Connected on 2008-09-25 08:30:00 from Palatine, IL, US
- 7:34am
- Bugscope Team session enabled, rxl started, vac pumping
- Bugscope Team elizabeth might login early this morning
- Bugscope Team we
- Bugscope Team we'll try to finish up presets early, so she can test out the interface, if she wants to
- Bugscope Team got it Holmes Wood
- 7:40am
- 7:50am
- 7:56am
- Bugscope Team hi mrs. d!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team we are making presets, and happen to be looking at the wendy's salt right now
- Bugscope Team Good morning MrsD!
- Teacher Hi, I'm teaching another class right now, so I'm only going to be on and off here
- Bugscope Team we have the controls locked just now, until we get the presets done, or mostly done
- Bugscope Team multitasking
- Bugscope Team no problem, we'll be here
- Teacher Were you able to use some of my bugs, or were they too far gone?
- Bugscope Team well, we didn't get any of them in the sample, sorry
- Teacher That's ok
- Bugscope Team a small miscommunication between the sample prep folks
- Bugscope Team but we've got a nice collection of stuff for ya
- Teacher It looks like it!
- 8:01am
- Bugscope Team we've got a praying mantis, wood louse, japanese beetle, house fly, millepede, beetle, moth, owl fly larva, skeeter, fruitfly
- Bugscope Team and a mosquito too!
- Teacher Good, I was looking forward to seeing the japanese beetle... The mosquito should be very interesting!
- 8:08am
- Bugscope Team session is unlocked, you now have control mrsd, any questions let us know
- Bugscope Team you should see controls on the right side in your browser window (magnify, navigation, focus and adjust)
- Bugscope Team below that are the presets, you can click any preset any time, and it'll take you to that location
- Bugscope Team yeah you are ready to roll
- 8:14am
- Teacher Great, this class ends at 8:20, so I should be done with their questions in a few minutes
- 8:19am
- Teacher How do I control how far I go when I click to drive?
- Bugscope Team when you want to stop you click again
- Bugscope Team it is tricky
- Bugscope Team sometimes click to center is easier
- Bugscope Team here you can focus -- if you go the wrong way just go the other way
- 8:25am
- Teacher My class just got here... they are going to start the slow process of logging in
- Bugscope Team looking very good
- Bugscope Team Annie just dropped off a boatload of mosquitoes, fleas, antlions, etc.
- Student Hi
- Bugscope Team hi students, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team hello all
- Bugscope Team Hello! Welcome to Bugscope!
- Student Thanks
- Student hi
- Student hey everyone!!
- Student yo whats up
- Student o why hello there
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a mosquito
- Student wow
- Student don't worry about it charlie
- Student woah thats a dirty mosquito
- Student doubt
- Student it looks like a scarcrow
- Student NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team MrsD is driving the microscope
- Student or I mean chuck
- Student its so ugly
- Student NICE!!!
- Student dude just stop talking
- Bugscope Team you can see the bases of the antennae
- Student no eyes?
- Bugscope Team and the eyes that wrap around the head
- Student can we look at the eyes
- Student what
- Student this is lauren
- Bugscope Team the dome like things are the eyes
- Bugscope Team F5
- Bugscope Team ask her to try refreshing: F5
- Student sorry 'bout that
- 8:30am
- Bugscope Team now we are right in the middle of the head
- Student thats gross
- Student what are the folds in the face
- Student lets play wow
- Student i know
- Bugscope Team the sort of deflated things around the periphery of the image were ommatidia -- the facets of the eyes
- Student What do the Bug experts do during the day?
- Student thats jibberish
- Student i'm in for wow
- Bugscope Team we train people to use all of the microscopes down here
- Student what is your yearly salery
Bugscope Team university staff make less than people in industry, but we have other benefits. we make anywhere from 50-100K/year
- Bugscope Team we do alright
- Student *salary
- Student how many microscopes do you have?
- Bugscope Team not so good this year thoughy
- Bugscope Team about 20 'scopes
- Student oh. thats too bad.
- Bugscope Team most of them have their own rooms
- Student fun?
- Student how much does one microscope cost?
Bugscope Team this electron scope you are using 600K, as scott said
- Student a lot
- Student what is the goo when you squish a lady bug
- Student funnny brad
- Bugscope Team the SEM was $600,000
- Student is the mosquito dead cuzz thats the way it shud be
Bugscope Team yes all the insects we have in the 'scope are dead
- Student dang!!
- Student thats more than my house!
Bugscope Team you own a house?
- Bugscope Team the TEM was a little less expensive but would cost more to replace now
- Student mine too!!
- Student me too'
- Student my parents house
- Student what is that?
- Bugscope Team this is the tip of the mosquito proboscis with a scale stuck to it
- Bugscope Team ;)
- Bugscope Team if they weren't dead, they would be pretty fast because we have the sample under vacuum
- Bugscope Team we can't see the sharp part -- the lancet
- Bugscope Team it is inside this sheath
- Student these things are weird looking...
- Bugscope Team but proboscis aren't always stingers, the elephant trunk is also a proboscis
- Student can you wink again
- Student you guys are confusing me with big words
- Bugscope Team the proboscis is sort of prehensile -- it can be manipulated like an elephant trunk
- Student i dont understand this
- Student can you show us a wheel beetle
Bugscope Team i'm sorry but we don't have a wheel beetle today
- Bugscope Team these are microsetae on the surface of the proboscis
- Student (not brad)
- Student what is that
- Student ???
- 8:35am
- Student its scary!
- Bugscope Team you mean an assassin bug with the wheel on its back?
- Student oh godd
- Student bugs are assassins!?!
- Student thats so ewwie
- Teacher What sort of beetle is this?
- Student i thought they were coated with platinum?
Bugscope Team hmm, i've never heard of coating with platinum, but scott or cate would know better than me, they are the microscopists
- Student dang what are the scizor like things near its mouth
- Bugscope Team some bugs specialize in eating other bugs
- Student does it kill people
- Bugscope Team those are the jaws
- Bugscope Team I think generally they have dry waste
- Student how can you get poisioned from a bug bite
- Student arent the bugs coated in platinum?
- Student that was my question!
- Student you copied me john
- Bugscope Team when we see horizontal lines on the sample it is charging up with electrons
- Student copy + paste !!
- Bugscope Team we can put Pt on them but usually use Au/Pd
- Teacher I am not a great driver, but noone else is saying that they want to drive right now
Bugscope Team mrsD, you did real good
- Student oh okay thanks
- Student Can we see the owl fly larva eye
- Student what is the ration of gold to platinum
- Bugscope Team any of you can control the 'scope if you wanted to
- Bugscope Team Hogen I gave you control
- Bugscope Team Hogan, sorry
- Bugscope Team hogan has control of the scope now, hogan try driving a bit
- Bugscope Team so you should be able to cruise to the owlfly larva
- Student whos hogan
- Bugscope Team we don't know if you don't
- Student never mind
- Bugscope Team Different types of insects excrete their nitrogenous wastes in different ways. Insects that spend all their time in water excrete pure nitrogen, which is the least energetically expensive way--but it only works in insects that don't have to worry about holding onto their water. Most insect excrete dry urea, like birds do.
- Bugscope Team to answer the urination question
- Student thats awesome
- Bugscope Team here we see the mouth
- Student thanks
- Student well then
- Student yeah it is
- Student thats pretty cool
- Student what are those hairy things
Bugscope Team those are called setae (sea-tea), they are sensory fibers on insects that help them sense their environment
- Bugscope Team on this plate, which I think is a clypeus, we can see tiny pores
- Bugscope Team I wanted Annie to see them
- Bugscope Team ball and socket joint
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Student what do bugs eat
Bugscope Team that depends on the insect. Some are predatory and eat other bugs, or if they are really big maybe small lizards and birds. Others drink pollen or yeast
- 8:40am
- Bugscope Team setae stick through the exoskeleton, and are attached to nerves underneath
- Student OOF?
- Student do you enjoy learning about bugs??
- Bugscope Team insects have LOTS of setae
- Student No
- Student how come some bugs sting people or bite
- Student How big is the room you work in?
Bugscope Team we are all in different rooms. the scope is in a room about 15'x15'
- Bugscope Team yes the more you learn the more interesting everything is
- Student ohh i see
- Bugscope Team the room for the 'scope is maybe 15 by 15
- Student are there anymore ladybugs left because all i ever see anymore is those orange beetles that look like ladybugs
- Teacher What is this?
- Bugscope Team this is some fungus on the owlfly larva
- Student i like ladybugs
- Bugscope Team the web-looking stuff
- Student i like you kristen
- Bugscope Team no ladybugs today, though
- Student we like u too rachel
- Student =]
- Student no i like rachel more than charlie : )
- Student do bees die when they sting you
Bugscope Team yes, when a honey bee stings you its stinger gets caught in your skin. The bee leaves a big chunk of its body behind, and dies soon after of fluid loss or weakness.
- Student no love for matt and john
- Student charlie me and rachel like you too
- Student ew that picture looks gross
- Bugscope Team hogan, you are doing a great job of driving
- Student i wanna be a cicada
- Teacher Why are there so many japanese beetles everywhere this year?
Bugscope Team Japanese beetles are not native to North America. They were introduced from Japan in the 1910s or 1920s. There are a number of theories that explain why they are so abundant in their non-native habitat. The most popular theory is that by escaping their native range, they escape the diseases and the predators that naturally control their population.
- Bugscope Team some insects that live part of their lives underground come out when they sense the rain hitting the surface
- Student do bugs migrate
Bugscope Team well, the monarch butterfly migrates, long distances too
- Bugscope Team I noticed that too mrsD
- Student how long do bugs live
- Bugscope Team the cicadas must reach the right developmental stage and then become more alert to their surroundings
- Student wow
- Student then why do they sting anyways
- Student thats disgusting
- Bugscope Team it caries, of course, how long they live -- the cicadas have at least 17 and 13 year cycles
Bugscope Team there is a very interesting theory about why cicadas have a *prime* number life cycle - if you have a life cycle of a large prime number, then you have less of a chance of meeting a predator who's life cycle isn't a prime number
- Student besides a defense
- Bugscope Team varies, I mean
- Student wait the chuck of the bees body is left in you?
- Student do they know if they sting someone they will die
Bugscope Team They don't "know" much--you have to remember that insects are pretty much chemically controlled organisms--they do what their hormones "tell" them to do.
- 8:45am
- Student chunk**
- Student back in the jurassic period, werent there millipedes that were like as big as the classroom?
- Student : p
- Bugscope Team a chunk of the bee is left in you -- a stinger with an attached pump
- Student eww
- Student sweeeeeeeeeeetttt
- Student will bugs ever get bigger
- Bugscope Team the millipedes would be bigger but not that big
- Bugscope Team You have control Jake/John
- Student lets see a dragon
Bugscope Team we would have to image your brain waves imagination to actually see a dragon
- Bugscope Team this is the owlfly larva again
- Student what the...
- Bugscope Team pretty close to a dragon, this
- Bugscope Team a bad little dude
- Bugscope Team So the populations can grow unchecked in their new habitat
- Bugscope Team related to antlions
- Student what is it again?
- Student its related to a lion?
- Student what?
- Student uckkkkk
- Bugscope Team antlion. when it is an adult it resembles a dragonfly
- Student wow
- Student dragon fly duh seriously wow
- Student ugly guy..
- Student i still wanna see a dragon
- Student reminds me of kenny
- Student hahaha rachel is such a tease
- Student no such thing as a dragon? its a dragon fly duh
- Student jkjkjk
- Student yea brad...
- Student you think of me too much
- Student kidding
- Student ok
- Student okay
- Student =]
- Student the really small red bugs that you see alot the summer; what are those?
Bugscope Team Those are mites
- Bugscope Team this is the face of the pipllbug
- Bugscope Team duh pillbug
- Bugscope Team you can fix the focus
- Bugscope Team pillbugs are related to crabs
- Student oooo
- Bugscope Team yay!
- Student killing spree
- Bugscope Team d'oh
- Bugscope Team yay again
- 8:50am
- Student yayyyy
- Student d'oh
- Student are there any images of tapeworms
- Student ooohh
- Student why cant we see anything?
- Bugscope Team mites are arachnids
- Bugscope Team some of the setae we see are mechanosensory and some are chemosensory
- Bugscope Team spidermites
- Bugscope Team hit F5?
- Student and whats the difference between a horse fly and a normal fly? and whats a real fly?
Bugscope Team A true fly has two wings, where most insects have four wings. A horse fly is a type of true fly in the family Tabanidae.
- Student preying mantis
- Bugscope Team Aztec salt
- Student yummy
- Bugscope Team if your image goes black, try hitting F5 (refresh)
- Student nice!!!!!
- Student really?
- Bugscope Team horseflies have slashing mouthparts and drink blood
- Student whats the difference between a horse fly and a deer fly
Bugscope Team They are different species...deer flies are usually smaller.
- Student thats not funny...
- Bugscope Team this is salt from wendy's, for some reason their salt is very cubic shaped
- Teacher Does this look much different that other salt?
- Student never heard of aztec salt
- Student clever
- Student mw neither
- Bugscope Team flies spit up on their food and digest it outside the body that way before sucking it back up
- Student everything in that resturant is square!
- Student it looks like a giant square
- Bugscope Team normal salt is kind of a boring cube
- Student i hate salt
- Bugscope Team like a giant square but no substructure like this shows
- Student youre a boring cube
- Bugscope Team heh it's true square salt for square burgers
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Student no one cares kristen
- Student far enough?
- Student mantis
- Student yes they do
- Student yea it does look like a sugar cube
- Student well not now
- Student whats a spiracle
Bugscope Team it's a hole on certain insects, it is how some of them breath
- Bugscope Team the mantis head is pretty big. they are pretty cool if you can see the whole thing at once, but this one is too big to do that under this scope
- Bugscope Team this is a busted-up millipede
- Student what is it?
- Student OOF
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Student arent insects and crustaceans closely related??
- Student ohh gotcha
- Student OOF
- Student how did it get busted
Bugscope Team When insects and other arthropods die, their insides rot away, leaving just their fragile exoskeleton---and since it is fragile, it is easy to bust
- Bugscope Team like lobsters are just very big bugs
Bugscope Team SCOTT!
- Student i wanna drive
- Student chuck!
- Teacher Chuck + Kristin want to drive
- Bugscope Team chuck and kristen, you have control now
- Bugscope Team C&K you have control
- 8:55am
- Bugscope Team go ahead chuck + Kristin
- Student and when you are eating a crab and break open the shell its like breaking the exoskeleton and eating the meat which is really the goo inside the bug
- Bugscope Team I got a reaction from our entomologist
- Student do people eat bugs?
Bugscope Team yes some people do
- Student i do
- Student apparently she doesnt have much of a sense of humor
- Student eww
- Student really?
- Bugscope Team annie is a phd in entomology, she's very cool
Bugscope Team Not yet...in May
- Student eww
- Student probably tribes eat bugs
Bugscope Team In many places, insects provide a valuable source of protein. In Mexico, you can order a grasshopper taco. In places in Thailand, people regularly eat giant water bugs and silkworm pupae. And big beetle grubs are popular all over the world.
- Student lets meet her
- Student what is entomology
Bugscope Team Entomology, from the Greek: entomo-/εντομο- "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented", hence "insect"; and logos/λόγος, "knowledge",[1] is the scientific study of insects
- Student does it taste good?
- Bugscope Team in fact, for the giant isopod (which is a very big roly-poly) people in Taiwan eat them
- Student what is that?
- Student I want Wendy's now
- Student chocolate frosty
- Student oof
- Student it looks hairy
Bugscope Team well, not hairs, setae
- Student me too
- Student yea
- Bugscope Team chuck and kristen, you are doing a great job of keepin us on the road
- Student frosty sounds good right now
- Bugscope Team Annie is cool and knows I am just teasing her.
Bugscope Team yes Yes, I know ;)
- Student i kinda want portillos
- Teacher What are the very tiny hairs for?
Bugscope Team they are used to sense the environment. the setae are connected to nerves underneath the exoskeleton. think of them like cat whiskers, but if the cat had armor on
- Student now scots a tease
- Student what are those hairy things
- Student oh boy i hate teases
- Student does scot go out with annie
- Student the tiny hairs are probably for protection
- Bugscope Team the tiny hairs may have different purposes
- Student how do some bugs stick on walls?
Bugscope Team great questions! check out preset #2, tenent setae!!!
Bugscope Team they have tiny pads of setae called a pulvillus. These have special setae that act like suction cups or velcro that lets them walk on walls
- Bugscope Team I have eaten several different type of arthropods: shrimp and lobster (of course), but also I have had giant water bug, a scorpion, ants, crickets, meal worms and fried caterpillars.
- 9:00am
- Bugscope Team some of them increase surface area and thus may help give lift to flying insects
- Student Why do crickets make different sounds in different temperatures?
Bugscope Team Insects are cold-blooded, so their behaviors are affected by the temperature. When it is cold, they make sounds more slowly than when it is warm.
- Student whats your favorite bug to eat?
Bugscope Team Umm, I don't like insects very much. I guess the fried caterpillars--they just taste like cheetos.
- Bugscope Team some of the microsetae form patterns that help species recognize each other
- Bugscope Team Other than shrimp and lobster and crab, and stuff like that, I don't like the way that arthropods taste. I think they taste like dirt.
- Student i wish i could walk on walls
- Teacher Chuck said he doesn't want to drive anymore... I can take control if noone else wants it.
- Bugscope Team mrsD, you've got control again
- Bugscope Team two of the presets show some of those tenent setae
- Teacher krinkle wants to drive now actually
- Bugscope Team krinkle, you've got control, drive carefully
- Bugscope Team the larger setae have mechano- or chemoreceptor capabilites
- Student dont drive under the influence
- Bugscope Team capabilities
- Student krinkle logged out
- Student haha
- Student i bet they dont taste like cheetos
- Student eww i dont think i can eat cheetos anymore
- Student flaming hot or regular
- Bugscope Team rachel has control now
- Student On average, how long do bees live?
Bugscope Team gosh, it totally depends on the species, any particular one you are interested in knowing about?
- Student hahaha rachel
- Student i dont want control!
- Student come on ray ray
- Student why are hornets so aggressive
- Bugscope Team who would like to drive?
- Teacher the control got messed up... can you give it over to johnnyT?
- Bugscope Team mrsD, you've got control again
- Student Honey Bees
- Bugscope Team johnnyT has it now
- Student ah thank you i'm done
- Student johnny t is great and working for me tonight
- Student what is it?
- 9:05am
- Student treeee
- Bugscope Team this is pretty high mag
- Student enough brad
- Student tree whatt?
- Bugscope Team here we go
- Student On average how long do Honey bees live
Bugscope Team well, i'm not so sure, but i think the worker honey bees live just one season, so a few months? i'm not sure thought and couldn't find a strait answer on the internet. maybe annie knows?
- Student yea brad tree what?
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the serious bigboy praying mantis
- Student what are the is the most significant discoveries or questions this t ype of microscope has developed??
- Student big boyyyy
- Student why are hornets so aggressive
Bugscope Team Hornets and other social insects are programmed to defend their hives. If they perceive a threat to the hive, they will attack the perceived threat
- Student hey guys sorry im late
- Student rachel likes big boyssss
- Student why are hornets so aggresive?
- Bugscope Team this microscope allows people to image 3D structure at high mag with great resolution
- Student how many times has that been asked?
- Student hi
- Student a lot
- Student What do Entomologists do during the day?
Bugscope Team WHat are you doing today annie?
Bugscope Team I do lots of different things, I write scientific papers, I pin insects, I use the microscope for my research, I go to seminar. During the summer, I do field work, where I set up traps for beetles all over California
- Student I like your purple shirt rachel 2
- Student what r we looking at right now
- Teacher Did most of you major in a more general science field as undergrads, and then specialize as grad students?
Bugscope Team i got a BS in physics
Bugscope Team As an undergrad, I majored in biology with a minor in chemistry. Then I studied entomology for my masters and now for my PhD
- Bugscope Team I am not sure that it has produced notable discoveries but it contributes every day to our ability to observe and help confirm results
- Student ew
- Student oh god
- Student ewwie
- Bugscope Team I have only undergrad degrees, in English and Biology
- Bugscope Team but I have been doing this for a long time
- Student weird
- Student would you call yourself a genius?
- Teacher Where exactly is this on the beetle?
- Bugscope Team i have a bachelors and masters in music composition
- Student kristin I like your purple shirt
- Student yarghhh genius
- Student are flies and spiders and ants and other insects actually aware of their surroundings on a larger scale? do they know we exist? i mean whhat do you think bcuz u cant know for sure what they think
Bugscope Team yeah, it's hard to know what they really think. but i think some studies are done to try and know more about their "understanding". annie might know?
- Teacher And what are the suction cup looking things for?
- Bugscope Team this is the pulvillus
- Student no I'm connor
- Student Maybe I'll go into Entomology
Bugscope Team Entomology is a great field--there is a old saying, what do you call a biologist with a job? Answer: an entomologist.
- Bugscope Team the suction cups are what help the beetle climb on vertical surfaces
- 9:11am
- Student wow
- Student this was fun but its time to gooo bye everyone!
- Student yeah see ya later
- Bugscope Team thank you class, you al rocked and or rolled. big time.
- Student BYE BYE
- Student gobye
- Student bye
- Student Thanks
- Student thanks to the people down there
- Student very interesting
- Bugscope Team bye all. thank you for all your questions
- Bugscope Team you were great
- Student bye annie bye alex bye cate bye scot bye scot j
- Student thanks for showins us around and answering our questions!!!!
- Bugscope Team mrsD, the chat and images are all saved to you member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-071
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team chowzers!
- Teacher The bell is going to ring soon, so we will have a lull in students until about 9:20 or 9:25.
- Bugscope Team cool we can see if we need to fix anything
- Bugscope Team Holmes
- 9:16am
- Teacher I assume that you are used to getting comments that are not always related to insects???
Bugscope Team totally, they were fine
- Bugscope Team oh yeah no problem]
- Bugscope Team we do it too
- Bugscope Team yes it's pretty normal
- Bugscope Team if the kids are rude we ignore it an concentrate on the good kids -- but your kids were all good
- Bugscope Team a lot of time they just want to be acknowledged
- Bugscope Team sometimes we give the bad ones control and some responsibility
- Bugscope Team we do have the ability to knock off somone logged in, and close the session. but i'm not sure we've ever had to do that... yet ;)
- Teacher Good, I'm glad... we are dealing with 16 and 17 year olds here... I am never sure what is going to come out of thier mouths.
- Bugscope Team totally understand, no problem mrs D :)
- Bugscope Team we have had some serious savage kids before -- with obscene login names, even
- Bugscope Team we mostly feel sorry for the teachers
- Bugscope Team we figures sometimes there's anarchy in these classrooms and we're sitting down here in these darkened rooms, chillin'
- Bugscope Team can't tipe
- 9:22am
- Bugscope Team Hello BANDOS!
- Student what are we looking at here?
- Student hello Scot
- Bugscope Team not sure jsut where we are now
- Bugscope Team can you take the mag down a little lower?
- Bugscope Team BANDOS you can now drive
- Bugscope Team you have control
- Bugscope Team so you may choose a lower mag if you want
- Bugscope Team to see where you are
- Bugscope Team oh this is a fruit fly
- Bugscope Team I know where we are now
- Student so what are we doing?
- Student is this the leg?
- Student no
- Student what is that?
Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly
- Student heyyyyyy
- Bugscope Team Emily let us know when you would like to drive
- Student fruit fly
- Student Eww. What is that?
- Bugscope Team see the mouth?
- Student ya
- Guest these are some morose images
- Student What is this?
- Student i wanna see it's eye
- Bugscope Team fruit flies have 2 compound eyes (which take up most of the head) and 3 ocelli, which you can see on the top of its head
- Student hi how are you
- Bugscope Team morose, yeah -- well they are dead
- Student why does it have so much hair
- Student thats sweet\
- Student this is very interesting!
- Student no it isnt
- Student agreed
- Bugscope Team the hairs (setae) have sensort functions in many cases
- Student closer
- Student hi scot
- Bugscope Team sensory that is
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Student so what does your job consist of?
Bugscope Team I am an entomology graduate student and my job is pretty variable. I research pheromone communication in longhorned beetles...and I do field work-trying to trap beetles in pheromone traps. I use DNA to try to understand how longhorned beetles are related. I write scientific papers, I use the SEM to look for pores associated with pheromone production.
- Student So are each of those bumps little eyeballs?
- Student hey scot my name is also scott but with 2 T's
- Bugscope Team hi Courtney
- Student hey
- Bugscope Team enhance-- this is out of focus or OOF, try focusing
- Bugscope Team try focussing now
- Student we are trying to focus
- 9:27am
- Student Hey
- Bugscope Team there you go
- Bugscope Team awesome
- Student woah
- Student there we goi
- Student whats focusing?
- Student go*
- Student SO what is that
- Student wait is that its eye?
- Student what are those little daggers?
- Student What;s with the spikey things?
Bugscope Team those are all setae (or seta for one) and they help the fruit fly detect wind movement or direction
- Bugscope Team now you can see that the ommatidia have bristles (setae) sticking out from between them
- Student Ohhh.
- Bugscope Team those setae bend in the wind
- Student what do those do?
- Student what purpose do they have?
- Student so..
- Student Do those help them see?
- Bugscope Team so if a hand or fly swatter were coming at them, they could easily outmaneuver it
- Student oh sweet
- Student cool
- Student Who want to go chill in the BIG EASY with me
- Bugscope Team they help the fly determine wind direction, as Cate said
- Student How do they help though?
- Student BOO
- Student Ohh
- Student What is this!
- Student wwwooowwww
- Student hmm
- Student ewww
- Bugscope Team this is a mosquito
- Student thats wierrd
- Student thats creepy.
- Bugscope Team their compound eyes take up most of the head
- Student wheres the eyes?
Bugscope Team they are covering most of the head
- Bugscope Team it kind of looks like a hunchback
- Student zoom in on the thing that he bite you weith
- Bugscope Team the eyes form most of the head
- Bugscope Team that we see
- Student thats sick
- Bugscope Team Sam you got it dude
- Student This is awesome!!!
- Student what are you majoring in?
Bugscope Team I am working on my PhD in entomology
- Student what is this right now?
- Student FREmd hockey is amazingnnnngngn
- Bugscope Team I got an English and Biology degree
- Bugscope Team and scott got a degree in biology and english
- Student its hard to tell because it keeps moving
- Student what are we zooming in on?
- Bugscope Team this is the University of Illinois
- Teacher They said theat I could drive for now
- 9:32am
- Student why are you all in the basement of the school?
- Bugscope Team got it MrsD
- Student they are cool like that!
- Student whats entomology????????????????????????????????????????????????
Bugscope Team Entomology is the study of insects
- Bugscope Team the basement is where there's the least vibration, and we don't need windows
- Student i am cunfused
- Student how much does all of your equipment cost?
- Student why no windows?
- Student so u sit in the dark..?
Bugscope Team we have fluorescent lights
- Student what does vibration have to do with all this?
- Student so what is this
- Bugscope Team a lot of the work we do is in reduced light conditions
- Student how do you get the bugs that you look at ?
Bugscope Team I collect most of them my self.
- Teacher I tried clicking on a preset, but it isn't working
- Student r u in a fraternity?
- Bugscope Team the instruments are sensitive to vibration
- Student so...
- Student Whats up with this picture
- Guest focus
- Student what made you choose that career?
Bugscope Team I always liked to be outside in nature. I always collected frogs, and lizards, and insects as a kid. When I was in high school, I realized that insects are really interesting, and that I could spend the rest of my life studying insects. As an entomologist, I get to travel to cool places, meet really interesting people, and be outside.
- Student where do you get your bugs
- Student hey guys
- Guest morose man
- Student hey
- Student what now?
- Student so..
- Student how much does all this cost
- Student hi my name scott what are all your names?
- Guest koreans like kimchi
- Student lauren and kendall
- Bugscope Team Scott also
- Student how do you guys prepare the insects?
- Student where do you find so many different TYPES of bugs?
Bugscope Team There are thousands of insect species in any one place...just turn over a rock!
- Student all irght party on scot
- Student well that looks interesting
- Teacher What is the best way to kill a bug that you want to image under the SEM?
Bugscope Team the best and most humane way is to freeze them
- Student woah
- Student how many of the SEMs do you have?
- Bugscope Team people send us bugs rather than, like, candy
- Student I wanna drive!!!
- Bugscope Team they just go to sleep and eventually die
- Student what do you use to freeze them?
- Bugscope Team just one SEM here, and a TEM, plus a boatload of other microscopes
- Teacher Laken wants to drive
- Bugscope Team we have looked at cicadas, but they are really too big
- Student moth ball
- Student hey im gonna drive doen there this weekend we should party
- Student i Wanna Drive!!! Please
- Student !
- Student are people ever upset that you kill bugs? like any insect rights people?
- Bugscope Team Laken has control
- 9:37am
- Bugscope Team we have not run into any insect rights people yet
- Student change the picture
- Student Hey guys im back
- Student I STAND FOR INSECTS RIGHT!!!! INCLUDING THOSE AT UI
- Student have you liked bugs your whole life?
Bugscope Team In one way or another. I was always really fascinated with insects....
- Teacher What exactly is an owl fly?
Bugscope Team they are related to antlions. they are predatory as both larvae and adults. they capture insects with powerful jaws as larvae and as adults they look like dragonflies
- Student miss me?
- Student noo1!!!!!!
- Student hmm... Fungus??
- Student looks like it
- Bugscope Team an owlfly is an insect predator
- Student now thats cool
- Student so they hunt other insects?
- Teacher What is that ?
- Student hey tom your looking pretty good today
- Bugscope Team this is the eye
- Student what is that
- Student how do they kill the other insects?
Bugscope Team They catch them in their jaws
- Student tres interesant
- Teacher Scott Thompson wants control
- Student I really want controll of this bad boy
- Student i want control!]
- Bugscope Team Got it dude
- Student im scott
- Student what it the grossest insect that you've ever looked at
- Student not that poser
- Student im a dude
- Student what is your favorite bug to look at under the microscope?
- Bugscope Team I like ticks and mite4
- Student i love fish
- Student especially cod
- Bugscope Team canot tipe this morning
- Student are they all dead when you frist get them?
- Student hahah
- Bugscope Team sometimes they are not dead when we get them
- Student you kill them
- Student yuck
- Student I'm Back for More!!
- Bugscope Team sometimes we will get live insects that have eaten other insects that came along with them
- Student have you ever eaten bugs
Bugscope Team Yes, I have eaten lots of different insects. They kind of taste like dirt.
- Student so you "humanely" kill them?
- Student how do you kill them without ruining them
- Bugscope Team this is the mouth of a fly
- Student Woah... Thats AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team we freeze the insects that are still alive
- Bugscope Team you can take this to a lower mag in order to see where you are
- Student cam how is football going
- Student do you guys ever see the X-Chords at Uof I?
- Guest hey spencer
- Student whats the grossest bug you ever looked at?
- Student do you keep all the insects you look at or do you throw them out when you're done?
Bugscope Team I always keep the insects that I use for my research, just in case I need to look at them again.
- Student Hey first time here
- Student What is this?
- Student looks pretty cool
- 9:42am
- Bugscope Team we throw them out when we're done, mostly
- Guest You don't preserve them?
- Bugscope Team sometimes we will keep them in a desiccator
- Student do work son
- Student My favorite bug to eat is the cicada
- Bugscope Team they rot pretty quickly
- Student so you've eaten dirt too?
Bugscope Team You know what I mean...they taste like dirt smells.
- Student are they crunchy
Bugscope Team very crunchy....like shrimp shells.
- Student please
- Student so do you go to six flags and eat those cockroaches?
Bugscope Team No, I wouldn't eat those hissing cockroaches. They are really squishy.
- Student can i drive
- Student please
- Student i really want to
- Student do you eat chocolate covered bugs?
Bugscope Team Yeah, I have had those too. I don't think they are very good. The little insect parts get stuck in your teeth.
- Teacher Scott decided he would rather talk than have control...you can give it back to me
- Student any way u want it
- Student thats the way u need it
- Student any way u want it
- Student i want control
- Student JOURNEY kicks butt
- Student i want control
- Student whats that?
- Student what is that
- Student Mrs.D Got control!
- Student ???
- Student I like crynchy bugs
- Student hey its nicole
- Bugscope Team these guys eat the fungus that grows on fruit
- Bugscope Team can we give control to courtney?
- Student Question..... How do you guys know what all these parts are???
Bugscope Team We have been doing Bugscope a long time and have learned what all the parts are over that time. I took a bunch of classes to learn all the insect parts.
- Student do all of those slits open?
- Student do they have a good aftertaste?
- Bugscope Team we read and ask questions when the entomologists come in
- Student thats really gross
- Bugscope Team when you do bugscope long enough, you learn what all the bug parts are and what they do
- Student do they make your breath smell?
- Student i want to
- Student how do lice stick to your head?
Bugscope Team They have little claws that cling to your hair.
- Guest do bugs drink water?
Bugscope Team Yes...most do if they can. Some insects live in very dry places and they have to get al of their liquid from their food...or by drinking dew (not mountain dew either).
- Student this is awesome!!!
- Student I want to drive?
- Student ??
- Bugscope Team shrimp shells are chitin and so are insect exoskeletons
- Teacher What is a haltere?
- Bugscope Team this is a haltere, which is a modified wing
- Student have you ever thrown up from eating one
Bugscope Team No.
- Bugscope Team it acts as a gyroscope as the insect flies
- Bugscope Team because of course shrimp and lobsters are just very BiG Bugs!
- Student what does it do there?
- Student Hey guys... Just thought i'd pop in from my experiement and say hey... you might have seen me on tv before
- Bugscope Team these are scales
- Teacher Do they have actual wings, or is this how they fly?
- Student can i have your autograph Bill?
- Bugscope Team Bill you gotta lern to spel
- Student dany walter is the best hockey player fremd has ever seen
- Student L2 type
- Guest Are those individual wings that make up one big wing?
- Bugscope Team you will only find halteres on insects that have 1 pair of wings.
- Student hey boys
- Guest why are there a lot of small wings
- 9:47am
- Student SPENCE!!!!!!!
- Student how do you determine the gender of bugs
Bugscope Team Male and female insects are usually look slightly different and if you learn the differences it is easy to tell them apart. Generally, female insects are larger than males. Males usually have longer or more ornate antennae, larger eyes, or brighter colors. It depends a lot on the species.
- Student I wanna see the mosquitos!
- Student greys anatomy is on tonight!!!!
- Student All of this is turning me on
- Guest nobody cares
- Student what is that on the end of it?
- Guest freak boy
- Student why is it like prickely?
- Student hey stop talkin smack
- Student Hey guys.... I just finished practice... thought i'd pop in real quick
- Student what is that crazy lil thing
- Student this is G rated
- Student looks real neat
- Bugscope Team with some flies the males have their eyes close together and those of the females are far apart
- Bugscope Team sometimes you can see a lancet on the end which is the part that pierces you
- Student 3rd period leave
- Bugscope Team cool
- Student rex i love you
- Guest hi spencer
- Bugscope Team here you can see serrated edges on the owlfly larva
- Student s
- Student how small is that acutally?
- Student hey
- Bugscope Team see the salt now, too?
- Student what are those black circles?
Bugscope Team that is double stick carbon tape. we have all the insects sitting on it
- Student hey lauren
- Student yes i agree
- Student FISH!!!!!
- Bugscope Team so if you look at the micron bar you can tell something about the scale
- Student what were those cheez it shaped things?
- Student is does any one still need a date for HC?
- Student I do
- Student CHEEZ IT!!!!
- Student who'
- Student lulz im jk
- Student desparate?
- Student i want to
- Student Hey fellas... just got done bustin some beats... thought i'd pop in real quick here
- Student scot want to go to homecoming with me?
- Bugscope Team yeah sure
- Student Scot the scientist??
- Student we are so blessed by all these great star appearances
- Student awww
- Student aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- Student about that????????????????/
- Student ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
- Student yayayayayay
- Student what is that?
- Guest do bugs breathe in oxygen?
Bugscope Team yes, they all do. They "breathe" through spiracles, which are like nostrils located on the insect's abdomen. The spiracles connect to trachae, which connect to smaller and smaller tracheoles. Each insect cell has to get its oxygen from a tracheole--they do not have blood that carries oxygen.
- Student can i have control?
- Student Hey everyone.... i'm not even in your class... but... this is so cool... i just can't log off
- 9:52am
- Bugscope Team some salt for you
- Student court, homecoming with me?
- Bugscope Team this is from wendy's restaurant
- Student why would you need salt?
- Bugscope Team you can see the cubic crystal structure
- Student im actually booked by roflcopter
- Student why does this look blocky?
- Bugscope Team it's from a Wendy's
- Student why is wendys salt special?
- Student Why so many holes in the salt?
- Student id love to cammmmm
- Student why use wendy's salt instead of other salt?
- Guest can you compare normal salt from wendy's salt
- Student me u tonight
- Student Hey everyone... just thought i'd swing on by and check this bad boy out... looks pretty cool...
- Bugscope Team we think it must have anticaking agents that make the crystals repeat themselves
- Student this is wat im eating>>>>>>
- Bugscope Team into the structure we see
- Student can i have cnotorl?
- Student i think im gonna lay off the salt for now
- Student control*
- Student back off
- Student ummmmm
- Student what does other salt look like?
- Student how do they repeats?
- Bugscope Team if we look at sugar we would not see cubic crystals
- Student im flexible
- Student i can have 2 dates
- Bugscope Team other salt is boring
- Teacher So what types of things like to eat grasshoppers?
Bugscope Team Birds, small mammals like mice and shrews and rats, racoons, skunks.
- Student i want scott as in thompson
- Student can we look at something else?
- Student ooohohhhhhh
- Bugscope Team probably rodents and birds...
- Student ksnelt u are done
- Student foot of a bettle next!!!
- Student sorry cam hes mine
- Student it just me and cammm now\
- Student can i have control?
- Student no i dont think so
- Student wow scottland im hurt
- Bugscope Team here we can see how the beetle is aided in sticking to vertical surfaces
- Guest fish wants control
- Student cameron, sing dirty little secret!!!!!
- Student what part is that?
- Student do they stick on an atomic level?
- Student FISHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\
- Guest Got any spiders to show us?
- Student whats the grossest bug that you've ever seen
- Student What's your favorite type of bug?
Bugscope Team Longhorned beetles!
- Student I heard spiderman stopped on by... so i thought gotham could take a rest..... so i could fly on in
- Student please no spiders.... i hate spiders.
- Student whats the smallest bug in the world?
Bugscope Team The smallest known insect is called a fairyfly. It is a tiny wasp, smaller than a dot on an i.
- Student Do bugs cling to walls at an atomic level?
- Student do you have bugs as pets
Bugscope Team I used to have a hissing cockroach...but it died.
- Bugscope Team BANDOS some people think that geckos use vanderwaals forces to stick, on a more atomic level
- 9:57am
- Student its me
- Student what do you do for your job on a regular day?
- Student chris.... i'm related to tom... brady
- Student whats the grossest bug that youve ever looked at?
Bugscope Team I think maggots are pretty gross...have we ever looked at a maggot on Bugscope?
- Student why are they your favorite?
Bugscope Team Well, they are really diverse, ranging in size from 2 mm all the way up to almost 7 cm. They are often really beautiful, metallic green, metallic purple, bright red. And despite their size and abundance, we know very little about their biology
- Student on the patriots
- Student so gys
- Student Hey i thought id just want to through this out there are there any boys out there that wanna go on a date some time
- Bugscope Team there are some serious high-powered nerds that have studied gecko setae, but I am not so sure it's not wishful thinking
- Student how do they live if they are that small?
- Student my band, last avenue is pretty good
- Teacher Vanderwaals... excellent...we will be studying those in December!!!
- Student wanna by some CD's
- Student can you get stung by a fairy fly?
Bugscope Team Nope--they are way too small. Fairyflies lay their eggs in the eggs of aquatic insects.
- Student we got like 4 songs right now
- Student we cover blink182 siometimes too
- Bugscope Team the setae on a gecko foot are much finer than what we are imaging, and we have corresponded with some of those guys
- Student Last Avenue FTW
- Bugscope Team i wouldn't want to be the one to put them on the stub, i don't like to get near them-- bad experience
- Student a gecko?
- Student Hey guys... i know i'm out for the season... but i thought i might take a break from physical therapy to let you know that Chris here is my cousin... Chris Brady... You know him... the weird kid in the front of the class... well anyway i got to get back to training... see ya
- Bugscope Team maggots
- Teacher Am I centered on a spiricle?
- Student okay
- Bugscope Team we have gecko setae in the virtual microscope series
- Student Have you ever magnified a praying mantis?
- Bugscope Team yes this is a spiracle
- Student whats a setee
- Student so... what are the cracks in the picture
- Student so this is how they breathe
- Bugscope Team Stephen there is a praying mantis head on this stub.
- Student Good mornign ladies and gentlemen
- Student hoiw are you all doin
- Student I LOVE BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest fish wants control
- Guest i knew it
- Student have you ever gotten sick from a bug?
Bugscope Team Not personally. Mosquitoes vector many serious diseases, like West Nile Virus, malaria, and yellow fever. And some people have serious allergies to wasp and bee stings. But I have never gotten sick because of an insect
- Teacher fish can have control
- Student do you keep bugs in your room? like under your bed
Bugscope Team No, my cockroach lived in a cage...on the TV cabinet.
- Student i want control!
- Student like gotten a desiese?
- Student so i saw this big spider in my house yeaster
- Student day
- Student i think it was a brown recluse
- Bugscope Team ok fish
- Student wat should i do?
- Student so what magnification is this
- Student ??????
- Student what resteraunt should i go to for homecoming
- Student VINNIES
- Guest Have you guys ever magnified images of bees?
- Student best pizza and drink combo
- 10:02am
- Guest vins fo sho
- Student only $3
- Student have you ever caught a disease from a bug you tried to kill or disect?
Bugscope Team Nope. Haven't done that either. Again, I think it would be pretty difficult to contract a disease from an insect that you were dissecting...I guess you can't rule out the possibility though.
- Student how much blood do mosquitos actually drink?
- Bugscope Team we have looked at a variety of bees before
- Student like when they bite you
- Student what is the most intersesting bug you've ever looked at?
- Guest don't mosquitoes take blood for their larvae
Bugscope Team They need the iron component to form their eggs
- Student i have a spider infesttation i need help, any advice
- Student is it commen for bugs to carry diseases and pass them on when there alive?
- Guest Have you taken images of their stingers?
Bugscope Team stingers can be pretty cool to look at. Some have barbs and some are really long
- Student like do other bugs carry westnile?
- Student ANy help plezzzz
- Bugscope Team some fun bugs to look at are earwigs. they often have mites on them
- Student about my spider problem>>>>>>??????
- Guest are bees interesting to look at?
- Student hire terminex, thats what my fam does
- Student RRRRRR!!!!!!
- Student what is a "basic" year as an entomoligist?
Bugscope Team April- September I do field work, trapping and collecting beetles. The rest of the year, I work on research articles, and do lab work (DNA work, microscope work, etc.)
- Student MY SPIDER PROBLEM I NEED HHLEPPPPPP
Bugscope Team If it was a really big spider, it was probably a wolf spider.
- Guest what's the problem
- Student HIRE TERMINEX
- Student kk thanks poprocks
- Student ill give it a try
- Teacher What is a tenent setae?
Bugscope Team they are special setae that act like suction cups are velcro and allow the insect to walk on walls. It comes from latin tenere- to hold
- Student What is this?
- Guest that's awesome do you guys have any images you can post now?
- Student keep me posted scottpatrick
- Bugscope Team spiders are going to be around if you have other insects in your house. The probably won't go away too easily unless you get rid of whatever it is eating
- Student alright.... whos 3rd periodd
- Guest gardener
- Student thanks cate
- Student bye
- Student does the air k them up?
- Student goodbyee
- Student do many other bugs carry diseases that they can spread when there alive?
- Student and i stilll need a date for HC
- Student keep*
- Student do many other bugs carry diseases that they can spread when there alive?
- Student do many other bugs carry diseases that they can spread when there alive?
- Student thanks for the great info!!! Keep up the good work
- Student PEACEEE
- Student aww. i dont wanna leave. this is cool.
- Student thank you very much
- Teacher What is the best way (organic if possible) to get rid of Japanese beetle?
Bugscope Team That is pretty much the best way...picking them off and squishing them or dropping them in soapy water
- Student give mrs. d control
- Bugscope Team ticks and mosquitos are the big ones that carry diseases
- Student I-L-L
- Student thanks for this. it was fun.
- Student I-L-L
- Student bye
- Student Hey... thanks alot for all your help... this was AWSOME!!!!
- 10:07am
- Teacher Right now I am paying my daughters 10 cents a beetle to squish them.
- Student You guys ROCK!!
- Bugscope Team I-N-I?
- Student YAY!!!
- Student thank you
- Bugscope Team Thanks You All!
- Student ROck on guys ... rock on
- Student go chill at the quad for me
- Bugscope Team thank you for all your questions
- Bugscope Team you got it bandos
- Teacher We have a teacher who may stop by in a minute who wants to look at these, can we stay on for a little bit longer???
Bugscope Team yes you can
- Teacher You can tell obviously that homecoming is next week...
- Bugscope Team we have a bit of extra time at the end of sessions so you may use it if you want
- Bugscope Team yes they are all excited about it
- 10:13am
- Bugscope Team sorry about that, scott didn't see you wanted to stay on
- Bugscope Team Sorry about that
- Bugscope Team we have the 'scope 'til 11:30
- Bugscope Team so you are cool
- Teacher I am the only one left in here right now... the craziness is over... Thanks SO much for all of your help and patience!!!
- Bugscope Team and you may drive if you wish
- Bugscope Team this is really fun for us
- Bugscope Team I did get stuck talking with someone at the end of the last session
- Bugscope Team people ask you if you
- Teacher I guess that wraps it up for me... I think the students really enjoyed it, and I know that some of them who are usually very reserved really got into it.
- Bugscope Team I cannot type today and keep like clicking on something that shuts down my browser
- Bugscope Team I had that trouble earlier too, Scott--my computer instantly logged me out right as I was typing something
- Bugscope Team if someone else is coming along to see the 'scope we are cool
- Bugscope Team I have to bow out now everyone. Thanks a lot and I will talk to you all soon!
- Bugscope Team Thanks Annie!
- Bugscope Team thank you annie for your expertise
- Bugscope Team she runnoft
- Teacher I think she forgot to come in and went to lunch. So I guess we can officially call it a wrap.
- Bugscope Team We will look forward to seeing you again.
- 10:18am
- Teacher Thanks... I will look forward to it too!
- Bugscope Team just remember you can go back to the chat and images at any time from your member pager
- Bugscope Team page*
- Bugscope Team at http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-071/
- Teacher I plan on it
- Teacher Thanks again!!!
- Bugscope Team okay over and out for me
- 12:10pm
