Connected on 2008-03-18 13:00:00 from Park Ridge, IL, US
- 11:57am
- Bugscope Team session enabled, rxl started, vacuum started
- Bugscope Team hi bird lover, welcome to bugscope
- 12:02pm
- Bugscope Team vac OK
- Bugscope Team SE on
- Bugscope Team starting presets
- 12:07pm
- 12:13pm
- Bugscope Team hello agnes, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team we are setting up for today's session at 1PM CDT
- Bugscope Team Agnes and Birdlover were on and gone, huh.
- Bugscope Team hi sevin
- 12:19pm
- Guest Hi! This looks really cool!
- Bugscope Team we are setting up for today's bugscope session at 1PM CDT
- Bugscope Team park ridge school is logging in today
- Bugscope Team where are you from sevin?
- Guest I am out east! I got on this site, and didn't even have time to read about how this all works, I just joined the current session to check it out. I am from Mercer, PA
- Bugscope Team cool
- Guest my students would absolutely LOVE this!
- Bugscope Team awesome, anyone can apply
- Bugscope Team here's the link...
- Bugscope Team http://www.bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/apply
- Bugscope Team we accept 99% of all applications
- Guest Thanks! I will join! I hope I am not one of the 1%.
- Bugscope Team we actually allow students to control the microscope live over the internet. all these images you are seeing are real time
- Guest This is so awesome. Most of my students would never get an opportunity to see images like this (except in a book) much less control them!
- Bugscope Team well, the sessions that don't happen are usually the result of the teacher losing interest. we try our best to allow any teacher and students to use the program
- Bugscope Team our email address is: bugscope@beckman.uiuc.edu
- 12:24pm
- Bugscope Team please feel free to email with any questions or comments, we are open to talk to any teacher who is interested
- Guest Cool! I am going to go sign up! Thanks for talking with me!
- Bugscope Team no problem
- Bugscope Team hello ms. carpenter
- Guest Hi just checking this out
- Bugscope Team cool, any questions please let us know. we are just setting up for a session at 1PM today
- Bugscope Team where are you from ms. c?
- Guest what are we looking at
- Guest I'm from Pocono Mountain SD
- Bugscope Team these are images from an electron microscope, this is an insect: silver fish
- Guest In PA
- Guest Oh ....I've seen them in my sink!
- Guest Will you have an audio feed?
- Bugscope Team well, no, we have decided not to do audio. think of 20 students all talking at the same time, it would be too much
- Bugscope Team hi mrs. schaab, welcome to bugscope!
- 12:29pm
- Bugscope Team we are setting up the presets mrs schaab, we will be ready before 1PM
- Teacher Thanks Alex!
- Guest i was about to ask the same
- Bugscope Team when we are done with presets, i can give you control of the scope and you can pratice driving before the session starts
- Bugscope Team we have found that when students can ask questions via chat, that the back and forth discussion is much more rewarding for the students
- Bugscope Team we usually have 3-4 bugscope team members online during a session, so we can usually answer every question that comes in on chat
- Guest this is GREAT! I will pass this onto my high school science teachers. Thanks for the quick tour!
- 12:34pm
- Bugscope Team thanks ms. C! please check out this site to apply for bugscope...
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/apply
- Bugscope Team oh well, she left.
- Teacher I'm just waiting for my students to come in from lunch...
- Bugscope Team okay, no problem. we are still making presets so we aren't quite ready either
- Bugscope Team do you plan on having students log into their own computers?
- Bugscope Team ok, we are done with presets!
- Bugscope Team i've unlocked the session, you now have control if you like
- Teacher They will be logging in as pairs...
Bugscope Team excellent. pairs work very well.
- Bugscope Team you should see controls on the top right of your browser: magnify, navigation, focus and adjust
- Bugscope Team if at any time you want a student to have control of the scope, please just let us know and we can transfer control to them. only we can do the transfer though.
- 12:41pm
- Bugscope Team (Me driving...)
- Teacher My students will be logging in using their 1st names, just an FYI!
- Bugscope Team okay, that sounds fine with us
- Bugscope Team Sure that sounds great!
- 12:50pm
- Bugscope Team hey guys!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Student Hello!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to bugscope!
- Student what's up?
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team Please let us know when you have questions about the 'scope, about the insects/arthropods, about Alex, etc.
- Student hello!
- Bugscope Team hi there students, welcome to bugscope
- Student hello guys
- Student Hello how are you doing
- Student Sweet
- Student hi
- Student Hello
- Student whats up
- Student good
- Student heelo
- Student I like skateboarding!
- Student Hi
- Student -_-
- Student This is going to be fun!!
- Student what are you doing now
- Student go chevy
- Student hey charlie
- Student =)
- Bugscope Team you are imaging, presently, part of the body of a silverfish.
- Student hi
- Student go ford
- Student Hi class pats
- Student hi classmates
- Student how are u
- Student That is awesome!
- Student hi
- Student Wow
- Student this is cool
- Bugscope Team silverfish are those silvery little bugs that you find in your house sometimes
- Student sweet pictures!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team these are pictures from inside an electron microscope. the microscope uses electrons to "gather" the image. since electrons are smaller than the frequency of light, that means the images are all grey scale (black and white), no color.
- Student cool
- Student what is one the screen
- Bugscope Team they have scales, which is kind of odd
- Student oh ok
- Student this science expeirment rocks
- Student =)
- Student Hi college members
- Student niev said it
- Student hey whats up
- Student sup
- Student nothin
- Student really
- Student 3.14159...
Bugscope Team pie
- Bugscope Team we are looking at a high-magnification of part of the antenna, I think; it is hard to tell just where we are
- Student t dont think so
- Student yeh
- Bugscope Team the things that look like trees, sort of, are sensory setae
- Student What is this
- Student what
- Bugscope Team setae are what we call the hairlike structures we find on insect bodies
- Student What are we looking at right now?
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team we are looking at a silverfish
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team this is an insect, a moth
- Bugscope Team now you see the head and the antennae
- 12:55pm
- Student sweat
- Student The pictures shown are incredible!!
- Student what is it
- Student awesome
- Bugscope Team this is the moth, right scott?
- Student this amazing
- Student What kind of bug is this
- Bugscope Team it's a silverfish -- an insect with scales that is not a butterfly or skipper or mosquito or moth
- Student lol =)
- Student What insect is this?
Bugscope Team silverfish, household pest
- Student what insect is this
- Student What insect is it
- Student what incect is it
- Student what is the picture of
- Student what bug this
- Student What should we look at next
- Bugscope Team you are operating a scanning electron microscope from your classroom
- Bugscope Team mrs. schaab can click on a preset at any time, and that will move the microscope to that insect
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team so the pictures you are are ones that you are generating
- Student Is that the the head we are looking at?
- Student aswome
- Student this is a silverfish?
- Bugscope Team ask Mrs Schaab to try another preset
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team we have a silverfish, ladybug, a true bug, a moth, butterfly, fruitfly, and a beetle,
- Bugscope Team we can also give control of the microscope to any student as well, as long as it is okay with mrs. schaab
- Student fc
- Student why is it hairy?
- Student How does the dirt form on the head?
- Bugscope Team when we use a scanning electron microscope we have to make the sample conductive if it is not already that way
- Student What is that hole
- Bugscope Team the dirt is actually from my apartment
- Student btw, why is it called a silverfish?
- Student are thoose things on the antenna scales?
- Student are those flakes
- Student What are we looking at like ......
- Student do bugs have scales?
- Student what is the white stuff on the scales
Bugscope Team well, it's probably dust and small particles like that, dirt and grime
Bugscope Team that is just dirt or dust
- Bugscope Team the flakes you are seeing are scales, similar to butterfly and moth scales
- Student why is it called a house pest
- Bugscope Team the white stuff is fine dust from construction down below my apartment
- Student what is this holis thing
- Student what is the little hair things
Bugscope Team the hairs are called "setae" or "seta" for a single hair. setae help the insect to sense its enviornment. the hairs stick through the insects exoskeleton, to the nerves underneath.
- 1:00pm
- Student is that the eye
- Student the class wants to know is this the eye of the insect
- Bugscope Team this is not the eye. so far we have not been able to find the eyes
- Bugscope Team preset #1 is a close up of a really cool looking eye
- Student is that the mouth
- Student is this skin
- Student how big is the inscect
- Bugscope Team the head of this silverfish is covered in dirt and juju, but we have other insects today that you can see the eyes of
- Student are thoose scales on it?
- Bugscope Team this is a space bewteen the body and the hood-like portion of the back
- Student What is juju?
- Bugscope Team those are scales
- Student is that a plate in the back?
Bugscope Team yes, thwe insects are sitting on a metal stub, and that stub is coated with gold before it goes into the microscope vacuum
- Bugscope Team the scales make the silverfish reflect silder
- Student what part is this one the bug
- Bugscope Team silver
- Student Is that the body
- Student are silver fish hairy???????
Bugscope Team a lot of insects are hairy! since they are covered in an exoskeleton, it is like a suit of armor for insects, and they need the hairs (setae) that are attached to nereves to let them know what is going on
- Bugscope Team they are hairly
- Bugscope Team hairy
- Student do they have scales'
- Bugscope Team cannot spell so far today
- Bugscope Team they are covered with scales
- Student do they smell?
Bugscope Team well, do you mean do they stick? or can they smell other things? insects don't smell the same way we do, but they can sense certain chemicals and such with their hairs (setae)
- Student do silver fish have claws
- Student Are those scaies
- Student Does it have claws
Bugscope Team yes you can kind of see them here now
- Student why did you start bugscope?
Bugscope Team we started bugscope more than 9 years ago, to help students and teachers just like you all!
- Bugscope Team if you had a whole bunch of them you could smell them, but by themselves you cannot smell them
- Student is this bug dead?
Bugscope Team all the insects are dead when we put them in the 'scope. even if they were alive, they wouldnt last long since we keep the microscope under vacuum
- Bugscope Team yes it is dead
- Student do they stink
- 1:05pm
- Student is the "silverfish" silver??
Bugscope Team yes it is silvery-blue
- Bugscope Team the claw is to the right
- Student Are those the claws
- Student the things that look like scales are they?
- Bugscope Team scott is an original bugscope member. i'm new last year.
- Bugscope Team this is the tarsus, which is what we call the forearm
- Student is this stuff hair
Bugscope Team anything that looks like hair is not really hair, but instead it's "setae". setae help the insect to sense its environment.
- Student =D
- Student what is that
- Student are those plants on there
- Student is that the claw
- Student is that a stinger or a wierd foot
- Student Is the bug extint?
- Student What is inside the claw?
- Bugscope Team we see claws, setae (hairs), and scales here
- Student is that its hair
- Bugscope Team there may be some fungus caught in the claw
- Student Do you sray the body to get rid of the dirt or dust
- Student ew
- Student do they pinch with there claws????
Bugscope Team claws are there to grab on to stuff, sometimes their meal
- Bugscope Team this is one of the claws
- Student what is that
- Student are the claws sharp
- Student Do you guys enjoy doing this
- Bugscope Team they can pinch but not very well -- their claws are too small for you to be able to feel them
Bugscope Team I like doing this. It is fun
- Student What are these bumps???
- Student is there other bugs like this or is this unusal?
- Student are those hairy things germs
- Bugscope Team whoops wrong question
- Bugscope Team try focus mrs. S!
- Student can they hurt you with there claws?
- Student thanks
- Student why is the bug called a silverfish when its not a fish?
Bugscope Team i think it might be called that because of how it looks when it moves. it wiggles around really fast
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team the claws are so small that you could not feel them
Bugscope Team but if we could put it into a big-sizer-erator and make it big, then yes, it would hurt a lot!
- Student _m__*L*__m_
- Student what is the bumby stuff on it
- Bugscope Team sometimes it is called a fishmoth
- Student Are the grooves onn the claw?
- Student what is that??????????
- Student what specimen are we looking at?
- Bugscope Team this is an antenna
- Student do you like doing this with all the bugs involved?
- Bugscope Team this is a portion of the antenna of a moth now
- Student of what?
- Student moth antena
- Student of what
- Student wow!!
- Bugscope Team we like doing this, and it is different from what we usually do
- Student is this a hairry leg?
- Student an anteana of what
- Bugscope Team we train people to use the microscopes in this lab to do their own research
- Student what animal is this
- Student is this really it's mouth??
- Student wich bug is this
- Bugscope Team this is the antenna of a small moth
- 1:10pm
- Student Why is it so hairy?
- Student why?
- Student it looks like it could kill you
- Bugscope Team mrs. S, if you zoom out, that will give you a better picture of what exactly you are looking at. try it.
- Student Why does it have ridges?
- Bugscope Team this is not the mouth
- Student You don't see this everyday.
- Bugscope Team nice! one more time
- Student which bug is this?
- Bugscope Team now you can see that the body is to the right
- Student what is the whole
- Student why is the moth so hairy?
- Bugscope Team see the proboscis, at the top center?
- Student what is this bug?
- Student kool
- Student what is the powder stuff on moths wings
- Student what is the hole
- Student whats with the hole
- Student does it have a tonge
- Student is it a tubu
- Bugscope Team the whole is where someone stuck the insect with a needle
- Bugscope Team moths are covered with scales, which function sort of like feathers on a bird
- Student what is that hole in the bug
Bugscope Team somebody had put a pin through it
- Student to kill it?
- Student does it have teeth
- Student omg!!!!
- Student thats sad
- Student why is the most so hairy??
- Student where is the eye
- Bugscope Team scales come off easily and thus, for example, could allow the moth to escape from a spider web
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team the tongue is the curled up part
- Bugscope Team the pin was pushed in after the moth died
- Student Cate2?
- Bugscope Team it had been mounted on a pin
- Bugscope Team well no, the whole is there to study the insect. people who study insects are called entomologiests
- Student is the bug really small or really huge
- Student how big is its eyes
- Student why are the eyes so big
- Bugscope Team the eye on the left if a little deflated
- Bugscope Team ack: entomologists
- Student are those the eyes? if so they are very big
Bugscope Team eyes are bigger on insects that rely on them more. So flies and moths will have really huge eyes while ants will usually have a lot smaller eyes or no eyes at all because they live underground
- Bugscope Team Cate had to log out and lost her original name for a while...
- Student are the big white things eyes
- Student aaahhhhh
- Student why is it deflated
- Bugscope Team yes those are eyes
- Student Did you use a neddle to deflat it?
- Student what happends when the tongue rolls out
- Student why is one eye deflated?
- Bugscope Team it deflated when it dies and dries out
- Student why does the bugs eye look deflated
- Student what are the small circles
- Student is that a moth?
- Bugscope Team it deflates, I should have said
- Student are the wholes in the eyes smaller eyes
Bugscope Team YES, good thinking. insects have compound eyes, check out preset #1 for a really cool compound eye
- Student is it a wing
- Student O.M.G.!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team the eyes have facets in them that are called ommatidia
- Student so the eye deflates
- Student focus please
- 1:15pm
- Student awesome
- Student the tounge looks like a deflated tire!!!!!
- Student focus please
- Student oh that is very intresting
- Student how many eyes does it have?
Bugscope Team well, some insects have two compound eyes, and 3 simple eyes. bug that's not true for all insects.
- Student focus please
- Student does it dig in the ground with its tounnge
- Student is the hing next to the eye a antene
- Student are all the bugs you look at dead?
Bugscope Team we've gotten live ones before, but we do prefer dead. Or atleast I do.
- Student is the spikes antenaes
- Student (^.^)
- Student what part are we looking at
- Student ?
- Student ^_^
- Student the eye looks like a golfball
- Bugscope Team insects are often dirty like this, but it happens after they die -- for the most part
- Student how many eyes does it have
- Student can you show us a living bug?
Bugscope Team well, that'd be really hard, living bugs move around, and this is an electron microscope, and we need the things to be very still in order to image them properly
- Student why does it have dots on the eye?
- Student how many times can the microscopezoom in??
- Student are the eyes as big as golfballs
- Bugscope Team the dots are ommatidia
- Bugscope Team when it comes into focus, you will see wha those dots are
- Student when you get live bugs do you kill them
Bugscope Team we put them in the freezer. It is a humane way of killing insects
- Student it looks like a golf ball
- Student Do any bug have more then 3 eeyesw
- Student How big are the eyes of the moth?
Bugscope Team notice the scale in the lower left of the image. that tells you the size. 1 um means one micron = one millionth of a meter.
- Student I love doing this!!!
- Student it looks lika a honeycomb
Bugscope Team compound eyes have many parts to it and each individual part (ommatidia) will grab an image and send it to the brain
- Student alot of eyes
- Student are they bompy
- Bugscope Team mrs. schaab you are doing a great job focusing and driving!
- Student whit is the stickish thin
- Bugscope Team you can see the micron bar on the lower left -- it is in micrometers, or microns
- Student the bugs eye looks cool
- Bugscope Team so you can see a single eye facet is about 10 microns in size
- Student what are those spikes
- Student What is the long thing on the moth's eye?
- Bugscope Team a micrometer is a thousandth of a millimeter
- Student Why are there stuff on the eye?
- Student what that thing
- Student do they see a lot of pictures in the eye
- Student what are the little neddles on the eye
Bugscope Team good question. the eyes also have hairs on them. these are called setae, and the setae on the eyes help the insect to sense movement in the air. like how a fly jumps away when you are about to hit it with a fly swatter? that's because those hairs are sensing the air moving and tell the insect to fly away ASAP!
- Bugscope Team well, it's probably more like 20 um, because we are looking at an angle now...
- Student this is a cool website did you create it?
- Bugscope Team the long pointy thing is one of the setae
- Student why is it bumpy
- Student what is the tungish thing?
Bugscope Team that is a scale that got on its eye
- 1:21pm
- Bugscope Team the thing that is like a tongue is a scale
- Student what is that leaf like thing/
Bugscope Team scale on its eye
- Student it looks like a cactus
- Student it has setae in its eye?
- Student why do they look like honeycomb?
- Student hi david
- Student yo
- Student hmmm... it looks... strange...
- Bugscope Team the ommatidia resemble a honeycomb because of the way they pack when they are formed
- Student are there any orher inscects too look at
- Student is it still eye
- Student it lookes like there is a little cactus on it
- Bugscope Team Eric&Cody there are other insects on this stub
- Student lets look at snakes!!
- Student butterfly
- Student yay
- Student are those flakes
- Student what is this
- Student is that a tongue
- Student Is this the tongue?
- Student what is this
- Student what is the flower things
- Bugscope Team yes that is the tongue
- Student eeeeeeeewwwww
- Bugscope Team the proboscis is the tongue
- Student what is the proboscus?
- Student what insect is this again
- Student dear scott do you like looking at these
- Student Do butterfliesave hair too?
- Student Where is the other antenna?
- Student habe*
- Student have*
- Bugscope Team yes I like doing this
- Student can we see the wings? ^_^
- Bugscope Team there are lots of cool things to find
- Student why does the bug look dusty
- Student another hole
- Student are there scales on the eye
- Student these are all dead right?
- Student This is better than Robert Hooke.
- Student are buter flyes realated to moths, because it looks like it
- Student Did they poke a hole in ythe body to
- Bugscope Team bugs get dusty after they die and cannot clean themselves
- Bugscope Team yep, they are all "bit the dust"
- Bugscope Team not all the insects have holes in them. The ladybug and the fruitfly dont
- Student why does it look hairy on its chest
- Student is the whole where they stab it
- Bugscope Team butterflies and moths are both Lepidoptera
- Student where is the other antenna
- Guest can you see its insides through the hole?
Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure, but it'd be cool to find out!
- Student Are these scales??
- Bugscope Team who is robert hooke?
- Student WOW *_*
- Student it looks like hay
- Student is it hair
- Student what are those wierd things on the thing
- Bugscope Team the hole is where the insect was pinned onto a mount after it died
- Student why are the eye balls facing the oposate way
- Student Yo
- Student Are these scales?
- Bugscope Team sometimes you can see what is inside, but jsut a little way
- Student dude
- Student why does it have sections
- Student do the wings have scales?
- Student is it hair all over
- 1:26pm
- Bugscope Team the eyes are positioned so that the insect can see all around
- Student it looks like noodles
- Bugscope Team the wings in this case have scales]
- Student the wing looks feathery
Bugscope Team the sclaes act just like feathers
- Student why is there so many stick thing on it
- Student What the...
- Student are the wings shaarp
- Bugscope Team the scales help the moth catch the air
- Bugscope Team scales i mean
- Student is it the hair
- Student why do the butterflies wing look dusty
- Student what benifet is there to the butterfly's wing
- Bugscope Team they are fine and small, with lots of surface area
- Student is this hair
- Student is it the hair
- Student how long are the wings
- Student whers the powder
- Student Is there a specific pattern to the scales?
- Student how big is one stem
- Student is that hair
- Bugscope Team the scales do have specific patterns, yes
- Student to scott why does look like that because when I see them outsid it does not look like that at all
- Student ok
- Student why is it spiky at the end ??????
- Student How do these shapes form?
- Bugscope Team the patterns are responsible for colors
- Student what is the scaly things called
- Student }{}
- Student it looks like mini 3 pronged forks
- Bugscope Team well, things look very different when they are magnified hundreds of times.
- Bugscope Team HI all
- Bugscope Team when you see them outside it is hard to see all of the details we can see here
- Bugscope Team hi annie!
- Student how many colors dos it have
- Bugscope Team Hi Annie!
- Student is it sharp
- Student Do butterflies have poisonous powder on them?
Bugscope Team Nope, unless someone has sprinkled poisonous powder on them
- Guest hi annie!
- Student is that a horn
- Bugscope Team there seem to be an infinite number of colors
- Student what specimen is this
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Bugscope Team this is a claw, from a beetle
- Student hi
- Teacher My controls have gone away
Bugscope Team mrs. C can you hit refresh, F5
- Student what is this bug?
- Student tthis a claw?
- Student who's annie
Bugscope Team I am a PhD student in entomology
- Student is this the claw
- Student it looks like fangs
- Student uhoh mrs schaab
- Bugscope Team Annie is our entomologist.
- Bugscope Team sorry, mrs. S i meant...
- Student are there poison in the claw
- Guest that looks like a pretty tough claw
- Student is the pointy stuff hair?
- Student do you ever look at things that are live?
- Bugscope Team Annie makes sure we do not tell you that lobsters are actually very large insects
- 1:31pm
- Teacher Thank you!
- Bugscope Team we can look at things that are live but it is not nice
- Student in reel life is it will
- Bugscope Team :p Scott
- Bugscope Team coolness, working again...
- Student is it hair
- Student is that hair or mini thrones?
- Student what is the hole
- Student is there pioson in the claws
Bugscope Team no i dont think so
- Student what is that in the backround?
- Student what are the stuff sticking out of the the insect and what insect is this. Are those the legs.it looks old
- Student is that the whole where it got stabbed?
Bugscope Team Usually people kill the insects before pinning them. We kill them by freezing them or by gassing them with ethyl acetate
- Bugscope Team the hole in the thorax is from where this beetle had once been mounted
- Student what specimen are we looking at
- Student is it from the needle
Bugscope Team It is from an insect pin!
- Teacher Can you please let Neiv & Sierra control the microscope?
Bugscope Team ok you two have control
- Bugscope Team the pin did not kill the beetle -- it was already dead
- Student what is that
- Student where dos it have eyes
- Student what is the thing in the backround??
- Bugscope Team Got it!]
- Teacher Thank you!
- Bugscope Team there is a wing in the background
- Bugscope Team and silver paint
- Student what body part are we looking at
- Student is the wing skrunched up?
- Student what is the thing in the backround?
- Bugscope Team neiv & sierra, you should now see special controls in your windows, YES, nice, you are now controlling the scope
- Student the eye is small
- Student where are the eyes located?
- Student can you make eye biger
- Student what is ethyl
Bugscope Team Ethyl acetate is a solvent that you can find in some nail polish removers
- Student where are the eyes
Bugscope Team in the middle of the screen now
- Bugscope Team there now you ahve made it bigger
- Student is this the head?
- Student wow
- Student what insect is this?
- Student what are the bumps?
Bugscope Team The little hexagons are the individual facets of the insect's eye
- Student Is that the face
- Bugscope Team ethyl acetate is a chemical that is used to kill insects without making them shrivel up
- Bugscope Team this is a very special microscope, it's called an ESEM (environmental scanning electron microscope). here is a pic of it: http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/ms/equipment/microscopes/esem/
- Student is this a dirty bug like the silverfish
- Student why is it shiny
- Student is ethyl painful for the bug?
Bugscope Team Umm...well, they don't like to die. So probably it is not pleasant for the insect. We actually don't know much about pain perception in insects
- Student is it harry
- Student why does it look like an xray
Bugscope Team the images are all black and white because the microscope uses electrons to gather the image, and electrons are much smaller than the frequency of visible light, so thus no color.
- Student can you go in the eye
- Student why is it flaty
Bugscope Team often when it is dead, the eyes will deflate or shrivel up
- Student are tose the eyes
- Student it looks like a golf ball
- Student i mean flat
- Bugscope Team it may be painful for the insect
- Student is that the eyelid that looks like a golfball?
- 1:36pm
- Student what is the blck stuff on the eye
- Bugscope Team it looks like an x-ray because the image appears reversed
- Student can you poke a hole in the eye??
- Student does the ethly kill them
Bugscope Team it does. It suffocates them. Sounds very cruel, doesn't it.
- Student What is the watery stuff??????
- Student i mean black
- Student what are the blotches
- Bugscope Team you could poke a hole in the eye, and you would find if you broke the eye that it is composed of things that look much like crystals
- Student ?
- Student why are there spots on a ladybug
Bugscope Team The theory is that the red on black color pattern is a "warning sign" to other insects that ladybugs are not good to eat
- Bugscope Team the blotches we see are evidence that the samples are rotting
- Teacher Can you please give control to Reuben & Sebastian?
Bugscope Team ok you two drive away
- Student does the bug die from the ethly
Bugscope Team Yup, the ethyl acetate suffocates them
- Student Are they killed when you get them or do you kill tem
- Teacher Nice job Sierra & Neiv! :)
- Bugscope Team we like it if insects are already dead when we get them
- Student Thank you Mrs.Schaab!
- Student why?
- Student can the shell come of
Bugscope Team Not without body parts sticking to it. The insect's muscles and organs are attached to the "shell"
- Student after can we have conttrol
- Student is the shell hard and hairy
- Bugscope Team we usually freeze them to try to kill them
- Student why does the lady bug have a little crack on the top of it?
- Student How do patterns form on insects?
Bugscope Team It is genetically controlled...and pre programmed. The cells incorporate different amounts of different pigments to form patterns.
- Bugscope Team eeeeeuw
- Student cool
- Student why are the eyes under the wings
- Student wow
- Student what is this thing?????
- Student is that the mouth?
- Student what is that?
- Student what is that ?
- Student what is that?
- Student that looks sharp
- Student How do patterns form on the bugs?
- Bugscope Team those are palps that help the insect eat and taste its food
- Student that thing looks like a cave
- Bugscope Team patterns are formed when genes are expressed the same way we have different colors of hair, or eyes...
- Student are we going i mean looking in the mouth now
- Student did you kill the bug with ethly
Bugscope Team this one got frozen
- Bugscope Team now you can see the eye pretty well
- Student why do you put a needle in them to make a hole?
- Bugscope Team um it does not have sideburns
- Student what is ethly/
Bugscope Team It is a stinky chemical found in some nail polish removers.
- Student is that a fang
- 1:41pm
- Student what are the spikes
- Student what are the littleneddles sticking out
- Student is thaqt a tooth ??
Bugscope Team those are more setae (hairs)
- Bugscope Team ethyl is ethyl acetate, which is a chemical that suffocates the bugs
- Student whats insided of the shell
Bugscope Team Muscles, insects blood, organs, fat
- Bugscope Team they don't have teeth like we do
- Student are the hairs anttenas
- Bugscope Team the shell is attached to the insect'
- Teacher Can I please have the controls back?
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team you are the boss mrs. S!
- Bugscope Team there are ommatidia within the compound eye
- Student can we look at the praying mantis?
- Student whats the blac things in the disance
- Bugscope Team insect blood is called hemolymph
- Student how long it took to be a scientist
- Student gross
- Student what is a true bug
- Student how lod were you when you became a scientest
- Bugscope Team I think when you are a scientist you are always learning -- you are never finished
- Student why is the bug called a true bug
- Student old
- Teacher Can you give Chris & Ryan controls please?
- Student How much cells do bugs have
Bugscope Team Adult insects have probably too many to count
- Bugscope Team annie is getting her phd in entomology, so she can tell you about getting a degree in science.
- Student how are the bones conected
Bugscope Team good question, but i'm afraid insects have no bones, instead they have the exoskeleton, which holds all their guts and stuff inside
Bugscope Team there are no bones...exoskeletons are hollow tubes with organs and body parts inside
- Bugscope Team there are no bones
- Student do true bugs have fangs
Bugscope Team they usually have sucking moutparts like ticks
- Bugscope Team not all insects are bugs, that is only a small classification of insects
- Teacher In about 5 minutes can the kids ask you questions about being a scientist?
Bugscope Team sure we would love that
- Student are these bugs dead or trancleized
- Student what is a true bug exactly
- Student why is the bug called a true bug?
- Student Is it fun to work with the bugs?
Bugscope Team I enjoy studying insects very much. I get to travel all over the world, I get to "discover" new things, I get to interact with other scientists.
- Student isthat the eye?
- Teacher Awesome, thanks!
- Student focus please
- 1:46pm
- Student whatarewelookingat
- Bugscope Team Chris and Ryan can focus
- Bugscope Team it is a little tricky
- Student what is theat
- Teacher Can I have controls back? Their computer died
- Student is it fun to work with the bugs??
- Student what is that
- Bugscope Team sclerotized means thickened
- Bugscope Team i hate it when computers die :(
- Student what are those bumps?
- Student whatis the difference between a true bug and a regular bug?
- Student whats the backround
- Student how many legs does it have
Bugscope Team All adult insects have 6 legs. It is one of the requirements for being an insects
- Student what do you use to examine the bug
- Bugscope Team I guess someone had to decide what is and is not a true bug -- it seems almost arbitrary
- Student what part of the bug is that exactly
- Student what is hemiptera?
- Student why is it moving
- Student what is hemiptera?
Bugscope Team Hemiptera is an order of insects defined by sucking mouthparts, incomplete metamorphosis, and half sclerotized front wings.
- Bugscope Team adults will have six legs
- Bugscope Team we had to fix the scope there for a sec, we had driven off the edge!
- Student whay is it moving
- Bugscope Team all is good now
- Student What was the best specimen you ever saw in your life
- Bugscope Team hemi means half and ptera means wing, and it means, as Annie said, that half of the wing is thickened, or sclerotized
- Student is it hard being a scientist?
Bugscope Team It is hard being in school for so long and some times it is hard to figure out what is going on with your research. It mostly takes patience and persistence.
- Student how old were you whenyou started being a scientest
- Student do enjoy beig a bug scientist?
- Student What is your most favorite part of working with bugs?
- Student would you rather have a diferent job
Bugscope Team i like my job a lot. I get to see the future of technology being developed sometimes
- Teacher I think I drove it off! They are going to ask you questions about being a scientist.
Bugscope Team that is okay mrs. schaab, it happens almost every session. we can fix here.
- Student what age did you want become a sientest
Bugscope Team I always like science, especially in high school.
Bugscope Team I started college when I was 18, but I think anyone who is curious as to how the world works is kind of a scientist
- Student how did you find these insects
- Student is being a sientest hared
- Student and where
- Bugscope Team it is fun being a scientist because you find so many questions. Answers are hard to come by, but we get an idea of what might be the truth.
- Student would you have a different job
- Student IS IT HARD BEING A SCIENTISt?
Bugscope Team it is not hard doing anything that you really like to do
- Student What do you really want to look at through the microscope in the future?
- Student when did you decide to be a scientist?
Bugscope Team I decided I wanted to become an entomologist when I was a senior in high school.
- Bugscope Team I would be a welder
- Student why did you start bugscope
Bugscope Team we wanted other people in school to see the side of science they cant always see in their classrooms
- Student is using the micro scope hard
- Student is it fun being a scientist
Bugscope Team It is lots of fun being a scientist. I get to travel and be outdoors and meet interesting people.
- Student do you like like your job
- 1:51pm
- Student how many jobs have you had
Bugscope Team ive had lots of other jobs that had nothing to do with science, like working at chuck e cheese and at meijer as a cashier
- Student How did you guy's get interested into being a scientist
- Student when did you start liking science?
- Student what is your favorite bug to look at
Bugscope Team Longhorned beetles!!! THey have long antennae.
- Student is it fun
- Student how long were you a scientist?
- Student do you have to have to have a lot of focus and patients to be a scientist
Bugscope Team Yes, you do. Graduate school and college can be tedious at times. But you have to keep your eye on your goals.
- Student How long have you been a scientist/
- Student cool
- Student when did you start
- Student Give me one reason why you don't like being a scientist
- Student what kind of bug do u really like to look at?
Bugscope Team i like ants, i dont know why but I do
- Student where do you work for being a scientist
- Bugscope Team I have been doing electron microscopy since I got out of college
- Bugscope Team we work at a research institute
- Student what is your favorite inscect
- Bugscope Team associated with the university
- Bugscope Team i went to college in music, but now i work with computers. i'm the computer helper for bugscope
- Student how long do u work
- Student a day
- Student what is your favorite bug
- Student THANKS FOR BUGSOPE!!!!!!!!
- Student What is cool about looking at bugs?
- Student what colloge did you go to
- Student BUGSCOPE
- Student whats your favorite bug
- Student WE MENT
- Bugscope Team I like earwigs because they have mites on them, often
- Student how early do you have to come to work?
Bugscope Team I don't really have a regular schedule, grad students usually don't . Sometimes I get in at 8 sometimes 10.
- Student where is the lab located?
Bugscope Team champaign, IL at the university of illinois
- Student BYE
- Student bu
- Student BYE
- Student bye!!!
- Bugscope Team people look at all sorts of things with the ESEM. metals, bones, self healing materials, etc...
- Student bye-bye
- Student whats your favorite speciem to look up
- Student good by
- Bugscope Team thanks you students, you were AWESOME!
- Student c u l8r... ^_^ =)
- Student bye
- Student see you later
- Student bye
- Student bye bye nice to meet you over chatting.!!!
- Student Goodbye Scientists, thanks for this!!!!!!
- Student good bye scott and cate2
- Student bye
- Student see ya
- Student bye bye!1!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student BYE
- Student i have enjoyed this bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team bye everyone
- Bugscope Team Bye!
- Student see you later
- Student seeya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student THANK YOU
- Bugscope Team We had a great time with you. Please come back.
- Student thenks for help
- Student Thank you for your time
- Teacher I have it posted on my website.... thanks!
- Bugscope Team we are leaving you with a lovely haltere
- Bugscope Team this way you can look at what you did during the session anytime
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team grad students work all of the time
- 1:56pm
- Teacher I will hopefully see you again in the Spring! Ryan & Chris' computer died and they say good-bye too!
- Bugscope Team oh...
- Bugscope Team Bye Ryan and Chris!
- Bugscope Team you are welcome anytime mrs. S, this was a GREAT session
- Bugscope Team Hi Fred!
- Bugscope Team please apply again, we will look for your application
- Guest Hi, Scott!
- Bugscope Team And birdlover.
- Teacher Thank You!
- Bugscope Team Thank You Mrs Schaab!
- Bugscope Team Goodbye all!!!
- Bugscope Team I am peeling out now -- need to do some ultramicrotomy.
- Bugscope Team Bye Annie!
- Bugscope Team Over and out.
- Bugscope Team hi fred and bird, either of you want to control the scope?
- Bugscope Team bird left, flew away...
- Bugscope Team okay fred, we are done unless you want to control the scope for a bit?
- Bugscope Team well, okay, you must be afk. closing session now.
- Bugscope Team rxl stopped, session disabled
- Bugscope Team locked interface.
- Bugscope Team nice session everyone, great job!
