Connected on 2007-11-16 12:30:00 from , NE, US
- 12:13pm
- Bugscope Team an isopod
- Bugscope Team what did Annie tell us about how many sets of legs per segment to differentiate millipedes and centipedes.
- 12:18pm
- Bugscope Team presets are done, we are ready!
- Bugscope Team session unlocked
- Bugscope Team hey mrs. Y, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team if you have any questions, please just ask.
- Bugscope Team you should see an image above, presets to your right, and above that: microscope controls (magnify, navigation, focus and adjust)
- 12:24pm
- Teacher ok
- Teacher cool dude
- Bugscope Team presets are interesting locations that we setup for you. click on a preset to move to it.
- Bugscope Team or you can control the scope with mag, nav, focus and adjust.
- Teacher my name is logan
- Bugscope Team hi logan
- Teacher the student
- Bugscope Team what grade are you in logan?
- Bugscope Team my name is alex
- Teacher lol
- Teacher 10th
- Bugscope Team you drive yet?
- Teacher not as of yet
- Bugscope Team well, when you do, it's really fun man.
- Teacher is this a bee we are looking at ?
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, try taking down the magnification so we can get a better look
- Bugscope Team the last place I left the 'scope sitting at was on a cricket
- Teacher i can't go out further
Bugscope Team yes, the minimum low mag is around 40-50 x, so we are at there now
- Bugscope Team drive north
- 12:29pm
- Teacher thanks for the clarification
- Bugscope Team we can look at the head
- Bugscope Team we are at the lowest magnification we can attain with this microscope
- Bugscope Team excellent job controlling the scope logan
- Bugscope Team hi all!
- Bugscope Team Yay!
- Bugscope Team Annie is our entomologist.
- Bugscope Team excellen
- Bugscope Team She keeps most of us from saying the wrong things.
- Bugscope Team t
- Teacher sweet
- Bugscope Team Sometimes...but who tells me when I am wrong?!
- Bugscope Team That's a big burden you have to bear.
- Teacher not many
- Bugscope Team We can go back and edit chat sessions to fix any tiny mistake you might make.
- Bugscope Team i guess someone has to do it
- Bugscope Team well I am good at making the big mistakes
- Bugscope Team mrs. y, if you drive off the edge, we'll have to reset the scope. so try to stay close to an insect. if you get lost, you can always click on a preset.
- Bugscope Team when you use click to drive you also need to click to stop
- Teacher that's nice to know
- Bugscope Team are we working with Logan or Mrs Y now?
- Bugscope Team it's not a big deal to "reset" the scope as alex said, so dont worry too much about it
- Teacher logan
- Bugscope Team Okay cool.
- 12:34pm
- Teacher how many insects are on the slide?
- Bugscope Team Please let us know if you cannot do what you want to do. Note also the presets to the right, in which we have highlighted places you might want to explore.
- Bugscope Team Mrs. Y: I hope your students are excited about using Bugscope for their own investigations.
- Bugscope Team This is an aluminum stub with doublestick carbon tape on it -- it is a circular 1.75-inch diameter stub.
- Bugscope Team The samples are all coated with several nanometers of gold-palladium.
- Teacher switching students
- Teacher wats up brother, this is jeff
- Bugscope Team Please choose one of the presets to start -- we are in Neverland now.
- Bugscope Team yo jeff
- Bugscope Team Jeff try clicking on a preset.
- Bugscope Team on the right there
- Bugscope Team Are students working in groups or one at a time (on the computer)?
- Bugscope Team from a preset you can still drive or do whatever you want
- Bugscope Team this is a dried up dustmite on a cricket body
- Teacher one at a time but everyone can see
- Bugscope Team you can take the mag up or down or drive around to see where you are
- Bugscope Team the cricket is very dusty
- Bugscope Team What do you think would be the difference between an adult cricket and a hatchling cricket?
- Bugscope Team notice all the hairs on the bugs. those hairs are called setae, and they help the insect/bug sense it's enviornment.
- 12:39pm
- Teacher i don't know
- Bugscope Team there's the mite again
- Teacher im out peace out dudes
- Bugscope Team the mite is softbodied, unlike insects
- Bugscope Team later jeff, keep it real
- Bugscope Team so it shrivels up when it dries
- Teacher this is nick
- Bugscope Team hey nick, nice to meet you
- Teacher hey
- Bugscope Team compared to insects, which have an exoskeleton that is generally hard and less susceptible to shrinkage when it dries
- Bugscope Team Nick you can go north to see the head.
- Bugscope Team notice the compound eyes, they are very interesting parts of insects...
- Bugscope Team the bubbles we see in the background are in the carbon tape
- Bugscope Team part of it
- Bugscope Team now a compound eye
- Bugscope Team crickets have generalized mouthparts...they will eat almost anything
- Bugscope Team each compound eye is composed of thousands of ommatidia, those are the octogon shaped things on the eye
- Bugscope Team if you want to focus it would help, and sometimes it is easier to focus at a lower mag before kicking the mag up
- Teacher jeff says wats up homies
- 12:44pm
- Bugscope Team if you focus one way, and it gets worse, try focusing the other way
- Bugscope Team Hey Jeff.
- Bugscope Team Who is driving?
- Bugscope Team go ahead and try a preset if you want
- Teacher nick
- Bugscope Team there...
- Teacher hey we switched this is spencer
- Bugscope Team now try focusing
- Bugscope Team hi spencer
- Teacher hey whats up?
- Bugscope Team Spencer there are a lot of places to go on the stub if you want.
- Bugscope Team You can choose from the presets on the right if you would like.
- Bugscope Team yo spence. click on preset #6, it has some cool stuff we want to show you.
- Teacher ight
- Bugscope Team right now you are controlling a $600,000 microscope!
- Bugscope Team this is cool
- Teacher what is it?
- Bugscope Team coolness spence. this is a scale on a ladybug.
- Bugscope Team this is a scale that we found sitting on a ladybug
- Bugscope Team this is a scale, like a feather, and it doesn't belong to the ladybug
- Teacher what kind of scale
- Bugscope Team ladybugs don't have scales, of course
- Bugscope Team you can take the mag down to see if you want
- Bugscope Team notice all the holes in the scale. the holes make the scale lighter, while still keeping the strength
- Teacher what kind of scale is it is it from a another insect
- Bugscope Team butterflies, moths, skippers, mosquitos, and silverfish have scales
- 12:50pm
- Teacher wats this
- Bugscope Team now we see the built-in comb on an ant's leg
- Bugscope Team this is a flying ant, you can tell
- Teacher is this a mouth
Bugscope Team Yes this is the mouth of an ant
- Bugscope Team yes this is the mouth
- Bugscope Team ants have busy looking mouths like there is a half eaten insect sticking out
- Bugscope Team good driving spence
- Bugscope Team you are doing a good job at driving
- Bugscope Team this is pretty cool -- high mag on one of the mandibles
- Bugscope Team you can still focus if you want, in small clicks
- Bugscope Team when it gets worse you know to go the other way
- Bugscope Team Awesome!
- Bugscope Team great focus job
- Bugscope Team good job driving!
- Bugscope Team wow nice focusing
- Bugscope Team this is not so easy to do
- Bugscope Team juju
- Bugscope Team this looks like a piece of dirt maybe?
- Teacher idk it looks weird
- Bugscope Team this is some random dirt on the ant's face
- Bugscope Team now you are very close, and we see charging -- the electrons are bulding up in the piece of dirt
- 12:55pm
- Bugscope Team you know you are beaming electrons at the sample
- Bugscope Team and you are getting secondary electrons back from the sample that give you the image you see
- Teacher im out
- Teacher this is kendra
- Bugscope Team the horizontal lines in the image are 'charging'
- Bugscope Team check out the scale in the lower left of the image, it tells you the size of what you are looking at. um is a micron, one millionth of a meter.
- Teacher jeff says whats up again.
- Teacher but anywayyys this is the mouth??
Bugscope Team yes, mouth, and other parts of the head
- Bugscope Team yeah two microns is the length of a bacillus -- a normal rod-shaped bacterium
- Bugscope Team you can see there is something to the east there -- to the right
- Bugscope Team Cool.
- Teacher where?
- Bugscope Team This is a claw, here, and you can take the mag down to see what it belongs to.
- Bugscope Team if you want
- Teacher is this still the ant?
- 1:00pm
- Bugscope Team this is a small black fly antenna
- Teacher thats kinda gross.
- Bugscope Team this is cool -- these are the antennae of these little badboy black flies
- Bugscope Team it is kind of gross
- Bugscope Team it has some curly mustaches it looks like
- Bugscope Team it looks evil to me
- Teacher haha that funny.. yea it does.
- Teacher kinda
- Bugscope Team like Snidely Whiplash
- Teacher whos that?
- Bugscope Team it is some kind of Diptera, meaning it is two-winged
- Bugscope Team Snidely Whiplash was a TV cartoon character, with Dudlet DoRight.
- Bugscope Team Dudlet
- Bugscope Team This king of looks like a mothfly
- Bugscope Team Dudley...
- Bugscope Team moth fly, two words
- Teacher ohh..i see i didnt know that..do you have a honey bee?
Bugscope Team no bees or wasps today, i'm sorry
- Bugscope Team hey we were wondering Annie
- Bugscope Team no bees today
- Bugscope Team I think
- Bugscope Team click on preset # 1, it is a closeup of a fly eye, a compound eye
- Teacher oh..well thanks anyways...what about like lice or something of that matter
Bugscope Team preset # 3 is a very small object, we think some kind of insect, that is living on a bigger insect
- Bugscope Team the moth flies are endemic to Beckman, and they are black in color
- Bugscope Team There's a fruit fly on here as well.
- Bugscope Team and a ladybug
- Teacher well thats not gross at all...
- Teacher a lady bug really??? thats interesting.. well thanks im going to go do my assignment! byee
- 1:05pm
- Teacher hi this is amanda now and i have no idea what i am doing haha
- Bugscope Team This is a moth scale, probably, on the ladybug.
- Bugscope Team you can take the mag lower to see where you are
- Bugscope Team amanda you are doing fine. there ya go, this is an isopod. not an ipod...
- Teacher haha i see that
- Teacher what is an isopod
- Bugscope Team like a centipede or a millipede
- Teacher i went to a brad paisley concert last night
- Teacher not that any of you probably care
- Bugscope Team an isopod is a type of crustacean...
- Bugscope Team brad paisley is cool man
- Teacher oh alright
- Teacher yes he is
- Teacher the isopod looked boring
- Bugscope Team yeah its basically a long wormy guy withlots of legs
- 1:10pm
- Teacher what is this
- Bugscope Team hmm
- Bugscope Team we might be be on the ant
- Bugscope Team want to lower the mag?
- Bugscope Team this is part of an ant claw
- Bugscope Team thanx alex
- Bugscope Team this is a socket, much like a ball socket...
- Bugscope Team the last parts of an insect legs are called tarsi. each one being a tarsomere
- Bugscope Team tarsi means insect foot
- Teacher well im gonna leave. you can talk to the other amanda now goodbye!
- Bugscope Team later amanda, hi new amanda
- Teacher Hello
- Teacher Btw our pet snake Benny says hi
- Bugscope Team try preset #3, i think you'll like it
- Bugscope Team good, i speak snake
- Bugscope Team O.o a snake
- Bugscope Team tell benny i'll call him later
- Bugscope Team like harry potter eh
- Bugscope Team amanda, try clicking on preset #3
- Teacher Sorry mouse wasn't doing what it was suppose to be doing
- 1:15pm
- Bugscope Team cool. try driving the scope a bit to the right ...
- Bugscope Team this image has drifted a bit to the left since we took the preset
- Bugscope Team okay cool, now go down a bit
- Bugscope Team if the brightness is a bit high, you can lower it in the "Adjust" control.
- Teacher did I need to go down further?
- Bugscope Team hmm
- Bugscope Team try lowering the mag, then we'll see it
- Bugscope Team I'm not sure where we went off to
- Bugscope Team now see, it's on the left
- Bugscope Team is to the left there
- Bugscope Team try click to center, that is easier than driving
- Teacher the round ball part?
- Bugscope Team no, above that
- Bugscope Team it looks like a hairy football
- Bugscope Team nope, the thing that kind of looks like a hedgehog
- Bugscope Team we dont know what it is
- Teacher could it be a mite?
Bugscope Team i think it is a mite, yes, but i'm not positive.
- Bugscope Team the electron beam is moving that seta (the hair like thing) in the way >.
- 1:21pm
- Bugscope Team scott says it isn't a mite, it's probably a broekn limb...
- Bugscope Team preset 1 is kind of cool too
- Bugscope Team that is a fruit fly eye with a bunch of setae all over it
- Teacher the little rice things?
Bugscope Team those are setae that supposedly help the fly detect the changes in the wind
- Bugscope Team yeah
- Bugscope Team those are called setae
- Teacher what are they for?
Bugscope Team normally setae on the body are used for sensing the enviornment. these setae on the eye's are thought to help it fly.
- Bugscope Team it is thought that these setae help the insect to sense the wind when flying, and help it to snse wind direction and such
- Teacher oh that's cool
- Bugscope Team notice the shape of the individual eye facets (ommatidia), they are octogons
- Bugscope Team these guys have to think fast when flying or they will fly into things, or they will feel the wind when a fly swatter or hand is coming towards them and fly away
- Bugscope Team sorry hexagons!!!
- Bugscope Team not octogons
- Bugscope Team 6 sided
- Teacher What are the longer lines?
Bugscope Team those look like broken body setae. this is a messy bug man
Bugscope Team they are other pieces of setae it looks like that fell off
- Teacher Eew
- 1:26pm
- Bugscope Team you can take the mag down even farther and see how big the eyes are with resepct to the rest of the head
- Bugscope Team nice job driving, whatever your name is, who is driving now?
- Bugscope Team the things on top that look like little ears are the antennae
- Bugscope Team the mouth/tongue is the part to the lower right that looks like a pigs nose
- Teacher Amanda K and the bell is about to ring now for the end of this period
- Bugscope Team nice job amanda
- Bugscope Team well, thanks for doing bugscope, you all were prety cool
- Teacher Going now, next class will be using this in about 10 minutes
- Bugscope Team okay, we will be here, ready and waiting
- Bugscope Team ok thanks for hanging out with us
- Teacher Thanks
- Bugscope Team sure
- Teacher hi im jeanne from 1st block
- Teacher oops4th
- Bugscope Team hey jeanne
- Teacher Morgan too!=^w^=
- Teacher hows u2
- Bugscope Team hey morgan ^.^
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Teacher thank u
- Bugscope Team if you want you can drive around or click on a preset to move to another bug
- 1:31pm
- Teacher will do!:D
- Teacher hehee i see things lol
- Bugscope Team you click once to start moving, clcik again to stop
- Bugscope Team CLICK AGAIN!!!!
- Bugscope Team there ya go, nice
- Bugscope Team now, we are lost a bit, try click on a preset, that will take us to a bug
- Bugscope Team presets are on the lower right
- Teacher class is starting brb
- Bugscope Team ok
- Teacher hi
- Teacher sup
- Bugscope Team what up holmes
- Bugscope Team hey DaddyO
- Teacher nm man whats crackalackin
- 1:37pm
- Teacher my name is grizwald
- Bugscope Team hey grizwald
- Teacher are you making fun of my name
- Bugscope Team well, no, do you want me to?
- Teacher of course
- Bugscope Team ;)
- Teacher kiny
- Teacher kinky*
- Bugscope Team has your class started yet?
- Teacher what am i looking at
- Bugscope Team this is the scale on a ladybug
- Bugscope Team this is a scale that was sitting on a ladybug
- Bugscope Team magnified 11,000 x
- Bugscope Team the holes in the scales help to reduce the weight of the scale, making it lighter without reducing the strength too much
- Teacher This is MRS Y. I aplolgize for Alex's
- Teacher comments
- Bugscope Team not a problem mr.s Y.
- Bugscope Team not a problem at all
- Bugscope Team i was a kid once too
- Bugscope Team kinky
- Bugscope Team not big deal
- Bugscope Team we lost mrs. Y
- Bugscope Team not sure what the problem is, will wait around. i will call in a few minutes...
- 1:42pm
- Student we
- Bugscope Team hi Joe!
- Bugscope Team okay, i just gave scope control over to you, so now we are good to go!
- Student acctually this is andrew...what is this
- Bugscope Team this is a small black fly
- Bugscope Team this is part of its body i believe
- Bugscope Team you can pick a preset to the right to jump to something
- Bugscope Team or you can take the mag down and see the whole fly
- Student that's cool....what part of illinois are you guys in
Bugscope Team we are at the UofI in Urbana Illinois.
- Student sweet...i was born in Bloomington...is that near there?
- Bugscope Team yep, blookington is just 40 minutes away
- Bugscope Team bloomington i mean
- Bugscope Team me type bad
- Bugscope Team try focus here
- Student hey this is garrett
- Bugscope Team hi garrett
- Bugscope Team if focus gets back, then try going the other way
- 1:47pm
- Student i don't know which way i want to go to get i back
- Bugscope Team well, you could always click on the preset again, that'll take you bnack
- Student ok thanks
- Bugscope Team dust mte
- Bugscope Team ah cool, this is the underbelly of a mite
- Bugscope Team mite
- Bugscope Team this mite is on its back
- Bugscope Team it's very dried out
- Bugscope Team this is a cricket
- Student do you ever put live bug under the scope?
- Bugscope Team no, we coat the bugs with gold-paladium before they go into the scope, which is a vacuum chamber
- Bugscope Team but they would move around
- Bugscope Team however, some things have survived being in the scope. but that is rare
- Bugscope Team its very hard to image something thats moving
- Student are you at a university?
Bugscope Team yeppers, university of illinois at urbana champaign
- Bugscope Team if a school sends us bugs and they are still alive, we like to let them go, we don't like killing things, even bugs...
- Student hahaha are you an enviornmentalist?
- Bugscope Team isn't everyone?
- Bugscope Team we all live in the environement
- Student no i'm not haha i'm conservative
- Bugscope Team thats not totally true alex
- Bugscope Team so we are all environementalists, wether we want to be or not
- Bugscope Team we will often freeze the insects
- Bugscope Team okay okay, so we kill bugs. sue me
- Bugscope Team which is a humane way of killing them, because it's just like they are going to sleep
- Student i understand i kill bugs in a much less humaine way
- Student by stepping on them
- Bugscope Team you squish them or flush them down the toilet?
- Bugscope Team lol
- 1:53pm
- Student hi im Suhaus
- Bugscope Team well we could kill them by pouring ethyl alcohol over them, but that is slightly less humane, they just get a slight chance to get drunk before they go to bug heaven
- Bugscope Team hey shuhaus
- Bugscope Team hey sara
- Student hey
- Student what time is the session over
- Student so can u put up a trantula
- Bugscope Team the session ends at 2
- Bugscope Team er 3
- Bugscope Team but we have the scope signed out till 4
- Bugscope Team for extra time
- Bugscope Team in case we need more that is
- Bugscope Team we have looked at a tarantula leg in the scope before, but whole, they are pretty big
- Student do you think you can bring the bugs back to life?
- Student thats fine
- Student That was Garrett again...-_-'''
- Bugscope Team i'm not sure we can bring anything back to life
- Bugscope Team hmm i dont know bug cpr so no
- Student xD
- Bugscope Team those hairs are called setae, and the help the insect to sense its environment
- Student they needs to shave x3
- Bugscope Team oh but speaking of bugs coming back to life
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team sometimes when we freeze insects, they will hibernate so when we thaw them, they are alive again
- 1:58pm
- Bugscope Team we had a bunch of ants that someone sent us once do that
- Student awsome!Zombie flies!!!xD
- Bugscope Team hehe yeah
- Student ya ya ya i took a bug class and when we froze a butterfly and when we brought it back outside it got up and flew away
- Bugscope Team wow, that's cool
- Student sweet!
- Student What the heck is that???
- Student @.@
- Bugscope Team the dust mite is on a cricket
- Bugscope Team yeah, there's the whole mite
- Student Garrett wants to know if dust mites eat people.
Bugscope Team no but you could inhale a bunch all the time and you wouldnt know it
- Bugscope Team it's dried out, so that explains the appearance (wrinkly)
- Student so how many bugs do u hav
- Student I'm gunna go take a vitamin
- Bugscope Team in fact, you sleep with mites
- Student Can bugs get AIDS
Bugscope Team no, AIDS is a auto-immune disorder of humans only, and can only be passed via blood and such from human to human
- Student Im sleeping in plastic from now on
Bugscope Team sleeping on plastic won't work, mites live off human skin, so as dead skin falls onto the plastic, mites would live in that dead skin
- Bugscope Team yeah really
- Bugscope Team but sometimes mites are a good thing
- Bugscope Team i know there are good mites on our eyelashes
- Student they don't look like it
- Student can u put another type of bug on there
Bugscope Team sorry, we can't, once we create the presets, the bugs are in a vacuum chamber. releasing the vacuum would mean no bugscope for about 20-30 minutes...
- Student like an ant
- 2:03pm
- Student Bug says "HI!"
- Student wat is this
- Bugscope Team actually we do have a mosquito in the scope, but we didnt make a preset for it
- Bugscope Team this is a ant mouth
- Student awww.no bloodsuckers....
- Bugscope Team we cannot easily switch to samples that are not already on the stub when the 'scope is running -- we would have to shut down the electron beam and vent the vacuum chamber
- Student wat do ants ear?
- Bugscope Team but we do have a mosquito today
- Student eat?
- Bugscope Team ah, yes, we do have a mosquito, but it's not a preset
- Bugscope Team we'd have to drive to find it
- Student thats ok
- Student wat do ants eat
Bugscope Team ants eat all kinds of food: cake apples, juice, and they also eat DEAD BUGS too!
- Bugscope Team shall i take control of the scope and find the mosquito?
- Student YOSH!!!
- Bugscope Team we are jumping to the lady bug and will find the mosquito from there
- Student how many species of undiscovered bugs are there?
Bugscope Team no one knows the number for sure, but it is believed that the number of known species is FAR LESS than the number of unknown...
- 2:08pm
- Bugscope Team here is the mosquito
- Bugscope Team its eyes are kind of smooshed in
- Bugscope Team cate found the mosquito!
- Student yeay cate!
- Student What kind of music did you study?
- Bugscope Team and if we want to include crustaceans, then a king crab!
- Student how do you name new species of bugs?
Bugscope Team i'm not positive, but there is a good article about naming species on the wikipedia website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
- Bugscope Team yes and there are praying mantids that are big enough to eat small birds and reptiles
- Student Creepy
- Student Didn't know that
- Bugscope Team mosquitos have lots of those
- Student is there any bacteria living on this mosquito
Bugscope Team i dont think so, but they are about as big as 2um if you want to keep a look out for them
- 2:13pm
- Student Or any in that matter?
- Bugscope Team try focus here too...
- Student This scope ish kewl
Bugscope Team here is a pic of the scope: http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/ms/equipment/microscopes/esem/
- Bugscope Team wait!
- Bugscope Team look at those holes
- Bugscope Team see those holes?
- Bugscope Team this microscope is $600,000! but dont worry about breaking it, the interface wont let you do anything like that
- Student yes
- Student I want one.
- Student can u go to the tip of the sucer
- Bugscope Team those small holes are called spiracles. that is how insects breath
- Student **sucker
- Student that is awsome!
- Student so whats the weirdist bug out there
Bugscope Team well, i think praying mantis are very cool, and weird.
- 2:19pm
- Student We have hundereds
- Bugscope Team we often have praying matis for bugscope sessions, but not this one....
- Student how many bugs do u hav there w/ u
- Bugscope Team praying mantis heads are the weirdest
- Bugscope Team they are so alien looking
- Bugscope Team well, right now in the scope there are about 8 insects. and we keep a stash of about 10-20. it's very easy to get new bugs
- Student hey my name is Scott
- Bugscope Team hi scott
- Student do you have any tiger beetles
Bugscope Team what does it look like?
- Bugscope Team it's green right?
- Bugscope Team we don't have a tiger beetle today, sorry
- Student they are greenish gold with black dots
- Student ya
- Student they are endangered
- Student but they only live in Lincoln NE ... i think
- Student this is garrett again
- Bugscope Team hi garrett
- Bugscope Team ahh you are driving off the stage
- Bugscope Team that is a screw hole
- Bugscope Team tiger beetles are primarily found in the deserts of africa
- Student so do you guys evver go out and find bugs yourselves?
- Student o ok
- 2:24pm
- Bugscope Team well for ladybugs, i dont have to look for them, they find me. they are all over my house
- Student lol
- Bugscope Team ok, i fixed the scope. we are back
- Student sweet
- Bugscope Team sometimes we will get earwigs and spiders that we see and freeze them
- Bugscope Team check out the haltere
- Bugscope Team that's the balloon looking thing in the center
- Bugscope Team does anyone know what a haltere does?
- Bugscope Team like a punching bag
- Student ok it is the salt creek tiger beetle and it was listed as endangered in 2005 there were only 150 of them
- Student no i do not
- Bugscope Team cool, joe, thanks for the info on the salt creek tiger beetle, i'd never herad of it before. thanks!
- Student your welcome
- Bugscope Team well we hope we dont have any endangered things in the scope, though sometimes we put in monarch butterflies, and they were listed as endangered, but i see them everwhere
- Bugscope Team the haltere is used by flying insects, it helps to stabalize the insect during flight, by pounding against the body very quickly, it counteracts the motion of the wings, and helps keep the flight stable.
- Student i c
- Student We have 4 minutes left,says Mrs. Y
- Bugscope Team whoa, nebraska is where that salt creek beetle is. that's near you all right?
- Bugscope Team aww ok
- Student Ya we're in Lincoln
- Bugscope Team whoa dude that is totalyl cool man.
- Student its basically in our back yard
- Bugscope Team you all live close to a critically endaged beetle
- Bugscope Team i'm looking at a pic of it now on wikipedia. have you ever seen one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Creek_Tiger_Beetle
- Student yup we do
- Bugscope Team wow
- Bugscope Team coolness
- Student I feel sad now....I killed one when I was little.....
- 2:29pm
- Student i will check it out
- Bugscope Team aw morgon, it's okay.
- Bugscope Team i shot a bird when i was a kid, and i stil regret it
- Bugscope Team i'm sure that barely made an impact at all on their numbers
- Bugscope Team well, the beetles numbers are only in the hundreds, so maybe it did make a difference!
- Student I shot a bird on accident when I was practicing my shot...
- Student hey so wat is this
Bugscope Team this is double stick carbon tape
- Bugscope Team well, this is just the tape we put the bugs on, helps to hold them down
- Student Thank you for your time we have to leave now
- Student Thanks you very much for your time we have to go now
- Bugscope Team ok, we hope you had fun, it was great talking with you, we learned a lot
- Bugscope Team and we hope you did too
- Bugscope Team see you kids, you were awesome
- Bugscope Team thanks for the tip about the salt creek beetle. it's pretty sad story about them, they are in big trouble....
- Bugscope Team hey panther
- Bugscope Team i just gave you control of the scope
- Bugscope Team earth to panther...
- 2:34pm
- Bugscope Team panthter, click once to start moving, click AGAIN to stop moving
- Bugscope Team sorry panther, i removed your control, i've got to fix the scope
- Bugscope Team panther, i'd be happy to give you control again. where are you from?
- Guest panther's on the west coast checking out cool websites for his science students
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope
- Guest washington state.....gig harbor exactly....
- Bugscope Team we just ended a session with a school in lincoln nebraska
- Bugscope Team you are welcome to drive around some more
- Bugscope Team yeah bugscope is fun, you can either set up one computer on a projector or have all the kids log in to separate computers and you can control our electron microscope to look at bugs
- Bugscope Team its kind of a fun way to get kids interested in science
- Guest i dont need control....i actually have a meeting in 5 min...ill be back again sometime soon
- Bugscope Team just remember click once to start moving, click again to stop. when you go off the edge of the sample we have to reset the scope
- Bugscope Team ok, we are going offline when you leave though.
- Bugscope Team watch our website for upcoming sessions
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu
- Guest thx for the time....have a great day
- Bugscope Team you too, thanks!
- Bugscope Team ok, i'm disabling the session now
- 2:40pm
- Bugscope Team session disabled, rxl stopped.
- Bugscope Team nice session everyone.
- Bugscope Team later
- Bugscope Team session locked
- Bugscope Team bye bye world
