Connected on 2008-11-07 09:30:00 from , PA, US
- 9:15am
- Bugscope Team session is ready to go
- 9:23am
- Bugscope Team hello mrs. valenty. welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team welcome!
- Bugscope Team Good morning!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope anastasia!
- Bugscope Team hello Anastasia!
- Student hello
- 9:29am
- Bugscope Team Anastasia would you like to drive this morning?
- Bugscope Team you have control if you would like to change mag, choose another preset, drive to somewhere else on the stub...
- Student Yes my teachers computer is not working
- Bugscope Team ah, sorry, can i help in any way, i'm a techie
- Bugscope Team and please be sure to ask us questions if you wish -- you are now the supreme ruler
- Bugscope Team Good morning Crawford!
- Bugscope Team this is a close up of a single scale of the small moth in the 'scope this morning
- Bugscope Team hey jared, welcome to bugscope, bela, welcome
- Bugscope Team if it appears too dark you can fix that in 'click to adjust'
- Bugscope Team this is a spiracle, which is a breathing pore
- Bugscope Team it has tiny setae lining it that help keep dust out
- Guest Good morning. Is there audio?
- Bugscope Team there are lots of these, usually two per segment
- Bugscope Team no we don't use audio
- 9:34am
- Bugscope Team we've got images and chat, it gets pretty busy with just that
- Bugscope Team we don't want to be telling the story as much as letting our participants ask us questions
- Bugscope Team of course if it is 'quiet' we may keep up a commentary, but students are always welcome to join in -- that's what we want
- Bugscope Team this is the front of the head of a cicada
- Student we can not get a image up
- Bugscope Team try to refrsh your browser window
- Bugscope Team anastasia, it looks like the computers are having problems. can you ask mrs. valenty if she needs help? i can call if she needs me to.
- Bugscope Team try refreshing f%
- Bugscope Team F5
- Bugscope Team Good morning Alexa Z!
- Bugscope Team students are starting to log on!
- Student Hello im Peter
- Bugscope Team Hi Peter!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to bugscope!
- Student Hello im bela
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the cicada you sent
- Bugscope Team Hi Bela!
- Bugscope Team Hi Mrs V!
- Bugscope Team this is the ovipositor of an insect we don't recognize
- Bugscope Team this is what it uses to lay its eggs
- Student hi
- Student what are those little holes?
Bugscope Team that is from the double stick carbon tape that we stick the bugs on
- Student What is this picture of?
- Student Hi
- Guest What is this?
- Bugscope Team MaxP this is an ovipoistor
- 9:39am
- Guest Anastasia, are u driving?
- Bugscope Team right now, we are looking at a compound eye
- Bugscope Team anastasia is driving, yes
- Bugscope Team oops ovipositor, and now we are on an eye
- Student Yes
- Student what eye?
- Bugscope Team the individual facets of the compound eye are called ommatidia
- Student What is an ovipositor
Bugscope Team it deposits eggs into things. sometimes it is also a stinger on a wasp or bee. The eggs can be deposited into little holes in branches or insects. If they are deposited into insects, when the eggs hatch, the larvae will eat the insect from the inside out
- Teacher Our network seems to be slow. Please have patience with us.
Bugscope Team okay, no problem, try not to use "click to drive" or "focus". using those will cause more lag is your network is slow.
- Bugscope Team welcome back Mrs v
- Student Hi! What are those little holes that have peculiar little black things spread throughout? Also, is this the compound eye, of lets say, a bee?
- Guest Haha, our network is always slow :(
- Teacher Could you please transfer drivers to Max P? Thanks.
- Bugscope Team an ovipositor is used by a female insect to inject its eggs into something -- a fruit or an caterpillar or a twig...
- Student what insect is that
Bugscope Team this is a beetle
- Bugscope Team maxP, you have control!
- Bugscope Team MaxP has it, and Anastasia you did a great job driving.
- Student what are these?
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team if your screen is black, try hitting refresh (F5)
- Student What kind of beetle is this?
- Bugscope Team this is a beetle of some sort that we do not recognize
- Student this is cool
- Student It is very hairy
- Guest >.< Eww
- Bugscope Team you can see that someone else's leg is atop the head of the beetle
- Student what are those claws above the animal? I'm not sure, they sure look like claws, and look very sharp. Is it the claw of another animal that is there or is it the leg of the animal that got deatached?
- Student About how large is it?
- Student What animal is this?
- Student what focus is this in
- Bugscope Team also, try using full screen mode (F11) to get a larger window
- Student I want to see the pictures
- Bugscope Team MaxP can drive north to see what that insect is
- Student who has cpntrol?
- Bugscope Team if your window ever looks black try to refresh your browser window
- Guest Dont focus!!! it'll make our thing slower. (look @ the q & a)
- Bugscope Team Anastasia can you click F5 and refresh your screen?
- Student Max
- Student why is MaxP on a different screen then we are?
- Student thank you so much
- Bugscope Team if there is lag in the network, you will need to refresh more often. click on F5 whenever your screen is black
- Student What is the most poisonous bug on the planet? Just out of curiousity.
- Student this is really cool. what is this
- Bugscope Team There is clearly some lag in the network now, or has been...
- Student Im finally in
- 9:45am
- Bugscope Team Coool Joel!
- Student What is that
- Student What are those little hairs there?
- Student is this hair
- Bugscope Team oh my preset is a little off
- Student its like hair
Bugscope Team it is hair-- insect hair we call setae (see-tee). they help the insect sense what is around them in their environment
- Student What is that?
- Student hairy eye
- Student It's AWESOME!!!!
- Student Why are there little jagedy spikes coming out of the skin, or something?
- Student this is real pollen
- Student what the hairy things
- Student what is that?
- Bugscope Team those are likely sensory setae of some sort, on the head of this insect
- Guest Ans setae are...?
- Guest and*
- Bugscope Team hey good driving
- Teacher Please transfer drivers to James.
Bugscope Team ok james has it
- Student thank u scott. U r very nice
- Student I'm finally on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student what are the little bumpy thing
- Student i think it could be hair
- Bugscope Team oops of course Cate beat me to it
- Bugscope Team now you can start to see where we are
- Student what is that?
- Student ho is driving
- Student Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student I like this because last time i got interviewed by the Pittsburgh post gazette
- Student what are the little dots
- Student I ment Who is driving
- Student what picture is this
- Student r thoes anttena
- Student that looks like an elephant
- Bugscope Team the little dots were the edges of plates in the cuticle
- Bugscope Team this is a claw of a true bug
- Student How long ago in earth evolution where bugs present?
- Student its like an elephant
- Student whats that
- Student it does look sorta like the head of an elephant
- Guest 0__o
- Student well it did
- Student aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team this is a caterpillar
- Bugscope Team this is a caterpillar
- Student Kind of creepy!!!
- Student that looks like a skeleton
- Student This is so cool!
- Guest I dont think caterpillars are that cute anymore...
Bugscope Team really!!! i think they are MORE beautiful
- Student Oh my gosh!
- Bugscope Team the bumps that are next to what looks like eyes are the actual eyes
- Student this is a scary caterpillar
- Student OMG!!!
- Bugscope Team it is a skeleton of course -- it is an exoskeleton
- Student they used to be cute!
- Student Did it dry up?
- Bugscope Team funny Alexa
- Student It looks like the caterpiller filled with air
- Student James, zoom into the eye!!
- Bugscope Team yeah caterpillars are kind of weird looking, or atleast this one is
- Student lol
- Student Me to
- Teacher Is this one of the woolly bears?
- Student i cant
- Guest That would be moi, Scot :P
- Bugscope Team no we saved a wolly bear for next session
- Student what kind of catipillar is this
- Student I think so
- Bugscope Team no this was the shed skin of some caterpillar, we didn
- Student Why are there little bumps by the head?
- Student Cate are those dots the eyes
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Bugscope Team we didnt know what kind this was from
- Student owww
- Bugscope Team they have simple eyes
- 9:50am
- Student does it have acne
- Guest Omg, what about sean the wolly bear?! He was so cute :3
- Student whats the big
- Bugscope Team yes you found the simple eyes on the caterpillar's head
- Student What type of caterpillar is this???
- Student Cate, when did you first become interestid in entomology? ( I hope I spelled that right.)
Bugscope Team I am actually not an entomologist, but insects are pretty interesting to learn about. Sometimes we do get an entomologist to log on-- her name is Annie, but she isn't on right now. What we learn about insects, we learn through bugscope and when we get things wrong, Annie (if she's on) will correct us!
- Student is that a graashoper?
- Student What is that bug next to it
- Student where r the legs
- Student ?
- Student Thats cool
- Bugscope Team i think what looks like an eye with a hole is a type of antenna maybe
- Guest is that they praying mantis?! over there >>
- Teacher DaVon to drive, please.
- Bugscope Team DaVon we don't know what kind of caterpillar it is -- but it came from your class.
- Bugscope Team alexandrau, you spelled it perfectly: entomology
- Student Where r the legs, Scott
- Student Ok.
- Bugscope Team davon, you have control of the scope now
- Student How much aproomitley does the microscope way
- Student How big is this caterpillar?
- Student When did the study of entomology start? What century?
- Student its sorta rinkely
- Student weigh
- Student not way
- Student thats gross
- Bugscope Team those short legs on caterpillars are called 'prolegs'
- Student How do you keep the bugs preserved?
- Student r those the legs
- Bugscope Team the caterpillar is maybe 12 mm long
- Student Who thinks this is cool?
- Bugscope Team those are prolegs
- Bugscope Team I like science in general it is fun. I got my degree in Physics from the University of Illinois
- Student It's cool!!
- Student Some of it
- Guest -___- ' it looks like a crumpled paper bag
- Student Alex how do u control the scope\
- Student EEWWWW! the skiin is so wrinkly! And i thought that caterpillars had rather smooth skin. (It felt smooth when i touched it)
Bugscope Team yeah, it's really cool how different insects look up close. in fact the leafhopper produces these things called brochosomes, which are so small they were discovered with the use of an electron microscope
- Student how big do u think the microscope is?
- Student it looks like a cloud
- Student Alexa how did you sign on as a guest
- Student Try zooming into the eye, Davon!
- Student Any subjestion on what next?
- Guest Um, idk how i did it
- Student The eye.
- Bugscope Team if you go up in mag you may be able to see the crochets -- the little claws on the prolegs
- Student change the opic
- Student what is that?
- Student pic
- Student whtas this
- Student Alex
- Student ohh
- Student whats the string things
- Bugscope Team this is the edge of the eye of the cicada
- Student this is a cicada head or claw
- Student What are those stringly things?
- Student what are the the string things
- Student ???
- Student Why is it so fuzzy?
- Student What are all the little hairs?
- Student WHOA!
- Bugscope Team this is called 'vestiture,' which means it is the 'dressing' of the head
- Student what is that
- Student wow
- Student wow
- Student WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student What is that giant bump?
- Student wow
- 9:55am
- Guest Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! x___x
- Student Why does the eye pop out?
- Student Scott how do u manually control the scope
- Student ewwwwwwwwwww
- Student What is a tympana?
- Student Awessome
- Student this is really cool
- Guest Alexandra....isnt that the eardrum-u thing?
- Bugscope Team when you say 'divest,' it means to remove
- Student !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest -y*
- Student thats a good picture
- Student what are the string things
- Student is that its eye
- Student Cool right!!!!!!!
- Student thank you alex you r nice
Bugscope Team thanks! you all are asking great questions, so it makes it easy
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team that was the tympanum -- the eardrum, as you suggested
- Student cool eye
- Guest Yay ^____^
- Student It's so.....hairy
- Student Is that a bird
Bugscope Team this is the moth head
- Student Is that butter
- Bugscope Team this is the compound eye of the moth, and you can see lots of scales
- Teacher Please transfer driver to Bela&?
- Student All Right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student 1ce again thank you alex
- Bugscope Team bela&? (cool name!), you have control
- Student what part are we looking at
- Student o thank you Cate, you r nice
- Bugscope Team moths, butterflies, skippers, and actually silverfish have scales
- Bugscope Team also mosquitoes
- Student she had to sign on three times
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team have scales
- Student What part of the moth are we looking at now?
- Student do all mothes head look like that
- Student Alex is working for bugscope hard??????!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team no, it's exciting and challenging. i've learned a lot about insects since joining. (i'm a systems admin - i.e., computer dude)
- Student Are those the wings
- Student What are the scales on this moth constructed of?
- Student is that its back?
- Student what is this
- Student are those scales?
Bugscope Team yes all those are individual scales. They look like powder if you rub their wings
- Bugscope Team moths' heads do lookg similar
- Student Wha kind of moth is it?
- Bugscope Team yes those are scales
- Student thanks scott your nice
- Student Scoot, is that the egg we r looking at
- Student WOW! COOL!!
- Bugscope Team it was a small moth, kind of pinkish-gray
- Student Scott
- Student Scot this is AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student Alex were you on monday
Bugscope Team yes, i remember talking to you anastasia, nice to see you again
- Bugscope Team the scales come off easily, and one advantage of having them is that they can come off when you get stuck in a spider web so you can get away
- Student monday
- Student How small is this without the microscope
Bugscope Team all these insects you are looking at are on a stub about 1.5 inches in diameter
- Student it looks like those strings at a car wash
- Student Everyone at Bugscope>. How many weird bugs do you get a day?????
- Student nice to see you that day was fun
- Student What are some of the most devastating deseases can moths transmit to humans? What are the most devastating deseases can insects in general send? What civilizations in history have been wiped out and destroyed by the deseases that the bugs/ insects sent?
Bugscope Team wow, great question. i'm not an expert but i think mosquitoes can be very deadly because they spread disease through blood.
- Student awesome
- 10:00am
- Student Is that a frog
Bugscope Team haha it looks like a frog, it's a cricket
- Student is that a frog
- Student wow
- Student thats scary
- Guest Ewwwwwww ew ew ew ewwww
- Student ribbit
- Student What are those little holes around the "frog"
- Student its like kermit
- Student Thank u Cate, u r nice
- Guest it looks more like one of those Muppets
- Bugscope Team the broken antennae look like frog eyes
- Student the eye is weird?
Bugscope Team those are where the antennae broke off. Limbs fall off easily when insects dry out
- Student why are they poking out
- Student u r right anestatioa
- Student I think it is a muffet
- Student why do the eyes stick out?
Bugscope Team they have compound eyes that are actually a little hard to see from here but they can be found beneath the broken antennae (that resembles eyes)
- Student cool
- Student Are thos bulging things its eyes?
- Student Does it have a nose
- Student whers his face
- Student Cate. Is working with the microscope harder than it appers???
Bugscope Team what you all are doing-- controlling it over the internet- is actually a little bit harder than controlling it in the room. I'm sure that after a few minutes in the microscope room you all would be pros!
- Student is there a hole in the eye
- Student Ohsorry I mean muphet like curmate the frog
- Student how many b ugs do you look at a day
- Guest Muppet*
- Student Scott is there a hole in the eye
- Bugscope Team alexandrau, yes, according to wikipedia, the mosquito is one of the most deadly disease vector known, killing millions of people over thousands of years and continuing to kill millions per year by the spread of infectious diseases
- Student It it possible to cut the animal in half so that with this amazing microscope we can view the internal organs? That would be the most facinating and wonderful thing ever! Would that be okay Scot or Cate?
- Student Is that a winhg?
Bugscope Team this is a scale up close
Bugscope Team this is a scale, a small part of the wing
- Student woah
- Guest Kurmet* Sorry.....i'm a sucker for the muppets, anastasia. it looks like lace ^___^
- Student how many bugs do u look at day scot
- Student whats this
- Bugscope Team yes jared, these are scales of a moth
- Student what is sphere
- Student is this juju
Bugscope Team yes that ball is a lump of dirt maybe
- Student what is that?? Cate??
- Student who is juju
- Student juju?
- Student Is this a scale?
- Student It kindof looks like an acorn
- Student whats juju????????????????????????????????????
- Bugscope Team YES, it's probably juju, our word for something like dirt or whatnot...
- Student Ohh
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team juju = dirt, grime, stuff we aren't sure exactly what it is
- Guest jujubees! ew...like dirt bees
- Student looks like my dinner
- Student whats juju?????????????????????????????????????????????
- Student ewww ear wax
Bugscope Team more like nose wax. spiracles are like noses, they get air to the insect through the exoskeleton. the hairs keep particles that shouldnt be there form getting in
- Student Amazing!
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team this is one of the spiracles
- Guest Looks like a shrub
- Student spikey
- Student nwhats this
- Teacher alexandrau to drive, please
- Student spikes
- Student is that hair
- Student is that hair?
- 10:05am
- Student Are all of the spiracles like this?
- Student Petr
- Bugscope Team alexandrau has control of the scope now
- Student Omg, this is so cool
- Student whats the most common bug that you usually see?
Bugscope Team some bugs look more interesting than others inside the scope. i think moths are very cool looking. and leafhoppers too, because then you get to see some brochosomes
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team most spiracle, in our experience, are similar to this
- Student Stop saying omg, it is offensive
- Guest Ome (oh my edward), it looks like a notch in wood
- Student from the outside
- Student Is it fun to do this everyday
- Student why does it have hair in it
Bugscope Team those hairs are called setae (see-tee), they help the insect sense its environment
- Student LOL this is cool
- Student It's AWESOME!!
- Student could you describe leafhoppers?
Bugscope Team Leafhopper are generally small insects that suck the sap of a variety of plants. They have powerful hind legs that let them jump to escape predators. They can be serious pests of plants, both by damaging them through direct feeding and by transmitting plant diseases.
- Bugscope Team the rest of the mealworm did not look so good this morning
- Bugscope Team leafhoppers live in plants, of course
- Student what is this place
- Student lol
- Student what is this thing?
- Teacher The mealworm looks really dried out.
Bugscope Team yeah, lots of the samples dry out, you can also see that in the compound eyes sometimes, the ommatidia (facets) will look deflated
- Student What is the boney thing and clumps?????????
- Bugscope Team and they often have rounded heads; you can also see that they have piercing mouthparts
- Student You told me that on mon. and I all ready forgot
- Student +
- Bugscope Team this is a bunch of dirt
- Student What are these clumps?
- Student Scot have u evr tasted a edible mealworm or dunbeetle
Bugscope Team Yuck-no one would eat a grown up dung beetle!
- Student hahaha
- Bugscope Team sometimes we see pollen and mold spores at this level of magnification
- Bugscope Team it is good that it is dry, for us
- Student Scot, Cate or Alex What is that long stringy thing
- Bugscope Team then we need only coat it with gold-palladium
- Student can you answer joels questions because he is getting rewclase
- Bugscope Team I think it is a portion of fungal hyphae
- Student Is that really a mealworm
- Student whats this
- Bugscope Team yes, joel, ask away! i'll watch for your question
- Student ?
- Student cool
- Student AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- Bugscope Team What was Joel's question?
- Student ever u ever ate a bug Alex, Cate, scot,qannie
Bugscope Team I have eaten many different insects and other arthropods: I have eaten mealworms, caterpillars, ants, crickets, and water bugs.
- Student annie
- Student What is this?
- Bugscope Team I am sorry we cannot catch every question
- Bugscope Team I have not, but i bet annie has
- 10:10am
- Student Annie they are edible try one they r tasty
Bugscope Team ugh--I know what dung beetles eat and how they smell. I do not think I would like to eat an adult dung beetle
- Student Ever eaten bugs?
- Student It's kind of like a grasshhopper
- Bugscope Team Annie has eaten more bugs than the rest of us -- she is a little more adventurous
- Student I ate a fully grown dung beetle
Bugscope Team very cool joel, nice commitment :)
- Guest "little"?
- Student annie were you on mon.?
Bugscope Team yes, on and off--I had a meeting during the session
- Bugscope Team nice looking little yellow hopped
- Student how many kinds of bugs have you looked at?
- Bugscope Team james, i'm sure you've eaten plenty of bugs in your life too, everyone does, during sleep, riding a bike, etc...
- Student same with me annnie
- Student It tasted bad
- Bugscope Team I think I have eaten a scorpion too
- Student James was the dungbeetle good
- Student Cate asked
- Student not reall7y
- Bugscope Team we have looked at many dozens of types of bugs in 10 years
- Bugscope Team was it crunchy?
- Teacher nickp to drive, please.
- Student not reallly Cate
- Student hairy
- Bugscope Team nickP, you've got control!
- Student How do people eat scorions
Bugscope Team scorpions are a delicacy in some cultures
- Student I was on with Mrs Valenty
- Student Cate have u ever eaten a dungbeeetle
- Bugscope Team i wuldnt think that dung beetles would be tasty considering what they eat
- Student What is this hariy thing????
- Student are most bugs edible?
Bugscope Team Yes, I think you COULD eat almost any insect.. Some insects, like maggots that live in dead bodies or poop, you might not want to eat.
- Student what you do this everyday?
- Bugscope Team we do this for fun, yes, fairly often
- Student Trust me and james I am telling the truth
- Student what do they eat cate
Bugscope Team well they arent called dung beetles for nothing!
- Student Annie
- Student how do they the pioson out
- Bugscope Team it takes a few months for the company to put one of these 'scopes together
- Student do they eat bugs daily in other countries?
Bugscope Team yes some cultures eat insects regularly, there is protein in insects. that's very important for your body
- Student is that aZ fish
- Student what is this
- Student Why is there like a wholein the center of that leg Scott or Cate or Annie
Bugscope Team that is where the rest of the leg fell off where the claw would be
- Bugscope Team :)
- Bugscope Team I think the poison is probably no longer toxic when it is cooked
- Student whats aZ fish
- Student It won't move
- Student Okay
- Student would the leg grow back if it was living
Bugscope Team nope, once an insect molts into an adult, it doesn't regrow any parts.
- Bugscope Team the smaller hole is where a seta broke off
- Student What part of the insect is this???????????????????
- Student Coud they use that as a spine for a person without one
- Bugscope Team MaxP those are very small
- Student can you chang the picture
- Student Do you all like barbeque mealworms
Bugscope Team Uh, they are ok. I am generally not a big fan of eating insects. I think they taste like dirt.
- Student u mean exoskeleton max
- Bugscope Team and they are made of chitin, like your fingernails
- Student do you only take dead bugs or do you also take alive?
Bugscope Team sometimes we get bugs that are alive, and we freeze them, that's a very "nice" way to end their life
- Student maby for a baby right scott
- Guest eww. bbq MWs?
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team so they would not be good candidates to replace a human spine
- Teacher Jared to drive, please.
- Bugscope Team yeah maybe for a baby
- Student Alex where r u from
- Student Scoot where r u from
- Student me too annie they taste odd
- 10:15am
- Student I like the mealworms alot
- Student What is this?
- Student Cate where r u from
Bugscope Team im from the suburbs of Chicago
- Bugscope Team jared, you have control now
- Student very
- Student Annie where r u from
Bugscope Team Louisville, KY
- Student Thanks
- Student Umesh where r u from
- Bugscope Team c;law
- Bugscope Team calw
- Bugscope Team claw
- Bugscope Team there
- Student thats a cool name umesh
- Bugscope Team I am from Urbana-Champaign.
- Bugscope Team I focus on education and outreach for the Bugscope.
- Student thanks umesh
- Student Whats this?
- Student what is this Annie?
Bugscope Team This is out of focus...I am not sure what this is. Looks like a glob of paint.
- Student idk
- Student Alex where are YOU from??
- Student where is this chat taking place, any of u
Bugscope Team I am sitting at the table in my apartment
- Bugscope Team ah, go to the right!
- Bugscope Team oh!
- Bugscope Team this is the poloen grain with all the brochosomes
- Bugscope Team the pollen grain with brochosomes is coming up now
- Student WHERE ARE WE?
Bugscope Team this is on the leafhopper
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the leafhopper
- Bugscope Team nice driving jared!
- Bugscope Team brochosomes are something that only leafhoppers produce
- Student umesh do you enjoy your job/career?
- Student Way to go Jared
- Student o, cool annie
- Bugscope Team see all those little white things, those are called brochosomes, unique to the leafhopper
- Bugscope Team and as Cate says we are looking at a pollen grain with brochosomes on it
- Student What part of the leafhopper is this?
- Student what is that stuf on it? annie?
Bugscope Team The little tiny balls are called brochosomes, which are little dusty particles that are produced by the "kidneys" of leafhoppers. Leafhoppers dust their egg masses with a layer of brochosomes to protect the eggs.
- Bugscope Team this is on or near the head
- Guest Blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry =/
- Student your out of focas
- Bugscope Team if you look at the micron bar you can see how high the magnification is
- Student What is the largest bug in the world Cate, Scott, Annie, or Alex? What is the smallest bug in the world? About how big is the largest bug in the world and the smallest?
- Student Alex where are you typing
Bugscope Team i'm sitting in the same room with the microscope, in urbana illinois
- Student try focusing, Jared
- Guest Oops. we gtg
- Student TTYL Cate
- Student TTYL Scott
- Student i really apreciated u 4 taking ur time wqith us
- Student TTYL Annie
- Bugscope Team ditto MaxP
- Guest ttfn peeple. Thanks :)
- Student TTYL Umesh
- Bugscope Team thank you students, you were great!
- Student Good by e everyone
- Guest oops :)
- Student TTYL EVERYONE!!
- Student c ya umesh and all u out there
- Student good bye umesh Annie scot Cate alex
- Guest Bye-yas
- Student Grasias, THank You
- Student By we have to go thank you so much for helping us and answering are quastions
- Student Thank you so much for answering our questions students in Illinois. It is a great opportunity.
- Student hasta luego
- Student thank u everybody
- Student au revoir
- Student HASTA LA VISTA!!!
- Bugscope Team hasta luego
- Teacher transfer driver to me, please.
- Bugscope Team You are all are future scientists. Please come and try Bugscope again and again.
- Student I have learned alot! This was one of the funnest things ever!!!!
- Student Bye, everyone. Thank you!
- Student LATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 10:20am
- Bugscope Team Mrs. Valenty: Thanks!
- Bugscope Team mrs. valenty, you have control now. great session so far.
- Bugscope Team a proleg is a primitive leg on the latter half of the caterpillar
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the true bug
- Bugscope Team true bugs could be shield bugs, stink bugs...
- Bugscope Team well not just now
- Bugscope Team Annie, are you in your office or at the gym typing away.
- Bugscope Team this is the 'nape of the neck' of the stinkbug
- Bugscope Team those small flowerlike things may be sensory -- as in chemosensors
- Bugscope Team stinkbugs do not like their own bad smell
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Teacher Sorry, all the kids have gone to their next class. They had a fantastic time. I wish I could stay and do more but I have to go give a test . I wanted to get the end of the mouth but I am out of time. Thanks!
- Bugscope Team me driving for a sec
- Bugscope Team Mrs V Thank You!
- Guest Can we play with the microscope?
- Bugscope Team great session mrs. valenty! can't wait till the next one (monday)
- Bugscope Team thank you, it was a good session
- Bugscope Team Annie: Thanks!
- 10:25am
- Bugscope Team we will drive to the end of the mouth so that it will be in your database
- Teacher Thank you! See you for one more session on Monday. This was a BIG hit! Bye for now.
- Bugscope Team Crawford please drive to the end of this mouthpart.
- Bugscope Team crawford, you have control now. you should see controls on the right of your browser window (magnify, navigation, focus, adjust)
- Bugscope Team all of the images we collect today will be in the school's database, and they can look through them later
- Bugscope Team Hi Norman!
- Guest Hey, Scott. I just decided to sit in on the session while working on other stuff.
- Bugscope Team crawford, are you able to control the scope okay?
- Bugscope Team hi norman!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope. are you sitting on the stereology PC? ;)
- Bugscope Team ack! i had the session locked, i'm sorry, i just unlocked it, you should NOW see controls, and be able to drive the scope
- 10:30am
- Guest Hi, Alex. No, I am on my laptop. I (think I) am finished with my stereology...unless I have to add another sample.
- Bugscope Team crawford, the simplest control would be to change the magnification. ah, there you go, you got it now...
- Bugscope Team this is the doublestick carbon tape
- Bugscope Team You can drive, as you are, and you can also select from among the presets to the right of the chat here.
- Bugscope Team crawford, if you have any questions about teachers using bugscope, please feel free to email Umesh, he handles the outreach for bugscope: uthakkar@gmail.com
- Bugscope Team if you get lost, for example, you can click on a preset to regain your bearings
- Bugscope Team the micron bar on the lower left gives us an idea of the length of organelles we see on the screen
- Bugscope Team you can also email bugscope@beckman.uiuc.edu for any general questions
- Bugscope Team but today of course you can talk to us via chat, and we can also phone you if that would be helpful
- Guest Norman explain the process of using this
Bugscope Team crawford, the basic process is this: 1) a teacher decides to do a bugscope session, and applies on our website at http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/apply 2) we accept the application and schedule a session 3) the teacher and students find bugs in their yard, and send us those bugs in the mail 4) we put the bugs into the electron microscope the day of the scheduled session 5) the teacher and students login and control the scope live over the internet, looking at their bugs
- Bugscope Team Norman you're on the spot dude.
- 10:35am
- Guest A little :-)
- Bugscope Team one thing that is important with some browsers is that you expand the window to the full screen of your computer
- Guest Here is the bug claw. What type of bug is this
- Bugscope Team this is a 'true bug.'
- Bugscope Team true bugs are Hemiptera, and they are characterized by having piercing mouthparts and a particular configuration of the wings
- Bugscope Team you can also see a scale from another insect on the claw
- Guest Where do true bugs live
- Bugscope Team and you can see what are likely plant fibers
- Bugscope Team all over the place
- Bugscope Team stinkbugs and shieldbugs are true bugs
- Bugscope Team for example
- Bugscope Team try another preset if you would like
- Guest How long can a bug be perserved before mailing
Bugscope Team crawford, dry bugs are the best to send, like scott said. we've tried to outline the entire process on our website. check it out, we've made it easy to learn about the whole process of using bugscope: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/help
- Bugscope Team hemipterans, it says on the web, can be found in nearly all habitats
- 10:41am
- Bugscope Team if the bug is dry and kept from dust it will last quite a while
- Bugscope Team once we prepare them for the SEM they do not often last long
- Bugscope Team we catch insects, freeze them, and then let them air dry
- Guest Is the compound eye layered
- Bugscope Team this compound eye is layered -- not all of them are like this
- Bugscope Team teachers don't HAVE to send us bugs, we've got a collection of our own we use for sessions that don't send bugs
- Bugscope Team all that's really required is that the classroom have a broadband internet connection, and a teacher that is willing...
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a caterpillar the school sent
- Bugscope Team bugscope runs on any computer, window, mac, unix, anywhere in the world
- Guest IS there a schhedule of bug lessons
Bugscope Team yep! http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/schedule.php
- Bugscope Team and you can see its simple bump eyes on the side of its head
- Bugscope Team we have so many different grades and types of connection that we do not try to prepare lessons
- Bugscope Team we try to respond in real time to the kids' questions
- Bugscope Team we don't advertise it as "bug lessons" though, we really want the teacher to take command of the lesson aspect of the session. we do answer lots of questions about bugs, but really it's up to the teach to control the lesson planning
- 10:46am
- Bugscope Team the hairlike projections are called setae, and some are mechanosensory, some are chemosensory; some are thermosensors
- Guest What other types of lessons can be taught
- Bugscope Team the reason we see so many setae is because insects have an exoskeleton
- Bugscope Team they need to be able to feel through the chitin so that they are aware of changes in their environment
- Guest Will the schedule reflect the different grade levels - primary, middle and high school
- Bugscope Team much of the time the teachers we work with have a unit they are teaching, and bugscope fits into that -- for example it may be microscopy, or invertebrates, or particular phenomena such as the lifecycle of a butterfly
- Bugscope Team you can schedule your sessions however you want. You work with our secretary to get the times and dates to where it best fits
- Guest Will the school or school district have to join or logon as a guest
Bugscope Team nope, it can all be done by a teacher her/him/self
- Bugscope Team we try to engage the students at whatever level they are
- Bugscope Team it is absolutely free as well, no cost to the school/teacher whatsoever
- Guest Should we contact you by phone or email to setup
Bugscope Team email: bugscope@beckman.uiuc.edu, or phone: 217-244-0170, or apply online: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/
- 10:51am
- Bugscope Team we want the students to be captivated by what they see
- Bugscope Team we prefer that all teachers fill out an application though, it sets up lots of stuff on our end
- Bugscope Team and we want them to develop their own questions
- Bugscope Team in real time
- Guest Hi Norman This is R Scott
- Bugscope Team if we get a cabbage white butterfly we will be prepared to answer questions about it
- Bugscope Team we do three sessions a week when school is in session, and we devote our time to preparing the sample, setting up... and being ready to tackle questions
- Guest The maginification is great
- Bugscope Team yep, it's an electron microscope, able to magnify up to 800,000x
- Bugscope Team but magnification for bugs is best at 40-40,000x
- Bugscope Team there are so many different ways the school wish to connect that we do not presume to teach anything in particular -- we just try to respond well and engage the kids
- Bugscope Team few gradeschool kids will have an opportunity to control a $600,000 scanning electron microscop
- Bugscope Team microscope
- 10:57am
- Guest Do you have a site to study other organism s
- Bugscope Team it is not that we want them to learn about insects, in particular -- it is that we want them to see something amazing and wonder how it is possible that such a thing can be done
- Bugscope Team we want the kids to ask about the bugs, of course, but we also want them to ask about the microscope, about what they are seeing, and why for example the images are in black and white
- Bugscope Team the killer for us -- the cool part -- is when they ask us what we had to study in school in order to do what we do
- Bugscope Team yeah, then they see how diverse the world can be...
- Bugscope Team sometimes we put salt crystals and plan material on the stub
- Bugscope Team but bugs really capture the attention of kids, in a way other materials might not
- Bugscope Team there are actually few things of sustaining interest to the kids that we can put in the 'scope
- Guest Thank you. We will contact you soon to join other teachers as guests
- Bugscope Team thank you!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest Scott et al., I have to log off. Enjoy! I hope a continuing relationship has been fostered!
- Guest Bye
- Bugscope Team later norman
- Guest We're logging off now
- Bugscope Team Thanks Norman!
- Bugscope Team Bye!
- Bugscope Team ok, bye bye
- Guest bye
