Connected on 2009-11-18 11:30:00 from Warden, WA, US
- 11:09am
- Bugscope Team done with presets, session unlocked, we are ready to go!
- Bugscope Team Hello Mr Orton!
- Teacher Hello
- Teacher Are these the bugs we sent in?
- Bugscope Team You have control now if you would like. Some of them, like this one, are.
- Teacher And some extras?
- Teacher Cool thanks!
- Bugscope Team we added some insects so you would have more to look at
- Bugscope Team you are welcome to drive, and to choose from among the presets
- Teacher Great I think I will try it out.
- Teacher Students will be arriving shortly
- Bugscope Team for click to drive, it's one click with your mouse over the image to start, and one click to stop
- 11:15am
- Bugscope Team we are thinking about disabling click to drive and just going with click to center
- Bugscope Team edge of the world
- Bugscope Team fixed
- Bugscope Team a lot of times we will go with some feature like this and sort of invite you to take the mag down and see where you really are
- 11:21am
- Bugscope Team and sometimes we select features because the overall low mag view looks terrible, like if the insect threw up on itself or got mashed or rotted
- Teacher We are getting students logged in and ready to go
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team this is the snout of the weevil you sent, so lovely
- Bugscope Team see its eyes, and its antenna?
- Bugscope Team one of the antennae is busted off
- Bugscope Team students should be able to log in as students or as guests
- Bugscope Team we can confer control to them as you wish, one at a time
- Bugscope Team they should not have to use a password -- the software recognizes the domain you're connecting from
- Bugscope Team if you are having any trouble, please just let us know. we are here to help
- Teacher thanks
- 11:26am
- Teacher the issue is our wireless network
- Teacher I think we are fine now
- Bugscope Team if your network is slow, make sure to use "click to center" instead of "click to drive", and stay away from focus
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team hi, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Bugscope Team let us know when you have questions, and we'll try to answer -- about the insects, or electron microscopy, whatever
- Teacher Here we come!
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team this is one of the samples you sent -- a weevil with a short snout
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Hi! Welcome to Bugscope!
- 11:32am
- Student thanks
- Student hola!
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team hello all
- Bugscope Team this is the ventral side, of course -- we usually mount insects on their backs so we can see the more interesting parts -- like the arms, legs, claws, mouthparts, eyes
- Bugscope Team Mr Orton has control of the 'scope now
- Student this is cool
- Bugscope Team you can see that it has wings, and you can see the elytra -- the hard shell on its back
- Student interesting, verry intersting
- Teacher let's give Big Papa a chance to drive
- Bugscope Team okay, big papa, you have control now
- Student awsome
- Bugscope Team all of the samples are mounted on doublestick carbon tape, plus a little silver paint, and then coated with a few nanometers of gold-palladium alloy
- Student hes learning how 2 controll it
- Bugscope Team takes a little practice but really it is easty
- Bugscope Team easy
- Student awesome
- Bugscope Team the bubbles in the background are in the carbon tape
- Student lol scot easty.....in a hurry 2 type or what?
Bugscope Team it's that I can hardly type
- Bugscope Team and the slightly smoother areas around the base of the insect are silver paint
- Student what partv of the animal is this?
Bugscope Team the thorax and the head
- Bugscope Team this is a weevil you sent
- Student where not at a party sorry?
- 11:37am
- Student nice
- Bugscope Team using "click to center" give you more control over where you want to go
- Bugscope Team so let Big Papa know he can click on a preset if he would like as well
- Student sumone else do this
- Student ok
- Bugscope Team bugs has it
- Bugscope Team you did great big papa! really
- Student lol, thx
- Bugscope Team bugbunny, you now have control
- Bugscope Team off the edge of the world
- Bugscope Team oops try not to drive off the edge! (of the world)
- Bugscope Team if you get lost, just click on a preset
- Bugscope Team or drive back... nice
- Student what is that?
- Bugscope Team this is the claw of a cricket
- Student hes hairy
- Student trippy
- Bugscope Team setae are kinda like cat whiskers, they help insects to sense their environment
- Student Thats kool!!
- Student thats kool
- Bugscope Team without those setae (hairs) they wouldn't feel, taste, smell, nothing
- Bugscope Team if you watch insects walk, you can see that sometimes they don't walk on their claws, but on some of the tarsi further up the leg
- Bugscope Team that's because insects don't have skin, instead they have an exoskeleton which is very hard and has no nerves in it
- Teacher Are Cate, Scot, and Alex in the lab or at the same location?
Bugscope Team We are all near each other but not in the same room. Sometimes we have an entymologist, Annie, log in, and she is currently living in California
Bugscope Team we are in different rooms, within the same lab (microscopy suite) in urbana illinois
- 11:42am
- Teacher Is there a way to capture images or add them to our transcript?
Bugscope Team yes! anytime after your session, you can view ALL the images and chat from this session on your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-116
- Student what r u doin bugsbunny?
- Bugscope Team the head!
- Bugscope Team you can see that the antennae are busted off
- Bugscope Team you can actually view that member page now if you want, it is updating in real time
- Bugscope Team so yeah as Alex said the images are collected automatically
- Student why does it look flaky?
Bugscope Team sometimes there's some dried up juju on the surface of the insect -- sometimes they throw up on themselves if they're killed with CO2 or whatever is used
- Student they dont heva lotion lol
- Student i see u
- Student hello mg
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team this is a true bug. check out the compound eyes on either side of the head
- Bugscope Team well, now you are zoomed in on the proboscis
- Bugscope Team true bugs have piercing/sucking mouthparts like this
- Bugscope Team and now something else...
- Bugscope Team there's an eye!!!
- Bugscope Team that's a compound eye
- Bugscope Team compound eyes are cool, they are made up of hundreds of individual facets, called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team sometimes they pierce other bugs and drink the hemolymph; sometimes they drink plant fluids like sap
- 11:47am
- Student wow awesome
- Teacher please let student have control
- Bugscope Team usually there is an obvious hexagon pattern to the facets, but here it's not so defined
- Bugscope Team go student, you have control
- Bugscope Team if you click on the micron bar you can see some of the 'scope parameters, and then click again when you want that to go away
- Student shes learning how 2 do it 2
- Bugscope Team student is driving the scope, everyone put your seat belts on
- Student is this still it eye
Bugscope Team if you click on the scale bar that is on the image, it will let you know whereabouts we are
- Student lol i would if i was in a car
- Bugscope Team you can still see the eyes there, yes
- Bugscope Team you can see that there is some kinda sap on the little dude -- you could see it in the setae
- Bugscope Team this scope is a lot more expensive than any car you'll ever drive...
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team this is a moth
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the moth
- Bugscope Team a moth head
- Student damg i was wrong again
- Bugscope Team its proboscis is in the center
- Student thats ugly
- Student wow so hairy
Bugscope Team those are actually scales. moth scales
- Bugscope Team moths are gnarly looking dudes, that's for sure
- Student what!!! WOW!!
- Bugscope Team when it wants to extend its proboscis it pumps hemolymph into it, and the pressure makes it roll out like a party favor at New Years
- Bugscope Team with some hairs too i guess?
- Bugscope Team well, not hairs, setae i mean
- Bugscope Team those big half spheres are compound eyes
- Student whats the proboscis used for?
Bugscope Team drinking nectar from flowers
- Bugscope Team you can take the mag up on one of the eyes if you want
- Student um can we look at the compound eyes please?
Bugscope Team looks like she wants to see the proboscis
- Bugscope Team yeah, ask student to focus in on one of the eyes
- Bugscope Team there we go, to the east
- 11:52am
- Student do we have a preset of its wings?
Bugscope Team no but you could drive there
- Bugscope Team this is a busted off palp, in between
- Bugscope Team now, you can see the individual facets of the eye, those are called ommatidia, each one has a lens in it
- Student awesome
- Student how many lenses are in a compound eye? like an estimation
Bugscope Team thousands!
- Bugscope Team flying insects have great vision, all due to their compound eyes
- Student koo
- Bugscope Team compound eyes give insects greater peripheral vision, and they also update quickly, giving the insect a better ability to perceive motion
- Bugscope Team but different insects have different numbers of ommatidia. flying insects have more than walkers
- Bugscope Team maybe 5000 per eye
- Student can i have control now
- Student please
- Student dang thats Alot
- Bugscope Team is student done driving?
- Bugscope Team student is that alright?
- Student do all bugs see UV rays like bees do?
Bugscope Team not all of them, but moths do
- Student yes student is done driving
- Bugscope Team mr. orton, can we give control to muffin?
- Bugscope Team coolness, muffin, you are the master
- Bugscope Team thought he was a man but he was a muffin
- Student lol she aint no master......but all wel
- Bugscope Team from the Zappa song
- Student I am the master of muffins
- Student lol
- Teacher the strange thing is that it is actually two girls
- Bugscope Team this is salt, from wendy's restaurant
- Bugscope Team Aztec salt
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Bugscope Team you can certainly go to a higher mag
- Student zoom in
- Bugscope Team and focus, of course
- Bugscope Team we can focus for you quickly if you want?
- 11:57am
- Bugscope Team or you can try it
- Bugscope Team we're all backseat drivers, sorry
- Student HERE WE GO!........time for the argues
- Student stacee sucks at this
- Student I can't move it
- Student lol
- Bugscope Team you are doing fine muffin
- Bugscope Team when you focus it's either one way or the other; if it gets worse go the other way
- Bugscope Team you are doing very well in fact
- Student what are the imprints in the salt crystals?
Bugscope Team we think that Wendys' supplier uses an anticaking agent, and that is what we see
- Bugscope Team and we can help, as well
- Student are they like just erosion?....or no?
- Bugscope Team ah cool, this is a praying mantis head
- Student dude its liek a hole new world man
Bugscope Team right on
- Student ah koo
- Student this is kool
- Student those its mandibles?
- Student why does it have a hole?
Bugscope Team well, that looks like a tear in the exoskeleton. but often you'll find holes on the abdomen, called spiracles, those are used for breathing
- Student nevermind muffin moved it now
- Student did it get in a fight?
- Student ...wow
- Bugscope Team this looks like an injury
- Student why is it cut in half?
- Bugscope Team i think cate stepped on it... ;)
- 12:02pm
- Student lol
- Student CATE!
- Student dude, look at them chompers
- Bugscope Team well, insects are fragile when they die, they dry out and become hardened. that makes them easier to damage
- Student there u go comadre!
- Teacher Comadre!'s turn please
- Bugscope Team when insects die, they also lose water, and so you'll see features that are shrunken
- Student ohhh
- Bugscope Team comadere!, you are da man!
- Student thats good to know
- Bugscope Team comadre! i mean, sorry
- Student i thought they were girls
- Student thats so awsome
- Student what is it
- Student r they jaws
- Student Go to the Spider's Claw
- Bugscope Team they are spines, not jaws
- Bugscope Team praying mantises use these forelegs to grab onto insects
- Student ??
- Student ohhhhhh
- Bugscope Team spines on a praying mantis, on its arm segment i think?
- Bugscope Team helps to hold them in place while the mantids eat them
- Bugscope Team right alex
- Bugscope Team this is a spider
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team its hard to see because there is a lot of extra junk around it, but the claw is in the middle of the picture at the end of the arm
- Student cool!!
- Student what kind of spider is this??
Bugscope Team hard to tell -- we don't know enough about spiders. but it looks like a male
- Student why do the legs look like they got some little hairs on them?
Bugscope Team that's because they do! Spiders are very hairy and a lot of those hairs most likely help the spider feel for vibrations like when an insect is stuck in the web
- Bugscope Team and if you find the head, you might be able to see the spiders simple eyes, spiders have simple eyes in addition to compound eyes
- Student are the little hairs called seate
Bugscope Team you rock! yes... way to use the old brain nugget there!
- Student setae*
- Bugscope Team yes seta is singular
- 12:07pm
- Student sorry
- Bugscope Team those bumps near the top are the simple eyes
- Bugscope Team setae, though, not seate
- Student we can't spell, sorry
- Bugscope Team sometimes the hairs are called trichae, microtrichae, microsetae, bristles, spines
- Bugscope Team me no spell good either
- Student thanks
- Student gotta go dudes n dudets, piece
- Student wow
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team and even entomologists call them hairs
- Student thank youu!! :)
- Bugscope Team what you'
- Teacher Could I get control back for a minute
Bugscope Team sure
- Bugscope Team re gone?
- Student Thanks guys gotta go to nxt class
- Student this was in awesome
- Teacher Some students are leaving and some new ones are coming in
Bugscope Team oh cool
- Bugscope Team remember, mr. orton, all the images and chat are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-116
- Student bye bye
- Bugscope Team ok cool, more students
- Bugscope Team you can barely see one of the fangs at the bottom of the image here
- Student hey
Bugscope Team hey DaddyO
- Student what is that
Bugscope Team some kinda juju that oozed out the spider when it died
- Bugscope Team hi, welcome to bugscope
- Student wut is dat
- Bugscope Team this is a spider, in an electron microscope
- Bugscope Team mr. orton has control of the scope at the moment
- Student wut part of the spider
Bugscope Team the head -- or cephalothorax
- Bugscope Team hey, there's a simple eye!
- Student sup ace nice spider legs.. lol
Bugscope Team hairy spider legs
- Bugscope Team usually spiders have eight eyes like this, and often they cannot see that well
- Student eww!!!whats that bump?
Bugscope Team that is one of the eyes
- Bugscope Team they depend more on their ability to sense vibration
- Student wut is this now
Bugscope Team we're looking at a portion of the head
- Student hi
- 12:12pm
- Student do they even have a pupil?
Bugscope Team sometimes they seem to have pupils, but if they did we would not be able to see inside
- Bugscope Team in the middle are the palps
- Student ive seen better spiders
Bugscope Team yeah, but in an electron microscope that YOU can control over the internet???
- Student wut is this
- Student weird abs lol
- Student show me its jaw
Bugscope Team it's under the palps there; you can actually see one of the fangs
- Bugscope Team the scanning electron microscope cannot see through things
- Student thats wierd
- Student hi ana
- Student cool spider
Bugscope Team spiders are softbodied and thus often do not look good when they die and dry up
- Student how many eyes do they have?
Bugscope Team eight
- Student nice ive never seen anything like thisbefore
- Student wut part is that??
Bugscope Team this is the head of a weevil
- Student nice snout
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Bugscope Team anteaters are similar to this
- Bugscope Team now you can see one of the antennae, and both compound eyes
- Student anteaters
- Student how big is the weevil?
Bugscope Team maybe a centimeter long
- Student nice!
- Student hey is there a n eye
- Student wats up
- Student watz up watz up
- Bugscope Team this is a compound eye
- Bugscope Team on the damselfly
- Student so how many lenses????????????????????/
- Bugscope Team oops it's a lacewing
- 12:17pm
- Bugscope Team hundreds of lenses, sometimes thousands
- Student wut that?
- Student wat is dat
- Student nice preymantice
- Student eww thats ugly???
Bugscope Team yes
- Student oh i mean lacewean
- Bugscope Team lacewing
- Student my bad
Bugscope Team no big deal
- Student wut is that
- Bugscope Team no problemo
- Student thats kool bro is it yours
Bugscope Team your skool sent it
- Bugscope Team this is a lacewing, near the wing joint
- Student was up
- Bugscope Team the wing is to the lower left, the head is upper right
- Bugscope Team muffin, you've got control
- Student come on muffin man
- Student lets go
- Bugscope Team muffin you can choose from among the presets to the right of the chat box if you'd like
- Bugscope Team give muffin a chance, it's kool
- Bugscope Team it's not always easy to get started
- Bugscope Team yeah, you can klick on a preset to go there
- Student watz up watz up
Bugscope Team this is the head of the cricket
- Student nice krecket
- Student is that an eyeball
- Bugscope Team oops, i mean, you kan klick on a preset
- Student is that its head?
- Student bianca?????
Bugscope Team you recognize it?
- Bugscope Team yep, this is its head!
- Student the normal or king cricket???????????
- Student what insect is that?!!
Bugscope Team it's a cricket, and I think it is normal
- Student wat is that
- Student wat is dat
- Student the head of the crikcet??
- Bugscope Team this is a baby cricket
- Bugscope Team this is a cricket, the head, not sure if it's a king cricket?
- Bugscope Team very small
- Student oh datz kool
- Bugscope Team ah, a baby, like cate says
- Student can you zoom up on the eye
- Bugscope Team sure, ask muffin to zoom in on it
- Bugscope Team muffin is controlling the scope now
- Student hey muffin!! can ya zoom in?
- Student watz up iris
- Student eww wats hat
- Bugscope Team this is the compound eye, well, now we are looking at a true bug
- 12:23pm
- Bugscope Team quick peek at the cricket eye and we could see that it was covered with some sorta film
- Student gabe u suck
- Student whoa is that the eye
- Bugscope Team terminator was here
- Student im bored
Bugscope Team tough life
- Student nice one wut is it
- Bugscope Team the eyes are up above, on either side of the head. the hole is where an entomologist stuck it with a pin
- Bugscope Team ah, this is cool, this is a close-up of a moth scale
- Student whats that
- Bugscope Team moth scales have these holes in them, which help to keep the weight of the scale low
- Student wat is dat
- Student whats a moth scale?
Bugscope Team it's what makes their wings feel velvety if you rub moth or butterfly wings
- Bugscope Team this is a moth scale
- Bugscope Team yeah this is pretty cool -- this is one of the scales of the moth, very small
- Student wat is that supposed be
- Bugscope Team look at the micron bar
- Student turn it to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team well, moths have thousands of scales on them, kinda like fur, but not really
- Student ic u bianca
- Student gabrail whats up
- Bugscope Team bugs, you've got control now
- Student scales????
- Student whats that
- Student heyyy
- Bugscope Team now you can see the whole scale... zoom out even more
- Student zoom in
- Student wat does that look like
- Bugscope Team oops, now we are going somewhere else....
- Bugscope Team this is a praying mantis head
- Student wud up black guy 2
- Student what big eyes u have
- Student sup tanner
- Student whats that? is it a praying mantis?
Bugscope Team yes it's one I brought in that I found by my house
- Bugscope Team if they crash into a spider web they can just shed some of those scales and get away
- Student what is that
- Student no gabriel
- Student wut is that
- Student what up ninja
- Bugscope Team this is how it holds its prey
- Student so guys wuts this
- Teacher about another five minutes or so?
Bugscope Team sure, that's fine
- Student that look likes teeth
- Student i love sch
- Student ool
- Student this call
- Student i i now this class is so boring
- Student that me
- Bugscope Team got to click to stop
- Bugscope Team one click
- Student this clazz iz borin
Bugscope Team go get a job at Burger King and see if that's better
- Student are those teeth
- Student wat is dat
- Bugscope Team click again to stop bugs
- Student johnny sucks
- Bugscope Team there ya go!
- 12:28pm
- Student screw u tanner
- Student YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.................??
Bugscope Team hey I am sorry, but think about what you're seeing. this is pretty cool
- Student bye
- Student bye ppl
- Student Bye bye
- Student see u guys later
- Student peace out
- Student i have to go science people
- Student piece out player
- Student see ya
- Bugscope Team thanks for participating in bugscope with us and driving the scope
- Student laterz haterz
- Student it was a good time though
Bugscope Team Thanks!
- Student furizle my nizle
- Student PCe!!!
- Bugscope Team chowzers
- Bugscope Team good job
- Bugscope Team Peace Out
- Bugscope Team Hi Nosey!
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-116
- Bugscope Team mr orton you can go visit your member page at http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-116/ anytime to see images and chat from today
- Bugscope Team Mr O you have control again
- Bugscope Team that has all your chat and images mr. orton
- 12:33pm
- Bugscope Team any final questions mr orton?
- Guest do you have a time frame for future sessions to be scheduled?
Bugscope Team they are presently in January and February
- Teacher Sorry about that last part
- Bugscope Team hey, no problem, we've seen worse
- Bugscope Team and kids are kids, it's kool
- Bugscope Team no I should apologize, no big deal here really
- Teacher my first class loved their time on the scope
- Bugscope Team i think they actually liked it though
- Bugscope Team what I usually do is ignore the bad kids and concentrate on the ones who care
- Bugscope Team you can review all the images and chat from your session on your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-116
- Bugscope Team lately I've had a short fuse, but that's not the way to deal with it
- Bugscope Team So Nosey you can go the the Bugscope website -- the front page -- and apply from there
- Bugscope Team if you would like to drive now, for a few minutes, let us know
- Bugscope Team well, scott, i think your point was right on. maybe the student will think about that
- Teacher the second group was younger and a little squirrely
- Bugscope Team they did ask some good questions, and saw some cool insects
- Guest Thanks - I've had the pleasure of your help for the past two years - you have become very popular! I think I've waited too long to apply :(
- 12:38pm
- Bugscope Team was this your first session mr orton?
- Bugscope Team the deal is we don't really know the kids, and someone could be working his/her way through school at BK
- Bugscope Team yeah, looks like it was your first. good job!
- Teacher I had better go too
- Teacher Thank you soo much
- Bugscope Team ok, bye, thanks for joining bugscope
- Bugscope Team Thank You and hope to see you again
- Bugscope Team TD!
- Teacher This was my first session and will not be my last!
Bugscope Team awesome
- Teacher Have a great day
Bugscope Team You too. Thank You.
- Bugscope Team good bye
- Bugscope Team TD has control of the 'scope now
- Bugscope Team Nosey would you like to drive?
- Bugscope Team I just gave you control
- Guest no thanks - I'm just looking around..... :)
- Bugscope Team our school is done, so we're going to peel off soon
- Guest no problem - feel free to do what you need to - I'm going soon too - thankyou
- 12:43pm
- Bugscope Team but please think about running a session with us in the future, or asking your kids' teacher if she/he would like to do it
- Bugscope Team Bye!
- Bugscope Team it's easy to apply http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/apply
- Guest I am the teacher - is there any way to squeeze in a session before January?
Bugscope Team well, it depends on the schedule, i think the best thing to do is to submit an application, and you can email with kendra to find an open slot before january
- Guest sounds great - thanks
- Bugscope Team bugscope@beckman.illinois.edu, or apply through the website. kendra handles all scheduling, but she is very cool
- Bugscope Team we'll try our best to fit your class in
- Bugscope Team ok, we are outa here, take care
- Guest we love your program - it's the best - I'll email her right away
- Bugscope Team ok
- Bugscope Team nice session everyone
