Session 2008-057 with Ennis Early Childhood Center

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Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2009-03-27 09:30:00 from Ennis, TX, US

• 8:01am
• Bugscope Team setting up....
• 8:07am

• Bugscope Team good morning, Huntah!
• Guest morning :)
• Guest is this a moth?
• Bugscope Team yes!

• Bugscope Team I am making the presets for today's session.
• Guest ah...I've just discovered this site..is there a one session a day?
• Bugscope Team usu. three sessions a week
• 8:13am
• Bugscope Team during the school year
• Guest very neat..def. bookmarking!
• Guest that looks crazy

• 8:18am

• 8:24am

• 8:31am

• 8:38am

• 8:44am

• 8:50am

• 8:57am

• 9:04am

• 9:13am

• 9:41am
• Bugscope Team hello Maddy!
• Guest Hi
• Bugscope Team Guess what Maddy you may be the only person on today!
• Guest Really what happened to the class
• Bugscope Team the school is late
• Bugscope Team and we can't get a hold of them
• Guest Are they in a different time zone
• Bugscope Team So we gave you control of the 'scope.
• Guest Cool
• Guest What am I looking at
  Bugscope Team we are on the house fly head. you can take the mag down so you can see it better
• Bugscope Team no they're in Texas

• Bugscope Team this is a very small housefly, likely a female since its eyes are separated.
• Bugscope Team you can see silver paint bubbles in the background
• Guest I will try to zoom in on the eye

• Bugscope Team Cool!

• Bugscope Team when you focus, try going in one direction, and if it gets worse go the other way
• 9:47am
• Bugscope Team awesome
• Bugscope Team you can see that the eye is a little dehydrated since the fly died
• Bugscope Team you can go still higher in mag, of course
• Guest are they bumps the compound area

• Bugscope Team Yes!

• Bugscope Team those are individual ommatidia, the facets that make up the compound eye
• Guest how do I move tot he mouth
• Bugscope Team best way is to use click to center control
• Guest no can I see the simple eye
• Bugscope Team you can use click to center or click to drive. click to center will usually give you better control
• Bugscope Team you can click on the preset for the simple eye to go there if you want
• Bugscope Team the simple eyes will be on the top of the head toward the back from our perspective, and I think the head is in the wrong orientation for us
• Bugscope Team or yeah as Cate said you can click on preset 12
• Bugscope Team that is a simple eye on the head of a fruit fly

• Bugscope Team good job
• Guest I need to back out to get my bearings

• Bugscope Team thorax
• 9:52am

• Bugscope Team you can see the wing and a spiracle and of course the haltere

• Guest Where is the spiracle am I on the thorax now?
• Bugscope Team the spiracle is middle low down
• Guest the circles I see two
• Bugscope Team it has setae covering it like brush covering the entrance to a cave
• Bugscope Team those look superficially like spiracles but I think they are places where bristles are missing
• Bugscope Team below the left circle
• Guest Sorry someone had a tech question
• Bugscope Team the spiracle i believe is the darker spot closer to the head in the lower middle

• Bugscope Team you can click to center now

• Bugscope Team i could be wrong though. it is hard to tell from this angle
• Bugscope Team I think you are right, Cate.
• Guest the science coordinator just came in
• Bugscope Team Tell her/him you are driving a $600,000 microscope.
• Guest lets move to the leg
• 9:57am

• Bugscope Team there is another spiracle to the left of the base of the haltere

• Bugscope Team ooh and under the haltere, I think
• Guest What is the appendage above the leg mitten shaped
• Bugscope Team that is the haltere
• Guest I don't know what a haltere is
• Bugscope Team looks like a mitten for sure, or a boxing glove
• Guest yes
• Bugscope Team it is a modified hindwing you find on Diptera
• Guest the mitten is the haltere
• Guest is the spiracle below it
• Bugscope Team it beats opposite the wingbeat and works kind of like a gyroscope to keep the fruit fly balanced in the air
• Guest wow
• Bugscope Team it has hypertrophied mechanoreceptors on its shaft that help it sense motion

• Bugscope Team and yes there is a spiracle below it

• Bugscope Team feel free to take the mag higher when you wish

• Bugscope Team there are a few fruitflies on this part of the stub

• Bugscope Team you can see one claw, to the left
• 10:02am
• Guest yes do only certain feet have claws
  Bugscope Team each leg should have a claw. We just see that often, after they die especially, they will fall off
• Guest we're going to look closely at the mouth

• Bugscope Team and there will usually be two opposed claws per tarsus
• Guest I think I clicked to soon and I've got the watch

• Bugscope Team here goes...

• Bugscope Team you learn to time your commands to the 'scope

• Guest Where's the mouth
  Bugscope Team it is at the bottom of the screen, kind of hard to see at this angle
• Bugscope Team with fruit flies the mouth does not dry well -- it shrivels if we let it airdry
• Bugscope Team but you can see little fuzzy "feelers" which are the palps
• 10:07am
• Guest can we switch to a different preset
• Bugscope Team they have sponging/sucking mouthparts for sopping up liquids
• Bugscope Team you should be able to select any preset you want by clicking on it

• Guest Are the palps in center now
• Bugscope Team yes!
• Bugscope Team yes! palps are used to manipulate/taste food

• Bugscope Team now we're on the Japanese beetle antenna, up close

• Guest Does the antennae sense objects distance what is their funstion
• Bugscope Team you can see its palps now, as well, mandibular and maxillary -- two sets

• Bugscope Team the antennae collect mostly chemical signals from the air or from touch
• Guest peromones
• Guest pheremones
• Guest What is That

• Guest Hello
• 10:13am

• Bugscope Team that is the head of a Japanese beetle, Josh

• Guest What are we learnin

• Guest What are we learning
• Guest anybody there

• Bugscope Team Maddy is test-driving the microscope today since our classroom did not connect
• Guest anyone
• Guest what the foot holding
• Bugscope Team Josh!
• Guest where are you all at
• Bugscope Team that is something we see often in the center of the body
• Guest anwser me
• Bugscope Team it is likely not connected to the clas
• Bugscope Team claw
• Bugscope Team Where are you Josh?
• Guest does it have an ovipositor
• Bugscope Team we are at a lab at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana

• Bugscope Team You could check, south, but we did not see one

• Guest Will you have an isopod for us on Thursday
• Bugscope Team nice~

• Bugscope Team yeah its feet will look kind of like this :)

• Bugscope Team scott says we have one we can use

• Bugscope Team but with a single pointy claw on each foot

• 10:18am
• Guest we want to see the gills

• Bugscope Team insects breathe through their spiracles, at least as adults

• Bugscope Team OOF
• Bugscope Team Oh on the isopod? Sorry.

• Bugscope Team We have never seen them before; this'll be something new. I may be able to find some more rolypolies/sowbugs this weekend
• Guest what does drive to on the controls The teacher for thursday just came in

• Bugscope Team click to drive goes the direction you choose until you click to stop

• Bugscope Team I personally find it easier to use "click to center"
• 10:23am

• Bugscope Team but I think that is cheating

• Bugscope Team We have this set up like the microscope -- you can make the same mistakes you can here, on the microscope itself -- but you can save yourself by choosing a preset if you get lost
• Bugscope Team this is the top of the head of one of the moths

• Bugscope Team now we see the head, its fauxhawk haircut, the eye, and the antennae
• Bugscope Team I think the fauxhawk are the tips of the palps
• Bugscope Team moths are apparently stylish
• Guest Do you often get cancellations or no shows
• Bugscope Team more than we would like for sure

• Bugscope Team no not too much anymore.
• Bugscope Team they seem to happen in clumps
• Bugscope Team the cancellations...not the fauxhawks
• Guest If I wanted other fifth grade classes to see this would I be able to get a spot in the next week or so?
• 10:29am
• Guest They are all studying adaptation
• Bugscope Team we try not to take more than three sessions per week, and we are booked for awhile
• Guest Okay we'll go through the formal process then
• Bugscope Team other people use the microscope to do their research, and it takes an investment of time for each session
• Guest I'm feeling comfortable with the interface now and want to thank you for being so supportive
• Bugscope Team we are busier than we used to be
• Guest Thats a good thing
• Bugscope Team hey cool we are glad you connected today, Maddy
• Bugscope Team it's no problem, we are glad you got to see the interface before your session
• Bugscope Team Ten years and 8 days.
• Guest See you next Thursday and thanks again
• Bugscope Team Thank You!
• Guest bye
• Bugscope Team Bye!
• Bugscope Team OK kids...I am going to log off.