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- 8:49am
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- Guest what is that bug
- Bugscope Team this is a ladybug
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- Bugscope Team the head/face of a ladybug
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- 8:54am
- Bugscope Team you can see the eyes on either side of the head, below the antennae
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- Guest silver this is a ladybug!
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- Bugscope Team Ms Black we are ready when you are.
- 9:01am
- Teacher Hi can you tell us what this is?
Bugscope Team this is a lady bug
- Bugscope Team and hello!
- Bugscope Team this is the head/face of a ladybug
- Bugscope Team this is the face -- it's looking right at us
- Bugscope Team notice the antenna, and the compound eyes under the antennas
- Bugscope Team yeah Hello! Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team it's checking us out, saying: "gimme some food"
- Bugscope Team the eyes are streamlined into the head
- Teacher Can you tell us about the facial features?
Bugscope Team the compound eyes are a nice feature, they are made up of hundreds of individual bumps, called ommatidia, each one having a lens in it.
- Bugscope Team lady bugs have 2 sets of antenna and 2 compound eyes
- Bugscope Team the things that look like vacuum cleaner nozzles are palps
- Bugscope Team the eyes are on either side of the face (they look like they have little bumps)
- Bugscope Team i meant they have 1 set of antennae >.
- Bugscope Team they are either mandibular or maxillary palps -- mandibular refers to the lower jaw -- the mandible
- Bugscope Team they have a couple pairs of palps
- Bugscope Team and maxillary refers to the upper jaw, at least in people
- Bugscope Team the mouthparts in insects are quite different from ours
- Bugscope Team ladybugs eat other insects
- Bugscope Team and these are probably more specifically Asian ladybeetles
- Bugscope Team sometimes they will bite people because they look tasty
- Bugscope Team in the view we are looking at now you can also see one of the claws
- Bugscope Team prek4 you have the ability to drive, if you wish
- 9:06am
- Teacher The class wants to know where it's mouth is?
Bugscope Team it's in the middle of the face. it kind of resembles a beak from here
- Bugscope Team you can choose from among the presets on the right of the chat -- just click on one if you want
- Bugscope Team yeah we don't see directly into the mouth
- Bugscope Team but it is right there
- Bugscope Team you can magnify what we see here if you want
- Bugscope Team cool!
- Bugscope Team now you can see those smaller rounded palps
- Bugscope Team at their tips are tiny setae that help the ladybug smell/taste its food
- Bugscope Team setae are these hair like structures, all over insects, which are kind of like cat whiskers in that they aid the sensing of the environment
- Bugscope Team sorry to put you back to sleep Annie
- Bugscope Team PreK4 you can try another preset if you like
- Teacher Thanks Scot, what else can you tell them about the lady bug They would like to know what it eats
- Bugscope Team I am quite awake now Scott, thanks for worrying about me!
- 9:12am
- Bugscope Team well they eat other insects, and they are not too picky'
- Bugscope Team Ladybugs eat aphids and other small soft-bodied insects
- Bugscope Team prek4, you have control of the scope. but if you would like us to drive for you, just let us know
- Bugscope Team But, like Scott said, they are not very picky and they will eat pretty much anything that is smaller than them if given the chance
- Bugscope Team ladybugs are brightly colored, and that is a warning to birds and other animals that might be interested in eating them that they are not very tasty
- Teacher Please do.
- Teacher They would like to know about the wings
- Bugscope Team this is the claw of another small beetle -- a Japanese beetle
- Bugscope Team the wings are under a shell called the elytra
- Bugscope Team so the red shell with the spots covers the wings
- Bugscope Team and we do not always get to see the wings
- Bugscope Team this is a scale from a monarch butterfly
- Bugscope Team beetles are like that -- the adults have their wings covered with a hard shell
- Bugscope Team the scales are similar to feathers on a bird
- Bugscope Team Only beetles have elytra--which are hardened outer wings (aka the shell). The shell protects the beetle's soft body from predators and from sharp objects like sticks and rocks
- Teacher they would like to know if you can tell by looking if they are boys or girls?
Bugscope Team It is difficult to tell whether these are girls from boys...you usually need larger parts of the bodies to tell
- Bugscope Team we could not put whole butterflies on the stub today, and we cut some portions of wings from butterflies and moths that had already died
- Bugscope Team with beetles it is often hard to tell the boys from the girls
- 9:17am
- Bugscope Team In general though, girl insects are larger than boy insects.
- Bugscope Team wow, this eye has TONS of ommatidia
- Bugscope Team if you look at a housefly, the girl flies often have their eyes separated -- they are far apart. And those of the boy flies are often close together.
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a moth, but you can hardly see it with all of the scales
- Bugscope Team I think that boy bees have their eyes close together too
- Bugscope Team now we can see that this moth has one antenna left
- Teacher how does a bee or butterfly eat?
Bugscope Team Butterflies have a long tube that they uncoil which they use to suck up liquids from flowers and fruits. Bees have a long tongue that they use to lick nectar. Bees also have jaws that they use to pick up and manipulate pollen
- Bugscope Team they have a proboscis which is like a straw that sucks liquids up
- Bugscope Team what you see here is the remains of a proboscis. it seems it was beat and torn up a bit
- Teacher Can you show us their mouth?
- Bugscope Team Bees eat nectar, which is kind of like sugar water, and they also eat pollen, from flowers
- 9:22am
- Bugscope Team on this moth the mouth cannot be seen
- Bugscope Team it is coiled up between the two eyes
- Bugscope Team here you can see the mouth of a fruit fly
- Bugscope Team gonna go see the head/mouth of a fruit fly, here it is!
- Bugscope Team extended to the right
- Bugscope Team it looks like a little sieve
- Bugscope Team you can see it better, to the right here
- Bugscope Team usually fruit flies don't actually eat fruit---they feed on yeasts that consume the sugar in the fruit
- Bugscope Team so the mouth can suck up the yeast, we think through those tiny pores
- Bugscope Team it looks kind of like a rasp
- Bugscope Team or a cheese grater
- Teacher What else can you show us?
- Bugscope Team PreK4 we often find lots of tiny hairlike structures, called setae, on insects
- 9:27am
- Bugscope Team these are tenent setae on a ladybug
- Bugscope Team they are what allow the ladybug to climb on smooth surfaces
- Bugscope Team like tiny suction cups
- Teacher They would like to know what else they can see?
- Bugscope Team there are many of them attached to the tarsi, which is what the 'forearms' of insect are called.
- Bugscope Team insects, that is
- Bugscope Team Alex is going to show you a little more of the ladybug's arm
- Bugscope Team now you can see the body of the ladybug, and where its legs are folded into position
- Bugscope Team insects, when they are adults, have six legs
- Bugscope Team and they have tiny claws at the ends of the legs
- Bugscope Team but they walk on the fuzzy pad portions of the legs
- Bugscope Team if they used the claws to walk on, they would slip
- 9:33am
- Bugscope Team if you watch a beetle or even a grasshopper walk, you can see how it holds the claws up out of the way
- Bugscope Team this is the abdomen of the ladybug
- Bugscope Team and we can see lots of tiny setae on it
- Bugscope Team we are looking at the underside of the ladybug, and we don
- Bugscope Team 't see all of its shell, which covers the wings
- Bugscope Team insects are often hairier and dirtier than we expect at first
- Bugscope Team this is cool!
- Bugscope Team this is a haltere
- Bugscope Team now we are looking at a fruit fly
- Teacher Do you have a grasshopper?
Bugscope Team no we dont have any grasshoppers today. they are often too large to put on the stub. unfortunately we used the last of the grasshoppers in our stock last week
- Bugscope Team this is a haltere on the fruit fly
- Bugscope Team it's like a little punching bag that moves opposite the way the wings move
- Bugscope Team and there is a hole next to it on the right which is a spiracle
- Bugscope Team a spiracle is a breathing hole for insects
- Bugscope Team I am sorry we do not have grasshoppers today -- they are so big we would hardly have room for anything else
- Bugscope Team Flies have only two wings, while most insects have four wings
- Bugscope Team the samples we are looking at have to fit on a circular disc less than 2 inches across
- Bugscope Team this is what, as Cate says, the fruit fly breathes through
- Bugscope Team the tiny setae around it -- the hairs -- help filter out dust
- 9:38am
- Bugscope Team now we will be able to see the wings
- Teacher what is the punching bag for?
Bugscope Team The punching bag is a reduced wing. It helps the fly to balance in the air when it is flying. I guess it is harder to balance when you have two wings instead of four
- Bugscope Team this is one of the tiny flies you see around fruit
- Bugscope Team they often have little red eyes
- Teacher where do these guys live?
Bugscope Team Fruit flies live anywhere there is ripe/ rotting fruit or vegetables: in your kitchen, in your garbage, etc
- Bugscope Team one of the guys we used to work with would leave fruit out in his kitchen so he could collect fruit flies for us
- Bugscope Team that was before he got married
- Bugscope Team the insects are stuck to tape and silver paint
- Bugscope Team here Alex is showing us the legs of the fruit fly, and the tip of the abdomen
- Bugscope Team they have six legs, of course, as well
- 9:43am
- Bugscope Team Despite the fact that fruit flies are really annoying when they are buzzing around your fruit bowl, they are important because they help to decompose plant matter. Insects are very important decomposers
- Bugscope Team now we are looking at some of the scales of an insect called a skipper, which looks much like a small butterfly
- Bugscope Team the scales are what make the wings feel so silky
- Bugscope Team they are kind of like feathers
- Bugscope Team they come off very easily on your fingers
- Bugscope Team Insects also decompose wood, dead animals, hair, fur, dead leaves, and animal waste
- Teacher These guys are getting tired. Thanks so much for all of this. It has been great.
- Bugscope Team and if the skipper gets caught in a spider web it can shed scales and get out
- Bugscope Team thank you!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Teacher Prek4 says Thank you Scot for showing us all of these great insects.
- Bugscope Team thanks for all your questions and for doing bugscope with us
- Bugscope Team That you for the good questions
- Teacher Prek4 says thanks Cate. The kids all had fun. God Bless
- Teacher Thanks Annie]
- Bugscope Team Thank you! prek4
- Teacher Bye
- Bugscope Team you can access the images you saw today and your transcript on your member page
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-060/
- 9:50am
- Bugscope Team Gracias Annie
- Bugscope Team Goodbye all!
- Bugscope Team good bye
- Bugscope Team Bye!
- Bugscope Team and god bless
- Bugscope Team nice session everyone
