Connected on 2008-02-26 16:30:00 from Milwaukee, WI, US
- 4:21pm
- Bugscope Team blood clot
- Bugscope Team session unlocked
- Bugscope Team Annie go to preset 7
- 4:27pm
- Bugscope Team I bet you have never seen a haltere on a beetle
- Bugscope Team hypertrophied mechanoreceptors
- Bugscope Team do you think it is actually part of the beetle?
- Bugscope Team it didn't fall off of something else?
- Bugscope Team no we were just joking around
- Bugscope Team haha
- Bugscope Team ok
- Bugscope Team certainly it fell off of something else
- Bugscope Team stranger things have been found...probably
- Bugscope Team frankenbeetle
- Bugscope Team this beetle is so goofy looking, like a gary larson cartoon
- Bugscope Team that was pretty cool getting Sydney on the 'scope Saturday
- 4:32pm
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Michele!
- Bugscope Team yay!
- Teacher hi - we wil start soon!!
- Bugscope Team great!
- Bugscope Team i wonder what a smurf looks like in the ESEM?
- Bugscope Team yeah you can't see if it is really blue though
- Bugscope Team it'd be a gray-scale smurf
- Bugscope Team smurfs are too big for the scope...aren't they three apples high?
- Bugscope Team they'd crash into the detector
- 4:37pm
- Bugscope Team hmm, i wonder if i could fit one in my mouth... probably not
- Bugscope Team that was all Alex
- Bugscope Team i can't fit 3 apples in there so....
- Bugscope Team i can remove the joking around if you prefer? i was just being funny, it's been a long day
- Bugscope Team housefly tongue
- Bugscope Team artificially
- Bugscope Team the antennae are busted off
- Bugscope Team this is a female fly
- Teacher HOw do we know it is a female?
- Bugscope Team the males have their eyes close together, almost touching, like Mikhail
- Bugscope Team Baryshnikov
- Bugscope Team I'm sure not all fly species are like that
- 4:42pm
- Bugscope Team Most of the more 'evolutionarily advanced' flies are like that, I believe
- Bugscope Team with insects almost anything is true of one species or another
- Bugscope Team abdomen
- Bugscope Team a lot of insects have internal genitalia so you can't always tell what sex they are
- Bugscope Team like lizards, sort of
- Bugscope Team the wings have microsetae on them
- Bugscope Team I think they help catch the air
- Bugscope Team probably helps keep them from sticking together when they get wet
- Teacher We have some students driving and asking questions now - be nice :)
- Bugscope Team Michele are you going to, like, graduate or something?
- Bugscope Team we don't see any students yet, but we will be sweet as buttons
- Bugscope Team We are nice, usually, aren't we?
- 4:47pm
- Teacher Where did this blood clot come from?
- Bugscope Team One of the grad students here cut herself last week and I asked her to let it drip onto a slide
- Bugscope Team when it dried I put it on this stub.
- Teacher For real?
- Bugscope Team you can see the RBCs but they are not well defined.
- Bugscope Team This is far grosser than any bugs!
- Bugscope Team She cut herself trimming a sample block for TEM.
- Bugscope Team I don't think it was a bad cut.
- Teacher i hate when that happens!
- Bugscope Team Lest you become part of bugscope!!!
- Bugscope Team we tried to make the best of it
- Teacher whats with the dots on the body?
- Teacher i mean the holes
- Bugscope Team some of them could be sensilla
- Bugscope Team some of them create patterns that other beetles can recognize
- Teacher what is sensilla?
- Bugscope Team sometimes having indentations like that makes the chitin stronger
- Bugscope Team they're sensory surface modifications -- we see them on roaches
- Teacher whats the difference between beatles and lady bugs
Bugscope Team Lady bugs are a type of beetle. All lady bugs are beetles but not all beetles are ladybugs
- Teacher jk beetles
- 4:52pm
- Bugscope Team ladybugs are beetles
- Bugscope Team Annie is our ultimate reference, so if I tell you lobsters are the largest insects she can correct me.
- Teacher We mean asian beetles versus ladybugs?
Bugscope Team Multicolored asian lady beetles are also lady beetles...in the family Coccinellidae. They are just a different species
- Bugscope Team really it's king crabs
- Bugscope Team I imagine they are sister species
Bugscope Team They aren't really sister species. The native ladybugs are not in the same genus as the multicolored Asian type.
- Bugscope Team Lobsters are crustaceans!!!
- Bugscope Team the Asian ladybeetles bite people sometimes.
- Bugscope Team yeah see I got her going
- Bugscope Team lobsters really are insects
- Bugscope Team just don't say they are bugs....
- Bugscope Team Yay I was right!
- Bugscope Team Oh okay....
- Bugscope Team Oh well.
- Bugscope Team But I am right about the lobsters I know.
- Bugscope Team :P
- Bugscope Team this dude was eating dust right at the end
- 4:57pm
- Teacher why are there so many lenses
- Bugscope Team sometimes we see compound eyes that are broken, and we can see that they have an apparent crystalline structure.
- Bugscope Team some insects can see in UV, which we cannot
- Teacher what is the raisin looking chunk?
- Bugscope Team just some dirt, probably
- Teacher ok
- Bugscope Team you should be able to focus on it if you want
- Bugscope Team busted antenna
- Bugscope Team Beetle antennae are often clubbed at the ends.
- Bugscope Team Especially in scarab beetles
- Bugscope Team check out the spider
- Bugscope Team and sap beetles, and actually lots of other beetles.
- Teacher hi.
- Bugscope Team last week we had a female spider, we think, and it had a glob of web between the chelicerae to keep it from biting the male.
- Teacher we're meeting alex's ex
- Bugscope Team see four of the eyes there?
- 5:03pm
- Bugscope Team ah, this pic brings back so many memories
- Bugscope Team if we were further onto the head we would see four more eyes
- Teacher not going there
- Bugscope Team the big things below them are the parts that separate when the fangs come out
- Teacher which part?
- Bugscope Team spiders eat their food like people eat milkshakes -- they suck the juice out of their prey
- Teacher i love milkshakes!!!!!
- Bugscope Team those two big things below the eyes
- Bugscope Team yeah, but would you love a milkshake made out of bug insides?
- Teacher yummyyyy
- Bugscope Team we don't often get to see the fangs, and that is the case now
- Bugscope Team i would not
- Bugscope Team the spinnerettes are to the south, sort of.
- Teacher what are the spinnerettes?
- Bugscope Team they produce the web
- Bugscope Team different kinds of web, some of which are not sticky
- Teacher where are they?
- Bugscope Team if a spider gets caught in the web, he/she can eat his way out.
- Bugscope Team they eat their web anyway, recycle it
- 5:08pm
- Bugscope Team now drive a little south...
- Bugscope Team to the abdomen...
- Bugscope Team now you can see them
- Bugscope Team usually there are four, sometimes it seems five
- Bugscope Team to the bottom of the image now
- Bugscope Team you can use click to center to get to them
- Bugscope Team nice
- Bugscope Team the setae are really cool looking as well
- Bugscope Team very beautiful like evergreen trees
- Bugscope Team now can you bring the mag up?
- Bugscope Team gone daddy gone
- Bugscope Team this is a pollen grain on or near the mouth of this beetle
- Bugscope Team it has a lot of juju on it
- Bugscope Team tons of pollen to the NW
- Bugscope Team you can see there was lots of pollen on this dude's face
- Bugscope Team I am not sure that this is really a beetle though.
- Bugscope Team I believe this is a beetle
- 5:13pm
- Bugscope Team at first these look like yellow jackets -- they have yellow and dark striped abdomens
- Bugscope Team Annie is the supreme ruler, except about lobsters
- Teacher Thisi is cool - sorry we are not asking alot of questions -
- Bugscope Team Entomologists have a sort of block when it comes to lobsters
- Bugscope Team :P
- Bugscope Team well we are entertaining ourselves
- Bugscope Team they have too many legs and too many antennae
- Bugscope Team rock lobster...
- Bugscope Team I think they have about six legs
- Teacher whats a haltere????
- Bugscope Team halteres are the modified hindwing found in Diptera
- Bugscope Team lobster have legs on all their segments
- Bugscope Team once way back in time the haltere was probably a wing
- Teacher what diptera???
- Bugscope Team flies
- Bugscope Team haltere's help the insect to stablilize during flight
- Bugscope Team two-winged
- Bugscope Team di ptera
- Bugscope Team this is a loose haltere from a fruit fly, perhaps, on this beetle
- Teacher thank you :)
- Teacher do you have colored images?
Bugscope Team well, no, because the scope uses electrons to gather the image, and electrons are much smaller than the frequency of visible light, the image is inheritenly black/white. but we can color the images after the fact, using elemental analysis.
- Bugscope Team you can see the shaft of the haltere has hypertrophied mechanosensors on it
- Bugscope Team we don't like colored images
- Teacher ha
- 5:18pm
- Bugscope Team sometimes people make them but there is no color in electron microscopy
- Bugscope Team recently we were asked for permission to put an image in a documentary that is coming out about how color is formed
- Bugscope Team an image of a butterfly scale, from a Monarch
- Teacher OK - Michele here again. My students are saturated with images. We are going to sign off early :) thanks again! This was fun. We enjoyed the new names on the presets!!
- Bugscope Team Ohhhh.....
- Bugscope Team thank you for joining us!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Teacher Better luck with relationships in the future - don't date bugs :)
- Bugscope Team it's always a pleasure to have you michelle
- Bugscope Team There's where I have been going wrong!
- Bugscope Team uhhh, it's hard not to date bugs when you are a bug yourself... crickle crackle...
- Bugscope Team haha
- Bugscope Team Thanks Michele!
- 5:28pm
- Bugscope Team we done here?
- Bugscope Team ack
- Bugscope Team I guess so
- Bugscope Team bye all!
- Bugscope Team over and out bye!
