Connected on 2008-03-06 15:30:00 from Tucson, AZ, US
- 2:25pm
- Bugscope Team session enabled, rxl on, vacuum started
- 2:32pm
- Bugscope Team starting presets
- 2:38pm
- 2:45pm
- 2:51pm
- Bugscope Team Thanks, Scott, for the heads-up about today's session.
- Bugscope Team Presets are looking good, Alex!
- Bugscope Team Thanks Umesh. Very good samples today.
- Bugscope Team Hi Kirk!
- Bugscope Team hi kirk, welcome to bugscope, we a preping for a session today at 3:30PM
- Bugscope Team later dude
- 2:56pm
- Bugscope Team the return of the iPod
- 3:02pm
- Bugscope Team presets done, waiting for class to login
- Bugscope Team I just killed OBKB, and when I came back on you were g o n
- Bugscope Team ah, i logout after we do presets, in order to get rid of some lag
- Bugscope Team this is me
- Bugscope Team right-o
- 3:07pm
- Bugscope Team this is so cool
- Bugscope Team nice software
- Bugscope Team whoa
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team m old sp ore on mosquito paw
- 3:12pm
- Bugscope Team preset?
- Bugscope Team sure!
- Bugscope Team got it
- Bugscope Team Thanks Mon
- Bugscope Team yeah that's me too
- Bugscope Team it's not going to the preset
- Bugscope Team we'll try this one
- Bugscope Team which worked
- Bugscope Team now I'll see if I can get there from here
- Bugscope Team Since we are waiting, I have a question for Alex. Has there been a recent session with two schools in cooperation (or not cooperation)?
- Bugscope Team hmm, no, not that i can remember... lemme look at the schedule
- Bugscope Team Oh, do not take your time, I was merely inquiring. I would not want to distract you now during a session. Okay?
- 3:18pm
- Bugscope Team well, as far as bugscope 2.0, every session has been one school at a time. sometimes two sessions in the same day, but never at the same time.
- Bugscope Team Umesh we have not been doing the double login thing, from the old days, if that is what you are referring to.
- Bugscope Team Hey Mr M!
- Bugscope Team mr. m, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to bugscope!
- Teacher heyas all I just logged in
- Teacher I'm going to get my class
- Bugscope Team Nice samples today.
- Bugscope Team i've unlocked the session for ya, you should see controls for the scope on your top right. yeah, great bugs you sent us!
- Bugscope Team that was me
- Teacher Thanks, the kids had a good project idea and my friend Chris was able to get some great specimens
- Bugscope Team this is the recurved spine portion of the tick rasper
- Bugscope Team the other side of this same thing is more rasp like
- Bugscope Team this is why the proboscis sticks into you and does not easily come out
- Bugscope Team remember to click to stop'
- Bugscope Team and if you want to see better where you are going, choose a lower mag
- Teacher Hi this is Chris, Aaron's friend.
- Teacher I'm just trying to figure out the controls.
- Bugscope Team hi chris, what's shakin?
- Teacher I don't see "Stop"
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team click again in the image to stop
- Bugscope Team click again
- Bugscope Team it should have instructions in the navigation box
- Teacher OK, thanks.
- Bugscope Team otherwise it can run all the way off the edge of the world
- Bugscope Team well, you can't hurt the scope though
- Bugscope Team if you ran off the edge of the sample, we'd just have to reset the scope here
- 3:23pm
- Bugscope Team this is carbon doublestick tape, and you can see some silver paint lower left
- Bugscope Team everything is coated with gold-palladium
- Bugscope Team like 6 or 7 nm at least
- Teacher OK, I've clicked on the presets, but nothing's happened.
- Bugscope Team yeah, scope was confused. it's fixed now
- Bugscope Team here's your preset
- Teacher OK, thanks.
- Bugscope Team maybe not the one you chose
- Bugscope Team this is the moth's proboscis, all coiled up in the center of its face
- Bugscope Team compound eye
- Bugscope Team moth
- Bugscope Team moths have an interesting substructure to the eye that you do not usually see
- Bugscope Team in other insecrts
- Bugscope Team insects
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team hey jse800, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team you can see Moire patterns here
- 3:28pm
- Bugscope Team jsw800 i mean, sorry
- Bugscope Team jsw hello!
- Bugscope Team Hi Manny!
- Student what is this?
- Bugscope Team manny mayweather, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team this is a compound eye on an insect
- Bugscope Team this is the compound eye of a small moth
- Bugscope Team compound eyes have hundreds of single facets, called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team hello nomin
- Student oh the moth
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team hello Fisher and DZ
- Student hi nominwinx
- Bugscope Team kissing bug
- Student was up fisher
- Bugscope Team hello students, welcome to bugscope
- Student whoa!
- Bugscope Team missing limb there
- Student hes missing a leg
- Bugscope Team they are like little vampires
- Bugscope Team the proboscis is here
- Student what is it
- Student its a kissin bug
- Bugscope Team there is almost certainly a lancet or stylet we cannot see inside this sheath
- Bugscope Team like a mosquito has as well
- Student what is this
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team the sheath prob'ly folds open to let the stylet out
- Student ive been here b4 last time mr m did bugscope, but I think this is cooler than last time bcuz we can ask our own questions
- Bugscope Team even when it is focused
- Bugscope Team cool jsw that is more fun for us as well
- Student does a kissing bug have eyes
- Student wow
- Student yes
- Student the eye right
- Bugscope Team this is one of the eyes
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Student yeah
- Bugscope Team got to focus
- Bugscope Team thanks jsw800, we call this bugscope 2.0! a total re-write of the software. it's much better
- Student very oof
- Bugscope Team lot of juju on the eye
- Student cool
- 3:34pm
- Bugscope Team sometimes we see bacteria in the same places
- Student srry i type in text talk
- Student guess this is why we girls don't like bugs
Bugscope Team uhh, wait, annie is an entomologist and she's a girl, and she loves bugs... ps, don't call them bugs, they are really insects! annie will get upset if you call them bugs ;)
- Bugscope Team you can see who we are here: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/who_are_we
- Bugscope Team well you don't have to touch them
- Student how big are the eyes
Bugscope Team notice the scale bar on the bottom left of the image, that tells you distance. um stands for micron, that's one millionth of a meter.
- Student i think theyre awesome
- Bugscope Team you can see from the databar in the the lower left what the dimensions are in microns
- Bugscope Team Actually, the best book written about bugs is by a woman scientist (May Berenbaum). You can find her book titled: Buzzwords. You will like it.
- Bugscope Team 78 microns is .078 mm.
- Student how many eyes does a bedbug have
- Teacher Hey, if any of you kids want to control this thing, please take over.
- Bugscope Team now you can see that the eye is maybe a millimeter from edge to edge
- Student how do u take over
- Bugscope Team Mr M let us know who would like control and we can hand it over from here
- Bugscope Team mr m. just let us know who you want to control the scope, we have to switch it
- Bugscope Team jsw has control now
- Teacher Can you give control to jsw800?
- Bugscope Team jsw800, you've got control. only we admins can switch control
- Bugscope Team Yes, please take over and control. This is your instrument (over the cyber-space). You have the power to investigate. Make discoveries. And, ask questions.
- Bugscope Team the other eyeball
- Student yes
- Bugscope Team this is the eye of the bedbug
- Bugscope Team fewer ommatidia
- Student what part is this
- Student wich way to the mouth?
- Bugscope Team like an ant eye, often
- Bugscope Team notcie that this compound eye has many less ommatidia than the moth one. that's wierd...
- Bugscope Team nomin to the right and down
- Student its a eye
- Student thats hardly any eyes in the compound eye
- Student WHat is ommatidia?
Bugscope Team ommatidia are the individual facets (bumps) in a compound eye. each one has a lens in it.
- Bugscope Team it is a tube -- the mouthpart is
- Bugscope Team a single facet of the eye is called an ommatidium
- 3:39pm
- Student is that the mouth?
- Bugscope Team that is the proboscis
- Student ya
- Student how does the bed bug bite you?
- Bugscope Team yeah down a little further is the tip -- it is like a syringe, really
- Bugscope Team jsw800, you are driving like a champ. good work.
- Student is this the bottom of the mouth?
- Student how big is a tick?
Bugscope Team well, click on the tick preset, then magnify out so you see the whole thing, then check out the scale bar in the bottom left of the image
- Student ya
- Student thx
- Bugscope Team this part moves forward when he/she bites you
- Bugscope Team the tick we have here is less than a cm but they can be larger
- Bugscope Team now the proboscis is folded down
- Student jesse can you move
- Bugscope Team this is the tick rasper
- Student tick rasper
- Student !
- Bugscope Team this is the part that gets stuck in your skin
- Student ya
- Student does it move or does it stay in one place?
- Student where 2
- Bugscope Team so this is the same as the proboscis
- Student hey jaivie
- Teacher can the tick move the rasper like a tongue?
- Bugscope Team the things that look like they each have an eye fold down
- Bugscope Team yes sort of like a tongue
- Bugscope Team those armored things fold out of the way
- Bugscope Team although they look like one part they are divided in the middle
- Student jesse go to mosquito wing. DZ
- Bugscope Team this is probably sensory setae
- Student it grabs on right
- Bugscope Team on the round thing
- Student hey manny take over!
- Student come sit with me
- Student me?
- Teacher Can we give control to manny mayweather?
- Bugscope Team mayweather has control
- Bugscope Team Manny it pokes the rasper into your skin and it sticks into you because of the recurved spines
- Student move it manny!
- Student thats gotta hurt
- 3:44pm
- Bugscope Team you can see they are sort of like fishhooks, hard to get back out
- Student just kiddin
- Bugscope Team but it is pretty small nomin
- Student oh
- Student ?
- Bugscope Team I am not sure whether these guys have anesthetic saliva or not
- Student where r we
- Bugscope Team zoom out and take a look
- Bugscope Team some bloodsucking arthropods anesthetize your skin and you don't feel them
- Student ware are we
- Bugscope Team these are scales on the mosquito
- Student manny zoom out\
- Bugscope Team take the mag down a little as Jesse says, if you want
- Student is that the wing?
- Student howd u know my name?
- Bugscope Team someone said your name earier jsw800
- Bugscope Team Jesse someone else used it earlier
- Student o
- Student and did you guess my name?
- Bugscope Team busted
- Student o it was manny
- Student i dont want to do the control
- Student This is Mr. M. We are trying to find the mold spore on the mosquito pore
- Bugscope Team nomin what is your name?
- Bugscope Team to the left
- Bugscope Team ah, try going left a bit
- Student nomin
- Bugscope Team it shifted since we made the preset
- Bugscope Team nomine really?
- Student nomin without the e
- Bugscope Team there it is
- Bugscope Team sorry that was a typoe
- Bugscope Team click to center to get finer control
- Student whata a mold?
- Student wow cool, looks a raspberry
- Student whats
- Bugscope Team mold is what takes over when things get wet for a long time and start to rot
- Student a mold?
- Student mold is like ths stuff that grows on things when theyre old
- Teacher Mold is fungus.
- Bugscope Team a mold spore
- Bugscope Team like, fungus
- Bugscope Team thanks Mr M
- 3:49pm
- Student can we give control to DZ
- Bugscope Team DZ's got it
- Student go 2 da flea
- Bugscope Team pollen is similar in size but has bigger spines
- Student !!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student go 2 da flea!!
- Student is this the wing or the claw
- Student da flea!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team Nomin that was the tip of one of the arms of the mosquito
- Student the head!
- Bugscope Team check him out, pretty handsome huh?
- Student what is that
- Bugscope Team there is some juju on the head of the flea
- Bugscope Team yesay iay doay
- Student whats a juj?
- Student u
- Student go torwd the mouth
- Student juju is crap
- Bugscope Team juju means like unknown dust stuff or dirt, you know, juju
- Bugscope Team juju is what we call any kind of slime/junk we see on the critters
- Teacher Do you guys clean the specimens before coating them?
- Bugscope Team sometimes...
- Teacher Just curious...
- Bugscope Team sometimes they are too small to mess with -- we could lose them
- Student What is this
- Student o
- Bugscope Team Tornado this is the body of the flea
- Student what does a flea do anyway?
- Bugscope Team okay, welcome to bugscope kids, you are looking at images live from an electron microscope, which costs more than $600,000 about 9 years ago
- Bugscope Team they bite people, suck blood
- Student hi yordi
- Bugscope Team they also bite dogs and cats of course
- Student I thought they do that to animals
- Student even though im right next 2 u
- Bugscope Team there is the eyespot
- 3:54pm
- Student Is that circle the flea's eye?
- Student is it ded
Bugscope Team yeah, most are way dead by the time the neter the vacuum of the scope
- Student where is the eye
- Bugscope Team they are not so discriminating
- Student Do fleas feed on blood?
- Student is it
- Student why do flea get on dogs
- Student looks like seaweed
- Bugscope Team yes they feed on blood
- Student can yordi take control
- Bugscope Team Fisher it is a good place fo
- Bugscope Team d'oh!
- Bugscope Team yordi, you are it!
- Bugscope Team a good place to get a meal
- Student this is weird but where is the eye
- Bugscope Team there is the eyespot
- Bugscope Team the flat round thing
- Student bugs right
- Bugscope Team I don't think they see well
- Student okay i get it
- Student theres lotsa juju on it
- Student is that bump the gold ot the juju?
- Bugscope Team Jesse I had just typed that...
- Student why is it bumby
- Student why is it bumby
- Bugscope Team Nomin you cannot see the gold yet
- Student yordi go to mosquito
- Student thats the eye
- Student wats dat dot
- Bugscope Team nice, you are looking at 2 millionth of a meter
- Bugscope Team in this case we are using gold-palladium and it doesn't show up 'til we get to like 150,000x
- Student thats the eye I think
- Student this is weird
- Student go to a moth head
- Teacher What's the max magnification for this scope?
- Bugscope Team Nomin I could be wrong but I think this is a blob in the eyespot
- Bugscope Team 800,000x but at that mag it's hard or impossible to get a nice image of anything
- Student alex ay ouyay eakspay igpay atinlay?
- Bugscope Team yes, i speak pig lating, everyone does
- Student go to the mystery image
- Bugscope Team latin i mean
- Student not anybody i know
- Bugscope Team we can take the mag over 800,000x but cannot get a useful image at more than maybe 200,000x
- Student xept ppl i taught
- Bugscope Team yeah, try to guess what the mystery image is
- Student is this the lice nit?
- Bugscope Team yes this is the nit
- Student or is the egg of something
- 3:59pm
- Student yes I see there are some insects I didn't send :)
- Student it looks like a cocoon
- Student umeshthakkar ware did you go
- Student can lice move or are they just thare
- Student is it hatching?
- Student ewwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Teacher Yes, they can move.
- Student no
- Bugscope Team lice can move -- they have little legs -- but they seem mostly to cling
- Student is it haching
- Student whats the top
- Student ow
- Bugscope Team Cate left a note that it was kind of busted up
- Student wat is it???????????????????????????????????
- Student go to the mystery image
- Bugscope Team she made the sample this morning
- Student its a louse nit
- Student no worries, i am surprise you even got something out of that vial. I couldn't see much
- Bugscope Team all of what we are looking at is on a 1.75-inch aluminum stub
- Student louse?
- Student Our school nurse collected the nits for me
- Student it looks like water
- Bugscope Team a louse is a single lice, a nit is like a baby one
- Student dose it have ears?
Bugscope Team hmm, i'm not sure, but most insects use setae to sense their enviornment through the vibrations in the air. wheras humans have ears to sense that environental vibration,l insects have setae (little hairs) that sense all the vibration and send that info to the bug brain
- Bugscope Team Oh Man please ask her to save more for us -- in ethanol
- Student ???
- Student is it wood?
- Student Make a prediction
- Student can i hav control
- Bugscope Team usually insects do not have ears
- Student fuzzy slippers?
- Student zoom out
- Student what is it
- Student please give control to Mr. M student
- Student ohh eyes of something
- Student is this a lice
- Bugscope Team they sense sound using their setae
- Student can you zoom in
- Student no
- Bugscope Team mmm donuts
- Student wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student moth antennae
- Student mosquito antennae
- Bugscope Team like a furry donut ala Meret Oppenheim
- Student I knew it
- Student donuts?
- Bugscope Team yeah you got it
- Student jesse stole it
- Bugscope Team the eyes often dry out and cave in like this
- Student ewwwwwwwwwww
- Bugscope Team now you can see the proboscis
- Bugscope Team the tips of the antennae are busted off
- Student is it a mosiqeto toung?
- 4:04pm
- Student mr m student stole control right b4 i zoomed out
- Bugscope Team the proboscis is a sheath
- Student is this dead
- Student can i please have control
- Bugscope Team Jesse I am sorry he asked for it
- Bugscope Team johpe has control
- Bugscope Team johpe you have it now
- Bugscope Team lize this is the mosquito head
- Student can i have control
- Student its ok
- Student sure
- Student never mind
- Bugscope Team let's let johpe drive a bit more
- Bugscope Team we are working with a woman who knows much more about the gender differences of mosquitos than we do
- Bugscope Team unless mr m says otherwise of course
- Student this rocks
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team their antennae are different, and the proboscis is different at the tip, here
- Student mouth?
- Bugscope Team this is the sheath that holds the sharp part -- the stylet
- Bugscope Team this is a mosquito proboscis, no it's like a hand i think, scott?
- Bugscope Team Nomin it is like a straw through which it feeds
- Bugscope Team or trunk
- Student let see lice
- Student can i have control
- Teacher Is this a male or female?
- Student its a moskito thing
- Student ????
- Student what is it
- Bugscope Team yeah, it's a trunk (like a long mouth) part of a mosquito
- Bugscope Team Manny the louse doesn't look so good -- it is just a nit
- Student who has control?
- Bugscope Team at is this is the tip of the snout of the mosquito
- Bugscope Team hmm, not getting the mosquito? johpe has control
- Bugscope Team johpe
- Student Can i take control?
- Student johpe
- Student who
- Student can i have control
- Student im logging some kids out. the computers are slowing down
Bugscope Team okay, good idea, if the network is saturated there will be some lag
- Bugscope Team peanut you got it
- Student what aer the small disks?
- Bugscope Team Thanks Mr M
- Bugscope Team the disk like things are scales
- 4:09pm
- Student can i have control
- Student change
- Bugscope Team butterflies, skippers, moths, mosquitos, and silverfish have scales
- Bugscope Team ok tornado, we'll give you control next, but peanut has it now
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Student is this lice
- Student can i have control peanut?
- Bugscope Team OOF = out of focus
- Student good thing I play WoW cause if I didn't I wouldn't know what alex was saying
- Student very OOF
- Bugscope Team try focusing peanut
- Bugscope Team really is OOF in WoW?
- Student nope
- Bugscope Team nice driving peanut
- Bugscope Team yeah, peanut, good job on the focus, it's not easy to do!
- Bugscope Team you can see the architecture of the scales
- Student it loks like chips
- Student what are the dark spots?
- Student wats WoW
- Bugscope Team good question mr m, i have no idea, can we zoom in on them?
- Bugscope Team those are where the scales were
- Student 20 minutes
- Student can we see the bedbug?
- Bugscope Team they are sockets
- Bugscope Team ah, scott says they are sockets
- Bugscope Team for the scales that are missing
- Student is it chip
- Student what is that the log thing
- Student ha ha
- Teacher What's the purpose of the scales on the proboscis?
- Student me
- Student no
- Student please give control back to jsw
- Bugscope Team the scales probably help keep it in the air
- Bugscope Team Mr M this part does not stick in you
- Student give it to nomin
- Student soom in
- Bugscope Team this is a sheath, and it has a stylet within it, like a sword
- Student wow ew!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team Nomin has control
- Bugscope Team wait, tornado, did you ever get control?
- Student i lost it!
- Student ewwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!
- Student sorry
- Student he actually has
- Bugscope Team microsetae
- Student what is this
- Student hairs or what is it???
- 4:14pm
- Student scale sockets
- Student OOF
- Student a little
- Student whats the hole
- Student can we see the lice
- Bugscope Team the pores are sockets where scales are missing, as Jesse beat me to it
- Student study the picture Tornado
- Bugscope Team nice nomin~
- Student a scale socket
- Student thanks
- Bugscope Team or tornado...
- Student Are those leaves ??
- Student good work jesse
- Student thx
- Teacher RIght, I meant the proboscis sheath. I'm just curious about what the scales do.
- Student no theyre sense hairs
- Bugscope Team the things that look like leaves at lower mag are scales
- Student okay peanut
- Student WHAT is that
- Bugscope Team Yeah Mr M I just assume they give more surface area for flying -- like feathers
- Student OOF
- Student wow this is cool
- Student they have wings?
- Student a little
- Bugscope Team half a micron now...very cool
- Bugscope Team scales also provide color in some cases
- Student ya
- Student ya
- Student dose it have ears,Mr.m?
- Student no
- Student does it have eyes
- Bugscope Team this is a little distorted because the mag is high but we are at a long working distance
- Student yes
- Bugscope Team if we were at a shorter working distance the focus would be better
- Student whats in the hole
- Student to meny big words
- Bugscope Team notice we are at 618 nm.
- Student no problem that was cool
- Student did you guys add the pill bug?
- Student now what is this
- Bugscope Team Tornado the hole was where there had been a scale
- Bugscope Team Oh I thought you had sent it
- Student ya it is hairy
- Bugscope Team now, check out all the hairs, they are called "setae", seta for singluar. they stick through the exoskeleton and connect to nerves, they help the insect sense it's enviornment
- Student sense hairy
- Bugscope Team Cate might have felt that you needed one to round out the sample this morning
- Student why is it hairy?
Bugscope Team the hairs help the insect to sense it's enviornment, so they are vital to the survival of the insect
- Student haha, nope, nor the moth, but they are cool
- Student is it pokey?
- Bugscope Team note that the moth proboscis rolls up like a party favor
- Student We are focusing on human parasites
- Student so they can sense
- 4:19pm
- Student look like cactus
- Bugscope Team who is a human parasite?
- Student ew!
- Bugscope Team this is one of the antennae of the rolypoly
- Bugscope Team aren't all humans viruses? according to the matrix?
- Student it looks like its having babies
- Bugscope Team Wm Burroughs said language was a virus
- Student ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Teacher By the way, kids, pill bugs are not really insects. They're actually crustaceans, like crabs and lobseters.
- Student please give control to J.V.R
- Bugscope Team yeah they have way too many legs to be insects
- Student soom out
- Bugscope Team nice mr m! annie our entomologist would give you a high five for that one!
- Teacher lobsters, oops
- Student is it blind
- Bugscope Team insects always have 6 legs, no more no less
- Bugscope Team yeah I always tell her that lobsters are really insects
- Teacher This is Chris, actually - I'm an entomology grad student. :-)
- Student Mr. M is really my buddy an ant expert. He's making me look good
- Student w is dallas
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team awesome chris
- Student it looks yuky
- Bugscope Team johpe it has eyes but we could not see them in that view
- Bugscope Team this is the tip of the proboscis of the bedbug
- Student wheres its eyes
- Bugscope Team the eyes of the bedbug or the rolypoly?
- Student it looks dirty
- Bugscope Team you can see the eyes of this dude
- Student SuperJ.V.R focas alittle bit
- Student is it dead?
- Bugscope Team yeah, all these bugs are dead
- Bugscope Team this is the underside of the body of the bedbug
- Student okay
- Bugscope Team you can see it is missing a few limbs
- Bugscope Team now you can see the eyes
- Bugscope Team the imaging in the electron microscope only works if the bugs are very still. if they were alive and moving around it would not look good
- Student hehe
- Student legs are cut off
- Student what is that hole
- Bugscope Team beneath the antenna stumps
- Student why are they cut off?
Bugscope Team they fell off, or got bumped in transit.. .who knows....
- Teacher Yeah, sorry about all the broken specimens. They're mostly rejects from the entomology collection here.
- Bugscope Team the hole where the leg is busted off?
- 4:24pm
- Bugscope Team peanut they break so easily
- Student tick!
- Student go 2 da tick!
- Bugscope Team you can see part of the stylet where the sheath is folded open
- Bugscope Team man, ksw likes the tick!
- Bugscope Team jsw i mean
- Bugscope Team take the mag down and look around if you want
- Student we lost some kids, they had to go
- Student no im just enthusiastic 2day
- Bugscope Team not a problem mr m
- Student How do ticks find humans to eat?
- Bugscope Team you will see how it hangs onto leaves of grass and waits for you to walk by
- Bugscope Team cool, i was just messing with you anyway. we are having a good time, this is a good bugscope session
- Bugscope Team I think some of them can sense heat as well
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team how do they sense CO2 scott? through chemosensory setae?
- Student Super J.V.R zoom out
- Bugscope Team their eyespots are on the other side of the head where we cannot see them today
- Bugscope Team I think they use the eyespots
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team but you can see those palp-like things are probably chemosensory -- I am sorry I do not know
- Student i remember last time i saw bugscope it wasnt as cool bcuz we only had 1 server. since this has tons of them, im enthusiastic 2 day
- Student thank ypu
- Bugscope Team now you can see the little clips it uses to hook itself over leaves
- Student its head looks weird out far
- Bugscope Team and then it sticks all of its eight arms out
- Student I'm always fascinated that something so small with no wings can find and attach to us
- Bugscope Team the things on either side of the head fold down
- Teacher Scott, I presume that you are right about the palps - that is probably how they sense CO2 (though I don't know for sure).
- Student shouldnt peanut be gone
- Student HOW BIG ARE THEY
Bugscope Team check out the scale in the bottom left of the image. 1um = one micron, one millionth of a meter
- Student I thought it had six arms for its ainsect
Bugscope Team yes, annie has told me many times, if it doesn't have exactly 6 legs, than it's not an insect.
- Bugscope Team the eyespots look like depressions with pores in them
- 4:29pm
- Bugscope Team peanut this is not really an insect
- Teacher Ticks are actually related to spiders.
- Bugscope Team and 1 mm = one millimeter of course
- Student how iong do they live
- Teacher Very young ticks have six legs, but older ticks have eight.
- Bugscope Team gnarly
- Bugscope Team Mr M that is cool to know
- Student please give control to manny mayweather
- Student wat da heck is dis?
- Bugscope Team I was surprised this guy had eight legs
- Teacher Is this a beetle?
- Bugscope Team Manny got it
- Bugscope Team but i'm not sure of that. scott? chris?
- Bugscope Team yes it is a beetle
- Student this is not one of our insects, kid. but its cool
- Bugscope Team of some sort
- Bugscope Team Cate must have decided to give you a little more diversity
- Student Is iton wood?
- Student who long do they live
- Student WHAT IS THAT?
- Student this looks like the ladybug pedipalps
- Teacher In one of my entomology classes as an undergrad, our professor tried to trick us in an exam by giving us a young tick (which had six legs).
- Bugscope Team ack!
- Bugscope Team larval insects can have as many legs as they want
- Bugscope Team oh, it's only adults that have 6 legs then. cool.
- Bugscope Team they do look very much like ladybug palps
- Student :D
- Student Can i have control?
- Bugscope Team hey manny, this is a nice image, try focus a bit
- Student D
- Bugscope Team these are almost certainly chemosensors
- Student manny your going to fast
- Student HOW MUCH DOD THEY EAT PER DAY?
- Bugscope Team you can see part of the jaw, where it closes like a gate
- Student how mush blood do they eat?
- Student can i give it up
- Bugscope Team class, all of the chat, and hundreds of images from this session are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-014
- Bugscope Team GL not sure how much they eat, or in this case what this ears
- Bugscope Team eats
- Student can I get control back please
- Bugscope Team Dude has control now
- Teacher Ladybugs eat aphids and other insects.
- 4:34pm
- Bugscope Team Now Mr M student has control
- Bugscope Team well, mr m is the teacher, i gave it back to you
- Bugscope Team Sometimes we find brochosomes on ladybug tenent setae, and we know they did not come from the ladybug.
- Student Is it alive?
Bugscope Team no, most are dead long before they actually go into the vacuum under the miscroscope
- Student bugscope is awesome
- Bugscope Team Brochosomes are found only in leafhoppers.
- Student its dead
- Bugscope Team Peanut nothing is alive in the 'scope now.
- Bugscope Team i'm going to switch to CCD now
- Student was getting bad lag lost image
- Bugscope Team CCD shows you the insidwe of the microscope chamber
- Student wat da???????????????
- Bugscope Team Brochosomes are tiny soccerball like particles perhaps waxy that leafhoppers anoint themselves with.
- Bugscope Team tell me when to switch back to electron camera
- Student What is it?????
- Student is dat da scope?
- Teacher Hmm, cool.
- Bugscope Team they can be round or oval
- Student something is wrong on my computer
- Student im trying to get back to the flea preset
- Bugscope Team the cone at the top of the image is where the electrons come from
- Student weird
- Student Can i have control?
- Bugscope Team you got it peanut
- Student please dont give control to peanut
- Student could I have it back please
- Bugscope Team heh, sorry mr m!
- Bugscope Team you got it, sorry
- Student long legs
- Student HOw far can they jump?
- 4:39pm
- Bugscope Team power packed legs
- Student wow
- Student HOW HIGH DO THEY JUMP?
- Student please foucas a little
- Student how do you answer questios
- Student why do they jump far?
- Student OOF
- Student CAN IT KILL U?
- Teacher They store a lot of energy in the leg (it gets locked into place) and then they suddenly release it, which causes it to jump very far.
- Student can they hurt u?
- Student who is g lover
- Bugscope Team there are some ants, whos jaw claws move so fast that they often use those to make jumps aware from danger. i forgot the name of the ant.
- Student any advice on finding the mouth?
- Teacher Odontomachus
- Student the tip
- Bugscope Team the movement of this ants jaw is the fastest moving biological thing on earth
- Bugscope Team hmm, mr m, try zooming out a bit, then we might be able to see the mouth?
- Bugscope Team ok... hmm
- Student lotsa juju
- Bugscope Team try going down a bit
- Student haha looks like a walrus
- Bugscope Team scott thinks the mouth might be at the end of the proboscis
- Bugscope Team Yeah Jesse I am sorry this is so messed up. We could have cleaned it a little better.
- 4:45pm
- Student its not that its just weird dat its like dat
- Student How old are the bugs
- Student its not bad
- Student kinda old
- Student IS THERE MOUTH BIG
- Bugscope Team um peanut most of them came from Mr M
- Teacher Some of these specimens are probably pretty old, which is how I managed to get convince the collection manager to give them to me.
- Bugscope Team I think the mouth is small but the biting part is long
- Bugscope Team we have some Varoa mites, from bees, but tehy were all covered with juju -- perhaps it was honey
- Bugscope Team they are sitting in acetone now
- Student HOW MANY EYES DOSE IT HAVE?
- Bugscope Team oops
- Student can they kill u
- Student if ur allergic
- Bugscope Team G Lover they have a couple of hundred ommatidia, I would say
- Teacher Many insects have secondary eyes called ocelli (most have 3) on the back of their heads. I'm not sure if kissing bugs do.
- Bugscope Team this almost certainly encloses a stylet
- Student the weather is nice
- Bugscope Team it seems like most flying insects have ocelli
- Teacher They're used to detect the intensity of light, rather than forming an image like the compound eyes.
- Teacher Yeah, that makes sense.
- Student why is it hary?
- Bugscope Team spider eyes seem much like ocelli
- Student so they can sense the world
- Student WHY R THEY HAIRY?
Bugscope Team well, the hairs are called setae, and they stick through the exoskeleton and attach to nerves. the setae transmit information to the nervers and help the insect to sense it's enviornment
- 4:50pm
- Bugscope Team Super the hairs (setae) are often sensory. This is because insects/arthropods like them have exoskeletons.
- Bugscope Team The exoskeleton would be like one of us wearing armor and not being able to feel things touching it
- Bugscope Team the setae are needed because the exoskeleton... yeah, what scott said
- Bugscope Team so the setae transmit sensory info to the nerves inside
- Student DOSE IT HURT WHEN THEY BRAKE A LEG?
- Student who kknows
- Teacher Probably.
- Bugscope Team probably does not hurt like if you were to break a leg
- Student talk about hairy legs
- Bugscope Team yes! bugs are very hairy!
- Student we cant feel when they break 1 s o who knows
- Bugscope Team i'm not sure what the ratio of nerve endings in our skin is, but i'd imagine insects have about an equal ratio of setae?
- Bugscope Team spiders have the ability to automatically let a leg go if they feel a toxin seeping in
- Bugscope Team autotomize
- Bugscope Team so if a spider gets bitten by another spider it can just ditch that leg
- Bugscope Team yep, this is what you think it is
- Bugscope Team booty
- Teacher I don't know alex, but I would guess that insects have more setae per area than we do nerve endings.
- Student IS THAT THE MOUTH?
- Bugscope Team the tip of the abdomen
- Bugscope Team cool, thanks chris, i was totally guessing
- Student its da other end
- Teacher So am I. :-)
- Bugscope Team G Lover this is the opposite end
- Bugscope Team heh
- Student can i take control
- Bugscope Team it's up to mr m student
- Student are they from mississippi
- 4:55pm
- Bugscope Team humans have more nerve endings in some places compared to others, as you can imagine
- Bugscope Team like in your fingertips
- Teacher I'm just guessing that given the difference in body sizes, insects would need to have denser nerve endings. True, Scott, and that undoubtedly true of insects too
- Bugscope Team this is the moquito wing
- Student wat are those leaf lookin things
- Bugscope Team oops mojito, no that's not it...
- Bugscope Team those are scales as well
- Bugscope Team it is so interesting to me that silverfish have scales
- Student o cool
- Teacher Yeah, that is interesting.
- Bugscope Team this is one of the limbs
- Teacher What did it look like?
- Student CREEPY
- Bugscope Team later in the year there will be a PBS documentary about color and how it is formed
- Student how many scales are there
- Student how meny wings does a mosquito have?
- Bugscope Team a lot of the insects dry out when they die, and especially when we sputter coat them and put them in a vacuum. that drying out can cause weird things, like the compound eyes will deflate a bit
- Bugscope Team and for one or two seconds they may use an image we took from this 'scope
- Teacher Mosquitoes have two wings, like all flies (mosquitoes are flies). Most other insects have four wings.
- Bugscope Team thousands of scales for sure
- Student super scaly
- Bugscope Team I have not seen halteres on mosquitos but have not looked hard
- Teacher Scott, that's cool.
- Student look at the setae under da scales
- 5:00pm
- Bugscope Team amazing what you can learn by just repeating it a few times, huh jsw?
- Bugscope Team bees and wasps have hamuli -- little hooks that clip the fore- and hindwings together for more efficient flight.
- Teacher They should have them (halteres).
- Bugscope Team or hearing it a few times i mean
- Student how many legs does a bedbug have
- Student ARE THOSE LEGS
- Teacher Six legs.
- Student haha that is Chris my super entomologist alter ego
- Bugscope Team no these are setae, zoom out a bit to see the orientation of the bedbug
- Bugscope Team it is great to work with an entomologist
- Bugscope Team you and her sound similar, smart that is
- Bugscope Team Annie is on board when she has time. We give her free 'scope time to look at her Cerambycids.
- Student he's already married :)
- Teacher It's great to be here. You guys are doing an awesome job and I'm learning a lot!
- Bugscope Team longhorned beetles, which sometimes have mites
- Bugscope Team earwigs frequently have mites as well
- Bugscope Team So Mr M student is Chris?
- Teacher I'm Chris.
- Student how do you know it is merried?
- Student Mr. M is chris the real Mr. M is the student
- Bugscope Team busted off antenna
- Bugscope Team well that was the next guess wasn't it?
- Bugscope Team nice focus
- Student thx
- Bugscope Team jsw800, how many micron in a meter?
- Bugscope Team Annie is going to Indianapolis to pick up her boyfriend this afternoon.
- Bugscope Team Oh me me me I know.
- Bugscope Team this is the moth head.
- 5:05pm
- Bugscope Team I bet Cate slipped this in this morning as well.
- Bugscope Team wow, nice image
- Teacher That is cool.
- Student how many eyes does it have
- Bugscope Team it pushes hemolymph into the tube to get it to straighten out like a New Year's noisemaker.
- Bugscope Team w boatloads
- Student wow
- Teacher Two eyes (plus probably three ocelli).
- Bugscope Team someone has counted them
- Bugscope Team when the compound eyes are broken, sometimes, we can see that they have an apparent crystalline nature.
- Bugscope Team like lenses.
- Bugscope Team but those of mosquitos do not seem to be that way
- Bugscope Team excellent jsw! now can you remember, how many microns are in a meter?
- Student WHAT IS THAT
- Bugscope Team these guys can see in the UV, which we cannot
- Bugscope Team it's a handy thing to know when looking through an electron microscope
- Student the eye has eyes on it and those have eyes on them!
- Student or dots at least
- Student a million
- Bugscope Team I was thinking they were analogous to cones in a human eye
- Bugscope Team yeah, i don't think the eys on the eys have eyes on them. but i'm not sure what they are
- Student nice jsw
- Bugscope Team YES jsw! good memory. a micron is one millionth of a meter
- Bugscope Team but I am often wrong
- Student its garbage on the eye
- Bugscope Team yeah and scrapes on the eye as well
- Bugscope Team where are you guys?
- 5:10pm
- Bugscope Team near chicago?
- Teacher I think insects have structures analogous to cones, but at the base of each ommatidium.
- Teacher Tucson, AZ
- Student spikes!
- Student we are in tucson
- Bugscope Team ack, sorry i got my the sessions confused. AZ, very cool
- Teacher That looks like most of the plants around here.
- Bugscope Team we think these little hooks help the proboscis stay in the flower
- Teacher :-)
- Student interesting
- Bugscope Team so the cone analogues would be inside where the light focuses on them
- Teacher Yes.
- Bugscope Team whoa, i think i saw some pollen
- Bugscope Team north of here
- Student how do bed bugs drink blood
- Bugscope Team making much more sense
- Bugscope Team they have their own version of heparin, which is in short supply in the US now
- Student a couple of students are back from basketball practice and joined us
- Student im givin control back
- Bugscope Team keeping the blood from coagulating
- Bugscope Team who wants control? mr m?
- Student please give cool guy control
- Student waht is it
- Bugscope Team Got it
- Bugscope Team cool guy is tha man!
- Bugscope Team this is one of the spines on the proboscis of the moth
- Bugscope Team the lines we see are mold
- Bugscope Team now you can se brochosomes!
- Student really, the lines are mold, interesting
- Bugscope Team these are from leafhoppers
- Bugscope Team that is a surprise
- Teacher Oh, that's not pollen?
- Student they looks like thorns
- Teacher Interesting.
- Bugscope Team no way too small
- 5:15pm
- Bugscope Team see how they are like selfassembled 3D soccerballs
- Student OOF
- Teacher Yeah, neat.
- Bugscope Team brochosomes are intricately structured microscopic secretory granules produced by leafhoppers - from wikipedia ;)
- Bugscope Team they are said to come only from leafhoppers
- Student i can't get it to focus on those pollen spores
- Student is it a legf
- Bugscope Team yeah Jesse it is hard to focus at this mag
- Teacher I'd never heard of them before.
- Bugscope Team MrM student those are brochs
- Bugscope Team wow, each brochosome is about 300 nm. wow, that's small
- Bugscope Team one of the guys here studies leafhoppers and has a website devoted to them
- Bugscope Team you could google them
- Student hwo has control
- Bugscope Team 3what a nice surprise though
- Bugscope Team cool guy has control
- Bugscope Team he's doing good too
- Bugscope Team cool guy
- Student what is that fan like thing?
- Bugscope Team a scale
- Student wat the?
- Student wat mag r we at?
- Bugscope Team the spacing between the ribs creates (can create) structural colors
- Bugscope Team the mag is changing quite a bit, cool guy is driving pretty fast.
- Student groovy
- Bugscope Team you should be able to see the mag in the top right though
- Bugscope Team so we should if we spent some time figure out how to tell what color the scale produces by its spacing and the details of its structure
- Student vnkszjlzgbbjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
- Bugscope Team of 337 or so bugscope sessions in 9 years this is one of the top
- Bugscope Team thanks you guys
- Student coolguy say sumthin
- Student hi
- Student hi
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team good control, good questions...
- Teacher Thank you guys, this has been fantastic.
- Bugscope Team yeah, you guys rock and or roll
- 5:20pm
- Teacher You've been doing this for 9 years?
- Bugscope Team Manny this is the tip of the mosquito proboscis
- Bugscope Team this month
- Teacher Wow.
- Student what is a proboscis
- Student hi me name is ivan
- Bugscope Team yeah, scott has been on bugscope since the beginning. i joined last year
- Teacher Wow, neat.
- Teacher Do you guys know Andy Suarez?
- Bugscope Team scott is an electron microscopist. i'm a computer systems administrator
- Student tick
- Student why ivan
- Bugscope Team the proboscis is a straw-like prortruding mouthpart
- Student well i'm glad they hired you
- Bugscope Team yeah he is one of the trapjaw ant dudes
- Student if you haven't noticed we are staying on until you kick us off
- Student alalalalalalalalalalaxcbsdkhmfabgvgfskgvn
- Bugscope Team maybe the trapjaw ant dude -- right?
- Bugscope Team trapjaw ants, those are the ants with the fastest biological movement...
- Student of all the activities I do with my sci club this has been the best
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team this has really been one of the best bugscope sessions i've even been on. thanks!
- Bugscope Team we usually schedule an extra hour in case people have a chance to stay on
- Teacher Great, thanks.
- Student qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm
- Bugscope Team scott, was andy the guy that did the ITG forum for us a couple years back?
- Bugscope Team some of the sessions can be duds for sure
- Bugscope Team um yeah with the video of the flying ants
- Student cvf
- Student well im glad we didn't bore you with our questions
Bugscope Team this was FAR from boring. your students asked great questions, controlled the scope very well, took an interest. i can't believe jsw remembered how many microns are in a meter. that was awesome!
- Student can we give ED a chance before we go
- Student a chance to control the scope
- Student hehehe
- Bugscope Team ed has control
- Student hi
- 5:25pm
- Bugscope Team so the deal is if we wanted better resolution we would work at a much shorter working distance but then you would not be able to get low mag images
- Student cool
- Student bedbug
- Student you are sad manny
- Bugscope Team bedbug eyeball
- Student why
- Student i see
- Bugscope Team we have not seen bacteria today but we could if they were there
- Student 13
- Student i taught him all he knows
- Bugscope Team bacilli are two microns long, often
- Bugscope Team micrometers
- Bugscope Team well, i know i told you, but that you remember it jsw means you were thinking. thinking is the start of everything good
- Teacher I wonder if these specimens are too old and dried out to support bacterial growth...?
- Student bhgdjhujrhgje
- Student dirt beetween the eyes
- Bugscope Team it is possible yes that they are too dry
- Bugscope Team if they were moist we'd see more mold as well
- Student cool guy are you ok?
- Bugscope Team samples will rot -- we cannot re-use them
- Student gggggggrttttttttttyyyyyy6666666rrrrrrrtgggggtyuuuuurrrrtt
- Bugscope Team once they are coated they usually degrade rapidly
- Bugscope Team almost looks like an eyeball right there
- Student i like pie
- Student yah right
- Teacher They'll rot even after coating them?
- Teacher Hmm, that surprises me.
- Student i like milk
- Bugscope Team If we keep samples in a desiccator they will last much longer
- Student cool guy:i like cheese
- Teacher Thanks guys, this has been really great.
- Student THANK U 4 STAYIN ON LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ROCK!
- 5:30pm
- Bugscope Team ed, do you mean why do we get bumps when they bite? i think it's the skins reaction to the chemicals in the bite. right scott, chris?
- Bugscope Team I think Mr M if they were dry enough before coating and we kept them in a desiccator they would last forever
- Student Once again, you rocked our world
- Bugscope Team but they would have to be recoated
- Student THXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team thanks mr m and all the students from tuscon. it was great having you on bugscope
- Bugscope Team Thanks!!!
- Student I am talling the turth
- Teacher Yes, that's right Alex (it's also probably from a reaction to the mechanical damage caused by the bite itself).
- Student U ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student Look for us again, we just can't get enough. I'll apply again in May
- Student thanks guys for letting us see the bug scope
- Student thak you people god bles
- Bugscope Team Yeah we have someone else using the 'scope in a few minutes.
- Bugscope Team remember, all the chat and images are stored on your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-014
- Student this was fun
- Student byby!
- Bugscope Team We will be happy to have you back.
- Student byby!
- Bugscope Team Bye Jesse!
- Student BYBY!
- Student we are logging off, stay warm you frozen souls.
- Student vjgeugyyuyuygerugedj54hueyrui48f3t3tretrrewrweetr6ygertbjbkwjhrhhfkeji jrkuyi ihrithigv
- Bugscope Team and w et al.
- Bugscope Team yep, if you want to do another bugscope, just apply again.
- Bugscope Team cool guy is not so articulate just now
- Student retijoijoirjetiouroiuiuioyeruoiuby5tryurgutyruityuiytuyutriytriut6ykjghkuysktgvuiyivusstnsdfuhkgkj
- Student trfitiuytiwiu3riuwtruio eioftesiurtiuweytriuweytiuytiudsyfguoyetduiotyouiyt80r
- Student gtruy5uy4t5uytuytweurtuytreuyteyutuyrguvewtret\
- Bugscope Team i wonder if it's some kind of code
- Student see you guys later
- Student bye hjxczfgydhhdhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- Bugscope Team alright over and out for me -- see you Super JVR
- Bugscope Team and Manny
- Bugscope Team okay, all gone.
- Bugscope Team locked
- Bugscope Team hi angel. we are just closing the session. sorry!
- 5:35pm
- Bugscope Team rxl stopped
- Bugscope Team session disabled
- Bugscope Team great session everyone. later on daddy-o!
