Connected on 2008-06-06 15:00:00 from Davis, CA, US
- 2:36pm
- Bugscope Team hi cutie, welcome to bugscope!
- Teacher Hello, We are going to be logging on soon1
- Bugscope Team okay, we are ready for you and your students
- Bugscope Team session unlocked
- Bugscope Team hi justin, welcome to bugscope!
- Student Do aphids have teeth?
Bugscope Team Nope, they have sucking mouthparts. No teeth
- Student Hi, alex
- Bugscope Team no they don't have teeth -- no insects or arthropods really have teeth. But a lot of insects have piercing mouthparts. Or sucking mouthparts, as Annie said.
- Student Thats interseting.
- 2:42pm
- Student How many aphids are there in north america?
Bugscope Team that is a very difficult question to answer. there are about 4000 species of aphids in the world.
- Bugscope Team Aphids have soft bodies, so when they die they just shrivel up. We need to get fresh ones in order to be able preserve them well.
- Student Do all insects have three parts
- Bugscope Team this is the body of what we think was an aphid, on the leaves you sent
- Bugscope Team hi arman s, and etbug, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team hi kn, yanna
- Student Wow! Thats extremely intersting!
- Bugscope Team hello hunter
- Student what do ants eat
- Student Hi alex, Hi ScootJ
- Bugscope Team aphids can vector plant diseases
- Student what is the scientific name for aphids?
- Student How big are aphids?
- Student Cool!!!!!!!!
- Student how big is the bigest moth
Bugscope Team It can vary, but the biggest one is supposed to be the Atlas moth in Indonesia. They are about 6 inches across. I saw a huge moth in Costa Rica, called a black witch moth. It had a 7 inche wingspan.
- Student What do lady bugs eat
- Bugscope Team ants eat lots of stuff, from dead animals, insects, to pieces of plants to sugary liquids
- Student What do velvet ants nest in?
- Student How many insects our in the world?
Bugscope Team that is really hard to answer, but there are thought to be more than 30 millions species in the entire world. that's just species, so individual insects, gosh, i'd guess in the many trillions, or quadrillions
- Bugscope Team ladybugs eat other bugs, including aphids
- Student What do grass hoppers eat ??
- Student what is the smallest bug?
Bugscope Team The smallest insect is a wasp called a fairyfly. They are smaller than a dot on an i. The females lay their eggs in the eggs of aquatic insects. So fairyflys actually swim in water with their wings.
- Student Do aphids have wings?
- Student What is the biggest bug in the world?
- Student How does it defend itself?
- Student what do ants eat
- 2:47pm
- Bugscope Team there is a beetle called a goliath beetle and there is also a beetle called a titan, both of which are super large
- Student Is the coakroch the oldest insect
- Student What is the smallest insect in the world?
- Bugscope Team but I think the largest bug is a lobster
- Student what do ants eat
- Student How big are aphids in centimeters?
Bugscope Team Most are probably 3 millimeters long
- Student How heavy is the is the heaviast moth
Bugscope Team I don't know if anyone really weighs moths---the huge one that I picked up probably weighed a couple of ounces...they are light for their size
- Bugscope Team Scott!
- Student Do moths eat leaves?
Bugscope Team I would say that most moths eat leaves or some sort of plant material when they are larvae (caterpillars). As adults, many moths don't eat. Those that do usually feed on nectar or tree/fruit sap.
- Student Are millipedes iinscets
- Student What eats scorpions
- Student What is the longest insect in the world
Bugscope Team the stick insect is one of the longest in the world, it can measure up to 55cm! here is a gnarly pick of a stick insect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ctenomorpha_chronus02.jpg
- Student How long are aphid legs?
- Bugscope Team well I think they are bugs, anyway, even if they have extra sets of antennae
- Student how heavy is the heaviast
- Student Whats the insect above
- Student what is the biggest bug?
- Student What's the insect in the picture?
- Student what do grass hopers eat
Bugscope Team Grass.
- Bugscope Team that is a very sad looking aphid
- Student What is the smallest bug?
- Bugscope Team so in centimeters it would be 0.3
- Student what do ants eat
- Student Thats neat
- Student how many in sects are they
- Bugscope Team Jon ants eat lots of stuff, from animals to plants
- Student Do aphids have skin
- Student What is the biggest millipede?
Bugscope Team According to Guiness World Records the African Giant Black Millipede can grow to 38.6cm
- Student can any moth's fly
- Student That aphid looks a little bit crumpled.
- Bugscope Team etbug aphids do not have skin but their cuticle is very thin
- Student Are insects reallated to Arackneds
- Student What are the colors of the ladybug?
- Student what do they eat
- Student How big is the biggest ant
Bugscope Team The biggest ant is in the genus Dinoponera and they are probably 3-4 centimeters long
- Student thats an aphid?!?!?
- Student waht do's lidebug ent
- Bugscope Team Lobsters are arthropods, but they are not insects. They have too many sets of antennae, too many sets of legs, too many body segments, and no wings. They also live in the ocean, and no insects live in the ocean.
- Student Is this aphid dead?
Bugscope Team yes, all these insects are dead, the microscope is not a pleasant environment for the insects
- Student i think not
- 2:52pm
- Student what do ants eat
Bugscope Team Some ants have specialized diets, only feeding on special fungus that they grow in their nests. Most ants though will eat almost anything that is not fast enough to escape.
- Student How long do most moths live??
Bugscope Team Most live for a year, or for a summer. Many overwinter as eggs or pupae, then when it gets warm they hatch into caterpillars or into adult moths.
- Bugscope Team yeah all of the critters in the 'scope today are dead, not just sleeping
- Bugscope Team please you don't want to bugs moving around inside the scope...
- Student Oh
- Student I see your point, alex.
- Student whats that?!?!?
- Student How old is a lady bug able to get?
- Student what do ladybugs like
- Student Are ants inscts ??
Bugscope Team Yes, they have two antennae, six legs, three body segments, and some forms have two sets of wings.
- Student How many Beadles are there in the world
Bugscope Team We don't really know....there are 35000 species of longhorned beetles at at least that many for many other families...there could be a million species of beetles in the world.
- Student What IS that bug?!?!
- Teacher what do efids eta
Bugscope Team aphids feed on plants and such
- Bugscope Team ladybugs may live over the winter but usually just one season
- Student wow! the aphid looks HUGE!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team we aren't sure what kind of bug this is, so we called it a monster...ahhh1!
- Student If you poked it, would it Die or just get hurt?
- Student waht do's budrafiy ent
- Student how many insects are there in the wold.
- Student Huh?
- Student "Beadles" is incorrect spelling!!!!
- Student Compound eye?
- Student Hi Alex! Please answer my questions
Bugscope Team i will try my best, ask away!
- Student is it hard to use the bugscope
Bugscope Team No! Your teacher is using it right now!
- Student Wow! a giant compount eye!
- Student is that aphid above seen from the Bugscope ???
- Bugscope Team Jamey there are hundreds of thousands of species of insects and trillions upon trillions of individual insects
- Student whats thnat?
- Student How long can a lady bug get?
Bugscope Team well, they range from 1mm to 1-10mm or so... you know like the size of a very small marble
- Student pleas anser my ?
- Student Arman S, it's a compound eye!
- Student What are those scales?
- Student how long do ants live
- Bugscope Team Hunter please ask again we don't always see the questions as they go by.
- Student Now whats the bug above
- Bugscope Team Arman that is part of the eye of a fly.
- Bugscope Team this is a compound eye
- Student :(
- Student what do lide bug
- Bugscope Team flys have these really interested eye, called compound eyes
- Student How many insects are there in the UNIVERSE?
Bugscope Team As far as we know there are only insects on earth and so (as far as we know) the number of insects in the universe is equal to the number of insects on earth.
- Student Thanks for answering my questions?
- Student How may eyes are in the compound eye?
- Bugscope Team each one of those bumps is a part of the entire compound eye
- 2:57pm
- Student Are assasin bugs insects?
- Student flys mouth"
- Student Thats Prety big
- Student oh sorry
- Student HS, you misspelled heaviest!!
- Bugscope Team we are not exactly sure how many insects are in the universe, unless Annie knows
- Student Cutie is are teacher!
- Student what do you eat
Bugscope Team I just had vanilla pudding with cherries. Yum.
- Student what do eants eat and what do thay do
- Bugscope Team yes Assassin bugs are insects that eat other insects
- Teacher You all have to read phoentically, please excuse the spelling our students are using. I have 7 first graders and we are still learning our spelling!
Bugscope Team no problemo! we are having a blast
- Bugscope Team each eye facet has a lens in it, and the insects gets an image from that lens, some flying insects have great vision
- Student Must be microfied, like 5000 times or something!
- Student Whats that^?
- Student how many compound eyes are in one flys eye
Bugscope Team well, they usually have two compound eyes, but they can also have simple eyes as well, called ocelli
- Bugscope Team we can do it -- we write that way sometimes as well
- Student No Questions answered.
- Student what is the biggest?
- Teacher what aphds eta
- Student who's the "CUTIE" person?!?!?!
- Bugscope Team the biggest what jack?
- Student Thanks Alex!
- Student Does the aphid have hair.
Bugscope Team well, yes, but they aren't called hairs, they are called "setae" (see-tee), most, if not all, insects have lots and lots of setae
- Student how many kinds of spiders are there?
- Bugscope Team you are welcome yanna
- Student What do velvet ants eat?
Bugscope Team Velvet ants are predators. They eat other insects
- Student I am a third grader
- Student How many insects are there in the world
Bugscope Team well, billions upon billions, there are 30 million species, and many millions of individuals in a species, so that's a lot of insects!
- Bugscope Team Arman there are trillions.
- Student ANTS
- Student Setae is an interesting sounding name.
- Student How many insects?About 99999999999999999999999999999999999
Bugscope Team well, no i'd say it's more like 9999999999999999999999999999999998
- Student Your nice to answer
- Student jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamey. BvD
- Bugscope Team Shadowlight I think you are correct.
- Student How many eyes are in one compound eyes
Bugscope Team there are different sized compound eyes, but on fly's they usually have hundreds of facets (ommatidia) in each compound eye
- Student What is your favorit bug
- Student oh
- Bugscope Team how many individual facets of the eye (ommatidia) depends on the insect species
- Student =|
- Student Does the aphid have skin? If so what is it called?
- Teacher What are the two roundt hings that look like suction cups at the top?
Bugscope Team those are antennae
- Student :)
- Bugscope Team ;)
- Student what is this Bug
- Student >=\
- Student =p
- Student what is this Bug
- Student what insect has the most legs and how many?
- Bugscope Team ants sometimes have very few ommatidia, but some moths, for example, can have thousands of ommatidia in one compound eye
- Student Did dragonflies really live in the time of the dinosaurs?
Bugscope Team yes, there is a species called ancient dragonfly (Anisozygoptera) which is very very old
- Student how many bugs ARE there?
- 3:02pm
- Student How come you have so many viewers
- Student How does it move?
- Student what isthe bigest bug
- Bugscope Team Kn insects have only six legs as adults
- Student What?!
- Student who's shadowlight?
- Student Ellory
- Student thought so
- Student Shadowlight is ellory.
- Student Are worms insects or...something else.=\
Bugscope Team worms are invertebrates, there are about one MILLION species of worms, but they don't have six legs so they aren't insects
- Student What insect is above
- Student :|
- Student Hey! Am not
- Student what do lide bug eat
- Student Why does it look like a hole with something that has setae inside?
- Bugscope Team this is a fly of some sort
- Student Are sillk worms insects ?
Bugscope Team Yes they are caterpillars of the silkworm moth. Silkworm moths have been domesticated for such a long time that they have lost their ability to fly.
- Bugscope Team that is the proboscis -- the part of the mouth that helps the fly eat
- Student It IS! 80
- Student do flys have tounges
- Student ,mgmn,m ,mb,m
- Bugscope Team yes they have tongues
- Student ghjkgjhkgjjncvnb ,vcnbhjgnn
- Student What are those hairs?
Bugscope Team those hairs are called setae (see-tee), they are kinda like cat whiskers, the insects use them to feel their environment
- Student Whos bugscope?
Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/who_are_we
- Student What insect above
- Student how many in sects are they
- Bugscope Team Yanna it is a fly.
- Student What is the difference between centipedes and millipedes?
- Student cool
- Student what do ants eat
- Student hey mad eyes moody, are you Max.S?\
- Bugscope Team Emily there are so many insects you could not count them in 146,000 years
- Student Whats the fastest insect ?
Bugscope Team i don't know, but the heaviest documented insect was a Giant Weta of 70 g
- Student Bugscope shoudn't say random letters.
- Student what do earwigs eat
Bugscope Team Some eat bacteria and fungus growing on decaying plant matter. Some eat plants though..they can be pests on rose bushes and lettuce plants.
- Student what picture is that???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student yeah!!
- 3:07pm
- Bugscope Team JAMEY that is not just a picture -- your classroom is in control of an electron microscope.
- Student wath do's fly eat
- Student Were dragonflys really that large long ago?
Bugscope Team yes, some griffenflies (relatives of dragonflies) had almost a two foot wingspan!
- Student Why does earwigs have pinchers?
- Bugscope Team Cutie can drive the microscope if she wishes.
- Student Yeah!
- Student do any spiders not suck blud
- Student How many scorpions are in the world?
Bugscope Team there are about 2000 species of scorpions in the world, they are almost ALL located south of the 49 parallel
- Student do flys have tounges
- Student who's dw?!?!?!?
- Student what eats flys?
- Student What IS picture 13?
Bugscope Team picture 13 is a spider, the head of a spider, it is upsidedown
- Student preset 7: What are the spiky hairs?
- Student Were drangonflies giant in dinasour times?
Bugscope Team Yes, extinct relatives of dragonflies had almost a two foot wingspan
- Student what do lide bug like to do!!!!!!?
Bugscope Team Ladybugs like to eat aphids and other soft bodied insects.
- Student Are there diferent Type's of flys?
Bugscope Team Yes, the insect order Diptera is huge. There are many species of flies that are still not described by people. Mosquitos are flies, horse flies are flies, those giant flies with the long legs that are attracted to your porch light are flies, and then there are normal house flies and blow flies, and fruit flies and...the list goes on
- Student Do aphids live in trees?
Bugscope Team well yes, in trees and bushes and other plant life, they feed off plant life
- Student How many colors do insects come in?
Bugscope Team Many many different colors, more colors that are in a 64 count box of crayons. Some are metallic gold, blue, silver and red!
- Student do spideder are there
- Bugscope Team spiders inject venom into their prey, and the venom helps dissolve the insides of the prey. The spider then drinks its meal like a milkshake.
- Student Whats the bgcest insect
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- Bugscope Team insects seem to come in every color.
- Student Thats interesting!
- Student Interesting...
- Bugscope Team aphids often have little horn-like projections from their abdomens -- from their back ends
- Student Wow!
- Student Do bugs have ears
Bugscope Team Many can sense vibrations with their setae. There are a few insects with "ears"--praying mantids and grasshoppers and some aquatic insects have ears. They are more like an exposed eardrum.
- Student Bugscope STOP saying Random letters
- Student are there any bugs that are microscopic?
Bugscope Team the fairyfly is the smallest known insect, it can be as small as .1mm
- Student hey where is the picture?
- Student how big is the biggest butterfly?
- Teacher Are these pictures of the insect we sent?
- Bugscope Team the horn-like projections are called cornicles, and they release droplets of wax that harden when they get into the air
- Student Can aphids swim?
- Student scotj is a man
- Student wath do spider do
- 3:12pm
- Student What is the bigest bug??
Bugscope Team The largest insect is called the titan beetle. It is not the heaviest or the longest, but it is the overall biggest insect. It can get to be the size of a small grown-up person's forearm.
- Bugscope Team Cutie these are live images -- you could take the mag down, or up, or drive around if you wish.
- Student Ohmygosh! thats a lot of colors!!
- Bugscope Team You have control.
- Student How many insects can swim ?
Bugscope Team Most can kind of swim if you drop them in water. There are many species of insects that actually live their entire lives in water....I am not sure how many species though.
- Bugscope Team the insects you sent are on here but this is not one of them.
- Student 1 micrometer!?
- Student what do spider do
- Student How do Hercules beetles get their name?
- Student what do boxers eat
- Teacher Will we see the insects we sent?
Bugscope Team yes, the beetle was yours, that's preset #8
- Student do mskeetos eat
Bugscope Team Adult female mosquitos eat blood of vertebrate animals. Adult male mosquitos feed on nectar from flowers. Most mosquito larvae feed on bacteria and little pieces of fungus and plant matter...pond scum, esentially.
- Student What are people called when they studie insects
Bugscope Team Scientists that study insects are called entomologists!
- Bugscope Team Only Annie is an entomologist. She tries her best to keep us in line. Note that she was very displeased when I said that a lobster was a bug.
Bugscope Team I could say wrong things all the time and I think you all would be too nice to tell me that I was wrong!
- Student Emily and Jack are freinds!
- Student Waht are those things on its head, in the back?
- Student Are velvet ants fuzzy?
Bugscope Team Most are very fuzzy. There are some that I have seen that are not fuzzy at all. They just look like big mean regular ants.
- Bugscope Team cutie, you can click on a preset to move there, scott just moved to preset #8 for ya
- Bugscope Team Justin those were the antennae.
- Student Do birds eat aphids?
Bugscope Team Umm, they could. Aphid are very small, probably too small for birds to be very interested in eating.
- Bugscope Team cutie, try changing the magnification lower to see more of the beetle
- Student yes
- Student Oh.
- Bugscope Team this is the beetle you sent
- Student hi dw
- Student What is the insect above!
- Bugscope Team yanna, this is the beetle we got from your class
- Student do's in sexs like to ent
Bugscope Team Insects all like to eat at some point in their lives. Some adult insects do not feed---they do all their eating when they are babies.
- Student Cool!
- Bugscope Team these are what appear to be modified scales on the beetle you sent
- Student Whats the fastest insect ?
- Student What are those little fuzzy things?
- Student What are the hair things?
- Student what part of the beatle is this
- Student thank you
- Student thank you
- Student "in sexs" is actully spelled insects!
- Student THANK YOU!
- Student kyle is nic
- Bugscope Team cutie, try lowering the magnification, you'll get a better look at what we are seeing
- Student byu
- Student thank you
- Student Thank you for answering us! We have to go now!
- Student ants fly eatsmoth
- Student Thank you!
- Student Thanks so much for answering my questions! Your really nice Alex!
- Student thank you !?
- 3:17pm
- Bugscope Team thank you! are you all done?
- Student yes
- Bugscope Team yanna, you were awesome. i hope you learned something cool
- Student thankyou
- Student I did!
- Student kyle is poop
- Student Bye!
- Student Thnx
- Bugscope Team birch lane students, you all rocked and/or rolled!
- Student Thank you,ScotJ,Annie, Scot,and Alex!!!!!!!
- Student Thank you guys talk to you sometime soon, and thank you for awnsering our quetions. Bye
- Student =)
- Teacher Thanks to all of you answers, We will be back again next year? Our time is up in the computer lab. I wish we had more time.
- Student kyle is NOT poop.
- Student hvvhhgvc
- Student Thanks Alex! Your awesome!
- Student =)
- Student Thanks,Alex
- Student 8D
- Student Bye
- Student thankyou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team Yeah be sure to note that you can drive the microscope .
- Student Cameron!!
- Student Bye! Nice buggin' around with you!\
- Student hjjhjfdbafgf
- Bugscope Team Thanks Shadowlight.
- 3:24pm
- Bugscope Team this was a cool beetle -- a rare one with scales
- Bugscope Team I have been watching Asia Argento movies...
- Bugscope Team I didn't expect Indiana to be good at all.
- Bugscope Team got to book, Girl
- Bugscope Team okay, rxl stopped, session locked, session disabled
- Bugscope Team OK---I gotta write.
- Bugscope Team thanks so much again for connecticating.
- Bugscope Team Have a caipirinha for me!!!
- Bugscope Team Ciao!
- Bugscope Team latersz
