Connected on 2009-02-10 08:45:00 from , IL, US
- 8:15am
- Bugscope Team hello, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team we are still setting up presets
- Teacher Good morning, I was just checking in while my first period class finishes another project. I will have two classes today - I hope that is okay. They both are about 40 people and will last about 45 minutes.
- Bugscope Team yeah, that's cool
- Bugscope Team one thing to note:
- Bugscope Team when having your students login, it's best to keep the number of logins lower than 25-30, or else lag might be bad
- Bugscope Team so, maybe you coudl double up your students on a computer?
- Bugscope Team however, that's not a requirement, just a suggestion
- Teacher I have seven laptops for them to use so they will group up as table one, two, etc...
- Bugscope Team ah cool, that sounds great!
- 8:20am
- Bugscope Team we'll be done with presets soon, and then you can practice driving... oh wait, you were logged in yesterday too right?
- 8:26am
- Teacher Yes, I was. I need to switch from my Mac system to the Windows so I will log out for a couple of minutes.
- Bugscope Team ok, no problemo
- 8:34am
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope
- 8:39am
- Bugscope Team Let us know when you have questions!
- Bugscope Team Looks like something took a bite out of this part!
- Bugscope Team this is one of the mouthparts of this fly, kind of hard to see what is what
- Student what is it
- Student idk
- Bugscope Team this is a fly proboscis
- Student cool
- Student hi
- Student sweetness
- Bugscope Team a proboscis is basically something that sucks up liquids of some sort
- Bugscope Team a type of mouthpart
- Guest hi
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team if you take the mag down you can see where you are
- Bugscope Team the biggest proboscis in the world is the elephant trunk
- Bugscope Team Hello Table 7
- Student hi
- 8:44am
- Student wierd
- Bugscope Team Hello to all the tables!
- Student hi scot
- Bugscope Team You are in control of the microscope, Mrs D.
- Guest hi table 1
- Bugscope Team Hello Table 1
- Guest hi trevor
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team let us know if you have questions about the bugs, or how the microscope works, or anything else
- Student hi joseph
- Student Ok, thank you.
- Student ha trevor
- Bugscope Team If you decrease the magnification a bit, you can see the rest of the fly's head
- Student hola
- Student Hey guys, this isn't an Im, please stop.
- Student como estas
- Student muy bien
- Student stop saying hello to everyone
- Student how many eays does it have
Bugscope Team well, it has two large compound eyes
- Student this is for questions only
- Student eays?
- Student o
- Student eyes
- Bugscope Team but i think some insects have simple eyes as well, i know spiders do
Bugscope Team Yes, some (but not all) insects have simple eyes in addition to compound eyes
- Student thank u
- Student We saw yesterday that these things have minipoop, is there any of this "poop" on the table?
Bugscope Team table 3 we will see some if you look around -- entomologists call it 'frass'
- Student wat is it
- Student a fly
- Student It is a fly
- Guest wat part is this
- Bugscope Team yep, this is a fly, but probably not a house fly like i said before
- Student what gender is it
Bugscope Team with flies (Diptera) you can sometimes differentiate between male and female by looking at the eyes
- Student Oh ye, we saw that.
- 8:50am
- Student what does the fur on it do for the fly?
Bugscope Team that fur is called setae (see-tee), and those are hair like structures that stick through the exoskeleton, these hairs are how insects feel their environment
- Student Thanks.
- Student is it a male or female
- Student is the hole really that big in the bug?
Bugscope Team This insect was part of a pinned collection...the hole is where the pin used to be.
- Student where can they be found at?
- Student is that the hole from the metal toothpick thing?
- Bugscope Team male fly eyes are often close together, and those of females are further apart
- Student ye table 2
- Bugscope Team The hole is not very big in proportion to the rest of the fly
- Student oh i thought so
- Guest wat is that
- Student wild needs to talk regular
- Bugscope Team that is/was the head of the fly
- Student is that the eye
- Guest o thanks
- Bugscope Team it has huge compound eyes with thousands of facets, called ommatidia
- Student is this the eye
- Bugscope Team yep, this is the compound eye
- Bugscope Team yes that is the eye, on the right just now
- Bugscope Team fly's have very good vision, thanks to these compound eyes
- Student ok cool
- Bugscope Team in the background we see bubbles in the doublestick carbon tape Cate used to mount the samples on the stub yesterday
- Bugscope Team everything we see is inside the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope
- Bugscope Team mrs. dobler, you can also click on any preset to take you to that location, if you like
- Bugscope Team and it is coated with several nanometers of gold-palladium
- 8:55am
- Student on estimate how many eye spots are in a compound eye? normally?
Bugscope Team well, it ranges from maybe a hundred, to thousands. flying insects usually have more facets (ommatidia) on them, because they need better vision.
- Student is that a leg or arm?
Bugscope Team they are all legs
- Student coooooooooollllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student is that a leg
Bugscope Team yup
- Student o ok thank you
- Student is that a pincher
- Bugscope Team there are hundreds to thousands of ommatidia on the eye of a flying insect
- Student what are ommatidia?
Bugscope Team ommatidia are the individual facets of a compound eye. all those bumps on the compound eye are ommatidia. each one contains a lens and sends a vision signal to the fly brain
- Student is that hair?\
Bugscope Team We call insect "hairs" setae. The setae allow the insect to sense its environment through its thick cuticle
- Bugscope Team some flying insects, like bees, flies, wasps, also have three ocelli -- simple eyes -- on the top of their heads
- Student yesss
- Student o ok thanks
- Bugscope Team insects are a lot hairier then they seem. insects have a hard exoskeleton that is like if you were wearing a suit of armor. If you just had the suit on, you would bump into stuff and not really be able to feel it. Insects have holes in their "armor" with setae (insect hairs) sticking out that are connected to nerves underneath. These setae allow the insect to sense their environment.
- Student yesss
- Bugscope Team please be sure and click on another preset to go to a different insect/arthropod when you are ready
- Student is it strong
- Student can't the fly only sense whats in front of him, instead of seeing an image like us
Bugscope Team well, the lens's in the compound eye are fixed, so they can't move it around. but you'll notice that the ommatidia are many hundreds, and pointed in a wide range, so in fact the fly can see a wide angle, probably better than we can
- Bugscope Team you all are doing a great job, asking real good questions!
- Bugscope Team and let us know if you have any trouble driving
- Student what is that?
Bugscope Team This is the edge of the eye...woops, not anymore
- Student is that its ear
Bugscope Team Insects don't typically have "ears" like we do. Many insects sense their environment with setae that sense vibrations.
- Student lets go to a different bug
- Student what are the bumps???
- Student is that an ear?
- Student ok thank you
- Student can we go to a different bug mrs. D?
- Bugscope Team here we are looking at the cuticle, and the small ball like things are pollen grains
- Student k
- Student what is the hair on it?
Bugscope Team those hairs are called setae (see-tee) and they are like cat whiskers in that they help the insect to sense its environment
- Student okay
- Student really i didn't know that
- Guest whoa wat is that
- Student what are those shell looking this?
Bugscope Team those are scales
- 9:00am
- Student o so they help it figure out where it is?
- Bugscope Team this is a green iridescent beetle that resembles a weevil but does not have a snout, and it also has scales, as Alex said
- Student how many compounds does it have?
Bugscope Team Two compound eyes
- Student why are some of the scales together and some apart
Bugscope Team well, they can fall off or be dislodged. often the scales might come off on purpose, as is the case with a moth that might be trapped in a spider web, it'll shed it's scales so it can fly away. i think butterfly's do that too, scott, annie?
- Student what is the texture of the scales?
Bugscope Team You really won't be able to tell that they are scales. They might feel a little like dust or sand particles.
- Student what do the scales do????
- Bugscope Team vert few insects besides mosquitoes, butterflies, moths, and silverfish have scales
- Bugscope Team very
- Student oooooooo
- Student hi cate
- Student ok thanks
- Bugscope Team in this case the scales contribute to the color of the insect -- to the green iridescence
- Teacher What are the scales for/
- Teacher for?*
- Student what do the scales do for the bug and why are they there?
Bugscope Team Scales have a number of functions. In some insects, they contribute to their color, as Scott said. The color can help them to blend in with their environment or to warn predators. Some insects have scales because it makes them slippery, and less likely to be caught by predators/ spider webs. If you have every tried to catch a butterfly you know how hard it is to hold onto them. That is because they are coated in slippery scales that you rub off when you touch the surface of the wing.
- Student what are the scales made of???
- Student what is that thing taht is off of the scales?
- Student what is that thing
Bugscope Team on the very right of the screen is part of a leg and just to the left of that was part of an antenna
- Bugscope Team oop
- Bugscope Team if you take the mag down we can see what the whole dude looks like
- Student where is the antennae?
- Bugscope Team we have Annie, our entomologist, curious to see it
- Student is tha ta leg?
- Bugscope Team this is a portion of the arm
- Student scroll down christina
- Bugscope Team nice job controlling the scope mrs. d!
- Bugscope Team and now we see the whole top of the body -- Thanks!
- Student Morgan go to spider fangs!!!!!!!!!
- Student :]
- Student \
- Student no
- 9:05am
- Student what
- Guest wat is it then?
- Bugscope Team cool, SPIDER FANGS
- Bugscope Team here is your spider
- Student is that the hair setae
- Student th\
- Student super cool
- Bugscope Team I am not sure what kind of beetle that was...I will have to take a look at it later
- Student ok
- Bugscope Team fangs!
- Student SPIDER FANGS!
- Student these are spider fangs!!!!
- Student very hairy
- Student hey wild.
- Bugscope Team yep, the fangs are pointed towards the center of the image
- Guest hey andrew
- Student why are they hairy
Bugscope Team almost always, hairs are there to help the insect/spider sense its environment, with mechanosensory or chemosensory setae (see-tee)
- Student is this bug venoumous?
- Student Joeseph!!!!
- Student is that joseph
- Student joseph r u wild
- Bugscope Team spiders inject venom into their prey that dissolves the insides of the prey, and they then suck that liquid out like a milkshake
- Student yes this bug is venimous!
- Guest u spelled my name wrong buddy
- Bugscope Team yummmy yummy bug milkshakes
- Bugscope Team all spiders are venomous
- Student does this spider have venom
Bugscope Team All spiders have venom
- Student what prey does this spider eat
Bugscope Team anything smaller than him!
- Student oh thank you so very much.
- Student every bug is venimous?
Bugscope Team Nope, not every insect. Every spider is, though.
- Student i mean spider?
- Student do the fangs liquify the prey
Bugscope Team Not the fangs, the venom that is ejected from the fangs
- Student Is this spider very posinous?
Bugscope Team Not unless you are a small arthropod
- Student is the hole by the fangs a mouth? and is it a wolf spider
- Student fangs are cool
- Student
- Student ok
- Student
- Bugscope Team it is deadly to small arthropods
- Student thankd
- Student can spiders eat peple
Bugscope Team i think if there was a game of spider vs. humans, and the winner is the one who eats more of the other, humans would win hand down, no contest.. that's true with a lot of species of animals as well
- Student :
- Student are those a separate pair of fangs
- Student do the fangs still have venom in them?
Bugscope Team Probably not, it is most likely all dried up
- Student its people
- Bugscope Team some spiders can hurt people by biting them, but spiders do not eat people
- Student yes the fangs do
- Student what do they eat?
- Student is it a wolf spider
- Student this is a cool wolf spider
- Bugscope Team In all actuality, some people have severe allergies to spider bites in which case, this spider could harm a person. Then again some people have severe allergies to peanuts, but we don't walk around in fear of peanuts or squish peanuts and throw them out of our houses.
- 9:10am
- Student what is that
- Student what are the two tube things on he screen
Bugscope Team those are where legs used to be. spiders have a cool function where they can shoot off their legs if it will help them get away from predators. This also makes it easier for legs to pop off after they are dead and dry
- Student the screen
- Student what is that
- Student are those legs and are they cut off
- Bugscope Team yes those are the stubs of a couple of legs
- Student what is that
- Guest that where the pin was?
- Teacher what is the hole???????????
Bugscope Team that is where the pin was stuck in the spider
- Student why does this spider need so much hair???
Bugscope Team well, the exoskeleton doesn't have nerves in it. the only way the spider can feel it's surroundings is thought these hairs. so over time spiders that have more hairs (setae) might survive better than ones that don't, so what your left with are lots of hairy spiders... that's one idea about it anyway ;)
- Guest sorry is
- Student is it a wolf spider? please answer?
- Student it is where the pin was
- Student it is the needle hole
- Bugscope Team table 5 we are not sure what kind of spider it was
- Student is this table 5 wolf spider
- Student brown recluse
- Student >:-(
- Teacher what are the other holeish things??
Bugscope Team at the top left side of the screen is where the spider legs have popped off
- Bugscope Team we cannot always tell, and spiders have soft bodies that shrivel quite a bit after they die, making it more difficult to identify them
- Student what sideare we looking at the top or bottom
- Student Okay we understand thanks for trying
- Bugscope Team this is the ventral side -- the underside
- Teacher hey do we want to move on to the head of the Yellow Jacket
- Student why is the legs that are broken off have no hai?
Bugscope Team i think those were the sockets of the broken legs, so the internal sockets wouldn't need setae (hair)
- Student how many eyes do spiders have and can it vary
- Teacher new bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student yessssss
- Bugscope Team we almost always mount insect/arthropods upside down so you can see the legs, the mouths, etc.
- Student sweeet
- Student :-P
- Student what is this?
- Student what is it
- Guest bee
- Bugscope Team here is another insect you sent-- a yellow jacket
- Bugscope Team this is a yellow jacket, like cate says
- Teacher are those pinchers
- 9:15am
- Teacher ?
- Student oh is that the bee?
- Student what form of mouthparts are these
Bugscope Team This are mandibulate mouthparts.
- Bugscope Team right on mrs. d!
- Student what do pinchers do??
- Teacher they pinch
- Student are those strongly developed pinchers
Bugscope Team They are jaws--they help the yellowjacket to eat and to manipulate things--like a dog does...
- Student yeh right on!
- Student that looks like the peeling of oranges
Bugscope Team lots of things look very odd, or take on different looks, when looking at them under an electron microscope
- Guest it does?
- Student what do they eat, plant or other bugs?
Bugscope Team Other insects and dead things. Yellow jackets LOVE to eat roadkill
- Student yes
- Student not really
- Bugscope Team you can see the eyes on either side of the head, and you can see the antennae around the edges of the image we see now
- Student yes it does
- Student how long are their legs by our point of view?
Bugscope Team there is a scale bar in the lower left of the image, if you focus on a leg, then we can figure out the measurement no problemo!
- Guest i agree with table 5
- Student its teeth
- Student thanks
- Student how many segments are on the legs?
Bugscope Team from the body outward, insect legs usually have a coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, and a number of tarsi -- the forearm segments
- Student i had no idea that yellow jackets liked eating road kill
- Student is that a wing
- Student do they lay eggs in the spring in America?
Bugscope Team Foundress queens overwinter as adults, then they lay eggs and start colonies in the spring.
- Student why does it have so many layers
- Bugscope Team ack, click again to stop!
- Bugscope Team Yellow jackets are the junk food junkies of the insect world. They like softdrinks, sticky candy, fatty food, and rotting meat.
- Student what is that
- Student why does it have layers on it legs????
Bugscope Team Do you mean segments? Each segment is rigid and can only move so much, so there are a number of tubes of cuticle that move together...think of a suit of armor, there are a number of plates that fit together and the are flexible in places, which allows the wearer to move
- Student pollen!!
- Student what are those spiked orbs
- Student what is that?
- Bugscope Team mrs. dobler, we drove off the edge of the scope stage, so we fixed the scope and clicked on a pollen preset for you, you should now have control again
- Student pollen
- Student its pollen
- Student thanks
- 9:20am
- Bugscope Team this is a pollen grain on the body of the fly
- Student what is the pollen on
- Student thank you
- Bugscope Team made me sneeze
- Student that thing looks really cool
- Student achoo!!
- Student don't sneeze Scot!!
- Student ok
- Student wow
- Student that is so cool!
- Student go to new slide
- Student ohh wow tiny
- Bugscope Team bacteria are often 2 microns (micrometers) long
- Student :]
- Bugscope Team a micrometer is one millionth of a meter = way way small dude!
- Teacher Can you transfer control of the microscope to me at the "new" Mrs Dobler - I got logged out by a "student driver"
Bugscope Team done!
- Bugscope Team so we would have no problem seeing bacteria if there were any
- Student what are the prickles under the pollen
- Student ::D
- Student ok i get it now!
- Bugscope Team table3 the prickles are setae on the body of the fly
- Student thank you
- Bugscope Team ha!
- Bugscope Team monster!
- Student oh ic
- Student it has horns
Bugscope Team heh, well, those are antenna that are broken
- Student what is this?
- Bugscope Team cibarium!
- Student Mrs. Dobler could we see the yellow jackets stinger?
Bugscope Team the stinger was not visible today
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the cicada
- Student what part of the bug is this
- Student what the heck is that
- Student what is that? its scary looking?
- Student ??
- Teacher is that near the head?
- Student what is a cibarium
- Student does it have any eyes
Bugscope Team the eyes are hard to see but they were on the far sides of the screen when we were looking an the tympanum
- Student it looks like it has ribs
- Student what is that tube in between the legs
- Bugscope Team the tube is the proboscis
- Teacher is that a torn off leg?
- Bugscope Team haha, the center of many insects that suck plant juices have a "pump" in the center of their head. It is called the cibarium. It is kind of like a squeezy bulb--the insect compresses it and releases it and the change in pressure sucks juices into its mouth
- Student what is their dietuj6uj
Bugscope Team They feed on root juices as nymphs. Adult cicadas do not feed.
- Student thats my pet cicada phil!!!!!
- Student ttyl
- 9:25am
- Student later homies
- Guest bye
- Student whos phil
- Student buh bye
- Student cya joe
- Bugscope Team Thank you!
- Bugscope Team Thank you for connecting with us today!
- Student bye
- Student mi cuchara es de masiano grande que
- Bugscope Team you all did awesome. you rock and or roll!
- Bugscope Team de nada table dos
- Teacher We now have a five minute break between classes and it will be an entire new group.
- Bugscope Team ok, no problem mrs. d, you all are doing great
- Bugscope Team and your scope driving is excellent
- 9:34am
- Teacher My forty students are ready to fire questions at you...
- Bugscope Team ok, we are ready!
- Bugscope Team great!
- Student hj
- Student how long do it take to decay
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope students!
- Student wat are the broken rectangular things in the cicadea?
- Bugscope Team this is the edge of a butterfly antenna
- Student ew
- Student is it a boy or a girl
- Bugscope Team it does not take long for something to decay once it dies
- Student do they have a scales
- Student What are the strings attached
- Student Why is the texture different.???
- Bugscope Team with insects it can be hard to tell, sometimes, boys from girls
- Bugscope Team yep, moth, butterfly's, they all have scales
- Student oh about how long does it take?
- Student are they falling off?
Bugscope Team yep, some scales fall off on purpose, it can be a defensive mechanism, like if the butterfly is trapped in a spider web, its scales will fall off and then it can fly away
- Student what kind of butterflie is t
- Student how do you know wether it's a boy or girl
- Bugscope Team here we see some scales, which fall of easily, and also some setae on the surface of the antenna
- Student what are those patterns?
- Student how do blood flow
- Student How many
- Student how many
- Student How much does it cost for one of the microscopes?
Bugscope Team this scope cost about $750,000 in 1998
- Bugscope Team how many what?
- 9:39am
- Student what do butter flys use the antennas for?
Bugscope Team butterflies use their antennae to pick up scents in the air -- such chemical signals as pheromones, for example
- Bugscope Team sometimes boy flies have eyes that are closer together, sometimes insects have stinger/ovipositors that let us know they are females, sometimes the female is plumper and larger because she is carrying eggs...
- Student how mANY SCALES
Bugscope Team well, hmm, i don't know, looks like hundreds, if not thousands of scales
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team there are thousands of scales
- Student is this a tail?
- Student do they have pattern on them
Bugscope Team yes, those patterns often produce color of the insect, by the way the scales reflect light
- Student whats the black line??
Bugscope Team the black line looks to be a crack in the carbon tape that we set the insects on
- Student How longz do they live for.???
- Student What kind of bug is this?
Bugscope Team this is a butterfly antenna
- Student What is that?
- Student what part of the bug are we looking at?
- Student What are we looking at now?
- Student how long does it take to run the microscope?
Bugscope Team the microscope takes a few minutes to pump down, and then it is pretty easy to run
Bugscope Team oh, not long, about 5-10 minutes to prep a bug sample and start up the scope, which involves pumping a vacuum chamber so the electrons can bounce freely inside the scope chamber
- Student where do the sound come from they make
- Student Can we see a picture of the eyes?
- Student what do they eat?
- Student how long do they live?
- Bugscope Team this is another antenna, but on a fly
- Student can we see the eyes$$$$$$$$$$
Bugscope Team table 4 the eyes are just below where we are now
- Student What kind of fly is this.???????
- Student wat is all that hair?
- Bugscope Team sure, mrs. dobler has control of the scope, ask her to move to a compound eye preset
- Student she said no
- Student have you ever scanned a dustmite
- Student how high do they fly
- Student does this microscope only show up in black and white?
Bugscope Team good question! the answer is yes. since the electrons are being used to gather the image, there is no frequency of light involved, so the image is simply a mesh of grey-scale. we can, however, color the image after the fact, based on elemental analysis
- Student how do flys mate with other flys?
- Student What kind of fly is this.?!?!?!
- Bugscope Team this is one of the compound eyes of the fly
- Student what is on the eye?
- Student are all those millins of eyes?
- Bugscope Team this may be some kind of biting fly -- we are not sure
- Student Millions?
- Student why are the eyes so big?
- Student how many pimpels does it have
- Bugscope Team there are thousands and thousands of individual facets to this eye
- Student hi scott
- Bugscope Team the facets are called ommatidia
- 9:44am
- Bugscope Team Hi Table 5!
- Student what are on the eyes?
Bugscope Team we can see scales from other insects on the surface of the compound eye
- Student hi cate
- Student What are the hairs
Bugscope Team those hairs are called setae (see-tee) and they function a lot like cat whiskers in that they help the insect to sense its environment. setae stick through the exoskeleton, to nerves underneath, and that's how they send feel signals to the insect
- Student 0o0 OKAY i SEE
- Student are compound eyes better than single eyes
Bugscope Team Compound eyes give insects the advantage of being able to process motion very quickly compared to our eyes
- Student is that an intenna?
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student Number 4 is all a's in class
- Student is this its wing?
- Student Scot is that a wing?
- Bugscope Team this is a wing, yes!
- Student do flies see black and white or colored
Bugscope Team I think they see in color; many insects do
- Student are those lines veins?
Bugscope Team the lines on the wings were veins
- Student what is that
- Student this program is technically intruge
- Student are those little things hairs.?
Bugscope Team the things that resemble hairs are called 'setae,' and they are often sensory
- Student HOW OLD IS THIS THING.??
- Student 2yrs
- Student what are the bumps
- Student sorry about that
- Student this thing is scary looking
- Student is that the head?
- Bugscope Team yep, this is the head
- Student ahhh!!!!!!!
- Student is this the mouth?
- Bugscope Team with compound eyes on either side, antenna above, and mouth pinchers too
- Student is that the mouth?
- Student i like flyes
- Student This is sexy
- Bugscope Team that is the mouth, yes
- 9:49am
- Student what are the things on his head why are there so many
Bugscope Team you mean those hair looking things? those are setae, and insects have thousands of them all over
- Student how many legs do it have
Bugscope Team insects, as adults, have six legs
- Student how often does a flie poop
- Student Fly*
- Student does it have a anus
- Student is the arm broken?
Bugscope Team yeah, on the left, it does look like a broken antenna, or leg...
- Student ?????????
- Student does a fly poop every time it lands on something/
Bugscope Team well, not everytime, but quite often
- Student
- Student and or puke?
- Student because that is what i have heard
- Student how do it attack there prey
- Student what is the black holw?
- Student does this bug have teeth?
- Student EWK WHAT IS THAT OPEN AREA.??
- Student hole*
- Student whats the hole
- Student eww
- Student In the summer flys are attracted to my dogs poop why is that?
Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure, but it's most likely having to do with some kind of feeding it is doing, to survive
- Teacher what section is this
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, if you lower the mag, we can get a better idea of what we are looking at... oh, scott knows..
- Student how does a fly ear
Bugscope Team flies hear using their setae, usually -- they do not have ears]
- Bugscope Team this is the thorax
- Student what are we looking at
- Student what is this part?
- Student wow you guys are smarticle
- Student is this the leg?
- Student why dont you guys answer!!!!!
- Bugscope Team you guys are doing awesome, great questions, and mrs. dobler is a pro at controlling the scope!
- Student is this his claw.???
- Student thanks
- Student is that a pincher
- Student wah is it.?!?!?!?!\
- Student how many parts does a wasp have
Bugscope Team a wasp would have three main body parts -- the head, thorax, and abdomen
- Student what does fly eat?
- 9:54am
- Student what is that thing a pincher
- Student do they have senses?
Bugscope Team yep, they can see with their eyes, they can feel with their setae (hairs), and they can probably taste, although that would be very hard to measure by humans because we can't talk to fly's and ask them what things taste like
Bugscope Team they have chemo, mechano, and thermo senses
- Bugscope Team the claw is much like a tiny pincher
- Student can we see a dustmite
Bugscope Team we could see a dustmite if there was one
- Student what is is the body part that we are seeing now
- Student ?!!
- Bugscope Team this now is the head of the cicada
- Student the eyes?
- Student what is this
- Student wow that is so cool
- Student are those the eyes?
- Student what are the horn like things on top
- Bugscope Team the eyes are almost out of the image on either side
- Student what is the bumps on it
- Student what is that thing
- Student what is the webbings?
- Student are those things on its head eyes
Bugscope Team no, those were broken antennae, i think that's what you were referring too.
- Student do u have a dustmite
- Student what is the crack in the center spot?
- Bugscope Team table 1 we do not have any dustmites that we know of on this stub
- Student what family is a wasp in
Bugscope Team wasps are in the Family Vespidae
- Student Do they only come out every 4 years??
- Student yup that was right
- Bugscope Team dustmites are hard to preserve because they shrivel up like aphids when they die
- Student what is the tube that is sticing out
Bugscope Team i think that tube was a broken antenna
- Student how many times does a insect usally molt
Bugscope Team good question, it differs for different insects. some molt once, and other molt each season, etc.
- Student what is this?
- Student how long do it live
- Student How many admins are there?
- Student whats a aphid?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
- Bugscope Team an aphid is a insect that lives on plant fluids
- Student did its arm come off?
- 9:59am
- Student Is that a leg?
- Student Alex how many years do they live?
Bugscope Team how many years does what live?
- Bugscope Team this is the spider!
- Student why is it all hairy
Bugscope Team the 'hairs' are an important part of its sensory system
- Bugscope Team you can see the fangs
- Student wat kind of spider is this?
Bugscope Team we don't know what kind of spider this is -- when they shrivel a little after they die it is hard to tell
- Student i dont like spiders
- Student the spider
Bugscope Team spiders can live a LONG time, some in captivity have lived 25 years. but spiders in the wild probably much less due to predators in the environment
- Student wat are those claws?
- Bugscope Team those are fangs
- Student how many different kinds of webs do they
- Student how many legs do it have ?
- Student 8
- Student Is it poisonis?
Bugscope Team well, all spiders have some kind of venom, but most are not poisonous to humans, only poisonous to other things it feeds on
- Student does every spider spin different webs?
- Bugscope Team however, on average, i'd say most spiders live two years maybe?
- Student how many millimeters long are the hairs
Bugscope Team good question, there is a scale bar in the bottom left, try focusing on a seta and then measure it
- Student Thanks Alex
- Bugscope Team all spiders are venomous, and most of them can produce silk, but they do not always make webs
- Student how many eggs do insects lay
Bugscope Team insects often lay hundreds of eggs
- Student what is the importance of a spiders web???
- Student is it true that female spiders eat the males after they mate
Bugscope Team some female spiders will eat the males after they mate
- Bugscope Team this is on the claw of a fly
- Student can spiders be parasitic
- Student this is cool
- Student how far can spiders jump
- Student is that hair
- Bugscope Team some male spiders will put a wad of web on the female
- Teacher are these wings
Bugscope Team those were the two portions of the pulvillus, which is the sticky pad on the insect's claw
- Student how intellagent are spiders
- Bugscope Team ooops
- Student how fast do flies fly?
- Student 4.1 is silly
- 10:04am
- Bugscope Team some male spiders will put a wad of web on the female spider's chelicerae to keep her from biting
- Student WHAT DO YOU MEAN TO KEEP IT FROM BITING
Bugscope Team well so the male can mate with the female without getting bitten
- Student is it true that spiders hide in your shoes
Bugscope Team sometimes spiders hide in your shoes, but it is not a smart place to be
- Student how intellagent are spiders
Bugscope Team generally we do not think they are very intelligent
- Student o
- Student how do leeches move
Bugscope Team Leeches have two ways of moving around. 1- They will swivel their flat bodies while in the water to propel foward. It almost looks like their whole body is doing the wave. 2- They wil outstrech thier front sucker on a rock, while the end sucker clings on to the other side. The front sucker will cling on to the rock and the leech will be streched out fully. The end will release itself, and inch foward, and will repeat to get around.
- Student would they bite before u step on them
- Student why do spiders like dark habitats?
Bugscope Team many spiders are reclusive, and they often cannot see as well as they can sense vibration
- Student why does pollen make assmedikc sneeze
- Student what bug are we looking at
- Student Console how many fangs do spiders usually have?
Bugscope Team I was Console but now I am Scot, and spiders have two fangs
- Bugscope Team right now, we are just looking at the carbon sticky tape
- Student what do centipes eat and how poisonious are they to people
Bugscope Team They eat insects, spiders, and other small invertebrates. If the centipede is large enough it will even attack small vertebrates like lizards.
Bugscope Team I'm not sure how poisonous they are to people. They are poisonous to insects much like how spiders are poisonous. Maybe if a person was allergic to the venom it would be harmful, otherwise it would be like getting a spider bite from a house spider
- Bugscope Team spiders also have soft bodies, and can get hurt easily
- Bugscope Team spiders are also predatory, so they lurk and surprise their prey (food)
- Bugscope Team spider thus like hanging out in dark places, thinking that gives them a lurking advantage
- Student is it true true that the daddy long leg is the poisenis spider?
Bugscope Team there is a story that daddy longlegs are super poisonous, but if they are their mouthparts are too small to bite you
- Student how do leeches mate
- Student Oh well okay but are some deadly?
- Student do flys only eat poop
- 10:09am
- Student could a spider lay eggs in your skin
- Student can they see behind them
- Student how big can centipeds get
- Student okay were back
- Student how many compound eyes are on a fly
- Student ]
- Bugscope Team some centipedes are poisonous to people -- the larger ones
- Bugscope Team Going off of what Leeches are hermaphrodites meaning that a single individual is both male and female at the same time. Reproduction occurs through the production of cocoons that are either attached to a substrate where they develop or in the family Glossiphoniidae many species of leeches have the cocoons attached directly to the ventral surface of the parent. This allows the parent to protect and care for the young as they develop. This includes providing food (prey) for the young leeches after they hatch.
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team these are tenent setae, which help insects stick to walls and smooth surfaces
- Bugscope Team going off of what alex said
- Student bye thanks!
- Student are flies considered parasites?
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team thank you!!!!
- Student aw, i had fun. bye!
- Student Bye Alex (your my fave)
Bugscope Team hey thanks! scott and cate are pretty cool too. you all did a great job!
- Bugscope Team thanks for all your great questions, im sorry i missed the first part
- Student thanks 4 everything this was extrremely fun maybe we cud do this again later in the school year.
- Bugscope Team mrs. d, remember all the chat and images are stored on your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2009-008
- Bugscope Team Flies are generally not considered parasites, but some flies are parasitic
- Bugscope Team totally, just ask mrs. dobler to apply again, we'd love to have you all back
- 10:16am
- Bugscope Team good session mrs. dobler, very nice
- Bugscope Team over and out
- Bugscope Team okay, any last questions mrs. dobler? otherwise we'll close the session down
- Teacher I really appreciate your patience and good humor with the classes. This was a good time for all of them and I am sure they will remember it as a positive sxperience.
- Teacher Experience!
- Bugscope Team just remember all the images and chat from today's session are available on your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2009-008
- Bugscope Team cool, we are glad it served a productive purpose
- Bugscope Team okay, we are shutting down the scope now, good bye!
- Bugscope Team rxl off, session disabled and locked, nice session everyone!
