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- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Teacher hi, how are you?
- Bugscope Team I didn't realize you were on yet, needed to refresh...
- Guest hi ms.gilligan
- Bugscope Team Ready now, and I just unlocked the session so you may drive.
- Guest Im infernape
- Teacher thanks we are here
- Teacher excellent--we are looking forward to this
- Bugscope Team Bad news, though -- the honeybee was the only one I had, and its head had fallen off...
- Student what is this above
- Guest Hi infernape
- Guest i know
- Teacher whats up
- Teacher Aahh! that's okay you have lots of cool stuff to see
- Bugscope Team Set up so that right now, Ms G has control of the 'scope.
- Guest Have you checked the honey bees yet.
- Guest These pictures are cool!
- Teacher im here for the honeybees
- Bugscope Team This is a dragonfly wing.
- Guest HHHHHHHHHHHHHHeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeLLLLLLLLLLLLLLooooooooooooooo

- Guest Hi ms.gilligan this is katherine
- Teacher This is a dragonfly wing
- 12:03pm
- Guest is that the wing
- Bugscope Team these are live images from the electron microscope that you are driving from your classroom.
- Guest what is this?!!!!!!!!!
- Teacher thats a cool wing
- Bugscope Team the head is to the right and up and little

- Student wow
- Bugscope Team this is a small dragonfly


- Guest coooooooooool


- Guest coooooooooooooooooooooooooool
- Guest how did you get these photo
- Guest awsome!
- Teacher we are the champions we are the champions
- Guest Is the sixth picture an ant?
- Teacher is this its legs?
- Bugscope Team you can see that it came from someone's collection, and it has a hole from the pin
- Guest whats that
- Guest what this
- Student sweet
- Guest I want to see the honeybee stinger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Teacher nick speak to me
- Student wierd
- Bugscope Team repeatedly...
- Teacher hi
- Student Can a wasp kill you if it stings you more than once?
Bugscope Team only if you are very allergic
- Guest Hi ScotJ




- Bugscope Team back to the wing, now

- Guest how long dose a wasp live
- Guest can we see the honey bee stinger?
- Teacher Thsi is the head of a dragonfly up close
- Bugscope Team there -- the fearsome head
- Teacher cool
- Student How fast can a bees wings flap
- Guest number 6 is the cool wasp head
- Student It looks big
- Guest wow


- Guest Whats up ScotJ
- Student why does it look like that ?
- Bugscope Team this is the underside of the head
- Guest what is that
- Student is a yellow jacket poisonous?
Bugscope Team they can sting but aren't considered poisonous, I think
- Guest hi scotj

- Bugscope Team we are about where the neck would be

- Guest Helo. Nick is BIG N. Not a teacher!
- Guest What is a waterboatman?
- Guest do centipedes really have 100 legs?
Bugscope Team no they have two legs per segment; I suppose some could have 100 legs
- Teacher awesome
- Guest the wasp head looks like it has goat horns on it
- Student why are there litte hairs for
- Teacher What do you think those hairs are?
- Student thank you scott
- Guest ScotJ what do you do?
- Guest wat other bugs have u scoped
- Guest ant hairs
- Bugscope Team this is the jaw
- Guest wow
- Guest of wht?
- Guest whats the diffrence between a yellow jack and a honey bee
- Guest okay
- Guest k

- Teacher can anyone guess what is shown now?
- 12:08pm
- Teacher if the stinger of the queen posioness?
Bugscope Team the stinger of the queen is likely multipurpose, because stingers are modified ovipositors
- Student what is that
- Guest what is that?
- Guest no
- Bugscope Team I run the mciroscopy suite, where we have lots of microscopes for grad students and postdocs, mostly, to do their research
- Student are those claws
- Guest Do you like it there Scot?
- Student what is the most interesting bug that you have scoped?
- Teacher i love the good chatroom manners of eaglest15
- Student it looks like a mushroom with hands.
- Guest arent spiders not considered insects?
Bugscope Team no spiders are arachnids; first, they have more than six legs...
- Teacher remember this is a dragonfly head, what could those be?
- Guest Why do honeybees have claws?
Bugscope Team lots of insects have claws; they use them like we use our hands
- Guest what is that scot?
- Guest how long can an ant live ScotJ
Bugscope Team ants have a varied lifespan; in places like this (temperate), probably less than a year
- Guest can a dragonfly sting you


- Guest I don't like WASPS. Do you?
- Guest have you did other bugs on bugscope?
- Student Do insects eat other insects?
Bugscope Team yes they do; some specialize in eating other insects
- Guest What is the biggest spider?
- Guest didn't we just see that?
- Teacher can a human get eaten by a venus fly trap
- Guest do you work with a lot of bugs?

- Guest can killer bees stingt as many times as they want or not
- Student how big can a bee get
- Guest I wanna see the honeybee stinger!
- Guest what is that?
- Teacher These are mold spores on a dragonfly head
- Guest If an ant bite you and it is not a black ant what should you do?
- Teacher we are zoomed in 1251 times
- Guest WHAT is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest how long dose a yellow jacket live? ScotJ
Bugscope Team probably just a few months at the longest
- Teacher that is pretty close up
- Bugscope Team and you can see a scale, as well, perhaps from a butterfly
- Guest is that the head or somthing
- Guest do ants bite or sting?
Bugscope Team both, sometimes, mostly they bite 'cause they don't all have stingers
- Teacher can a human get eaten by a venus fly trap?
Bugscope Team no the venus fly trap is too small to eat you
- Student do insects grow very fast

- Guest How long does a bumble bee live?
- Student what is it?
- Guest do all bees sting
- Guest how fast can a bee make honey?
- Student do termites and ants have rivalry?
- Teacher These are vemon ducts on centipede terminal legs?
Bugscope Team yes the centipede, like many insects (which it is not) has to defend itself against, mostly, ants
- Guest that looks like a vacuum cleaner
- Guest OH. vemon ducts.
- Guest No.
- Student Do insects grow very fast?
- Teacher Scot, what does that mean--terminal legs?
Bugscope Team the final legs at the end of the body
- Guest Why do fireflies light?
- Teacher thank you scotj

- Guest Chemicals.
- Guest how long does a centipede live?
- Guest when a bee sting you what is the best way to get it out
Bugscope Team gently sort of scrape sideways to get it out
- 12:13pm
- Guest how big can ants get?
Bugscope Team about 2 inches long
- Teacher bugs look pretty different close up, huh?
- Student what is the biggest bug you have scoped
- Guest How long does a honey bee live?
- Guest how long do dragon flys live
- Guest wow a ant can get pretty big
- Student what is that stringy stuff ?
- Student how do bees know where to start there bee hive?
- Guest how big can bees get?
Bugscope Team they can be close to an inch long, maybe longer, for some of the solitary bees

- Bugscope Team most insects are going to be bigger in the Tropics, and they can also live longer where there is no real winter



- Guest what do ants eat
- Guest whats this scottj?
- Guest how big can big can a bee get?
- Guest how do bees know were there hives are?
- Guest Do millipedes have a 100000000 legs
Bugscope Team not really :)
- Teacher maddie, this is a centipede
- Guest NO
- Student have you been stung by a bee?
- Student Can a wasp kill you
- Guest Dragon fly look weird don't they Ms.Gilligan

- Guest are those the venom ducts again?
Bugscope Team yes those are the ducts, and we see that they are not on all of the legs
- Guest How big can a bee get? Scot J
Bugscope Team about as big as your thumb
- Student im so glad your here scotj
- Teacher They do--pretty colors (not onthis, but in real life)
- Guest Hi indie
- Student what are the biggest spiders alive?
- Guest ok cool
- Teacher do you see all of the different segments on this centipede?
- Guest how long can a centipede get?
- Guest how many diffrent kinds of bees are there
- Guest i didnt know that fruit flys really existed
- Student can male moths ang girl butterflys become husband and wife?
Bugscope Team not really; it is unlikely they would try, and their bodies are differently shaped in the wrong places
- Student scotj do you know about all animals?
- Guest what are fruit flies?
- Student what is the most dangerous insect?

- Guest how big do honey bees get ? scotj
- Teacher Here is a centipede head
- Guest how do dragon flies get there food? ScotJ
Bugscope Team they fly and catch it (insects) in the air
- Guest what kinds of bees are poisounous


- Guest how long is a centipede?
- Student Is honey the only thing they need to survive?
- Guest Are all beetles considered insects?
- Guest are all spiders poisounous?
- Student how big can a centipede get?
Bugscope Team they can be more than a foot long!
- Guest scotj how many bones do a bee have?
- Student ScotJ do you know about all animals
Bugscope Team just a little, really

- Guest How many legs do millipedes have?
- Teacher wow, the stinger on an ant
- Guest what is that?
Bugscope Team that is an ant's stinger
- Guest What do dragonflies eat ?
- Guest what this scottj?
- Teacher did you all even know ants had stingers? what do you think they are used for?
- Student can some bugs eat real animals?
Bugscope Team yes they can
- Bugscope Team ants usually do not have stingers
- Student how many spiders are poisonus
- 12:18pm
- Guest how long can queen bees live?
- Guest how long is a ants stinger
Bugscope Team this one we can see from the scale bar is about 50 microns long
- Teacher nice comparison night monster
- Guest how many bones do a bee have?
- Guest do dragonflies mate?
- Student ScotJ whats your favorite animal?
- Student why are bees called bees?
Bugscope Team I think because of the noise they make.

- Student what is the biggest bee?
- Guest whats a fruitfly?
Bugscope Team fruitflies hang around fruit; they are very small, and they feed on fungus associated with fruit -- on fruit
- Student how many stingers does a ant have?
Bugscope Team just one if it has one at all


- Guest ok
- Student and thank you





- Guest is it coming?
- Student scotJ whats your favorite animal?
- Student Can a ant sting you more than once?
- Guest when were bees brought to north americe?
- Guest What is that

- Student IS that a egg?
- Student whats that?
- Guest how many eyes does a fruitfly have?
- Teacher is the stinger on the front or back of the ant?
Bugscope Team it's at the tip of the abdomen
- Guest It is
- Guest whats that
- Guest how big can bug eggs get?
- Guest Do ant lay eggs? ScotJ
- Student whats that?
- Guest will an ant die if it stings someone
Bugscope Team not necessarily, not if it can get away
- Student how many legs does a catepiler have?
- Guest Do dragon flies mate
Bugscope Team yes they do, and they have to make sure their heads don't fall off so they have little hooks to hold them on -- it's done *in flight*

- Student whats that picture?
- Guest how long dose it take for a bee to become a bee?
- Student what is this?

- Teacher this is an ants head
- Student is it true that dragonflies have compound eyes
- Guest is that an ant's head?
- Teacher do you see its eye on the right?

- Guest will a insect with a stinger die if it stings someone?


- Guest That is a ant head
- Guest what is this?
- Guest how do bees become queen bee?
- Guest do bees have 2 wings?
Bugscope Team bees and wasps have four wings, and when they fly they hook the fore- and hindwings together so that they have only two while flying
- Teacher its antenaaee
- Bugscope Team that was a compound eye, on the right


- Guest Wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest how long does a centipede live

- Student how long can a drangonflys wig get?
Bugscope Team they can be very long, at least several inches in the Tropics


- Guest how long do bees live
- Guest How long is a drones life cycle
- Teacher there is the ant eye
- Student how big can a dragonfly get
- Guest are there such things as queen ants?
- Teacher should i zoom in closer?
Bugscope Team yes!
- Guest how big are waterboatman?
Bugscope Team they are fairly small; this is less than a cm
- Guest royal jely.
- Student yes
- Teacher are we still looking at a dragonfly?
Bugscope Team this is an ant
- 12:23pm


- Guest what do ants eat?

- Guest how long do dragonflys live

- Guest cool


- Guest What is that
- Teacher creepy
- Student how many eggs do dragonflys lay?
Bugscope Team I am sorry I don't know...
- Student how do ants protect themselves?
- Guest how long do waterboatman live
- Guest are there such things as queen ants
- Guest This is a dragonfly?
- Teacher that is very up close an ant eye
Bugscope Team it is called a compound eye because it is made of many facets, called ommatidia, each of which functions like an individual lens
- Teacher okay thanks just trying to catch up
- Guest how big do bug eggs get?
- Guest do waterboatman mate
- Guest what is a compound eye?
- Student it's okay thank you though
- Student how many eggs can a queen lay peer year
Bugscope Team depends on what kind of insect, but many, probably in the thousands; some queens can also live many years, like 10 or 12

- Guest wow



- Student it looks like a hundred tiny bubbles?
- Guest how long is a drangonfly's body?
- Guest Do spiders have 8 eyes
- Guest how big can a ant get?
- Teacher nickole, greta observation

- Student what is this
- Guest Is this happening live
Bugscope Team yes this is live imaging

- Guest I like this site!
- Student how big is the worlds biggest bug
Bugscope Team bigger than your fist -- a Goliath Beetle!
- Teacher maddog, yes this is live
- Guest have you seen any ants with two heads
Bugscope Team not yet!
- Bugscope Team Ms G is driving a $600,000 microscope from the classroom

- Teacher actually from home, i am sick
Bugscope Team oh I am sorry -- you are doing a great job

- Guest Nice claw
- Guest are those claws?
Bugscope Team yes those are claws
- Guest how big can eggs get of all bugs?
- Guest what is the biggest?
- Teacher this is a waterboatman claw
- Student What is a Goliath Beetle?
- Guest how many eggs do waterboatman have


- Guest what is the biggest bug you have seen
Bugscope Team I always tell people it is a lobster but they are not bugs. So I have seen very large beetles. I think that's the biggest.
- Student How large can the food of a prey mantis be?


- Guest Do killerbees sting people?
- Guest how many bugs have you kept?
- Guest what is that?
- Student Is this a mouth?
- Guest is it true praying mantis only have 1 ear?
- Teacher che che what is your guess
- Student are killer bees posionness?
- Guest coooooooooooooool!
- Guest is this a claw?
- 12:28pm

- Guest do dragonflies have claws
- Guest ok


- Guest whats that

- Student is this a praying mantis?
Bugscope Team that is the waterboatman


- Guest is that a leg?

- Guest i know this is kinda creepy but do ant have hair on thir legs?
- Student are killer bees posionees?
- Guest nevermind
- Guest fascinating
- Teacher yep, chec che we were zoomed in really close to it
- Guest cool
- Student it looks like a water bug?

- Student is that a bettel
Bugscope Team yes it is a beetle, and more specifically a waterboatman
- Bugscope Team sometimes insects have hardened jaws; think of grasshoppers, who have to cut into thick grass
- Student how big are waterboatman?
- Student is it possible for an ant to kill a spider?
- Guest it looks like it has a mustache
- Guest How many types of bugs are there? 200,50000,10000000000000000000
Bugscope Team I think that is close...
- Guest how big is a fruitfly?
Bugscope Team just a few mm long
- Teacher :) it does cheche

- Guest does a waterboatman have teeth and claws
Bugscope Team it has claws but not teeth'
- Guest whats a sesilla?
Bugscope Team sensilla is a sensory structure on the surface of the body; it feels things, or tastes things in the air

- Student i ment bettle

- Guest wierd
- Student what do waterboatman eat
- Guest Is that a mouth?
- Guest do ants have hair on them?
- Guest cool
- Teacher wht do you think you would look like zoomed in on this much? would we see little hairs on your hands



- Guest where do waterboatman bugs live
Bugscope Team in the water or right by the edge of the water


- Guest are there a such thing as queen ants?
Bugscope Team yes there are
- Student how many bugs can live in an average sized forest?
- Student how many beetles have you seen 1,00000000000000
- Guest don't let the bedbugs bite!

- Guest do waterbugs have teeth or claws
- Teacher Thisis a fruit fly
- Guest what is that?
- Guest how long do waterboatman live
- Guest cool!
- Bugscope Team you can see its haltere

- Guest mokj

- Guest do you know were bugs come from
- Student i mean beetle.
- Guest How many bees have you seen? 100,000




- Teacher look at its wing close up
- Bugscope Team the haltere is a modified hindwing that beats rapidly in a motion oppposite that of the wing, balancing the motion of the wing
- Guest is this the wing
- Guest cooler!
- 12:33pm
- Student cool
- Guest those are alot of hairs
- Student i wanted to know , how many beetels have you seen?
Bugscope Team hundreds, perhaps thousands
- Guest is this a drangonfly hair?

- Student how many wings do fruitflys have?


- Guest does a waterboatman have a stinger
- Student do dragonflys have a queen?

- Student Do you think it is true that if bees get extinct human beings will die?
- Guest why do they call a dragonfly a dragonfly?
Bugscope Team just because it resembles what some people would think a dragon would look like


- Guest what is that bug?
- Guest Do killerbees travel in swarms?

- Guest awsome!


- Student do bees fight other insects besides other bees
- Guest What is a setae?
- Guest i like bugs:)
- Guest wierd
- Teacher this is the eye, do u remember what kind of eye this is?
- Guest ha
- Guest are those hairs?
Bugscope Team those are hairs, in a way, called setae (see-tee)
- Teacher very honeycomb like
- Student what insect is that?
- Guest why are waterboatman called waterboatman
- Student is that skin for a insect?
Bugscope Team they don't really have skin -- they have an exoskeleton
- Guest how many eyes dose that bug have?
- Guest yeah

- Guest i think that that the dragonfly wings look like steps
- Guest what a setae?
- Guest What is a setae
- Teacher this is fruitfly compound eye zoomed in 4799x
- Guest Why do roaches only fly in the summer?
Bugscope Team in the Tropics they fly year-round
- Bugscope Team this is a closeup of the fruit fly eye, showing some of the setae that are used to gauge windspeed
- Guest how many eggs do wasp lay
- Student is that a honey comb?
- Student are those honeycombs?
Bugscope Team those are facets of the fruit fly eye
- Student looks like diemonds

- Guest do roaches live in the water

- Teacher is that skin for an insect?
- Guest bugs live in the water?
Bugscope Team some live in or on the water; some have a phase of their life in which they live underwater -- like mosquito larvae
- Guest is this hair?
- Guest What is coming out of the fruitflies eyes
Bugscope Team those are individual setae -- little bristles
- Guest what is this
- Student it looks swordsto.
- Teacher isnt that cool that a microscope can get you that close
- Guest what is this
- Guest yeah it really is
- Guest what' a facets
Bugscope Team think of a diamond, and the faces of the diamond, called facets
- Guest hey dai dai
- Guest how many bees are there in the world
- Teacher ki ki they are not hair, they are setae, read back down for scots answer
- Teacher those look like bumps on skin with thorns are they?
- Guest wow i didnt know that
- Guest millions

- Student do bugs sometimes eat spiders?
- Student What kind of bug is the most important?
- Teacher a claw of a yellowjacket
- Guest me niether
- Guest whats a setea
- Guest is that a face
- Guest are those hairs
- Guest cool
- Guest What are setaes?
- Guest What is that:(
- 12:38pm
- Teacher looks scary, like they could hurt you
- Teacher is that a type of carnavore plant
Bugscope Team that is one of the claws
- Bugscope Team the compound eye resembles a diamond, or a cut gem, in some ways
- Guest why do you think that honey bees are important?
Bugscope Team they are important as pollinators, particularly
- Teacher do you all know what a yellowjacket is?
- Student what is this the claw of?
- Guest nope
- Guest is there venom in a wasp stinger?

- Student is a ant stinger bigger than a bee stinger?


- Guest are some bees piosonous?
Bugscope Team yes they produce venom, but it is not the kind that rots you from inside, like that of a spider
- Guest wasp stinger
- Student Can we survive without bees?
- Guest do a bee always die after they sting you?
- Guest is that a stinger?
Bugscope Team the stinger was hard to see; all of the stingers today, except that of the ant, are almost completely internal
- Guest do dragonflies sting

- Guest whats a setae
- Guest is that a leg
- Guest HELLO I am NOT Nick
- Student what is this?
- Student it looks like needles.
- Teacher do dragon flys do any harm at all?
- Guest what is this picture?
- Student What is that?
Bugscope Team that is one of the 'arms' of the honeybee
- Guest what is this
- Guest how many claws does a yellow jacket have?
Bugscope Team it has six sets of claws
- Student are those hairs
- Guest cool
- Guest what is the best way to get a stinger out of you?
Bugscope Team I think the best way would be to use a knife edge, and slide it sideways to scrape it out
- Teacher do dragon flys do any harm?
Bugscope Team I think they are more helpful than harmful. I can't think what they would do that is really bad for people.
- Guest this is cool
- Guest no
- Guest why arer dragonflys important?
- Guest how many eyes does a waterboatman have
- Student How much hair does a bee have

- Student what is the difference between a bee and a wasp/

- Guest do all bugs mate?
Bugscope Team yes
- Guest how many claws does a honey bees or a bumble bee have?
- Student cool

- Student why are mesquitoes important?
- Teacher Honeybee claw
- Guest That looks like a hairball
- Student wow!
- Bugscope Team all bugs mate in some way...
- Guest yeah
- Guest are those eggs?
- Guest wow
- Guest is a bee more hurtful when it stings or is a wasp more hutful?
Bugscope Team I think that is a matter of opinion; a big hornet could sting you more than once, and they often have long stingers'
- Guest yes
- Bugscope Team some castes of bugs, like ants, will never mate, but the species will mate
- Guest Now it does not
- Guest how do waterboatmans mate
- 12:44pm
- Student is it the arm?
- Guest what is that
- Guest how many claws does a honet bee have?
Bugscope Team they have six legs, and each leg has a pair of claws at the end
- Guest I don't know.
- Guest do all bees mate?
- Student how long does this insect live
- Student how many insect are there in the united states?
- Guest do dragonflies have claws
Bugscope Team yes they do
- Guest can a dragonfly sting you
- Guest what is the main color of ab
- Guest How many claws does a honey bee have?
- Student What kind of bugs are harmful?
Bugscope Team bugs that spread disease to people, like mosquitos and tsetse flies, for example
- Student do bee stings hurt more than a wasp?
- Guest why are bees black and yellow?
Bugscope Team most are, aren't they? I think it is a warning that you could be stung
- Guest STINGER
- Guest yo
- Guest yo
- Guest How many eyes does a dragonfly have in each of its eyes?
- Guest this is cool
- Student what insects claw is this?
- Guest what color are wasps? are dragonflys colorful?
- Student are there more bugs in the world then there are people
- Guest kffjfjkfjk
- Guest are those eggs?
Bugscope Team sorry I missed where we were
- Guest dsddsde

- Guest why do bees sting you?
Bugscope Team they are protecting their territory, or their food, or their nest, or themselves
- Guest hi
- Guest hhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiii
- Student when do wasp sting people?

- Guest hwo long are dragonflies wings
- Student are all bees black and yellow?
- Guest yo
- Student whats this
- Guest fygygygygygygyg

- Guest what colors are dragon flys?
Bugscope Team many colors, mostly black, brown, sometimes blue, green

- Guest szsz;;s

- Guest whatsup

- Guest what is that?


- Guest sx

- Guest cool
- Bugscope Team those are pollen grains


- Guest we
- Guest they look like trees
- Guest are flies in the same family as dragonflies
- 12:49pm

- Teacher are there other people logged in besides my students?
- Student is that pollen?

- Guest cool
- Guest are all flys the same size?

- Student can an ant have wings?
Bugscope Team yes some ants do have wings
- Guest can a bee be green?
- Teacher this is a wasp head
- Guest what this Scot
Bugscope Team this is the body of the honeybee
- Guest What is your favorite bug
Bugscope Team I like earwigs.
- Student How many types of bees are there in the world?

- Bugscope Team I am so sorry the head is missing!
- Guest ok cool
- Guest do you know how many jars of honey can bees make in 1 day?
- Guest what kind of posionous bugs have you studied
- Guest Do bees die after they sting something?
Bugscope Team some bees die, like honeybees, and some bees can sting repeatedyl'
- Bugscope Team Earwigs often have mites, and I think that is cool.
- Guest what are earwigs?
- Guest how many kinds of bees have you studed?
- Guest do you know when bees came to norh americ?
Bugscope Team they have been there for hundreds of thousands of years, but Africanized honeybees only in the past 30 years

- Bugscope Team repeatedly...


- Student are those tiny legs?
- Guest how long do waterboatman live
- Teacher is that a claw?
- Guest cool
- Guest are those claws?
- Guest How many times can a yellow jacket sting?
Bugscope Team multiple times; yellowjackets are wasps
- Teacher is that a claw?
- Guest do any bugs have a nose
Bugscope Team some have a feature like a nose, but it might be on their legs, like with a cricket, or on their thorax, like with a praying mantis

- Student when a queen bee stings you does the sting kill you?

- Guest how long does a yellow jacket live
Bugscope Team just a month or two, usually


- Student Can a bee survive without honey?
- Teacher is that a claw?
- Guest is this a flying bug?
- Guest whats this?
Bugscope Team this is the carbon doublestick tape in the background of the sample
- Teacher what is that?
- Guest wierd
- Student do some insects have more than one head?
Bugscope Team no but some have what looks like a head elsewhere, like when a moth opens its wings and it looks like there are eyes looking at you
- 12:54pm
- Guest how long do a bee live?
- Guest How long have you studed bugs?
- Guest how close up are we?
- Guest i think that the dragon fly wings look like stairs donbt you scot?
- Guest do you know where dragon flies live?
- Student what's this
- Student I thought a yellow jacket was a bee

- Student are some bugs able to lay eggs on humans
- Guest what is that?
- Teacher sorry just had a wasp in my house
Bugscope Team save it for us
- Teacher is this a plant or a bug?
- Guest is this a wing?
- Guest why do bees have 5 eyes?
Bugscope Team three of the eyes are used to help navigate, using the sun
- Teacher I do apologize for some of these terrible nicknames. some of my students have forgotten their manners
Bugscope Team please don't worry at all
- Guest how do bees make their hive?
- Guest how many eyes do dragon flys have?
Bugscope Team I think they have two compound eyes and three ocelli as well
- Bugscope Team the three extra eyes (see preset 8) are called ocelli
- Guest how big is a centipede
Bugscope Team they can be more than a foot long in the Tropics
- Guest How long have you studed bugs?
- Teacher whatever happened to our specimens?
- Student whats an oceli
Bugscope Team a simple eye -- the singular is ocellus

- Guest whats this?
- Guest what is this
- Guest whats a hamuli?
- Teacher this is the last picture we are going to see
- Student can some insects kill you ?
- Student do som ant colonies sometime attack other ant colonies
Bugscope Team yes they do
- Teacher is that a rock?
- Guest do bees have ears?
Bugscope Team not really but they are sensitive to vibration and have setae that can detect it
- Guest what is that?
- Student this looks likes a rock
- Student cool i did not know that
- Guest WHAT IS THAT
- Student How big can a millipede be?
- Guest ool
- Guest is that a rock?
- Guest How big is a honey bee stinger?
Bugscope Team pretty small, maybe a few mm long

- Guest wow
- Guest what is this a pic of
- Bugscope Team I just moved us to the ocelli, hope you don't mind
- Guest h
- Guest whats that?
- Bugscope Team this is on the head of the yellowjacket
- Guest SCARY
- Guest ocelli!
- Teacher is that a eye?
Bugscope Team those are eyes called ocelli, or simple eyes
- Teacher you all need to thank scot for all of his help and answering all of your questions
- Student it lookes like a bees head.
Bugscope Team yes it does look like a bee's head
- 12:59pm
- Guest what are we looking at
- Student THANK YOU SCOT
- Bugscope Team they are much like spider eyes
- Guest thank you scot
- Guest it was so much fun
- Guest it looks like bumps with hair on them
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest thanks Scot!
- Guest thanks alot scot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Teacher thank you very much scotj
- Guest thanks for answering my questions Scot
- Bugscope Team Cate would be helping but she had a baby girl yesterday.
- Student what is this/
- Guest have a nice day
- Guest Thank you Scot you were very helpful! thanks
- Student Thank you for answering our questions.
- Guest thanks ms.gilligan
- Teacher thanks ms.gilligan
- Student thank you very much.
- Teacher we learned so much
- Guest i hope you feel beter
- Guest Thank u Scott J and Ms Gilligan
- Student Thank you Scot.You rock hard!!!!
- Guest thanks Ms.Gilligan
- Bugscope Team This was fun for me, and I am sorry I could not get to all of your questions.
- Guest thanks Ms. Gilligan!
- Student thank u Scot
- Guest thanks ms.gilligan hope your better soon!!!!!!!
- Guest hope you feel better
- Student Thank you Ms. Gilligan
- Teacher i hope you feel better
- Guest kjh
- Student Thank you scot . you are so cool!!!!!!!!
- Teacher i hope you feel better
- Bugscope Team Thank You again, and see you next year!
- Guest i really learned a loot about bbugs
- Guest Thank you Ms.Glilligan hope you get well soon very soon!
- Guest thank you scot for leting us look at these bugs and thank you miss gilligan for doing this with us thank you ms.young for LETING us do tihs?
- Student I hope you get better soon ms. gilligan oh and have a good day
- Student thank you scottj for answering our questions and thank you ms.gilligan for this and get better soon
- Teacher thanks Ms Gilligan
- Teacher thanks guys, i will get better soon
- Guest i learned alot about bugs
- Guest thanks ms.Gilligan for this and get well soon
- Student Thank you ms. gilligan! :)
- Guest BBBBBBBBBBBBYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEE
- Guest I learned alot about bugs
- Student have a nice day also:} bye :}
- Guest thaks ms.young
- Guest Bye!
- Bugscope Team shutting down; see you all next time
- Guest bye bye thank you
- Guest BYE!
- Guest bye-bye!!!!
- Student BYE!!!!!
- Guest :}
- Student Bye
- Guest goodbye it is recess time for us:)
- Student BYE
- Guest :]
- Student Thank you to.Ms.Gilligan.HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER!!
- Student thyank you Mrs gilligan hope you feel better soon
- Student See you later
- Student BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest once again thank you to ScotJ and Ms .Gilliagan this was fun Bye ;)