Connected on 2008-04-23 10:00:00 from Reading, P.A., US
- 8:48am
- Bugscope Team Cataku
- Bugscope Team thats me
- Bugscope Team :)
- Bugscope Team still unreachable
- 8:55am
- Bugscope Team failure to deliver
- 9:01am
- Bugscope Team Ok, lets see if things are back up
- Bugscope Team I just took the mysql server down and brought it back up. It seemed like it might have gotten stuck on something
- Bugscope Team ah, ok yeah rxl still "unreachable"
- Bugscope Team lemme check those next
- 9:12am
- Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper
- 9:19am
- 9:24am
- Bugscope Team hi IG, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team we are still making some presets for you and your class
- Teacher Hi guys we are really excited to do this today
- Bugscope Team awesome
- Teacher alex, i'm ready fro a trial run
- Bugscope Team Can you see the images, and can you see the presets, to the right?
- Teacher yes
- Bugscope Team okay, i've just unlocked the session
- Bugscope Team you should see some controls on the right side now
- Teacher yes
- Bugscope Team Great you can now drive if you would like.
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team your network test was great, so you should be able to use "click to drive" no problem
- Bugscope Team that is one way to move around
- Bugscope Team just remember with click to drive, you click once to start driving and click again to stop
- Bugscope Team the thing about click to drive is remembering to click to stop as well
- Bugscope Team another is using "click to center" that gives much more control over *where* you move
- Teacher in drive it doesn
- Teacher t seem to move anything
- Bugscope Team ok hold let me try
- Bugscope Team you want to have your cursor on the screen, and click
- Bugscope Team mine is working, can you try again?
- Teacher I got it now I was holding
- Bugscope Team that must be you IG, looks like you got it?
- Bugscope Team ah yes, click once to start moving, then click again to stop
- 9:29am
- Bugscope Team the position of the cursor on the screen determines which direction it goes
- Bugscope Team You may want to go to a low mag when you do this as well.
- Bugscope Team antenna
- Bugscope Team so you can change mag (Magnify), Click to Drive or Click to Center, Focus, and Adjust Contrast/Brightness
- Bugscope Team hey IG, try changing the mag too, that can give you a very different look at the insect
- Teacher if you guys have the super cool parts to look at you can go ahead and put them on that while we look
- Bugscope Team you can also choose one of the presets and the 'scope will drive you there
- Teacher fabulous!
- Bugscope Team you like the fly head, huh? yeah, check out those HUGE compound eyes
- Bugscope Team this must be a male fly
- Teacher the kids will go crazy
- Teacher male? how tell?
- Bugscope Team thats what we like
- Bugscope Team on many flies the male fly eyes are close together, whereas with females the eyes are separated.
- 9:35am
- Teacher IG is short for Information Goddess which is what the kids call me, that's why I ask the questions
- Bugscope Team Cool!
- Teacher Then I can impress them when I know the answers
- Teacher Yeah, I try to break all Librarain stereotypes
- Bugscope Team sounds good to me...
- Bugscope Team i like librarians, the ones i've met anyone
- Bugscope Team IG what time are the kids coming in? Do you want us to make a few more presets?
- Teacher What else will we have besides a fly
Bugscope Team check out the presets in the lower right side, we've got a fly, fruit fly, spider, pill bug and leafhopper
- Teacher they will be here at 11 our time. Sure
- Bugscope Team spider, pill bug, leafhopper, another true bug...
- Bugscope Team duh yeah a fruit fly as well'
- Bugscope Team there may be more stuff on here -- only the Otaku knows
- Bugscope Team Cate is the Otaku -- our IG
- 9:41am
- Bugscope Team Alright Cate is driving again...
- Bugscope Team okay, i locked the session temporarily, cate is going to make some preset, then i'll unlock again
- Bugscope Team fly proboscis
- Bugscope Team while locked, your controls may go away for a bit, but they'll come back when we unlock again
- Bugscope Team pits in the antenna
- Bugscope Team AWACS turret
- Bugscope Team that is pretty wild -- it really does look like DaddyLongLegs eyes
- Bugscope Team I think this is extruded wax
- Bugscope Team this is the leafhopper dude again
- 9:46am
- Bugscope Team it really does look like it was squeezed out of a serrated-edge tube
- Bugscope Team one more preset to get and then control is back to you information goddess!
- Bugscope Team presets are done, session is unlocked
- Teacher I just had to fix a computer issue and now I have no picture I may need to go out and come back in
- Teacher ok got it back
- 9:51am
- Bugscope Team ah, that can happen sometimes, hit refresh (F5)
- Bugscope Team Alright IG you are the Supreme Ruler.
- Bugscope Team Hi Kate!
- Teacher Cool finally all the power if only for an hour!
- Teacher Very good to see as the kids get them often
- Bugscope Team power in an hour at the end you get a flower
- Bugscope Team that's right; it's a Cinderella Story
- Teacher Hey as long as your not a stepsister its OK
- Bugscope Team you can take the mag down here and see where you are on the bodyt
- Bugscope Team yeah we are not evil stepsisters
- 9:56am
- Bugscope Team spiders are softbodied and do not airdry well
- Teacher and the beast worked out just fine
- Teacher a little pruney
- Bugscope Team when we mount them on the stub we have to choose between imaging the eight eyes and imaging the fangs
- Bugscope Team yeah exactly
- Bugscope Team not sure if you can see the spinnerets
- Bugscope Team down here at the end of the abdomen
- Bugscope Team it's hard to see the spinnerets because the abdomen is usually deflated
- Teacher ahh what made Charlotte so famous!
- Bugscope Team nice click to center, you are a pro!
- Bugscope Team if you go to the abdomen and bring the mag up you may be able to see the spinnerets
- Bugscope Team d'oh!
- Bugscope Team you can bring the mag up and drive down there as well
- Bugscope Team the images are all black and white because we are using electrons rather than light to observe the critters
- Bugscope Team now a little more?
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team this is where they would be...
- Bugscope Team usually there are four, it seems
- Bugscope Team nice
- 10:01am
- Bugscope Team that is one on the bottom
- Bugscope Team you can center it by using click to center, and then focus
- Bugscope Team some of the silk is sticky and some is not
- Bugscope Team if a spider gets caught in its own web it can eat its way out
- Teacher what is a haltere?
- Bugscope Team this is the haltere on the fruit fly, and you can see a spiracle to its right
- Teacher what is a haltere?
- Bugscope Team a haltere functions like a gyroscope, in a way, to balance the motion of the wings -- it beats opposite of the motion of the wings
- Bugscope Team on the 'neck' of the haltere you can see these cool hypertrophied mechanosensors
- Teacher kids will be here in about 5 minutes
- Bugscope Team halteres can be thought of as modified forewings
- Bugscope Team cool!
- Bugscope Team Alex was worried about them.
- Bugscope Team on the head you can see the antennae, in between the compound eyes
- Teacher Hey its elementary school,we have to be really flexible
- 10:06am
- Bugscope Team got it
- Bugscope Team but y'know Alex was concerned
- Bugscope Team savages
- Bugscope Team do they all have cell phones?
- Teacher some do but mostly the 5th graders
- Bugscope Team wow
- Teacher the second graders that will be here are still fairly innocent
- Bugscope Team when they write essays do they use emoticons?
- Teacher I got to stay on top of the emoticons and text lingo for when they write their rough drafts
- Teacher otherwise I don't know what they are writing
- Bugscope Team Cate has to translate for us.
- Teacher OMG LOL
- Bugscope Team nice
- Bugscope Team i just make up my own text lingo, for example, airchtcgotp (alex is really cool he's the coolest guy on the planet)
- Bugscope Team yeah kid you can now write for the NYTimes
- Bugscope Team hardly, nobody has said anything to us in text lingo that has been hard to decipher, even for you scott, so far in bugscope
- Teacher gee alex haven't heard from you for awhile did it take you that long to come up with that?
- Bugscope Team that's how one of our programmers makes up passwords -- from song lyrics
- Bugscope Team hah
- Bugscope Team ;)
- Bugscope Team he was sweatin' it out
- Bugscope Team actually he is our sysadmin and was prob'ly multitasking -- answering email
- 10:12am
- Bugscope Team and fighting with Cate
- Teacher OK I hear the little feet approaching, time to be professional
- Bugscope Team got it
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope whitfield elementary!
- Bugscope Team this is one of those flies that hang around bananas
- Teacher hang on we are getting settled
- Bugscope Team Daniel, before he got married, used to raise them in his kitchen.
- Bugscope Team okay information goddess, just let us know when you are ready
- Teacher Hi guys we are ready
- Bugscope Team cool!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team this is an image of a fruit fly
- Teacher what's a fruit fly?
- Bugscope Team the image is from an electron microscope, that means tiny little electrons are used to "gather" the image
- Bugscope Team you are using a scanning electron microscope
- Bugscope Team a fruit fly is a tiny fly that you often find around fruit
- Teacher what fruit does a fruit fly eat
- Bugscope Team they often have red eyes
- Bugscope Team they like to eat fungi on it
- Bugscope Team they eat the fungus that grows on the outside of fruit
- 10:17am
- Bugscope Team this is the thorax, and to the right is the eyer
- Bugscope Team eye
- Bugscope Team that is
- Bugscope Team notice the really big compound eye to the top right
- Bugscope Team a compound eye, with many facets that are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team so if you want to get some fruit flies, let your fruit rot and you should see some of them buzzing around soon
- Bugscope Team you can see the eye now to the left
- Bugscope Team a compound eye is made up of hundred of individual eye facets, each one has a lens in it and can see by itself
- Bugscope Team it has lots of tiny spikes coming out of it
- Bugscope Team now, to the right, is the antenna, one of them
- Bugscope Team both antennae
- Bugscope Team this is silver paint and carbon tape
- Bugscope Team Cate mounts the samples in droplets of silver paint atop doublestick carbon tape
- Teacher What colors are fruit flies
Bugscope Team the ones i have seen are black, but they might come in different colors than that
- Bugscope Team yes, the setae (or hairs) are really cool, they help the bug sense its environment, kind of like cat whiskers
- Bugscope Team and she coats the samples with gold-palladium
- Bugscope Team fruit flies are often sort of shiny brown
- Bugscope Team and their eyes may be yellow or red or white
- Bugscope Team sometimes the eyes are bright red
- Bugscope Team here is a cool color picture of a fruit fly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Drosophila_melanogaster_-_side_(aka).jpg
- Teacher do they flap their wings as fast as honey bees do
- Teacher do they sleep?
- Bugscope Team we have read conflicting reports of how fast their wings flap
- Bugscope Team maybe 200 beats per second
- Bugscope Team others have said more
- 10:22am
- Bugscope Team I think they do sleep -- at least they rest -- but they have no eyelids so cannot close their eyes
Bugscope Team they don't sleep like us. They have a state where they rest called torpor
- Bugscope Team the halteres beat opposite the way the wings beat and help balance that motion
- Bugscope Team scott was right about the wing beats, wikipedia says 220 beats per second! wow!
- Teacher what is that thing?
- Bugscope Team this thing that looks like a boxer's punching bag is a haltere
- Teacher do they have prditors
- Teacher preditors
- Bugscope Team if you go and look at its 'neck' you can see ridges that are hypertrophied mechanosensors that help them gauge how fast to beat
- Bugscope Team I think they are eaten by other insects, sometimes, and by birds and bats
- Bugscope Team (predators)]
- Bugscope Team d'oh
- Bugscope Team I can
- Bugscope Team not type
- Bugscope Team this is the business end of the spider
- Bugscope Team also human beings use the fruit fly for studies and research; it is one of the most common model organisms
- Bugscope Team there you could see a couple of eyes on the spider's head
- Bugscope Team I think some of us have a state called torpor as well
Bugscope Team its just a state where physical activity is pretty much lessened or stopped
- 10:27am
- Bugscope Team if you move slightly to the NE, see if you can see the eyes -- there they are
- Bugscope Team there are eight eyes and we can see a few of them
- Bugscope Team spiders are found all over the world, some even live in the artic
- Bugscope Team they use the eye color helps to identify genetic changes in the fly, some will have white eyes instead of red
- Teacher what kind of spider is this
- Bugscope Team we don't know exactly
- Bugscope Team in 1973, skylab 3 took two spiders into space to test their web making ability in fee-fall
- Teacher how many spiders are there in the world
Bugscope Team it is hard to say, but there are thousands of species of spiders in the world, and millions if not billions of each species, so that's a lot of spiders!
- Bugscope Team my mom saved it for us, and it was sort of dried up when we got it
- Bugscope Team free-fall that is
- Bugscope Team there are thousands of species of spiders in the world
- Bugscope Team spider silk is pretty tough, i think we are learning how to put that kind of strength into armor of some sort
- Bugscope Team speaking of the world -- that was the edge there
- Teacher could they spin in space?
Bugscope Team the results of the spider/space experiment were that webs were finer and variations in the design were noted
Bugscope Team here is a website explaining the results of the spiders in space experiment: http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa020303b.htm
- Bugscope Team spiders recycle their web by eating it
- Bugscope Team and they can eat their way out of web if they get caught in it
- Teacher how many eggs can a spider lay
- Bugscope Team spider silk's tensile strength to density ratio is roughly five times higher than that of steel (i.e. it is five times as strong as steel of the same density — as strong as Aramid filaments, such as Twaron or Kevlar.
- Bugscope Team The biggest spider in the world is the Goliath Spider, Theraphosa leblondi
- Bugscope Team it lives in northern south america
- 10:32am
- Bugscope Team Yay! Annie!
- Bugscope Team Hello all!
- Bugscope Team pretty much anything that has the word goliath in front of its name is big
- Bugscope Team Information Goddess we are lucky today to have Annie, our entomologist, online.
- Bugscope Team It is huge 3.5inch body with 11inch legs
- Bugscope Team and here is a noninsect
- Bugscope Team For a few minutes...I have to go to the University of California, Riverside to pick up research materials
- Bugscope Team this is a tick
- Bugscope Team the biting part is right in the middle
- Bugscope Team guinness book of animal records is were I found it.
- Bugscope Team Ticks are arachnids, like spiders, mites, and scorpions
- Bugscope Team I did not find how many eggs spiders can lay
- Teacher where are the eyes
- Bugscope Team to the top is the head, to the right
- Bugscope Team Some larger spiders lay more than two thousand eggs, but many tiny spiders lay as few as one or two, or as many as a dozen eggs. Spiders of average size probably lay around one hundred eggs.
- Bugscope Team they have eyespots but not real eyes, and I don't think we can see them here
- Bugscope Team they have depressions in the head with pits in them that look like eyes
- Bugscope Team The number of eggs spiders can lay is variable. It depends on the species, environmental factors (like temperature), and whether the spider is well-nourishesd. An under-fed spider can't lay as many eggs as a well-fed spider
- Bugscope Team Cool face!
- Bugscope Team this is a hemipteran, and I think it is a leafhopper
- Bugscope Team Looks like a leafhopper (or something closely related) to me too
- 10:37am
- Bugscope Team you can see its piercing mouthparts
- Bugscope Team there is one of the eyes
- Bugscope Team oh neat! see the eye is cracked a bit
- Bugscope Team witih the hexagonal facets
- Bugscope Team called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team sometimes the bugs dry out a bit, and then the cracks form, just like when mud dries up and cracks
- Bugscope Team wiht
- Bugscope Team with
- Teacher do they bite
Bugscope Team Leafhoppers use their long mouths to pierce plant stems and suck juices. They do not bite humans.
Bugscope Team they bite plants
- Bugscope Team another eye
- Bugscope Team they suck sap out of plants for food
- Bugscope Team they pierce the stems of plants to get the sap out of them
- Bugscope Team they are pests
- Bugscope Team but do not pick on people
- Bugscope Team They are pests because they can transmit plant diseases
- Teacher we like that o biting
- Teacher n o biting
- Bugscope Team yeah I'm also a fan of the stingless bee
- Bugscope Team this is a delicate little claw
- Bugscope Team on the fruit fly
- Bugscope Team stingless bee???
- Bugscope Team some bees tickle
- Bugscope Team Good bye everyone...sorry to run so soon!
- 10:42am
- Bugscope Team yeah you can find stingless bees in more tropical places such as Australia, Africa, Southeast Asia, and parts of Mexico and Brazil
- Bugscope Team when I lived in Okinawa we had big old tickle bees
- Teacher we like the idea of stingless bees
- Bugscope Team they were solitary bees you could catch and they would tickle your hand trying to get out
- Bugscope Team big fat slow bees
- Teacher kinda of like the bumble bees we have around here
- Bugscope Team wow, look at that huge compound eye
- Teacher Ahhhh what's this they ask
- Bugscope Team and there is dirt and stuff on the right side of it
- Bugscope Team they are almost too big to put in the electron microscope
- Bugscope Team well, the eye is the thing with the bumps on it
- Bugscope Team that is a compound eye
- Bugscope Team now you can see where we were
- Teacher it looks like EPCOT
Bugscope Team :P
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a fly with a bump on its head
- Bugscope Team yeah it does!
- Bugscope Team or more even, YES like epcot center!
- Bugscope Team each little bump has a lens in it, and gets an image that is sent to the bug brain
- Teacher what are those tubes
- Bugscope Team the tubes are the antennae
- Teacher whu is one shorter
- Bugscope Team those are antenna, broken off i'm afraid...
- Bugscope Team they are both broken
- Teacher so they are hollow
- Bugscope Team the holes are where the additional segments should be
- Bugscope Team yes that is true it shows us that they are hollow
- Bugscope Team this is the abdomen
- Bugscope Team i am not sure if that ball is an egg or something else
- Bugscope Team and it looks like an egg there but like Cate says we are not sure
- 10:47am
- Bugscope Team it is made of lots of tiny round things like bubbles
- Bugscope Team if you see it up close
- Teacher kids say let's say it an egg cause that would be way cool
- Bugscope Team take the mag up to check it out
- Bugscope Team nice...
- Bugscope Team better
- Teacher its like a dunkin munchkin
- Teacher gotta love kids
- Bugscope Team uh yeah...
- Bugscope Team now can you focus a little?
- Bugscope Team if it gets worse go the other way
- Bugscope Team or we can try
- Bugscope Team there, closer...
- Bugscope Team yay!
- Bugscope Team better
- Bugscope Team now you can see that it is made of lots of tiny bubbles
- Teacher looks like coral
- Bugscope Team you can magnify if further if you want
- Bugscope Team yes it does
- Bugscope Team the coral stomach?
- Bugscope Team Smiley this is the surface of the egg that is on the abdomen of the fly
- Teacher wow is that all hair
- Bugscope Team you can see lots of setae, which us what we call the hair
- 10:52am
- Bugscope Team see-tee
- Bugscope Team yes, those hairs are called setae (see-tee)
- Bugscope Team hah
- Bugscope Team a lot of setae are sensory
- Bugscope Team some sense movement, or when they are disturbed
- Teacher lots of eyes, is that why it is hard to catch them or hit them
Bugscope Team YES, exactly, fly's have very good sight
- Bugscope Team and some setae are chemosensory
- Bugscope Team insects normally have a hard exoskeleton surface, so in order for them to feel anything, those hairs (setae) stick through the exoskeleton, and are attached to nerves underneath
- Bugscope Team yes and they can also be hard to hit/catch because they will have little sensory setae inbetween their ommatidia that sense movement in the air
- Bugscope Team yes and the eyes wrap around the head, giving them better peripheral vision
- Teacher what is that stuff on their eyes
- Bugscope Team so when that flyswatter or hand comes at them, they will feel the change in the air and fly away
- Bugscope Team the stuff on their eyes is dirt/dust
- Teacher so is it the air and not that they can see
Bugscope Team it is also with what they see. Their huge eyespan gives them almost a 360 degree view of whats around them
- Teacher allergy eyes, we have them big time right now
- Bugscope Team the fly was probably not that dirty when it was alive
- Bugscope Team ha yeah
- Bugscope Team you'd need one big jar of clear eyes for this fly
- Teacher but flieas are kind always dirty since they land on gross stuff
- Teacher do flies throw up everytime they land
- Bugscope Team yeah but you always see them cleaning themselves
- Bugscope Team when they land on food that is a fair bet
- Teacher why do they do that
Bugscope Team it is kind of how saliva works in our mouths. It helps break down the foods to make into a juicy substance that they can suck up
- 10:58am
- Bugscope Team they do that to soften up their food so they can suck it up as a liquid
- Teacher speaking of food our time is up we must go to lunch
- Bugscope Team it helps with digestion...
- Bugscope Team when spiders eat it is like drinking a milkshake
- Teacher its french toast sticks for us thanks goodness
- Bugscope Team yum
- Teacher Thaks for all of your help we had a really great time
- Bugscope Team thanks for joining us!
- Bugscope Team they inject venom that dissolves the insides of their prey
- Bugscope Team you did a great job!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team no mess no spill for spiders
- Bugscope Team Yesh that was fun, for us.
- Teacher Kids are gone, thanks guys it was really great
- Bugscope Team all the images and chat are saved on your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-027
- Teacher I'm sure we will do it again once the word gets around
- Bugscope Team aigggsfbhh
- Teacher Thanks for lettin us get buggy with it
- Bugscope Team lol
- Bugscope Team (alex is gonna go get some food because he's hungry)
- Bugscope Team Yay! Thank YOU.
- Bugscope Team have a great day
- Bugscope Team get buggy with, eh, right on, eh, yow!!!
- Bugscope Team we have fun doing bugscope, so i hope you come back again for another session
- Bugscope Team Deb and Fred let us know if you have questions...
- Bugscope Team let us know if you would like to control the scope too
- Teacher bye guys
- Bugscope Team TTFN
- Bugscope Team Bye!
- Bugscope Team bye bye, nice to meet you
- 11:03am
- Bugscope Team like tigger
- Bugscope Team Thank you again.
- Bugscope Team see ya IG
- Bugscope Team yup
- Guest Thanks for the opportunity to "bug in" on your session...I must search the site!
- Bugscope Team okay deb, you want to control the scope?
- Bugscope Team we've got a few minutes...
- Bugscope Team Deb let us know if you would like to drive.
- Guest I can control the scope?
- Bugscope Team try a preset to the lower right
- Bugscope Team magnify will change the magnification of the image. click to drive will move you around, so will click to center. focus is, well focus, and adjust is for brightness and contrast
- Bugscope Team give it a try deb, you can't hurt anything, no worries
- Guest Are things under the microscope all dead or can you do living
Bugscope Team When we do try live insects in "wet mode", they have to be very small because that way the volume to surface area ratio is in their favor and they can survive the partial vacuum
- Bugscope Team it is an environmental scope, so things can be living, but all these bugs are dead
- Bugscope Team it is possible, but live things are hard to image because they will be moving around
- Bugscope Team we coat the bugs with gold-palladium before they go into the scope vacuum, that pretty much kills em if they were not dead already
- Bugscope Team yes true, you don't want things to move around. but you can have living tissue in the scope and things like that
- 11:08am
- Bugscope Team nice, now we are moving a bit
- Bugscope Team yeah, so it's click once to start moving, then click again to stop
- Bugscope Team that's for "click to drive"
- Bugscope Team nice driving deb, you are getting the hang of it!
- Bugscope Team try changing the magnification too, if you lower the mag it'll give you a better look at the whole bug
- Guest very cool!
- Bugscope Team the magnification range of the scope is about 30x to 600,000x, but for insects the max resolution to get good images is about 30-40K
- Bugscope Team are you a teacher deb?
- Guest Will the site tell me how I can access this for my afterschool proram?
Bugscope Team Yep, lots of info about how to get started under "sign up to participate!", background information on bugs and microscopy, etc. You can always email us with questions too
- Bugscope Team bugscope is free
- Guest I have an afterschool program called Nature Nuts
- Bugscope Team and we encourage teachers and students anywhere in the world to join
- Bugscope Team nature nuts, what a great title!
- Bugscope Team thats great
- 11:13am
- Guest I learned about your bugscope through the IPM curriculum that CT puts out!
Bugscope Team Can you tell us more about this? We're always interested in hearing about how we can better reach out to teachers
- Bugscope Team you can send us bugs yourself too
- Bugscope Team or we can put our own bugs into the scope
- Bugscope Team all the information on how the process works is on the website
- Bugscope Team or just email us with questions at: bugscope@itg.uiuc.edu
- Bugscope Team we do prefer dead bugs, but if you send living ones, we can freeze them
- Guest Kids love Nature Nuts. I have about 25% of the students in it. It speaks to how much we need "hands on" education in school!
- Bugscope Team that's awesome Deb. Good to hear about kids excited about learning
- Bugscope Team IPM, CT?
- Guest Maine Ag in the Classroom introduced it to me. Its a curriculum put out by the University of Conneticut called IPM (Integrated Pest Management).
- Guest In the teachers guide and resources, your site was listed.
- Bugscope Team Oh got it, Cool.
- Bugscope Team i'm gonna control the scope a bit, play around
- Bugscope Team We have been doing this for 9 years now.
- Bugscope Team Neat, thanks.
- Guest I have been looking for a way for kids to get up close and personal to the bugs we are looking at..microscope, handlens, I think this is wicked cool!
- 11:18am
- Guest WoW!
- Guest What's that?
- Bugscope Team I think it is a mold spore
- Bugscope Team on the eye
- Bugscope Team similar to pollen, but pollen is usually spikier
- Bugscope Team juju
- Guest It is said how germy flies are, can you see that here?
- Bugscope Team You know we rarely see bacteria on insects
- Bugscope Team unless they have been dead for awhile
- Bugscope Team it is easy to image bacteria but they have to be there to see
- Bugscope Team this is where we would normally look
- Guest Whats that?
- Bugscope Team not sure what this is
- Bugscope Team not sure, a ball of something with some juju behind it
- Bugscope Team ah, juju is our slang for dirt, crud, junk
- 11:23am
- Bugscope Team It's a all purpose word for things we don't recognize
- Guest Gotcha..It will be a new word for us too!;-)
- Bugscope Team okay, i'm done messing around, you want to control again deb?
- Bugscope Team i need to go to lunch soon though, hungry
- Bugscope Team this is the tip of the piercing mouthparts on a true bug
- Guest NO! I'm leaning alot watching you!!!
- Bugscope Team Alex you can cruise and we can shut down for you later.
- Bugscope Team okay, i'm outta here, nice to met you deb
- Guest Do you sit at this all day waiting for people like me to come along (Just kidding).
- Guest Thanks Alex!
- Bugscope Team You can see where this was once mounted on a pin,.
- Bugscope Team that pin hole should be able to give you some perspective of how small the piercing mouth part was
- Guest Ahh Im out of time...gotta get the car to the mechanic. Thank you so much. You can be sure I will be back!
- Guest Thanks for letting me try the controls!
- Bugscope Team Thanks Deb!
- Bugscope Team See you online.
- Bugscope Team thanks hope to see you back on bugscope soon
- Guest Thanks! Bye!
