Connected on 2008-01-11 14:00:00 from Darlington, SC, US
- 1:08pm
- Bugscope Team hi jerry, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team we are still setting up. session in 52 minutes.
- Teacher Hello! Thank you very much.
- 1:13pm
- 1:18pm
- 1:23pm
- Bugscope Team have to get all the spelling correct ;)
- Teacher what are we going to be looking at exactly?
- Bugscope Team the presets on the bottom right tell you what bugs we have in the scope today: 2 spiders, ladybug, fruitfly, cricket and a fly
- Bugscope Team can you see the preset on the bottom right?
- Teacher yes, got it!
- 1:29pm
- Bugscope Team but you may not see the presets until we unlock the session (after we finish making the presets)
- Bugscope Team ah ok, you can see the presets. but the control aren't visible yet. they will show up once we are done making presets
- Bugscope Team presets are done!
- Bugscope Team mr. plemmons, i've unlocked the sesson now. you should see controls on your right. you can practice driving the scope now if you want to.
- 1:35pm
- Teacher thanks!
- Bugscope Team coolness, you can always click on any preset, and that takes you to that spot on the sample.
- Bugscope Team clicking on a preset comes in handy when you get lost driving the scope!
- Teacher how do I give students control? or do they all have it?
- Bugscope Team navigating the scope is done in two ways: drive and click to center
- Bugscope Team only we can give students control. all you have to do is ask us to do it
- Bugscope Team it would be bad if all the students were trying to control the scope at once
- Bugscope Team the program would get very confused
- 1:42pm
- Bugscope Team some spiders react to music
- Teacher Got that,,,what kind of questions can they ask?
- Bugscope Team they can sense the vibrations in the air and
- Bugscope Team they can ask ANYTHING
- Teacher students are starting to file in...we will start logging in soon
- Bugscope Team how old are these students?
- Teacher 7th graders...12 to 13
- Bugscope Team awesome
- Bugscope Team they can ask questions about the insects, or the microscope, or our jobs, or science in general.
- Bugscope Team if annie logs in, she is getting a phd in entomology, so she knows a lot of the scientific background of the insects
- Bugscope Team scott knows quite a bit too, and scott is our expert electron microscopist
- Bugscope Team cate is also a microscopist
- Bugscope Team i am a comptuer nerd
- 1:48pm
- Bugscope Team a computer nerd who can't spell... or type
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team hey guys
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team hi clarissa!
- Student hi aaron
- Bugscope Team hi zack, welcome to bugscope!
- Student hi
- Student zoom in
- Student waz up
- Bugscope Team hi students. ready to roll!
- 1:53pm
- Student hi
- Student yes
- Bugscope Team mr. plremons currently has control of the microscope
- Student wat is that picture of
- Student ????
- Student ok
- Bugscope Team this is a spider, fangs on a spider
- Student hey
- Student jj
- Student o, cool
- Student a spider dosnt look like 1
- Bugscope Team the fangs kind of look like buck teeth
- Bugscope Team mr. plemons's login seems disconnected, can you ask him to login again please
- Student hi
- Student this looks weird
- Bugscope Team at anytime, we can give control of the microscope to any of you students, as long as mr. plemons okays it
- Student im way
- Bugscope Team ah, mr. plemons is back!
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team those are its legs coming across the middle to bottom of the screen
- Bugscope Team its eyes are at the very top, a little bit cut off
- Student cate what is that bugt
- Student yah
- Bugscope Team we have 2 spiders today, this is one of them
- Bugscope Team this is a big spider that scott caught a while ago and froze
- Student what up cate
- Student what is this
- Student alex ar viruses real
Bugscope Team uh, yes, not only in the movies!
- Bugscope Team this is a spider
- Student how big is the spider
- Student how does the microscope work
Bugscope Team it is an electron microscope. tiny electrons are "shot" at the spider, bounce off of it, and are collected by a camera that turns it into an image
- Student o cool
- Bugscope Team the fangs are folded under the vertical parts we see now
- Bugscope Team heya bobby
- Student how do u chang it
- Teacher can we give student zachary control?
- Bugscope Team viruses are real but we cannot see them using this microscope, or not very easily
- Student zoom in mr plemons
- Bugscope Team zachary you now have controll
- Bugscope Team zzckery, you';ve got control my man
- Student yes u do
- Student ???
- Student what about me
- Bugscope Team the star in the list means you have control
- Bugscope Team the electron microscope is sort of like a TV with the electron beam pointed down toward the sample
- Student wats up jessica
- Bugscope Team you will see special controls in your window to move the stage in the microscope
- Bugscope Team Aaron we can have only one person comtrolling at a time
- 1:58pm
- Student aman
- Student see the eyes
- Student Cate whats on the back of the spider
Bugscope Team a piece of a wood stick
- Bugscope Team that is the head of the spider in the middle with a piece of a wood stick behind it
- Bugscope Team zack, try zooming in on the eyes, near the top
- Bugscope Team excellent driving zack
- Student what is that cell cate
- Student wuts that
- Student Cate why is there wood there
Bugscope Team it needed a sort of prop to keep it still
Bugscope Team there wasnt much keeping it on the stub because its legs were lifting it
- Student wat is dat???
- Student is the spider dead?
Bugscope Team well, yes, most of the bugs we put into the scope are dead. the scope is acutally a vacuum, like outer space!
- Bugscope Team yeah it is dead for sure
- Student is the spider dead
Bugscope Team yes sorry for making it sound like it was alive
- Student why are the eyes like that?
- Student wat is that??
- Bugscope Team spiders need to sense vibration -- they cannot see very well
- Student is that the eye
- Bugscope Team there are eight eyes
Bugscope Team some spiders have 2, 4, or 6 eyes as well, but most species have 8
- Student can the spider eyes see color
- Student where are the eyes?
- Bugscope Team Cate has been a little scared of it.
- Student Cate dosw it show the eyes
Bugscope Team this is one of the eyes
- Student how far can u zoom in?
- Student haha
- Bugscope Team if you take the mag down you can see where the eyes are
- Bugscope Team we were right on one of them
- Bugscope Team everyone is so mean to me
- Bugscope Team they don't have a lot of detail in them like insect eyes
- Student can the spider see in color
- Bugscope Team i'm a meany... he he
- Student where r the eyes??
Bugscope Team at the top of its head
- Student what els can we see
- Bugscope Team there is no color to see in the 'scope because we are not using light -- we are using electrons to image
- Bugscope Team we only see the front 4 eyes, there are some more that we cant see
- Student can spider see color
- Teacher can we give student jake control?
- Student can u put somthing bifrent on the scop
- Bugscope Team oops Erica just told me I answered the wrong question
- Student how big is its fangs
- Bugscope Team we've got two spiders, a lady bug, fruit fly, and something else, i forgot for the moment
- Bugscope Team if you go to another preset, on the right there, you can see something else
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team jack, yo've got control of the scope.
- 2:03pm
- Bugscope Team Jake
- Bugscope Team I am not sure if spiders see in color
- Bugscope Team big guy i mean
- Bugscope Team Hi all
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a fruit fly.
- Student that looks weird
- Bugscope Team I don't think spiders see in color
- Bugscope Team you can see the compound eye in front and one or two ocelli behind it
- Bugscope Team Thanks Annie...
- Student are virises real
- Bugscope Team sure viruses are real
- Student what are those bumps on the head?
Bugscope Team great question! those bumps are the simple eyes (ocelli)
- Bugscope Team all those hairs are the setae. when one looks at insects close up, you see many thousands of setae.
- Student i can not see
- Bugscope Team the bumps are the ocelli, which are simple eyes
- Bugscope Team Zach hit refresh.
- Student hes breaking it
- Student ok
- Student he broke it
- Bugscope Team take the mag down (lower) and you can see where you are
- Bugscope Team like, you can see the whole fruit fly
- Bugscope Team well, i was kidding, it's not possible to break the scope from where you are. cate, on the other hand, breaks it all the time!
- Student why is there so many hairs
Bugscope Team The hairs, or setae as they are more appropriately called, help the insect or spider to sense its environment
- Bugscope Team maybe scorpions see IR
Bugscope Team scorpions are classed with spiders and mites
- Student im not controling it its jake
- Bugscope Team oh, yes, sorry jake, you are the man
- Student wats a fruit fly
Bugscope Team "Fruit fly" is a general common name used to describe flies that eat rotten and fermenting fruit
- 2:08pm
- Bugscope Team this is silver paint next to one of the critters in the 'scope
- Student now he broke it
- Bugscope Team fruit flies are tiny flies that are often found around fruit
- Student wat is this?
Bugscope Team im not sure, you could try to lower the mag or click on a preset to go somewhere else, jake
- Bugscope Team can you take the mag down lower?
- Student can you see any cells
- Student well he brock it
- Bugscope Team you can see there is a sample to the right
- Student can u see a cell
- Guest can you see any cells
- Bugscope Team we can see cells for sure -- for example we can see bacteria
- Bugscope Team alex says its a booger
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team otherwise we are looking at lots of cells
- Student cool
- Teacher can you give student rickey control?
Bugscope Team done!
- Bugscope Team Ricky has it...
- Bugscope Team yo ricky, it's yours hause
- Teacher I'm sorry Ricky
- Student no dont let him
- Bugscope Team Ricky is the supreme ruler now.
- Bugscope Team sorry jake, you did a great job controlling though
- Bugscope Team nice
- Student thanks
- Student no he didnt
- Student what is this
- Student what is this?
- Student he did a bad job
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team this is the claw of a ladybug
- Student what is this
- Student oh
- Student why do ladybugs have claws
Bugscope Team most beetles do
- Bugscope Team now you can cruise around
- Student kool i didnt know they had claws
Bugscope Team yes, many insects have claws of some kind, to scoop food into their mouths or help them grab onto their environment
- Bugscope Team they need to be able to grab things
- Student can you open up the wings
- Student can you open its wings
- Student are those it's hands?
- Student can we look at the back
Bugscope Team sorry zack, once we close the microscope and set the vacuum, we can't turn bugs over. it takes 10-15 minutes to set the vacuum in the scope
- Bugscope Team those are its claws
- 2:14pm
- Student man
- Student open the hands scott
- Student ok
- Student Scott do all insects have hair
- Student wat is this?
- Student wat is that??
- Bugscope Team sorry DaddyO they are gonna be closed
- Bugscope Team the head is north of here
- Bugscope Team those are 2 pairs of its legs
- Bugscope Team almost all insects seem to have hair, which we call setae ('see-tee')
- Student k
- Student dud your cool
- Teacher can you give student aaron control?
- Bugscope Team you all are pretty cool too
- Student dont let bobby do it
- Student thanks
- Student awsom
- Student is that the bottom of the lady bug?
Bugscope Team more like the middle
- Bugscope Team aaron, you've got control
- Student do yall see the head
Bugscope Team We can't see the head in this shot...drive a little north
- Bugscope Team the setae are mechanosensory, or chemosensory, or sometimes they are just there, apparently, to add surface area
- Bugscope Team aaron can try to drive the scope north and you will all see the head
- Student is that the lady bugs stomach?
- Student what is that
- Student are u a sientist
- Bugscope Team there it is, good job aaron
- Student i see the head now
- Bugscope Team we mount insects on their backs (on the dorsal side) because the ventral side (the bottom) is usually more interesting.
- Student are all ladybugs red?
Bugscope Team Not at all...beetles in the family Coccinellidae can be orange, yellow, white, black. They can even have stripes instead of dots
- Bugscope Team jake, annie is a scientist, scott and cate are electron microscopists, i am a tech dude
- Bugscope Team I don't know what just happened there, I got logged out
- Student no ash-pee
- Student kool
- Bugscope Team entomologist
- Student is that the head
- Bugscope Team but we try to keep it real
- Student annie are all ladybugs red?
- Student looks like its gonna eat me
- Bugscope Team you can see the eyes, tucked in on the sides
- Student what part is that?
- Student wat is this?
- Bugscope Team this is the face
- Student how many eyes does it have
- Bugscope Team this is the mouth part of the ladybug
- Student how many eyes does a lady bug have?
- 2:19pm
- Bugscope Team mostly we are looking at the mouth
- Bugscope Team or face, scott is right
- Student can they be like pink or somthing
Bugscope Team Yes, they can be pink. Kind of a dark pink
- Bugscope Team it has 2
- Student y isent it in color
Bugscope Team the microscope uses electrons to "see" the bugs. since electrons are sooo small, smaller than the wavelength of visible light in fact, we can't get color from it. we can only see contrasts from the electrons.
- Bugscope Team 2 eyes
- Student kool
- Student are any ladybugs posinous?
Bugscope Team They aren't poisonous to humans unless you ate a whole whole bunch of them. Ladybugs do something called reflexive bleeding, where they squirt bad smelling blood from their joints. Some also spit up bad smelling fluid as well. They would taste really bad if you were to eat them.
- Student oh
- Student can lady bugs bite you
Bugscope Team Yes, some species of ladybug can and do bite. The Asian multicolored ladybeetle is a biter.
- Student y is it in black and white
- Student whast are we looking at here
- Student is the eyes
- Bugscope Team i think this is part of its head
- Bugscope Team this is the ladybug face, or mouth. 656x magnification
- Bugscope Team the eye is to the right
- Bugscope Team the eye is to the right here
- Student are the eyes open
- Bugscope Team there it is
- Student r the eyes open
- Bugscope Team D'Oh!
- Bugscope Team just needs to be focused a little bit
- Student do they close their eyes
Bugscope Team Nope...no eyelids.
- Student is this a male or female
- Student how does it pee
Bugscope Team Most beetles don't really pee...their pee is kind of more like bird pee...sort of solid. Water is pretty precious to them and so they mostly secrete solid wastes
- Bugscope Team out of its abdomen, at the other end
- Teacher can we give student bobby control?
- Bugscope Team so the lesson is: dont eat ladybugs!
- Student no
- Student say NO
- Bugscope Team go ahead bobby
- Student no
- Student nooooooooooooooooo
- Student he brakes everthing
- Student no
- Student no
- Bugscope Team ladybugs taste bad on purpose -- so they will not be eaten. that is probably also why they are red
- Bugscope Team im sure he will do fine
- Student does it hurt when a lady bug bites?
Bugscope Team It isn't like breaking your arm or anything...it stings a little. It doesn't hurt as bad as a bee sting.
- Bugscope Team bobby, you are the man.
- Student shes right
- 2:24pm
- Student i think hes a boy
- Student bobby is not the man hes is the little boy
- Student he brakes everything and no he not the man
- Bugscope Team cool bobby, this is the head of a cricket
- Bugscope Team bobby is cool
- Student how long do crickets ussually live?
Bugscope Team They usually live through one spring and summer...they may overwinter as eggs though.
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, but i think they live a season or less, so less than a year. they mate in late summer and lay their eggs in the fall. the eggs hatch in the spring and they usually hatch in groups of 2,000
- Student bobby is not cool
- Student y do crickits squeak
- Student why do crickets make that sound that is annoying
Bugscope Team Good question. Male crickets sing to attract female crickets
- Student dont they rub there legs
Bugscope Team Different types of crickets have different types of sound producing structures. They can make noise with their legs or with their wings.
- Student what is that?
- Student why do they have hairs?
Bugscope Team the hairs are called setae, and they help the insect sense their envoronment
- Student wat is dat??
- Student Cate is this male
- Student thank
- Student thanks
- Student thank u
- Student thank you
- Student thank you
- Student thank u
- Student very much
- Student bye
- Guest thank you peace out
- Student THANK YOU
- Bugscope Team bye guys
- Bugscope Team are we done? that was nice, thanks kids!
- Student this was cool but i have to go
- Student thank you sike
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team laterz
- Student Tank u fo the fun thing bye
- 2:29pm
- Teacher new group in about 5 mninutes
- Bugscope Team Bye all
- Student thank youannie,cate,scott,and alex
- Student laterz
- Bugscope Team bobby, don't listen to them. iyou are cool my man
- Bugscope Team bye ryland
- Student bye
- Student bye Cate
- Bugscope Team bye jake
- Student bye
- Student bye
- Student bye
- Student bye
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team bye zachery
- Student bye annie 2
- Student sweet
- Teacher can you give me control?
- Bugscope Team sure thing
- Student noooooooooooooooooo
- Bugscope Team Giot i\
- Bugscope Team got it
- Bugscope Team Mr Plemons you have control
- Bugscope Team you're new students can log in anytime. any questions for us mr. plemons?
- Bugscope Team your
- Teacher what do you think are the most interesting areas to see?
- Teacher Whci bug?
- Teacher err..which
- Bugscope Team well, the fly's have spiricles on them, the fruit fly. they are small holes on the fly that are used for breathing.
- Bugscope Team preset #3
- Bugscope Team Mr P you can drive around and take the mag down on for example, as Alex said, the fruit fly
- Teacher okay. we'll start there
- 2:35pm
- Bugscope Team preset #5 is tenant setae, these are used to "grasp" things.
- Bugscope Team preset #6 is a spider web and spinnerets
- Bugscope Team spiracles, oops
- Bugscope Team spiracles are the breath holes on spiders
- Bugscope Team I think there are usually two spiracles on each segment, on either side, on an insect
- Bugscope Team ~something does not work right with my computer today
- Bugscope Team preset #1 is the antenna on a fly, a sewer fly, that's slang for a fly that normally is found in bathrooms and such
- Bugscope Team ~currently my page is not refreshing =(
- Bugscope Team Whoa Smiley!
- Teacher thak you very much for offering this....the next group is logging into computers now
- Bugscope Team deutch i mean
- Bugscope Team Deutsch
- 2:40pm
- Bugscope Team Smiley is back in a new incarnation
- Teacher we are having inernet issues
- Teacher connection on this end\
- Bugscope Team uh-oh
- Bugscope Team what's the problem, give me a call at 217-265-8164
- Bugscope Team oh. can you see the image?
- Bugscope Team ~oh those darn Macs...I hope this appears offscript...maybe safari does not work for bugscope...i forgot...
- Bugscope Team Or can we call you?
- Bugscope Team if internet drops below 100 KB/sec, the lag will be bad
- Bugscope Team Safari works for sure -- remember that Chas wrote the software and he is a mac dude.
- Teacher oh no, it is totally on our end'
- Bugscope Team ok mr. plemons. we will sit tight. we are ready anytime you are.
- Bugscope Team if the session needs to be rescheduled, that is cool with us too
- Teacher okay
- Teacher we got it
- Bugscope Team awesome, welcome to bugscope kids!
- Student im in teach
- Bugscope Team heya erick
- Teacher give control to student Erick
- Student okay
- 2:46pm
- Student hey erick
- Student i don't know wha that thing is?
Bugscope Team this is a sperical that is like a breathing hole
- Bugscope Team this is a spiracle on a spider, it uses that hole to breath
- Bugscope Team spiracle
- Bugscope Team the spelling isnt right on mine
- Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly, now
- Student okay what is a spiracle
Bugscope Team it is a small hole on the side of an insect, used to intake air for breathing
- Bugscope Team instead of breathing through their mouths, they breath through the spiracles on the side of their bodies
- Student what is this thing?
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team there is one on either side of the thorax
- Student oh.
- Student it is some sort of spider thing ducky
- Bugscope Team some entomologists describe the spiracle as a 'nose'
- Student i think so
- Student no
- Student what's that stuff that looks like it's crawling in it's eye
- Bugscope Team Kind of like a nostril...it doesn't smell, it just takes in air
- Student is that a fly?
Bugscope Team a fruit fly
- Student how does it work
- Student i think so
- Student kool
- Student Shut it David
- Bugscope Team the things that look like little tree limbs are the antennae -- part of the them
- Bugscope Team there are "hairs" called setae all over its body, even on its compound eye
- Student I know
- Student what does a fruit fly do?
Bugscope Team Fruit flies eat yeast and bacteria on fermenting fruit
- Student yeah what does a fruit fly do
Bugscope Team well, and also they reproduce, that is their main goal. food is a way to accomplish that.
- Student ha ha ha ha ha ha hah ah hahaaaaaaahahhahahahhahahahhahahah
- 2:51pm
- Student who's Hater
- Bugscope Team they hang around fruit... in a lab they are often used in genetic experiments
- Bugscope Team food is the feuel that keeps them going i mean
- Student what's that mouth thing?
- Bugscope Team In the grand scheme of things fruit flies are probably very important decomposers of plant matter, but they can be agricultural pests when they eat the same fruit that we'd also like to eat
- Student is that their mouth
Bugscope Team Yup that little thing in the middle is the mouth
- Student what are we looking at?
- Teacher can you give control to michalia?
- Student it is it stores food
- Student never mind i know
- Bugscope Team It is kind of shrivelly since the fly is dead
- Bugscope Team go for it michalia
- Student assum
- Student oh sorry
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team yes Lee that is the mouth -- it is a little bit shrunken compared to the way it would be in life
- Student how do they eat their food
Bugscope Team Their mouth is kind of like a straw with a sponge..they press the sponge to the surface of the fruit (or whatever) and they suck up liquids and bacteria and other yummy things through the tube attached to the spongey part
- Bugscope Team when the insects dry -- when they air-dry -- some of the body parts shrivel up
- Student what are those hairs on the fly
Bugscope Team the hairs on all insects are called setae, they help them to sense their environemnt
- Student what is that is that a heart
- Student what else do they do
- Student what is this
- Student what are the hairs for
- Student how long do they live
Bugscope Team They don't live long...maybe a week or two at the longest.
- Student what are we looking at?
- Bugscope Team Very very scientific
- Bugscope Team hairs, which we are supposed to call 'setae,' have different functions.
- Student how long can these fliy's live
- Student i think they live for a bout 200 years
- Student wait, fruit flies are real?
Bugscope Team Unlike unicorns.... ;)
- Student idk
- Student and sorry for the bad spelling
Bugscope Team not a problem, i'm a bad speller myself
- Bugscope Team annie, do you know about the life cycle of the fly?
- Bugscope Team ah, thanks annie
- 2:56pm
- Student do they only live for a week or two weeks
- Student okay
- Student that is so cool and kinda gross
- Student what is that thing
Bugscope Team This is the underside of a lady bug
- Student its a ladybug
- Student i think it a lady bug
- Student it's kinda gross
- Teacher can you give control to lee?
- Student is this a ladybug
- Teacher thank you for your patience guys
- Student no
- Bugscope Team lee, you are the driver of the scope
- Bugscope Team Lee you have it.
- Student hel
- Student hello
- Student what is this
- Student are those it's legs
- Student sorry for the mistake, folks
- Bugscope Team Hello Michalia.
- Bugscope Team Those are the legs of the ladybeetle.
- Student what is that lee
- Bugscope Team well, claws at the end of the leg
- Student can those claws pinch you?
- Student heelo
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team they are probably too small to pinch your skin
- Bugscope Team Hello Kathyryn
- Bugscope Team well, they probably can, but woulnd't hurt much. they are used to grab food, or manipulate the environment
- Bugscope Team Kathryn
- Student what do they eat?
- Student how are they small scott
- Student hey scott what do they eat
Bugscope Team other insects
- Bugscope Team they are not poisonous
- 3:01pm
- Bugscope Team they eat other insects
- Student hi
- Student LIKE WHAT KIND OF INSECTS?
Bugscope Team Aphids, thrips...pretty much anything smaller than them.
- Bugscope Team robert, you have control my man
- Student scott can they kill us
Bugscope Team They cannot kill us.
- Bugscope Team that was quick
- Student that is so ossume
- Bugscope Team not unless there were millions of them and they fell on you
- Bugscope Team they taste bad
- Student what spider is that
Bugscope Team I am not good with spider identifications
- Student hi annie2
- Student is thi a frog
- Bugscope Team Hi Kathryn
- Student no it a flee
- Bugscope Team Not a flea either
- Student Hi annie
- Bugscope Team Hi Lee
- Student okay scott what spider is it
- Student are thoose hair
- Teacher I know it's past time, so when you guys have to go just say so.
- Bugscope Team we are fine mr. plemons, you all keep going!
- Bugscope Team I 'like' that answee...not think
- Bugscope Team geez...typos
- Student what is typos
- Bugscope Team Erick it is one we found and we are not sure what kind it is
- Student hiiiii that is weird looking
- Bugscope Team I keep typing things wrong...I keep typing typos
- Student are those hairs
Bugscope Team yes but people like annie call them setae in the insect world
- Student what do they eat
Bugscope Team Spiders eat very similar things to what ladybugs eat. They eat anything arthropod smaller than them
- Teacher can you give control back to michalia?
- Student it's alright annie2
- Bugscope Team michalia, now you've got us all chatting about how one could die by spiders: eating 10,000 of them, etc...
- Student what is seate
Bugscope Team it is just a hair that is on an insect, seta for singular
- Student who is jon
- 3:06pm
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team setae are the tiny hairlike things
- Bugscope Team Jon is our light microscopist
- Bugscope Team hairs are on mammals
- Bugscope Team I work with Scott Cate & Alex here
- Student WHAT IS THIS
- Student oh what that
Bugscope Team these are spinnerets and some webbing attached
- Student what is that thing?
Bugscope Team If you decrease the magnification I can tell you what it is
- Student hello
- Student anybody
- Student hellooooooooooooooooo
- Student WHY AREN'T SPIDERS EVER AROUND WHEN YOU NEED THEM?
Bugscope Team That's a good question.
Bugscope Team well, in fact, they are around quite a bit. and they do a lot of good in this world!
- Bugscope Team Hello
- Bugscope Team these are spinnerets and some webbing attached
- Student kathryn cut it out
- Bugscope Team This is one of the spinnerettes
- Bugscope Team and you can see the web coming out
- Student why do you need spiders around when they can kill us humans
Bugscope Team Very very few spiders can actually kill humans. I imagine dogs cause more human deaths than spiders
- Bugscope Team and weaving itself together
- Student hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooo
- Student is that a web
- Student oh yeah what about poison ones
- Student wh at a spinnerets
Bugscope Team they make different kinds of webs
- Student i COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU, BUT DO THINK SORT OF STOP HUNTING DURING THE RAINING SEASON WHEN BUGS ARE USUALLY OUT?
Bugscope Team They don't stop hunting...it is just there are too many insects for them to handle. Where as an annoying insect can respond relatively quickly to take advantage of rain or abundant food or whatever, spider populations grow more slowly, lagging behind the populations of the insects they eat. This is actually a major concept in ecology.
- Student what kind of webs
- Student this is pretty cool
Bugscope Team this is the butt
- Bugscope Team annie: because it doesnt take as many dogs to fall on you to kill you
Bugscope Team Thanks Cate
- Student what i9s this
- Student what is it
- Student wHAT IS THIS?
- Student what that
- Student sorry for spelling the wrong word
- 3:12pm
- Student is this the but
- Student eeeeewwwwwwww and i meant the other picture
- Bugscope Team sorry erick i meant to answer to the "what is this" question
- Bugscope Team it's the tip of the abdomen of the spider
- Student okay
- Student how many bugs do they eat a day
- Bugscope Team spiders?
- Student cate and jon and alex and scott and annie2 this stuff is cool and kinda gross
Bugscope Team That is why I study insects...
Bugscope Team yeppers. cool and gross are our specialties
- Teacher can you give control to Kathryn?
- Student dO SPIDERS REALLY ALWAYS DIE WHEN THEY'RE BABIES ARE BORN,
Bugscope Team Depends upon the spider. If a spider produces only one 'batch' of eggs, usually they will do that at the end of the summer. The eggs will overwinter and hatch in the spring, when it gets warm. Since most spiders only live one summer, by the time the eggs hatch, the mother spider will be dead.
- Student this spinnerete this can catch bugs right
Bugscope Team Actually it is used to make webs that catch bugs
Bugscope Team the webs that come from them do
- Student what that
- Teacher can you give control to kathryn?
- Student so the spinnerete stores what kind of stuff that makes the web
Bugscope Team silk begins in certain glands located in the abdomen
Bugscope Team the silk basically leaks out tiny holes
- 3:17pm
- Student what is that thing it looks gross
- Student what do they aet
Bugscope Team Crickets are omnivorous...they eat anything they can find. I don't think they actively hunt for anything, but if they found something dead laying around they'd be happy to eat it.
- Bugscope Team this is the hed of a cricket
- Student that is a cricket head
- Student cool jon
- Student hi people
- Bugscope Team yes, but the spinnerete does help to store and apply the web
- Student HOW IS A CRICKET BORN? FROM EGGS?
Bugscope Team Most insects hatch from eggs.
- Bugscope Team Crickets are kind of like cockroaches in their eating habits
- Student thats cool
- Student how long can cricket's survive through the winter
Bugscope Team I think it depends upon the cricket...I know that some overwinter as adults, so they must have some adaptations to the cold. A lot of insects like that can just hide out somewhere warm and humid, like decomposing leaves or basements and they avoid freezing to death outside.
- Student thank you very very much
- Teacher class is about done...thank you very very much!!
- Student THANK YOU SO MUCH!! SO FUN
- Student thank you very much you guy's and gal's
- Bugscope Team thanks students, you all were very cool, and had great questions too!
- Student see ya
- Bugscope Team oh thanks guys
- Bugscope Team Thanks everyone
- Student THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! =)
- Student =)
- 3:23pm
- Teacher thank you again, I'd like to set up another one of these!!!
Bugscope Team excellent, we want you to as well
- Bugscope Team great
- Bugscope Team we always have fun with these sessions
- Bugscope Team Good session today!
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- Teacher I'll email you with how things went over here. Again, you guys are great and my studnets loved it
Bugscope Team please send feedback via our webform: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/feedback, but you can email too if you like.
- Teacher will do, have a great day!
- Bugscope Team chow
- Bugscope Team ok session is done
- 3:28pm
- Bugscope Team disabling session, stopping rxl
- Bugscope Team ok, i'm outta here. good session people
