Session 2008-059 with Durham Elementary

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Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2008-07-01 12:45:00 from , TX, US

• 12:52pm
• Bugscope Team this is a mite on a millipede
• Bugscope Team Ed!!!
• Bugscope Team He's gone...
• Guest Hi Scot. I see I've got controls on the right, now. Ok if I play a little? :-)
  Bugscope Team yes go ahead
• Guest thanks pepper

• 12:57pm

• Bugscope Team You may select from any of the presets to get a different
• Bugscope Team critter
• Guest ah, sorry to hear they're missing their session. is the millipede with mites theirs?
• Bugscope Team they didn't send us anything

• Bugscope Team we often provide the sample
• Bugscope Team this I caught recently but looks like I managed to lose the antennae.
• Bugscope Team we got the millipede from another class
• Guest hmm, skeeters are kind of cute at this range. still can't stand them though :-)
• Bugscope Team oh and yes the mite came from another class
• Bugscope Team it was super big so we had plenty of it left over because we can only fit so much on a stub
• Bugscope Team as Pepper said...
• Bugscope Team it scared me when I first opened the envelope
• Guest ah. by the way, we're still collecting our bees. no shortage around gene robinson's lab ...
• Guest only trouble is, our dedicated wrangler's off in Europe this week. he'd gathered some for us before he left, but they've been at minus-80 for a week-plus.
• Bugscope Team what about Varroa mites?
• 1:03pm
• Guest i was just asking karen pruiett about that (research beekeeper). she says they've been pretty effective at keeping the mites controlled this season, but she'll lok for specimens that have them.
• Guest she may also have a few with deformed wing virus.
• Bugscope Team eeuw
• Bugscope Team we have a 1.75-inch diameter stub to put all of the samples on
• Guest we're actually combining your session with visual microscopy just before. (borrowing dissecting scopes from the undergrad biology folks). should bring home some nice points about instrumentation (naked eye to light scope to electron microscope)
• Guest 1.75 inch diameter sounds like plenty for half a dozen bees or more, yes?
• Bugscope Team Cool.
• Bugscope Team small ones
• Guest will you guys be around Thursday afternoon, or should I try to get the bees to you sooner?
• Bugscope Team I should be here
• 1:08pm
• Bugscope Team I have a tour to do in the morning and my service guy for this 'scope should be here much of the day
• Guest great. by the way, is there a maximum number of machines your server can handle? I think i asked this by email and it sounded like bandwidth from our end would be the only limitation. Can't imaging that being much of a limiting factor in IGB where, e.g., I've grabbed down ubuntu linux images from the argonne labs server at 10mb/sec :-). We might want 15 or so machines connecting.
• Bugscope Team Pepper will be here as well.
• Guest Sounds good. What's your room number in Beckman again?
• Bugscope Team I think 15 should be good. We have had trouble at somewhere around 27 machines.
• Bugscope Team Basement of Beckman, short hallway off the elevator, B606/B612
• Bugscope Team B606 is the number of the suite of rooms that hold most of our 'scopes.
• Guest great. we'll give each student their own machine, and double up if we encounter any difficulties (which sounds unlikely).
• Bugscope Team You have, like, boatloads of bandwidth.
• 1:13pm
• Guest ok, I'll look for you in B606 Thursday late morning, early afternoon.
• Bugscope Team Cool, sounds great. 265 5071.
• Guest Great. I'll talk with you then. Bye for now! Thanks to you both.
• Bugscope Team bye jim, see you thursday and next week