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Connected on 2009-05-12 12:30:00 from , CO, US

11:22am
Bugscope Team session is ready to go
Bugscope Team We are ready to roll...
Bugscope Team yep, all's good to go
11:30am
Bugscope Team Hi Mrs Nielson!
Teacher Hi there, kids should be in here in a couple of minutes I am just setting up
Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
Bugscope Team all right. we are here if you have any questions
Teacher Thank you

Bugscope Team ant with cool serrated jaws
11:42am
Bugscope Team Good morning! Welcome to Bugscope!
Bugscope Team let us know when you have questions
Student Hi
Bugscope Team Hi Breeto!
Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope
Student who is this?
Student Hello
Bugscope Team Can you all see the ant head?
Student whT UP
Student Yes
Student Hi Pople
Student wat up homes
Student hey yo its jneanay
Student haha
Student Sup
Student i can!):):)
Student SUP HOLMES
Bugscope Team hello everyone
Student Sup peps
Student BRee
Student WHAT UP
Student hi
Student yes?>
Student Lol
Student YO MAMA YO MAMA
Student yes the head of this bug very interesting
Student hi
Student Evan
Student ilove you! jordan
Student
Student NO IMS DA PIMP
Bugscope Team this is an ant
Student knvjnefijnvijoenv
Student whats up
Student Hola
Student hello
Student HI
Student HI nya~
Student WAZ UP\
Student yeah boi
Student Sup!
Student wow its an ant
Bugscope Team you can see the compound eye to the right, and the antenna curving across the screen
Student im so sorry
Student sorry i didnt no you were looking at these
Student sorry i was unaware we were online
Student Whats up
Student sorry i was unaware that i was online
Student my bad
Student SORRY I WAS UNAWARE THAT WE WERE ONLINE
Student sorry i didnt know u were online
Student Whats the compound eye
Student Soory I didn't think I was on
Student what is a compound eye
Bugscope Team a compound eye has multiple facets, called ommatidia, compared to a simple eye. Spiders have simple eyes, but they have eight of them.
Student sorry i did not know i was online
Bugscope Team the compound eye is the bubble thing on the far right
Student ok tank you
Student ohh eww
Student What does the fur on the bug do?
Bugscope Team well, it's not fur really, it's called setae (see-tee), and they help the insect to sense its environment
Student sorry scot
Bugscope Team the females do the work
Student Fun, Fun, Fun its a bug -.-
Student What is coming out of its eye?
Student SORRY DUDE

Student this is tite
Student Dude thats kewl
Student ewwwwww
Student Ewwwww

Student eewww
Student kewl
Student Whats the difference between worker ants and other ants
Student i know
Student is it dead
Student is this a girl or guy
Student jk
Student is that a claw thing behind its head?
Student Why's it all hairy?
Student Sweet
Student I did not know they were hairy
Student is that a new born ant
Student What is that big ball like thing???
Bugscope Team the ball is its abdomen, and it is not really smushed -- that's how it curled up when it died
Bugscope Team the ball that it looks like it is holding is its abdomen
Student cool son
Student Where's the head
Student Dude this is so tight
Student or does it just look like a claw?
Student thats an eye
Student What is it on?
Student momo....
Student why does the ant look like something else?
Student where in the enviroment is the ant
11:47am
Student Was it a normal ant at first??
Student IT IS VERY HEIRY
Student what are the lines on the ants head
Student Oh ok
Student PACO
Teacher Bearwolf, would like controls to magnify for a few minutes if that is okay
Student Is it a black ant
Student Is my worm here?
Student IT IS AFIRE ANT I THOUGHT
Student kool thanx
Student What are the lines on the legs
Student NO
Student where are you like what collage do you go to
Bugscope Team i don't see a bearwolf logged in?
Student what kind of ant is it?
Student What type of ant is this?
Bugscope Team is pandabear ok?
Student is this a mutant
Student its FireWolf

Student no
Student why do ants have big stomachs
Student It is a grey ant ...
Student Round thing to the left-Like a pillow ?
Student NO
Student ewww
Bugscope Team edge of the world now one of the spiders
Teacher Sorry it is firewolf
Student NO
Student NO
Student NO
Student whats this
Student NO
Student NO
Student NO
Student NO
Student N
Student NO
Student the hairs are ...eww
Student yes yes
Student NO
Bugscope Team now we see a few simple eyes on this spider head
Student NO
Student What is the scientfic name for the spider
Student How do u magnify?
Bugscope Team firewolf has control now, only he (she) can magnify and see the controls
Student What peice of tghe ant is this
Student is that the back of the ant
Bugscope Team we are looking at the head of a spider
Student wat are the b umbs
Bugscope Team the bumps are the eyes
Student (When it was zoomed out
Student YES
Student YES
Student how many eyes do they have?!
Student hey snack shack
Student What is this?
Student whoa
Student THIS IS EVAN H
Student i dont understand how to do this? please help ASAP!
Bugscope Team jnea you can type questions to us, but only one person can drive at a time
Student thats a spider right
Student NO
Student NO'
Student NO
Student NON

Student what happened???
Student NO
Student NO

Student o_0) Disturbing hairs
Student NO
Student NO
Student are they alive?
Student yes
Student NOOOOO
Student what do you guys do for a living???
Bugscope Team I am an entomologist. I study insects.
Student OOOOOO
Student yes
Student AHHHH
Student EEEEE
Student whats this thing?
Student YA YA
Student is that the head
Student yea i said it
Student is it a spider
Bugscope Team yes that was a spider
Student what does no have to do wiht anything
Student Calm down snackshack
Student what a we looking food

Student IT IS A ANT DUDET
Bugscope Team ha it's back
Student thanks!
Student YES YES YES! "

Student IT IS ITS BACK VERY HFPJG
Student Oh okay is this like a live footage or...?
Bugscope Team This is as live as can be. You guys are driving the scope in real time, right now.
Student what is a entomologist
Student what are we looking at it's head or it's back

Student THIS IS AWESOME

Student yuck
Student It is hariy

Student IT IS EVAN H
Student gross
Bugscope Team the rest of us are electron microscopists or Alex -- Alex is like a super sysadmin
Student o yes
Student NO
Student Why is the leg bent=0
Student NO
Student haha
Student harry Potter!

Student what are the bumps for on the hairy thing
Bugscope Team those are simple eyes
Student why does it need so many hairs
Student what is a super sysadmin?
Bugscope Team A super sysadmin is a systems administrator that helps all the computer systems runs smoothly. What makes him super is that he is really nice and helpful and smart and he doesn't waste your time.
Student IT HAS BUMPS ON HIS LEGS
Student Dude that is awesome
Student For climbing
Student WHAT R THE BUMPS
Student what is an entomologist???
Bugscope Team they are scientists who study insects

Student what is awesome

Student why does it have bumps on its legs
Student Do the bugs have color?
Bugscope Team they don't have color the way we are imaging them because we are using electrons rather than light - the images come to us as signal, in grey scale
Student What type of spider is it...
Student Spiders scare me... 0.0
Student Wat is happening
Student What is that
Student wat is that
Student what happend
Student whats happening
Student the sky

Student its dark
11:52am
Student ALRIGHT
Student what is that?
Student So its an adaptation right?
Student what is that
Bugscope Team check out the scale bar in the lower left, 1 um = one micron = one millionth of a meter
Student JJHGJKHLFDGHJLFJDHGSKLFHGKSHFGFGFGHFKJGLHKFJGHFDKLGHLSKFDGFDJGKLH
Student Ew there's a hair
Student what is that!! the bumps
Bugscope Team to see where we are
Student Thats cool!
Teacher Can you you give the controls over to hkydbmb
Bugscope Team ok they have control now
Student whats that plant thing
Student Wat is this
Student what is that?
Student oh thx
Student is that FUNGGUS??
Student what is that thing
Bugscope Team hydbmd has control
Student Is this a bacteria?
Student why is everything in black and white?
Bugscope Team good question! it is black and white because we are using electrons to gather the image, not light, and since color is an aspect of light, we don't have color
Student what is that?
Student What species is a bug
Bugscope Team A species is a name given to any group of animals that can breed with each other and produce fertile offspring. Species have to be in the same phylum, class, order, and genus and mostly they look alike. There are several million species of insects.
Student what kingdom are these in?
Student Hyma what?1

Student BECAUSE IT IS SO LOW OF TECH ED
Student Comments coming out too fast! :D What are we seeing now?

Student what is thatt?
Student wow
Student weird
Student what is that?
Student what is is?
Bugscope Team this one moved a little too it looks like
Student WHAT R THE SPIKE
Bugscope Team they are hairs
Student (:}
Student I see BuMpS
Student EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWEEEEEE
Student SS
Student What is that?
Student ewwww ,old
Student EWWWWWWWEEEWWWE
Student what animal is it

Student I did not now this is mold on a grass hopper

Student thats mold? it doesnt really look like it!
Bugscope Team no the area with the mold shifted a little
Student o a grasshopper
Bugscope Team this is an electron microscope, it can magnify up to 800,000x, and it uses electrons to gather the image, not light
Student do you have any more pics of bugs "SCOT"
Student ????
Student oh
Student eww
Student FAR OUT SONN
Student thx
Student IT IS WIGGLY JIGGLY
Student What are those little bumps
Student Wat is the bumbs
Student WHAT BE THIS??
Student WHAT R THE BUMBS
Student Do grasshoppers eat the mold?
Bugscope Team no more likely the mold was eating the grasshopper!
Student BUMPS
Student so wut do you mean then?
Student Creepy Jell-O
Student what are we looking at
Student how can you get that close to the grasshopper????\

Student wait is that on the grasshopper?
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, if you reduce the mag we can see more of the insect
Bugscope Team ah, this is a spiracle
Student What is that?????
Student whats the hole!
Student kyle
Student whatis that
Student thats so wierd
Student whoa this is cool
Student I DID NOT KNOW THAT
Student Wait the Pi;;bug is a roely Polly right?
Bugscope Team Yup. But those are crustaceans, not insects

Student Whats that circle thihg???

Student It looks like an eye
Student is that like thier nassal passages or wut? how do they breathe?
Student What is the stuff in it
Student Is that skin cells?
Student WHat is that
Student Whoa the Mold eats the grasshopper EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Bugscope Team Mold eats all dead things...it is a good thing. Decomposers are very good things, otherwise we'd be sitting around in garbage

Student How do they breathe out of that????
Student it does wow
Student what is that??
Student what is it

Student why don't bugs breath through their mouth like us
Student this is the coolest thing that i have ever done online before

Student how do you get up that close to the insect???
Bugscope Team using electrons, these are images from an electron microscope
Bugscope Team insects don't have skin like humans, they have an exoskeleton instead, like waring a suit of armour
Student im kyle oterson
Student whats with the ewwww

Student hwat is this?
Teacher Can you please give Lambo controls
Bugscope Team lambo has controls!
Student this is cool
Student realy kyle
Student what is the difference?
Student SI SENYOR
Student What is this?
Student what are electrons?
Bugscope Team electrons are part of atoms, they orbit around the nucleus of an atom
Student robert go to the spider head

Student wow
Student Do all bugs have exoskeltons?
Bugscope Team Yes
Student SI SENORITA

Student do bug bites grow into infections
Bugscope Team If they get infected--if bacteria establish within the wound, then it will get infected. Insect bites generally do not cause bacteria infections
Student It's senor
Student Its a scope right?
Student what is your favorite insect?
Student YEAH THEY DO
Student LAMBO=LUCKY
Student cwait or is it Sneor
Student yeah i think
Student i spelled it wrong
Student cool
Student WHO IS FLUFFY CANDY
Student ?????????????????????
Student What is the Spiracle part of the name mean?

Student im kyle o
Student no it is seÃ±or
Student what is that a beetle?
Student wshat is thatr
Student that looks funny
Student What is that????
Student What is that
Student why does it have so many different parts of the head

Student NO IT IS SENORITA
11:57am
Student Y?

Student what are those
Student it looks like a deasrt
Student do humans have exoskelotons?
Student what is the difference btween a insect and crustaceans?

Student Ew, EW EWWWW!!!
Student how does the mold decompose the insect
Bugscope Team It secretes digestive juices that break down the cells, then absorbs the digested cellular materials
Student Are those legs
Bugscope Team this is the head of a beetle
Student So does all mold eat dead things or...?
Student What are those holes on it for?
Student FLUFFY CANDY DONT KNOW NOTHIN
Student hi'

Student Senora senorita doesn't matter

Student which bug is this?
Student well they have different names
Student WHATS UP
Student what do you mean by dead things

Student how does the mold decompose the insect?????

Student heeey
Student What are the hairs for??
Student WHAT IS TH PINCHERS

Student NO I KNOW A LOT :}
Student are they alive when you examine them?
Bugscope Team nope, they are dead before we put them in the scope. if they moved around it would be really hard to look this close at them
Student R THOSE HAIRS
Student no
Student fluffy camdy is kyle o!
Student Oh thank you
Student why do they have hairs like tht?
Student why would mold eat that
Student INSECTS DONT HAVE BONESSS?????? I MUST BE ON MARS
Bugscope Team the bones are on the outside of the body, more like if you were wearing armor
Student if insects dont have bones what makes them move?
Student They have an outer shell
Student no its not
Student Duh
Student Good thing these aren't too giant in reality! I think were seeing the head?
Student it looks like..
Student how does mold decompose an insect????
Student its called a...
Student WHA
Teacher can I please have the controls back again?
Student R THOSE HAIRS
Student what are these?

Student its hairy
Student see ya!
Student HOW BIG R BUGS
Student hi saria
Student bye!
Student BYE!!!!
Student i have to go to lunch. bye
Student bye
Student alright were gana go eat C YA
Student bye!
Student :):)
Student What is their nithe in life?
Bugscope Team thank you for your questions! bye
Student lunch!
Student thank you
Teacher It is time for the students to go to lunch they will be back in 1/2 an hour
Student Lunch time be back soon thanks
Teacher Is this going okay?
Bugscope Team yes, a little bit of noise, but that happens sometimes :)
Teacher Are the students asking too many questions?
Bugscope Team we just hope every student has a chance to ask and have a question answered
Bugscope Team well, not too many questions, but some of the non-questions can be distracting
Bugscope Team no we like that they ask all those questions. we just try to get to them all
Bugscope Team but, we don't want to be hard core police. we want the kids to have fun too!
Teacher I will be sure to speak with the students when they return. It is hard to monitor 30 students and their questions. YOu are doing a great job.
Bugscope Team if science is NEVER fun, then who in their right mind would want to go into it?
Teacher They are having a lot of fun.
Bugscope Team mrs. nielsen, it is totally fine. you are doing great too.
12:02pm
Teacher I wlll be back as well I need some lunch too. We shall see in at 11:30 our time.
Bugscope Team ok, see you soon
Bugscope Team that's awesome. we have fun doing this too
Bugscope Team Sounds great!
12:17pm

12:24pm

Teacher Kids are on their way back in. Ready or not here they come.
Bugscope Team ok, we are ready!
Bugscope Team you have some nice lunch?
Teacher Quick question. This first picture of the ant, is he eating a spider?
Bugscope Team ants often look like theyhave insect legs sticking out of their mouths, if that's what you are talking about. Those are its palps which are used to help eat food or taste food
Bugscope Team Oh! No that is his abdomen
Bugscope Team it's a live image, you know
Bugscope Team from the electron microscope
Student Tyler powlle
12:29pm
Bugscope Team hello students, welcome back to bugscope
Bugscope Team Hello Firewolf
Student hi
Bugscope Team Whoa hello!
Student hey scot
Student hi alex
Student Does this ant have a beek
Bugscope Team they have a pair of hinged jaws that open up like a gate
Student What is the pillow thing in the left corner?
Bugscope Team that is the abdomen of the ant
Student boo
Bugscope Team FW do you want to drive? Ask Mrs N
Student DOES IT HAVE A BEAK
Bugscope Team it has jaws that open from side to side, and it has no teeth - insects do not have teeth
Student hello is the ant sleeping?
Student How do you say the phylum Authro..
Bugscope Team well, not sleeping, it is dead
Student Does it have teeth
Bugscope Team hi chuter!
Student I don't think so
Student WHERE ARE ITS EYES
Student HELLO ALEX
Teacher please give controls to paco
Bugscope Team paco has control
Student is this live footage???
Student hi alex
Student hey scot do you have any more pics of bugs?
Bugscope Team Fluffy these are not really pics -- this is real live control of the microscope
Student can you cut open the ant o we can see inside of it?
Student It's the little bumps
Bugscope Team yep, live images from an electron microscope, when your teacher controls the scope, you are moving it LIVE
Student is this live footage??
Bugscope Team totally, man, live as can be
Student is the ant eating something?
Student Does it have teeth
Student What is it doing to its abdomen
Student Is the ant eating the ball it is holding?
Student Does the mouth eat like us
Student I thought that was a spider!
Student WHY IS IT SO HAIRY
Student thats cool
Student What do ants eat??
Bugscope Team they like sweet stuff but they will eat almost anything
Student no thats the abdoman
Student What would this feel like...
Bugscope Team you all are controlling the scope live, it's a $750,000 dollar scope

Student is it eating a spider?
Bugscope Team what looks like a spider is the ant's abdomen
Bugscope Team the ant is curled up
Student Wow, expensive.
Student Sugar
Student Thats a lot of money
Student Does this ant have teeth???
Bugscope Team insects will sometimes have hardened jaws but they do not have teeth

Student ok thanks
Student and people food
Student whoa whats that

Student whoa
Student whats thiis
Student that is a reeeaaallllyyy expensive scope

Student Cool whats that?

Student does it have a shell?
Student wat is in its mouth
Student WHAT IS THAT ON THE TOP
Student How small are ants compared to flies. Do you KNow?
Bugscope Team Flies and ants both vary greatly in size. There are ants that are the size of paper wasps, and they are flies the size of bumblebees. And then there are tiny flies and tiny tiny ants.
Student why was the ant curled up
Student IS THIS LIVEE
Bugscope Team yes this is live imaging - but the insects/arthropods are dead

Student what is that?
Student Ew what is that

Student rolly polly
Student rolli polli olli!
Student is that its head?
Student Is that its mouf?
Student whats an abdomunum? if i spelled that right?!?
Student Can you open up the rolly polly or pill bug?

Student what happened
Student HOW MANY LEGS DOES IT HAVE

Student How do you get sooooo close!??!
Student Do rolley pollies have legs
Bugscope Team they have 7 pairs of legs, each with a little claw at the end
Student Rolly polly!

Student No
Student NO
Student yeah can you open the rolly polly

Student How long do most of these insects live?

Student what happens when the rolly polly dies? does it curl up?
Student Why do rollie pollies roll up??
Bugscope Team To protect their soft bellies from predators
Student NO THEY HAVE EARS
Bugscope Team Insects and other arthropods sometimes have structures that are similar to our ears in that the have a thin membrane that senses vibrations of a certain wavelength. Most arthropods sense vibration with small mechanosensory hairs all over their bodies

Bugscope Team the samples we are imaging are all inside the vacuum chamber of the scanning electron microscope, which you are driving from your school
Student WOWWWW
Student Poke Poke a the top

Student WOWW
Student Is it blurry or is it supposed to look like that
Student is that thing around it like a shell?
Student WHAT R THE THINGS
Student How do the rolly polly uncurl
Student are they legvs
Student Is You can see the hairs
Student Are those scales!?

Student lets go to the centipoede
Student why do they have hair if they have eyes and a nose?
Student E WHAT IS THAT
Bugscope Team let's give you a look at the inside of the chamber for a sec...
Student What is this

Student dude grammer
Student DO THEY HAVE EARS???
12:34pm

Student WHERE IS THIS BUG FOUND?? BIOME??
Student its the rolly polly
Student Why do bugs have haier
Student Wow!The Mouth?
Teacher Please give control to tree hugger
Student Dude grammar... check it once an awile!
Student wow.
Bugscope Team ok, tree hugger has control now
Student EWWWW

Student where are you guys studying at???
Bugscope Team I am at my apartment in Champaign Illinois. I am moving to California in a few weeks and I am in the process of packing. Usually I work in the lab at the University of Illinois
Student haha
Bugscope Team but we are looking at the inside of the scope now
Student wow
Bugscope Team now you should be able to see the inside of the chamber, for a minute

Student thats the micro scope
Student Thats awesome dude and dudets

Student cool]
Student thank you~!
Student how many are in there?
Student Tahts a small room scope
Bugscope Team the electrons come from the cone-shaped thing at the top
Student why do you pile the bugs on there???

Student are those all OUR bugs?
Bugscope Team and the platter has all of the critters on it, yeah
Student Wow how can WE control it???
Bugscope Team we can give only one person control at a imte
Student DUH!!!
Student where are you guys studying at??????
Bugscope Team every bug is yours except the assassin bug

Student HOW LONG DO BUS LIVE???
Student this is really cool
Student why do some bugs have hairs to sense things even if they have eyes and a nose?
Student wait so for the rolly polly is the body like inside?
Student WHAT R THEY
Bugscope Team we are at the University of Illinois, Beckman Institute
Student whats an assasin bug
Bugscope Team time
Student Weirdness @_@ zoom back in!!!!
Student What is a spiders biome??!!
Student WHERE ARE YOU GUYS STUDYING AT???
Student oh ok thanks
Student ILLIONOIS ROCKS

Student whats an assasin bug
Student why are they all one one disk and not on seperate ones?
Bugscope Team this is the spider
Student ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~what is that~~~~~~~~
Bugscope Team we are at the U of I, but we are not students, we work at the Beckman Institute
Student how do all those bugs stay on that little scope??

Student what are those
Student BLACKness
Student a spider (i think)

Student wow what is that?
Student @- _ -@ What is that!!
Student why are sppider head so hairy
Bugscope Team the spider needs to be very sensitive to vibration, and so it has lots of sensory hairs
Student OG THANX
Bugscope Team this is paper from the paper wasp nest you guys sent
Student Assasin...

Student it looks like sand

Student is this a wasp nest?????
Bugscope Team yes it looked like a paper wasp nest, these are all paper fibers
Student It looks like a spider web

Student are those little sticks
Student Whats the bark stuff?

Student paper wasp? is that like a wasps home?
Bugscope Team A paper wasp is the kind of wasp with the thin wings that builds little clusters of cells in the corner of your porch or carport?
Student Wait we learned the rolly pollys live in moste areas... How do they walk on the sidewalk like we do for a long amount of time without suffocating?

Student NA LOOKS LIKESPIDER WEBS

Student have you looked at these bugs before?
Student I've been there

Student really thats why its hairy?

Student what is the wasp nest made of?
Bugscope Team Yes, they gather fibrous material from the environment, chew it into pulp and make a paper out of the pulp and their spit. Yummy.
Student Wait we learned the rolly pollys live in moste areas... How do they walk on the sidewalk like we do for a long amount of time without suffocating?
Bugscope Team they probabkly can't stay out in the sun too long
Student Is it dead cells!!!???
Student so the hairs are like their ears?
Student What is a spider
Student shoe the betle

Student what else do you scientists studey/
Student ^^ Spiser webs are MORE divided

Student Â¿?
Student WHAT IS THIS

Student How good is the vison for most of these animals?
Bugscope Team well, for fly's, they have great vision, they have compound eyes with many hundreds of facets on them

Student Wait we learned the rolly pollys live in moste areas... How do they walk on the sidewalk like we do for a long amount of time without suffocating?
Student What is your bug?

Student oh thats neat!
Student K thx
Student Why did they name the wasp wasp?
Bugscope Team well the name fits, doesn't it?

Student where do you get the bugs and nests and stuff?????
Student I mean does it mean anything!
Student What are we seeing?! Please say!
Student WHO IS IN CONTROL
Student can earwigs kill you?
Student Earwigs are creepy
Student Hell Kitty
Student are we controling the microscope from here or are we just looking at slides
Bugscope Team Paco you all are actually driving the microscope
Student Hello kitty :(
Bugscope Team this is the paper on a wasp nest
Student dylan inglee

Student I don't know what this is. What is it
Student do you put the bugs in containers or slides to put under the scope
Bugscope Team they go onto an aluminum stub, and we coat them with gold-palladium to make them conductive
12:39pm
Student Well maybe i mean i don't get it
Student is
Student our bed
Student Wasp...

Student Hello kitty :(
Student waspo
Student nop don't get it
Student How good of eye sight do humans have compared to flies?
Bugscope Team well, they are very different, but i think a fly's eyes are very well adapted to how it uses them
Student Wait soooo are you gana show the same bugs to the other classes?
Bugscope Team Nope, we never reuse the same specimens.
Student DO CHERRY CREAM PUFFS EVEN EXIST
Student are these the bugs we collected?!!!!!
Student Wasp man
Student how many bugs do you have on the scope thing?
Bugscope Team I think we have 8 today. We try to fit in as many as we can so you all have lots of different things to look at
Student MAY MAY WHO IS THAT
Student I apologizeI apologizeI apologizeI apologizeI apologizeI apologize!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team spiders will recycle their webs too. If they get really hungry they will eat their webs for protein, because that is what webs are made of
Student GUYS STAY FOCUSED
Student When they recycle do they eat it
Student What is this?
Student wait spiders recycle their
Student MADDIE FREEMAN
Student webs
Student WHERE ARE WE NOW

Student may may is maddie!!!!
Bugscope Team this is a beetle, the claw of a beetle
Student A hand
Student what is that?
Student what is that?

Student Whats that
Student scot how many bugs do you usally look at a day??
Student is that pinchers?
Student IS THAT BE A CLAW
Student ITS A WING DUDE

Student cool
Student ow, is it sharp?
Student IT HAS SPIKES
Student is that a beettle claw?
Bugscope Team yes we were looking at a claw
Student Do the hairs protect it?
Bugscope Team Some hairs (which we call setae) can be very prickly and can help to protect the insect.
Student A Dragonfly.
Student :p what is that?:}
Bugscope Team these are tarsi --- the joints of the forearm
Student are those hairs
Bugscope Team not hairs, they are setae (see-tee)
Student SENSOOORRRYYY
Student kool thanx scot
Student Do bugs have good hearing?
Student :()
Bugscope Team insects have six legs, and this is one

Student SI
Student Do insects feel things??
Bugscope Team yep! they feel with those hairs, setae (see-tee)
Student Do the hairs help hunt??
Bugscope Team In some insects, the hairs help the insect to sense the movement of its prey, so yes to that too.
Student WHERE ARE WE
Student does every insect have hair?
Student Sometimes i mean i don't know
Student O
Student so the hair on the bugs helps them with sensory. Are these bugs really sensitive to things then?
Student do all insects have six legs?
Bugscope Team yes all insects, when they are adults, have six legs

Bugscope Team assassin bug!
Student yes
Bugscope Team here is the assassin bug
Student What are those
Student how does the hair on the bug benefit it
Bugscope Team It helps it to sense what is going on around it through their thick exoskeleton
Student IS IT A GRASSSSSSS HOPPPPPPER
Student Where's the head
Student Ok I heard that bugs fell vibs instead of hear... is that true?
Bugscope Team this is the head more specifically
Student wat is the thing on its head?

Student so the Setae are the hairs on them?

Student Is that the Eyes in the middle?
Student whats an assasan bug and wut do they do?
Student do bugs have like bones?
Student what do these bugs do? kill other bugs?

Bugscope Team it has a proboscis that goes across the middle of the head down the body
Student WHAT IS THE LONG THING ON ITS HEAD
Bugscope Team that is its proboscis, where it drinks liquids
Student what do these assasin bugs do?
Student /

Student the ey's are huge!
Student how does the hair on the bug benefit it???
Bugscope Team that's how it feels things, kinda like cat whiskers
Student do aassin bugs eat other bugs?

Student ;'
Student what is that?
Student Can I see a spider???
Student Is it moving

Bugscope Team this is cool!
Student DO BUGS HAVE SPINES???
Student ohh cool
Student we saw a spider 3 times
Student yes
Student yeSAA
Student :*( what isthat :D
Student IS THAT BACTERIA
Student ohh like a sword or something
Student do they have a heart
Bugscope Team broken
Student NO EVAN...... GET REAL
Student how can the assassin bug eat other bugs
Bugscope Team It catches them and sticks its proboscis into the other insects body and sucks all the body juices out.
Student what is broken?
Student We DID ?.?

Student :0 THIS IS AWESOME DUDE
Student what is an animal that sometimes people might think is an animal
Teacher can you please give controls to chuter?
Student DO BUGS HAVE SPINES??
Bugscope Team yes some have spines
Student why is that craked
Student what is the niche for these bugs?
Student Be nice!
Student IT HAS SSPIKY THINGS ONMITS LEGS

Student wh at b ug isd htius
Bugscope Team this is a house centipede
Student Major confusin??? The legs.
Student No bugs do not hae spinse
12:44pm

Student They have an outer shell
Student does a centipede need all of its legs to walk or can it be missing some
Student how much bactierea do bugs have
Student Sorry Spine
Student They have hair everywhere!
Student WHAT IS THE ASSASSIAN BUGS NICHE??
Student DOES IT HAVE BACTERIA ON IT
Bugscope Team sometimes we see bacteria on them

Student DO BUGS HAVE SPINES??
Student Are bugs flexable
Student what is that part of the centipede?
Student Why do most bugs live under rocks?
Bugscope Team I don't think you could say that most insects live under rocks. Just as many live in trees or in a cornfield. Some insects live under rocks and logs because it is relatively moist, warm, and protected...it is kind of a good place to live.
Student I think evry thing has bacteria on it
Student So it's like a bug vampire?

Student for protection im geussing

Student WHERE ARE WE
Student Is it decaying

Student No bugs have X-O skelatens

Student NO BONES!
Student your job sounds fun!

Student I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE YOU
Student WHAT ARE PROTISTS

Student
Student icky
Student Are bugs harts micro scopic
Bugscope Team No, you can see them without a microscope. They are not very big though, about the size of a string (depending upon the size of the insect of course)
Student Hi

Student amazing
Student U GUYS ARE SO SMART GO SCOT
Student Lol nice name
Student what is that
Student What is that
Student IS THAT A spider web

Student WHAT BE PROTISTS
Student whoa!!

Bugscope Team this is someone's claw up close, looks like
Student scott is literally my middle name u rock
Student is th at hair
Student how do you get all the bugs on one slide?
Bugscope Team cate prepared the sample today
Student It's curved!
Student what does an mold spore do
Student Does this bug have feelers? What do they do?
Student what is a pulp?

Student what exaclty does the mold spores do for the bugs?

Bugscope Team see the micron bar in the lower left corner of the screen?
Student Is it the thing in orange juice
Student Do any bugs have scales??
Bugscope Team Yes, mosquitos have scales, butterflies and moths have scales, and silverfish have scales

Student the pulp
Student yes
Student yucky
Student why do they have so many hairs?
Bugscope Team the hairs, or setae, help them sense their environment
Bugscope Team well, those hairs (setae) help them sense their environment, so the more they have the better they feel
Bugscope Team bacteria are often 2 microns long -- 2 micrometers
Student whats Pulp?
Student WHAT MOMO SAID

Student protection
Student Hi
Student How long do they live for?
Student are the hairs on a bug an adaptation?
Student http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/sessions/2009-026/93464.jpg
Bugscope Team nice man! you found your member page
Bugscope Team i take an aluminum disk and put double stick carbon tape on it. Then i put a dab of silver paint in an area where i want an insect to stick and just keep repeating that till the disk is full
Student Something in orange juice?
Student what is that
Student Are their hairs just like ours?
Bugscope Team no they're often specialized so they can help taste the air, or sense heat, or sense motion or touch

Student HELLO KITTY:(
Student what type of school did you have to go through to be in the position you are now??
Bugscope Team I went to four years of undergraduate college, and six years of graduate school. I am graduating forever this Sunday.
Student :(+ :)
Student are thiers hirs like ours?
Student I sit eating
Student Is that an egg yolk?
Student Fluffy candy 199 is complainning 2 may that his Q's arnt getting ansered
Student can you dissect a bug? since they're so small?
Student bc they do
Student is it eating
Bugscope Team might have been eating
Student HI
Student what did you have to do to become the profesion that you are now this is cool
Bugscope Team You have to really like what you are doing, because sometimes it is hard and frustrating. But if you are really passionate about insects, or microscopes, or birds, or whatever kind of science you are interested in, it will be worth it and you will want to stay in school and learn all you can about the subject that you study...in my case, it was insects
Student where do the hairs come from on a insect like do they grow
Student do you disect the bugs anmd stuff too?
Bugscope Team we usually put them whole on the stub, unless they are super big

Bugscope Team ask away fluffy candy, i'll wait for your next question
Student can you show us the faces of these bugs?
Student WHAT R THESE
Student ok
Bugscope Team yes?
Student YeAh
Student oh so they are WAY different from ours
Student It looks like seawees
Student whats a spinerete
Student So do you just study bugs or do ya study animals 2?
12:49pm
Student are those hairs
Student Ickyicky
Student ME
Student PLESE WHAT IS THIS
Bugscope Team this is where the spider makes silk
Student haaaaaaaaaa
Student Looks like A pine tree
Bugscope Team the setae are called 'plumose' setae, which means that they are that shape, like long Christmas trees
Student what do assassin bugs eat?
Bugscope Team they eat other insects
Bugscope Team they are predetory, so they eat other bugs
Student TWSS
Student its a spinerete
Student Do any bugs have scales??!!
Bugscope Team Yes, mosquitoes, moths and butterflies, and silverfish
Teacher Breeto, wouls like the controls please
Bugscope Team breeto has control
Student Silk?!?
Student it should me freeto
Student THanks
Bugscope Team welcome :)
Student IS IT VERY STICKY

Student How?

Student i m ballin' on da b ball court
Student What do dust mites eat??????
Bugscope Team DEAD SKIN CELLS!! EWW.
Student Ho do bugs climb!
Bugscope Team some of them use their claws, and some may also use the pad on their 'hand,' called the pulvillus, which has tiny setae on it that help the insect stick to even upside down horizontal surfaces
Student can bugs eat other bugs
Bugscope Team totally, those are called predatory insects

Student change thed image
Student This is actualy quite entertaining, I dont want tu leave
Student looks like a tree

Student how long do the bugs live
Bugscope Team they usually live for a season on average so a few month. There are some that live for only a day and some that can live for a year
Student woqw
Student wow
Student So is that a bacteria subtance or...??????????????????????????????????????????????? ;)
Student jo do bugs climb
Bugscope Team yes, and they are generally pretty good at it.

Student ...
Student do all spiders eat there mates
Bugscope Team hmm, i'm just not sure, but i doubt it very much
Student :D WOWWWW DUDE
Student What do dust mites eat??????
Student what type of school did you go through?"?????
Student yes
Student Do Bugs eat Bark???
Bugscope Team yes, some insects do eat bark. Termites, ants, etc. A lot of times the insects that eat bark actually eat the fungus that is feeding on the bark.
Student HAIRY HAIRY NO NON NO
Student do he hairs on a spider help it climb up walls
Bugscope Team well, not those hairs in this image, but some hair looking things do help insects climb, those types of hairs are called tenent setae
Student harvard
Student :0
Student why do spiders eat their mates?
Bugscope Team Because they are hungry!
Student cMaybe

Student so that is preditor prey relationship right?
Student Spiders eat their mates!! WHY?
Bugscope Team they're kind of mean, and sometimes they're just hungry as well

Student is this safe
Student YES JONET
Student :DDDDDDDD
Student why do spiders eat thier mates?
Student EEWWWWW
Student WHAT R THESSSSEEEE
Student LaLALALALALA! What part are we seeing?
Student How long do fly's live??
Student !
Student why is it in black and white
Student what is that circle thing? it kinda looks like a mole
Student oh I though the Prymantice eat its MATE ;)
Bugscope Team Some times they do. It depends on the species of praying mantis and it depends on if the female is hungry
Student Do spider eat their own kids??
Student bc they do
Student oh i heard female black widos eat there mates

Student How do they dugest?

Student L is so AWSOME â™¡â™¡â™¡

Student do bugs poop
Bugscope Team depends on what spider, and in some cases where it bites
Student oooooooooohhhhhh
Student do you have a diversity of classes for these bugs
Bugscope Team All insects are in the class Hexapoda. The spider is in Arachnida and the roly poly is class Crustacea.
Student do you know what this is?
Student chris thats not a good question
Student Do bugs die?
Bugscope Team yes most of the insects we work with were already dead
Student wowowowosow
Student L is SO AWSOME >â™¡â™¡
Student WHO IS BREETO
Student Thank U
Student thank you soooo much!!
Student thank you for the time and help
Student we have to go now
Student What bug is the most dangrous
Student thank you -----bye!!!
Student THANK YOU SO MUCH WE R LEAVING NOW GOODBYE DUDE
Bugscope Team Bye! Thank You!
Student
Student Grasias (Thank you)
Student THANX SOOOO MUCH YOU GUYS ROCK
Student u rcok
Student You guys are awesome
Student thnx soooooo much. this was fun... oh thats me lol
Student thank you this is once in a lifetime chance
Student thank you for answering are questions goodbye
Student THANKS SO MUCH
Student
Student THANK YOU!!!!!!! @-_-@ (MONKEY!!!!!!)
Student MUSIC! =) Thank you for your time, that was pretty sweet. Bye!
Student thanks
Bugscope Team thank you guys for your questions and for the driving
Student thanks for your answers
Student It was fun! i hope we do it again!
Student Ight we gota go you guys r so AWESOME thx so much for the lesson ;) ;O ;@ WOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Student Good bye
Student thx for your support you really touched me and my whole entire life!
12:54pm
Student GOODBYEE
Student Bye bye
Student thanks you guys rock see yah. really thanks you guys rock
Bugscope Team you all rock and or roll, thanks for the great questions!
Student GTg
Student got to leave. have fun with my other classmates
Student By guys. I LOVE U...UR WORK. EVAN LAMB OUT. GRCIAS. NOW EVAN LAMB OUT=0
Student thank you for your time and help i had lots of fun thanks for helping us learn. this is cool, i learned a lot?
Bugscope Team See you next year!
Student byebye!
Student THX!!!!!! @-_-@
Student see yah scot and the others
Bugscope Team See ya!
Student I gtg
Student Bye ByE!!!:D
Student PEACS OUT SON!!!!
Student may rocks
Student :{)
Student THANKS SO MUCH FOR UR TIME :] lo.ollololololollolololololllol
Bugscope Team Wait..that is wrong
Student I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
Bugscope Team peace out
Student NNSWDVHJBJEABVBQEWHOIBVIPQWBCHVPAFV
Student OIEHOEHOEHOEHOEHEOHE
Student bbbbbbbbbbyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeee
Bugscope Team I don't think Crustacea is a class
Teacher Thank you that class went well. My next class will be in here in about 10 minutes.
Bugscope Team Cool!
Bugscope Team brb
1:01pm
Bugscope Team me driving for a sec...
Teacher Would love to see what you think is cool
Bugscope Team I think...
Bugscope Team I can't drive...
Bugscope Team need to use another confuser

Bugscope Team it just keeps hanging

Bugscope Team Cate restarted the server for us.

Teacher Thank you Cate
1:07pm
Bugscope Team I wanted to see this place on the centipede -- this is where they can produce a toxin to discourage ants, for example

Teacher I don'
Bugscope Team these are some of the last segments of the body

Teacher I don't have a frame of reference. Where is the place where the toxin is excreted?
Bugscope Team those portholes
Bugscope Team sorry
Teacher That is pretty cool
Teacher So this is the ventral vies?
Teacher view?
Bugscope Team lots of insects/arthropods have a means of getting ants to leave them along
Bugscope Team yes we usually mount critters dorsal side down so we can see the limbs, and stuff like this
Bugscope Team leave them alone...

1:12pm
Bugscope Team this is kind of interesting'
Teacher what is this?
Bugscope Team sometimes you see biofilms, similar to this, that bacteria have laid down -- a microenvironment
Bugscope Team I don't know that that is what this is, though

Bugscope Team it was probably dried hemolymph over small bumps on the surface of the cuticle

Bugscope Team jaws, now

Teacher kids are back . Here they come

Bugscope Team hey everyone

Bugscope Team this is the antenna of a centipede

Student awesome

Student Wow thats awesome

Student cool
Student tite
Student whats is that
Student What are those little clump things
Student what insect is it
Student what is this
Student What is this?
Student Whats that?
Student What in the world is this??
1:17pm
Bugscope Team that is one of the jaws, broken open like a lobster claw
Bugscope Team we are at the head of a centipede

Student Do any bugs have scales?
Bugscope Team Mosquitoes, moths and butterflies, and silverfish

Student Why is it cracked
Student is that a crack in it?
Bugscope Team yes that was cracked

Student how big is the haed of a centipede?
Student this is great scientific research
Student HOW MANY TIMES IS THE ZOOM ON THIS?

Student Thats really cool!

Student WHAT IS THAT? IS THE ANNTEANE BROKEN
Student what is this

Student This is awesome! What kingdom its from?
Bugscope Team Kingdom Animalia
Student thats cool
Student what is that
Student whats that?
Student What is that goo looking stuff
Student WHAT DOSE THE BODY LOOK LIKE
Student What is that
Student silver fish is a bug?
Bugscope Team It is a hexapod...so technically you can call it an insect
Student i love this
Student how big is the head of a centipede?
Student what is that

Student What is the magnification of this microscope?
Student wha is that
Student is that mold
Bugscope Team i think it came out of the centipede when it was squished. there might be mold among the stuff
Student what part is this?
Bugscope Team this is the end of the head, where the jaws and palps are
Student WIAT IS IS A CATERPILLER
Bugscope Team A caterpillar is the larva of a moth or a butterfly
Student hi khandi

Student YES

Student what are those rock looking things
Student is this bacteria
Student oh its its mouth!
Student who is starstruck
Student is that a spider
Student ARE THE BUGS DEAD
Bugscope Team Yes, we wouldn't want them moving around inside the microscope
Student What bug are we looking at?
Teacher controls to Clementine please?

Bugscope Team I just drove us to a spider.
Student OHHHHHHH!!!! OKAY
Student idk who is the best?
Student .............Is this a spider??
Bugscope Team yes!
Student this is freaky looking
Student why do they have so many spinnerettes?
Bugscope Team they make a few different kinds of web, some not sticky
Student is that hair?
Student what are those called
Student HOW LONG ARE THE SPINNERETTES
Student how many spinerates are on a spider
Student you are a great scientist kaeln

Student yoooooooooooooooooooooooo thats nasty
Student wow! so that whats comes out of a spider
Student cool that tight
Student is it a spider
Student are SPIDERS edible?!
Student how do these things make the silk from spiders?

Student what kind of spider is that
Student WHAT IS THAT

Bugscope Team this is at the tip of the abdomen
Student THEY LOOK LIKE PLANTS
Student that looks like weat

Student What is the niche of a spider?
Bugscope Team There are many different types of spiders, so they occupy many niches. Generally speaking, they are predators of other arthropods. Some large spiders and tarantulas can actually eat small vertebrates like birds, mice, and lizards
Student what is this part and why does this spider need it
Student what are thoses
Student ew
Student What are those things?
Student wat is that
Student Is this where the web comes out of?
Bugscope Team yes the webbing comes out of the spinnerets which are found on the tip of its abdomen
Student do they come in white or are they clear
Student what spider is this what tipe
Student toni is starstruck
Bugscope Team the setae we see now are called 'plumose setae' because they have that sort of frilly pine-tree like shape

Student WHAT ARE THOSE HOLES THAT THE SPINNERETES
Student the niche is to keep the bug population in order i think
Student who do they have so mamy
Student what part of the spider are we lookiing at exactly?!
Student What do they do?
Student What are those things holding the hairy things in place"?
Bugscope Team those are pores
Bugscope Team spiders have lots of sensory hairs, which we call setae
Student what is the purpose of spineret

Student cool
Student DO YOU HAVE A FLY
Student Where are the spin things located
Student what are those hair things?
Bugscope Team those are just what you called them-- hairs. they allow the spider to feel whats around them, specifically vibrations
Student why do the have so many
Student were is this on the spider

Student what kind of spider is that
Student is that a spider?
Student What are they used for?
Student ! TH3 B3ST IS GENO

Student what is your favorite bug cate?
Bugscope Team ants are awesome because sometimes they have stingers, and they also sometimes have specialized jaws. Bees are another cool one because of their stingers
Bugscope Team we don't know what kind of spider it was
1:22pm
Student WHAT KIND OF ANT IS THIS
Student HOW DO U USE THE ANTEANNE
Bugscope Team They use the antennae sort of as an ear, as a tongue, as a nose, all mixed into one. The antennae have different types of setae that taste, smell, feel, and sense vibrations.
Student cool ant head
Student is that a ant head
Student ITS PINCHERS ARE HUUUUUUGE!!!
Student EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWY

Student wow that ant head looks hairy what are they for
Student what is the niche of an ant? i can never figure that out haha
Student ewwwwwwwwwww
Student Are those eyes on their?
Bugscope Team see the eye to the right?
Student its big
Student Why are there stripes on the skin?
Bugscope Team that is texture the ant has on it's exoskeleton
Student what are all the lines on its head?
Student how many eye spots do ants have? like the hexigon shapes inside the eye
Student why does it have a lot of hair
Student yes
Student do ants have vennom
Student Wait thats what I felt when I picked one up yesterday
Student does an ant have hair all over its body
Bugscope Team often they do have much more hair than we would expect

Student yes
Student geno is dj26 i think
Student what kind of kingdome is that
Student jkjkjjk
Student thats cool cate!
Student I can see its head! COOOOO...........LLLLLLLLL!
Student How many eyes does an ant have?
Bugscope Team usually just two, but they are compound eyes
Student ha

Student what are the pinchers used for?
Student I thought ants were blind.

Student how could an ant see with all those dots on its eye
Student There is a hole some where and why do they have a hole
Student what is the white thingy
Student whast that?
Student Why does the eye have many smaller circle like things in it?
Student HOW MANY eyes does it has!
Student what is that
Student is that a fang
Bugscope Team they have a pair of hinged jaws that open up like a gate
Student thats really cool how big are the hairs on the ants

Student Does an ant have a brain?
Student who is green
Student FURRRY!!!!
Student WHAT DO ANTS TASTE LIKE?
Student how hard can a ant bite
Student yummy

Student yeah
Student what is on the antena
Student CAN THEY BE FRIED
Student how strong are there jaws
Student pocky
Student how big are the ants jaws
Student What do ants eat
Bugscope Team Some ants feed exclusively on seeds or plants, some species of ants grow fungus that they feed on, some ants eat protein (like dead animals), some ants eat fungus that grows in wood, and some ants will eat almost anything
Student how strong are bugs
Bugscope Team with ants, they can lift from 10-50x their weight!
Bugscope Team for their size they are often comparably quite strong

Student sot
Student are those spikes or hair?
Student yea
Student big
Student SO THEY HAVE AN EPTOSKELETON?
Bugscope Team an EXOskeleton
Student are ants in some way related to spiders???
Teacher Aunt Jemimah, would like controls please.
Student NO LITTLE HAIRS
Student THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!
Student its exo stumper
Student big
Student scotJ what is your favorite bug?.
Bugscope Team I like earwigs 'cause they often have mites.
Student why is that so big
Bugscope Team OK Aunt Jemimah has control.
Student is this now an spider
Student This is so COOL!!!
Student this is great is that a leg
Student can they move fast
Student DONT PEOPLE EAT ANTS IN FRANCE OR SOMETHIN
Student how many legs do ants hyave
Bugscope Team Six lges
Student that kind of looks like cells
Student WICKY WORD
Student GENO IS MEAN AND RJ
Student Do ants have any parasites?
Bugscope Team Yes, they can get diseases (viruses, bacteria, fungi or protist diseases). They have many different types of insects that sneak in and live with ant colonies, stealing their resources. Ants also have parasites like parasitoid insects that lay their eggs in living ant bodies, which kills the ant eventually

Student who is green
Student what's that big round circle is that the abdamum

Student black widow
Student ARE THEY EDIBLE
Student How many times do ants eat a day?
Bugscope Team this is a pillbug, rolypoly...

Student CAN THEY BE FRIED
Bugscope Team yes but lightly

Student what is the shell called
Student why do polys have a shell

Student what is that!!?!????!!!!!!
Student WHY IS ITS LEGS STICKING OUT
Student OMG ROLLY POLLY OLLY

Student How strong are the shells on pillbugs?

Bugscope Team the eyes!
Bugscope Team did you see the eye?
Student can a pillbug go under water?
Student how many leg do rolly poly have
Student how long can a ant live with out its head
Student where are the eyes???
Student what is that
Student CREEEEPY
Student what is there texture?
Student annie what is your favorit bug
Student yes it is a pill bug
Student what adaptations that make it into a ball
1:27pm
Student what do pillbugs eat
Student cool
Bugscope Team yes just like a crab or a lobster, but less tasty

Student i love science
Student Do they ever grow out of their shell or grow a new one?
Bugscope Team no the shell is part of their body, they cant remove it

Student AN EPYOSKELETON
Student khandicane
Student WHO DOESNT
Student DO THE LEGS ATTACH TO THE THORAX OR ABDAMEN?
Bugscope Team Thorax. You can think of the thorax as the part of the insect that is in charge of movement. All the legs and all the wings are attached to the thorax
Student WHERE IS THIS?

Student WHY WOULD SOMEONE EAT IT
Student what side of the pillbug is the head and what side is it's booty
Student Whats that?
Student what do these things eat
Student wat is that bug
Student What part of the bug is this?
Student stumper is this dylan
Student How large are the gills, and how long can they breathe under water?
Student How long are those
Student NO IM NOT!!!!

Student whit>
Student wow
Student is a pillbug like a crab
Student cool
Student How many pounds can an ant carry?
Student WHAT IS THIS?'
Student what is that cate
Student ya u r dylan!!!
Student This is a vent
Student khandicane

Student What is this??
Student What bug are we looking at?
Student What is with the hairs on this vent?
Bugscope Team the hairs help it feel when it has released toxin from those vents
Student hello
Student GENO
Student what are the hairs called
Bugscope Team setae
Student what part that make it into a ball
Student do pillbugs have an exosceloton
Student DOES IT ALWAY PROTECT IT I MEAN THE SHELL?
Student this ant geno
Student that is an awsome skeleton
Student no dj26 is not geno
Student LETS SEE A MISQUITO!
Bugscope Team we dont have a mosquito today sorry
Student ik
Student what is this exactly
Student ?
Student IM GENO
Student NOTTT
Student kandie
Student no one caught a mosquito dylan
Student o haha
Student who khandicane
Student elise its mickey
Student DANG!
Student what bug is this
Student khandi duh
Student NO IM GENO
Student it looks like somthing off of resedent evil
Student your a great scientist
Student CEENTIPEDE
Student WHAT is that! How does it help the bug?
Student no

Student how amny legs do a centipede have??
Student how many bones do senapede have
Student what is this
Student DJ26 is dakota
Student ss
Student SENTIPEDS ARE POISONOUS?
Student how long will a ant live with out its head

Student R THOSE ITS LEGS
Student $!ck dude is austin

Student CANIBALLISM
Student o
Student were does the toxin come out
Bugscope Team those little portholes
Student DJ26 i know who u ar...hehehe
Student How many legs does a centipeed have?
Student WOW
Teacher DJ 26 would like to have controls for awhile
Student What do centipedes eat
Student what is that and how does it help the centipead and are the centipead canibleistic
Student what are those dots on it's body?
Student what are the things on top of it
Student when one species eats its own kind
Student the little dots
Student is that a dust might
Student mickey are you mikayla
Bugscope Team DJ26 has control!
Student who is geno then?
Student were is this on the bug
Bugscope Team that was one of the terminal segments, near its back end
Student what are centipeeds pretators
Bugscope Team Well, mice, birds, bears, skunks, lizards, snakes
Student how many legs does this have
Student WHY DO ALL THE BUGS LOOK LIKE THERE CRACKED IN HALF
Bugscope Team When insects and other arthropods die, they rot and their exoskeleton becomes weak and sometimes it cracks.
Student what are the dots on the body

Student wat bug is this

Student BECAUSE THEY ARE DEAD!!!!
Student stumpy da
1:32pm

Student do these bugs have layers or something
Student what is this
Student can we see a cricket
Student does it have claws
Student stumper is geno

Student WHAT
Student can cenitpeads be very venimous
Bugscope Team Yes they can. I never recommend picking up a centipede with your bare hands. Many of them can inflict a painful.

Student how long can a centipeeds live
Student This a a centipeade.
Student what is that

Student hi khandi
Student ME
Student What magnification is dis at?
Bugscope Team presently 291x

Student toni
Student can we see a cricket
Student thanks annie
Student hi mickey
Student do you have bees
Student Are those germs on it!
Student WAT R WE LOOKIN AT
Student that looks like a skull

Student DYLAN IS STUMPER
Student are these germs on the bug
Student What are those dots on the cantepeade?
Student hi austin
Student annie.
Student ?
Student whats that

Student how many legs a centipeed has
Bugscope Team I'm sorry -- I think it varies but I don't know
Student HEY WHY IS THAT THING MOVIN?
Student annie?
Student are the dots pores?

Student oooo hairy
Student whos annie?
Student why do ants eyes have so many litter dots??
Student ICKY
Student EWWW BEETLES!

Student hi mickey
Student i'm scaerd

Student THATS INTERESTING
Student eww cate?

Student do beetles have one mouth?
Student what is all that hair for
Student HELLO
Student Thats cool!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team this is the face
Student why do ants have soo many little dots on their eyes?
Bugscope Team Clemintine sometimes they have very few dots (ommatidia, or facets), and some ants do not have eyes. But they all have antennae, which are more useful to an ant.
Student hi rj money
Student WAT DOES THE BEETLE EAT
Bugscope Team these are the mouthparts
Student ....What type of beetle is this?
Bugscope Team We would have to decrease the magnification and move to the abdomen for me to tell...I think it is a ground beetle, but I am not sure
Student what is the bug that live the longeest
Student how do beetles eat?
Student is that its mouth
Student what are the dents
Student i swear this ant geno
Student hi micky
Student \
Bugscope Team a house centipede has 15 pairs of legs
Student this is abbey mickey you ask great questions

Student :0
Student what are the holes on it's body?
Student What do beetles eat?
Student what are the holes on it?
Student thanks black mamba

Student DO THEY HAVE TEETH
Student lol mickey
Student is this the mouth???
Student is that opening the mouth?
Student OR MICRO
Student IT SAYS THE SCALE IS 89 UM WHAT IS THE U SHAPE?
Bugscope Team that is supposed to be mu, which when put with m means micrometer or micron
Student DO BEETLES HAVE TEETH
Bugscope Team They have hardened jaws that they use to chew.
Student IM GENO
Student why are there so many little dots on the ants eyees?
Student no thy dont
Student how many types of species of beetles are there? an estimate is fine
Bugscope Team Some have estimated over a million species of beetles. No one knows for sure

Student how do they move
Student rj
Bugscope Team the largest centipede, which is now extinct, grew up to 1 meter in length
Student do those things on the side help push in the food?
Bugscope Team yes they do, and they also help the insect taste things -- they're called palps.
Student WHAT IS THE SCALE

Student how much food can a bug eat in one day
Bugscope Team It depends upon the insect. Some caterpillars can eat an entire tomato plant in one day.
Student no jen
Student 178 WHAT

Student ok thank you!!
Student How hard is the shell?
Student do beetles have a nose
Bugscope Team no they used their antennae and palps to smell
Student what is that? where is the abdamum on a centipead?

Student hey khandi?>

Student how big can a beetle can get
Bugscope Team The largest beetle is called the titan beetle and it can be up to 17 cm long.
Student What is the Ground Beetles niche?
Student WHERE ARE THE EYES LOCATED?

Student Do beetles have teeth?
Student whats up?
Student do beetles have ears?
Bugscope Team I don't know of any beetles with insect ears. They usually sense vibration with their setae
Student HOW FAR ON THE FOOD CHAIN ARE BEETLES
Student WAT??????????????????
Student every body ask how long will it stay alive for with out its head

Student what is it on?
Bugscope Team they are all sitting on a metal disk that has a sheet of double stick carbon tape on it. the bubbles you see in the background are features of the double stick carbon tape
Student hey stumper
Student what are the dents
Student IS THAT WHATS IN BED AT NIGHT
Student How many legs does this beetle have?
Student YO
Student what are those longg things on the fac?

Student do beet6les swim
Bugscope Team some beetles swim
1:37pm
Student WHAT IS AROUND THE BEETAL AND WHAT DO THEY EAT?
Student what are the spots around the beetle? are they dew drops?

Student whats up
Student Where could you find the titan beetle?
Bugscope Team In the Amazon rainforest
Student do fungi help these animals live in any way
Student its legs look like its resting in peace lol
Bugscope Team yeah they do ;)
Bugscope Team I think this is a ground beetle
Student awww its kinda cute in a way
Student hi mickey
Student What is a setae?
Student THIS IS WIERD
Student IM GENO
Teacher starstruck would like controls please
Bugscope Team starstruck has control
Student IM GENO
Student IM GENO
Student how many diffrent kinds of beetles are there
Student WE KNOW!
Student IM RLEY
Student IM GENO
Bugscope Team Starstruck has control.
Student ya who is $!ck dude
Student mickey
Student thats one small little bug. I think
Bugscope Team yes you are right, quite small
Student OK WE GET IT GENO!!

Student how many segments do beetls have and and how do they differ from ants
Bugscope Team Beetles are in a different order than ants. They share the characterstics of all insects, six legs, two antennae, a head, thorax and abdomen. Ants are closely related to wasps and bees. Ants do not have a shell, like beetles do, and ants live in colonies, which beetles rarely do.
Student no one cares who is who. just ask questions please
Student What is that little neatle thing that is the bottom of the beetle
Student how many teeth do a beetles have
Bugscope Team they don't really have teeth, not like people or other mammals or fish
Student YEA I AGREE
Student DO BEETLES HAVE A MATING CALL
Student stumer who is $!ck dude
Student no i whant the controlls
Student does it have feet

Student who is clemente
Student who is dj26
Student What are the hairs used for on a beetle?
Bugscope Team they allow the insect to feel what is around it, they are like cat whiskers
Student what up geno

Student ME
Student DJ26 like mickey
Student how many tips of beetles are there
Bugscope Team There are thousands of species, perhaps hundreds of thousands

Student ya
Student what is this
Student AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Student what is this
Student why are some of the images blurry?
Student WHAT THE CHICKEN WING IS THAT??????????????
Student ME GENO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student is that a hair ball
Student IT LOGED ME OUT!

Student its austin
Student does fungi help these insects live in any way
Bugscope Team These insects may feed on fungus...but I am not sure
Student WHATS THAT?!!!???
Student IS IT HARD TO USE THE MICROSCOPE
Bugscope Team starstruck is controlling it right now!
Student maybe i likemickey
Student mikayla duh
Student whats that goop?
Student dakota i know your dj26
Student Oh that is cool. Thanks!!!
Student flood!!!!!!!!!!!
Student freak!

Student what is that
Student what do they kill>
Student haha
Student HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN LOOKING AT BUGGGS FOR???
Student whats that long thing
Student what is the thing on the head

Student DOES THIS BUG HUNT OTHERS
Bugscope Team you got it dude
Student that looks like a spine
Student Are those eyes?
Student WHAT KIND OF POISON DO ASSASSIEN BUGS HAVE?
Bugscope Team I don't think they have a posion
Student Why is this bugs eyes so BIG?
Student I DONT HAVE A PICTURE!!!
Student Why do assasian bugs have eyes on the sides of their heads?
Student what kind of other bugs dose the assason bug kill?
Student are assasin bugs deadly?
Student how does the asasion bug kill you
Student are those eyes?

Student oh lol thats an odd name for a bug... why is that?
Bugscope Team yes those are eyes, it looks like Beaker but is not
Student COOL LIKE A BOUNTY HUNTER
Student what is the thing on the head

Student it looks like a up side down fish is it
Student you said dude(:
Bugscope Team poison
Student ya i guess im mickey dj

Student AGAIN?!
Student HOW DO THESE MAKE STRING/
Bugscope Team they extrude protein that hardens in the air and forms different kinds of web, or 'silk'
Student what is this again?
Student hey will one of you science people tell me what were lookng at?>
Bugscope Team we are looking at a part on the abdomen of a spider. there are a lot of hairs in the area, but there are also other things called spinnerets that shoot out the web
Student tentecols\
Student science is cool
Student What do these things do?
Student how do spiders make there webs while not falling?
Student U SPELLED IT WRONG LOL ITS ASSASSIN
Teacher Clementine's screen is black. Anything we can do to fix it?
Bugscope Team F5
Student this rick james
Student how does the assasion bug kill you
Student how do spiders live and are they nockternule
Student HEY TYRAN KNOWS SOMETHING
1:42pm
Student is this the spider again or do assasian bugs have spinartes
Student what up all of my home dogs
Student what is that

Student GROOVY
Student mickey tight
Student CAN CENTIPEADS BE CANIBLELISTIC
Student Dj is ur DJ mickey mouse
Student that looks sick
Student WATS CRAKIN HOMI
Student uhm.
Student What is the spinnerets used for on a bug?
Bugscope Team they are where the silk comes out
Student SI SENIOR
Student wats this?
Student DO BUGS GET BROKEN BONES
Student what is that
Bugscope Team Let us know if that does not work. She should be able to see images once you refresh.
Student What is a paper wasp
Student what is the thing on top of the assassin
Student who is t rex
Student hey
Student What is a paper wasp???
Bugscope Team A paper wasp is a wasp in the subfamily Polistinae. They are semisocial, forming small family groups, with many queens and a few workers. They are among the most commonly noticed wasps, especially when they make nests in the corner of your porch or under the eaves of your house
Student MY SCREEN IS STILL BLACK!!!! :(
Bugscope Team Hit the refresh icon, the one that looks like a circle
Student nothin geno

Student whoa!! ..awesome
Student IS THIS THE WASP NEST?
Student what is an F5 is it the deadly tornato what is F5
Bugscope Team sorry that is how you refresh a Windows machine
Student dust!
Student HOW MANY SPINNERETES ARE IN A SQUARE CENTIMETER
Student u no mickeymouse
Student ME IS GENO
Student what is the deadlest bug
Student how many eggs do wasps have
Student CAN WASPS ATTACK BIGGER BUGS
Student what is the thing on top of the assassin bugs head
Student What are those
Student I like pie
Student what is a paper wasp?/
Student What is a wasps niche?
Student What niche does the paper wasp have, and what is their nest made of?
Bugscope Team Paper wasps are mainly predators on caterpillars and other mushy insects. They gather fibrous materials from the environment, check it into pulp, and make paper out of the pulp plus their spit. They make their nests out of the spit paper
Student scotj what is that
Student you are cool mickey
Student tyran
Student IS THE NEST PUT TOGETHER WITH THERE POO?
Student ME GENO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Student sike
Student what is this
Student is that like web stuff
Teacher Can "cool pickle" have controls for a while please
Bugscope Team cool pickle has controls
Bugscope Team Did Clemintine get her view back?
Student nvm
Student what is the wasps nest made of
Student what is that
Student How do centipedes eat?
Student is this the mouth or claws or whatever?
Student CAN WE ZOOM IN ON THE STUFF IN ITS MOUTH?
Student ME GENO
Student YES CLEMINTINE GOT HER VIEW BACK!
Bugscope Team Yay!
Bugscope Team Pickle is it
Student you are cool elise
Student What is that

Student What is in a centipeades mouth?

Student whats that stuff around the bugs mouth?
Student that looks like a plant
Student
Student what is that
Student BARF
Student this koo
Student its my grandmothre

Student Why is the head cracked?
Student YA
Bugscope Team you can see the part where the jaws are going into the mouth has little ridges on it that looks like little teeth
Student what is all that mushy stuff on the head
Bugscope Team it oozed some of its hemolymph out of its mouth after it died

Student these are great scientific questions
Student Nice head. it reminds me of mickey mouse

Student yo scotj you're pretty tight
Student geno we get it!!

Student DOES THE EXO SKULL BREAK OR DOES IT DISENERGRATE
Student what is that

Student i dont fell good
Student WHAT IS THIS IS IT A CENTIPEAD???????????????????????????
Student sorry
Student are those hairs
Student cate,ur cool
Student Hi khandi
Student Do they have exactly 100 legs or can they still walk with less?
Bugscope Team they don't really have a hundred legs, and they can make do with fewer.
Student WHAT ARE WE LOOKIN AT?
Student HOW DID THE BUGS GET THERE THEN BREAK? EVER HEARD OF PACKING PEANUTS?NO OFFENSE
Student How many legs does a cantipead have?
Student whats a hemolymph???
Student DO BUGS HAVE DUST MITES ON THEM?
Bugscope Team yes sometimes, but they are softbodied, so they dont dry very well making them look horrible in the microscope most times. But we have seen other types of mites
Student i dont like the looks of thes

Student rj
Student whats that?
1:47pm

Student is there stuff on there lil hairs??????

Student i meant their
Student elise do you know why there was hai there
Student kobe24

Student WHAT IS A SPIRACLE???
Bugscope Team it has the same function as our noses. It allows the insects to breathe
Student whats a spiricle?
Student WHAT ARE THOSE SPINEY THINGS
Student ????????WHAT IS THIS??????
Student is that the nose?
Student WHOA IT HAS A NOSE?!!!!!

Student that looks like rock layers

Student I DIDNT KNOW THEY HAD NOSES

Student O OK
Student rj
Bugscope Team and we are looking at a spiracle, which is much like a nose, as Cate said
Student What is that?
Student can thay breth under whater
Bugscope Team they can close their spiracles so water does not get in
Student IS THIS ITS NOSE THE LITTLE HOLE
Student Whats a spirical
Student what part of the bug is this

Student What part of the grasshoper is this.
Student u are awsome scientist
Student what are the layers on the bug?
Student what part is that exactly
Student what is this texture
Teacher Wonder Science would like controls please
Student how many joints is in a grasshoppers leg?
Bugscope Team I think there are about 10.

Student O.o what is the difference between grasshoppers and crickets?
Student Do all bugs have a nose?
Student mickeymouse

Student who is RaWr?
Student WHAT IS THAT
Student crickets are shorter and black
Student DOES THE UNDER BELLY PROTECT THEM
Student what is that
Student do grasshoppers have eyes on their side of the head

Student what part of the bug is this

Student what is the most daggours wasp
Student LETS SEE THE EYES

Student WHERE ARE YOU GUYS LOCATED????
Student IS THAT A BUT
Student âˆ‘
Student Are these da thangs?
Student what spider is this
Student ScotJ you are cool
Student wow that is hairy
Student spiders are tight
Student what is the name of this spider
Student class is out in 2 mins
Student how many eyes do they have?
Student WHY ARE THERE PIMPLES
Student mickey
Student HAH
Student WHATS THOSE BUMPESSSS
Student THOSE R THE EYES LOL
Student what tip of spider is this
Student ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Student how many eyes does a spider have?
Bugscope Team often they have eight, but they are simple eyes

Student WAT IS THAT!!!!!!!!!
Student ARE THOSE BUMPS ITS EYES
Bugscope Team no that is the double stick carbon tape
Bugscope Team Grasshoppers are almost entirely plant eaters, whereas crickets are omnivores and sometimes predators
Student are those ball shaped things spider eggs

Student what is that
Student coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Student HOW DO YOU KNOW IF A BUG IS A MALE OR FEMALE?
Bugscope Team that depends on the insect, like for flies, if their eyes are really far apart on their head then it is a female

Student tite dude
Student why do bugs have little hairs everywhere? and why cant we see them?
Bugscope Team they are very small, and their purpose is to transmit information through the exoskeleton to the brain of the insect: touch, taste, hot or cold...
Student Mickey
Student cate do you like being a scientist?
Student LUCK
Student simple eyes in comparison to an ants eyes?
Student Y DO SPIDERS HAVE SOOO MANY EYES?
Student hey scot what is your favorate bug that we brot
Student WAT DOES THE TAPE DO
Student what is that
Student WHATS ON THE LEGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $!CK DUDE
Student ARE ALL OF THE LITTLE BUMPS ON THE SPIDERS EYES ALL EYES?
Student DO U GET GROSSED OUT BY SPIDERS?
Bugscope Team only if it is alive!
Student Does each eye see something different?
Student is and were out of here
Student DJ26 is kobe 24
Student THANKS DUDES
Student thak you
Student THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Student THANKS DUDEAS
Student THANK YOU!!!!! AWSOME!!!!
Student Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooo much for informing me of this concept!
Student THANKS BROS
Student THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!! I HAVE TO GO HAVE A NICE DAY!
Student thank
Student THANKS YOU. IT WAS REALLY COOL. BYE!
Student thank you you are so cool
Student THANK YOU IT WAS AWESOME
Student THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE =D
Student THANKS COMPPADRAS
Student thank you dudes that was radical peace out
Student CALL ME
Bugscope Team we are happy that you all had fun!
Student thank you
Student Thak you a bunnch
Student thanks but you didn`t awnser my quistion
Student thank you BYE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student BYE THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH IT WAS WHACK IF YOU KNOW WHAT I M SYING
Student Thank you! I learned a lot!
Student Thank you thank you for the cool time looking at bugs
Student FOSHIZZLE
Student I DONT LIKE SPEDERS
1:52pm
Student BYE!
Student byebyebyebye!
Student THANKS CATE YOU ARE SOOOO HELPULL I WANT TO BE A SCIENTIST
Student ****
Student Thanks for this :) it was a lot of fun!!........better then sitting in class all day
Bugscope Team Thank You All!
Student TO
Student byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Student bye
Student THANK YOU!!!
Student SCIENCE IS AWESOME
Student bye bye
Student THANKS
Student Bye
Student LOVE YA
Bugscope Team Thanks AJ
Bugscope Team See you next year!
Student SEE YOU
Bugscope Team See you!
Bugscope Team and for ants and bees, the ones you see are usually the females because the females do all the work
Teacher Thank you for all your help. The kids thoroughly enjoyed this.
Bugscope Team Great!
Teacher I must go I do have another class I have to run to. I will get your feedback to you asap. This was amazing!!
Bugscope Team Thank you Mrs. N.
Bugscope Team thanks for doing the session with us, see you again soon
Teacher Thank you!!!
Bugscope Team bye annie
Bugscope Team Bye bye, I am off to flutter about some more

School Name	Sierra Middle School
School Homepage	< LEFT BLANK >
Location
Community	Suburban
Type	Public

Subjects Taught	Science
Grades Taught	7th Grade
Number of Students	120

Project Title	Anatomy/Structure
Insects To Study	< LEFT BLANK >
Project Description	It is our goal to expose the students to new and exciting technology. In addition we will be studying comparative anatomy/ classification, and adaptations during this unit. We would like the students to have an opportunity to share in such an amazing experience. I have four sessions of Biology and would love to have the chance for each of the classes to participate.

Session 2009-026 with Sierra Middle School

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