Bugscope: Members Page

Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2008-01-16 20:00:00 from Richland, WA, US

6:49pm
Bugscope Team I just wiped out previous chat. Hope I did not kill a comment from you Claudi.
Bugscope Team I have done my best...I will try to contact the school from here again...and prompt them about Bugscope =)
Bugscope Team Cool!
Bugscope Team Also...I am planning on taking handouts next time I go on a conference...I will let you know ahead of time...so maybe you can send some more =)
Bugscope Team No problem Mademoiselle.
6:56pm
Bugscope Team alright no ersatz Alexes
Bugscope Team Hi Jerry...
Guest hi
Guest so what is this thing doing
Guest ?
Bugscope Team this is an electron image of an insect
Bugscope Team Jerry we are setting up for a bugscope session with Washington State University in about an hour.
Guest kool
Bugscope Team this is a housefly eye, the round thing

7:02pm

Bugscope Team A question...is my internet acting up...or is there a different reason why I cannot see Jerry?
Bugscope Team he is gone, looks like, Claudi
Bugscope Team jerry just left, he must have logged off?
Bugscope Team guess he doesn't like bugs as much as we do... good... more for us! to eat i mean...
Bugscope Team okay..
Bugscope Team you first claudi...
Bugscope Team whose housefly is it?

Bugscope Team yeah...I tried Alex...wanted to have a front row seat =)
Bugscope Team these are our bugs. cate made the sample today.

7:07pm

Bugscope Team kitty cate?
Bugscope Team yep
Bugscope Team hows it going
Bugscope Team your sample rules
Bugscope Team really?
Bugscope Team Hello????
Bugscope Team they are all old bugs
Bugscope Team no, it totally sucks
Bugscope Team yup...no stabwounds this time around
Bugscope Team geeze, of course it rules
Bugscope Team checkout preset #6
7:12pm
Bugscope Team forest huh
Bugscope Team AWESOME...

Bugscope Team ahh its eye is all screwy
Bugscope Team oh thts the antenna
Bugscope Team can you save that as a jpeg and send it to me...I want to send it to my mom and some other people in Germany.
Bugscope Team My mom was thrilled about Bugscope...first she saw my excitement and then how cool it really was.
Bugscope Team where to email it? it's ready
Bugscope Team can you send it to my Email?
Bugscope Team what is your email?
Bugscope Team lieberwirth@psy.fsu.edu and in case the university Email does not work sheria4ever@yahoo.com

Bugscope Team THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO much...would hug you if I was there right now =)
Bugscope Team the image is on it's way
Bugscope Team oh baby!
Bugscope Team just a hug?
Bugscope Team down doggy
Bugscope Team Lol
Bugscope Team arf
7:17pm

Bugscope Team cool
Bugscope Team Nice sample Kit.
Bugscope Team dude it should be a june bug
Bugscope Team what is june bug?
Bugscope Team okay. a June bug.
Bugscope Team you put down brown beetle
Bugscope Team it be changed

Bugscope Team cool beans
7:24pm

7:29pm

Bugscope Team Jon is just telling us he can order lobster online. That is a big bug.
7:34pm
Bugscope Team Jon is here, Duohai is here.
Bugscope Team It's like a new day.
Bugscope Team Lisa!
Bugscope Team Yay!
Bugscope Team ~German?
Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope lisa!
Bugscope Team Oops we just lost her.
Bugscope Team ~
Bugscope Team hey lisa
Bugscope Team my tilda does not work
Bugscope Team hey smiley, yeah, something about the keyboard you are on doesn't translate the key correctly...
7:40pm
Teacher Hello! We are here and appear to be ready to rock & roll!
Bugscope Team coolness, lets roll!
Bugscope Team Lisa-chan we are ready to roll.
Bugscope Team oops just unlocked the session, NOW you are ready to rock and or roll
Bugscope Team And we just unlocked the session.
Bugscope Team It is possible we will have guests this evening. From Entomology, and maybe from elsewhere in the Outer World.
Teacher I need to make a couple of brief announcements but we will be back in just a minute or two...
Bugscope Team Lisa run through the presets if you want.
Bugscope Team lisa if you have any questions or problems please just let us know. you are a veteran bugscoper!
Bugscope Team Okay, Cool.
Bugscope Team after these messages...
Bugscope Team after a brief message from our sponsors
Bugscope Team Alex is like Mr Syncopation right now.
7:47pm
Bugscope Team get it... bug....
Bugscope Team Alex-o 4000.

Bugscope Team pretty
Bugscope Team Nice sample Kitty.
Bugscope Team Smiley did you drop off?
7:53pm
Bugscope Team fruit fly eye
Bugscope Team wonder what in evolution made them have these mechanoreceptors in their eyes
Bugscope Team like what is the advantage?
Bugscope Team bees sometimes have hairy eyes, like with long wavy setae on them

Bugscope Team hi lisa, is that you driving the scope?

Teacher Yes, we are ready!
Bugscope Team cool, you have control Lisa
7:58pm
Bugscope Team ok, you've got control. drive away, and let us know if you have any questions.
Bugscope Team We are running without an entomologist though, so far
Bugscope Team So please don't ask super tough bug questions or we'll have to make up the answers
Bugscope Team scott i thinkwe can manage

Bugscope Team these are mechanoreceptor setae on the surface of the eye of a fruit fly.

Bugscope Team nice drivin'

Student haha

Student I am getting kinda sick
Bugscope Team Kitty made the sample, did a great job.

Student i have no idea what we are looking at

Student this is weird

Bugscope Team lisa, you trying to check out atoms and such?
Bugscope Team carly this is a closeup of the eye of a fruit fly.

Bugscope Team oops not now
Student thank you

Bugscope Team this is now a clas on a june bug, at 410x magnification
Student ohh i see

Bugscope Team setae are what we call tiny hairs when they don't belong to mammals

Bugscope Team setae, microsetae, trichae, microtrichae...

Bugscope Team some setae are mechanoreceptors and some are chemoreceptors
8:03pm
Bugscope Team yep, setae are like hairs. since insects have an exoskeleton they can't sense their environment through their skin. so the hairs (setae) sense the enviornment for them, and pass that info to under their exoskeleton and to their nerves

Bugscope Team insects are very hairy (setae-y)
Bugscope Team this is a perspective on a roly poly we usually do not see

Bugscope Team the eyes are the things that look like raspberries.

Student so is this a compound eye?

Bugscope Team so roly polys have compound eyes, yeah you read my mind

Bugscope Team you can count the ommatidia
Bugscope Team the individual facets

Bugscope Team this is cool, also a rare perspective
Student you just took that to the next level... I had the compound part down not the ommatidia

Bugscope Team you can see that the ladybug head moves separately

Bugscope Team frogntoads... hmmm.... birdman?

Bugscope Team now we can see one of the mandibular palps...

Bugscope Team yo mom!

Bugscope Team it has chemoreceptors on it

8:08pm
Bugscope Team so it can smell its food
Student what is that?

Bugscope Team this is a mandibular palp
Student funky looking thing!

Bugscope Team yeah it is
Bugscope Team like a mouthpart with tastebuds

Bugscope Team lisa, you are driving the scope really fast. you are an expert.
Guest reminded me of a sea urchin
Bugscope Team this is a super clean lady bug Kitty found for us

Bugscope Team one of the Asian ladybeetles

Student I am an expert.. i kne exactly where to go
Bugscope Team now yo can see one of the jaws, oops

Bugscope Team it was from my collection that i obtained from home

Student we are having students go to the teachers stand right now

Bugscope Team if you are running a classroom we let you decide if the kids are gonna be able to drive

Bugscope Team not a problem, you are doing great
Bugscope Team no hay una problema

Bugscope Team fruit fly

Student we are trying :)
Bugscope Team de nada

Bugscope Team usually you can see a haltere here but I don't see it yet
Bugscope Team might be busted off
Student what is a haltere?
Bugscope Team well they are old fruit flies
Bugscope Team the haltere is what Diptera have to balance the movement of the wing
Student oh

Student what a cute little guy, that fruit fly!
8:13pm

Bugscope Team sort of like a gyroscope
Bugscope Team in function

Bugscope Team I wonder if this is a slipped preset

Student what is that??
Bugscope Team maybe

Bugscope Team gnat is a colloquial name

Bugscope Team fruit fly is Drosophila melanogaster

Bugscope Team gnat could be almost any small fly
Bugscope Team tenent (sp?) setae i think

Bugscope Team coug86 explain what part? sorry

Bugscope Team kitty i think it is tenent...
Student Drosophila meanogaster
Student do you guys spend a lot of time ananlyzing bugs?
Bugscope Team drosophila means, probably, loves sweets

Bugscope Team nah,only when we are doing bugscope
Bugscope Team well, insects come in many different families, and these families have different names. drosophila meanogaster is just anme to signify the specifiy family of flies
Student poor cricket lost an antena

Student what is that hole that was on the side?

Bugscope Team that was where there had been an antenna

8:18pm
Student oh

Bugscope Team when the bugs bounce around they get busted
Student do bugs have good vision?
Bugscope Team yes, some bugs have excellent vision. some spiders, like to wolf spider have eight eyes that have excellent vision to catch prey with
Bugscope Team depends on what their function is

Bugscope Team yeah, now you can see a pair of antenna, with one antenna gone.
Bugscope Team and when they are old like some of our stock
Bugscope Team some bugs see better than we do, and they can see in UV as well, some of them...
Bugscope Team some have really good vision (fruit flies) where they have almost 360 degree vision, and some have poor vision (ants) because they live in the ground

Bugscope Team it has crystals on the outside
Bugscope Team frass

Bugscope Team now you can see the ocelli, to the right now out of the picture
Bugscope Team ocelli are simple eyes

Bugscope Team but then ants have great chemoscensory seta, right scott. ants are excellent at smelling with their setae, as they move on the ground

Student what's hamuli?
Bugscope Team hamuli are the rings that hook the fore and hindwing together

Student oh yum
Bugscope Team the hamuli was on a wasp bill... this image now is a claw on a lady bug. now moving to something else. we are driving very fast

Bugscope Team some four winged insects figured out that flying with two wings was more efficient, so they hook the fore- and hindwings together when theytfly

8:23pm

Bugscope Team rolypoly?

Bugscope Team beetles have clubbed antennae
Bugscope Team this is the June bug

Bugscope Team the rolypoly looks like Karl Rove for some reason

Bugscope Team OOF
Bugscope Team heh. we've got karl rove in our scope!
Student how much does this microscope cost
Bugscope Team $600,000.00 or thereabouts. scotts knows for sure
Bugscope Team about $600,000 9 years ago
Bugscope Team alex likes to tell people that so they get scared
Student wow

Bugscope Team it has a field emission electron gun

Bugscope Team this preset slipped a little bit since we set it
Student it takes a little while to get the hang of driving the microscope. I was trying to center the mouth but I couldn't get it to stop exactly where I wanted it.

Bugscope Team the pollen grain is above

Bugscope Team you all are doing great driving the scope. click to center is a good way to center in on something. try that!
Bugscope Team Sandy if you take the mag down it is easier to drive

Bugscope Team this is really cool here
Student thanks

Bugscope Team wow

Bugscope Team I should have said you all are doing a great job...

Student weird
Bugscope Team now a little more focus
Student thanks you guys!
Student thanks for the experience
Student we're done thanks for your time!
Bugscope Team you can do it in tiny steps
8:28pm
Student thanks it was great!
Student thanks and ADIOS
Student thank you for showing us around!!
Bugscope Team thanks guys
Bugscope Team it was fun
Bugscope Team you all ruled. thanks for drive some bugs around!
Teacher Thanks so much. I will be sure to do the feedback form soon! :)
Bugscope Team Thank You!
Guest let carl out now
Bugscope Team heh
Bugscope Team Thank you Lisa.
Student we are done looking at the bugs. Thanks. That was a great experiance. I can't believe how close one can get to look at bugs.
Bugscope Team Bill and Willie you can stay aboard if you wnat.
Bugscope Team willie c and bill, hang out a bit
Bugscope Team Sandy Thanks!
Guest ok
Bugscope Team ok, mom or dad, who wants control first?

Bugscope Team ok bill, your driving dude
Guest Bill goes first
Bugscope Team you should see controls now on the right side of your browser window
Bugscope Team you may need to increase the size of your browser window if you don't see controls.
Bugscope Team yeah to the right, and to the right of the chat are the presets

Bugscope Team Karl Rove reincarnated as a rolypoly
Guest bill did ... me i mean done thank you
Bugscope Team did it work okay?
Bugscope Team Bill try a preset.
Guest yeh
Bugscope Team Just click on one of the presets
Bugscope Team you are the supreme ruler

8:33pm
Bugscope Team awesome-o 4000
Bugscope Team Alex likes this especially.
Bugscope Team See?
Bugscope Team this is my eyeball
Guest do these things stick you
Bugscope Team Smiley Cyrus.
Bugscope Team They are very small; you wouldn't feel it.
Guest eye of a fruit fly?
Bugscope Team they're less than 20 microns long
Bugscope Team yep, this is a compound eye of a fly
Bugscope Team dad, check out the scale in the bottom left of the image. 17 microns is the scale now
Guest some seem broken
Bugscope Team fruit flies use these to assess wind speed
Guest Bill, go to the mite
Bugscope Team they're dry and not so flexible anymroe
Bugscope Team more
Bugscope Team any
Bugscope Team more
Bugscope Team mite is preset #11

Bugscope Team this is cool
Bugscope Team on the Junebug
Bugscope Team now, these are the things that feed on you when you sleep
Bugscope Team these are the kind we find on earwigs
Guest yes, mite on a jusne bug
Bugscope Team these you can barely see with the naked eye
Bugscope Team mom, i'm giving you control of the scope now
Bugscope Team you are it!
Guest okay
Bugscope Team they are also on bigger beetles like the cerambycids Annie studies
Bugscope Team you should now see controls on the right side of your browser window

Bugscope Team awesome, you are driving!
Guest incredible
8:38pm

Bugscope Team click to stop, there ya go!

Bugscope Team mom you are driving like a pro, you changed focus i think
Bugscope Team contrast!
Guest I'm just playing with the controls
Bugscope Team awesome
Bugscope Team Cool.

Bugscope Team We don't think you can break it, you know. Kids have tried.

Guest what am I looking at now?
Bugscope Team yeah, sometimes kids drive off the edge of the sample stage, and we have to reset the scope to fix it
Guest it's so facinating
Bugscope Team this is the inside of a june bug mouth, zoom out to see a better look at it
Bugscope Team take the mag down to see where you are
Bugscope Team often it is hard to tell exactly

Guest its got toothbrush built in
8:44pm

Bugscope Team ants and wasps have built-in combs
Bugscope Team not much to see at high mag sometimes
Bugscope Team ahh, the other way mom. zoom - to go out

Bugscope Team the people who were running the 'scope this evening earlier went to 97,000x.

Bugscope Team mom's trying to check out atoms and stuff
Guest I'm getting all these notices, Help
Bugscope Team heh, not a problem
Guest give her the breath test
Bugscope Team try hitting minus (-) in the magnify window
Bugscope Team or just wait a sec. sometimes if you hit the button too fast, it'll jam up
Guest hahahahahah
Bugscope Team Willie is it asking you to wait for the command to finish?

Bugscope Team Great that you are having a good time. That is what this is about.
Guest yes it is

Bugscope Team it is coming down, you are doing find
Bugscope Team fine

Bugscope Team you can try a preset if you want
Guest okay, what fun
Bugscope Team we really enjoy this, and getting to share it with everyone.

Bugscope Team Smiley!
Bugscope Team Yay!
Bugscope Team Alex's mom is drivin'!

8:49pm
Bugscope Team Try click to center.
Bugscope Team If you want.

Bugscope Team nice!

Bugscope Team Nice!
Bugscope Team so, it's not hard to figure out how to use huh?
Guest now I'll go to the lady bug face

Bugscope Team Cool.
Bugscope Team this is a nice one -- they often have juju on them
Bugscope Team this is exactly what we were going for. it's similar to the controls on the ESEM, but it's easy enough that one CAN figure it out on first use
Bugscope Team here you can see that it is likely it can move its head within its carapace
Bugscope Team I'm sure it is not called a carapace though
Guest Beautiful!!!! What it ESEM?

Bugscope Team environmental scanning electron microscope
Bugscope Team environmental scanning electron microscope
Bugscope Team but we are using it as a scanning electron microscope now
Bugscope Team an SEM
Guest does she just have 2 eyes?
Bugscope Team okay mom and dad, we need to pack it up and go home, been a long day. but there will be other sessions to log into. i'll let you know
Bugscope Team those wern't the eyes, those were something else
Bugscope Team mandibular palps, or something

Guest THANJNKS

Bugscope Team no problem, great having you on!

8:54pm
Guest little hairs on what?
Bugscope Team these are hamuli
Bugscope Team these are on a wasp wing i think?
Bugscope Team the hooks that make the fore- and hindwings connect in flight
Bugscope Team bees and wasps have four wings and fly with them connected as two wings
Bugscope Team those hooks do the connecting

Bugscope Team hey mom, we want to go home now. but i'll let you know about upcoming sessions. you can tell trudie and aat about it too.
Guest Thanks a lot. I had a great time.
Bugscope Team cool!
Bugscope Team Hey that was fun. We are glad to have had you on.
Bugscope Team okay, good session, thanks for dealing with my parents
Bugscope Team rxl stopped, session disabled.
Bugscope Team no prb, even tho i think i fell asleeo during part of it :p
Bugscope Team im out, see ya tomorrow scott
Bugscope Team later cate, tomorrow
8:59pm
Bugscope Team session locked. bye bye everyone!

School Name	Washington State University
School Homepage	www.wsu.edu
Location	Richland WA, US
Community	Suburban
Type	Public

Subjects Taught	Technology Methods for Preservice Teachers
Grades Taught	Other
Number of Students	12

Project Title	Teaching Preservice Teachers to use BugScope
Insects To Study	Whatever you have!
Project Description	We have been using BugScope as a part of our Preservice Teacher program at WSU with great success in past semesters. These students are very interested in integrating technology and science into their future classrooms and this does both! One of our students from a few semesters back has already used it in her classroom here in Washington!

Session 2007-084 with Washington State University

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Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2008-01-16 20:00:00 from Richland, WA, US