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- 8:23am
- Bugscope Team unlocking the session now, we are ready!
- 8:51am
- Bugscope Team morning mrs. h, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team hello mrs. h, welcome to bugscope!
- Teacher Hello there
- Teacher Is anyone there?
- Bugscope Team yes, we are here, can you see our chat?
- Bugscope Team yeah Scot, Alex, and I are here to help you out and answer any questions you might have
- Bugscope Team hello!]
- Bugscope Team mrs. h, let us know if you can see our chat, otherwise i'll give you call, maybe your screen resolution is too low?
- Bugscope Team i'm calling right now
- Bugscope Team Good morning!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Student Hi - it's mrs.horn checking another computer - my computer won't show the dialog
- Bugscope Team Yay!
- 8:56am
- Bugscope Team Alex can tell you how to change your screen res. on the other computer.
- Student sounds good
- Bugscope Team mrs. h, your screen resolution on the other computer might not be at the minimum: 1024x768. make sure it's at that, or hit F11 for full screen mode
- Bugscope Team it's all good, mrs. h can see the chat again
- Bugscope Team nice and this lovely view of the biofilm
- Bugscope Team I'm gonna change to the weeeevil head
- Bugscope Team Mrs H you can drive, of course, but I wanted to put a better starting point on the screen.
- 9:02am
- Bugscope Team kids are coming soon, she's setting up until then
- Student hello everyone!!
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team hi students, welcome to bugscope!
- Student yo
- Student hey scot
- Student hey
- Bugscope Team hi Butter!
- Student heyz
- Student Hello
- Student crazy looking thing there
- Student yup
- Bugscope Team I mean Buttter!
- Student whats up peeps?
- Student waz up?!
- Student hola buenas dies
- Student wat?
- Student =)
- Bugscope Team this is a weevil head
- Student hi scoot i,m david
- Student What is a weevil?
- Student cool
- Student WHO is kate?/
- Bugscope Team Hi DaViD!
- Student scot
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student hi
- 9:07am
- Student hi scot and cate
- Student OH
- Bugscope Team Cate is a microscopist -- an electron micrioscopist -- who is part of the Bugscope project.
- Student hi alex no one has talked to you so hi! :)
- Student cool
- Student sweet
- Student Cool
- Student awsome
- Student is this a bug
- Bugscope Team Alex will appreciate that.
- Student hi
- Student wow
- Student hi
- Student what is the pic. of?
- Student what is a weevil?
- Teacher bugscope folks, could you give a little explanation
- Student crazy kool
- Student where is alex??
- Bugscope Team a weevil is a type of beetle that is knowto have a long snout
- Student ?? ....
- Bugscope Team Weevils are insects, sometimes called snout beetles, that eat rice and grain, among other plant parts
- Bugscope Team Alex will be right back...
- Student is that all they eat?
- Student Is this the head
- Student Where is the head
Bugscope Team what you see is the head-- the long snout with the antennae, and the round base near the bottom of the screen
- Bugscope Team weevils are known to damage crops
- Student where are they commonly found?
- Student can they har, people?
Bugscope Team no they won't hurt you
- Student How big are they
- Teacher was this one of the insects we sent in?
- Student do they eat anything else???
- 9:12am
- Student what iss a microscopists
Bugscope Team a microscopist is a person who studies or uses microscopes
- Bugscope Team they are small, relatively, and they infest cotton as well -- they are found all over in the temperate climates
- Student what does it do to protect them selfs
- Student what color are they??
- Bugscope Team they are a variety of colors
- Student how big do they get
Bugscope Team they can be anywhere from 4 mm to more than a cm long
- Bugscope Team this one was brown
- Student what color can they be
- Bugscope Team many kinds of weevils play dead when they are disturbed
- Student did we send in this insect?
Bugscope Team the dragonfly and the tick are from you, the others we put in there ourselves
- Student do they come in other colors?
- Student how do they protect themselves
- Student how do they protect themselfs
Bugscope Team playing dead when they are disturbed is probably their defense mechanism
- Student do they run fast?
Bugscope Team They are pretty slow, generally.
- Student can they fly?
- Student does it go through incomplete or complete metamorphasis?????
- Teacher can we go to preset #3 please?
- Bugscope Team go ahead and click on it mrs. h? is it working?
- Bugscope Team you should be able to click on any preset and it'll take you there
- Teacher oops, I forgot that I can do that
- Bugscope Team ah, no problem, glad it's working now
- Bugscope Team there we go...
- Student eww
- Bugscope Team and you can also control other things too, magnification, navigation, etc
- Student what is on it?
- Student what is that
- Bugscope Team we are looking at fungal hyphae on the the eye of the dragonfly
- Student what is the thing in the middle?
- Bugscope Team this is cool, this is a compound eye on a dragonfly
- Student why does fungus grow on an eye
- Student how many compound eyes do they have
- Student what is on it
- Student what does the fungas do to the eye
- Student what is the little string thing?
- Bugscope Team the head is very big so it is hard to see the entire head in the window
- Teacher the preset has changed on the students computers but not mine - any suggestions?
Bugscope Team try hitting refresh if the image isn't updating (F5)
- Student what type of fungus is that???
- Student how long is the fungus on the eye
- Student Does it clean off the fungus eventually?
- Student how does it get fungus on its eyes
- Student are they always hexagons
Bugscope Team they aren't always hexagons, mosquitos and moths for instance have more round facets. Hexagons are a good shape to fit the curvature of the eye
- Bugscope Team to refresh your screen, use F5
- Teacher got it - thanks
- Student what is fungal hyphae?
- Bugscope Team the fungus may not show up until the insect/arthropod has died
- Student do most dragon flies have fungus on there eye?
- Student cool
- 9:18am
- Student what is fungal hyphae
- Student what is the stick thing
- Student the insect is still alive?
Bugscope Team they are all dead before we put them in the microscope (we hope!). We can't put live insects in the chamber of the microscope
- Student how does the fugas get there
- Student was this all over there eyes?
- Student Does it clean off the fungus?
- Student What is that long Stick thing?
- Student wh ydoes it have fungus on its eyes
- Student oh why
- Bugscope Team we need the things inside the scope to be absolutely still, thus we kinda need them to be not alive, aka dead
- Student does the fungas hurt them
Bugscope Team the fungus only gets on them after they are dead, so no it doesnt hurt them :)
- Student what color is the of the string thing on its eye
- Bugscope Team fungus has tiny spores, about the same size as pollen, sometimes, that float through the air and settle on everything. in the right conditions the fungus will flourish
- Bugscope Team the reason you want things very still is the scope magnifies at a very high mag, and if things move inside the scope that movement would be highly amplified and the image would look very bad, blurry and probably unrecognizable
- Student how does the fungus get on the eye???
Bugscope Team fungus helps decompose matter, so it got on there sometime after it died. Usually if the insect is in a slightly wet area there is going to be more fungus
- Student Is the fungas harmful?
- Bugscope Team Mrs H take the mag down if you would like to see more of the dragonfly eye
- Bugscope Team cool!
- Student is it al over the eye
- Bugscope Team you can see that the compound eye of the dragonfly is very large and has thousands of ommatidia
- Student what is the hair stuff?
Bugscope Team the hairlike things we see are called 'setae'
- Bugscope Team ommatidia are the facets of the eye
- Student how many eye things do they HAVE?????
Bugscope Team they have 2 compound eyes, and sometimes on insects you can see a small set of three bumps which are also eyes called ocelli
- Student sweet DUDE
- Student ewwwww
- Student what is the hair
Bugscope Team those hairs are called setae (see-tee), they help all insects to sense their environment, all insects have LOTS of setae
- Student so the fungus is all over the eye
- Student why is there hair onit
- Student what is the rock thing
Bugscope Team Chris and Alec that is a rock, probably -- a small one
- Student what is that rock like thing on its eye???
- Student is the fungus on the whole eye or just a little bit?
- Student what are the bubbly things in the backround
- Student what is the hair
- Student cool! :)
- Student How many eye hexagon things Do they HAVE???
Bugscope Team too many to count! Thounsands i would guess
- Student what is the rock?
- 9:23am
- Student way cool
- Student why do they need hair on there eyes
- Student oh ok
- Student why is there a rock on it?
Bugscope Team well, things happen, it's not a perfect world, bugs fly into dirt and stuff, they get dirty
- Bugscope Team to the left is the front of the face
- Student What is the long string on the right?
- Student how did the rock get there
- Student what is the bubbly things in the backround
Bugscope Team that's the carbon sticky tape that we stick the bugs to in the microscope, it helps to keep them stable
- Student wow
- Student what has the hair on it
- Student ccccoooooooooooooooooooolllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student sweet
- Student what is the sticky tape for
- Student so the whole bug is on the tape stuff?
Bugscope Team yep
- Student What are the string things???
- Bugscope Team this is called the 'frons,' the front of the face
- Student whats that rinkle?
- Student Is the fungas harmful???
Bugscope Team the fungus isn't to harmful to us. It is too small a quantity. I just wouldn't recommend eating the insect that has it :p
- Student coolieo
- Student what are frons?
- Student Why is the face so hill-like?
- Student there are indents in the blob
- Student EWWWWWW
- Student what are the string things?
- Student ewwwww
- Student awsome!11 CCCCCOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!!
- Student what are the STRINGS?/
- Student nasty
- Bugscope Team those indents were where some of the setae were coming out of
- Student is that the brain??
- Student why are there hairs in its mouth
- Student ewwwwwwww
- Student are those the teeth?
- Student is that the tounge
- Student Are those Teeth????
- Student what is the thing in the center of the mouth?
- Student yuck!!!!
- Student TeeTH???
- Student ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Student what is the fuzzy stuff
- Student what are the triangles
- Student discusting
- Student what are the mountain looking things
- Student Is that hair or what
- Student What is that?
- Student this is the koolest thing ive ever seen how about you?
- Student what are those leaf like things on the "tounge"
- Student what is all of that fur on its face
- 9:28am
- Student what are all of the string things???
- Student Are those TEETH??
- Student is that the tounge?
- Student does it have scales
- Student what are the barb like things
- Student are those organs?
- Student what are the triangles
- Bugscope Team this is the part of the tick that sticks into your skin
- Student ew
- Student i remember getting one of those on my leg. How big can they get by sucking blood?
- Teacher we are all grossing out right now
- Student does it have a tounge
- Student how many teeth does it have?
- Bugscope Team the part with the triangles on it is called the hypostome, and it has those recurved spines that keep it from coming out of your skin easily
- Student gross
- Student What is the hair?
- Student i think cause their bite is sosmall, we cant feel it
- Bugscope Team the parts at the top are the chelicerae, which help cut into your skin and make the blood flow
- Student i've had a tick in my head before
- Bugscope Team most of the hairlike things we see here are also fungus
- Student ew
- Student how many teeth do they have?
- Student what kind of fungus
- Student why is their mouthe in a heart shape
- Student is this inside of a tick?
- Student do they eat animals to
Bugscope Team they will feed on anything warmblooded for the most part like your pets
- Student is that their head
- Bugscope Team ticks often do not have saliva that makes you itch -- as Alex says it is better for them to bite you stealthily.
- Student so the fungus still cannot harm you even if the tick is in their skin?????
Bugscope Team the fungus you could easily breathe as well but if you are healthy it will not harm you. what is bad about ticks is that they can bite (some of them) repeatedly, and have different hosts. So they can transfer bacteria from one host to another.
- Student wow
- Student is all they eat is blood
- Student CAN they Kill You?
- Student ewwww
- Student i had a tick in my arm leg andthe other arm at the same time
- Student is all they eat blood
- Student how small is the tick? is it microscopic?
Bugscope Team Danielle this tick started off small -- a few mm in length. Now it is full of blood and much larger, nearly a cm long.
- Student what did we send in 4 bugs
- Student Do they suck out all types of blood?
- Student wow it looks like a small elephant trunk
- Student is that the whole body
Bugscope Team the body is really big! if we zoomed out a little we could see it is really big and really round
- Student hehe. =]
- Student that is so wierd!!!!
- Student y is the mouth in a trianle shape
- Student is the mouth popping out
- Student o ok
- Student do they only blood
- Student ?
- Student why is the mouth shaped like that
- 9:33am
- Student Do they ONly drink BLOOD???????
Bugscope Team Yes they drink only blood.
- Student do they only eat blood
- Student do they only eat blood
- Student How many people died from ticks.
- Bugscope Team blood is their main food, yes
- Student do they only eat blood
- Student what are those holes
Bugscope Team the things that look like holes are places where there are gaps in the mat of fungus
- Student Why do you have to burn tics to kill them?
Bugscope Team Taylor it is best to gently pull the tick out, carefully, with forceps, so you don't break off the capitulum, which is the part we were looking at.
- Student what do they eat
- Student eww
- Student is that the eye ball
- Student it looks like it has clay on it
- Student why does it only have one eye?
- Student what is the little eye looking thing
- Student what are those roundish things
- Student is that an eye??????
- Student where did his other eye go?
- Student where is the other eye?
- Student Is that An antennae?????
- Bugscope Team it has two eyes
- Student why does it only have one eye
- Bugscope Team that eye looking thing on the upper right is an antenna socket with a broken off antenna
- Student is that teeth
- Student how many sections are on its antennae
- Student What is That Long thing??/
Bugscope Team that was the unbroken antenna
- Student A Nose?
- Student what r the little irregular shapes on it
- Student sick
- Bugscope Team A lot of flying insects have two compound eyes and three simple eyes, called ocelli.
- Student what is the hair stuff on the top?
- Student where is the mouth?
Bugscope Team right now we can't see the mouth too well, it is at the bottom of the screen
- Student what are those things by the mouth
- Student how many sections are on the antennae
- Student is that a broken antanae?
Bugscope Team Kamilla to the right we are looking at the base of an antenna, yes.
- Student what are the plate like things on its mouth?
Bugscope Team it has a hinged jaw (it swings out like a gate)
- Student Yes
- Bugscope Team yep, that's a broken antenna socket
- Student What is that hairy substance?
Bugscope Team The 'hairs' are various 'setae,' pronounced 'see-tee.' They are often sensory: chemosensory, mechanosensory, thermosensory...
Bugscope Team ah, hi sam, sorry we didn't get to you sooner. those hairs are almost always setae (see-tee). they are kinda like cat whiskers in that they help the insect to sense its environment. they stick through the exoskeleton to nerves underneath
- Bugscope Team and see the compound eye to the right of the socket?
- Bugscope Team the eye is the dome to the far right, as Alex says.
- Student what r the irregular shapes
- Student what is the hairy substance
- Student What is The hair??
- Student is that hair on the top of its head
- Teacher Would you please answer Sam Z's question?
- Student in the right hand corner is one of the compound eyes?????
- Student what is the hair
- Student what is the stuff under the eye??
Bugscope Team under the broken antenna there is some stuff that looks like dirt or some other type of debris
- Student Why do they sometimes puke on your hand like one did to me?
Bugscope Team The puking is a defensive technique--they figure that whatever is handling it (in your case, you) will be so disgusted at the puking that you will let him go.
- Student what is the fuzzy stuff
- 9:38am
- Student it looks like a garbage bag
- Bugscope Team him or her
- Student ewwwww
- Student coooooooooooooool
- Student well im not usually disgusted at that
- Bugscope Team you will find that insects are a lot hairier than they seem, and that almost all insects will have them
- Student what's that gap underneath the eye
- Student are those hairs?
- Student isther hairs in the antena the broke n1
- Student is that a hole in the eye
- Student ccccccccccccoooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student What are those crumbly things underneath the eye?
Bugscope Team those are just pieces of debris like dirt or pieces that broke off from the antenna
- Student why was the antenna broken off
Bugscope Team well, things dry out, and they get knocked around, and things break
- Student more fungus i think
- Bugscope Team Troy that is the base of an antenna that has broken off, so we are looking into the core of the base of the antenna.
- Student Are those hairs in the antena hole?
Bugscope Team there shouldnt be any hair inside the antenna, but there are a lot outside of it
- Student how does the anntenne hold to the eye
Bugscope Team the antenna is adjacent to the eye, and it is attached to the head via a ball and socket joint, like a human femur and pelvis
- Student what is in the socket?
- Student what is in the inside of the whole?
- Teacher our first class is leaving and we'll be back with class #2 in a minute
- Student WHAT is in The Eye?
- Student thank you
- Student bye
- Student THANKS
- Student peace out
- Student bye
- Student bey
- Bugscope Team FYI: if you check out the "your questions" section at the bottom left corner of your screen sometimes you can find answers to questions that we have already answered. Occasionally the chat going so quickly that you can miss some of the answers or two :)
- Student YAHHHHHHHHHH
- Student thanks!!!!! bye!!!!!!
- Student bye
- Student byebye =]
- Student How old are you guys?
- Student lol bye bye!!!!!
- Student BYE BYE
- Student bye
- Student BYE AND THANKS
- Student goodbye! thank you! adios! farewell!
- Student How old are you guys & girl
- Student by and thanks
- Student bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student thanks for the info!!!!!!
- Student u guys pwn
- Student bye!!! and thank you!!!
- Student how old are u
- Student thank you
- Student Thanks see ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student how old are you
- Student peace
- Student u guys pown
- Student Thank you : )
- Student adios peeps
- Bugscope Team thank you, you all rocked!
- Student How are old are you guys
- Student fosho
- Bugscope Team bye and thanks for all your enthusiastic questions!
- Student bye bye
- Student thanks you to
- Student yo peeps
- Bugscope Team Thank You. We range in age from the mid20s to 52.
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team I am 24 years old
- Bugscope Team late 20s now...
- Student bye bye bye bye bye bye thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
- Student so ur 51
- 9:43am
- Bugscope Team Hamido I turned 52 on Sunday.
- Bugscope Team unbelievably old
- Student i doubt that ur younger and happy birthday and merry christmas
- Bugscope Team whoa, happy birthday scott!!!!
- Bugscope Team Thanks Hamido! Merry Christmas to you!
- Bugscope Team young at heart though, scott looks like he's 26
- Bugscope Team mrs. h, all the chat and images are saved to your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-117
- 9:48am
- Student hello patrons
- Student lol it look weird
- Bugscope Team Hi Ben!
- Student hey scot
- Bugscope Team this is the base of an antenna that broke off
- Bugscope Team hello students!
- Student I have just traveled from the north to explore this unknown region of up close bugs
- Bugscope Team Hi Max!
- Student r u the person at the acadamy or something
- Teacher we're back
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Student thank you
- Student I'm Ben
- Bugscope Team max, we are at the university of illinois
- Student hi
- Student robby.....
- Student -__-
- Student What's up max?
- Student oh yeah
- Student Do you like your job
- Student yo
- Student Hey Joe
- Student eeew
- Student Hey Jacob
- Bugscope Team this is the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, at the University of Illinois.
- Student hey
- Student weird bug
- Student alex do you like your job
Bugscope Team yes, very much
- Student YUK!!!!
- Student whoa
- Student that's is so weird looking
- Student kewl
- Student thats cool
- Student nice
- Student You know it!!!
- Student its weird looking
- Bugscope Team We have cool jobs, I think, doing this, especially.
- Student thats cool
- Student that's awesome
- Student oh yeah
- Student scot is this your favorite thing to do?
- Student what is your favorite part of your job
- Student does it take u long to make this pictures
- Student can we look at the dragonfly eye
- Student Why is ther hairs on it
Bugscope Team the hairs you will find on a lot of insects today. Insects are a lot hairier than they seem. The hairs allow the insect to feel what is around thm through their hard exoskeleton
- Student wow
- Student is that an eye
- Student that's is so discusting
- Bugscope Team I like my job--even though right now I am busy compiling messy data
- Student yuk
- Student alex do you make a lot of money doing your fun job?
- Bugscope Team Max I like to work on the electron microscopes and help people get good images.
- Student what is this?
- Student Alex, do you make a lot of money?
- Student alex what is the favorite part of your job
- Student wo what is that
- Student kool
- Student do you like the bugs we choose?
Bugscope Team Eric we like the bugs, but the one beetle was too big to put on the stub so Cate chose another one for you.
- Bugscope Team we get to see lots of cool research
- Student what is the best part of your job
- Student What is your official title?
Bugscope Team my official title is: senior systems engineer
- Student why couldnt you put the beetle on
- Student what is it??????
- Student what bug is that???
- Student this is baller
- Student this is kinda ewwhhyy.
- Student idk
- Student good call kyle
- Student yes
- Student this is so gross
- Student or something else
- Student are the mouth pieces still attached?
- Student so when did you realize you wanted to do this for your job
Bugscope Team well, to be honest, i wasn't sure i'd like be a sysadmin, but i took the job anyway. i liked helping people for sure, and so that part of the job i like. but people are complex, and can like many different things.
- Student its wierd
- Student sse
- 9:54am
- Student quite official
- Student it looks like a monster
- Student do they have segments on the antennas
Bugscope Team yes the antenna that is coming off to the left has lots of segments
- Student cool
- Student WOW!!! that sounds pretty SHNAZZY
- Student how many years of college did you have to go through
Bugscope Team I am still in graduate school...when it is all said and done, when I graduate in the spring it will be 10 years since I graduated high school
- Student do you get off on the holidays?
- Student does an entomologist study bugs??
- Student Do you have business cards?
Bugscope Team yes we have nice business cards )
- Student so is this what you do all day
- Student what do you do exactly as a entomologist
Bugscope Team Entomologists study lots of different aspects of insect biology: behavior, genetics, toxicology, communication, ecology, they describe new species and study how insects affect agriculture and other industries. I study how a group of beetles communicate with each other.
- Student is entomologist a bug scientist
Bugscope Team yep!
- Student are you an optomoligist or anouther kind of scientist?
- Student Do you work through the whole night
Bugscope Team sometimes we work nights, but that is rare
- Student it looks like it has one eye
Bugscope Team the thing that looks like an eye is where an antenna broke off. The bigger round object to the right of it is one of its compound eyes
- Student what are the dot things?
- Student what are the segments used for
- Student thanks
- Student What is an entomologist?
- Student How high does you microscope go to?
- Student do you enjoy your job
- Student tick mouth
- Bugscope Team entomology is the scientific study of insects
- Student how long have you been doing your job?
- Student so where do you work in like a lab??
- Student How many years did you have to go to college to get your degree?
- Student its hairy
Bugscope Team the hair here is fungus
- Student hairy mouth
- Student how long have you been a emtomoligist?
Bugscope Team I started graduate school in 2003, so I guess that was my official start in entomology
- Bugscope Team this is the tick mouth
- Student What are the long strings?
- Student Thats disgusting
- Student it looks like big juicy lips
- Student the tick haed is so gross
Bugscope Team the tick in general was kind of gross. It was very engorged with blood, though we havent cut it to look inside. Scot wants to do that later
- Student is that hair on their mouth???
- Student is there mouth hary
Bugscope Team This doesn't look like hair that belongs to the insect to me...this looks like fungal hyphae
- Student oh thats weird
- Student is that its mouth?
- Student it looks slimey
- Student do you get grossed out by some things you look at
- Student does fungus grow on all bugs
- Student wait how do they get that hair on there mouth or fungus i mean?
Bugscope Team the fungus gets there after it dies. You will usually find it more on dead insects that are in a slightly wet environment
- Student is this a deer tick or another kind?
- Student are those its teeth?
- Student What kind of tick is this?
- Student what are all the triangle looking things in the middle
Bugscope Team those are what helps it bite into you or another mammal. It rubs those up and down to get further into the skin
- Student Can your microscope see things as small as atoms?
- Student do they grow the fungus?
- Student it looks like there is dry grass inside of it
- Student it has a tiny head
- Student does it have a toung
Bugscope Team Insects have a kind of toungue--called the hypopharanyx. It isn't as flexible as our tongue. Insects have sensilla that taste all over their bodies, so their tongue is probably mostly to manipulate food, not to taste it.
- Student
- Student how strong is your microscope?
Bugscope Team well, strong? do you mean how high can it magnify? up to 800,000 times. but for insects we normally look at 40x to 40,000x
- Student
- Student gtg
- Student thats what i said tim
- Student KMON
- Student what is the club like thing in the center of the mouth
- Student I ASKED THAT FIRST
- Student why is it round
- Student Wow thats powerful
- Student oh wow thats strong
- Student Does it have a brain?
- Student from where does it eat?
- Student ya deeper mouth
- 9:59am
- Student have you ever looked at an ear mite
Bugscope Team we have looked at mites in general. We find them on earwigs or big beetles mostly
- Student All bugs have a brian connor
- Student it looks like there is leaves on the top
- Student why does it look like a flower
- Student do they eat or just suck blood?
Bugscope Team the blood is their food
- Student do you guys do this all day?
Bugscope Team we do this about 3x a week. When we aren't doing this we run a lab for people on campus. Here in the microscopy suite we have around 50 microscopes for people to use. We help those people use them
- Student What are the little pedals?
- Student does the mouth have a tounge that laps your blood
- Student the bug looks like it has chapped lips
- Student so an insect digs in when it bites
Bugscope Team Well, I responded about insect tongues, but ticks are NOT insects. They are arachnids, related to spiders....
- Student are its eyes on there?
- Student it looks like it has stems or sticks on it
- Student is it sharp?
- Student does their diet only consist of blood of an animal?
- Student Does the mouth suck the blood or does it lap it up?
- Student what are the triangle things made of?
Bugscope Team They are made of chitin.
- Student do those ridges feel like ridges?
- Student Does this bug suck blood?
Bugscope Team yes the tick sucks blood
- Student does it hurt when a tick sucks your bug
Bugscope Team I have never found them to hurt ( I have found 2 ticks on me in the past). Usually people dont know they have ticks till they find them feeding on them
- Student what are the tringel thnigs on the mouth
- Student it looks like veins
- Student does it have a rigid body?
Bugscope Team yes, insects have an exoskeleton, they have that instead of bones. and the exoskeleton is hard, made from the same stuff as your fingernails, chitin
- Student so when you dont know that a bug bit you and its still there.how long does it stay??
Bugscope Team Umm..I think a tick will stay attached for a couple of days
- Student what campus?
- Student do you look at spider too or just insects
- Student is it sharp?
- Student do you guys teacher kids besides this.
- Student It looks like it has scales on it! WHat are they?
- Student do you ever get grossed out?
- Student it has all sorts of bumps on it
- Student you should mess with it a little more like show inside of it
- Student how many times is this magnified?
Bugscope Team right now 1436x. You should be able to see the magnification in the upper right hand corner
- Student okay thanks cae
- Student can they kill you?
Bugscope Team well, the tick doesn't kill you with its bite, but it could pass on some serious bacteria, and if that isn't properly treated, it could kill you
- Student does the tick just fall off then?
Bugscope Team It feeds for around a week or so, then yes they jump off to mate and lay eggs
- Student dose this animal thing have scales
- Student What is chitin?
Bugscope Team Chitin is a chain or n-acetyl-glucosamine that is beta linked. In English, it is a kind of sugar. Chitin+water+proteins are what makes up arthropod exoskeletons
- Student whats chitin
Bugscope Team it is the same stuff that your fingernails are made of
- Student what is chitin
- Student what is the longest you have studied one bug?
- Student Right now do we control your microscope?
- Student is chitin pronounced with and sh sound
Bugscope Team it sounds like kite-in
- Student can you get a disease from it
- Student why does the mouth have a hole in the middle
- Student do ticks only suck certan types of blood?.?
Bugscope Team whoa, great question! i have no idea, i'll look it up....
- Student ive heard that ticks can explode if they suck too much blood. is that true?
Bugscope Team I don't think so. There would have to be something seriously wrong with the tick. The inside of the tick's gut has stretch receptors that tell it when it has enough blood.
- 10:04am
- Student cool
- Student when do ticks sleep
- Student how long do they live
- Student whats that hole?
- Student how do you get a tick out of your skin?
- Student How fast do ticks reproduce?
- Student Wow! that's really complicated! Thanks.
- Student where do you fined this
- Student How big can ticks get to?
- Student if you squeeze it then will it explode
Bugscope Team Tick cuticle is pretty strong. Usually I don't see engorged ticks, so I don't know if they will explode or not. I would say not.
- Bugscope Team hah--it is my job to know about insect exoskeletons
- Student what are those tube things?
- Student Do ticks live on every continent?
- Student so are misquetos like ticks kind of?
Bugscope Team yes only they dont live on you but they can give you diseases just like ticks
- Student why is there no color?
- Student what happens if a tick get to much blood?
- Student has there evr been like a siamese insect like connected
- Student what are the hexagons?
- Student what is the tube thing
- Student what the sqaures thingys
Bugscope Team we are on the compound eye of the dragonfly head. Here we see some fungus
- Student this also has a stick stuff on it
- Student do ticks need are blood to live
Bugscope Team Yes, that is what they eat.
Bugscope Team Although, if a tick doesn't get a blood meal for a long time, it can go into a type of hibernation until a meal comes along
- Student what is that stuff on the eye?
- Student what is the long stringy stuff oi it
- Student what is the line things on the eye
- Bugscope Team And mosquitos are insects and ticks are arachnids
- Student What are the string thing on the eye?
- Student what is the tube?
- Student oh i knew that
- Student what kind of diseases do ticks give you?
Bugscope Team lyme disease is a big one but there are others
- Student Whats the biggest insect that you have looked at?
- Student what is the tube
- Student Can the fungus carry a disease?
- Student the eye looks dusty
- Student it sorta looks like bones or something
- Student so does fungus ever grow on a living insect??
- Student what is the tube?
- Student it looks like a big bone is it
- Student is that fungus on that eye?
- Student what is the tube?
- Student That eye is very dirty
- Student what month do most ticks come out?
Bugscope Team I would say they are probably AROUND all year, but the biggest time for ticks would be mid-late spring.
- Student Does the fungus infect the bug in any way?
- Student i have heard that tick did into you body and can get into your skin is that true?
Bugscope Team They bury their mouthparts in your skin and your skin swells around the tick--so it can look like the tick is buried in your body. But it wouldn't do the tick any good to go inside your body. How would it get out?
- Student how rare is getting west nile from a musquito
- Student how do Dragonflys get fungus on thier eyes
Bugscope Team just like the tick, it showed up when it was dead and it may have been in a moist environment
- Student what is the tube
- Bugscope Team Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colorado tick fever are a couple other diseases that you can get from ticks as well
- Student do all dead dragonflies get fungus in them
- Student Do dragonflies bite?
Bugscope Team yes they do bite, that is how they get their food, which is usually other insects
- Student whats your favorite insect
- Student can the dragonfly go blind because of the funas
Bugscope Team it doesnt usually grow on a living insect
- Student ok
- Student can fungus grow on the eyes when it is alive?
Bugscope Team Not usually--the dragonfly would have to be really sick for some other reason to have this kind of fungus growing on it
- Student what else grows on dragonflys
- 10:09am
- Bugscope Team i think the fungus is mostly growing after the dragonfly died. the insect would wipe off it's eyes if it were alive, i think
- Student Is there fungus all around the body?
- Student Do dragonflies carry diseases?
Bugscope Team not that I'm aware of
- Student can insects go blind
- Student what is the big blob in the corner
- Student what is the big rock?
Bugscope Team that is probably what you think it is, a rock.
- Student have you ever magnified a walkin stick
Bugscope Team yes they are ok to look at, i think praying mantids are more fun to look at, their heads look very alien-like
- Student what is the big rock?
- Student are dragonflies cannables
Bugscope Team As nymphs, almost certainly. They probably wouldn't make it a habit, but if they caught another dragonfly and it was smaller than it, it would almost certainly eat it
- Student looks like a rock
- Student What are the giant whole next to the rock?
- Student What is the bubble thing?
- Student how many little square-ish things are usually a dragonfly eye??
- Student Are those veins?
Bugscope Team the veins are just more fungus
- Student is that a rock
- Student is it possible to whipe off the fungus or would that be physicallt impossible
Bugscope Team we could probably clean it off with ethanol
- Bugscope Team Dragonflies do not carry any diseases.
- Student how did it get there?\
- Student dose it have cracks on it
- Student it has roots on it i think or something
- Student What is the tube
- Student WOW!! Eplain what you mean by alien like?
Bugscope Team it has very big eyes and a narrow head, it is very cool to see in the microscope filling up the screen I'm sorry we dont have one for you to look at today
- Student interesting
- Student do insects have enemies
- Student if you are sick and a tick/ or mosquito sucks your blood do they get your sickness
Bugscope Team Not necessarily. It depends on if your sickness can be vectored by an insect or a tick. There are some diseases, like malaria, west nile, and other tropical diseases that are insect vectored 100% of the time. But, something like a cold or the flu cannot be vectored by a mosquito or a tick. And the human pathogen usually cannot infect the mosquito--EXCEPT in the case of malaria. Malaria is an incredible disease.
- Student What is in the upper-right corner that looks like a bubble?
Bugscope Team that's the carbon sticky tape that we stick the bugs to, it keeps them still
- Student do a bugs antennas fall off after it dies
- Student WHAT IS THE TUBE?
- Student WOAH!!! SOUNDS AWSOME!!!!!
- Student How long do dragonflies live?
- Student how dose the dust stick to the eye
- Student can all insects bite people if they wanted to
Bugscope Team a lot can, you might not be able to feel it always, you feel a mosquito bite because they inject you with a anticoagulant so your blood flows better for them and that anticoagulant makes the spot feel itchy
- Student What kinds of bugs do you like looking at the most
- Student Are bugs considered parisites?
- Student what are those bubble things in the back of it?
- Student what are those dots
- Student why does the beetle head look broken down
Bugscope Team i think it started to deteriorate, it might be old
- Student what are thhose circle things on the top
- Student What are the circles
- Student how dose a bed bug get into you matress
- Student what are the bubble things
- Student Are the little circles cells?
- Student beetle butt/head
- Student what is in the backround?
- Student what are the circles
- Student Do beetles carry diseases or bite?
Bugscope Team they do bite (have you ever been bitten by a ladybug?) but they dont carry diseases
- Student What are those little dots on the side?
- Student how long do beetles live?
- 10:14am
- Student what are all the circle things in the back
- Student can bed bugs hurt you, when they are in your bed?
- Student what are the bubbles
- Student oh so it started to decay
Bugscope Team yes i think so, the discoloration shows where it is decaying
- Student do beetles live in trees
- Student do insects have teeth
- Student it all looks like bones
- Student What exactly is a bed bug?
- Student How fast do beetles reproduce?
- Student what is the most common beetle?
Bugscope Team There is not any really way to know that. There are occasional outbreaks of pest species, like Japanese beetles, corn rootworms, etc. etc., but I am not really sure if we have anyway of knowing which is the most common beetle species in the world..
- Student Is the head broken off?
- Student okay thanks
- Student what do the bettles eat
Bugscope Team that depends on the beetle. Some eat plant life while others eat other insects
- Student how long do bugs live?
- Student discoloration? the picture is black and white
Bugscope Team well, the scope uses electrons to gather the image, not light. since color is a manifestation of light (frequency), and since the scope isn't using light, there is no color.
- Student how do beetles communicate
- Student Do beetles migrate?
- Student since only female mosiquitoscan ite is that the same with a tick??
Bugscope Team Both sexes are blood feeders, but only the female becomes greatly distended during engorgement. Since the tick we saw today was engorged, it was a female
- Student Are they vertebrate?
Bugscope Team Nope, invertebrates. No bones.
- Student What is the basic structure of a beetle?
- Student how big are beetles?
- Student Dose it hurt when they bit or can it hurt you?
- Student Do beetle bite people?
- Student what is the biggest insect/aracnid in the world
- Student how do beetles communicate
- Student ok
- Student interesting
- Bugscope Team all electron microscopes use electrons, not light, to gather the image, that's why they are always black and white images
- Student Do you have colored microscopes?
- Student it looks like a claw thing on the bottom right
- Student how do beetles smell?
Bugscope Team They smell with specialized setae on their antennae and other body parts--but mostly their antennae
- Student what are the preitors of the beetle
Bugscope Team Other insects, spiders, small mammals, birds, lizards and frogs.
- Student What is the biggest bug you've ever looked at?
- Student do you look at just insects or do you look at all Arthropods
- Student how do beetles communicate
Bugscope Team They can communicate by pheromones, which are chemicals that the beetles release into the air which other beetles can detect--like cologne, they can communicate by sound (although that is not so common in beetles, especially over longdistances) and they can communicate by sight.
- Bugscope Team with software, however, you can color the image afterwords, and it would be pretty realistic, color based on elemental analysis
- Student Dose it hurt when they bit or can they harm you?
Bugscope Team sometimes it hurts, ladybugs hurt when they bite
- Student interesatin (said in a sinister way)
- Student What is the circle thing?
Bugscope Team I am not sure what circle you are talking about
- Student do beetles deteriorate?
Bugscope Team Yes, when they die they a broken down by fungi and other decomposers.
- Student Welcome sjinmtng
- Student what is that circular thing
- Student ok thanks
- Student what are the icicles?
- Student does this on ehave fungus too?
- Student Are all Arthropods able to carry harmful diseases?
Bugscope Team no only a few do, mostly the blood-suckers
- Student do beatles have a family or do they go off by there own
Bugscope Team Some beetle species do live in groups. Some bark beetles have a nest which is a gallery inside of a tree and they live cooperatively. Dung beetles and carrion beetles often form male-female pairs and they will feed and tend their larvae together. Several generations of bess beetles will live in the same rotten log and they will help to feed and take care of the younger larvae
- Student is it rigid
- Student as a swarm of mosquitos ever killed a person
Bugscope Team if a swarm of mosquitoes were to go after a person, there is a chance there is a disease carrier among the mosquitoes and it could make the man very sick or even kill him if he doesnt get help, so it is a possibility i suppose
- Student it has web on it or sticky stuff
- Student what are all the things that look like sticks and rocks
- Bugscope Team thanks Max
- 10:19am
- Student thats a random looking name
- Student your welcome :)
- Student can you tell where an insect was when it died
- Student what is the most interesting bug you have ever seen? is it one that we might of heard of???
- Student is that mucus?
- Student it looks like mars
- Student The one in the middle below the hole
- Student is it possible for a swarm of mosquitos to kill a person or animal
Bugscope Team Highly unlikely, but I have heard of some livestock being killed by swarms of mosquitoes. Very rare though.
- Student how do beetles feel?
- Student is that teeth?
- Student :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
- Bugscope Team Max this is Scot, in a meeting, Thanks
- Student The one in the middle below tthe hole
- Student do beetles chew their food
- Student thanks annie
- Student XD
- Student Is that like a suction cup?
Bugscope Team what we are looking at, and it is kind of hard to see, is 2 palps (looks like a bridge) are close together, and behind that is the mouth. Palps help the insect manipulate or taste its food
- Student can a pack of tics kill a person
- Student are those little hairs?
- Student can a swarm of mosquitos kill a person or animal
- Student ANNIe, the one in the middle below the hole
Bugscope Team Um, that looks like some dirt or maybe some of the silver paint that we use to make the specimen conductive
- Teacher Can you please explain to the class what part of the beetle head we are looking at right now?
- Student can a leech suck so much blood that it kills you or several ticks?
- Student How many bugs do you look at each day?
- Student I know its not an insect
- Student or is it?
- Student how long can they fly ion the air
- Student how do beetles protect them self
- Student answer time
- Bugscope Team so right now we are looking at mouth parts
- Student
- 10:24am
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- Student bye
- Student thank you alot! and good BYE!
- Student
- Bugscope Team thanks students!!!
- Student bye
- Student thankssss
- Bugscope Team thanks for all your great questions
- Student thanks see ya later
- Student THANK YOU VERYU MUCH!!!!
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- Student tell sjinmtng i said hi
- Student Thank you so much for answering all of our questions.
- Student thank you and goodbye
- Student BYE
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- Student thank you
- Student thanks a ton this was awsome bye
- Student I'll miss you guys
- Student thanks bye
- Teacher We are off to our next class - thank you so much for all of your time - it was really fun
- Bugscope Team mrs. h, remember all the chat and images are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-117
- Student TTYL>>>
- Student You guys are awesome
- Student thank you very much bye bye
- Student thank you! you helpedd alottt! byeee
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- Student thanks
- Bugscope Team thank you mrs. h, great job!
- Student thank you so much for all your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student bye bye
- Student Bye :(
- Bugscope Team great questions students!
- Student goodbye
- Bugscope Team I finally answered that circle question!
- Student HE HE HE HE :)
- Student thanks you for all your help and time
- Student thanks
- Student THANKS ALOT!! YOU GUYS ARE AWSOME!!
- Bugscope Team Thank you all
- Bugscope Team see they were the small palps
- 10:30am
- Bugscope Team okay, nice session everyone, session disabled, see you later!
