Session 2009-108 with Northern Colorado Homeschool Association

Application

The School

The Class

The Project

Miscellaneous

Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2009-12-02 14:30:00 from , CO, US

• 1:28pm
• Bugscope Team putting the sample in
• Bugscope Team pumping down
• Bugscope Team almost there
• 1:35pm
• Bugscope Team Hi Rosie!
• Teacher Hi!

• Bugscope Team Werlcome to Bugscope!
• Bugscope Team oops
• Bugscope Team we are setting up for your session
• Teacher Thank you. I'm 10.
• Bugscope Team wow!
• Bugscope Team and you spell better than I do so far
• Bugscope Team we are making and saving places for you to drive to during your session
• Teacher Well thanks!
• Bugscope Team this is a louse
• Bugscope Team this came out of someone's hair
• Bugscope Team Cate is saving a high-res image and then we will be back on track
• Teacher oh....my mom thought it was a dust mite!
• Bugscope Team dust mites have soft bodies and often shrivel up unless we critical point dry them
• Teacher Hi--rosie's mom here--I have a "please wait while that command executes..." that won't go away!
• Bugscope Team critical point drying is a way of preserving the structure of something that has been put in alcohol
• 1:40pm
• Bugscope Team That will show up when we try to drive, sometimes

• Bugscope Team we have not unlocked the session for you yet; we expected you to be connecting at 2:30 our time; did we mess up?
• Teacher oops, no we're early! sorry!

• Teacher We were too excited!
• Bugscope Team It's not a problem if you can just watch for a little while. After that you will be able to drive the microscope.
• Teacher Hi it`s Rosie again
• Bugscope Team Hi Rosie!
• Bugscope Team these are sticktight fleas

• Teacher wow! those bugs are like mutant pillbugs!
• Bugscope Team I'm Scott, and I'm at the computer we're using to do the setup. Cate is at the microscope, actually driving the microscope.

• 1:46pm
• Bugscope Team Once I are set up I will go to my desk, and Cate will go to hers, and we will concentrate on chat -- on talking with you

• Bugscope Team Goodness I can't type, sorry -- once we are set up...
• Teacher Ok..........my room is so messy that if one of those bugs was ten times its size I would not find it!

• 1:52pm
• Student [got logged off for some reason...we're back now as "Rose"]

• Bugscope Team I'm sorry, Cate has had to do setups while I answered the phone. I'm back...
• 1:57pm

• Bugscope Team You can tell what we're doing -- we're driving around looking for cool stuff for your session

• Teacher Hi there, this is Lisa, from Northern CO HS Association.
• Teacher Not sure if my window is set up correctly; I'm not seeing my own text. Last I see is "putting the sample in".

• Teacher Oh, duh. Now I see that text is at the top.
• Bugscope Team Can you change your screen resolution?
• Bugscope Team so you're good? yeah it goes from top down
• Teacher I think it's OK now. I have picture window, chat below, and presets on the right. As long as there is nothing below "chat" I'm ok.
• Bugscope Team this is pretty cool -- you sent some very nice samples
• Student Hi! I`m the first kid here! And my moms name is lisa!
• 2:03pm
• Bugscope Team nothing below chat
• Bugscope Team Hi Rose!

• Teacher The setup we have is - I will be the teacher for the session because the person that originally scheduled it had a job training that was rescheduled. I will have 6 kids from 3 families watching on our TV/computer setup, and we'll be funneling all our questions through this laptop here.
• Teacher Plus we have several other families coming in from home.
• Teacher On our second computer, I don't see a student option - should I use "guest" for that one? It's the one that the kids will be controlling.
• Bugscope Team That sounds great, Lisa. Once we get the presets done we will be at our own computers and ready to answer questions

• Student HI! You can call me Bronte because thats my first name!
• Teacher Hi Bronte :) We went camping together. My son is Alex that wears the tie-dyes. I was trying to figure out what "Rose" was in the group :)
• Student My middle name is Rose.
• Teacher Welcome Hannah and Max!
• Guest It's not time yet, is it? This is Dennise. Can I finish my lunch?
• 2:08pm

• Teacher You are fine - we have 20 minutes.
• Guest OK! Thanks!
• Student Hannah! it`s me Bronte! We went to prairie school together!

• Teacher Admins - I still want to figure out how to get kids on as "students" rather than as guests so they can run the microscope.
• Student Hi Alex!
• Teacher Alex is still downstairs playing with Gabe until we are closer to time but I'll tell him you say hello.

• Teacher Bronte - how did you log on as a student?
• Teacher Can you ask your mom?
• Teacher I'm thinking maybe students only start after the session starts and maybe you caught the tail end of a previous session or something.
• Student Um ....... is that a dust mite? the one befor this one?

• Bugscope Team This is a hog louse.
• Teacher (I think they are still setting up - they'll answer later. I don't know because Shawn was the one that sent in samples).
• Bugscope Team last one was a brown dogtick
• Student {Bronte's mom here: I have no idea; just logged on and it popped up as student Rose}

• 2:13pm
• Bugscope Team Okay we are giving Lisa control of the microscope and going to our desks so that we can talk with you.
• Bugscope Team Lisa you can now drive the microscope, if you wish.
• Student {We came on board early and Bronte's been asking questions while they set up.}
• Teacher Cool.
• Bugscope Team Welcome to Busgcope,
• Bugscope Team can't type
• Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope, everyone!
• Teacher Scot - how do I have people log in as students instead of guests?
• Student Thanks! this is fun

• Bugscope Team when you log in you usually have a choice: teacher, admin, guest, or student
• Teacher I'm only seeing guest, admin, teacher on my other computer
• Guest should we logout and log in again as student?
• Bugscope Team sometimes student does not come up as a choice, though

• Bugscope Team no please don't worry about it

• Teacher So can guests run the scope too?
• Bugscope Team yes just let us know who you want to drive
• Teacher Ah. no problem.
• Bugscope Team yes whoever you designate can run the 'scope, just one at at time
• Teacher We are still waiting for more to show up.
• Teacher I'll kick the boys off of the video game and tell them to come up.

• Guest will it be a problem if I can't type fast?
  Bugscope Team no not at all. In fact, scot types slow too
• 2:18pm
• Teacher Bronte, want to try?
• Student what is this bug?
  Bugscope Team It is a head louse
• Student yes!!!
• Bugscope Team so Lisa you can change the mag, drive or click to center (better), focus, change the contrast and brightness...
• Guest I didn't get an option to login as a student. Will they still be able to take part?
  Bugscope Team You bet, no problem.
• Guest ok good
• Teacher How do I let another user control it?
  Bugscope Team you ask us
• Bugscope Team we can confer control to whomever you wish
• Teacher Let's let "Rose" try.
• Bugscope Team Alright, Rose is the supreme ruler.
• Bugscope Team jon got this off his kid

• Bugscope Team we threw in some insects on top of the ones you sent us
• Bugscope Team you can see the controls to the right of the image window
• Bugscope Team nice!

• Bugscope Team see how the surface of its exoskeleton is ribbed?

• Guest I thought they were INSECTS not "bugs"
  Bugscope Team we use 'bugs' generically; true bugs are insects called Hemiptera
• Bugscope Team it can expand with blood

• Teacher Is it like a fingerprint?
  Bugscope Team yes it is kind of like a fingerprint

• Student what are the hairs on it?
  Bugscope Team the hairs are called 'setae,' usually.
  Bugscope Team the hairs allow the insect to feel what's going on in the environment around it

• Bugscope Team some of the setae are sensory -- they sense touch, or hot/cold, or smell, even

• 2:24pm

• Bugscope Team insects and other similar arthropods have an exoskeleton that is kind of like if you were wearing a suit of armor -- you wouldn
• Bugscope Team 't be able to feel something touching the armor

• Bugscope Team the setae stick through the exoskeleton and allow the 'bug' to sense its environment, as Cate said

• Guest can you zoom back in, please?

• Bugscope Team Rose you may also choose another preset if you wish -- the microscope will drive to wherever you choose.
• Student How's that for magnified?
• Bugscope Team when you are ready, that is

• Guest Hi, Everyone -- Lewarks and Millers here with GriffissWests to join soon.
• Student I'll go back

• Guest hannah says middle abdomen

• Guest that's it - the tiny lines between the long ripples
• Teacher I think we have everyone here. Welcome everyone!
• Bugscope Team and now we're on the abdomen of the louse again
• 2:29pm
• Teacher At my house, we have Stella and Sandis, Alex, Gabe, Isabella, and James. Adults Deanna and Lisa.

• Bugscope Team those may be sensilla; we could drive up closer and check
• Student this is the honeybee pollen basket
• Bugscope Team yes it is, pretty cool

• Guest lucy wants to know what kind of bug it is?
  Bugscope Team this is a honeybee, now

• Bugscope Team if the basket was empty it would just look like a smooth place on the tibia

• Bugscope Team tibia is a part of the leg
• Student honeybee pollen!
  Bugscope Team yes it doesn't look like pollen we normally see, but it may have a film on it

• Teacher You will notice that Q&A shows to the left.

• Bugscope Team this honeybee had so much pollen on its leg you could see them, they looked like yellow splotches

• Bugscope Team sometimes the mag goes so high there is nothing to see
• Guest Hannah says she thinks that was her honeybee
• Teacher I think Hannah was next - Hannah, would you like to drive?
• Guest What are those long things by the pollen?
  Bugscope Team we don't know for sure; maybe Hannah could take the mag down and we could see if they were setae, for example
• Student what are the long segments with the pollen?
• Student take it away hannah
• Bugscope Team it was a bee you sent us
• Guest how does she drive?
  Bugscope Team she will see that she now has controls to the right of the image screen

• Bugscope Team she can change the mag; click to drive, or better, click to center; focus; and control the contrast/brightness
• 2:34pm

• Student what is? the "trix are for kids"
  Bugscope Team I was referring to the brochosomes, which resemble cereal

• Bugscope Team as Cate said this was bright yellow
• Guest how do we click to center?
  Bugscope Team put your mouse on the screen, after having activate click to center, and then click once to make the screen center on where you clicked
• Teacher Cool!
• Student yummy!
• Bugscope Team brochosomes are tiny soccerball-like pellets produced exclusively by leafhoppers
• Bugscope Team the vials you sent some in had their scientific name. I changed them to their common name, but great job with the samples!

• Guest found click to center
• Guest can we look at a different bug now?
  Bugscope Team ask Hannah to drive to where you would like to go
• Teacher The organizer is an entymologist! :)
• Teacher She's bummed she couldn't be here. She just got a new job.

• Student someone look at the spider eyes
• Teacher Hannah, you can find it in the presets.
• Guest We think spider eyes would be cool

• Guest here are spider eyes
• Guest can we look at the head?

• Bugscope Team see the eight eyes?
• Bugscope Team and the palps?
• Guest what are palps
  Bugscope Team palps are usually accessory mouthparts that help an arthropod manpulate and sometimes taste its food

• 2:40pm

• Guest now katydid head
• Bugscope Team sometimes palps have other functions as well

• Teacher Hannah, pick one last things to see and then we are going to take a turn here.
• Guest she clicked on katydid head but it didn't change
• Bugscope Team spiders have what are called 'plumose' setae

• Guest she's done go ahead

• Student So, if a spider used Nair, it wouldn't be able to feel its prey. (Mom here)
  Bugscope Team heh that is right

• Bugscope Team spiders have a function called autotomy, in which they can jettison a whole leg if they sense that it has venom entering it from having been bitten

• Bugscope Team so they can autotomize a limb

• Guest this is cool gabe says

• Bugscope Team other insect

• Teacher Can you give control to LotsOfKids?
• Guest why does it have scales?
• Bugscope Team lotsofkids has control
• Teacher thanks
• Bugscope Team insects with scales are butterflies, moths, silverfish, mosquitoes, and some beetles/weevils

• 2:45pm
• Student are the scales part of an evolutionary process?
  Bugscope Team the scales produce color, both as structural color and pigment, so they can be used to self identify species; they can also be used, because of their color, as a warning; they also help insects slip out of spider webs
• Bugscope Team see the compound eye, to the right?

• Guest is katydid in order orthoptera? why does it have scales?
  Bugscope Team it is an orthopteran but it does not have scales -- the scales came from another insect

• Teacher This should be the Katydid's eye?
  Bugscope Team yep it has a very big eye

• Teacher Alex wants to see the eye closer up.
• Guest Kids are wondering what the eye looks like even closer
  Bugscope Team compound eyes often look like honeycombs. Katydid eyes along with crickets and grasshoppers tend to not look as interesting
• Teacher Jamie wants to know what the dots on the eye are.

• Bugscope Team But the honeybee eye would look cool
• Guest are the hexagons the individual eyes?
  Bugscope Team the hexagons, called ommatidia, are individual lenses of the compound eyes
• Guest she's happy with that answer thanks

• Guest hannah would like to look at the eartick head

• Bugscope Team when we try to see the individual facets of the compound eyes on grasshoppers, crickets, and praying mantises, as well as roaches, they are often very smooth and difficult to differentiate.

• Guest wow

• Teacher Alex is going to zoom in

• Student how does the electron microscope work?
  Bugscope Team the samples are in a vacuum chamber, and they are scanned by an electron beam, which is very fine and rasters quickly across the surface choose to see, repeatedly. The images come from the secondary electron detector, which collects the signal from electrons ejected from the surface of the sample by the electron beam
• Bugscope Team a big grasping claw

• 2:50pm

• Teacher James redquested to see the pinchers
• Guest what do the claws do
  Bugscope Team they are used to grab onto things like food or objects to grab onto to climb
• Guest what's the pointy thing?
  Bugscope Team i think that is a seta, but I'm not sure
• Guest Are the presets the bugs that we sent in?
  Bugscope Team yes they are
  Bugscope Team most of them are

• Bugscope Team the surface *we* choose to see
• Guest what are those wormy thingies?
  Bugscope Team those are its legs!
• Bugscope Team this is a soft tick, unlike what we usually see
• Teacher A kid hit the back button - can you give control back to LotsKids?
  Bugscope Team LotsofKids has control now
• Student what are electrons?
  Bugscope Team electrons are the tiny negatively charged particles that zoom around the nucleus of an atom, but they don't always stay with the atom
• Teacher I don't think anyone has control right now
• Teacher There are no controls on LotsOfKids screen.
• Teacher Got it.
• Guest in an atom there are protons and neutrons and electrons and electrons are the things that move very fast and constantly in the atom
• Teacher That works

• Guest Lwants to know how does a tick suck blood?
  Bugscope Team the whole capitulum sticks into your skin, and there is a file-like rasper on one side that scrapes your skin and makes you bleed. the other side holds the capitulum into your skin
• 2:55pm
• Bugscope Team now we see why the eartick is called 'spinose.'

• Student ticks are the true vampires
• Guest what is that?!
• Guest why is the leg so beaten-up?
• Teacher CrazyDogs do you want to be next?
• Bugscope Team the other tick shows it better
• Guest Yes, please. :)
• Guest what is the big cylinder in front?
• Teacher I think that's a leg!
  Bugscope Team its not a leg, it a mouth that is covered up with a fair amount of juju- stuff that doesnt belong or accumulated there when it was torn from its host most likely
• Student this looks like a radio receiver for Who-ville
• Bugscope Team but this is a different kind of tick, and we don't know just how it feeds
• Teacher Can you let CrazyDogs drive now please?
  Bugscope Team got it
• Teacher (Who is MissLemke7?)
• Guest The presets are gone. How do we choose another image?
• Guest I have a session tomorrow, so I'm just seeing how this all works!
• Teacher It will cget there I think.
• Teacher Ah, welcome!!

• Guest We are looking at the capitulum now...; how do we find that rasper?
• Bugscope Team this is the business end of the hard tick
• Guest hannah would like to see the honeybee head please

• Bugscope Team it has these parts in the mouth that drive their way into its host to make a portal for its sucking mouth part

• Bugscope Team the rasper is to the top right, and the part that holds into you with the recurved spines is to the lower left
• 3:00pm

• Bugscope Team young ticks have six legs, and when they become adults they have eight -- they are not insects

• Guest is this its butt?
  Bugscope Team this is the head - called a capitulum. if you think about it, decapitate means to take the head off -- same root word

• Student ok, it is an aracnid? it has eight legs!
  Bugscope Team yes it is an arachnid
• Guest is the rasper the thing with the scales?
  Bugscope Team yes that is it
• Guest how does it magucally grow 2 more legs?
  Bugscope Team when things molt, they can often grow back limbs that had previously fallen off before, the same principle applies
• Guest okay if it's okay i'll switch to the honeybee head
• Teacher sure

• Bugscope Team cool!
• Bugscope Team honeybees are very hairy
• Bugscope Team the better to catch pollen with
• Guest it looks like a bunny. Why does it have big bunny teeth?
• Bugscope Team look at the compound eyes on the bee!
• Guest we think it looks like a rabbit or a beaver. what are those tooth things?
  Bugscope Team it does kind of seem like a beaver with its forked tongue
• Bugscope Team those tooth things cover the tongue, which is called a glossa

• Student this looks like modern art
• Guest sorry technical difficulties
• Guest we would like a turn as well, please
  Bugscope Team got it!
• Bugscope Team that was the inside of the chamber
• Guest that was the pinhole
• Guest she used this in her entomology project
• 3:06pm
• Bugscope Team this is the middle of the body -- the thorax -- and we see some of the tarsi
• Guest look at the cool hooks on the feet
  Bugscope Team they have little claws, and they are controlled -- opened and closed -- by a tendon called an unguitractor.
• Guest what are tarsi?

• Student This thing looks like a thnid!
• Guest Sorry, tried to see the eyes but there was lots of lag and the delay moved the honeybee way off the screen
  Bugscope Team it is best to use click to center, not click to drive
• Teacher (After the session, you should all watch the video about the electron microscope - it's really cool).

• Guest it looks like a venus fly trap
  Bugscope Team they probably look similar because just like how the venus fly trap has a "hairy" mouth to keep the food in, this bee has those long hairs to help keep the pollen on
• Bugscope Team this is the bee -- the pollen basket is on the left
• Bugscope Team one of the pollen baskets
• Guest Is that video on the homepage, Lisa?
• Student can we see the honybee stinger?
• Teacher yes.
• Guest we still have video and the skreen still has the please wait sign
  Bugscope Team you can try refreshing, unless you have already tried that?

• Guest katydid spiracle

• Guest what's a spiracle?
  Bugscope Team it is a breathing hole similar to our nostrils

• Guest what is the big hole
  Bugscope Team that is one of the spiracles, through which insects breathe
• 3:11pm
• Bugscope Team but it only breathes with it, it cant smell with it

• Guest all fixed
• Guest what's th spongey stuff?
  Bugscope Team if it is the stuff inside of the spiracle, we often find that there is a kind of filter there that keeps dust out of the tracheae.
• Guest james asked why can't it smell
  Bugscope Team it smells using chemosensory setae

• Student it looks like a hole to me

• Guest do they have nasal mucous?
  Bugscope Team they have various fluids but I am not sure about that
• Student a big black hole
• Bugscope Team some of the setae -- the hairs -- are specialized to collect odors from the air

• Guest It doesn't seem to want to work for us now
• Teacher When we are done here I'd like to see the Honeybee Hamuli (and know what it is :)
  Bugscope Team the hamuli are hooks that attach the fore- and hindwings together to make the 2 pairs of wing work as one

• Teacher Try a preset
• Teacher Still no luck,?
• 3:16pm

• Teacher Has anyone not had a turn that wants one, after Silver Lords?
• Bugscope Team sometimes the controls get stuck for us as well

• Student what are the pointy things in the back?
  Bugscope Team near the bottom those are hairs on the wing
• Bugscope Team the hamuli!
• Guest amasing
• Guest hannah would like to see the honeybee stinger when we are done with the hamuli
• Guest is it possible to zoom out so we can see how it is attachng the wings?
  Bugscope Team Silver-Lord has control, he should be able to zoom the microscope out

• Guest what is the spiral
  Bugscope Team the are the hooks, they are already hooking the 2 sets of wings together
• Bugscope Team bees and wasps have four wings, and this is how they deal with flying, by (as Cate said) hooking the fore and hindwings together
• Guest it looks like the threads on a screw
• Bugscope Team they are called hamuli
• Bugscope Team they are curled around the edge of the other wing
• Bugscope Team when the bee is not flying they can be unhooked

• Teacher Scot and Cate, we are very impressed and really appreciate you doing this
  Bugscope Team thank you!
• Guest Yes, this is very cool.

• Guest why would they unhook it?
  Bugscope Team to park

• Bugscope Team not all four-winged insects have the same structures, of course; some have tiny clips, and some deal with flying with their wings separate, like a dragonfly
• Student I love bugscope!!!
  Bugscope Team awesome! we love to hear that

• Guest what;s that evergreen leaf looking thing?
  Bugscope Team its a seta from another place or another insect
• Bugscope Team How season-relevant!
• Guest what are these things on the wing?
• Teacher What is this?
• Student what is that thing that looks like a small pine tree?
  Bugscope Team that looks like a single seta to me
• 3:21pm

• Guest I thought it was just a cristmas decoration
• Bugscope Team Possibly the spider. Spiders typically tend to have very highly-branching and intricate setae
• Bugscope Team like for catching pollen or for feeling vibrations
• Guest So, what do you all want to look at next? ;)
• Teacher Oh, the stinger.

• Guest swithching to honey bee stinger

• Teacher Maes and Gabe remembered for you Hannah.
• Student yes, thank you
• Bugscope Team to follow on what Chas said, some spiders have urticating hairs they release that are intended to make you want to go away

• Guest Is it barbed at all? I was thinking it would be barbed.
• Guest what are the stringy hairs around it?
  Bugscope Team more setae; bees are very 'hairy'
• Student where are the barbs?
  Bugscope Team the barbs could be covered by some sort of slime
• Bugscope Team it was a surprise to us to see how blunt it is
• Bugscope Team we can't see all of it, and it may be barbed in the other direction

• Bugscope Team some of those setae may provide lift, in the wind, and they may also serve to help preserve heat

• Guest what is the advantage to the bee of being hairy?
  Bugscope Team they may provide lift, in the air, and they may also help keep the bee warm
• Guest I dont think most people were here when we were looking at the pollen basket.
• 3:26pm

• Guest why does it look like there are walls and another thing inside?
  Bugscope Team not sure what you are seeing
• Guest This is Lisa - my firefox keeps freezing on the other computer
  Bugscope Team we use Safari more often, especially because it is better handling leg
• Guest We saw the pollen basket -- SilverLord?

• Bugscope Team lag
• Guest i think hannah meant that it looked 3-D
  Bugscope Team it does! that is in part because the electron microscope has excellent depth of focus
• Guest going to pollen basket

• Guest What is the pollen basket?
• Bugscope Team these are the spots on the bee's legs that looked yellow
• Guest For brinign it back to make honey?
  Bugscope Team Yes. As they collect the pollen they store it in the baskets until they return to the hive
• Guest she was asking about ht e hairy clumpy solid ball with hairy walls - don't worry about it
• Guest someone else want to drive?

• Student could we also see the louse antenna tip please #3
• Guest Rose, would you like to?
• Guest Let's give control to Rose.
• Student yes!
• Student waiting to see our presets...

• Bugscope Team sorry I messed you up by giving control to Rose while the 'scope was driving.
• Guest Hannah would like to see # 6 if there's time after #3

• 3:31pm

• Teacher How are we on time, scot and Kate?
  Bugscope Team we can go a little longer

• Student trying o drive it to #3#3

• Bugscope Team ok heres #3
• Bugscope Team this is it!

• Guest is that the antenna tip?
  Bugscope Team yes, this actually looks like a the end of a palp, which surprised us

• Student yes
• Bugscope Team there are little chemoreceptors heres
• Guest what's the spongey stuff?
  Bugscope Team You're probably referring to some particles of dust

• Guest do they smell with the chemoreceptors?
  Bugscope Team yes!

• Bugscope Team it is similar to our tastebuds

• Bugscope Team Who want's to control the 'scope?

• Bugscope Team whoops, no apostrophe necessary
• Guest has everyone had a turn?
• Bugscope Team this looks like a palp on another critter, but this is a louse antenna
• Guest hannah would like another turn if everyone else has gone
  Bugscope Team You guys have control now
• Guest Lucy would like to see #2 - louse
  Bugscope Team I did that...
• 3:36pm
• Guest we fell off for some reason...
• Bugscope Team that is, usually when we see those tiny chemoreceptors in a socket like that we are looking at a palp

• Guest hannah has control - thanks
• Guest Just in case we drop off again, I wanted to say thank you very much and this was amazing.
  Bugscope Team Thank You! See you again next year?
  Bugscope Team You're welcome, it was great to have you on!

• Guest So we can do this every year? Are we limited to once a year?
  Bugscope Team Yes, we welcome annual repeats. As for more than once a year it depends on timing and how busy we are
• Guest Thank you so much! This has been Super Cool!!
• Guest eye
• Bugscope Team you sent very nice samples, although this was donated by Jon's son
• Guest she wants to zoom in on the eye
  Bugscope Team not sure if it has an eye, or eyespot
• Guest Kids here have to leave but loved seeing everything. Thank you!! I'll let whoever is still interested keep going a bit if that is ok. --Lisa
• Guest I think the majority of our group would be able to do it nearly spontaneously... :)
• Bugscope Team thank you for being such great bugscopers
• Guest we can;t move more to the laft - can you?
• Guest Thanks you so much... this was really awesome!
• Guest Bronte thought it was awesome fun and learned quite a bit.

• Bugscope Team here is your homepage for this session: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-108/
• 3:41pm

• Guest We'll do it anytime.

• Guest Same here.

• Bugscope Team it is too bad we could not see how the louse feeds -- what its mouthparts look like
• Bugscope Team You all we are going to have to shut down for today.
• Guest thank you!!!!!
• Guest Thank you again!
• Bugscope Team But we will be happy to see you again.
• Bugscope Team This is fun for us.
• Bugscope Team Thank You!
• Guest Us too!
• Bugscope Team Over and out, for me.... Bye!
• Guest Thankl you again... goodbye!