Connected on 2008-03-31 15:30:00 from Milwaukee, WI, US
- 2:34pm
- Bugscope Team session enabled, rxl started, scope vac good, starting presets
- Bugscope Team Hey Man.
- Bugscope Team dudeness
- Bugscope Team how ya feeling?
- Bugscope Team this looks like a praying mantis
- Bugscope Team better now
- Bugscope Team bad headache from last night did not go away
- Bugscope Team ouchers
- Bugscope Team nice to sleep in, then do nothing
- Bugscope Team Hello guest!
- Bugscope Team hello guest, welcome to bugscope!
- Guest hello
- Bugscope Team Alex and Cate are setting up today's session.
- Bugscope Team Cate is not online yet -- she's at the controls of the 'scope.
- Bugscope Team where are you from? we are setting the presets for today's session with milwaukee public museum
- 2:41pm
- Bugscope Team what color is this wing?
- Bugscope Team orange-red
- Bugscope Team or what i like to call: redorge
- Bugscope Team see the pattern on the scales?
- Bugscope Team yep, that determines the color, right?
- Bugscope Team we could keep a collection of scales/colors
- Bugscope Team on white ones the openings are empty it seems
- Bugscope Team I don
- Bugscope Team 't recall seeing that pattern before
- 2:48pm
- Bugscope Team this is really cool
- Bugscope Team is this someone's mouthparts?
- Bugscope Team cate is coming up with really nice looking presets today...
- Bugscope Team yep, fruit fly mouth
- Bugscope Team that was a well-preserved and positioned mouth
- 2:53pm
- Bugscope Team presets are done, we are ready for milwaukee!
- Bugscope Team Awesome
- Bugscope Team presets are done, ready for milwaukee
- Bugscope Team i'm logging out and back in again
- Bugscope Team sign on is at 3:30?
- Bugscope Team yep, 3:30
- Bugscope Team Nothing blown up in the lab -- the TEM is okay?
- Bugscope Team Jon is staying out of trouble?
- Bugscope Team lab is good, figuring out some xray-ct issues with lei lei
- Bugscope Team I saw the message about the calendar pages
- 2:59pm
- Bugscope Team if you like young-adult, you should read "feed"
- Bugscope Team "feed" is cool man
- 3:08pm
- Bugscope Team quintessential
- Bugscope Team hi milwaukee!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team Welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team hey there
- Bugscope Team we are ready for you anytime, i'm unlocking the session now.
- Teacher Hello everyone..
- Bugscope Team this is a ladybug face, of course
- Bugscope Team with its streamlined eyes
- Teacher The girls will not be here until 3:30 pm today and Bernie, their teacher, is out today ill so....you have Gaye-Lynn again, Lady Bug
- Bugscope Team okie dokie
- Bugscope Team hey Gaye-Lynn yeah you were here last time as well
- Bugscope Team hi gaye-lynn, i remember working with you before
- Bugscope Team Cate made a good sample today, as usual.
- 3:13pm
- Bugscope Team no neck monster bug
- Teacher This is great... Thank you... We are looking for adaptations again this session...Of course no neck one less thing to scratch!
- Bugscope Team we need to start collecting for the next winter -- Cate did a great job picking through the dregs of our collection in the deep of winter
- Bugscope Team these guys eat other insects
- Bugscope Team heh we could capture your pet spider if you like scott
- Bugscope Team aphids
- Bugscope Team I wasnt aware of any grasshoppers...Scott, know anything?
- Bugscope Team No! But do need to feed the spider.
- Bugscope Team Did not see them unless they just arrived.
- Bugscope Team I am home, sick, today, Gaye-Lynn, and did not check my mail at work. I didn't venture into the lab this weekend either.
- Teacher It's ok she sent them a month or so ago about the time we did this last with you.
- Bugscope Team Feel free to cruise through the presets.
- Teacher I hope you are feeling better...
- Bugscope Team Uh-oh I wonder where they are (rotting).
- 3:18pm
- Teacher I will be right back with our girls....see you in a minute!
- Bugscope Team Cool!
- 3:29pm
- Bugscope Team how are we set up for this early evening after xho2?
- Teacher Ok Scott everyone is here and we are ready to go...
- Bugscope Team great!
- Bugscope Team okay, welcome to bugscope milwaukee!
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a ladybug
- Bugscope Team so there is the lady bug mouth at the top
- Teacher Are those things hairs?
- Bugscope Team Please let us know as you have questions about anything.
- Bugscope Team insects are VERY hairy, but those hairs are called setae (sea-tea)
- Bugscope Team Pronounced as Alex says sea-tae. The singular is seta.
- Bugscope Team setae are connected to nerve endings underneath the exoskeleton, and they help the insect to sense its enviornment
- Bugscope Team some setae sense mechanical movement and some sense chemicals, as in odors
- Bugscope Team it helps if you think of the insect as wearing armor, like a person wearing armor would be cut off from sensing things brushing against him/her.
- Bugscope Team the insect has an exoskeleton, so the hard part is on the outside, like armor
- Bugscope Team this is a closeup of the mouthparts
- Bugscope Team and dont forget that we also have fruit flies, praying mantis, bumble bee, ants, moth, and a butterfly wing on here found in the presets
- 3:34pm
- Bugscope Team you can see that forked thing, which is one of the mandibles
- Bugscope Team hello buggygirls!
- Student how do they eat?
- Student what forked thing?
- Bugscope Team they use their palps to taste and manipulate their food
- Bugscope Team they are found on the sides of their mouth
- Bugscope Team they have claws to hold onto their food as well
- Bugscope Team top third of the image is the jaw that has a fork -- a cleft in it
- Student what is that long thing?
- Bugscope Team there is a palp
- Bugscope Team that, now, is one of the palps
- Student what is a palp?
- Bugscope Team at the end is a flat place that has sensory buds on it like taste buds
- Bugscope Team a palp is like a modified limb that is used to assist eating/tasting
- Bugscope Team the palp lets the insect taste its food as well as help shovel it in their mouth
- Bugscope Team an elegant way of putting it
- Bugscope Team these guys have round-tipped palps as well as ones that resemble vacuum cleaner nozzles
- 3:39pm
- Student that dosent sound very lady like
- Bugscope Team heh, yeah, well, a bugs got to do what a bugs go to do to survive!
- Bugscope Team if you go to a slightly lower mag you should be able to see the vacuum cleaner palp as well as the compound eyes
- Student Why are they called lady bugs?
- Bugscope Team these are kind of fierce bugs
- Bugscope Team they are a helpful garden insect because they eat aphids that destroy plants
- Bugscope Team they are also stinky and dont taste good, which helps ward off predators
- Bugscope Team I imagine it is because of their color and 'cuteness.' I guess that is not PC.
- Bugscope Team they are colored red as a warning -- you can see me but if you bite me you will want to spit me out
- Bugscope Team this is the compound eye of a fruit fly, and it has rigid little setae among the ommatidia -- the individual facets of the eye
- Student it wont let us go to the next presets
- Bugscope Team we might have to do that for you
- Bugscope Team lately it has been a little fussy
- Guest hi its me from the other day
- Bugscope Team looks like it worked?
- Student it wont let us go to next preset
- Bugscope Team can you see the mouthparts here?
- Bugscope Team now?
- Bugscope Team hi me, we are in the middle of a session with a museum in milwaukee
- Bugscope Team which preset did you want to go to
- Bugscope Team let us know if you cannot operate the presets whether you can change the mag, etc. now
- Bugscope Team buggygirls, how are things working now?
- Bugscope Team I took the 'scope to the fruit fly mouth
- 3:44pm
- Guest remember we are a 4th grade class
- Bugscope Team buggygirls, are you there? i think we lost you?
- Guest so what is this insect
- Bugscope Team if you lost your image, try hitting reset
- Bugscope Team this is the mouth of a fruit fly
- Guest what insect is this
Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly mouth
- Bugscope Team this is an uncommon sight on a fruit fly
- Bugscope Team this is usually shriveled up and not recognizable
- Bugscope Team this was a critical point dryed fruit fly
- Bugscope Team that is why its mouth is extended
- Bugscope Team hi bernadette, nice to see you again. having computer problems?
- Guest so how long is your session
- Student Ok we are back our computor froze up...
- Bugscope Team Yay!
- Bugscope Team okay, welcome back, you have control again
- Bugscope Team sorry to hear that, but at least you are back
- Student What is this that we are lookig at...
Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly mouth
- Guest a fruit fly
- Bugscope Team extended too, which we dont usually see
- Bugscope Team this is a mouth on a fruit fly, a very weird looking mouth
- Bugscope Team Me this session runs 'til 5:30 our time.
- Guest how long is this session that you guys are doing
Bugscope Team me, the session runs till 4:30 CDT, you are welcome to control the scope at that time, and we can answer any questions you have
- Bugscope Team it functions kind of like a sponge for liquid food.
- 3:49pm
- Bugscope Team it is very beautiful
- Guest is this still a fruit fly
- Bugscope Team oops that is right the session runs 'til 4:30...
- Bugscope Team Bernadatte (Gaye-Lynn) how are you doing there?
- Student what are these bead likes things in on their mouth
- Student We are doing great now...
- Guest now that was blurry
- Bugscope Team it would be cool to take the mag up to see what is there -- this is something we rarely get to look at
- Student what are this hair like structuer
- Bugscope Team this is close to realtime imaging, Me, so you get to see things the same way we do when we drive the 'scope in person
- Bugscope Team I think these are sensory setae, of some sort
- Bugscope Team we think it's a palp, but it's hard to tell from the angle
- Bugscope Team some chemosensory setae pick up single odors, single chemical smells, and some pick up an assortment of smells
- 3:54pm
- Bugscope Team Cool!
- Student what are these holes in their mouth
- Bugscope Team This is the spongy part of the mouth that is usually shriveled. I think the holes are there to absorb liquids like fruit juices.
- Bugscope Team since this is a fruit fly
- Bugscope Team it is sad how much we don't know -- some of these things we see very rarely, like this. but it is exciting for us.
- Bugscope Team this is the underside of an ant head, we can see the mouth really clear
- Bugscope Team insects have exoskeletons that remain fixed in shape after they die, but they also have soft portions of the body that don't dry well
- Student how do they eat?
- Student do they have palps to?
Bugscope Team yes those are what looks like little insect legs trying to get out of its mouth
- Bugscope Team Jokes
- Bugscope Team yes they do
- Bugscope Team they sponge up their food as liquid
- Bugscope Team they have busy mouths
- 4:00pm
- Student wat kind of food they eat?
- Bugscope Team yeah this is like a video image fixed in time; if the ant was alive all of this stuff would be moving in every direction
- Bugscope Team ants like to eat liquids as well, like the honeydew produced by aphids
- Guest hey
- Bugscope Team Hey!
- Bugscope Team hello chickscope gals, we are currently running a session with a museum in milwaukee
- Guest we are new
- Student what is the round thing in the center?
- Guest b
- Guest sorry
- Guest we didn`t men to do that
Bugscope Team it is quite alright, we'll be done with the session by 4:30 or so, please feel free to stick around and watch until then
- Bugscope Team hmm, not sure exactly what you are referring to bur?
- Guest so what is this
- Bugscope Team I think the round thing is like a tongue.
- Bugscope Team looks like a tongue
- Bugscope Team to us.
- Bugscope Team this is the Argentine ant.
- Bugscope Team if you increase the mag, you will see it looks kind of cool
- Student the turtel shell looking thing?
Bugscope Team yes that is a tongue, we dont usually see it either
- Guest wow it looks cool
- Bugscope Team this is the head of an Argentine ant.
- Bugscope Team yeah it looks like a trilobite
- Bugscope Team It also resembles the rasper like mouthpart you see on a tick
- Bugscope Team this is an interesting session for us, but it is hard to know all of the answers; we generate, as usual, more questions than answers
- Bugscope Team this is the moth proboscis, which acts like a straw
- Student what are the things around it?
Bugscope Team The long shapes around the head are scales. They are covered in scales the way some other insects are covered in hair. The scales have a very distinctive appearance and microstructure so you commonly notice them when they are contaminating other insects
- Bugscope Team here we see the coiled-up proboscis of a moth, and now one of the eyes
- Bugscope Team the things around it are scales
- 4:05pm
- Bugscope Team a proboscis is an elongated appendage from the head of any animal, elephant trunks are also called proboscis'
- Bugscope Team this is alex's fave preset today, because he says it looks like metal because of the charging
- Bugscope Team moths, butterflies, mosquitos, skippers and silverfish have scales
- Bugscope Team i suppose pinochio's nose could be called a proboscis
- Bugscope Team Cyrano de Bergerac
- Bugscope Team the proboscis uncoils like a party favor on New Year's eve
- Student does it haves scales on it?
Bugscope Team yes
- Bugscope Team the moth can push hemolymph into the proboscis and made it roll out like a straw when it wants to insert it into a flower, for example
- Bugscope Team hemolymph is like blood is to us
- Bugscope Team bug blood
- Bugscope Team but insects do not have veins and arteries
- Bugscope Team hey, here's a compound eye!
- Bugscope Team the hemolymph is in an open circulatory system
- Bugscope Team notice all the six-sided facets, those are called ommatidea
- Bugscope Team looks like a weird moon right now
- Bugscope Team Although their cardiovascular system is not as complex. In some insects the blood basically just washes over the tiny brain rather than flow through it
- Bugscope Team each ommatidea has a lens in it and is capable of sending a visual image to the insect brain
- Student what color is their blood?
Bugscope Team Yes, green yellowish or clear. The reason is that in humans the circulatory system transports oxygen, which is carried by iron-rich hemoglobin (which is red). Bugs however don't carry oxygen through the hemolymph, and so they don't need hemoglobin
- Bugscope Team thousands of tiny individual facets called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team green, clear, yellow...
- Bugscope Team Annie says, I think, that is is usually clear
- 4:10pm
- Bugscope Team if it has heme in it like our blood it would be red, but it may not have as much heme in it -- the iron would be what makes our blood red
- Bugscope Team Annie is our entomologist, and she must be extra busy today.
- Bugscope Team yay the head of the praying mantis
- Student y is it called dat?
- Student yes i do
- Student is this the eye?
- Bugscope Team this is the eye yes
- Bugscope Team it is compound eye as well
- Bugscope Team it looks like it is praying, the way its arms are folded up in front of its body
- Bugscope Team sort of like a T rex dinosaur
- 4:16pm
- Student what is that horn like thing at the top?
Bugscope Team looks like an antenna that broke off?
- Bugscope Team that is the base of one of the antennae
- Bugscope Team it is broken off
- Bugscope Team nice driving there burn
- Bugscope Team hey you can see someone is reaching out to the praying mantis
- Bugscope Team alex is a bad speller :)
- Bugscope Team that is the bumble bee
- Bugscope Team yes, bern i should be saying, i'm very sorry, no offense
- Bugscope Team it does look like it is trying to grab it
- Bugscope Team phonetic
- Bugscope Team you can see the pulvillus - the pad that allows the bee to climb on walls
- Student is this the praying mantenes?
- Bugscope Team this beelongs to the be
- Bugscope Team if you were to drive to where the arm comes from you would see it
- Bugscope Team the sections of the forearm here are called tarsomeres
- Bugscope Team if you keep driving along the leg, you will come to the bumble bee
- Bugscope Team buzz buzz buzz
- Bugscope Team this is a tour of the bee, kind of cool
- Bugscope Team the way we find things when we run the 'scope
- 4:21pm
- Bugscope Team yeah, nice clicking to center here!
- Bugscope Team here you may want to drive north
- Bugscope Team this is a big bug
- Student wat is dat worm like thing is?
- Bugscope Team that is one of the antennae
- Bugscope Team if you follow it now -- ah there is one of the eyes
- Bugscope Team its eyes are neatly streamlined into the head -- an adaptation for flying
- Bugscope Team look! you can see off the edge of the stub, top left...
- Bugscope Team praying mantises can fly as well, as adults, but not so well
- Bugscope Team wasp eyes are the coolest in my opinion, they are so streamlined
- Bugscope Team bad hair day
- Bugscope Team looks like he's got a mohawk
- Bugscope Team I dunno maybe it is a good hair day
- Bugscope Team mod-looking bee
- Student u took my line
- Bugscope Team bees and wasps have four wings, unlike flies, which have two
- Bugscope Team sorry bgirl
- Bugscope Team there is an old sci-fi movie called Invasion of the Bee Girls
- Student itz ok
- Bugscope Team now you can see the jaw, and it looks like it has honey in it
- Bugscope Team dried
- Student is the jaw broken?
- Bugscope Team scott likes old scifi movies
- 4:26pm
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team you can see that the jaws open to the sides like gate with hinges
- Student oooooooohhhhhh
- Bugscope Team I think the other jaw is there as well but this one is sticking out, maybe because it has all that juju in it
- Bugscope Team it is cool that you drove to this place and found it yourselves
- Student thaxs very much 4 the tour
- Bugscope Team I wonder if we could see the stinger
- Student everybody said gooodddbbbbyyyyyeeee
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team ohhhh....
- Bugscope Team thank you milwaukee!
- Student ur welcome
- Student lol
- Bugscope Team no stinger that i could see
- Bugscope Team thanks guy, see you tomorrow
- Bugscope Team 4PM tomorrow
- Bugscope Team guys*
- Bugscope Team or girls i guess
- Student Yes....
- Student more girls
- Bugscope Team i think we'll hang around for M or chickscope girls, for a couple minutes anyway..
- 4:32pm
- Bugscope Team Buggygirl let us know if you want to drive some more.
- Bugscope Team uh, what's this about brownies?
- Bugscope Team oops
- Bugscope Team refresh scott
- Bugscope Team buggygirl is gone
- Bugscope Team safari is silly sometimes
- Bugscope Team okay, i guess we should close up. it's 35 after..
- Bugscope Team awww
- Bugscope Team well me and guest could come back
- Bugscope Team Later Cate.
- Bugscope Team xho2 is coming in at 5:30
- Bugscope Team Alex if we don't get movement soon go ahead and take a break, get some fud.
- Bugscope Team okie dokie
- Bugscope Team i thought they'd be back by now
- Bugscope Team well be back on at 7PM tonight, test session for china
- Bugscope Team yeah I think it could be time to bail
- 4:37pm
- Bugscope Team I feel better than this morning, much better.
- Bugscope Team Gonna take my trash out, see what it is like in the Outer World.
- Bugscope Team cate bailed
- Bugscope Team Over and out -- 'til later. Thanks for taking such good care of things!
- Bugscope Team no prob dude, hope you feel better
- Bugscope Team okay, no guests on and it's 40 minutes after. i think i'll shut down the scope now
- Bugscope Team rxl stopped, session disabled, session locked, remote users logged out.
- Bugscope Team nice session everyone!
- Bugscope Team see you tomorrow bernadette
