Connected on 2008-04-01 16:00:00 from Milwaukee, WI, US
- 3:08pm
- Bugscope Team session enabled, rxl started, vac ok, starting presets
- 3:14pm
- 3:22pm
- 3:30pm
- Bugscope Team hi wpl, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team we are setting up for a session starting at 4PM, milwaukee museum
- Bugscope Team presets are done
- 3:48pm
- Bugscope Team yeah, it's free on my calendar
- 3:56pm
- Bugscope Team hi chickscope rocks, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team we've got another session starting in about 5 minutes.
- Guest hi its one of me's students from the other day
- Bugscope Team oh cool, welcome back
- Guest me is a great teacher
- Bugscope Team during a session we need to focus on the participating school, but you are welcome to come before and after a session to try it out
- Bugscope Team where are you from?
- Guest ok
- Guest kansas
- Guest what is tj\his?
- Guest bug
- Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly
- Guest what is this
- Bugscope Team oh no, sorry this is a wasp!
- Bugscope Team wasp
- Guest cool
- Bugscope Team hi laura, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team hi lady bug and milwaukee museum, welcome to bugscope!
- Guest wasps are cool
- Bugscope Team welcome lady bug
- Bugscope Team lady bug, i've just unlocked the session, it's all yours
- Bugscope Team Hello there
- Bugscope Team and as always, let us know when you have any questions
- Bugscope Team this is a wasp, notice the two sets of wings, and the large antennae on its head
- 4:01pm
- Teacher Hi all my girls just arrived I will give them an overview and then we can start...
- Bugscope Team ok cool
- Bugscope Team okay, no problemo, just ask away whenever you are ready
- Guest im a tomahawk kid
- Guest i got to go
- Guest bye
- Bugscope Team okay, bye bye chickscoperocks
- Bugscope Team Bye..
- Guest hi its me again remember me
- Bugscope Team hi me, we are starting a session with milwaukee museum any minute now.
- Guest ok
- Bugscope Team a better time to visit is before and after a session, then we'd be happy to answer any questions
- Bugscope Team or you can always email us at bugscope@itg.uiuc.edu
- Guest Will I hear as well as see the session?
Bugscope Team No hearing...just chat and enjoy the view!
- Bugscope Team we would love to have you sign up for your own session
- Guest was chickscoperocks one of my students?
Bugscope Team yes, they said they were
- Guest what is this?
Bugscope Team a wasp
- Bugscope Team this is a wasp, notice the two sets of wings and cool head antennae
- Guest yes that is cool
- 4:07pm
- Guest well id better go. byr
- Guest bye
- Bugscope Team okay, bye me, looking forward to seeing your application!
- Bugscope Team bye me
- Bugscope Team Bye me
- Guest im back
- Bugscope Team I think this is a braconid...but I am not super sure
- Guest was me on?
- Bugscope Team hi annie
- Bugscope Team ello...I made it home
- Guest the wasp looks hudge now
- Bugscope Team notice the compound eye of the wasp
- Bugscope Team the compound eye is made up of smaller facets, called ommatidia, each one having its own lens to see with
- Teacher why is the eye so big
Bugscope Team well, each lens can only look in one direction, the lens can't move like our eyes can, so the insect developed many individual lenses that point in a wide angle, which gives the insect a better view of its environment
- Bugscope Team flying insects rely on their sight a lot, a lot more than insects that live in the ground
- Teacher are we seeing the stinger
Bugscope Team no right now, we are seeing the lower part of the "face" and part of the legs. Decrease the magnification to see the entire face.
- 4:12pm
- Bugscope Team this is a wasp that really depends on its sight for survival, so they are really big-- covering most of the head, and they are streamlined
- Bugscope Team the stinger is on the lower part of this wasp's body
- Guest hhhhhiiiiiiiiii
- Guest what part are we looking at?
- Guest of the wasp?
- Bugscope Team this is part of the head and the body
- Bugscope Team this is a joint between the body and leg of the wasp
- Bugscope Team you can see the jaws on the upper part of the screen
- Teacher what is the hair line stuctures called and what do they do
- Guest are we looking at the thorax?
Bugscope Team we are looking at the base of the first pair of legs...the parts we can see are the coxa, trochanter, and part of the femur.
- Guest ok
- Teacher is this hair and what does it do
- Bugscope Team ah yes, the hairs are called "setae" (sea-tea) and they are how the insect senses its enironment
- Guest hi
- Bugscope Team The legs are attached to the thorax though
- 4:17pm
- Bugscope Team each seta is connected to nerves underneath the exoskeleton, so when the seta is vibrated or senses some chemical, it transmits that information to the nerve, and the nerve to the brain, and then BING! the insect is smart!
- Guest H2O
- Guest oops sorry
- Guest what are we looking at now
- Guest ?
- Guest what part of the wasp is this
- Bugscope Team this is the abdomen, i think
- Bugscope Team the abdomen on the wasp is a bit deflated here
- Guest ok well i HAVE to go bye
- Teacher do they pee
- Bugscope Team well, that question made us laugh
- Bugscope Team annie, do you know?
- Bugscope Team i'm sure the excrete something...
- Bugscope Team yes
- Bugscope Team Water is too valuable to most insects for them to "pee." They excrete solid nitrogenous waste, sort of like birds do.
- 4:23pm
- Bugscope Team Of course, there are exceptions to every rule. Insects that live in water excrete pure ammonia because they are not water limited, and some insects take in so much water that they have a special adaptation to funnel water from their stomach to their, um, rectum....
- Teacher where does they get the name from
Bugscope Team which name?
- Teacher how old do they get
Bugscope Team Most insects live for one year. There are exceptions, of course, some termite and bee queens live several years.
- Teacher wasp
Bugscope Team I think is come from the latin name Vespa...I think wasp is a corruption of vesp. But I am not sure.
- Bugscope Team these are juju-covered setae
- Teacher how can you tell if it a boy or girl
Bugscope Team Female insects are generally larger and in the case of the wasp, they have stingers. The males are smaller, have thinner abdomens and no stingers.
- Bugscope Team annie, that is right, we were just looking that up on wikipedia
- 4:28pm
- Bugscope Team we just thought this cuticle formation looked cool
- Bugscope Team we thought this image was very interesting. this is a springtale eye
- Bugscope Team the round objects are simple eyes
- Bugscope Team the paters are unusual
- Bugscope Team springtail
- Bugscope Team these guys like to hop
- Bugscope Team another critter that is not a butterfly, moth, skipper, or skeeter (or silverfish) that has scales
- Teacher what does the tail do for them
- Bugscope Team they can get out of trouble quickly by bounding away like a flea
- Bugscope Team They catch the tail in a little pocket between their legs, release it, and it allows them to spring in the air
- Bugscope Team I never knew that springtails had scales
- Bugscope Team now you do :) another insect to add to the list
- 4:33pm
- Teacher why is the hair darker then the other hair
- Bugscope Team well, it could have just been shadows, we are not sure what hairs you mean?
- Teacher why does this insect have so many legs
Bugscope Team it's called a millipede, which means "thousands of legs", but it doesn't really have thousands, more like hundreds
- Teacher is this the mouth
- 4:39pm
- Bugscope Team A millipede is not an insect at all...
- Bugscope Team there are two pairs of leg for each segment of the millipedeof legs is a se
- Bugscope Team millipedes and centipedes dont belong in the class of insects
- Bugscope Team Does this critter have one or many pairs of legs on each segmen?
- Guest hi m back again
- Teacher are they crustaens
Bugscope Team Nope they are in their own class!
- Guest what are we looking at?
- Guest cool
- Bugscope Team oh wait, this must be a centipede, right annie?
- Bugscope Team wow, it's cracked, interesting
- Bugscope Team Looks centipede-y to me
- Guest what part of it is this?
- Bugscope Team It is hard to tell sometimes
- Teacher no wonder why iits dead!!
- Bugscope Team yes, i'm sorry i think it's a centipede too, my mistake
- Teacher what type of class is it in
- Bugscope Team if its a millipede its diplopoda
- Bugscope Team Centipedes are in class chilopoda
- Bugscope Team centipede's class is chilopoda
- Bugscope Team pod meaning foot
- Guest what is the crack looking thing in it?
- 4:44pm
- Teacher why does the skin look rubber under neath
Bugscope Team there are layers of muscles and nerves and organs and such, maybe that's what was looking like rubber?
- Bugscope Team the crack was created on my behalf on accident while handling the specimen
- Guest oh ok
- Guest thats cool
- Guest what is that spongey looking thing?
Bugscope Team The spongy stuff inside the crack is dried tissue...muscles and organs
- Guest its in the crack
- Teacher how big does it get and how long does it live
- Guest WOW
- Bugscope Team the largest centipede is 12 inches in length!
- Teacher why do they need so many legs
Bugscope Team I don't know why...I don't think anyone knows why. It helps them to move quickly
- Bugscope Team but many centipedes are smaller than that
- Bugscope Team a centipede has a pretty nasty bite to humans, kind of like a wasp
- 4:49pm
- Bugscope Team ah, this is cool, this is called a haltere
- Bugscope Team but snakes move quickly too without any legs at all
- Bugscope Team The first pair of legs in centipedes is modified into poisonous fangs that the centipede uses to catch its prey
- Bugscope Team a haltere is found on some flying insects, it helps stabilize the flight of the insect.
- Guest ok
- Bugscope Team flies used to have 2 pairs of wings like wasps, but a pair of them evolved into a haltere
- Bugscope Team haltere acts like a gyroscope to help steady the fly
- Teacher do they only eat fruit
Bugscope Team They feed on fungus that grows on fermenting fruit
- Bugscope Team you can see this flying insect has huge eyes as well
- Guest thats a fly isnt it?
Bugscope Team yes
- Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly
- Guest cool
- Bugscope Team those things pointing up are the palps
- Teacher do they have teeth
Bugscope Team Flies have sponging mouthparts...like a sponge attached to a straw
- Bugscope Team and the tongue is sticking straight out to the bottom right
- Guest why do they have a tounge?
- Guest why do they have tongues?
- Bugscope Team well as annie says it really is called a sponging mouth part, i was just simplifying it
- Guest oh ok
- Bugscope Team They press the fleshy part against the fruit and suck up the fungus-y juice through a hole in the center of the sponge into their "throat" and then into their stomach
- 4:55pm
- Bugscope Team i think we lost the connection with milwaukee
- Bugscope Team oh wait, you are back, yay!
- Guest are flies insects?
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Teacher Milwaukee is back...
- Guest ok i forgot
- Bugscope Team welcome back milwaukee
- Bugscope Team this is a compound eye, with many setae inbetween the ommatidia
- Guest is this a fruit fly syill?
- Guest still?
- Bugscope Team yup
- Teacher why are they there
- Bugscope Team the setae here are believe to help the fly sense wind movement
- Bugscope Team Bye guys...see you soon
- 5:00pm
- Teacher Thank You for your time goodbye!!!!!
- Bugscope Team you know how a fly seems to be able to change direction in mid-air to avoid your hand or a swatter? that's thought to be a result of these eye setae that help to sense air movement
- Bugscope Team thank you milwaukee museum, you were great!
- Bugscope Team thanks for 'scoping with us, i hope you girls had fun
- Bugscope Team Thank you all
- Bugscope Team okay, going to shutdown the scope unless someone objects?
- Teacher The girls loved it! Thank you....
- Bugscope Team thank you lady bug, very nice having sessions with you. i do have a quick question
- 5:05pm
- Bugscope Team did chickscoperules bother you in any way?
- Teacher ok...shoot
- Teacher No...not at all...
- Bugscope Team we allow guests to join in on session, but we don't like to intrude on the persons real session.
- Bugscope Team ah, ok, that's good it wasn't a bother to you.
- Teacher These girls are inner city and so the additional questions help keep things moving....which is needed with a group like this.
- Bugscope Team i felt like they were asking too many question, i was worried you might have felt crouded
- Bugscope Team ah, cool, did they enjoy it much?
- Teacher No...I will always let you know.
- Bugscope Team cool.
- Teacher Hopefully Bernie will be back soon since this is not my class usually...Gaye-Lynn
- Teacher Good night all...
- Bugscope Team good night gaye-lynn, nice to chat with you again
- 5:11pm
- Bugscope Team okay, shutting down the vac, rxl and disabling the session now
- Bugscope Team fred, gotta boot you
- Bugscope Team chas, anything more? or can i boot you?
