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- Bugscope Team hello pipkin!
- Bugscope Team Good morning, Pipkin!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Teacher good morning. mr. joy-hogg is out today, so i will be with his students
- Bugscope Team sounds good, we are ready to go anytime, you should see controls for the scope on your right
- Bugscope Team you have control of the microscope if you would like to try driving
- Bugscope Team if you have any questions please just ask
- 7:57am
- Bugscope Team Please let us know if you have any questions about control, setting up, the insects, Alex...
- Bugscope Team Good morning!
- Bugscope Team Let us know when you have questions!
- Bugscope Team this is a housefly head
- Bugscope Team you can see the eyes -- the compound eyes -- and the antennae, in the middle
- 8:03am
- Bugscope Team the mouth is in the right center of where we are looking now
- Bugscope Team this is the mouth
- Bugscope Team this fly has sponging/sucking mouthparts, and we are looking right at them
- Bugscope Team don't be afraid to talk to us and ask us questions about what you are seeing or anything related to insects
- Bugscope Team Can you all see the screen, the images from the 'scope, and the text?
- Student what body part is this
Bugscope Team i believe we are looking at the fly mouth
- Bugscope Team this is the mouth of the fly, Jacob
- Student what type of bug is this?
- Bugscope Team it sticks out in front of the face and has a sponging sort of function.
- Student how is a fly different than other bugs?
Bugscope Team A fly is different from other insects because it has just two wings. Almost all other insects have four wings.
- Student were is the brain?
Bugscope Team the brain is inside the head, like with humans
- Student oh cool do you like bugs
- Student how many body parts does this fly have
- Student Where fly's live
Bugscope Team Flies live almost everywhere. There is even a species of fly that lives in Antarctica.
- Student what is the jelly stuff
- Bugscope Team Hello all! Annie the entomologist here
- Student Do fly have teeth.
- Student How big is the brain?
- Student how meney dots are in the eye?
- Student Do flys have a nose?
Bugscope Team they do not have a nose. For smelling purposes, they have special setae (insect hairs) that have that purpose. And for breathing, they have little holes on their body called spiracles that are connected to their version of lungs and the holes even have little hairs in them that are similar to nose hairs!
- Student How many body parts does this insect have?
Bugscope Team All insects have three main body regions, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen
- Bugscope Team flies have two wings (the family is called Diptera, which means 'two wings')
- Student Where do fly lives?
- Student what do flys eat
Bugscope Team flies eat all kinds of things, by first decomposing it, and then sucking that back into their mouth with their proboscis
- Bugscope Team Flies do not have noses; most insects do not have a nose, not like we do.
- Student is it true that every thing flys eat they throw it up?
Bugscope Team Dennis sometimes they spit their own saliva out and them suck it up again along with what has dissolved.
- Student what is the jelly stuff
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- Student about how long does this type of fly live
- Student what are the parts to the fly head?
Bugscope Team There are lots of different parts...they have two compound eyes, two antennae, they have a brain, they have mouthparts, they have a tube that connects their mouth to the rest of their digestive system
- Student How many eyes do fly's have?
Bugscope Team they usually have 2 big compound eyes (the big areas full of bumps) and 3 simple eyes on the top of their heads that we probably can't see today, called ocelli which act as a sort of GPS system
- Student is this a horsefly or something?
Bugscope Team This doesn't look like a horsefly to me
- Student Do flys lay eggs?
Bugscope Team yes the female flies do lay eggs
- Student What is a placoid sensilla ?
- Student What part are we looking at now?
- Student What do flys eat.
Bugscope Team lots of different things: plant material, human food, garbage, wastes of all kinds, etc.
- Student How many time can a fly suck blood out of people?
Bugscope Team Not all flies suck blood. A female mosquito will produce three or four rafts of eggs...and each raft will probably take one full belly full of blood.
- Student what part is this?
- Student what bug is this
- Student what bug is this
- Student what's a compound eye?
- Bugscope Team A horsefly has slashing mouthparts; it cuts your skin when it bites.
- Student what do termites do
- Student do a termite have a nose
Bugscope Team Termites, like all insects, do not have a nose. They smell with their antennae and they breathe through spiracles located all over their bodies
- Student does the termite have a nose
- Student Do you know how big a fly's brain is ?
Bugscope Team well, not like humans do. insects breath through airholes called spiracles, which are on their bodies, not their faces
- Student What is the worm like things?
Bugscope Team Those are the antennae.
- Student do they have antenas
Bugscope Team All insects have two antennae
- Student what is that long thing
- Student What are those long things?
- Student where is the mouth
- Student where is the mouth
- Student Where is its mouth
Bugscope Team the mouth is covered up by the hinged jaw that we see, the jaws are crisscrossing each other in the middle of its head
- Student what are the long things coming off of the head
- Student Where is the termites eyes?
- Student is that the anttenna or something?
Bugscope Team the curvy things are the antennae, yes!
- Student where is the eye
Bugscope Team we can see one of the eyes a little bit on the right of the head. It is partially covered by the antenna
- Student this bug looks evil when you look at it wow thats cool i think its a termite head am i right.
- Student some people say that termites live in houses.why?
Bugscope Team Some termites feed in the structural timbers that make up peoples' houses. They don't discriminate between houses or posts or barns...they just like dead wood
- Student what do they eat
- Student do they eat anything else except wood?
- Student How big are the teeth?
- Student do they have teeth like a regular human
Bugscope Team insects do not have teeth like people do. they have a huge variety of mouthparts, some of which cut things, and some of which are hardened, but they don't have teeth
- Student what kind of teeth do they have
- Student why are termites so small
- Student do ternmite's have sharp teeh?
- Student Do they eat anything else other than wood?
Bugscope Team Nope, all termites feed on decomposing wood. They feed on different types of decomposing wood--some feed on dry wood, some feed on moist wood
- Student what is that pokey stuff
- Student how long can a termite live
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- Student Do they have hair?
Bugscope Team well, it's not hair like human hair, but yes, they have these hair looking things called setae (see-tee) all over their bodies
- Student what type of teeth does this termite have?
Bugscope Team yes there are lots of little hairs (that we call setae-- see-tee) covering the head here
- Student how do hey eat
- Student why are they so hairy?
Bugscope Team the hairs are called, usually, setae, and the setae are sensory -- they help the insect sense its surroundings, including smelling it and telling if things are hot or cold, and feeling the wind, or touch
- Student what do they eat
- Student How long can they eat wood?
- Student How many eggs do termite lay a year.
- Student why do they eat wood?
Bugscope Team The same reason that people eat cheeseburgers. Wood is just what they eat :)
- Student is the nose wet
- Student are they going to bite you if you picked one up?
- Bugscope Team the hairs are called setae (see-tee), and they are kinda like cat whiskers in that they help the insect to sense its environment
- Student are those long things that are crossed
- Student How big is there head?
- Student What is the hairy stuff?
- Student what gender is this?
- Student what is the hairy stuff?
Bugscope Team setae (see-tee), they help the insect feel its way around
- Student what is the ball on his head
- Student where are the eyeballs?
- Student if the termite eats wood how are they protected from inside dammage
Bugscope Team Termites have special bacteria in their guts that digest the cellulose--the tough part of the wood
- Student Do they have fang?
Bugscope Team Not fangs, they have stout jaws that they use to chew. But no fangs on a termite.
- Student do they have eye ballss
- Bugscope Team insects are a lot hairier than they seem!
- Student Do termites let bacteria?
- Student what are the eggs
- Student is that hair
Bugscope Team it's not really hair, but it looks like it. it's either very long scales, like those on the rest of the body, or long setae
- Student is that a eye ball?
- Student how many babies can they lay up to a year?
- Bugscope Team yes we find that insects are often very hairy, and it is a surprise at first
- Bugscope Team those egg looking things are the eyes
- Student What are those balls?
- Student why are the eyes so big?
Bugscope Team well, the compound eye is made up of hundreds of individual facets, each with a lens in it. the facets are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team the hairs are scales
- Student Do termites multiply?
- Student Where is it's mouth
- Student are those eye balls?
Bugscope Team yes the bright spots are the moth's compound eyes
- Student why are the eyes so big?
Bugscope Team Since most moths fly at night they need big eyes to gather as much light as possible. Many animals that are active at night have large eyes for the same reason--think of owls
- Student Is that the eyes?
- Student Do they have wings?
- Student what are those sharp things going a cross for the termite
- Student why do there eyes look like eggs
- Student what are those white things that are on the side of the head
Bugscope Team they are the compound eyes. They look so bright because they are charging up with electrons
- Bugscope Team you can see the eyes are really huge!
- Student what is the hair on top of his head
- Student What do don king moth eat.
- Student Do they have teeth?
Bugscope Team no they have a proboscis, which is similar to an elephant's trunk. It acts as a straw to drink nectar
- Student do they have a brain?
Bugscope Team yep, they sure do, although not nearly as cool as our brains :)
- Student Are some moths posinous ?
Bugscope Team Some people (like me) can have an allergic reaction to moth scales; but other than causing allergies, there are no poisonous moths. Unless you go around eating moths.
- Student Do they lay eggs?
- Student is the long thing the tounge
- Student would they bite you if you cath them
- Student why does the moth look so furry?scince they look hairy do they feel hairy
Bugscope Team they are covered in scales. If you were to touch a moth, it would feel velvety because of the scales, a lot of the scales would also come off the moth
- Student Do moths have special physical adaptation to survive?
- Student How big can they grow up to/
Bugscope Team The largest moth I have ever seen was about 8 inches across
- Student what animal kingdom is it in?
Bugscope Team well, the kingdom of a moth is: animalia
- Student do moths have noses?
Bugscope Team No insects have noses.
- Student what do moth eat
- Student how do they eat
Bugscope Team the proboscis (which is coiled up right now) will unroll like a party favor that you blow into that makes noise. When it is unfurled, it can drink out of it
- Student is that a beak on the moth
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- Student is that hair on there body
- Student what is the stick in the middle of the eyes
Bugscope Team that is the proboscis, it curls up and out and helps the moth eat food and stuff
- Student where would they most likely sleep @?
Bugscope Team Moths like to sleep in places where they cannot be seen...on trees, under bark, among leaves.
- Student what do they eat?
- Bugscope Team moths and butterflies like sweet fluids, such as nectar and sap
- Bugscope Team some moths also like salty things to drink
- Student why is it in animalia?
Bugscope Team well, animalia is a HUGE group, signifying, well, all animals, including tigers, insects, worms, jellyfish, etc.
Bugscope Team Insects are animals. they are invertebrates, which means they don't have backbones, and insects don't have bones at all
- Student do they fly for a long time
- Student how big is tit
- Student Where can you find them at?
- Student is that hair
Bugscope Team they are covered in different types of scales
- Student can moths eat insects a little bigger than them?
- Student can you name the parts of the moth?
- Student How manybody parts do they have
- Student do moths like light?
- Student what do moths provide for us or anything else in nature
- Student Does the moth have feather.
Bugscope Team moths have scales, which are kind of like tiny feathers. when you touch a moth and it feels super smooth, and powder comes off, the 'powder' is lots of scales
- Student does this thing carry a disease?
Bugscope Team I have never heard of a disease being carried by a moth
- Student where do they live
- Student do they die if they loose ther wings
Bugscope Team They don't die right away. However, if they are unable to fly it makes them more likely to be eaten by a predator, like a frog or a big or a mouse
- Student Are they rare?
- Student what are the lines
- Student where did it get the strips from
- Student Is this a wing?
- Bugscope Team the order of the moth is: Lepidoptera
- Student is this the wing*
- Student do they have some disease
Bugscope Team Moths can get diseases that are specific to moths...but they can't get human diseases
- Student what are those circle things on the eye
Bugscope Team the circles are the ommatidia -- the individual facets of the compound eye
- Bugscope Team butterflies are also Lepidopterans
- Student why are flys so uncatable
- Student is this a black butter or something
- Student what are the needles
Bugscope Team those are setae on the eyes, they help to sense wind speed and direction, help the fly while flying
- Student what are those spiks
- Student are those sensors?
- Student What are the circle like things on the eye?
Bugscope Team those are the individual facets of the compound eye called ommatidia. they are thought to each grab an image and send it to the brain
- Student do they get sun burn
Bugscope Team They can overheat and essentially cook in the sun. Most insects are very good about staying out of the sun and avoiding cooking themselves
- Student How many eyeballs are there?
Bugscope Team hundreds in a compound eye. sometimes maybe a thousand!
- Student can they be blind?
- Student how many are their?
- Student why does it have hair on it
Bugscope Team well, it's more setae, they help the insect sense things, in this case wind speed and direction
- Student Do they have cornia's?
Bugscope Team in a way they have a cornea, and we are looking at it
- Student if something happens to there eyes what happens
- Student what are the needles on the eyes?
- Student is this one eye?
Bugscope Team this is one of the compound eye, which has lots of light sensors -- smaller eyes or lenses -- that we see now
- Student how well can an eye see
Bugscope Team very very well, flying insects have great vision
- Student Do fly's have different eye texters?
- Student are there small particles
- Student Can any of the eyes bust open?
- Student what are those balls for
Bugscope Team each one of those balls is an eye facet, called an ommatidia, and each one has a lens in it
- Student how big is there eyes?
- Student does this insect get eaten by anything?
Bugscope Team There are many predators of insects. Other insects, spiders, centipedes, birds, snakes, lizards, frogs, mice, skunks, possums...almost anything will eat an insect
- Student why does it have hair on it
Bugscope Team those hairs help the insect feel whether something is touching its eye, and sometimes they help the insect judge wind direction
- Student if you hit one eye ball what happens
- Student how can they here you from far distances?
Bugscope Team they can sense vibrations in the air, or they can smell with their chemosensory setae
- Student what's a compound eye?
Bugscope Team There are simple eyes and compound eyes. Compound eyes are made up of many lens, which are the bumps that we see now
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- Student Can there eye balls pop out of socket?
- Student is the eye the strongest part on the flies body
- Student what are those pointy things?
- Student why do fly have so many eyes but yet they can not see a fly swatter
Bugscope Team They actually can see the fly swatter--that is why you have to be so fast when you try to smack them. Sometimes we are smarter than the fly and we can smack them before they know what is coming
- Student can they see at night
- Student Can they see in the dark?
- Student does the fly have night vision?
Bugscope Team Some flies (like mosquitoes) are active at night, so they have some degree of night vision. House flies are not usually active at night so they probably don't have good night vision
- Student Does the fly have good eyes at night.
Bugscope Team I don't think their night vision is very good. that of moths is better.
- Student do they have night vision?
- Student do flys have good vision
Bugscope Team yep
- Student what do flyes eat
Bugscope Team all kinds of stuff, really nasty stuff too, that's why they say don't let a fly land on your food
- Student Are they realy hary?
Bugscope Team yep, those hairs help them sense their environment, so they more hairs (setae) the better they know their surroundings
- Student how do the lies react to water
- Student What are the pointy things that come out of the flys eyes?
- Student are those bumps on it ?
Bugscope Team the bumps on the eyes are the individual lenses
- Student what is this
- Student are those bones
Bugscope Team nope, those are leg segments, tarsi. insects don't have bones, they have an exoskeleton that holds in all the guts and organs and stuff.
- Student are those legs
- Student wheres the head
- Student do they have a disease]
- Student do they have eyes?
- Student Where is the mouth
- Student what does this bugg do
- Student how do rolly pollys eat and how do they eat
- Student where is the mouth]
- Student do they have bones
Bugscope Team No, insects and other arthropods like pillbugs have an exoskeleton...the exoskeleton acts like bones on the outside of the body. The muscles are on the inside of the bones
Bugscope Team nope, insects don't have bones, instead they have a hard outter shell, called an exoskeleton
- Student do pillbug eat?
- Student what type of food do they eat?
- Student whaat color is it?
- Student can they camoflauge?
- Student what are those white things on the legs?
- Student what kind of bug is this?
- Student What do pillbug eat.
Bugscope Team they eat decaying matter like rotting wood
- Student is this a rolly polly
Bugscope Team yes it is, a pillbug is also known as a rolypoly
- Student How many legs does a pill bug have?
Bugscope Team I think it has 14 legs. we could count them
- Bugscope Team this is a pill bug i think?
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team they are actually crustaceans, like crabs and lobsters and shrimp, and they have gills
- Student how much do they way?
- Student what part is that
- Bugscope Team yep, a pill bug is a rolly polly, same thing
- Student what is the gel stuff
- Student is this a pillbug?
- Student does it have mouth?
- Student do they lay eggs?
- Student how many legs are there
- Student where are the eyes?
Bugscope Team They are found more towards the back of the insect. We are looking at the underside of it right now
- Student Can they run fast?
- Student Can the swim?
Bugscope Team hmm, not well, i woudn't think?
- Student Are there more than a 1,0000
- Student can they swim
- Student Can they swim?
- Student why do they have a shell
- Student are they smooth?
- Student Why do they roll in a ball.
- Student how many body parts does it have
- Student are they insects?
Bugscope Team nope, pill bugs are crustaceans, like lobsters!
- Bugscope Team they can probably survive in some water for a bit, like in your sink, but they don't really swim well
- Student how fast do they move
Bugscope Team they are super slow
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- Student what are one of the reflects that a rolly polly has when attacked
Bugscope Team it curls up into a ball, using it's outer shell as a cover
Bugscope Team so its first reflex is to roll up into a ball to protect itself
- Bugscope Team The ball shape is for protection!
- Student what would happen if we didnt have pillbugs]
Bugscope Team There would probably be extra rotting vegetation and fungus laying around. I am not sure if a loss of pillbugs would have any dire environmental effects
- Student how wide are they?
- Student do they make sound?
- Student Dose it have a lot eyes like the fly?
Bugscope Team no its eyes are much smaller, and it only has 2 compound eyes, while flies often have 2 compound eyes as well as a set of simple eyes. Its compound eyes are much smaller because they mostly live in dark places where they don't need to use them
- Student Are pillbugs important?
- Student what will happen if we didnt have any more pill bugs
- Student Do they grow old & crusty like humans
Bugscope Team Nice, Tyrik. Yeah probably, just not as old.
- Student do they bite?
- Student do there shells break easily
Bugscope Team well, a person could break it easily, but another insect might have a much harder time breaking through it
- Student can they kill peop[le
Bugscope Team Nope. They stick to eating rotting things
- Student Whaqt does it eat?
Bugscope Team it eats rotting wood, rotting vegetation, stuff like that
- Student how many lives do they have
Bugscope Team every living thing on this earth has one life...
- Student where did they get there name
- Student How big can they grow.
- Student could you smoosh it withyour finga?
Bugscope Team Yeah you could but you might get grossed out with the crunching
- Student Do they have shells?
Bugscope Team they don't have shells like snails, but their back has something like armor plating like an armadillo
- Student do they have juice in them?
Bugscope Team they have fluid that circulates through the inside of the body cavity
Bugscope Team well, organs and blood type material, so yeah, they have juice
- Student is there guts
Bugscope Team yes the pillbug has a digestive system with a foregut, a midgut, and a hindgut
- Student How do they like dirt?
Bugscope Team They live in moist places. Dirt is often a nice moist place to live.
- Student do they have guts
Bugscope Team yep, guts and organs, and stuff like that
- Student do they have a brain
- Bugscope Team i've never heard of someone getting killed by a pillbug, that would be something!
- Student do they have a brain/
Bugscope Team Yes, they have a brain
- Student how many legs do they have
Bugscope Team Dennis I think they have 14 legs. It may vary according to species.
- Student How many body parts do they have
- Student do thry lay eggs?\
- Student ghfhf
- Bugscope Team RIP scot, killed by a pillbug... heh :)
- Student ha
- Student if you killed it would it be juicy or crunchy?
Bugscope Team well, the shell would be crunchy, the insides would be juicy, so both. like a candy with juicy insides
- Student do they kill other things with there claws
- Student haaa haaa
- Student What is that gross stuff on the top?
- Student what kind of bacteria?
- Student what bacteria is it
- Student How do they get bacteria?
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- Student what is the ricey stuff at the bottom
Bugscope Team the stuff that looks like rice grains are the bacilli (bacteria). This type of bacteria has the same shape as e. coli but that doesn't mean that's what type it is
- Student do it dieds when bacteria is on there back?
- Bugscope Team Pillbugs have 7 pairs of jointed legs, and they have seven thoracic segments -- the parts that fold like armor
- Student what wing is that?
- Student can this kill them?
- Student is that juice?
- Student how many guts are there
Bugscope Team it has organs, i'm not positive of the makeup (annie would know), but it does have organs, stomach, some kind of heart, etc.
- Student what kind of bacteria
- Student and organs
- Student how do lady buggs get bactiria
- Student looks goey?
- Student what color is a ladybugs blood
Bugscope Team Insect blood is sort of a clear to greenish color.
- Student is this its eye
- Student what is the hair ?
Bugscope Team all these hairs are called setae (see-tee)
- Student What is the coler of the bacteria?
- Student Can they eat a roach?
Bugscope Team They could eat parts of a dead roach...especially if it was covered in mold.
- Student is that glass in there stuff?
- Student what si the neddle
Bugscope Team those are setae (hairs) that are more close up than we have seen so far
Bugscope Team setae
- Student \what is the gel
- Student what part of the body is this?
- Student Can it kill other bugs?
- Bugscope Team or i should say a single seta
- Student to they kill other insects
- Student What do Ladybugs Eat?
Bugscope Team Ladybugs eat other insects. They really like to eat aphids and scales and other soft bodied insects. However, they will often eat whatever doesn't get away from them.
- Student what are the lines on the body
- Student hey,can you get sick from a bugg
Bugscope Team yes bugs can make you sick. they can carry diseases. like mosquitos, for example, can transmit West Nile virus
- Student is that a tree branch?
- Student What kingdom are ladybugs in?
Bugscope Team well, kingdom again is animalia, but the kingdom is WAY TOO broad of a classification. instead, you should ask what is the "family", in the ladybugs case the family is: Coccinellidae
- Student Can the bateria kill you ?
- Student w
- Student How much fat can they grow on them?
- Student what do they get there color from?
- Student what doe they eat
- Student Can they take a bath to get the bacteria or do even smaller bugs eat the bacteria.
- Student did the bateria kiil the lady bug?
- Student how do they get there pigment
- Student what color are they
Bugscope Team they can have a very bright red shell, very cool looking
- Student What makes some bugs green and black?
- Student do htey eat there egg shell
Bugscope Team Often insect larvae eat their egg shells
- Student can you get sick from the bacteria
Bugscope Team you can if you don't keep clean
- Student do they have a brain?
Bugscope Team Yes, all insects have brains
- Student is that a crab?
- 8:38am
- Student ladybugs seem so harmless is that just a disguiss
Bugscope Team they are actually good to have around. They eat other insects that are harmful to plants like aphids.
- Student why does this look like a crab
Bugscope Team Insects are related to crabs, they are both arthropods
- Student is that a tooth?
- Student do bugs get viruses from other bugs
- Bugscope Team The bright color of a ladybug is a warning to predators that it might not taste very good.
- Student how many eggs do they lay?
- Student where are the eyes]
Bugscope Team the eyes are on either side of the head, and they are sort of streamlined into its rounded shape
- Student Where are the eyes?
- Student Do ladybugs eat wood like termites?
Bugscope Team No, most ladybugs are predators. A few ladybugs feed on plants though.
- Student where do they live?
- Student is that hair?
- Student wheres the m,outh
- Student how many legs are their?
Bugscope Team All insects have six legs
- Student what do they use to get food?
- Student are ladybugs important?
Bugscope Team Yes, they are important predators of insect pests.
- Student what do they eat
Bugscope Team They eat other insects, mostly soft bodied insects like aphids
- Student Were is the mouth on the lady bug.
Bugscope Team we are looking at the mouth
- Student do they have a nose?
Bugscope Team no they do not have noses. On their palps (which we can see 2 sets here, 1 set looks like feelers and the other set looks like vacuum nozzles) they have special sensory setae that allow them to taste/smell
- Student Can they eat something like a bug wih a lot of fat on it's body
- Student what the little horn on the face
- Student is the underside hard too
- Student what do they eat
Bugscope Team they eat other insects, like aphids
- Student what is the little horn on its face
Bugscope Team the little horn is one of four palps, which the insect uses to help manipulate and taste its food
- Student what would happen to the food web if we didnt hyave ladybugs
Bugscope Team There would probably be an increase in soft bodied insects, the kinds of insects that ladybugs eat...an increase in populations of those soft bodied insects could negative affect crops
- Student where do they live?????
Bugscope Team they live on plants and vegetation
- Student do they have eyes?
- Student what would happen to our food web if we didn't have any more?
- Student where do they live
- Student what will happen to the food web
- Student i held a ladybugg in my hand one day and when i opend my hand it way gone i made sure my hands were closed completely.how did that happen
Bugscope Team you know it probably crawled out of a tiny crack where your hand wasn't fully closed, and it flew away
Bugscope Team well, they can be sneaky little critters can't they? he probably snuck out through a small crack in your fingers
- Student what would happen to the food chain if there was no ladybug?
- Student do they go through a life cycle everyday or so?
- Student wheres there eye balls
Bugscope Team their compound eyes are found on either side of their head. They are a little covered up by their palps and antennae, but you can kind of see the bumpy round areas on either side of the head
- Student Can they eat wood like termites?
Bugscope Team no, they do not have the bacteria in their guts that termites have which allows termites to digest wood
- Student so wheres the nose
- Student if they dont have bugs, what keeps the body moving?
- Student what does this bug have incomin whith other bugs
- Student Is it true that when birds eat a ladybug it tases bad?
Bugscope Team Yes they don't taste good, and once a bird has one it would prefer not to have another
- Student do they eat jushaedf
- Student Do lady bugs lick water off leaves.
Bugscope Team Yes, sometimes
- Student do the'}
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- Student do they eat theree babys
Bugscope Team Not usually.
- Student what is the bloody stuff
- Student are ladybugs harm less to us and to peoples plants
Bugscope Team they are mostly harmless to us. Sometimes they mistake our skin for food and bite us. They are good to plants because they eat things that are meant to harm the plants
- Student do they eat there eggs
Bugscope Team That would be a rare occurance
- Student why does it look like they have dirty spots on it?
Bugscope Team those spots are places where the exoskeleton is starting to break down, to rot
- Student how many leg doe they have??
Bugscope Team they are insects so they have 6 legs
- Student what will happen to the foo
- Student can they fly
Bugscope Team they can fly. first they have to open the hard shells, the elytra, like a convertible with a hard top
- 8:43am
- Student dregrhijyr
- Student ytrrtr 5tr]gbfg
Bugscope Team wizzle wozzle
- Student how can they fly?
- Student d
- Student does this bug have any thing incomin with other bugs
Bugscope Team All insects share many common features, they all have two antennae, six legs, two pairs of wings, a dorsal heart and a ventral nerve cord
- Student i guess they are but they are funny, one rolled over and couldnt get back up,can it die if it stays on its bak too long
Bugscope Team if it can't turn over, it can't eat so eventually it will either starve or be eaten by something else if it doesn't turn around
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- Student what is a wizzle wozzle
- Student What part of the body is this?
- Bugscope Team what is a ytrrtr 5tr]gbfg
- Student what do they eatt?
- Bugscope Team this is the center of the thorax
- Bugscope Team of the ladybug
- Student Can they die if you put one in a car engin or will they craw out of a cack?
Bugscope Team if the engine was on, the heat would kill the ladybug, but if it were off, and didn't get stuck in any oil or gunck, then it would crawl out for sure
- Student what are the neddles
- Bugscope Team this is the part of the body that the legs are attached to
- Student how many legs do they have?
- Student do they suck your blood
Bugscope Team Ladybugs do not suck human blood
- Bugscope Team head, thorax, abdomen, legs, antennae
- Student what do they prey on
- Student what do they doe in life?
- Student ey have blood
- Student what is the big funnel thing
- Bugscope Team this is a kind of sad mosquito
- Student why do mesquetioes suck blood
Bugscope Team The female mosquito required iron from blood to form her eggs.
Bugscope Team only the female mosquito drinks blood and she needs to do that for the extra protein needed to lay eggs. Males don't need to drink blood because they don't lay eggs. They drink nectar
- Student what are the circles
- Student what do you call this?
Bugscope Team this is the head of a mosquito, and we are looking at one eye and the base of an antenna that is missing
- Student why does it look hairy
Bugscope Team those hairs are setae, they help it to feel its surroundings
- Student Why is it fuzzy?
- Student ththwheres there heart
- Student whats the hair
- Student why does thithis look like bubble rap?
- Student what is that hairy ball in the middle middle
- Student if it doesnt get our blood does it die
Bugscope Team It won't die, but it won't be able to lay any eggs
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- Student do they suck your blood
Bugscope Team yes
- Student what part sucks blood?
- Student are those bubbles
Bugscope Team those things that look like bubbles are deflated eyeballs
- Student what do these weird insects live on over the winter and fall without blood
Bugscope Team there are a few mosquito species that overwinter as adults, essentially by hibernating like a bear.
- Student are the eyes hary
- Student where is its eyes and mouth
- Student are those bubbles?
Bugscope Team Those are facets of the eye
- 8:48am
- Student cool
- Student Why is it so furry.
Bugscope Team hairy, those are setae, and they help the insect sense its environment
- Student are those tentacales
- Student is it the male or female that sucks peoples blood
Bugscope Team the female
- Student if it dsosent have any blood will it die
Bugscope Team Mosquitos of both sexes can feed on nectar. The females require blood to lay eggs
Bugscope Team it will not be able to supply the nutrients it needs to the eggs so that they will survive
- Student is the texture rough our smooth?
- Student how do they hibernate if they cant eat much and get FAT
- Student What is that big furry thing?
- Student what prat of the food chane is it.
- Student so this hairy part is a natural implantation?
- Student are the male miqitos big/
Bugscope Team No, they are the same size as the female
- Student The thing in the bottom left corner look like a pineapple.
Bugscope Team that the compound eye, with deflated ommatidia
- Student whats that big ball
- Student haw much blood does this insect carry]
- Student what does the male drink then
Bugscope Team nectar from flowers
- Student dothey carry diseases?
Bugscope Team oh yeah, not all of them, but mosquitos can carry disease, and have done so many times in the past, and will continue to do so in the future
- Student What is it's function?
Bugscope Team Mosquitoes really don't have much of a function. They are important food sources for bats and other small vertebrates, but that is it. If mosquitoes went away, bats could find something else to eat
- Student how much blood does the female need?
- Student WHat is that fuzzy, round , tube?
- Student how many babys can they have
- Student why is it so hairy?
- Student what do they prey on
- Student can any part fall off and it will still live?
Bugscope Team THey can lose legs and probably an antenna and still live
- Student what are the big misquitos called?
Bugscope Team Jeremy those things that look like really big mosquitos are crane flies, and they don't bite
- Student does it rink juice from plant leaves to
- Student what are those circols on its head
- Student whats the fuzzy stuff
- Student how doe they commonacate
Bugscope Team with mosquitos the noise they make helps them identify themselves
- Student do they drink nectar5
Bugscope Team through their long proboscis
- Student whats the sandy stuff
- Student What are those bumps?
- Student what are those cups
- Student are spiders vegetarians?
Bugscope Team no, they are all carnivores
- Student could they kill a umanm
- Student what type of spider is shown
- Student what are the 2 circles on the side of its haed
- Student do spiders eat there mates?
Bugscope Team if they are hungry and if the mate doesn't get away
- Student is that a femalllle
- Student what the grassey like stuff
- Student How many eye does it have.
- Student are those eye balls that are poking out?
Bugscope Team yes those are some of the eyes
- Student How long do spiders live?
- Student do they have 6 eyes or 7?
Bugscope Team looks like it has six, but it may have eight
- 8:54am
- Student what is the poison that makes the spot itch?
- Student what are those bumps?
- Student does only thhe black wido mate than kill
Bugscope Team the black widow doesn't always eat her mate...sometimes though
- Student What can of spider is it.
- Student Is this spider danger?
- Student what are the bumps for?
- Student its very hairy thingss
- Student how many eyes do they have
Bugscope Team we only see 6 here, but commonly they have 8 eyes
- Student why do spiders eat other spiders after they mate
Bugscope Team because they are hungry
Bugscope Team they are very aggressive and just might be hungry; they are not very sentimental
- Student were does the food go?
- Student how big can a spider get
Bugscope Team the largest spiders are turantulas, which can be 10 inches (with legs)
- Student how doe they have children
- Student how many babys can spiders have at once?
- Student When is the most comen time for mosquiteos to mate?
- Student wheres the mouth n
Bugscope Team we can't see it from this view. We are seeing the spider from it's backside. The underside is the part stuck to the tape which is where we would be able to see the mouth
- Student what is that pointy stuff on the side?
Bugscope Team that is one of the legs, close to the head, on the left
- Student ddo any of you think spiders that are deadly can be controlled
Bugscope Team You can kill most spiders with insecticides
- Student wheres the mouth]
- Student how many lives do they have?
- Student do they have a brain
- Student Does this spider have hair?
Bugscope Team it has fine hair, called setae, often, and the hair is important in its ability to help the spider sense vibrations
- Student what animal kingdom are they in?
- Student whats that cut
- Student how do you tell the difrance from a boy or a girl
- Student What eats a spider.
Bugscope Team Other spiders, birds, insects, snakes, small mammals, lizards, frogs
Bugscope Team birds, humans, raccoons, ferrets, etc. etc.
- Student how many different spieces are there?
- Student is the this a vertebrate or inverbrate
- Student so does the black widow female eat the male cause they are hungrey but thas thier mate
Bugscope Team they just don't develop attachments, like people might, for their mates
- Student how many eggs do they lay
- Student thank you
- Student thank u annie/cate/alex/scot
- Student Thank You
- Student do the spiders kill people
Bugscope Team Some spiders can kill a human...but it is actually very rare
- Student thank you for answering as many of my questions you can!
- Bugscope Team thank you, you all totally dig great!
- Student Thank you for letting us see the bugs?
- Bugscope Team did great!
- Student THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!$
- Student thankyou for helping us.
- Student it was a nice time talking with you
- Bugscope Team Thank you all for your good questions
- Student Thank you for the info.
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student thank you for letting us look at the bugs annie,cate,alex ,and scot.
- Bugscope Team thank you for all your great questions!
- Bugscope Team pipkin: all the chat and images from today's session are saved to your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-127
- Student bye!
- Student bye thank you for every thing i had a good time$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
- Student thank you for leting us see the buggs!
Bugscope Team That was fun, Maya, Thank You.
- Student Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student thaank u Annie,Cate,alex,scot$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
- Student thank you dudes
- Bugscope Team Good bye Kiln Creek
- Student bye funny dude
- Student thsn thank you
- Bugscope Team thanks my man
- 8:59am
- Teacher Annie, Cate, Alex, and Scott......Thank you for your time today.
- Student bye
- Student Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student thank you for answering as many of my questions as you could
Bugscope Team Shaine you got it -- we could hardly keep up. We appreciate it.
- Student peace$$$$$$$$$$$$
- Bugscope Team remember all the chat and images are available online at: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-127
- Bugscope Team no problem, thanks for filling in for the other teacher and being such an excellent driver
- Student Thank you so much for anserwing my questions$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
- Student thank you for anserwing my questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$$$$$$$
- Student THANK YOU IT WAS FUN!
- Student peace$$$$$$$
- Student you guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team peace out
- Student yoooooooooooooooo
- Bugscope Team good session
- Bugscope Team lots of questions
