Connected on 2009-07-06 09:00:00 from , IL, US
- 8:25am
- Bugscope Team We're setting up today's session.
- Bugscope Team Working on the presets...
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- 8:42am
- Teacher we're trying to get everyone logged on here =)
- Bugscope Team Good Morning!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Guest hi
- Guest hi esiah
- Guest (:
- Guest waaas good
- Guest was up
- Guest ?
- Guest lol when r we going to start the learning
- Guest HEYYYYY
- Guest whta poppin
- Guest LOLOLOLOL
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- Guest hey
- Guest ahaaaaaaaaaa
- Guest whats popin
- Guest =)
- Guest i love ms lavery
- Guest i love ms shneier
- Bugscope Team We are scheduled to give the 'scope up to you guys at 9; in the meantime we are cruising around, finding neat stuff.
- Guest cool
- Teacher thanks, we just talked to them about not starting until 9. we're going to talk for a little bit while you continue to get us all set up
- 8:48am
- 8:54am
- Bugscope Team Alright! Session is unlocked and you may start driving when you wish.
- Bugscope Team Today there are a few flies, a wasp, a junebug, a silverfish, a large black beetle, a spider that is hard to get a good look at because its legs are in the way, some salt from a Wendy's restaurant...
- Bugscope Team This, right now, is the pulvillus -- the sticky pad -- on one of a fly's tarsi. Tarsi are the segments of the arm toward the end, like here, where the claw is.
- Guest do they walk on it
- Guest what is the biggest bug ever found
- Guest how far do ants dig tunnels
- Bugscope Team The pulvillus has what are called 'tenent setae' on it, and the tenent setae stick to surfaces. So yes they walk on it.
- Guest can flies scratch people with their tarsi
- Guest do flies poop
- Bugscope Team One of the biggest bugs, presently, is a goliath beetle, which is about the size of your fist.
- 8:59am
- Guest wow
- Guest what is the most poisonies
Bugscope Team many insects produce chemicals that are intended to keep ants, especially, away. I am not sure what the most poisonous insect is.
- Bugscope Team Yes flies poop. That is what flyspecks are. It is also called 'frass.'
- Student hi
- Guest do flys eat human flesh
Bugscope Team most flies, it seems, have sponging mouthparts; but some have slashing mouthparts that are made to cut your skin so they can get your blood from the wound. Like horseflies.
- Guest can flies scratch people
- Guest ARE FLIES DANGEROUS
- Guest can like flys suck blood
Bugscope Team yes they can suck blood. mosquitos are a kind of fly that sucks blood
- Guest do flys eat human flesh
- Guest DO FLYS POOP FROM THE MOUTH
- Guest do flies bite?
Bugscope Team sometimes they bite
- Guest how do flies pee
Bugscope Team usually they don't pee as much as poop
- Student how long do flies live
- Guest what is the most dangourus bug
Bugscope Team the most dangerous bugs are the ones that cause bad diseases, like malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, sleeping sickness, west nile virus -- and usually those are mosquitos
- Guest so they pee out of their mouth
- Student what defines a bug
- Guest you know that bug that the soilders found in iraq and it was long and weird what was it
Bugscope Team I think it was a centipede, which is not an insect
- Guest HOW DO FLIES MATE WITH EACHOTHER
- Guest what is that thing sticking out
Bugscope Team that is the tongue, the proboscis
- 9:04am
- Guest and why is it hairy
Bugscope Team the hairs, called setae, are often sensory -- they are used to taste, smell, sense touch, and gauge hot or cold
- Guest why is the tongue hairy
- Guest do flys use the tongue to like people and poison them or something
Bugscope Team usually flies do not cause problems when they lick people
- Student why do flies have so many eye panels
- Guest do bugs have skin
Bugscope Team insects do not have skin; that is an important distinction and a good question; they have an exoskeleton
- Guest DO FLIES MATE WITH EACHOTHER
Bugscope Team yes they do; that's how it works
- Guest how do flies mate
- Guest where do flys lay there eggs
- Guest do flys see in slow motion
- Guest and how do they have babies
Bugscope Team usually they lay eggs that become maggots
- Student why do flies have so many eye panels
Bugscope Team the compound eye gives the insect very good peripheral vision as well as allowing it to sense motion -- changes in the visual field -- very quickly
- Guest do flys see in color
- Guest can flies carry diseases
- Guest where do they lay there eggs
Bugscope Team they lay their eggs in lots of places
- Guest can a fly kill some one
- Student h do there eyes work
- Guest HOW BIG ARE THERE EYES
Bugscope Team you can get an idea by looking at the scalebar on the lower left of the screen
- Student how
- Guest how far can like fys see
Bugscope Team fly's can see really well, very sharp, but I'm not sure how far they can see
- Guest is the thing behind the tongue the throat
Bugscope Team it's really just an opening; the entrance to the throat would be on the inside of that tubelike tongue
- Guest how big can a bug grow
- Guest do lfies have female parts or male parts
Bugscope Team both female and male; males often have their eyes closer together and those of females are far apart
- Guest flies*
- 9:09am
- Guest how many types of flies are there in the world
Bugscope Team there are thousands upon thousands of fly species in the world
Bugscope Team there are over 240,000 different species of flies in the world. the scientific name of fly is Diptera
- Guest L
- Guest what els dose fli
- Guest what els do flies eat then poop
Bugscope Team oh, they eat lots of things
- Guest nbkjftjr iy
- Guest do flys see in slow motion?
Bugscope Team they see motion change very quickly so you could say that; to us things go very fast but to them it may seem a little slower 'cause they are speeded up
- Guest .
- Guest why does it look like that
- Guest what is the biggest fly
- Guest do flies have taste
Bugscope Team oh yes, flies have sensory hairs, called setae, that help them to sense taste, small and feel things in their environment
- Guest can flies fart
Bugscope Team I think so, not sure.
- Guest what kind of thing
- Guest IF WE RIP OFF THE WINGS WILL THEY DIE OR SOMTHING LIKE THAT
Bugscope Team yeah, probably sooner or later
- Student how many types of flies live in north america
Bugscope Team there are thousands of types in America, and it is likely that not all have been found
- Guest so they fart out of their mouths like they poop and pee
- Guest what is the biggest fly
Bugscope Team crane flies are pretty big; they look like overgrown mosquitos
- Guest when we were looking at the eye of the fly, why was there hair on it
Bugscope Team the compound eye has hair on it, they are called setae (see-tee). those setae help to sense wind speed and direction, they are thought to help the insect fly around
- Guest can flies carry diseases
Bugscope Team yes they can
- Guest IS THERE SUCH THINGS AS A MEXICAN FLY?
- Guest what kind of deasise
Bugscope Team well since mosquitos are a type of fly, and tsetse flies are a type of fly there are a lot of diseases they are responsible for. like West Nile Virus, sleeping sickness, malaria, yellow fever...
- Guest which would win a fly or misquito
- Student how do thier eye panels work
Bugscope Team each bump on the compound eye is an individual facet, with a lens in it. the facets are called ommatidia. the lens is fixed, can't move around in the socket like a human eyeball can. so that's why they have so many ommatidia pointed in different directions
- Bugscope Team mosquitos also carry disease, very bad ones!
- Guest IS THERE A MEXICAN FLY
- Guest do flies sneeze
Bugscope Team that is a good question, and i don't know the answer!
- 9:14am
- Teacher Can we turn control over to one of the students?
Bugscope Team totally, just tell us who
- Guest can you die from a flpy
Bugscope Team not likely from a normal housefly
- Guest do flies have ears?
Bugscope Team they don't have ears but they are well equipped to sense vibration, and vibration is sound, or sound is vibration
- Teacher esiah, please
- Bugscope Team esiah, you have control!
- Guest CAN FLIES BEAT UP EACHOTHER??
Bugscope Team totally
Bugscope Team yes they can
- Guest do other bugs fight
Bugscope Team yes, and other bugs eat each other as well
- Bugscope Team all insects, as adults, have six legs; you can see here all six legs of this small fly
- Bugscope Team flies where little boxing gloves when the fight though... because they are good sports. ;)
- Student what is the biggest and smallest type of fly in the world
Bugscope Team there is a fly called a fairy fly that is said to be less than a millimeter in length; I am not sure what qualifies as the largest fly
- Bugscope Team oops, go a little to the right here
- Guest what if you eat a fly
Bugscope Team then you have to eat a spider....
- Bugscope Team the preset drifted a bit, that happens
- Guest :{
- Guest why
Bugscope Team well, that's how the fable goes. you don't really have to do that. ;)
- Bugscope Team flies taste kind of like paper, kind of yucky
- Guest HOW WOULD YOU KNOW HOW A FLE TASTE LIKE
- Guest im a girl
Bugscope Team oh i'm so sorry, my fault. it's hard to tell by the names sometimes
- Guest k
- Guest why are spiders hairy?
Bugscope Team the hairs are important because they allow the spider to have very good vibration sensing abilities; often their eyes are not that good
- 9:19am
- Guest IM A BOY
- Guest what is that hair coming from
- Bugscope Team sadie, everyone eats bugs at some point, by accident. insects are all around us, and they accidentally fly/crawl into our mouths, and we inject them. they are not bad for us though. i hope that doesn't scare you!
- Guest it does
- Guest Cant like wasps kill tarantulas or something
Bugscope Team some can
- Student do goliath bird eating spiders realy eat birds
- Guest what are those squares
Bugscope Team those were salt crystals
- Guest CAN YOU GET BITE BY SPIDER AND BECOME SPIDER MAN
Bugscope Team well, in the movies you can, yes. but not in real life.
- Bugscope Team preset #7 are salt cubes, from Wendy's
- Bugscope Team tarantulas also have hairs, called 'urticating hairs,' that they release when you bother them. the hairs make you itch
- Guest if a wasp dies and you touch the stinger will you get stung
- Bugscope Team it would be kind of gross if you turned into a spider and all of a sudden had spinnerettes
- Guest what are dose little circles
- Guest what is a spinnerett
Bugscope Team spinnerettes are the parts of the spider that produce silk, which is the web
- Guest WHATS SPINNERETTES
- Guest if there was a web big enough can it hold us
- Bugscope Team and you would have nasty big fangs with poison pores, and you would drink your food like a milkshake of the insides of insects
- Guest how strong can a web be
- Guest THAT WOULD BE COOL
- Guest yum
- Student what is the biggest and smallest type of spider
- Guest how old do spiders live
Bugscope Team some spiders can live up to 25 years in captivity, but in the wild they live max 2-3 years
- Guest can they run out of web
Bugscope Team they recycle their web; they actually eat it and then it presumably becomes web again
- Guest oookokjojokokokujo
- Guest whats the deadliest bee
- 9:24am
- Guest where do black widdows live
Bugscope Team black widows are territorial like a lot of spiders; if one lived in your house it might live under the refrigerator
- Guest SAY SEVERSL BEES STUNG YOU IN THE SAME PLACE WHAT WOULD HAPPEND
Bugscope Team well, it would probably be sore. if you were allergic, you should seek medical care ASAP.
- Guest can they shoot out their web on command
Bugscope Team yes and the web comes from the spinnerettes; sometimes the web can be not sticky
- Student what is the most poisonous spider
Bugscope Team some people say the most poisonous spider is the Brazilian wandering spider; it takes very little venom to kill a mouse
- Guest where do black widows live? like in the north south east or west
Bugscope Team well, there are northern, western and southern black windows in north america, also some species in europe and australia. so they are kinda all over places where there is desert to temperate like climate.
- Guest who would win in a fight a black widow or a trancula
Bugscope Team I don't think they would fight but likely the tarantula
- Guest IS THERE LIKE A FAMOUSE BEE OR SOMTHING
- Guest wat happen if u eat a spider
- Guest how do bees poop
Bugscope Team all insects excrete some sort of waste from the food they digest. all organism do that in fact.
- Guest why
- Bugscope Team spiders have the ability to let, for example, one leg fall off if they sense poison entering it
- Guest can they live in illinois
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, but i haven't heard about any in illinois so i kinda doubt it
- Guest is it posible for spiders to live in water
- Bugscope Team I remember by brother had black widows in his apartment in Malibu, in California
- 9:30am
- Guest what is that
Bugscope Team that is the wasp's stinger
- Student the stinger
- Guest DO SOME INSECTS MIGRATE SOUTH DURING WINTER?
Bugscope Team Monarch butterflies migrate; most insects do not
- Guest is there a spider that can swim like a snake can
- Bugscope Team tarantulas can get large but they are fragile -- they can break open, so you have to be careful not to drop them
- Guest can spiders be fat
Bugscope Team not really the way we think of it but some can be better fed than others for sure
- Bugscope Team this is a wasp stinger
- Guest where do incests go during winter
Bugscope Team a lot of them die seasonally; you can see that some ladybugs go indoors but die anyway; some go under the leaf litter and wait the winter out
- Guest is there a spider more dangerous that a black widow
- Guest what is the biggest bee
- Guest than*
- Bugscope Team note that the stinger has ridges on the side, that means the stinger will stick into the prey, and probably is a sting once only type deal. although that's odd because i thought wasps could sting multiple times?
- Guest how long can a bee stinger be
Bugscope Team the stingers of some hornets can be quite long, like at least a centimeter
- Guest how does the stinger sting people
Bugscope Team well, the wasp uses the stinger to sting people. it sits on it's prey, and then inserts the stinger
- Guest IF YOU BREAKE A WASP WILL THEY DIE
Bugscope Team yes it will die
- Guest where do bees go during winter?????
- Guest in the winter would incests die because there is no avabile food for them to eat
Bugscope Team they might just shut down, go dormant for the winter, like hibernating; but most die in a climate like ours
- Guest WHAT IS A WASP NORMALTEMPERTURE
- Guest do bees always die after they sting something
Bugscope Team some bees die and some can sting again
- 9:35am
- Student do all wasps die when there stingers are removed
- Guest cooo
- Teacher can you switch the control to sadie?
- Guest who whould win in a fight a bee or a wasp
- Bugscope Team sadielovesmomo, you have control
- Guest what is the cemical that when wasps sting you can it locates you and others can find you too?
Bugscope Team not sure; it has to be some kind of pheromone
- Guest IF YOU BREAK THE WASP STINGER WILL IT DIE
- Bugscope Team honeybees die when they sting because they leave the stinger in your skin, and it has a little pump attached to it; it is like breaking off a part of their body that they cannot do without
- Guest how long does it take to build a beehive?????
- Guest IF A BEE BREATHS IN SMOKE DO THEY GET THE SAME EFEECTS AS A HUMMAN
Bugscope Team bees probably don't live long enough to get a disease like canacer
- Guest wat happens if you eat a bee
Bugscope Team likely you would get stung if it was still alive, and your tongue might swell up
- Bugscope Team cancer, that is
- Bugscope Team this is the mouth of a ladybug
- Guest would something happen to you if get stung by a bee or a wasp if the stinger gets stuck in you for at least a year or more
- Guest as a queen in the bee hive dose it have to mate with all males in the hive or dose it make eggs by itself
Bugscope Team some of the males will mate with the queen and some will not; some bee queens, I believe, do not need to have mated to produce offspring
- Bugscope Team ladybugs eat other insects
- Student if a wasps nest was for some unknown was next to a bee hive what would happen
- Bugscope Team almost looks like it's eating another insect
- Guest can ladybugs bite
- Guest
- Guest wat happens if a qeen bee dies
Bugscope Team a new queen will be groomed to take over
Bugscope Team ack, that would bad. the queen controls the nest.
- 9:40am
- Guest CAN BUGS LIVE IN A FREEZER
Bugscope Team not the ones we get, although some of them can be frozen for awhile and then wake up when they warm up
- Bugscope Team ah, i didn't know a new queen would be found. that's cool scott, thanks
- Guest do lady bugs have babies or eggs
- Guest when wasps get mad at you why dose it allways want to sting you
Bugscope Team it is just trying to protect itself, or the colony
- Student how many bees are in a bee hive
- Guest CAN BEES BREATH UNDERWATER
Bugscope Team they cannot breathe under water
- Guest how big can a queen be get
- Guest could bugs live in a volcano or outer space
Bugscope Team um, i don't think outer space would work for an insect, maybe a volcano, but not in the lava though. i'm not sure anything can live in molten lava
- Guest what animal eats wasps
Bugscope Team bears, for one; probably mice, rats, weasels...
- Guest wouldent it hurt them
Bugscope Team actually a bear would eat bees if they were in the way of her or him eating honey; they probably don't care about wasps
- Guest yellow jackets do they hate the wasps
- Student yes
- Student .
- Guest HOW LONG CAN A JUNE BUG LIVE
Bugscope Team usually just a few weeks, I think
- Guest how often do cicadas come out
Bugscope Team some are on a 17-year cycle; some are on a 13-year cycle; and I bet there are other variations
- Guest IS IT TRUE THTA THERE IS A BUG THAT LIVE FOR LIKE MILLIONS OF YEARS????!!
Bugscope Team the kinds of 'bugs' that live for millions of years, potentially, are bacteria, which of course are not really bugs; fleas can last many years as larvae
- 9:45am
- Guest isnt there a 4 year one
Bugscope Team Trent I am not sure.
- Student why is it that rare
- Guest k
- Guest if cicadeas come out only for 13-17 years then what do they do
- Guest what are the things on the antena
Bugscope Team those are pores that we think help the beetle taste the air and sense pheromones
- Guest can a insect mate with a nother insect like a fly wiwith
- Bugscope Team there is a cool theory about who cicadas have a prime number life cycle. they think it might be because they are trying to avoid the life cycle of other predators, and if their life cycle is a prime number, then they will have less frequent encounters with the predator, which may be on an even number life cycle. if the predator comes up every two years, but the cicadas every 17, then the predator may die out because it has no cicadas to eat for many of its life cycles
- Guest what are those circle thing
Bugscope Team we think they are chemosensory pits
- Guest things*
- Guest can a insect mate with a nother insect like a fly with a junebug
Bugscope Team not really; it just does not work, and neither one is interested in mating with the other
- Bugscope Team there are many parasitic wasps that lay their eggs in particular species of caterpillars
- Guest CAN AN INSECT MATE WIT A SPECIES THATS NOT THE SAME AS THEM
- Guest DONT SOME SPIDERS EAT THERE BABIES
Bugscope Team yes sometimes
- 9:51am
- Guest what are chelicerae's on spider
Bugscope Team they are the mouthparts that make the fangs work; they open and close like jaws and have fangs at the termini.
- Bugscope Team we have see one of those female spiders with a ball of web holding her chelicerae together
- Guest what is your favorite bug
Bugscope Team I like earwigs because they often have mites for us to see.
Bugscope Team i kinda like mites, because they are bugs on other bugs
- Guest how many times does a bug eat
Bugscope Team it depends on the bug; some insects never eat once they become adults; they just mate and die
- Guest WHATS A CHELICERAE
Bugscope Team mouthparts that open and close
- Bugscope Team pillbugs are also cool, they have a kind of zen coolness about them
- Guest hrhrh
- Bugscope Team although pillbugs are not really insects, they are a terrestrial crustacean
- Guest there*
- Guest GTDH.
- Student how did that mith get started then
Bugscope Team maybe someone saw an earwig come out of someone's ear in the way way old days
- Guest how many times a day does a bug eat
Bugscope Team well, a lot more than humans i would think. their life span is a lot shorter. but some insects can also go a while without ingesting food
- Bugscope Team earwigs are plant pests and don't mess with people unless they bother them
- Guest can you become death because of a earwig
Bugscope Team I don't think so.
- Guest when the spiders mate and the girl eats the dude why is that good because then they will have no babies
Bugscope Team well if they mate before she eats him then she gets fertilized and can successfully lay eggs as well as getting a dinner out of the deal
- 9:56am
- Guest me
- Guest does a earwig eat youe earwax
Bugscope Team no they are plant pests and don't seem interested in people
- Teacher Can kiki have a try at control?
- Guest what r those things sticking out by the eyes
Bugscope Team some of those things are spines, and you may also see the antennae
- Guest lo
- Guest myj8mik8miik8ku
- Guest lol
- Bugscope Team kiwi, you have control!
- Guest kiwi
- Guest like humans inbreading has a great affect on babies so what if bugs has to do that
Bugscope Team I imagine it does have an effect eventually; it weakens the ability for the species to survive because it has fewer genes
- Bugscope Team like to the right, those are antennae
- Guest why are their hairs on it
Bugscope Team those hairs help them sense their environment. they are called setae (see-tee)
- Bugscope Team those setae (hairs) can sense movement, smell, taste, wind, temperature, etc.
- Bugscope Team setae are kind of like superfied cat whiskters...
- Guest what is this????
- Guest has any bugs been captured on tape killing its own brothers and sister?
Bugscope Team some bugs are very aggressive and would do that, perhaps assassin bugs, for example
- Guest or dose t
- Bugscope Team the stuff to the right is carbon doublestick tape
- Guest it*
- 10:01am
- Guest do bugs have ears
Bugscope Team well, not like humans have ears. but bugs can sense sound through vibrations, using their hairs (setae) or their bodies. sounds is really just vibration in the air.
- Guest do flys take care oof there babys or just leave them
Bugscope Team they just leave them as eggs that become maggots
- Guest what is the differentce in bugs acracnids and inceacts
Bugscope Team first, arachnids have eight legs as adults, and insects have six
- Guest in all bgs wich lives longest
- Guest bugs
- Guest and what about bugs
Bugscope Team true bugs are a type of insect called hemiptera that have piercing/sucking mouthparts. stinkbugs are true bugs
- Student what do yuo mean as adults
Bugscope Team when they are young, for example, ticks may have six legs
- Guest if the presidentgets bit by a misqueto is it a presidentul misqueto
Bugscope Team yes I think so; that is pretty funny
- Guest what r those pointy things
Bugscope Team those are spines on the edge of a fly wing
- Guest what hpeneds if a fly bites a president does it make it a presidntieal fly
Bugscope Team yes a presidential fly
- Student do you guys specialize in different bugs
Bugscope Team it is sad but we realize we know so little about insects; the more you study them the more fascinating they are but the more we realize how little we know
- Guest are ticks bugs
Bugscope Team ticks are related to spiders; they are arachnids
- 10:07am
- Guest are fly wings as fragile as butterfly wings? like if you touch their wings can they use it anymore
Bugscope Team they are likely not as fragile
- Guest o
- Bugscope Team fly wings, except those of mosquitos, do not have scales like butterfly and moth wings
- Guest when a tick bite someone what are the chemicals that dosent make you feel the bite
Bugscope Team they have some kind of anesthetic; I am not sure what it is. they also probably have something like heparin that keeps the blood from clotting
- Bugscope Team the scales come off easily and seem like powder to us
- Teacher something funky is happening with our computers right now.
Bugscope Team um can you refresh the screens; are they not working?
- Guest
- Guest
- Guest thanks for the answers but i still have like 2 more about ticks
- Student is it true that if you are being bit by a tic it can submerge itself in your body
Bugscope Team only the head part called the capitulum sticks into your skin
- Bugscope Team Trent!
- Guest what
- Guest srry
- Guest if a tick bites you is it true that the bite can look like a grape
Bugscope Team the tick looks like a grape as it fills with blood
- Student o
- Guest sorry
Bugscope Team no problem we are more worried about what Ms S said
- Guest when ticks bite dose it leave get attacked by the white blood cells or something
Bugscope Team the area of the wound may attract WBCs, but the tick itself is not attacked by WBCs
- Guest ohhh
- Student how do tics get on you do they jump or fall
Bugscope Team they hold their arms out and catch your skin or clothes as you walk by; they make that easier by climbing to the tips of long leaves of grass, for example. and ticks have little open hooks that they can use to perch on leaves
- 10:12am
- Guest yeah
- Student lol
- Guest cool!!
- Teacher a few of the students have logged off, but there are several others that would like a try at controlling the 'scope. can you switch it to yfz?
- Guest when ticks have filled with blood like a deer tick dose it lay eggs or dose it have to mate with the opposite sex
Bugscope Team I think they have already mated, but I am not sure; they go through a few cycles
- Bugscope Team yfz has it
- Guest oooo
- Guest cooooool!!!!!!!!!
- Guest wow.?
- Bugscope Team I just moved us to this fly claw
- Guest ty for the answers some have been itching at me for days
- Guest =)
- Bugscope Team but you are welcome to drive
- Guest drive?
- Bugscope Team this is on a silverfish
- Bugscope Team yfz is driving now
- Guest o im not
- Guest POOP
- Bugscope Team silverfish have scales like butterflies, moths, some weevils, and mosquitos
- Bugscope Team that is the head of the silverfish
- Bugscope Team pointed downward
- 10:17am
- Guest is it a bad bug
Bugscope Team It eats things in your house but I am not sure how bad it is; I don't like them, though
- Guest dose it eat cloths like moths
- Guest \
- Bugscope Team it is cool doing Bugscope because it means we can catch the insects we find and use them for this.
- Guest lol yeah
- Guest esiah can drive now
- Guest well do you guys have other websites
Bugscope Team just our home page: itg.uiuc,edu
- Bugscope Team esiah has control now
- Student sa
- Guest sweet!
- Bugscope Team I mean itg.uiuc.edu
- Student wait what kind of bug is this
- Student what are those
- Bugscope Team you can see photos of us on the bugscope site
- Bugscope Team this is a silverfish, which is an insect
- Guest like pic of u guys
Bugscope Team yeah you can see us, although today it's just been me and Alex
- Student looks like scales
Bugscope Team yes they are, and they are certainly responsible for the silver color you see
- Student what are the hair looking things
Bugscope Team those are sensory setae
- Student hi
- Guest do u know what the silver fish was named after?
Bugscope Team no I imagine it looked like a fish to someone
- Guest who els is there
Bugscope Team Cate, Chas, Annie, Rob... Claudi
- Guest whats this
Bugscope Team this is the surface of the compound eye of the wasp, I think, and you can see some pollen grains on it
- 10:22am
- Teacher I think we are going to need to wrap up this session in about five minutes.
Bugscope Team Cool we are having fun but will let you go when you're ready.
- Student what is this
Bugscope Team those round things are a type of pollen grain
- Guest are you guys on 24/7
Bugscope Team no just a few sessions a week, no more than two now, sometimes three
- Bugscope Team the hexagons are the surface of the compound eye
- Teacher this has been awesome for the students! (and for me!!!) you were able to answer so many more questions than i would have been able to
- Student ccan you go on here with a normal computer
Bugscope Team yes as long as you have an internet connection
- Student ohhhhhh
- Teacher a few of the teachers from our school came in to observe and take part today...they will be contacting you soon to set up dates for the school year =)
Bugscope Team good deal
- Bugscope Team you can log on as guest, for example
- Student what happens if your elergic to a bee and it stings you
Bugscope Team you could die if you go into shock
- Guest do you guys get paid for this because that would be cool
Bugscope Team it is part of our job; in a way we volunteer for this but most of us also get paid to be here
- Bugscope Team remember, that all the chat and images from today's session are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-079
- Teacher oh, we will certainly be looking at them again tomorrow!
- Guest so hwo do you get this job
Bugscope Team we started this in March 1999, so we kind of made it into part of our work
- Teacher thanks so much for all of your time to make this possible
- Student looking at what
- Student how long have you been working here
- 10:27am
- Student whos mom
- Teacher i think my mom just signed on...hi mom =)
- Guest cooooooool
- Student hi mom
- Bugscope Team Yay! Hi Mom!
- Guest yo
- Bugscope Team My mom has been on before as well.
- Student ah
- Bugscope Team I am moving us to the ladybug head...
- Guest thanks for answering all of my questions
Bugscope Team we do the best we can; of course you will find that we don't know all of the answers
- Guest me to gtg an ty 4 evy ting
- Teacher I just had to have my mom see how cool this is.
- Guest hey MOM
- Student peaceeeeouttttttttt.
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team Bye Sadie!
- Guest bi bi
- Bugscope Team Bye Esiah!
- Teacher Thanks guys! This was really really cool
- Bugscope Team See you next time!
- Bugscope Team you are totally welcome
- Teacher we'll be sending our feedback tomorrow.
- Bugscope Team ok
- Bugscope Team We're gonna shut down, had a good time.
- Bugscope Team great session
