY IEY
Bugscope Team umm, several hundred
- Guest is it a stick
- Bugscope Team yeah we are used to this and having fun on our end
- Guest is it ugly
- Bugscope Team this is not a stick bug; this is a beetle
- Bugscope Team It is very lovely.
- Guest do they have teeth
Bugscope Team they don't have teeth in the traditional sense, they have ridges on their mouthparts that they can use to manipulate food
- Guest it looks like a junebug
- Bugscope Team my image hasn't refreshed yet
- Bugscope Team They do not have teeth.
- Bugscope Team hit refresh
- Bugscope Team Chas?
- Guest what is it called
- Guest how are they alike to walking sticks
Bugscope Team they both have six legs, two antenna, compound eyes, a segmented body and two sets of wings
- Bugscope Team annie, sometimes you have to refresh when using IE7
- Bugscope Team ahh
- Guest were do they come from
- Bugscope Team got it
- Bugscope Team it should be a june bug
- Guest Do you think they are ugly?
Bugscope Team sometimes they can be very beautiful, especially when viewed up close.
- Guest what does it eat
Bugscope Team Junebugs eat roots as larvae (grubs)
- Guest IS THAT THE HEAD AND KIND OF THE BODY
Bugscope Team just the head right now
- 11:41am
- Bugscope Team very different from walking sticks
- Guest what kind of bug is this
- Bugscope Team This is the head -- the underside or ventral portion of the head -- of a junebug.
- Bugscope Team june bug
- Guest is that the head
- Guest what do they eat
- Bugscope Team yep
- Bugscope Team You can see its mandibular and maxillary palps.
- Bugscope Team As adults, many junebugs don't eat
- Guest it sort of look like a crab
Bugscope Team they are both arthropods
- Bugscope Team the palps are little mouthparts that help it taste and manipulate its food
- Bugscope Team i agree!
- Bugscope Team because of the pinchers
- Guest how many eyes do they have?
Bugscope Team they have two compound eyes
- Bugscope Team yeah it does look sort of crabby
- Guest HOW ARE STICKS DIFFERENT FROM WALKING STICKS
Bugscope Team very different
- Guest how big is it
- Bugscope Team crabs and lobsters are just big insects
- Guest where are the celes on this bug
- Teacher What is that thing by the antennae that looks like a bubble or tube?
Bugscope Team can you click to center on it. cool.
Bugscope Team I think you are looking at a broken-off palp
- Guest what do they use there pinchers for
- Guest GBUY VF TS
- Guest How many legs do they have?
Bugscope Team six
- Bugscope Team they use their pinchers to hold onto their food and to hold onto whatever they are walking on
- Guest what do they eat
Bugscope Team as babies (grubs/larvae) they eat roots of various plants
- Guest does it have hair
Bugscope Team all those little hair-like things it has there are called setae. they get used for a variety or purposes
- Bugscope Team When the insects die they dry up and their exoskeleton becomes brittle, so it's not hard to accidentally knock these little appendages off
- Guest Where are they most common?;
Bugscope Team Like most insects, they are probably most common in the tropis
- Guest do they eat
Bugscope Team As larvae, yes, as adults, maybe not
- Bugscope Team they have tiny hairs that we call setae ('see-tee').
- Guest what was the longest stik bug seen in the world
Bugscope Team 13 inches long is what I found online
- Guest is that a junbug
Bugscope Team yes
- Guest how can they eat
Bugscope Team They take bites with their jaws, just like you do
- Bugscope Team tropics
- Bugscope Team tropics
- 11:46am
- Teacher what are those sticks in their body?
Bugscope Team they're called setae
- Guest Is that tube its nose?
Bugscope Team no, that's where one of it's mouth parts broke off
- Guest does it live in trees
Bugscope Team Umm, it might hang out in trees during the day, but mostly it lives in the dirt near plant roots
- Guest how long is it
- Bugscope Team the sticks are sensory hairs we call setae
- Student IS THAT THE LEGS
Bugscope Team No, you are looking at the mouth
Bugscope Team This is the end of the leg, the claws that it uses for walking on walls or grasping onto plants
- Bugscope Team good work denise, we are now looking at the claw of a ladybug
- Bugscope Team some of them are mechanosensory, like a cat's whiskers, and some are chemosensory -- the insect can use the setae to smell with, and to taste the air.
- Guest is this the leg
- Guest what is the measurement thing at the bottom
Bugscope Team that's called a scale bar. it's telling you how big the features in the image are, just like there's a scale bar on a map
- Bugscope Team sorry, needed to refresh
- Bugscope Team oops, you might be behind us again annie, we're on the ladybug now
- Bugscope Team This is the claw of a ladybug.
- Guest Is that its pincher
- Guest is it a ladybug
- Bugscope Team I am refreshed now
- Bugscope Team yes that is one of the pinchers.
- Bugscope Team a micron is one millionth of a meter
- Bugscope Team (I have firefox)
- Bugscope Team for comparison, your hair is about 60-80µm wide
- Guest is this a crab
Bugscope Team nope, but it looks kind of like a crab because of the exoskeleton
- Bugscope Team a micrometer is one thousandth of a millimeter and one millionth (as Chas said) of a meter.
- Guest do they get longger and smarter
Bugscope Team We don't know much about insect "learning"--bees can learn, but we are not sure about other types of insects
- Guest do
- Guest do they eat with their claws
- Student IS
- Bugscope Team oops! ;-)
- Guest do they bite
- Teacher what do they use the claws for
Bugscope Team they have those big curved claws so they can dig them into bark, plant stems, etc to hold on very tight and walk up walls, etc
- Bugscope Team ladybugs bite
- Bugscope Team they use their claws to grasp their food and to grasp branches when they walk
- Bugscope Team hahahaa
- Bugscope Team hhaha
- Bugscope Team hahahaha
- Guest do they grow up
- Guest does it have bones
Bugscope Team They have complete metamorphosis--eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults
- Guest what bug is it called
- Bugscope Team no bones
- 11:51am
- Guest How big is it? (total)
- Bugscope Team no bones no way none whatsoever
- Guest how fast can it walk
- Bugscope Team oh yeah and no bones either
- Guest DO THEY EAT WITH THEIR CLAWS
Bugscope Team Nope. they walk and hold on to things with their claws
- Bugscope Team not they question I was trying to answer!
- Bugscope Team this is a ladybug and it helps itself to food using its claws
- Guest -do lay eggs
Bugscope Team yes, they do
- Bugscope Team gotta be quick annie, before the chat line gets away from you!
- Bugscope Team just listen to Annie, not to me
- Guest ohh
- Bugscope Team :P
- Bugscope Team this is part of the ant
- Bugscope Team you might want to click to center to hte left a little
- Bugscope Team it's knee
- Guest What's the max of eggs?
Bugscope Team it depends upon the insect, ants and termites have thousands of eggs, while some flies can lay only two or three
- Guest What do they spend most of their life doing
Bugscope Team In the insect world there is very little to do besides eat and reproduce, and hide from predators
- Bugscope Team you are meant to wonder what this is and to go to a lower mag to see where you are
- Bugscope Team Eating!
- Bugscope Team and procreation
- Teacher it looks like hair what is it
Bugscope Team go ahead and zoom out to see what we're looking at
- Bugscope Team those are setae
- Bugscope Team they look like hair
- Bugscope Team and some of them are sensory structures
- Student ARE THOSE SHARP CLAWS
Bugscope Team they are so small that they couldn't probably even break your skin
- Bugscope Team the setae allow the insect (often) to feel.
- Bugscope Team those are not claws -- they are tiny hairlike things called setae.
- Guest Students are logging off, Denise is discussing with them now what they saw. I know she appreciated your help and your patience.
- 11:57am
- Bugscope Team Great, we'll wrap things up here then if you guys are totally done
- Bugscope Team so that's it?
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team thank you for your good questions
- Bugscope Team great job denise!
- Bugscope Team all right guys--back to enjoying the smog!!
- Guest Once Denise gets them out to recess she may want to thank you herself. I am just a volunteer.
- Bugscope Team see you all soon!
Bugscope Team bring me back some asnd from the beach!
- Bugscope Team Thanks to Chas and Alex we were able to get the 'scope going.
- Bugscope Team thats me
- Teacher Thank you! We had some computers turn off so we ended a little early, where is the feedback page? Great session!
- Bugscope Team sand
- Bugscope Team Thanks Annie!
- Bugscope Team If I go to the beach---how about the desert?
- Bugscope Team ive been wondering what we've been looking at for a while
- Bugscope Team I saw a link to hte feedback page from the application page actually
- Bugscope Team okok bye bye
- Bugscope Team desert, yuck. beach, YAH!
- Bugscope Team That was a knee joint.
- Bugscope Team I'll email you a link to the chat transcript and images
- Bugscope Team Not sure about the feedback page.
- Bugscope Team well i saw that, but couldnt see of what it belonged to
- Bugscope Team Denise how many times have we worked with you?
- Bugscope Team Alex was marveling at how well you were driving.
- Bugscope Team Don are you still with us?
- Bugscope Team And SAR JAR JEN?
- 12:02pm
- Teacher First time, but I saw a demo at Washington State University/Tri-Cities during one of my classes
- Bugscope Team I thought we'd worked with you before.
- Bugscope Team http://discord.itg.uiuc.edu/bugscope/chat_transcript.php?proposal=2007-009
- Bugscope Team That's a link to the chat transcript and images
- Bugscope Team So was that with Amy?
- Bugscope Team I think it's the Spain that's familiar...
- Bugscope Team Anyway be sure and connect with us again.
- Teacher The kids loved it! They didn't want to go to their next activity!
- Bugscope Team thanks it was fun
- Bugscope Team yeah we didn't want it to stop either
- Bugscope Team hey scott, do bugs have bones?
- Bugscope Team lol
- Bugscope Team yeah man
- Bugscope Team kids are so great.
- Bugscope Team they're crunchy
- Bugscope Team when their mind focuses on something, they really are focused hard.
- Bugscope Team now if they asked if this was male of female, that would be easier to answer
- 12:07pm
- Bugscope Team female?
- Bugscope Team yep
- Bugscope Team the workers
- Bugscope Team I thought they killed all the girl ants because they're a threat to the queen
- Bugscope Team aw no way chas
- Bugscope Team girls do all the work
- Teacher Thank you for everything I have to go!
- Bugscope Team k thanks, take care
- Bugscope Team bye ! great job.
- Bugscope Team i'm outty
