Connected on 2008-11-03 10:15:00 from , PA, US
- 9:26am
- Bugscope Team session enabled, rxl started, starting vacuum
- 9:38am
- Bugscope Team starting presets
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- 10:06am
- Bugscope Team that looks cool
- Bugscope Team get that
- Bugscope Team like tons of tenent setae
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- 10:21am
- Bugscope Team hello tracy, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Teacher Hi! Should I have the students sign in as guests?
Bugscope Team nope, have them login as "students"
- Bugscope Team but if that doesn't work, then guests is okay too
- Bugscope Team hello h
- Teacher Can this computer be the driver? We can rotate students onto this computer?
Bugscope Team sure, the computer you are on can control the scope. but we can also transfer control to anyone else logged in, student or guest
- Bugscope Team you can let us know who to transfer control to
- Bugscope Team if you wish
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team hi akeyo
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team Hi Akeyo!
- Student hi alex
- Teacher We are all here and ready to get started. Max Z will be the first driver on my computer.
- Student hi akeyo.
- Student Hi people what is up
- Bugscope Team Cool!
- Student hi bridget
- Student what?
- Student hi back
- Bugscope Team hi bridget, welcome to bugscope
- Student what is that?
- Student hi, My name is Justin
- Student hi alex and akeyo
- Bugscope Team hi justine
- Student this is soooo cool
- Bugscope Team justin, i mean, sorry
- Student hello justin.
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team this is part of the cricket's antrenna
- Student ha ha
- Bugscope Team these long things are insect hairs called setae (or seta for singular. and pronounced see-tee)
- Bugscope Team at higher mag
- Student boo hoo
- Student really cool
- Student cool.
- Student Hi. I'm emma.
- Student hi everyone
- Student hi
- Student hey k
- Student waz up
- 10:26am
- Student inside joke
- Bugscope Team Max can take the mag down if he wishes, to show you where you are
- Bugscope Team max, you should see controls on your right (magnify, navigation, focus, adjust). presets are below that. maybe start by clicking on a preset you'd like to see?
- Student this is so much fun dont u think
- Bugscope Team the pointy thing is one of the setae on the antenna
- Student sure k
- Student yes
- Student hi katie
- Bugscope Team setae are hair like things that stick through the exoskeleton, and help the insect feel it's environment, kinda like cat whiskers
- Student hi akeyo isnt this awsome
- Bugscope Team insects and other small arthropods have exoskeletons, which is sort of like if you were wearing armor all of the time
- Bugscope Team setae are pronounced 'see-tee'
- Student what is the thing above the setae?
- Student scot wat is a spirical
- Student or 'see-tee'.
- Bugscope Team so they need to be able to sense their environment, and the setae help them do that
- Student what is that max?
- Bugscope Team a spiracle is a breathing pore
- Student what is a spirical
Bugscope Team a spiracle is how the bug breaths. instead of a mouth for breathing it has holes on the side of its abdomen
- Student sorry what is like doing this for a job
- Bugscope Team it's like your nose
- Bugscope Team insects do not breathe through their mouths
- Bugscope Team A spiracle is sort of like a nostril--except insects have them all over their bodies.
- Student um, so what is the fungi looking below the setae?
- Student what is that tube?
- Student what is
- Bugscope Team looks like some random dirt/junk
- Student is there fungus on it
- Student mosquito
- Student okay.
- Bugscope Team if there were bacteria here we would be able to see them clearly
- Student hello everybody
- Student how many bugs do you get each month
- Student do misquitos have simple eyes or compound
Bugscope Team most flying insects have compound eyes, as they help them fly better
- Teacher whats that
- Student both.
- Student it's a freak of nature
- Bugscope Team and also fungus -- we can see fungal hyphae no problem
- Student I think.
- Student yea it is
- Bugscope Team this is the base of a broken seta
- Bugscope Team but mosquitos might also have simple eyes too. annie?
- Student don't they have simple eyes as well?
- Student stop using big words everybody
- Bugscope Team you can see now that we are looking at the joint of an antenna
- Student cool!
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- Student justin isnt this awsome
- Bugscope Team yes a lot of flying insects also have simple eyes called ocelli. they work for navigation, like a built in GPS system
- Student what are the little lines on this picture
- Student wavy lines are what?
- Student IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team well no, all these insects are dead, sorry. RIP bug.
- Student like bumpy skin.
- Student what materials are bug hairs maid of???
- Bugscope Team the wavy lines are in the cuticle
- Student what are those bubbles?
- Student idk
- Student What is this bug that i am looking at?
- Student Are those giant blob things dirt?
- Bugscope Team this is a cricket
- Student hi emma L.
- Student what is it
- Student Hi
- Student this picture is cool!
Bugscope Team all the pics from today's session are saved to your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-093
- Student hi bridget
- Student I think it is a setae on cricket spiracle, according to the "nearest preset" thing.
- Student hi lex
- Student wooo were are goin to dang fast on the pics slow down
- Student hi lex
- Student what the heck?!
- Student hi e-mac
- Teacher Xeno Bond is Now Driving
- Student ha ha
- Student Why is the cricket in black and white?
- Student yea hi brige and lex
- Bugscope Team this is still the antenna
- Student how many buds do you get a week
- Student it looks kind of like big foot
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team you can choose from among the presets, and you can also drive around
- Student HI E_ MAC
- Student what is that?
- Student it's a grey blob lex
- Student what are we looking
- Student what is this pix of
- Bugscope Team we get, right now, dozens of bugs per week
- Teacher No Idea
- Student what is this?
- Student IT'S A GREY BLOB THAT WILL EAT US ALL!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team this is the carbon doublestick tape
- Student Is this part of the exoskeleton?
- Student Hi e-mac
- Student what is this
- Student what is that?
- Bugscope Team that the insects are mounted on
- Student wat is this
- Guest what up
- Student What is that
- Student what up max
- Student what up
- Student cool
- Teacher We3 are Now looking at a house fly compound eye
- Student the pictures are in black and white because I think because they collect electrons (or something that start with e) and they aren't colored.
- Guest whats that
- Student it looks like bubble wrap
- Student why is ur name yellow max
- Student it looks like snake scales
- Bugscope Team now we are looking at the facets of a compound eye
- Guest woooooow
- Student adam, what is an admin
- Student WHAT IS IT LIKE WORKING W_ BUGS?
Bugscope Team I like to study insects because there are really interesting, I get to discover new things and new species, I get to travel to really interesting places and work with other scientists that study insects
- Student what bug is the eye on
- Student i thought compound eyes were not that big
- Student this is carzy
- Student someone tellme what that is
Bugscope Team this is a compound eye, all those bumps are called facets, or rather ommatidia
- Student Everyone in my class, stop saying random questions or comments.
- Student crazy
- Student wow is that hair?
- Student what are hairs for
- Student what is this
- Student is that it
- Student how are you liking this abbie?
- Guest i'm scared!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student this is soooo cool
- Student How did you get the bugs eye to be close up?
Bugscope Team you are controlling an electron microscope live. these are not pictures from before, these are live images from the microscope
- Student it's a sicko fly
- Student max y r u scard
- Bugscope Team we beam primary electrons at the surface of the sample, and they cause what are then called secondary electrons to be ejected from the surface
- Student where is the mouth
- Student it looks like amouth
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- Student whos atlas
- Student Are those sensory hairs on the head?
Bugscope Team Exactly!
Bugscope Team yes! setae on the head
Bugscope Team Well, probably. They certainly help the insect to sense its environment. The setae can also help to protect the insect against dirt and potentially against predators.
- Guest ewww
- Student what are the haires on the bug
- Teacher is this a stereo micro scope
Bugscope Team this is a scanning electron microscope that you are controlling
Bugscope Team this is an environmental scanning electron microscope
- Student yes
- Student these aee alive?
- Guest it's hairy
- Student *are these alive
Bugscope Team nope, all the insects are dead
- Student scot said so I believe...
- Student what is the thing on the top of its head
- Student It looks like an eye
- Student Aw...He's so cute and really cool!!! Is he living or dead?
- Student anteans
- Student why is the mouth so wierd looking
- Student why are they dead
Bugscope Team Because it would be hard to look at them if they were crawling around.
- Student wheres the mouth
- Student What are these pictures anyway?
- Student oh, okay.
- Bugscope Team this microscope has its own room, its own power, water, air, nitrogen, vacuum pumps...
- Student they just are katie
- Student is he dead
- Bugscope Team um is microns, or micrometers
- Teacher what does um mean???
Bugscope Team um = micron
- Bugscope Team one micron = one millionth of a meter
- Guest how did you get the bugs
- Student that was so random alex
- Bugscope Team or one thousandth of a millimeter
- Student do you freeze them to kill them
Bugscope Team Sometimes. Other times people put them into jars filled with poisonous gas.
- Student what kind of bugs do u get and where
Bugscope Team you sent us these bugs
- Student that would be cool
- Student how do you ask questions
- Bugscope Team you guessed right bridget
- Student what are those things on the point of the flys head?
Bugscope Team Those are the antennae
- Teacher this is adam driving!!!
- Student the mouth is at the top
- Student we sent them
- Bugscope Team go adam, put on your seat belts!!!
- Student katie it's the circle of life
- Student how big is it?
- Student do you kill them different ways
- Teacher adam is driving!
- Student what is in the background?
Bugscope Team the background is carbon sticky tape, used to keep the insects stable on their backs
- Bugscope Team at the top of the head as we see it now are the antennae
- Student yes he is
- Student I know
- Student stop saying that adam
- Student What is the biggest bug that you have got?
Bugscope Team I am not sure what the largest insect we have examined is. Large insects are not very interesting to look at with the electron microscope---they are too big!
- Student that is cool
- Bugscope Team you could use click to center to drive to the mouth
- Guest wow thats close
- Bugscope Team or you could use click to drive
- Student it is so freakish
- Student back it up
- Student that looks like hairs
- Student Why is the picture black and white?
Bugscope Team because the scope doesn't gather light in the normal sense. it gathers electrons that are bounced against the bugs, and those electrons are sensed by the detector, and the detector builds the image that way
- Student yes it is
- Student the hairs on this bug is cool
- Bugscope Team a scanning electron microscope like this one can achieve very high magnification
- Student e-mac is emma
- Student what are bug hairs maid of
- Bugscope Team much higher than a light microscope
- Student What would happen if you didnt freeze them?
- Student Because it is that way
- Student what would you kill them in such a bag way like gas
Bugscope Team If you were out in the field collecting insects and you didn't have an ice chest or a freezer, you would need to kill them with gas. Sometimes people also will just put them into ethanol to kill them.
- Student that waas randome
- Student does it have a proboscus?
- Student i know
- Student what was random
- Bugscope Team but the secondary electrons come to us as a signal, and there is no color
- Student wat is that
- Student IS THIS BUG REALLY FROZEN!!!????????????
- Teacher can I click on a different presets to look at them>
Bugscope Team yes go ahead and click on another preset
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- Student it's ugly
- Bugscope Team if we didnt freeze them we would have to let them die on their own or let them go
- Student Is bug ventral up or dorsal up?
- Student i dont know
- Student what are we looking at anyway?
Bugscope Team this is a house fly head
- Bugscope Team if there was color we would see that the Au/Pd looks silver
- Guest how long is the acual bug
- Student it's ugly
- Student does it have a mutash
- Student what type of bug is it?
- Student maybe
- Student what is this thing
- Student ewwwwwwwwww
- Teacher cool!
- Bugscope Team this is a planthopper
- Student What are bug hairs made of??????????????????????
Bugscope Team Chitin and proteins, just like the rest of the insect's body.
- Student what is that?!?!!
- Student why is it pionted
- Student it's sick looking
- Student it looks like a werdo
- Bugscope Team looks like a conehead
- Student What is that?
Bugscope Team This is some sort of plant or leaf hopper.
- Student WOW
- Student that looks like a grasshopper
- Student it is a conehead
- Student SAy SomEThing
- Bugscope Team the eyes are streamlined into the head and below the antennae
- Student how is that a grasshopper
- Student thats a funny movie
- Student what is this?
- Teacher this is really interesting.
- Student why is it in the shape of a conehaed
Bugscope Team Well, no one really knows for sure. Many insects that feed on plant sap have triangular heads...I guess that is an efficient way to "house" the large muscular pumps that these insects have in their heads.
- Student MAX ITS THE HEAD
- Student i dont know
- Student Did you ever get a bug that was unknown?
Bugscope Team yes, sometimes we can't quite recognize exactly what the insect is
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student it's a mutant
- Student Is that a claw?
- Student claw
- Guest nasty!!!!!!
- Student why is there so many different pictures?
- Teacher leaf hopper snout!
- Student WHAT THE HECK!!!??????????
- Teacher I mean weavile.
- Student I know
- Student HEY do U no what this is i do it is a leaf hopper snout
- Guest blaaah
- Student it looks like a dead union
- Student this is blurry
- Student looks like a hand
- Student are the lumps dirt
- Student WWWOOOOOOOWWWWWW
- Student lfgbkdnzb'danb
- Student No
- Student Is that an eye?
- Student emma u r eright
- Guest ewwwwww
- Student what are those claw like peaces
- Bugscope Team Which allow them to suck the plant say
- Teacher what are those hairs?
Bugscope Team hairs looking things are almost always setae, but there are other hairy looking things, like combs and such
- Bugscope Team now you can see some of the chemosensory setae that help it taste its prospective food
- Student IT LOOKS LIKE A CAB
- Student those look like claws
- Student wow
- Student it so looks like a shrimp
- Student Aw man!!! What is that????
- Teacher by people!
- Guest woow
- Student by
- Student that is a squuid
- Student what is wow
- Student looks like shredded paper
- Student brendon is the teac
- Student Why do bugs lay so many eggs?
Bugscope Team Because not all of them survive. Many dry out, or are eaten by other insects, etc.
- Student wwwooooopppeeeeeeee
- Student wow is what the insect loooks like
- Student they view inscets not sea life
- Student i no so they can spread
- Student and it is pronounced: Z-E-n-O
- Student what are we looking at
- Student were is the eye of this insect
- Student who is zemo bond
- Student there is a bug called squid
- Student we are looking at a mutant shrimp
- Student is this athe eye
- Student this is so cool! how does this work?
- Student Is this a squid?
- Student the underwater bug?
- Student What is that/
- Student i no it is the kid at the end of the to Maxxy
- Student i dont know
- Bugscope Team this is a spiracle, now
- Guest Blaaaaaah
- 10:47am
- Student is this a spiracle?
Bugscope Team yes, this is a spiracle
- Student this thing is a total freak of nature
- Guest scary
- Student it looks like a mouth
- Bugscope Team this is what insects breathe through
- Student Is that hole a spiracle?
Bugscope Team the little holes are spiracles
- Guest loooks like it hurts
- Student what insect are we looking at
- Student Can a bug get more than 2 eyes?
Bugscope Team yes, many bugs have a few simple eyes (called ocelli), spiders have 7 ocelli, right cate?
- Student okay, brendon is adam for now.
- Student abbie even you spell my last name wrong
- Student I know
- Student Wow. This is amazing. how does the microscope work? gotta know.
Bugscope Team the samples are in a vacuum chamber, and we beam electrons at them. those electrons cause secondary electrons to be ejcted from the conductive coat of gold-palladium we have put on the samples. the secondary electrons are collected as signal, in gray scales of relative brightness/darkness, that we see on the screen
- Student it is COLOMBO
- Student wwwwwwwwwooooooooopppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- Student looks like a venus fly trap.
- Student Are all of those sensory hairs?
- Student no body care how to spell your last name
- Student Sorry, HOW DARE YOU CALL ME ABBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student i know
- Student what is long spikey thing
- Student it does look like a venus flytrap
- Student what is the hole on it?
- Student why are there hairs in it
Bugscope Team the hairs help keep particles out, the same reason we have nose hairs
- Student what is it
- Student I did that on perepious for sweet revenge
- Student it looks kind of gross
- Student whoa....is that like its skin
- Student wat is this
- Student what is um
- Bugscope Team or is it six ocelli?
- Student conner, please answer me.
- Student how do bugs get babies
Bugscope Team They have internal fertilization and they lay eggs....like a chicken kind of.
- Student what are those?
- Student ARRR!
- Student SHINY!!!!!!!
- Student what are we looking at now?
- Student eggs.
- Student I see you typing!!!
- Student blablablabla
- Student wow
- Student it is fat
- Student \EWWWW they nasty
- Student that is a worm
- Student i never knew mealworms were so freakish up close
- Student AW!!!! He's so little!!!
- Student eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww
- Student is that an eye?
- Student Is it a beetle or a mealworm?
- Student max, why did you say bob
- Bugscope Team this is the adult
- Student no it is not a eye
- Student wow, so is that it's exoskeleton?
- Student hi
- Student is its skin bumpy or smooth
- Student oh
- Student hi
- Student Mealworms are larve and adults are beeetles.
- Student nice lex
- Student now what are we looking at?
- Bugscope Team this is the carbon stick tape we lay the bugs down on
- Student e-mac we know
- Student ops
- Student it looks like the moon
- Student oops
- Student im justin now
- Student why is caitlyn asking questions if she nos
- Student Can a bug lay ONLY one egg?
- Student what are those spots?
- Student what r the black dots
- Guest what are the dots
- Student what were you before justin
- Student im xeno now
- Student put it into focus
- Student meaning no=Knows dont she work there
- Student what are the little spots?
- Student what is um?
- Student no an insect can lay like 500 eggs
- Student (I believe they lay thousands, barbara)
- Bugscope Team most bugs are going to lay more than one egg, for safety
- Student !!!
- Student it is a beetle or a pupa
- Student Quiet Neil
- 10:52am
- Student beetle
- Guest cool
- Bugscope Team beetle
- Student yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
- Student How long are u guys on
- Student larva is what it looks like to me...
- Student this is an adult right?
- Student its mouth is all mushy
- Student ok. just got your answer,but could you translate it into somthing 5th graders understand?
- Student Sielencio Yo Matar Mantanza (Neil)
- Student is this its underbelly?
- Student wwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooow
- Student How long can a bug live?
- Student Garo Bija
- Guest scaly
- Student it has a bumpy shell
- Student oh, mrs. valenty clarified. it i s a darkling beetle head.
- Bugscope Team yes
- Student NO DUGH\
- Student does a mealworm have hairs on its skin?\
Bugscope Team insects don't have skin, they have an exoskeleton, and their are hairs that stick through the exoskeleton, those hairs are called setae, and they help the insect sense its environment
- Student Ohio Guzaima
- Student it is UUUUGGGLLLYYY!!
- Student omg
- Student i dont think so akeyo
- Student what r the black dots
- Bugscope Team bacteria, the bacillus or rod shaped ones, are generally two microns long
- Student what is that
- Student I guess the fungus was just because it died and fungus grew on it...
Bugscope Team You are RIGHT! The fungus is going to decompose the dead beetle.
- Student this skin is cool
- Student WHAT ARE THE LITTLE DOTS
Bugscope Team those are bubbles
- Student how big is it?
- Student once again reminding people I am adam, not brendon, due to switching computors around.
- Student FOCUS!!!!!!!!!!
- Student Cool
- Bugscope Team yes Brendon fungus often comes along after the insect dies
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student Sweet
- Student does this bug have smooth skin?
- Student what are in these pictures?
- Student wow...do you know what kind of bug burrows into people's heads? they bubble also, I believe.
Bugscope Team Human bot fly larvae kind of burrow into people's heads. The larvae feed under people's skin--not into your brain or anything.
- Student it looks like fins
- Student why is it grey and blank
- Student What image is being shown right now.
- Student what!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student WHAT IS THIS
- Student a bug can lay alot of eggs
- Student Bubbles? BUBBLES?!?! How is this part of a bug?
- Student idk
- Student a bug doesnt have skin it has an exoskelleton
- Student what is that
- Student WHAT THE *
- Student fins
- Student hello please tell me about wevils
- Student that looks like a hair
- Student i think there is something wrong with the screen
- Student please tell me what these things are!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team whoever is driving is going wild, which is why the image is constantly changing
- Student you think!
- Student what is that
- Student i agree with katie, what is a weevil
- Student this is soo wierd
- Student is somthing up with the screen or what?
- Student hey lex
- Guest beetle
- Student weevil: a bug that burrows into acorns in the larva stage, then stays in them. when they are beetles, they still eat acorns.
- Student is a wolf spider harmful?
- Student ARE those bubbles part of the bug at all?
- Student hey
- Guest yes
- Student it is so not fair
- Student what is that
- Student yes wolf spider can kill you
Bugscope Team No wolf spiders are venomous---sorry to disappoint you ;)
- Guest i'm confused!!!!!!!!!
- Guest oww
- Student why is the screen upsidedown
- Guest disied
- 10:57am
- Student why r u confused max
- Student I dont know
- Student never mind. what was up with the screen? correction what is up with the screen?
- Student what am I seeing???!!!
- Student do crickets eat honey?
Bugscope Team Crickets will eat pretty much anything---even other crickets!!!!
- Student the screen is all blury
- Guest like a roler coster
- Student
- Teacher Teacher is back on computer. Did Justin click too much? Our presets have disappearred?
- Student dfhgfp
- Student why would crickets eat honey?
- Student 8
- Student whhat
- Student that is really wierd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student vg
- Student yo
- Student Do you think that this is a cool job to be doing?
- Student it looks like a machine
- Student it looks like a mechine
- Student what is that?!
- Student WHAT??? Crikets eat HONEY!!!????
Bugscope Team Crickets will eat honey, they will eat garbage, they will eat leaves, pretty much anything.
- Guest a hole
- Bugscope Team this is part of the microscope stage
- Student what is this justin
- Student no really
- Student most venom can kill you
- Student waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
- Student what lex
- Guest what does it do
- Student it looks like a road
- Student what is that
- Bugscope Team we are trying to fix the scope, we've never seen it have this problem before
- Student what is going on?!!!!!!!!! what is the picture?!!!!!! not a bug, thats for sure. what the heck are we looking at anyway?
- Student Is this a wolf spider?-Oooh, killers
- Student that was brendons fault
- Student what is that?!
- Student no it wasnt
- Student Is this part of the machine.
- Student no i was asking about there response to your question it didnt make sense
- Student we broke it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student so what was the fly thing that goes into people's heads? I didn't get to read it.
- Guest i'm sorry!!!!!!!
- Student Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student hurray!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student this looks like plastic. I dont get it.
- Guest i didnt do anyrhing
- Student ?
- Student e-mac, lex, and emma we found this earwig
- Student no one said it was max.
- Student hi
- Student hi
- Student Crickets are herbivores ((meaning they won't eat us)
- Student Is the scope fixed yet?
- Guest i'm still sorry
- Bugscope Team not a problem, we are working on it now
- Student ygut
- Student So this broke? Wat happened?
- Student it was'nt your fault
- Student this looks like a...well I don't know. what is this?
- Student sorry about that i accidentaly typed in nonsense
- Student Hi
- Guest weird
- Student hi everybody
- Student what are we looking at
- Student I know
- Bugscope Team we are almost ready
- Student hi e-mac
- Student WE BROKE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student we did brake it!!!!!!
- Student Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student HI LEX
- Bugscope Team no, it's not broken, just confused
- Student wooly bear caterpillar. it's fuzzy...why is there no fuzz on it, why?
- Student ATLAS IS NEIL WHO IS IN THE CORNER
- Student sorry about that
- 11:02am
- Guest thank you alex your nice
- Student Okay, if it's really broken, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
- Student it is confused, how can the machine be confused
- Student cool!!!!!!!!!!
- Student awesome
- Student What is that
- Student sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student (tear)
- Student wow, is this the inside of the microscope, or the outside?
- Student what happened
- Student WHAT
- Guest sour!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team that was the inside of the scope, via a CCD camera
- Student how can the machine be confused?
- Student - do that again
- Student black out!!!
- Student SAD
- Student what is going on
- Student the pic is no longer visible....
- Bugscope Team we are restarting the scope software
- Student what is sour max?
- Student ha ha e-mac
- Student \ph yae
- Student darkness
- Guest nice
- Student what is \ph yae?
- Student Hey, this is a cool bug... a black hole. WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
- Student what is going on
- Student good luck in restarting it alex
- Student it is so black!~
- Student YOU ZOOMED TO CLOSE
- Bugscope Team you should see an image soon
- Student WHAT
- Bugscope Team there's the inside of the scope again
- Student wwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww
- Student that is wierd
- Student How often has this happened
- Student this is weird
- Student some ones hand
- Student CCCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
- Bugscope Team this has never happened before
- Student let us see ur face
- Student wwwwwwwoooow is right
- Guest holloween was friday its scary
- Student Hand!!@!!!!!!
- Student put ur head in
- Student cool hand
- Guest hand
- Bugscope Team i think what happened is someone "clicked to drive" and never clicked "stop"
- Student Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here....!!!
- Student WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? ok. what is going on? and what was that last picture? it looked like scientific equiptment? its back though. what is ita?
- Student please let us see u
- Student oh my gosh what is that? it's like...some arm thingy!?
- Student HELLO MY NAME IS BARBARA!
- Student Nice hand
- Student u guys ROCK!
- Bugscope Team this is the inside of the scope
- Student no duh
- Guest fix it fix it
- Student is that the scientist dude?
- Student Thanks for trying
- Student WWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAND
- Student this is soooo cooool
- Bugscope Team the scope is about the size of a desk, here's a pic: http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/ms/equipment/microscopes/esem/
- Student it is a guy
- Student there is a person!!!!
- Student what face???
- Student this is cool
- Guest dont cut the red wire
- Student What is that
- Student go back and smile
- Student what is that
- Student WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WO W omg what is that???!!!!!!!!!
- Student What wire!!!!?????
- Student Don't cut Ze red wire
- Bugscope Team okay, now we have the bugs back in the scope, we have to re-create the vacuum though, that takes about 2-3 minutes
- Student !!!!!!!!!!
- Student ok
- Student a visitor
- Student Is that a bird
- Student is catilyn
- Student sorry. typo.
- Student I don't know WHAT is going on.
- Student it doesnt work
- Student is thqt a mouse or what is on the stage
- Student is it food?
- Student neither do i
- Student she is sitting next to e-mac
- Student Was that Scot or Alex?
- Student it looks like a dead squid
- Bugscope Team once the vacuum is pumped up, then we can turn on the electron detector
- Student what are those
- Student EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team it was the yellow wire
- Student FOOOOD
- Student sorry food
- Student seriously, what is on there?????
- Student My screen is black
Bugscope Team if your screen is black, hit refresh (F5)
- Student idk
- Student PUMP THE VACCUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student what
- Student ur funny scot
- Student i know! its so weird!
- 11:07am
- Guest don't cut that either
- Bugscope Team try to refresh your browser screen if it is blank
- Student My screen is back
- Bugscope Team we had to disconnect the yellow wire so that we could re-home the stage
- Student where did all the cool people go???
- Student y do u say that brendon
- Student A nown is a person place or thing, doo do doo do do doo
- Student raty!
- Student alex, what happens if you cut the red wire
- Student Abbie!
- Student ha ha
- Student what is up abbie
- Student I know
- Bugscope Team this thing is a scope, not a b
- Student so the waiting period between slides is the admins putting on different slides?
Bugscope Team there are no slides, these are real insects inside a chamber of an electron microscope
- Student i still see the dead squid
- Student VERB!!!
- Student yea what is up abbie
- Student NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student i feel bad for all of you to have to fix this.
- Student WHAT is up???
- Student MY SCREEN IS BLACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student by, you guys are soooooooooooo cool
- Student BYE!!!
- Bugscope Team don't feel bad, this is fine, no big deadl
- Bugscope Team deal i mean
- Student by alex
- Bugscope Team when you drive again, try not to click so much when driving the scope
- Student I wanna learn about bugs!!!
- Student I know for a fact that crickets eat anything, because they were eating my gecko!
- Bugscope Team click once to start moving, then you click again to stop
- Student okay, so there are like multiple chambers?
- Bugscope Team if you keep clicking over and over, weird things happen
- Bugscope Team now the screen is black on purpose
- Bugscope Team it'll find an image in a sec
- Bugscope Team now the screen will be black until I turn the beam on
- Bugscope Team okay, the detector is now on
- Bugscope Team tracy? everything okay?
- Bugscope Team looks like all the students have closed their browsers
- Bugscope Team tracy, if you are there can you respond please?
- Teacher It is time for the students to go to lunch. Some may come back after eating. I will stay to drive if ok with you.
- Bugscope Team okay
- 11:12am
- Bugscope Team okay, the scope is unlocked again, you should see controls
- Bugscope Team presets will be busted though, we had to reset the entire scope which kills the presets
- Bugscope Team we have never had that happen before
- Bugscope Team in nearly 10 years
- Bugscope Team sorry
- Bugscope Team but Ms V you may drive if you would like, and the images you collect will be saved to your school's database
- Bugscope Team you can also try the presets -- we'll find out how far off they are now
- Bugscope Team your member page is: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-093
- Bugscope Team all the chat and images are saved to you member page
- Bugscope Team tracy, it's better if you stay on your computer, and then we give control to the "students" logged in. that way if a student is controlling like a madman, we can take away control and give it back to you
- 11:18am
- Teacher Great! Sorry, I hope it isn't anything we did. I have a pop-up that keeps coming up for video cgi. Also a pink bar across the screeen "Please wait while command executes". Typing is very slow; that is why it is taking a long time for me to respond.
- Teacher Could this have anything to do with our internet connection?
- Bugscope Team try logging out and back in again, that should fix everything
- Bugscope Team not sure what the problem is, too hard to diagnose now, we can look at our logs later, but let's just get ready for more, things are fine now
- Teacher ok. Be back soon.
- Bugscope Team but we need to get that "please wait.." off your screen
- Bugscope Team okay, see you in a bit
- Bugscope Team welcome back!
- Bugscope Team is the "please wait..." gone?
- Teacher OK. Looks good!
- Bugscope Team we are making a couple of presets
- Bugscope Team i've locked the session while we do presets, when we are done, we'll give you control back, just a couple more minutes
- Bugscope Team let us know if the kids are ready to go
- Teacher Sorry. The kids are at lunch. I asked some of them to come back after eating but they are middle schoolers.....so the stomach ususally wins.
- 11:23am
- Bugscope Team totally understand.
- Teacher We will be looking at the images in class as a follow-up, though.
- Bugscope Team cool, and remember all the chat and images from the session are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-093
- 11:28am
- Bugscope Team okay tracy, we've made some new presets, i've unlocked the session, so you should have control again
- Teacher thanks. these look great.
- Bugscope Team thanks!
- 11:34am
- Bugscope Team remember to click again to stop moving
- Bugscope Team if your having lag on your network, then it's best not to use "click to drive". you can use "click to center" instead
- 11:39am
- Bugscope Team hello anastasia, welcome to bugscope!
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team who's simon?
- Student he is the person driving
- Bugscope Team ah, okay
- Teacher what is a ceropod?
- Bugscope Team it's the claw looking thing
- Bugscope Team This are the cerci of a male earwig
- Student OK
- Teacher please transfer control to anastasia
- Bugscope Team ana, you've got control!
- Bugscope Team just remember, when using "click to drive", you click once to start moving, and you must click again to stop moving
- 11:44am
- Bugscope Team ah, yeah lower the mag to get a better view... nice
- Bugscope Team this mite has a flat head
- Teacher what is it on?
- Bugscope Team weird looking
- Bugscope Team well, on the left? not sure, some kind of dirt maybe, we call unknown dirt juju.
- Bugscope Team this is a plant hopper, those are the insects that look so much like little leaves, but in an electron scope, they look insects don't they?
- Teacher tracy is back. Simon went to the debate.
- Bugscope Team The triangle-shaped head accommodates huge muscles that the plant hopper uses as a pump to suck plant juices.
- Bugscope Team this is a cricket, a close up of the spiracle on the cricket
- Teacher Why is the cricket spiracle shaped differently than the other one we looked at?
Bugscope Team i'm pretty sure it's a weird angle on this image, and actually the spiracle is more circular shaped
- Bugscope Team the spiracle is how the insects circulate air into their bodies, they don't breath through mouths, but instead have these holes on their bodies, called spiracles
- Student This is so cool
- Bugscope Team but maybe i'm wrong. annie? you ever seen spiracles that weren't circular?
- Bugscope Team or at least oval?
- 11:49am
- Bugscope Team I think there can be lots of variation in the size and shape of spiracles.
- Teacher THat makes sense.
- Bugscope Team ah okay, cool, thanks!
- Bugscope Team annie is a phd in entomology, i'm a systems admin. :)
- Bugscope Team caterpillar head?
- Bugscope Team I WILL have a PhD in entomology in May
- Teacher mouth parts?
Bugscope Team The mouthparts are at the very very bottom of the caterpillar's head. We don't really have a good shot of them here.
- Bugscope Team that looks like mouth parts yes
- Student what is the hair like things on the sides
Bugscope Team those hair like things are called setae, they are sensory, in the same way that cat whiskers are, but they function differently
- Bugscope Team setae (see-tee) is plural for seta
- Student Tracy will not be able to answer for a second because she is being interviewed
- Bugscope Team not a problem. you are doing great anastasia
- Bugscope Team ask as many question as you like
- 11:55am
- Student so this is a eye
Bugscope Team hmm, no, i think this is a scale of some kind? what preset did you click on?
- Bugscope Team ah, this is a scale on top of an eye
- Bugscope Team if you zoom out, you'll get a better look at the eye
- Bugscope Team one more zoom out i think
- Bugscope Team scales are very small
- Student so it is a scale like a fish scale
Bugscope Team It is actually a scale from the wing of a moth or butterfly, most likely
- Bugscope Team notice the scale bar in the bottom left of the image, 1 um = one micron = one millionth of a meter
- Bugscope Team The scales are what give the wings of moths and butterflies their color and what make butterfly wings so slick
- Bugscope Team insects are very "hairy", or the more appropriate word would be "setae-y", i guess... ;)
- Bugscope Team prolegs are the stubby fleshy short legs on most larval forms of insects
- Student so what are we looking at here?
Bugscope Team These are the prolegs on a caterpillar---the little legs at the back end of a caterpillar
- 12:00pm
- Bugscope Team They aren't really legs, because insects only have six legs. Adult butterflies and moths lose the prolegs when they molt to adults.
- Student where are the eyes on the caterpillar head?
Bugscope Team you can see some simple eye (ocelli) on the right side, there are 4 of them, in a row, see them?
Bugscope Team See the little ring of bumps on the lower right corner of the head? Those are the eyes.
- Student switch driver back to tracy, please
- Bugscope Team leapord? or tiger?
- Bugscope Team sorry, mistype, ignore that last thing
- 12:05pm
- Teacher Anastasia is off to our mock-presidential debate. Can I drive again, please if we have a few minutes left?,
- Bugscope Team sure, tracy, you have control again
- Teacher Awesome, thanks. Will you let me know when we are done?
- Bugscope Team well, we have the scope until 12:30 at which point other researchers here need to use the scope
- Bugscope Team so you've got another 25 minutes if you want. you don't have to stay if you don't want to though, it's up to you
- Bugscope Team Oop, what do I know...I am in another building!!!
- Teacher Fantastic. I will use it!
- Teacher Simple eyes are exactly that, huh? Not much to them?
Bugscope Team yep, that's right. compound eyes are much more complex
Bugscope Team They help the insect to regulate circadian rhythm and also to know where the horizon is...but, they are really simple, yes.
- Teacher what is the hole next to the eye?
Bugscope Team That looks like there used to be a seta there
- Bugscope Team hmm, that looks like a spiracle, but i'm not sure spiracles are supposed to be on heads? strange
- 12:10pm
- Bugscope Team ah, yeah, good call annie, a broken seta
- Bugscope Team that hole goes down under the exoskeleton, and the seta would have been connected to nerves underneath
- Teacher Cool. Why would they have setae near the eye?
Bugscope Team That is a good question--it could be to protect the eyes, or it could be mechanosensory...it is really hard to know.
- Student the debate was cool
Bugscope Team did you win? ;)
- Bugscope Team Ok, Annie has to log out (that is me). Thank you for your excellent questions!
- Bugscope Team i'm still here though, and can stay here until 12:30PM
- Teacher thanks, Annie.
- 12:15pm
- Bugscope Team Alex, I will talk to you later, have a good rest-of-the-session!
- Bugscope Team bye bye!!
- Student The debate was for the presidents we are voting in a moch alection tommorow
- Teacher anastasia would like to drive
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team anastasia, you have control now
- Student OK
- Bugscope Team how old are you anastasia? what grade? not 18 i'm guessing?
- Student six grade but It is just a alection for winchesterthurston school
- Teacher these are 6th graders
- Bugscope Team very cool, hope your mock election goes well!
- Student what is a mite
- Student thanks
- Bugscope Team mites are some of the most successful invertebrates on the planet
- Teacher where is the mouth?
Bugscope Team on the right side, but it's hard to see, it's under the head
- 12:20pm
- Bugscope Team this mite is parasitic, meaning it feeds on a host, in this case the host is an earwig
- Teacher good job anastasia. Are these legs?
- Bugscope Team yeah, can't really see the mouth, sorry.
- Bugscope Team i think some of those sticks are legs, but not all, others are mouth parts used for manipulation of the food source
- Teacher What are the little scallop-looking things on the earwigs leg?
- Student that is weird
- Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure, sorry, i'm the only bugscope member left, and i'm a sysadmin. i wish i knew, i'll look online, and see if you can find other questions that i can answer :)
- Bugscope Team maybe the exoskeleton has that particular pattern on the leg of the earwig?
- Teacher thanks. I appreciate you sticking around to help us out.
- Bugscope Team no problem at all, i like doing bugscope quite a bit
- Student THats is cool
- Bugscope Team this is a spider spinneret, that is the part of the spider where the web comes out of
- Bugscope Team if you zoom out one, you might get a better idea of the overall shape of the spinneret
- Student what is the string thing coming ot of the abdomen
Bugscope Team hmm, not sure what you mean by string thing, can you click to center on it?
- 12:26pm
- Bugscope Team some spinneretes are on the feet of spider lets, which leads some scientists to presume that spinneretes were originally developed as sticky pads to help the spider walk on walls, but later developed the ability to spin web
- Teacher I asked her to look at something else. Sorry.
- Bugscope Team no problemo
- Teacher Time for us to go. Thanks SO much.
- Student I have to go but thank you so much it was a lot of fun
- Bugscope Team tarsus (plural for tarsi) are the final segments of the legs. so these are setae on those segments
- Bugscope Team thanks for doing bugscope!
- Bugscope Team remember tracy, all the chat and images are online on your member page
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-093
- Student thanks
- Bugscope Team you are very welcome
- Teacher Thank you! We will definitely using them. Bye.
- Bugscope Team thanks tracy
- Bugscope Team bye bye
- 12:31pm
- Bugscope Team okay, session done, stopping rxl, disabling session, locking session....
- Bugscope Team nice session everyone, laterz...
