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Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2007-11-02 09:00:00 from Springfield, IL, US

8:51am
Teacher Hi guys! I'm here. Just getting the fourth graders settled! They're very excited!!!
Bugscope Team Cool!
Bugscope Team hi laura! nice to hear from you. no problem, just let us know when you have any questions...
Bugscope Team Let us know if you need anything at all.
Teacher OK
Bugscope Team this is a bumblebee stinger, with recurved hook edges on it that are not easily removed
Bugscope Team for comparison with the honey bee stinger
Bugscope Team oops
8:56am
Bugscope Team yes, change them
Bugscope Team hi Ferd!
Bugscope Team Hi Jack!
Bugscope Team Hi Patrick!
Bugscope Team we keep losing students
9:03am
Teacher Hi . we're ready to go!!
Bugscope Team cool! welcome to bugscope students!
Bugscope Team Great!
Student hi
Bugscope Team laura, you have control of the scope.
Student hi
Student hi
Student hi
Student hi
Bugscope Team You should be looking at the edge of a honey bee stinger
Student Hello
Student what is it
Student isabel what insect is this
Bugscope Team right now
Student hi my name is Josh
Student OK I'm going to let Sam a foourth grader help with the scope!
Bugscope Team this is the stinger on a honey bee!
Bugscope Team That's a good trick, Frank/Josh.
Student hi scott
Student a bee?
Bugscope Team Hello Maddie
Student how big is the bug
Student what is this
Student Hi
Student cna you transfer the scope back to me?
Bugscope Team you have controll of the scope now
Student Zoe is this a praying mantis leg
Student Curry:What are we looking at?
Student Erin: What are we looking at?
Bugscope Team This is a honey bee stinger
Student Hi this is cool
Bugscope Team it's a honey bee, so it's the size of a marble...
Bugscope Team This right now is just the stinger of a honey bee
Student How long does a mollymoth live
Bugscope Team If a mollymoth is like most moths, they will live about 3 months.....but it depends
Student what is this
Student marble?
Student what animal part is this
Student thanks alex
Student how long has your progrom been open to school
Bugscope Team We've been doing this since 1999, so about 8 years!
Bugscope Team we have been doing this since March 1999
Student what kind of bee is it

Student I never thought a bee stinger looked like that
Bugscope Team This is a pretty close look at the tip of the stinger
Student Mary: Where did you get this?
Bugscope Team A friend of mine dissected it from a bee
Student how long is it
Student Isabella how long does it take
Bugscope Team yeah, it looks different up close, huh?
Student what is the microscope powered by
Bugscope Team It is an electron microscope. It has its own dedicated electricity, water, and compressed air to keep it running
Student mY LOG IN NAME DOESN'T APPEAR ANYMORE(lAURA)
Bugscope Team it has those tooth-like edges that cut and also keep it in your skin once it gets there
Student how long does a bee live
Bugscope Team Worker bees usually live for about a month or so. Queen bees can live several yearrs
Student how long does a bee live
Bugscope Team this stinger has barbs on it so that it can stay in whatever was stung and won't fall out very easily
Student how long do they live
Bugscope Team LAURA, your login was somehow terminated, you need to login again please.
Student iT SAYS i'M ANKS!!
Student how does it live
Student Emily: How long has this program been open to schools
Bugscope Team Since 1999, so 8 years
Bugscope Team once they sting they don't live very long
Student What does it eat
Bugscope Team Honey bees eat honey and pollen
Student whats on the tip of a stinger

Student do you like your job
Bugscope Team when you login as laura, you need to keep that browser window open. if you close that window, you lose the connection.
Student how long does a honey bee live
Student erik,how do you now what a bug eats
Bugscope Team different bugs have different appetites. some will eat other bigs, some eat dirt or stuff in dirt and some eat things like pollen
Student annie do you have the rest of the bees body

9:08am

Student whats this
Student Whats this?
Student isabel how long does it take

Student do bees die when they sting people
Student Reanna: What are we looking now?
Student do bees die when they sting somebody
Bugscope Team Honey bees do. Other types of bees do not have the barb on their stinger and so their stinger does not get stuck. They can live to sting again!
Student jACK WOULD LIKE TO CONTROL THE SCOPE. cAN WE SEE THE PRAYING MANTIS?
Student What is this?
Bugscope Team The barbs on the stinger keep the stinger and the venom sac stuck in whatever the bee stings. Honey bees can only sting one time, because they loose a part of their body.
Student is it still the stinger
Student ferd why are you a guests
Bugscope Team jack has control now.
Bugscope Team jack has controll now
Student do you hear us?
Bugscope Team Yep, sorry sometimes we can't keep up with the flow of questions

Bugscope Team nice! good work jack!
Student Erin:What is this?
Bugscope Team Jeremy we were wondering where Ferd is.

Student Cool

Bugscope Team This is the head of a praying mantis -- a very small one
Student Erin:This is so cool!
Student is this the praying mantis head
Bugscope Team yes
Student what is this
Bugscope Team This is a close up of the mantis head
Student Is this a moth?
Student that is asome
Student PAIGE:Can you tell how old it is?
Bugscope Team Yeah sorry Clara sometimes it is hard to keep up, for us.
Student chas whats that?
Student logan How many years have insects been around
Bugscope Team The oldest fossil insect is about 400 million years old
Student Noah:what is that?
Student is this the back?
Bugscope Team no, this was the head of the praying mantis.
Student sweet

Bugscope Team this is the face of the prayiong mantis, and it is not old at all, probably just a week before it died.
Bugscope Team This is a moth scale from its wing
Student what is that
Bugscope Team ok this is a moth scale from the one you sent us
Bugscope Team praying, sorry
Student SAM:WHAT IS THIS?
Bugscope Team Butterflies and moths are covered in scales that have the very distinctive pattern you were seeing
Student whats that
Bugscope Team i cut off part of the wing and put it on here
Bugscope Team if you take the mag down lower you can see where you are

Bugscope Team but as Cate says you would find just a section of wing
Student isabella what is this?
Bugscope Team this is a moth scale, now this is mold on a praying mantis...
Bugscope Team this is fungus

Student is this the moth?
Bugscope Team or mold..

Bugscope Team mold spores
Student this is MOLD!
Student how long do mantises live
Bugscope Team Mantis eggs are laid in the summer, they overwinter and hatch in the spring. By the end of the summer the mantis is full grown. So, they live about a year from egg to adult.
Student What are we looking at
Bugscope Team mold that was on the praying mantis
Student erik, how do you know were it lives
Student WHERE DO THEY LIVE
Student What is this asks,Reanna
Student how did it get mold?
Student discusting
Student why is there mold on the bug
Bugscope Team The mold probably grew after the insect had died, which is very common
Bugscope Team jeremy those holes in the wing scales are very small, and they actually hold air rather than losing it
9:13am
Student PAIGE:CAN YOU TELL HOW OLD IT IS?
Student is this mold?
Student why does mold grow on praying mantids
Bugscope Team mold grows on most dead things

Bugscope Team when an insect dies, mold follows quickly unless it is kept in a clean and dry area

Student Reanna: That was gross
Student I heard that praying mantis's are good luck
Bugscope Team Some people think they are.

Bugscope Team I think this is the mouth of the cricket
Student Noah werethose the veins?
Bugscope Team now back to one of the stingers
Student how long does it lives

Student are praying mantises lucky
Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure. i supose they aren't as lucky as humans are!
Student what does palp mean?
Bugscope Team A palp is part of the insect's mouth...it is like a little finger. It helps the insect to taste and manipulate its food
Bugscope Team there's the tip!
Student Mary:What is this
Student is this part of the praying mantis

Student elaine,this is so cool

Student what is this
Student SAM:WHAT ARE THE HAIRS?
Bugscope Team the hairs are called setae, and most insects have thousands of setae on them. those setae help the insect to sense its enviornment.
Student Sweet!

Student What's this?
Bugscope Team you can lower the mag if you want
Student Logan,How many spieces insects are there?
Bugscope Team No one knows for sure...925,000 named species. But there are many more undescribed...including one species of beetle in my freezer
Bugscope Team a palp is a mouthpart, like a small appendage that helps the insect eat or manipulate or taste its food

Student Curry:what are we looking at?
Bugscope Team This is the mouthpart of a bedbug. Its what it uses to suck human blood
Bugscope Team thanks Patrick!
Student those live in beds!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student Isabella , How old is this?
Student Erina would like to us ethe microscope
Student whats that
Bugscope Team annie found these on her walls luckil
Bugscope Team I want to make it clear that they were never in my bed...they came from a neighboring apartment
Student do the praying manti's eat ants
Bugscope Team What I've heard is that a praying mantis will eat anything smaller than it. Some even capture small birds!
Bugscope Team luckily
Bugscope Team erina, you now have scope control
Student How many teeth does it have
Student why luckily
Bugscope Team she looked all around her bed and didnt find any, they just were on her wall for some reason, and never saw any others

Bugscope Team we can confirm with Annie, but normally I think once an insect has wings it is an adult and does not grow or molt anymore.
Bugscope Team That is true. Bedbugs, however, never grow wings (many medical pests don't have wings--lice, fleas, etc)
Student is this the eye
Student how long does a bedbug live
Bugscope Team It depends. Like many medical pests, they can enter dormancy if a host is not available
Student erik, why do eat wood
Student What are we looking at now?
Student Erina:What are we looking at?
Student what do praying mantis eat
Bugscope Team praying mantids eat other insects of various sizes depending on how big the praying mantis is (which can get pretty big!). if they are really big they will eat reptiles and some small mammals
Student how do bedbugs eat
Bugscope Team they feed off of dead skin and things like that.
Bugscope Team Bedbugs suck blood
Student MALLARY:CAN YOU TELL HOW OLD THE BED BUG IS?
Bugscope Team You can't really. If it is big, it is probably an adult.
Student I cant see it
Bugscope Team the bedbugs just were not interested in Annie.
Bugscope Team Good!
Student do you have any pictures of crickets
Student how do you know what is what on a praying mantis
Student Curry:what is the pulp?
Student Can you make it colorful
Bugscope Team Because of the way the electron microscope works, it only produces B&W images. Any color you see in electron microscope images is purely artistic

Student Daniel asked what is this cate?
Bugscope Team we are on a moth scale right now, earlier we were on a bedbug
9:18am
Student what are the things they eat

Bugscope Team we cannot see color when we are working with electrons
Student cool
Student what is this?
Student whats this
Bugscope Team this is one of A LOT of moth scales from a moth
Student why not
Bugscope Team this electron microscope uses electrons to get an image. electrons are smaller than the wavelength of light. since color is a perception of wavelength, and since we don't see those wavelengths, we don't have color.
Student NO
Bugscope Team electrons are so much smaller than the wavelengths of light that give us color

Student how long is this bug
Student How many wholes are there in a moths wings?

Student whats this plz tell me
Student Sam:anks!! is really our teacher laura
Student why do moths have holes in their wings
Student Noah: what is that?
Student ew
Student whats this
Bugscope Team There could be a million holes if you added up all of the scales and all of the holes in each scale
Student Scott how big can praying mantis grow?
Student sweet
Bugscope Team Erina is still here.
Student Everybody:This is cool!
Student How big is it
Student what is this?

Student is this the mouth
Student What's a palp?
Bugscope Team Palps are secondary mouthparts. Like little hands that help with feeding
Student Please transfer the microscope to Karla. thanks.
Bugscope Team Done. You're ready to go
Student whats a palp
Student How many moths are there?
Student What is a palp
Student is pernownced pulp
Student hello?
Bugscope Team karla, you now control the scope!
Student hi clara
Student how long is a moths wings?
Bugscope Team Some moths are huge...the black witch moth, which I found dead in Costa Rica had a wingspan of about 8 inches
Student Noah: is that?
Student chnage contral microscope to pantrick thank you
Bugscope Team go for it patrick
Student hello
Student sami,can you change it to something else
Bugscope Team patrick now has control
Bugscope Team Patrick it is palp. Like the mountains The Alps, except with a p in front
Student WHAT IS THE PULP ?????
Student how long is the cricket...aproximently
Bugscope Team i think it was a couple inches long
Student hello
Student put averi in charge
Bugscope Team you're ready to go
Bugscope Team hello adrienne
Bugscope Team Hello Adrienne.

Bugscope Team Wow, no wonder it's called a "witch" moth. 8 inches!?
9:23am

Bugscope Team OOF.

Student daniel asked are you there
Bugscope Team Hi Frank!

Student wHAT IS THE PULP OF THE CRICKET?
Bugscope Team it's "palp", not pulp. Palps are mouthparts that help the insect eat

Bugscope Team Clara did we miss something from Daniel?
Student how long do crickets live
Bugscope Team Crickets can probably have 9 or so generations in a year. They probably live about two months from nymph to adult.
Bugscope Team I found it at a gas station. It was huge, it was wet, it was dead and it was pretty gross. Of course, I still picked it up.
Bugscope Team You see Annie, that's the real difference between us :-)
Student alex how does a moth fly
Bugscope Team well, it fly's with it's wings i believe....

Student hi

Bugscope Team Curry the palp is the mouthpart, like a small limb.
Student what is a cricket pulp
Student WHAT IS PULP
Bugscope Team as chas mentioned, i's a palp not a pulp, and they are mouthparts that help the insect to eat
Student wow
Student when do they use it?

Student what is this?

Student Thanks
Student why is it dented
Student this is his head if so WOW
Bugscope Team the eyes are the big round things on the side and the antennae are on the top

Bugscope Team ;)
Student paige:did Annie catch any of thees?
Bugscope Team I caught the bed bug.
Student Please le tCurry control the microscope now . thank you
Student why is there a dent in the eye of the mantis
Bugscope Team sometimes insects and bugs dry out after yhey die, and this drying out causes some of the insect parts to shrink or dent in...
Bugscope Team Clara sometimes the cuticle -- the exoskeleton -- does get dented.
Student how long is a praymantis
Student whats by the mouth
Student Reanna: What is that???
Bugscope Team Now we can see the mantis head. THe eyes are the large bulges on the side
Bugscope Team You can tell that it is stiff and fragile
Student erik, how do you know how do know how many species of bugs there are
Bugscope Team There are many estimates. A book that I have from 2005 says there are 925,000 named species. But there are many many more unnamed species.
Bugscope Team They're sort of dented from having dried out after the insect died. In life they'd be very round
Bugscope Team probably it happened after the mantis died
Student mouth of praying mantis?
Bugscope Team the mouth is right in the center of our current image
Student how big is a praying mantis head
Bugscope Team praying mantis heads depends on the size of the actual praying mantis. and they do vary in size. this one is a small praying mantis, so it has a small head
Bugscope Team Looking at the scale-bar in the lower-left corner it appears to be about 2 millimeters across
Student How long do praying mantis live
Bugscope Team some live a few months i suspect, maybe even longer. but they can be REAL BIG, the size of your hand. look at this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NG-PrayingMantis.jpg
Bugscope Team The palps are the tube-like things surrounding the mouth
Bugscope Team I think Annie has more bed bugs but is holding out on us... like she doesn't want us to know that she has 50 or 60 more.
Bugscope Team I have four or so more in my freezer, but I promised them to someone in the Insect Taxonomy class
Student scott is a cool name
Student wow what a big mouth
Student Curry do you your own have a rolly polly?
Student how wide is the praying mantis head?
Student do mantids have teeth?
Bugscope Team They have mandibles with ridges in them, that are kind of like teeth...but they do not have individual teeth like we have,

Student taylor: when do praying matids eggcases hatch?
Bugscope Team They hatch as soon as it gets warm in the spring.

Student Mary: What is the size of the head of a praying mantis
Student how big are the eyes?
9:28am
Bugscope Team You can see from the micron bar that the head is from 2 to 33 mm across. 693 microns is 0.693 mm.
Bugscope Team i would recommend turning down the contrast a little
Student is that it s mouth?
Student i heard that one of the praying mantids are pink
Bugscope Team yes, here's a picture of a pink looking praying mantis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mantispidae_fg1.jpg
Bugscope Team Mantids come in ALL sorts of colors. Some grow extra bits of their body that are in the shape of leaves so they can better camouflage themselves!
Student is this the body?
Student Erik; asked how many bugs are on Earth
Student whats this
Student what is this?
Student this is the mouth right?
Student this is realy cool
Bugscope Team Erik there are trillions of bugs on earth
Student now what is it?
Bugscope Team if you get lost driving, you could try to lower the magnification or choosing another preset
Student how long does a ant live
Bugscope Team It varies, of course. Queen can live several years. There are some tropical species where the workers can live more than a year. Most ant workers, I would estimate, live 3-4 months.
Bugscope Team Daniel now has control of the microscope.

Student what bug is this
Bugscope Team right now we are looking at the carbon tape that we have on an aluminum stub with some silver paint
Bugscope Team praying mantids have spikes on their arms that help hold its prey
Student can we see the wolly moth
Student What is this
Student what the ??????????

Student what are we doing
Bugscope Team we are living, breathing, using BUGSCOPE!

Bugscope Team this is the stub, I think

Student sweet
Bugscope Team yeah
Student what are we looking at?
Student what are we looking at

Bugscope Team the holey background is the black double stick carbon tape
Bugscope Team now you can see what the bugs are mounted on in the microscope
Student ERin: how many species of praying mantises are there
Bugscope Team we are at the edge of the microscope stage
Student elaine; what that
Student EMily What is this?????????????
Student what is that
Bugscope Team this is about as low as a mag as you can go
Student where waiting for our awnser "how wide is a praying mantis head"
Bugscope Team The one on the stage today was ~2 millimeters (thousandths of a meter) according to the scale bar
Bugscope Team try driving the other way
Bugscope Team Probably you want to head back to the NE. We're off the stage now

Bugscope Team I took us to a preset
Student Reanna: What is this????
Student how long is an ant
Student alex What is this????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Bugscope Team the image is moving, i can't tell now... sorry.
Bugscope Team Dylan that one was 2 to 3 mm across

Bugscope Team millimeters are thousandths of a meter
Student ERin:WHat is the nmyph stage?
Bugscope Team not that Chas did not know that
Student how big can a bird eatingspider grow
Bugscope Team They are about 6.5 inches in diameter when they are full grown. They eat pretty small birds.
Student Mary:Can we look at a fly
Student sam:what is this?
Bugscope Team this is just the sticky tape that we put under the insects, to hold them down.
Bugscope Team micrometers are thousandths of a millimeter and millionths of a meter
Student Curry:can you show a bee?
Bugscope Team we dont have any bees on here, just their behinds with stingers attached
Bugscope Team daniel, click on a preset please
Student Erik; how do bugs eat
Bugscope Team Some insects eat by biting and chewing, like you or I do. Other insects suck their food through tube-like mouths. Other insects regurgitate digestive juices onto their food and sponge them up with their mouths.
Student Erin: WHat is this
Student What is this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student what is this???
Bugscope Team bedbugs sleep in the wall usually, or crevices
Student whats happening
Student Frank would like to try the microscope now. Thanks

9:33am
Student it's pitch black what is this?
Bugscope Team they don't sleep in beds -- that is where they work
Bugscope Team frank now has control of the scope
Student what are we looking at
Student What is this
Student do spiders ever run out of there web
Bugscope Team Nope...as long as they are alive, they can make web
Student may we see the wolly moth catipiller
Bugscope Team not much right now Ty and Daniel.

Student What are we looking at
Student cate who is in charge of the bugscope?
Bugscope Team I am usually the one to make a sample for bugscope, and i set up the presets with alex, and scott receives the bugs in the mail :p

Student what that

Bugscope Team but sometimes you will find dead bedbugs in the crevices on the sides of your bed
Bugscope Team I never found any dead or alive bed bugs in my bed.

Bugscope Team Frank is driving now.

Student what is a bed bug
Bugscope Team A bed bug is an insect in the order Heteroptera. They are medical pests that suck the blood of warm blooded things. They are active at night and typically hide in cracks and crevices of beds and matresses. They were thought to be mostly eliminated in the US, but have resurged dramatically in the past 10 years. They are a big problem in hotels in big cities.

Bugscope Team Let's give Logan control.

Bugscope Team logan has control now.
Bugscope Team oh and annie and scott help me to identify things

Bugscope Team logan, click on a preset. that will help.

Student taylor: what is this?

Student Curry:Stop zooming in!
Bugscope Team A bed bug is an insect that sucks blood from people at night in their beds and then crawls back into the woodwork to hide

Student what is this

Student can we see the praying mantis again?
Bugscope Team click on the preset for it.
Bugscope Team You may need to scroll the presets list to the right of the chat. It's number 6, just click on the image

Student is this its eye?

Bugscope Team Annie is very emphatic about that. But I still think she is holding out on us and has many more bedbugs in stock.
Bugscope Team No way Scott. Like four more.

Student that is wicked

Student Whats in the back?

Student what is this?
Bugscope Team this is an ant as scott said

Student sami;is it fun doing your job

Student that looks like a cricket

Student EmilyS.:What is this?
Student .
Student COOL!
Bugscope Team ahhh!! you are driving off the scope!

Student why dont we have control
Bugscope Team Right now Logan has control. Only one person gets to drive at a time to keep it from getting confusing
Bugscope Team I haven't seen any since before I left for California.
Student any more
Bugscope Team Annie is carefully culturing bedbugs at her apartment because she is concerned that they may become extinct : )
Bugscope Team :P

Student ERin:hi

Bugscope Team only one person can control the scope at a time.
Student CAN YOU SHOW A CRICKET
Bugscope Team there is a cricket on a preset, ask logan to click on the cricket
Student Can Patrick B. Please have the microscope? Thanks
9:38am
Student can you show us a bedbug
Student Curry; can we see the eye of a fly
Student ;EMily:what is the life span of a beetle
Student Can you hear us
Student what is the biggest bug on earth
Bugscope Team I am just teasing Annie.
Bugscope Team i do know that bedbugs weren't that common in america for a while, but lately there has been a population explosion of them all over
Student can wesee the cricket
Bugscope Team click on the preset for it

Student Paige: don't bees die after they sting somone?
Bugscope Team Honey bees do. Other bees don't necessarily
Bugscope Team yep!

Bugscope Team I think a lobster or maybe a kingcrab.

Bugscope Team Patrick, click on the cricket image to the right of the chat text

Student ERIn: What is your favorite color
Bugscope Team preset 4 is the cricket

Student stop zooming in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Student what is this
Bugscope Team They die if someone squishes them when they are stinging them.
Bugscope Team There is a beetle called a goliath beetle that is as big as your fist.

Student ya

Student ah

Student what is this

Bugscope Team try lowering the mag
Bugscope Team refreshing, sorry about the Russian there

Student what are the hairs??
Bugscope Team the hairs are called setae, and they help the insect to sense its environment.

Bugscope Team Clara!

Student ERin: what is your favorite part of studying bugs
Bugscope Team We need to get someone to drive very slowly...
Student how do i refresh my screen
Bugscope Team there is a refresh button in the top of your browser window, or try hitting F5.
Bugscope Team s l o w l y

Student how do bugs communicate
Student EmilyS.:What is this

Student what is the lifespand of a black widow
Bugscope Team They can probably live about a year or so. Females live much longer than males.

Bugscope Team so if you lower the mag here, you will see more of the cricket
Student what are we looking at?
Student i have no clue of what we're looking at
Bugscope Team this is a cricket palp, ask patrick to lower the magnification so you can see the cricket more clearly...

Bugscope Team you can see that right here there are a lot of hairs
Bugscope Team or setae that is
Student are those teeth
Bugscope Team They look like sharp teeth, but these are actually more like hairs. We call them "setae". Insects are frequently very hairy, a lot more so than you can see with your eyes

Student EMily can we look at a cricket mole?
Student its a jungle!!!!!!!!
Student whats this
Bugscope Team Clara those are setae that help the cricket sense its food.
Student MALLARY:IS THERE A KILLER BEE?
Bugscope Team "killer bees" are more appropriately called Africanized honey bees. They are smaller and more aggressive than normal European honey bees. When the hives of Africanized honey bees are disturbed, they react quicky and in huge numbers to attack the object that disturbed the hive.
Student thats the in side!
Bugscope Team this is the mouth of a cricket

Student I loged in
Student elaine; what is the smratest bug
Student CAN YOU SHOW A SPIDER
Bugscope Team sorry but we don't have a spider in the scope right now
Bugscope Team now we can see the head
Student Jeremy would like the microscope please.
Bugscope Team You're in control
Student What are those things sticking out
Student Emily: do crickets have teeth?
Bugscope Team You can just barely see right now they do have two large jaws with serrated edges that they use to cut up their food
9:43am

Student Mary What is this?
Student whats a life span of a cricket
Bugscope Team Jeremy you have to promise to drive slowly so everyone can see.

Student wow
Student do you have a spider
Student isthis a mantid

Student can u show us the beed like eye of an insect
Bugscope Team ask jeremy to magnify on the praying mantis eye....

Student whats this
Student what is this
Bugscope Team this is a mantis

Bugscope Team a praying mantis, and a very small one
Student what is this

Student what the heck is that
Bugscope Team jack you can see the eyes at both ends of the head

Student Mary:Do praying mantises have teeth?

Student megan do you have the spider
Student do you have hornets
Bugscope Team We've looked at hornets before, but there is limited space in the microscope so we only have this group of insects to look at today
Student scott can u show us a beed like eye a insect?

Student WHat isthe life span of a killer bee

Student can we please see the claws of tha mantis
Bugscope Team ask the driver of the scope (jeremy) to navigate to it!

Bugscope Team today we have a praying mantis, a cricket, 2 bed bugs, 2 stingers, an ant, and a moth wing
Student can we see the spider
Student I WANNA SEE A SPIDER
Student it
Bugscope Team the claws of the mantis should be easy to find. start by clicking on the praying mantis head.

Student PAIGE:DID CHAS CATCH ANY BUGS?
Student has a bug killed a person
Bugscope Team yes, some bugs can be poisonous, right annie?
Bugscope Team Well, diseases vectored by insects are some of the leading causes of death in the world. People sometimes can die from reactions to bee or wasp stings, if they are allergic. Mostly "poisonous" insects just cause a rash or a burn.
Bugscope Team jeremy is in control of the scope now.
Student can we please look at a spider
Student Patrick F. would like the microscope please.
Student Reanna: THe praying mantises head looks like a peanut, why?
Bugscope Team The eyes are very important to the insect so they're very large. That placement of them on the sides allows the mantis an almost 360 degree view of its surroundings!

Bugscope Team bees inject poison through their stinger
Student santa's claws
Bugscope Team some people are very allergic to the sting and will die

9:48am

Student what are we looking at????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Bugscope Team you don't need to type repeasted letters, we understand a single ?. right now patrick is having a hard time staying on a sample, he's moving the scope too fast.

Student wha is this
Student -
Student whats that ?

Student HAVE YOU EVER DONE ENYTHING BUT BUGS
Bugscope Team The microscope gets used for university-level research all day long looking at many things other than bugs. We have occasionally looked at something like salt crystals for Bugscope, but tend not to stray too far from bugs
Student what is that?
Bugscope Team be back in a moment...

Student how come u cant anser all of are questions
Bugscope Team there are too many questions for us... sorry for that.
Student please awnser our question "whats the life span of a cricket" please hurry thankyou
Bugscope Team Hi Zoe, you can scroll down through the list of questions that we answered earlier...the list is in the lower left corner of the screen.
Student paige:is it a cocoon

Student i want to see a spider
Bugscope Team we don't have a spider int he microscope now, there is nothing we can do about that.

Student how many types of moths are in the world???????
Student What are we looking at

Student what this?

Student erin:did you know that millions of people are killed by mosquitos every year.

Student i want to see a ant
Student is it a choice to see something other than lines???
Student what do they eat

Student how long is a mantis?
Bugscope Team they are different sizes, some can be as long as an adult human hand!

Student what is your favorite c
Student what is your favorite insect

Student are screen is blury . why Annie?
Student ya disect it then!!
Student what is your favorite bug

Student WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BUG
Bugscope Team i like mites!

Student what is your favorite bug
Bugscope Team i think my favorite would be wasps and ants, they are cute! :p
Student what is this???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Bugscope Team This is a highly magnified moth wing. You're seeing the microstructure of an individual scale
Bugscope Team this is the scale on a moth.

Student annie?
Bugscope Team Yes?
Student whats your favorite
Bugscope Team I really like ticks. The part they stick in you like a needle to draw blood is fascinating. It's full of tons of backwards facing spines to hold it in place
Bugscope Team My favorite insects are longhorned beetles...that is what I am researching
Bugscope Team mold!
Student WHAT ARE MITES
Bugscope Team a mite is an invertebrate. they are very small and have a very diverse array of habitats. they feed on a wide array of food.
9:53am

Student disect so that we can see the tissue plz (please)
Student this is a bee stinger
Bugscope Team the tip is where the poison comes out
Student annie do you enjoy helping us with our bugs?
Bugscope Team Yes, I do. I like Bugscope because I get to share my knowledge of insects with kids--and sometimes other adults.
Student do you like your job?annie
Bugscope Team I do like my job. Being an entomologist lets me study beetles that are not well understood, to travel, and to interact with other scientists and with students...

Student what is the lifespan of a ant?
Student ANNIE WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BUG
Bugscope Team Longhorned beetles!
Student how do bugs eat
Student plz disect
Student thank you
Student how do insects get mold
Bugscope Team Mold would like to grow on living things all the time, but usually when something is alive its immune system fights off the mold. Once it dies the mold can invade unimpeded
Student What are we looking at
Student Scott is it true that if there are two queen ants they battle?

Student do you have any tissue to look at
Bugscope Team no sorry, just these bugs you see in the preset list.
Bugscope Team we can't disect these while they are in the microscope, we are only imaging them

Bugscope Team they are kept under a high vacuum
Student were do honey bees live?

Student can we disect the mantis?

Student can we see an eye?

Student can we see a bedbug
Bugscope Team yes, there is a bedbug preset, have patrick f click on that, then lower the mag to see the whole bug!
Student oh ok

Student elaine, what is the biggest bug
Student i want to talk to kate
Bugscope Team me?
Student (sigh)
Bugscope Team do you want conrtol of the scope?

Student annie how long have you worked with bugscope?
Bugscope Team This is my third or fouth year

Student what is this

Student aaaaaaaaa
Bugscope Team OK everyone, I have to leave you now. I am late for class!!!!
Bugscope Team Some of us are students too, just like you.
Student do bed bugs live anywere els besides beds
Bugscope Team They like to stay close to their prey, so you can find them in crevices, on walls, behind picture frames, etc
Student 5 more minutes thats not enough
Bugscope Team Happy Bugscoping!!!
Bugscope Team patrick, at such high magnifications, there is not much to see...
Student mayn
Student bye bye
Student what is the biggest spider a turantchaul or a birdeating spider
Student show some/thing

Bugscope Team emily s, you now have control of the scope.
Student Reanna;what is this?
Student bye bye thank you

Student that was ty
Student Paige: whats the hevest bug in world?
Bugscope Team I believe we looked up the goliath beetle once before and it was the largest, so presumably also the heaviest

Bugscope Team Usually in the bedroom though
9:58am
Student how do bugs talk??
Bugscope Team well, i don't think any of them talk, but they do communicate, by rubbing body parts together (crickets), or making other noises with their bodies.
Student wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student thank you bye
Student bye Thank You this was fun!
Student zoe awnsers cates question yes i want to talk to you

Student thanx

Student THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOODYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student we must not leave
Student THANKYOU AND GOODBYE
Bugscope Team there is the cricket eye in the upper part of the screen
Bugscope Team It was much larger than an adult hand
Bugscope Team good bye students, you were great!
Student Paige :thanks........bye bye
Student thank you for awnsering our questions but we have to go. by.
Student ty said bye
Bugscope Team Bye guys, thanks for logging in and asking so many questions. We hope you enjoyed it!
Student thankyou
Student thank you
Bugscope Team bye all! it was fun!
Student thank you
Student jack said bye too
Bugscope Team hope to see you again some day. have a nice day!
Student thankyou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student we thank you bye bye cate annie chas alex scott!!
Student savaN
Student Noah said by
Bugscope Team bye clara
Student THANK YOU!!!/AND GOODBYE!
Student everybody
Student thank you
Student thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Student savannah said bye too
Bugscope Team bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student we all say thanks
Student say bye

Bugscope Team okay, i guess laura is gone too?
10:04am
Bugscope Team i supose i'll close the session?
Student I'm here.The kids loved it! We brought a sixth grader in who wants to become an entemologist. She was very inspired!!
Bugscope Team ah, hi laura!
Bugscope Team wow that is great!
Bugscope Team awesome
Bugscope Team we will have to tell annie when we see her again
Bugscope Team laura, i just gave you control, in case you want to control the scope more?
Student Thanks for all of your time. I(Laura) too am a UI grad.
Bugscope Team Once she becomes an entomologist she should login and help out other students :)
Bugscope Team heh, small world.
Student Have to go now. Thanks Again
Bugscope Team Great to have you on, we hope to see you back
Bugscope Team Bye Laura
Bugscope Team thank you laura, great job!
Bugscope Team laura, just so you know all your chat and images are saved on you member page: http:.//bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu/members/2007-064
Bugscope Team ok. i'm closing the session now, unless someone needs the scope?

School Name	Blesssed Sacrament
School Homepage	bssbruins.org
Location	Springfield IL, US
Community	Urban
Type	Private

Subjects Taught	Computer
Grades Taught	4th Grade
Number of Students	47

Project Title	Illinois Insects
Insects To Study	Ants, Praying Mantis, Crickets
Project Description	Students have collected, and identified different types of insects in central Illinois. They are in the process of finishing up different culminating activities related to each one. They will finish by viewing their insects via the microscope.

Session 2007-064 with Blesssed Sacrament

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Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2007-11-02 09:00:00 from Springfield, IL, US