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Connected on 2008-10-24 10:00:00 from , AZ, US

10:11am
Bugscope Team Hello Mr M!
Teacher We just logged on
Bugscope Team hello welcome to bugscope
Bugscope Team Wecome to Bugscope!
Teacher The kids are getting setup
Bugscope Team d'oh! Welcome!

Teacher Thanks! This is my third session. The GUI is a little different. I like it

Bugscope Team Hey Good -- go ahead and take it for a drive if you would like

Bugscope Team Hi @DriAn
10:16am
Bugscope Team Good morning eswc
Bugscope Team please let us know if you have any questions
Student praying mantis
Bugscope Team hello Davis43
Bugscope Team yes thats right we are at the praying mantis
Bugscope Team yeah that is what it is -- as much as would fit
Student ok
Bugscope Team yeah rockstar 1.0.1
Student wats up scot
Student dis kuul
Student hi scot
Bugscope Team underground
Student sup rici
Guest hello
Student who m i talkin 2
Bugscope Team Hello techno_nerd
Student whos techno nerd
Guest Amy
Student how do u talk to other people
Bugscope Team Those of us in green are at the University of Illinois

Teacher what is this
Bugscope Team this is the Praying Mantis Tarsal Spine
Student how do i make the chat screen bigger?
Bugscope Team this is the tip of a spine on the praying mantis' tarsus
Bugscope Team eswc you may want to modify your screen resolution
Student wat davis43
Student How?
Student Is that a nose that looks like a cone
Student wat?
Student what do u maen
Bugscope Team it might be a chemoreceptor
Bugscope Team eswc are you on a mac or a PC?
Student How do i modify resolution?
10:21am
Bugscope Team the chat screen can be made bigger by making your browser screen as big as you can make it

Student wats this picture?
Bugscope Team these may be features analogous to what we just saw
Student oh
Student oh wat oh
Bugscope Team they are tiny chemoreceptors on a bee palp

Student cool
Student haha lol jk jp faf
Bugscope Team some of these things we have made into presets you can tell where they are by taking the mag down low
Student jack wat is this
Student is it a bee
Student ok i got thanks!

Bugscope Team Alska21 is driving and can take the mag down and give you a long view
Student is this on bee

Student it is hair
Bugscope Team yes this is part of a mandibular palp
Bugscope Team if you take the mag down you can see where you are

Student whoa
Bugscope Team they look like hair but we call them setae

Student eww
Student what is that thing
Student do u know wat this i sk8 dgk
Student wuts dis
Student this has to be a spider's leg

Bugscope Team this is the palp, still

Guest that looks weird
Bugscope Team now we are looking at the tongue of the bee

Student o
Student it looks like a hairy catapilar

10:27am
Student no but it looks like a realy big peace of hair
Student whoa wats this?

Bugscope Team now we are getting an idea of where we are
Student zoom in more
Bugscope Team you could drive to the north to see
Bugscope Team lower the mag still in and you can the bee face

Student Hairy spider
Student hairy aunt

Student ant
Bugscope Team nice
Student o now u can see it
Student that is so gross looking it looks like a rat

Bugscope Team hairy honeybee
Student i have no idea what this is
Teacher Please give control to aDriAn
Student its a bee
Bugscope Team got it adrian
Student gracias
Student y is it so hairy scot?
Student was upp adrian that is so lame

Student i want control!
Student dgk? lol

Bugscope Team the hairs are good for making the pollen stick on it
Bugscope Team this is the mantis again

Student zoom in dude

Student k stine
Bugscope Team this is back to the praying mantis
Bugscope Team now we can see where preset 19 came from
Student CREEPY
Student peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Student lol
Student hahahah
Bugscope Team these little spines on the tarsi
Student weird

Bugscope Team the pollen, which we can see better in another preset, have lots of little spikes on it that make it easy for them to stick to things
Student FBI is here
Student quit spamming the chat screen sk8
Bugscope Team that is reassuring
Student sk8 DGK is stone every body
Student wat is this again?
Student it just is jack cant u c the hair on it

Bugscope Team this is the praying mantis
Student whop is fbi

Student who is FBI
Student juan
Student this i so cool
Bugscope Team OOF

Student person next to me
Student lol
Student evry body this is so cool and awsome
Student welcome joker
Student soo true
Student what u[p

Student this is like myspace

Student welcome jorker
Student whoa

Student bigtime

Student that is so cool closer
Bugscope Team this is a bald spot on the butterfly's head

10:32am

Bugscope Team these are butterfly scales

Student were did it go

Student butter flys have hair?
Student CREEPY
Student to his house

Student tht iz so pimp
Bugscope Team if you lose the image refresh

Bugscope Team they have lots of scales
Bugscope Team the scales are similar to feathers on a bird
Student im hungry now

Bugscope Team that's what makes them feel so silky
Student what are those things on the scales?
Student y do they have scales
Teacher Why do they have scales?
Bugscope Team They provide protection (through camouflage and mimicry), they help warm the body (as solar collectors), they provide a means of fast flight (to escape enemies), and they help attract mates.
Student wat are those things
Bugscope Team they can be easily shed to get out of tough situations like a spider web
Student scot how come has that stuff on it its wing
Student who is fbi
Student juan
Bugscope Team one thing the scales do, as Cate said, is help the butterflies get out of webs

Student oh
Student tha person next to me stone

Student i am lamigra

Student wht up eswc

Student sup

Student cool
Bugscope Team the scales reflect light of different colors depending on their architecture

Student this lloks like a fly

Student Hairy Face-needs to shave

Student its a butterfly

Bugscope Team this is the eye of the butterfly
Student lol

Student wat up fbi
Student what is that attena for
Bugscope Team Functions may variously include sensing touch, air motion, heat, vibration (sound), and especially olfaction (smell) or gustation (taste)
Student its cool

Student weird bug eyes
Student wat up

Student it iz so like ugly

Bugscope Team take the mag down a little so you can focus more easily -- if you wish
Student i wonder how it tastes

Student why does it look like powder

Student whos joker
Student wat iz it idk
Student o itz iz his eye
Student what are those things on the eyes
Bugscope Team the scales are so small and fine that without a microscope they seem like powder
Student juicey
Student what is everquest
Bugscope Team there is some dirt and there are some scales on the eye
10:37am
Student cool
Student wat is
Student that's weird
Student CREEPY
Guest how big can butterfies get?
Bugscope Team The largest butterfly in the world is female Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly. It lives in New Guinea and its wing span can reach up to 12 and a half inches (32 cm).
Bugscope Team this is a compound eye, and it is formed from hundreds of ommatidia
Student having problems foucusing
Student were having problems focusing
Student it haz llil eyez
Student wat is the animal
Bugscope Team okay I can help

Student how

Student the eye has crack
Bugscope Team oop now we are somewhere else
Student diz iz awzam
Student it look like a 9
Bugscope Team very simple eyes

Student umm....I have no words for that
Student why does the eye have scraches?

Student what is that

Student how far can they see?
Student i the mouth
Student evry bodyb it look like an catipiler
Student is that an egg shell or what

Bugscope Team yeah the mouth is to the west here
Student it has cuts
Student IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Student it looks like a big donut with jelly
Bugscope Team ha stinger
Teacher please give control to Davis 43
Student peep!!!!!!!!

Student stop spamming sk8
Bugscope Team you can see that the stinger works back and forth to cut into the skin
Bugscope Team the honeybee can only sting you once. bumblebees and wasps can sting you multiple times
Student its haryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!
Student iz dat itz but
Student ewww.....hairy botox
Student it looks like a knife

Student jk
Student so that's why stingers stick to your skin
Student what is it scott
Student ewwwww

Student crazy and mean stinger
Student wat iz it

Student CREEPY
Bugscope Team but the honeybee when it stings you has a little part of a muscle come off along with the stinger (which is why it dies) and the muscle makes the stinger dig deeper into your skin while also pumping out more venom
Bugscope Team yeah! you can see the recurved spines that keep it in your skin
Student it iz out of control
Student dis wack
Student :0
Student there is like a pimple in there
Student wutz a weavel
Student wow

Bugscope Team the weevil!
Bugscope Team so cute
Student i got stung in the armpitts before!!
Bugscope Team strong nose
Student is that a stinger
Student josh look at the preying mantise head

Student wat iz a weevle
Guest Whoa!
Student what is a weevil

Student its amy

10:42am

Student woz technonerd
Student its is ugly
Student ewwww.....
Student wow

Student closer
Student why eswc amy

Student closer josh
Student what is this part of the whevel

Student a lil closer
Student lets look at something else
Student control it josh
Guest that looks so weird

Bugscope Team weevils are sometimes called 'snout beetles,' and they are found, often, in dry grain or nuts
Student zoom out
Student wat kind of animlas are there
Student evry body wat iz it
Student hi
Student dika laka

Bugscope Team this is the eye of the bee
Student lets see the praying mantis head?
Guest what is this?
Bugscope Team this is back to the honeybee. it is the eye, the "hairy eye"
Student wierd

Student zzzzzzzzzzzzzooommmmm oooooooooouuuuuttttt!!!!!!!!!!

Student wat it is that

Student looks like grass
Bugscope Team they almost always have lots of setae sticking out of the surface of the eye
Student zooom in
Student wow wat iz it tht iz a i boll

Student that looks like the hair on the eye balls
Student it is hary please shave
Student Q:why does bee have fure on the eye
Student face fuzzz
Teacher please give control to sk8 DGK
Student i dont know
Student cool
Student zoom in

Bugscope Team fruit flies use the hair (setae) on their eyes to help sense windspeed

Student whoa
Student cool
Student give SOAD control!!!!!!
Student bever teeeth
Student like what
Student it looks like a mice

Student aww
Bugscope Team pollen grains

Student stone
Guest Whoa! thats cool
Student oh

Student how does pollen get on the eye
Student look like little dandy lions
Student put a black
Student what is up adrian

Teacher what are the eyespots for?

Bugscope Team this is on the part of a beetle right behind its head -- kind of like a cape

Student look like pimples now
Student wat is it
Student just lookin at wierd bugs
Student is it a potatoe

Student is this magnifyed 863 thousand times?

Student so bettles have more than two eyes?
10:47am
Student Question: does it hurt when pollen gets in bee's eyes?
Bugscope Team it might be an annoyance. some ants and wasps have combs on their legs that can clean their eyes with. I don't think I've seen them on bees though
Bugscope Team you cant see the eyespots really

Student t is it
Student 3 potatoes
Bugscope Team eyespots often protect the insect by causing predators to become alarmed when they seen them

Student it does look like a potato
Bugscope Team this is the head, and the real eyes

Student do they have good eyesight?

Student it is a eye
Student deformity
Student that's cool

Bugscope Team nice driving
Student oh
Student it is a eye

Student who is chivas 13
Student why does is it like that?
Bugscope Team you can see the ommatidia, especially in the lower left
Student how does bee's get there honey
Student y is so rough?
Student its laging

Bugscope Team looks like there is a lot of juju on this part of the eye

Student juju?
Bugscope Team there, better
Student its is a ball
Teacher why are the other ommatidia roughed up?

Guest it looks differet from other insect eyes
Student CREEPY!!

Student oh, now i see
Bugscope Team there may be some dried fluid on those ommatidia that didn't look good
Student yeah creepy
Student put something differnt
Student stone hi
Student what is this hary thing
Student alex hi
Student /hi alex
Bugscope Team abk has it
Student wat up chiva
Student nothin skatefr
Student what happend to the presets?
Student idlu alex

Student notin skater
Student it looks like an ear
Student what is that circle cate
Bugscope Team this is the terminus of the walking stick -- the very end of its tail
Guest that looks so weird but cool
Student pinchers.....or what
Student is that a claw of a walking stick
Student wat up alex L.

Bugscope Team it's not a claw

Student zoom in on the but
Teacher what is it used for?
Bugscope Team they can cling onto things with it like parts of branches or they could hold onto their mate with them possibly
Student what up fbi

Bugscope Team it is sort of like cercopods on an earwig
Bugscope Team or pinchers you find on the earwigs
Student ?

Student wat fbi
Student Hairy

10:52am
Student the but IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Student there is a lot of hairs

Student are walking sticks predators
Bugscope Team except these dont look like they would hurt so much

Student cool

Student wack
Guest is that hair?

Student cool

Student eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Student what is that????????
Student someone say something funny

Student diz kkul thanks mr miller

Student it looks like a mouse
Guest whoa
Student whre is the noise
Student i want to look at a black widow

Student who is chivas13
Student this so cool thx Mr.Miller
Student thiz is so cool Mrs.Miller thx
Student that is wieerdd

Student hehe
Student thx Mrs.Miller thiz iz so cool

Bugscope Team SOAD we have a squished black widow and haven't tried looking at it
Student teehee
Student wow
Student AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student ohhh mann

Student wow again
Teacher im glad you all like this. Its a once in a lifetime experience
Student iam scared

Student wooooow it is vainy

Student yes u do da grashoper 1
Student is that a leaf

Student do have a grasshopper
Student it is crunchy
Student rinkles like my grandma
Guest it looks like a leaf
Bugscope Team this is the outer portion of the grasshopper wing

Student uppp....

Student wat's up scot u rok
Student those are the wings of a grasshoper
Student it is torn off
Bugscope Team i cut a small piece off

Student i mean yupp
Student is this the grashopper

Student vanes

Student da weeing is broke

Student wat r te lines for ?

Bugscope Team you have some big colorful grasshoppers

Student what up stone
10:57am

Student wat color iz it realy
Bugscope Team the lines are veins in the wing

Student mkyjgfkjhklfhjfkhoktfjhoktjoihfjohjohjpfgjphofjphjofu9fhoiftuighfiu

Student is it crackt

Student about we look at wasps

Student no

Student 3.0236026

Bugscope Team it was black with yellowgreen veins, on this part
Student why cant we c de color
Student its vaney
Student wah is it used for
Bugscope Team so the panels are black
Student wat happan abk

Student colf colf

Student WHOA
Student it looks brocken

Student wow
Student what izz dat
Student zoom in closer
Student alex whazup
Student wats the hole?
Bugscope Team thats where the pin went through
Bugscope Team these guys can fly, and when they go abruptly into flight in front of you there is a flare of red, suddenly
Student it looks like cheese

Student look like they are coming out of the ground

Student is very very hairrryyyyyyy
Student it looks like cheese

Student it looks like chease

Student coming after us

Student wats that?
Student oh

Student it looks like its but

Student wutz da hoole 4
Student that's cool.
Bugscope Team the pin made a very nice hole

Student is the hole a eye
Student what is that???????

Student ooooooooo

Student aww man
Student that cool
Student weird
Student could wasp kill u
Student da hole were Mrs.Miller stuk da needle
Bugscope Team oyu can see a portion of a wing there
Student is it mexican cheese
Student wats the hole
Guest the bug must have been tiny

Student it is
Student is it dead?

Student yeah if your allergic
Bugscope Team not likely a wasp could kill you unless youn were allergic
Student zoom on the wind dat iz comin out da side
Bugscope Team oops thanks Lily!

Student no its alive alex

Student your welcome\
Bugscope Team this is the vestiture on the prothorax

Student oops

Student it looks like seeweed

Student zoom out
Student why do all the animals have hairs its shaving time
Student what i vestagure?E
Student it does
Bugscope Team the little setae we see now form a pattern and make the weevil look velvety
11:02am

Student what does vprothorax

Student what is vestagure
Student wat does vestergure do?
Student o ok
Student thanks
Student ohh..
Student is it grass
Bugscope Team vestiture means clothing, in a way
Guest what is the prothrax?
Student cool

Student o ok

Student hairy golfball
Student thats weard

Student it looks like a head with little hair

Student hahaha

Student noo
Teacher what do weevils eat?
Bugscope Team Many weevils are damaging to crops. The grain or wheat weevil (Sitophilus granarius) damages stored grain. The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) attacks cotton crops. It lays its eggs inside unripe cotton bolls, and the young weevils eat their way out.
Student it look like a beezs i

Student hey scot. do you have wasps?
Student my name izzz taco
Student teehee
Student y iz it on itz side?

Student hi taco
Bugscope Team they eat nuts, grains, stuff like that
Student copyer
Student why does the antena on the mouth
Student teehee is my thing
Teacher why are the weevil antennae on the snout?

Student why do wevvels have in comein with ither bugs
Student no its mine
Student o but y iz it on itz side welll mside ways
Bugscope Team the prothorax is the ringlike body structure between the head and the thorax on some insects

Student who is lily
Student cool
Bugscope Team it is probably a good place, on the snout, to smell what it is planning to eat
Student SOAD is david, rock `onm

Student a rockstar1.0.1 go to a differnt bug

Student who is blackout
Student IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! alex
Student teeheee
Student the new kid duhhh

Student yo am next 2 u
Student look like skin
Student well mybad
Student itz a zit
Student stop saying IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!111

Student thats not how u spell ew
Guest whats this?
Student zitter
Student wats that
Student stone iz lamigra!
Student no your not
Student what is this????
Student stone i am going to kick you
Student what is that thing
11:07am
Student me either
Student i have no idea what this is

Bugscope Team a gracias Cate

Bugscope Team merci, I mean
Student yeah is the praying mantis

Student looks like a rock on the face
Student there is like a v in there

Student too much talking of nonsence

Student ohh.. I see it now
Bugscope Team we are looking at the surface of the chitin, which is also called cuticle

Bugscope Team it is fingernail-like
Student that v is probaly a scar
Student whats the v dirt?
Bugscope Team or like the shell of a shrimp
Bugscope Team hey getting better
Student is the V a scar
Student hes branded wit a small v
Student what looks like a shrimp
Bugscope Team good job driving, and focusing
Student its actully n egg like circle
Student ahhh...creepy
Guest what is theat spot?
Student wow

Student adrian
Student what is that!
Bugscope Team it was just some dirt
Teacher please give control to jorker
Bugscope Team this is a claw
Bugscope Team on the bee I think
Student choriso in the house
Student why do instects have many hairs
Student why do insect have so many hairs
Student is this a clow of a bee
Bugscope Team yeah on the honeybee
Student it is a dragon
Student ugly leg
Student y is so hairy
Student can we see the squished black widow scot?
Student it iz a monster

Bugscope Team SOAD the hairs are important as part of the sensory system
Student why is so hariy
Student Needs to shave legs
Student it luuks like harbal

Bugscope Team I am sorry we don't have the black widow on the stub today
Bugscope Team this is gnarly for sure
Student o ok thanks anyway
Student whose chorizo

Student oh thanks, im learning alot already!
Student it haz three mouths
Bugscope Team this is one of the spiracles

Bugscope Team through which insects breathe

Bugscope Team a spiracle is like a nose. it is used for breathing

Student iotz a mouth
Student its me jack

11:12am
Bugscope Team they can open and close them
Student a nostral?
Student lol..you GUYS ARE FUNNY

Bugscope Team almost like leaf stomates
Student people say something interesting
Student can u guys pry it out
Student techno nerd wat is ur real name
Bugscope Team yeah a nostril
Student so they breath out of there mouth?
Student i mea pry it open?

Student is this the mouth or noise

Bugscope Team it is so small it would be hard to pry open
Student can u guys open it?
Student lily i now im funny
Student o ok

Bugscope Team this is kind of like a nose
Student 0.3

Bugscope Team there are usually two on each body segment
Student thank you
Student I know you are
Bugscope Team the caterpillar is holding its breath
Student wat bu is this again?

Student wut izz diz

Student hahahah
Student its a mouth withlipstick

Student i thought it was ded

Student dead
Student o ok

Student how long could it holds its breath

Student sweet
Student wats that thing

Student hahahaha..I beat you with the Haha's
Student its a lemon
Student what is chivas
Bugscope Team this is one of the bumps on its exoskeleton

Student stop asking nonsence stuff!!!~!!!
Student A soccer team in Mexico

Bugscope Team yeah looks like a lemon -- you can see it has scales on it that don't belong to it
Student and goats

Student its a mexican soocer team jack

Student feathers?

Student eww..

Bugscope Team isnt it guatelahara chivas?

Student it is hairy
Student look like a door

Student now its a cave

Student 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Student this is fun!

Student Large pimple

11:17am

Bugscope Team we think it's fun too

Student Wooow

Student whoa its almost time to go

Student o dat looks cool

Student where do you live cate
Bugscope Team i live in Champaign, IL. The scope you are controlling is on campus of University of Illinois.
Student can we look at one more cool bug?

Student i know cate

Guest yeah, can we look at one more?
Student it looks like a claw
Student they do

Student sell me ur bugscope michne

Bugscope Team the stinger!

Student o
Student i am tired

Student hair and ugly

Student byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Student well we g2g
Student bye thanks for everything scot and cate
Bugscope Team nice view of the serrations on the stinger
Student Bye Bye
Bugscope Team Thank You All
Student i have to go people to another classsss
Guest Good-Bye, i had lots and lots of fun
Student adios
Bugscope Team that was fun
Student good bye
Student thx for tha teaching
Student yep
Student bye have a great day and dont let bug bite u
Student see ya
Student good by scot and catehave a great day by
Bugscope Team Thank you for controlling the microscope and asking all your questions
Bugscope Team Hey you too -- it's Friday. yay

Bugscope Team Mr M they are all gone!

11:22am

Teacher period one is over
Bugscope Team porous structure of the stinger
Teacher major lag
Teacher second period coming now
Bugscope Team o boy
Bugscope Team brb
Bugscope Team alright
11:28am

Student What is this?
Bugscope Team Hi Erica and Markie. This is the tip of a honeybee stinger.
Bugscope Team you can see that it is porous -- kind of interesting
Student how many times is it magnified?
Bugscope Team if you take the mag down -- you have control now -- you can see the serrations on the edges

Student hiiiiiuioiii!!!

Student hey mr.miller
Student hi scot!
Bugscope Team you can see from the micron bar on the lower left what the scale is
Student what insect is it?
Bugscope Team hi Jarheads!
Student where are you
Bugscope Team this is a honeybee
Student cool
Bugscope Team we are in Urbana/Champaign Illinois at the Beckman Institute, part of the University of Illinois
Student hey were the break stars haley and francine
Student hey Jarheads
11:33am
Bugscope Team Jarheads do you want to drive?
Student is it its mouth
Bugscope Team the scale bar is 4.5 bacteria long
Student what is this thing
Student UH, DUH!!!!!
Student is scot short for something
Bugscope Team okay you got it
Bugscope Team yeah I guess short for Scott
Student ok
Student it a bug
Bugscope Team or Southern Culture On The Skids SCOTS
Student is this one of our bugs?
Bugscope Team this is a honeybee stinger

Bugscope Team it is one of yours
Student jarheads are jarheads

Bugscope Team you can see where the electron beam made a mark on the stingeer
Student hey every body
Student fgfkgkgkfgduf
Student hi
Bugscope Team this is just adjacent to the stinger
Student now what is this
Student what are those strands

Bugscope Team those are setae near the stinger
Student what are does hairy looking things?
Bugscope Team see tee are what we call hairs in the insect world
Bugscope Team setae

Student so this is still the bee?
Bugscope Team like to feel or to smell
Student no
Bugscope Team yes if you take the mag down (Jarheads) you can see where you are

Student how can I see what you people are saying
Bugscope Team shawnmiguel do you want to drive?

Student wats up
Bugscope Team oh break stars expand ytour browser to the edge of the screen
11:39am
Student hold one moment
Student hi mr.m
Bugscope Team shawnmiguel you have control
Student what is this
Student do I go all thye way to the bottom
Guest it your moma
Bugscope Team yeah break stars can you grab the corner of the browser and expand it to the whole screen?
Bugscope Team Markie and Erica you have it now
Student please give mr. miller control
Student thanks
Bugscope Team now Mr M is the supreme ruler
Bugscope Team he can show you how to drive
Student wheres Cate
Student j
Bugscope Team I am sorry -- she had to go to class
Student this is very intresting to see
Bugscope Team she's taking French, for fun
Student ok thanks

Student what

Student hey wut up
Student scot are you talking to us

Student French is a romantic language

Bugscope Team yeah Jar but I wanted to drive for a sec
Student what is that

Student that looks like a beaver
Student what is it
Bugscope Team shawn it would be 'gross' : )
Student go head
Student it does
Student that look weird
Guest mary shaw
Bugscope Team this is the head of the honeybee

Student wats up francine
Student i know
Student who is the cool people
Bugscope Team you can see the eyes now
Student thats cool
Bugscope Team and the antennae
Student hi break stars
Student he is giving me a rassberry!
Bugscope Team and the tongue, plus the gate-like jaws
11:44am
Student mitchell and regina
Student what is the thing that looks like a tounge
Student it is the tounge
Bugscope Team that *is* the tongue
Student heyhey
Bugscope Team thanks coolpeople
Student hi coolpeople
Student I changed my name
Student please give control to jarheads
Student its not a tounge
Bugscope Team Heyhey Miley
Bugscope Team got it Jarheads
Student its a stinger
Student erica had a blonde momen
Student no true
Student what
Bugscope Team the stinger is on the other end

Student oh

Bugscope Team Jarheads you can choose from among the presets, on the right, as well, for places to drive around

Guest mr miller what is this
Student wut iz thiz

Bugscope Team shawn lemme give Jarheads a little more time

Student why is the tounge sticking out?
Student no
Bugscope Team this is the labium, or labrum, of the honeybee
Student h
Teacher the tongue is made of hairs?
Student what is the labium?
Student that bee stinger does not look like a bee stinger looks like u know
Student what
Bugscope Team The tongue is covered with setae, yes, like a brush

Bugscope Team Miley this is not the stinger now
Student what is the labium
Guest it look like a bosh of stake
Student wut iz thiz
Student thats owsome
Student the bee stinger looks like a bo ting
Student dumm
Student scot is that your name the jar heads are nick and wyatt what is yours
Student what
Bugscope Team the mouthparts have names like labrum and labium, and it is hard to tell which is which sometimes
Student pute shawnmiguel in controle
Student ok
Bugscope Team yeah my name is Scott

Guest miley what are you doing
Student what is this picture

Student do you have any more insects

11:49am
Student messing around
Student ah
Bugscope Team Jarheads I am going to give shawnmiguel control
Student what is that black stuff it looks like smoke
Student how come u choose this job
Bugscope Team Shawn you got it
Student ok
Guest oh
Student you better
Student can you show us different bugs?
Guest ohhhh!!!
Bugscope Team this is close up of the portion of the face with the tongue
Guest ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student what is that part
Student ok
Student haley likes francio
Bugscope Team shawn choose another preset --click on one
Student scot can you show the antenna

Guest boyo filys

Student and she likes marcus too

Student wut iz that
Student can we see number 16
Guest is it a spider man

Student no
Student its true about haley

Guest no just kinddy

Bugscope Team okay we are looking at the weevil now
Student can we look at the eyes

Student what is this?
Student people
Student fonseca
Bugscope Team you could see the antennae a second ago
Guest it just a spider
Bugscope Team this is the prothorax
Student do they have hair
Bugscope Team which is between the head and the thorax
Student fonsekina
Bugscope Team they almost always have hair
Student scot what is this
Student it looks kinda like strawberry without the leaf
Student we have some thing on are screan it says please wait while that command executes its been up for 5 mintuts
Student cool
Student why is there hair on this spot
Student xxx
Student bugs why aren't u guys having fun
Student can we have control
Student hi gpeoplhei!
Guest :)
Student carlos is guapo
Bugscope Team Jarheads I think if you refresh your screen it will go away
Guest :(
Guest :)
Student we have controll
Bugscope Team yeah

Student carlos is what
Guest me too
Student thx!
Guest :)
Student haley and francio sitting in atree
Student kcan we look at the eyes after erika nad marckie can we have control?

11:54am
Student hair people
Bugscope Team ask Erica and Markie to drive to the eyes
Student this are butterfly scales
Student bugs who are u
Student who is in controle
Student what is that part
Student drive the eyes!
Student what's that?
Student what part
Student never mind
Student arica markie drive the eyes
Bugscope Team Erica and Markie are driving -- these are scales on the head of the butterfly
Student why do they use this scales??/???????????????????????@L#X
Guest who are you ganna be for halloween :)
Student who r the bugs
Student erica drive to eyes

Bugscope Team scales are kind of like tiny feathers
Student qwertyu
Student why do the butterflys have scales
Teacher why do the scales have ridgesridges?

Bugscope Team they alsocome off easily, so if you were to fly into a spider web you could shed some scales and get away
Student why does it have hople
Student these are honeybee eyes
Student im not going to be anything
Student I WANT TO SEE SOME OF ARES
Bugscope Team the ridges are like those in potato chips -- they make the scales more rigid
Student jarheads give us more time
Student are the patterns hexagons
Student BLACK WIDDOw
Guest it is hair ?
Student !!!!
Student hairs are wierd
Student !
Student !
Student for what is that for
Student why du they have that
Bugscope Team the ridges also result in us seeing structural colors, depending on how they are aligned
Student can shawnmiguel be in controle for a minute
Student for awht
Bugscope Team this is the eye of the honeybee
Student why dthey have spikes

Student is that pollon?
Bugscope Team and now the mantis head
Student are they dangerous
Student MANTY
Student because
Bugscope Team there is some pollen on this stub
Student can we have control
Student yes you can take it
Bugscope Team they are not dangerous to people
Student it has big eye balls
Student I'm going to change my name
Guest it is a jumping spider
Student itz ugly
Student g
Bugscope Team okay bugs
Student crab
Student how does a prey mantis breath under water

Student scot this looks growes
Student crab
Student I don't know
Student dfire
Bugscope Team if it went under water it would have to close its spiracles
Student it is awsome being there
Bugscope Team I don't think it can breathe under water
Student bugs, can you change the picture to the butterfly eyes like you wanted?
Student me either

11:59am
Student can we control it ]

Bugscope Team bugs I wonder if this shifted a little since we set it up
Student would it drown in water?
Student can weeee control pleeeas
Student what

Bugscope Team you are driving a $600,000 microscope

Student wat is that
Bugscope Team a scanning electron microscope
Student say what

Student it cant break
Student say what

Student say what

Student say what

Student can a prey mantis kill a sinpies

Student fraoisco nick say what are you doing
Student dang thats alot of money
Student say what

Bugscope Team what was your question? I am sorry
Student that CRAZZzzy
Student it eyelive
Student francio is typing

Bugscope Team this is the eye

Bugscope Team a portion of the compound eye

Student pimple
Bugscope Team on the walking stick

Student is that dot the actuall eye?

Guest _**_:)
Bugscope Team the little facets produce lots of images
Student no miley its an eye
Student miguel wut r u duin
Student CAN I HAVE CONTROLE
Student yes it can kill it
Student dont ask for coinntrol
Guest what is it
Student what is that pimple thing
Student francio what is a nich
Student bugs can we see the centepede
Student no shawn migiel can't have control
Student what egg sack
Bugscope Team bugs can you click on preset 1?
Student ewwwww
Student is that the but
Bugscope Team tht would be cool
Student coool

Student what is that?
Bugscope Team okay now we see one of the jaws
Student no jack a

Bugscope Team thank you for driving here

Student wat is that
Student what is that?
Student cool\
Bugscope Team if you take the mag lower and lower, as you are -- you can see where we are on the centipede
Bugscope Team it is a nasty little dude
Student kuul
12:04pm

Student its jaw tastic
Guest it look like a moth
Bugscope Team now you can see where the pin was
Student erica what are u doing
Student this is the coolist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student did you really have to cut the centepede
Student i need a answer
Bugscope Team the antennae are sort of dried out, shriveled
Student note we asked you
Student you really wasnt to know, im typing
Student what is the hole under mouth
Bugscope Team yeah we had to make it much shorter, let's say

Student scot why is that hole ther on the top of the head there
Student evercool

Student no peole
Student whats evercool?

Bugscope Team The hole is where someone had placed a pin to mount the little dude
Student can you aswer again
Student everyone jarheads is nick
Student what again
Guest oh

Bugscope Team Fransisco that was not the butt. And on insects they are called the abdomen

Bugscope Team it's like they don't really have a butt
Student oh
Student what is it
Student do you like your job
Student erica i rote ever then wyatt said cool
Guest oh franico :0
Student what that black
Student what job?
Student ok?

Student dddddddddddd
Student why did you pick bug scope for a job scot

Student thats awsome

Student what is that

Student what other thins do you work with
Student what is that
Bugscope Team the people who hired me wanted to start this project 10 years ago and I came in to run the 'scope and help set it up'
Student what are we looking at?
Student iz that acloud
Student so we can send things other than bugs?
Student oh thats cool
Bugscope Team I work with the transmission electron microscope as well
Guest do you have kids???
Bugscope Team no kids
Student what is that pointy thing inthe middle
12:09pm
Bugscope Team you could send other things but bugs are pretty interesting
Bugscope Team that is a small seta in the middle
Student scot im with a wired e
Student what is this?
Guest do you have a wife
Bugscope Team I am not sure where we are you all
Student you say pretty
Bugscope Team no wife either
Student yuup
Student bugs, show something else
Bugscope Team Mr M log out and back in again and lag will be better for awhile
Student Toby Boyce
Student 2.Georgia
Student 3.He wanted to be part of the war and is now in the band.
Student it
Student .Ohio
Student y
Guest do you ahave pets
Student haiel Epp
Student B
Student 2.Georgia
Student .He wanted to be part of the war and is now in the band.
Student how about the wierd thing
Bugscope Team I have a few plants and that is it
Student scot why dont yiu have kids,your just to bizy werking on bug scope
Bugscope Team that was a seta -- a tiny sensory hair

Student do you have a girlfriend

Bugscope Team yeah busy doing this, and I had to take care of my brothers and sister when I was small -- didn't want to do it again
Student i didn't ask you
Student show something else

Bugscope Team no gf now, sad...

Student why would a hair be in a mouth
Bugscope Team this is the tip of the tail of the walking stick
Student don't be sad
Teacher wow this is cool
Student who is vatoz locos?

Bugscope Team it is kind of a pincer tail like an earwig has

Student what part is this
Bugscope Team see it has spines on it
Guest do you have a famliy

Student answer me
Student hairs are weird
Bugscope Team we were thinking maybe it can grasp branches with it
Guest yes or no
Student no demanding francio
Student does every thing look dull if zoomed into?
Bugscope Team hey Fransisco I am doing fine, thanks

Student i don tknow
Student it looks like a bball hoope
Bugscope Team bugs sometimes it's the focus that needs to be messed with
Bugscope Team there are lots of walking sticks
12:14pm
Guest why
Student is that ahand
Bugscope Team lots of types, some very big
Student who's scott

Bugscope Team this is the tail

Teacher What is the job of this part?

Student is this the claw?
Student ya
Bugscope Team Scot is Scott
Student to grab stuff
Student do walking sticks bite
Bugscope Team we think it has a grasping function
Guest are you sher
Student how big can they get?
Bugscope Team they don't bite -- they are docile, slow
Bugscope Team andy we are not sure about this one
Student what slow
Bugscope Team they can get a foot long in the Tropics
Student do you guys do this ecvery day/
Student is it a crb?

Student wat is the fob ofthis
Student show number 15 please
Student is it a crab
Student wgat does docile meen

Bugscope Team we do this three times a week
Teacher please give control to fransisco

Student oh ok
Guest do you know ecology
Student would you like a gf
Student how do they bite?

Student francio stay on task
Bugscope Team docile means calm, harmless
Bugscope Team these guys don't bite
Student like a what a crab
Student do they use pncers in self defence
Guest where are you
Student can they do anything to hurt some one?

Student andy were are who
Student jarheads quit fighting
Student scot how do they catch there food
Student {
Student hjthjkhhgujghjshdgjhsjghudsghkjshdgijdigjidjgidjj
Student what is a spearicle?
Student whats a sperical?

Bugscope Team we are 23 feet underground in the Beckman Institute in Urbana Illinois, at the University of Illinois.

Student what bis a spherical
Guest im at the ferut
Student ?
Bugscope Team spiracles are the breathing pores insects have
Student what is that
Student we cant get the caterpillar spiracles preset
Student why
Student so they dont breath through mouth
Bugscope Team Miley I cma not sure what walking sticks eat but I think they are herbivores.
Student your at the what andy
Student where do they breath out of/
Student where is andy molina
12:19pm

Student who hs control

Student why do bugs have spiacles

Guest bugs where are you
Student scot i think the callapiter is crazy
Student francisco
Student why is the eye so trashed?
Student is that the eye?
Student soct thats great but how do they catch there food
Student i dont know but i want it
Bugscope Team yeah the caterpillar is crazy, and yes that was the eye

Bugscope Team a set of simple eyes

Bugscope Team you can see one spiracle now on the right

Student yes

Student in a class room in tucson
Bugscope Team Jarheads I think they just, like, chew on leaves
Student francio what were tring to spell

Student scot this doesint looke like a catupiller
Student are those pimples or just bumps?
Student what is that hole?\

Student what is that?
Student nick what is your nick anme
Teacher yes what are thos bumps for
Student u what a number

Bugscope Team those are bumps that protect the caterpillar from being eaten
Student it looks like a mouth
Guest i just that
Teacher please give bugs control
Bugscope Team that thing that resembles a mouth is one of the spiracles

Student scot how does the bumpes proteced the catupiller
Bugscope Team okay cool this is the weevil
Student whuuuuuut
Student we still want control
Student nick whatis that
Student pleas
Bugscope Team the bumps make it very difficult to bite
Student control of what francio
Student why havent you asked a ? mr.m
Bugscope Team sorry fransisco
Student its body
Bugscope Team ericamarkie has it now
Student we have control
Bugscope Team Mr M has asked a few questions today.
12:24pm
Student is that the stinger
Student let shawnmiguel have controle
Bugscope Team here you have a good opportunity to see the antennae
Student i don't know
Bugscope Team oops

Bugscope Team take the mag a little lower now
Bugscope Team please
Student that thing looks like a golfball

Student what animal is this
Guest hey everbody erica have a some date of my birthday!!!:)

Student g

Student what is this?
Guest just kiddy
Student we want control
Student again

Student sorry
Bugscope Team okay this is one of the mandibular palps of the honeybee -- this is what it tastes with
Student this is a honeybee palp, what ever that is
Student andy molina whats really fake name
Teacher what is a palp
Student what is a palp
Bugscope Team a palp is like an accessory mouthpart
Student just jk
Student never mind
Student hey
Student does it have the taste as us?
Bugscope Team they come in pairs, and they help manipulate and taste food
Guest hello im lizzy low han
Student ok you have controle
Student o man
Bugscope Team no mosquitoes today I am sorry
Guest think you@@#$#@!
Student thanks for talking to us see you bye
Student bhe and thanks
Student byscot
Student thank u scot for telling us good info
Bugscope Team Thank You!
Teacher thanks bugscope we have to go! This was awesome!!
Student thantyou ihope you get a gf
Bugscope Team See you in a few days Mr M
Bugscope Team Thanks Fransisco.
Bugscope Team See you all next time.
Teacher see you monday!
Bugscope Team yeah!
Bugscope Team Time for me to find some food.

School Name	Amphitheater Middle School
School Homepage	http://www.amphi.com/schools/ams/
Location
Community	Suburban
Type	Public

Subjects Taught	Science
Grades Taught	7th Grade
Number of Students	120

Project Title	A comparison of insect and arachnid exoskeletons and their function.
Insects To Study	spider, beetles, centipede, butterfly, praying mantis
Project Description	Students have come up with a class purpose for using Bugscope. We will collect data on insect and arachnid exoskeletons looking for similarities, differences and functions. Students will complete notes and drawings during the session that will be used to write an analysis and conclusion of our question, in essay format.

Session 2008-086 with Amphitheater Middle School

Application

The School

The Class

The Project

Miscellaneous

Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2008-10-24 10:00:00 from , AZ, US