Connected on 2007-10-24 10:00:00 from Park Ridge, IL, US
- 8:59am
- Teacher Hey! Tony here.
- Bugscope Team hi there tony!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team we are preparing some presets for your session today. we start in an hour, right?
- Bugscope Team hi bozo. any relation to the clown?
- Bugscope Team hi scott!
- Bugscope Team hey man
- 9:05am
- Student Sorry, I got confused. I thought I was at my bowling league. Actually, we're just testing to see how students log in. Tony
- Bugscope Team ok, no problem at all. if you have any questions or problems, please just chat it to us.
- 9:10am
- Bugscope Team Hi Becky
- Bugscope Team spiracle
- Bugscope Team thanks scott!
- Bugscope Team oop I see Cate must be sitting at the 'scope
- Bugscope Team yep, cate is on the esem, i'm at the bugops pc.
- Bugscope Team fruit fly
- 9:16am
- Bugscope Team presets are done!
- Bugscope Team session is unlocked
- Bugscope Team we are ready!
- Bugscope Team this guy has one of those rostrums -- piercing mouthparts
- Bugscope Team did we lose our connection with the school?
- Bugscope Team i think they are just testing the logins.
- Bugscope Team the session doesn't start for another 40 minutes
- 9:22am
- Bugscope Team hi tony, we see you are logging in and out a lot. is everything okay? just testing stuff out? any questions just let us know. we are ready.
- Bugscope Team by the way, we are done making presets, and the scope is unlocked.
- Bugscope Team if you want to try and practice controlling the scope, you are free to do so.
- 9:29am
- Teacher We're using Safari. Have you had any issues with this browser?
- Bugscope Team i think safari is one of the better browsers to use.
- Bugscope Team I am using it as well, from home
- Bugscope Team safari and firefox both test out real well.
- Bugscope Team internet explorer is ok too.
- Bugscope Team you should see controls for the scope on the right side of the browser window.
- Bugscope Team you may need to expand your browser window to see all the controls...
- 9:35am
- Bugscope Team mrs. fallico, we can also give control of the scope over to students that are logged in. if you want us to do that, just let us know when and who.
- Bugscope Team Hi Allison!
- Bugscope Team only one person can control the scope at a time though.
- Student I'm the tech support person here at Roosevelt.
- Bugscope Team Hi allison. Let us know if you have any questions. If you'd like to test the controls we can send them to your machine
- Bugscope Team well feel free to take the 'scope for a spin
- Bugscope Team hi there allison, i'm a sysadmin with our group. a fellow geek!
- Bugscope Team test
- Teacher If kids control the microscope, does it affect what the whole class sees?
Bugscope Team Yes, everyone's browser updates on a 5 second interval so they all see the same chat, images, etc
- Bugscope Team the kids will all see what the person controlling does
- Teacher I'm going to try to drive the microcope now.
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team cool! look out padestrians. ;)
- Teacher Today, since this is my first go with it, only the teacher will drive the microscope.
- Bugscope Team sounds cool with us.
- Bugscope Team That sounds fine. The students are still welcome to login individually so they can ask questions directly
- 9:41am
- Bugscope Team this is a pill bug a.k.a roly-poly
- 9:46am
- Teacher We're just learnng how to drive. Pretty easy.
- Bugscope Team that's what we like to hear!
- Bugscope Team controlling this web interface is a bit like controlling the actual scope.
- Bugscope Team the best thing to do is drive all over, wherever it seems like it might be interesting, and take the mag up and down as well as adjusting focus. Everything you do will go into your database of images, and you will be able to call it up later.
- Bugscope Team when the session is complete, you can view all the chat and images at your member page: http://bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu/members/2007-061
- 9:51am
- Bugscope Team there is a lot of dirt on this sample
- Bugscope Team haltere
- Bugscope Team lots of dirt everywhere it seems
- Bugscope Team i guess the bugs wanted to roll around in the dirt before i put them on
- Teacher Kids should be here in about 5 minutes.
- Teacher This is COOL!
- Bugscope Team we are ready for the kids!
- Bugscope Team I was reading my desert book, and it said they have found dozens of viable organisms on such things as dragonflies -- mostly single-celled critters
- 9:56am
- Bugscope Team like we just saw some mold spores, and there is pollen... and there is a resting/suspended animation state of some single-celled beasties in which they can be dried to maybe 7% their original volume.
- Bugscope Team some critters, when a pond dries up, can exist dry and essentially dead for a hundred years until they get reintroduced to water.
- Bugscope Team then their normal 3-week lifespan recommences and runs out
- Bugscope Team this is a bug with piercing mouthparts. we have called it a beetle but it is probably a true bug (Hemiptera)
- 10:04am
- Bugscope Team Mrs Fallico be sure to take the mag down (or up) in some places so you can see where you are.
- Bugscope Team Like you might want to see where this haltere is in relation to the body of the fruit fly.
- Bugscope Team or here you can see what the other limbs look like
- Bugscope Team hello students, welcome to bugscope!
- Student what is this?
- Bugscope Team this is the claw of a pill bug.
- Student where can u find these bugs?
- Bugscope Team those are those bugs that roll up into a ball. it's also called a roly-poly
- Bugscope Team a pill bug is a roly-poly
- Student why does it have spikes on its feet
- Student What do they eat?
Bugscope Team roly-poly's commonly feed on decaying vegetation.
- Bugscope Team pill bugs are Isopoda. iso means the same, and pod means foot -- all of the feet are the same shape
- 10:09am
- Student can the spikes go in and back out
- Bugscope Team they have lots of feet, more than insects, and it must be more efficient when you have that many feet to have them be pointy
- Student can they pinch you?
Bugscope Team no they won't pinch you, they just scare easily and roll up into a ball as a defense mechanism
- Student what time of the the year do they come out
Bugscope Team roly-poly's thrive in damp/moist areas, so they probably don't do well in deep cold, or desert areas.
- Student Should we increas or decreas the magnification?
- Bugscope Team the spikes move but not in and out like you would expect
- Bugscope Team take the mag down so you can see where you are
- Bugscope Team these are so small they cannot bother you
- Student do they hurt
- Student How Many Legs Do They Have?
- Bugscope Team they are also called woodlice
- Student are they in some type of shell
- Student how hard is the shell
- Bugscope Team looks like about 14 legs
- Bugscope Team the shell is made of chitin, also called cuticle
- Student does it have spine
- Bugscope Team and it is sort of like armadillo armor
- Student what part should we look at now
- Student is the shell on its back hard or does it easily break?
- Bugscope Team on the top of the body (we are looking at the bottom) they do not have spines
- Student what is the population of them in the world
- Student Does it have eyes?
- Bugscope Team well you could break it but it is pretty strong for its size
- Bugscope Team you are welcome to click on another preset if you like. but mrs. fallico has control of the scope.
- Student how does it eat
- Bugscope Team they are like little raspberries
- Bugscope Team to the left and right
- Bugscope Team not just now though
- Student What are those Little Spikes On The legs?
- Student whatn partbare we looking at
- Student What are the stick looking things by the eye?
- Bugscope Team ask Mrs Fallico to find one of the eyes
- 10:15am
- Student wath
- Student why are there spots
- Bugscope Team this is the forward part of the head
- Student how hard is their skin
Bugscope Team Their skin is made out of a material very similar to our fingernails
- Bugscope Team it is hard like a fingernail is hard
- Student do they have antenas?
- Student are these holes
- Bugscope Team the spots are indentations, and the indentations make the whole of the chitin stronger
- Student are they poisonis
- Bugscope Team yes we should see antennae, and they are not poisonous
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team this is the arm of a beetle
- Bugscope Team if you lower the magnification you can see the whole beetle
- Bugscope Team here would also be a good place to take the mag down to see where we are
- Student what are those strings
Bugscope Team the strings are a type of hair, called "setae". they help the insect to sense its environment.
- Student do those things move around
- Student is that a a kind of pincher
- Student how hard is there skin
Bugscope Team the skin on insects is a lot like our fingernails. so it's a bit hard, but not unbreakable.
- Student what are the flakes
Bugscope Team the bumby things are probably dirt and other kinds of debris, sometimes there are pollen grains or brochosomes
- Bugscope Team it is not really skin -- it is an exoskeletonl, meaning that the skeleton on an insect in on the outside
- Student why does it look like it has rincles
- Student What is the texture of the skin?
- Bugscope Team the flakes are some kind of dirt that probably stuck to it after it died
- Bugscope Team OOF
- 10:20am
- Student do they have pinchers?
- Student do the strings fall off
Bugscope Team some seta (strings) do fall off. but there are many hundred (thousands) of these setae on an insect, so they can afford to lose a few.
- Bugscope Team the chitin is textured to make it stronger and more resistant to bending
- Student does it shed its exoskeleton
- Bugscope Team yeah this does look like a water beetle
- Student how do they eat
Bugscope Team water beetles are well adapted to living in the water. i'm not sure exactly how they eat, but they do carry a small packet of air under their body when they are in the water. this helps them to breath for long periods of time under water.
- Student does it have a mouth
- Bugscope Team what we were looking at was filterfeeding apparatus
- Student are those eyes
- Bugscope Team we recognize it as a water beetle because those long setae fan out and allow it to rest on top of the water due to surface tension
- Student how many legs do they have
- Student can it see very well?
- Student are beetles realated to roly polys
Bugscope Team They are in different orders, so they are not closely related. Beetles are coleoptera whereas pillbugs/roly poleys are isopoda
Bugscope Team Oh, sorry, they're even less related: Roly Poleys are more related to shrimp and lobsters (crustaceans), so they're not even insects technically
- Bugscope Team we could go look at the eyes now
- Bugscope Team the bumpy part here that is round is a compound eye
- Bugscope Team beetles are insects and rolypolys are not insects, so they are not very related
- Bugscope Team the part that is near the side-top of the head
- Student do beetles see colors
- Bugscope Team now you can see the eye -- good job driving!
- Bugscope Team yes they can see colors
- Bugscope Team some insects can see ultraviolet light as well as visible light
- Bugscope Team you could try to turn down the contrast here
- Bugscope Team we cannot see in the ultraviolet
- Student Are all those strings hair?
- Student why is there\ a lot of hair on that area on top
- Student why do their heads look like honeycombs
- 10:25am
- Student what is the crack in the eye
- Bugscope Team the things that look lke honeycombs are the individual eye facets
- Student whats that crack there
Bugscope Team when we put insects into the microscope, they dry out, and quite often that means you'll see some cracks of shrinking of parts of the insect.
- Student what part of the beatle is this
Bugscope Team this is part of the compound eye
- Student Are the lumps in the eye vanes?
- Bugscope Team it is cracked because it is drying -- it is an old bug
- Student why does it look like a turtle shell
- Student what are those things sticking out
Bugscope Team those are also setae.
- Bugscope Team now we see another compound eye
- Bugscope Team those are sensory setae
- Student What are those white things
- Student why does it look like corn stucking outon a basketball
- Bugscope Team insects are very "hairy" as you can see
- Bugscope Team the setae give the fruit fly information about wind movement
- Bugscope Team on insects, we call these hairs setae, since they aren't mammals
- Bugscope Team mrs. fallico, try adjusting the focus here.
- Student what are the little dots
- Student What are those bumps?
- Bugscope Team the setae are connected to nerves so that they can feel through their tough skin, or exoskeletons, their surroundings
- Bugscope Team if focus in one diurection doesn't work, then try the other way...
- Student what are the white things used for
- Student can it see well
- Bugscope Team the little dots are part of the ommatidia -- which is what the eye facets are called
- Bugscope Team yes this fly can see well
- Student ho
- Bugscope Team most of its brain is dedicated to processing visual information
- Bugscope Team you can tell how much an insect relies on its eyes by how big they are and by how many ommatidia they have
- 10:30am
- Student what are the sticks
Bugscope Team those are just different kinds of setae
- Bugscope Team fruit flies have humongous eyes while an ant will have much smaller eyes
- Bugscope Team now you can see its antennae, and you can see those bumps on top of the head that are called ocelli.
- Student What does it eat?
- Student what does it eat?
- Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly, and it lives on juices from fruit
- Student what are their wings made of
- Student Are those lumps in the wings vanes?
- Student what are those hairs for
Bugscope Team setae on wings help to stabilize the insect during flight, by giving it more surface area.
- Bugscope Team notice that even the wings have the setae (hairs) on them....
- Student what are the bumpey parts on the wings
- Bugscope Team it is a dipteran, from Diptera. That means it is a fly with two wings. di- means two, and ptera ] refers to wings
- Student How thick are the wings?
- Student the hairs are way smaller then mine why
- Bugscope Team these tiny setae may not be sensory -- they may have a more important function: giving more surface area to the wing with little added weight
- Student what are those hairs used for?
- Bugscope Team now you can see scales, which are analogous to feathers on a bird
- Student thats looks liek a car wash pieces
- Bugscope Team you can see that the body is above where we are
- 10:35am
- Student what is the thing and what is the dots
Bugscope Team the dots are just bubbles in the sticky tape used to hold the insects down
- Student what are the dots
- Bugscope Team now we see the mosquito's head
- Bugscope Team nice driving mrs. fallico!
- Student which way do we go to find the stinger?
Bugscope Team the proboscis, that they use like a hypodermic needles is coming out from between the two big round eyes there
- Bugscope Team the dots in the backround are bubbles in the carbon tape
- Teacher thanks!
- Bugscope Team we are looking right at the proboscis..
- Student which way do we go to see the stinger?
- Student why is it the stinger curved
Bugscope Team if the stinger were really hard, it might break easier. if it has some flexibility to it, then it will survive longer.
- Bugscope Team yep, you're just about centered on it now
- Student where does the blood go
- Bugscope Team the proboscis is a sheath that has the sharp part inside it
- Student Are they Really So WrinKly??
- Student does it eat anything other than blood
- Bugscope Team the sharp part is a lancet, like a tiny lance
- Bugscope Team this is a female mosquito, and they are the ones that suck blood
- Bugscope Team only the females get the blood
- Bugscope Team like vampires...
- Bugscope Team ;)
- Bugscope Team they need to have a blood meal so they can successfully lay their eggs
- Student What are those triangle like things on the legs??
- Bugscope Team It's more of a piercing mouthpart than a stinger because they use it to feed on blood, whereas a bee doesn't do anything with the stinger but inject you
- Student Do the males eat anything other than blood?
- Student is it warm blooded or cold blooded
- Bugscope Team they need the energy from the blood
- Student thank you
- Student thank you we have to go
- Student thank you
- Student thank you i will charish this moment forever
- Student (=Thank you (g2g)
- Bugscope Team I guess it would be cold-blooded, but they are different from reptiles, for example
- Student Thank You! Bye! We Have To Go! :)
- Student thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student than soo much byebye
- Student thanks :)
- Student bye got
- Bugscope Team thanks guys I hope to see you all again! XD
- Student thank you we have to go now.
- Student thank you very much:DDDDD
- Bugscope Team they have hemolymph rather than blood
- Student ;)
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student thanks again it was awesome!
- Student =)
- Bugscope Team B-)
- Student thanks=)
- Student ??????????
- Student :) :0 g2go
- Student byebye
- 10:40am
- Student ;D
- Bugscope Team c ya
- Student g2g
- Bugscope Team laterz
- Bugscope Team hasta la vista
- Teacher Alas, our school days are so Fr aCtureD that our time is limited - - - Dr. Clishem
- Student you to!
- Bugscope Team you did great mrs. fallico.
- Teacher On our end, this was about the best session I've ever seen. Dr. C
- Bugscope Team Great news!
- Bugscope Team remember, all your images and chat are on your member hompage: http://bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu/members/2007-061
- Bugscope Team Awesome. Chas wrote the software and is continuously updating it.
- Bugscope Team Yes, we definitely thrive on feedback
- Bugscope Team Helps us decide what needs attention most desperately, and sometimes gives us new ideas for how to make the experience more worthwhile
- Teacher Is the teacher feedback on the teacher home page too?
- Bugscope Team no, to give us feedback, visit this webpage: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/feedback
- Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure if the feedback page is accessable from the member page, but just goto /feeback and you'll find it.
- 10:46am
- Teacher OK. Thanks again. We'll see you in the future. TC
- Bugscope Team It's also linked to from the application page and the sign-up-to-participate page
- Bugscope Team Bye, thanks for logging on again!
- Bugscope Team thanks mrs. fallico, see you soon i hope.
- Bugscope Team ok. i'm going to disable the session now. unless you have any more questions mrs. fallico?
- Bugscope Team session disabled. rxl stopped.
