Connected on 2009-12-07 10:00:00 from Emporia, KS, US
- 9:18am
- Teacher Just checking to make suer it works on my computer with a projector
- Bugscope Team hello missfitz, welcome to buscope!
- Bugscope Team we are setting up your presets at the moment, you are welcome to hang out, ask any questions
- Bugscope Team when we are done with presets we will give you control of the scope
- Teacher Ill be logging out shortly to get the kids computers set up for testing.
- Bugscope Team ok, no problemo, we'll be here
- 9:23am
- Bugscope Team Hi hi all
- 9:29am
- Bugscope Team hi lane
- Bugscope Team where are you from?
- Teacher Were you asking me where I am from?
- Teacher Emporia, KS
- Bugscope Team ah, were you logged in as lane?
- Bugscope Team we had a guest login as lane
- Bugscope Team but they logged off as soon as i said hi... that happens sometimes
- Teacher No that was a student not following directions ; )
- Bugscope Team heh, okay
- 9:35am
- Teacher oops
- Bugscope Team it's fine, no problem
- Teacher Hoep that did not muck anything up.
- Bugscope Team yeah no problem here at all
- 9:41am
- Bugscope Team okay, we are done with presets
- Bugscope Team i just unlocked the session, you should now see controls on the right side
- Bugscope Team Magnify, Navigation, Focus and Adjust
- Bugscope Team when using Navigation, "click to center" is much easier to control than "click to drive"
- Bugscope Team you are welcome to give it a try anytime
- Teacher OK, thanks.
- Teacher We will be on shortly
- Bugscope Team okay, we are ready anytime
- 9:49am
- Bugscope Team hi Lane!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team this is a lacewing
- Bugscope Team you can see its head, its compound eyes, one antenna, and its mouthparts, plus one leg
- Bugscope Team hi students, welcome to bugscope!
- Guest is this a ant
- Guest hey guys
Bugscope Team hi standard
- Bugscope Team It's a flying insect called a lacewing
- Guest hi i'm in
- Bugscope Team this is a lacewing
- Guest hi
- Bugscope Team I have a MacBook
- Guest macs are cool
- Guest me too
- Bugscope Team Oops sorry Annie.
Bugscope Team Well, I could be using anything..I am far away
- Bugscope Team I'm odd person out.
- Guest lol
- 9:54am
- Bugscope Team Annie is our entomologist, and she is in California. The rest of us are in Illinois.
- Guest can we take pics
Bugscope Team All of the images you see now are being saved to your database.
- Guest what part is that
Bugscope Team that is part of the exoskeleton of the caterpillar
- Guest How many times is it magnified?
Bugscope Team You should be able to see the 55x in the upper right corner of the window
- Guest is this microscope with bugscope?
Bugscope Team this is a scanning electron microscope, the one we use for bugscope
- Teacher did it get attacked or something?
Bugscope Team Caterpillars are squishy, and when they die, they sort of deflate--like bagpipes.
- Guest or is it a arm
Bugscope Team one, yeah, busted off, sorry
- Guest what is the farthest we can zoom in
- Guest how much magnification can you go in
Bugscope Team the max we could go would be 200,000x with a lot of samples. When looking at insects, there usually isn't anything interesting beyond 20,000-50,000x
- Bugscope Team after your session, all the chat and images are on your member page: http:bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-121
- Guest is that inside the ant?
Bugscope Team this is the caterpillar
- Guest how do the spikes help
Bugscope Team they could help keep from getting eaten, and also perhaps keep wasps away, for awhile
- Guest what is this
- Teacher Guests are not able to see any magnification or to control from their computers
Bugscope Team they should be able to see the micron bar, on the screen itself. they cannot control unless you specify who is to control
- Guest what is this part of it?
Bugscope Team we are looking at the underside of a caterpillar
- Bugscope Team parasitic wasps often choose caterpillars to inject their eggs into
- Guest so how did bugsccope get started??
- Guest what is a sculptor ring
Bugscope Team not sure
- Guest what is a cutical?
Bugscope Team cuticle is what the chitin is called -- the exoskeleton
- Teacher Oh
- Bugscope Team this is live control of an electron microscope, only one person can control at a time, just let us know if you want us to give control to any student
- Guest what is a cuticle
Bugscope Team cuticle is what we call the shell of the insect. it is made of chitin, kind of like what our fingernails are made of.
- Bugscope Team Oh, sculpturing
- Guest so how did bugsccope get started??
Bugscope Team we started almost 11 years ago, now, to try and create a sustainable outreach project, following on the chickscope project, which was not really sustainable.
- 9:59am
- Teacher CAn we give each studetns control for about 3 minutes starting at the top of the guest list?
- Bugscope Team like bumps--just features of the cuticle that might just be for looks.
- Guest why does it look like part of it is broken?
Bugscope Team it very well could be. When insects die, they dry out and become brittle, making it easy for limbs to break off
- Bugscope Team ok, rodeiguez, you have control now
- Bugscope Team Sculpturing is just bumps on the exoskeleton
- Guest What is chitin?
Bugscope Team chitin is what the shell of a shrimp is, for example
- Guest is there like tissue in there?
- Bugscope Team rodeiguez, click on a preset to move to that image
- Guest what is the water stuff?
- Guest Oh ok
- Bugscope Team okay, so you drove off the edge of the scope there, so we clicked on a preset for you, this is a compound eye
- Guest what is this
Bugscope Team this is a super close view of an insect eye
- Guest what are the things stiking out of the side
- Guest what are the spikes on the eye?
Bugscope Team those are setae that are likely touch or wind sensors
- Guest What is that???
Bugscope Team we're up so close it is hard to tell, probably some of the mouthparts
- Bugscope Team you notice lots of things that look like hair on insects, and we call them setae, usually
- Guest Are those hairs?
Bugscope Team well, not hairs really. they are called setae (pronounced see-tee) and they help insects to sense their environment
- Guest What part is that, it look likes on arm?
Bugscope Team I think it is one of the palps -- one of the accessory mouthparts
- Guest Is that hair on the lace wing compound eye?
Bugscope Team yes, it is a sensory hair often called a seta, plural setae
- 10:04am
- Guest why do they have huge eyes?/
Bugscope Team Lacewings are predators, they have to have big eyes to see and catch their prey
- Guest why do they have such big eyes
Bugscope Team it's really helpful to have big compound eyes; you can register motion more quickly and have better peripheral vision as well
- Bugscope Team palps are used to help move around or taste food.
- Guest What do lacewings eat?
Bugscope Team They really like things like aphids and mealybugs---little small soft bugs that suck plant juices.
- Guest what is thier prey?
- Guest Do we ahve any other bugs to look at?
Bugscope Team yes you can choose from among the presets: alingh has control now
- Bugscope Team alingh now has control
- Guest What do lacewings eat?
Bugscope Team as Annie had said below -- aphids and mealybugs, which are small and softbodied and live on plant juices
- Guest what is that
- Guest What are the dots?
Bugscope Team those are mold spores
- Guest How did the Assassin bug get mold on it?
Bugscope Team if you leave anything alone for a while, it will get mold on it most of the time.
- Guest that is cool
- Bugscope Team once insects die they are often taken over fairly quickly by mold, and sometimes bacteria, which cause them to rot
- Guest Is that a rib cag?
Bugscope Team not sure. it wouldn't really be a rib cage because insects don't have bones. they have an exoskeleton, which means they have a hard shell like a suit of armor
- Guest e sorry
- 10:09am
- Guest How did the assassin bug get it's name?
Bugscope Team Assassin bugs are predators, they sneak up and capture anything smaller than them and suck out all their body juices!!
- Guest What are the little white dits?
- Guest why are the cotton ball moving
- Guest why are the balls moveing
Bugscope Team the electron beam is causing them to move a lttle bit. they are also chargin up with electrons, that's why they look bright
- Guest dot
- Guest Are those hairs?
Bugscope Team some of those are hairs, or setae, and some are fungal hyphae
- Guest are we going to switch soon
- Bugscope Team those are little balls of mold spores, almost like dandelions of mold
- Bugscope Team Mohn is now the Supreme Ruler.
- Bugscope Team cool mohn, take us for a drive in the microscope!
- Bugscope Team You can go to a preset, or a lower mag, if you are lost -- happens to us as well....
- Bugscope Team if you get lost just click on a preset
- Teacher What are fungal hyphae?
Bugscope Team the hyphae are the strands, like branches or tendrils, of mold
- Bugscope Team mohn, you need to click to drive again
- Bugscope Team we are stuck moving
- Guest where is the head?
- 10:14am
- Guest what is the spiracle?
Bugscope Team a spiracle is a breathing pore
- Teacher I think our internet is crapping out...
- Bugscope Team mohn, you MUST click in your screen to stop moving
- Guest All i see is black
Bugscope Team same for us; just a minute
- Bugscope Team we are trying to fix, hold on
- Guest what is that?
- Bugscope Team ok, we are fixed now
- Bugscope Team sorry about that, we seemed to have fixed the problem.
- Bugscope Team mohn, you have control
- Teacher No worries!
- Bugscope Team this is one of the spiracle, which insects use to regulate their air intake, or breathe
- Bugscope Team spiracles, sorry
- Guest What is a spriacle?
Bugscope Team it is a breathing hole for insects, like a nostril
- Bugscope Team A spiracle is like a nostril. Insects use it to breathe.
- 10:20am
- Guest what is the round tube things on the side
- Bugscope Team Lane I just gave you control. If you use click to drive, click once to drive, once to stop
- Teacher Why do insects need spriracles instead of lungs?
Bugscope Team they solved the problem of breathing a different way, long before people were around, or likely even mammals
- Guest So what are those stuff around it?
- Guest What is a Beetle palp for?
Bugscope Team it's used to move around and taste food
- Guest How is a spiriacle different then lungs what is the difference?
Bugscope Team well, a lunch can force air in and out of your body. but a spiracle is just a hole in the abdomen of an insect. the air just kinda goes into the spiracle on its own
- Guest what is that stuff in there?
Bugscope Team looked like there was dirt and some small amounts of mold
- Guest What is the things that look like rocks inside of the little hole
- Guest What is the tube?
- Guest Why do they have a Beetle Palp instead of a mouth?
Bugscope Team the palp helps them move the food into the mouth, and also taste it
- Guest Why do bugs have mold do thye have to have mold to live??
- Guest how do the 2 tubes conect in the body like the arm i think that is what it is?
Bugscope Team you know they are so much like arms, but they only help with feeding and tasting
- Guest Oh ok
- Guest Why do bugs have mold do they have to have mold to live??
Bugscope Team well, i don't think they require mold, although some might feed off of it. mold naturally grows on anything and everything that is damp and kept in a closed environment. we often find mold on dead insects
- Guest Are those arms?
Bugscope Team they're palps, which are like tiny arms that help the insect feed
- Bugscope Team Insect blood doesn't carry oxygen, so there is no need for complicated system like lungs. Each cell in an insect body gets its own supply of oxygen from a branching system of tubes connected to the spiracles.
- Guest what are the little tiny tube looking things
Bugscope Team those are the tips of the palps, and they have chemosensors inside them to help smell food
- Guest Does this bug have vains?
Bugscope Team Insects have what is called an open circulatory system, they have blood that flows freely in their body.
- Guest Why do bugs have mold do they have to have mold to live??
Bugscope Team some insects, such as fruit flies, eat particular kinds of fruit mold
- Guest what is the mold like stuff around the bug
- Bugscope Team So they don't have veins
- Guest what are chemosensors
Bugscope Team they're like taste buds for chemicals in the air
- 10:25am
- Guest is there any way to point out specific objects like a needle or somehting?
Bugscope Team sure, you could ask whoever is driving to magnify close up to the spot you want to look at
- Guest So there bloods just flows all by it's self?
Bugscope Team it doesn't really flow; it just fills the inside of the body cavity
- Bugscope Team the scope can magnify many thousands of times, so you can focus in on just about anything you are seeing in the images
- Bugscope Team standard, i just switched control over to you, have fun!
- Guest Why does it have all the stringy stuff all over it?
Bugscope Team stringy stuff is often mold -- fungal hyphae
- Bugscope Team this is one of the spider spinnerets; it moved a tiny bit since we made the preset
- Guest are u guys saving thee pictures and the chat or just the pics
Bugscope Team saving everything, pretty much
- Guest what are those claws?
- Bugscope Team this is where spider web comes out of
- Guest Are those things sensors?
Bugscope Team the maing things we see are the silk extruders -- the things that produce the web
- Bugscope Team all the chat and images are being saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-121
- Bugscope Team there is going to be a chat transcript you can access from your member page that has images going along with it
- Bugscope Team you can also see plumose setae, which are long pine-tree-like setae
- Guest what are the spikes and hairs
- Guest why are they some smooth and furry looking?
Bugscope Team the furry looking things are hairs on the spider
- 10:30am
- Bugscope Team the furry ones are the plumose setae
- Bugscope Team spiders can make sticky and nonsticky web; they can also recycle web by eating it
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Bugscope Team try focus here
- Bugscope Team that looks pretty good
- Guest Where does there web come out of?
Bugscope Team out of the pointy things with the wider bases
- Guest are those the legs
Bugscope Team no we are at a much higher mag, just looking at some of the setae - the 'hairs'
Bugscope Team no, we are looking at the spinneret, smaller than the legs
- Bugscope Team their silk is made of protein. If they get really hungry, they eat their web
- Bugscope Team if you take the mag down, there you go, you can see where we are
- Guest Why is some of the spider smooth and some of it have hairs all over?
Bugscope Team some places will lose those hairs; they'll rub off
- Bugscope Team this is the spider's abdomen
- Guest what are the tiny little hairs
Bugscope Team almost all of those hairs are setae (see-tee), they help the spider to sense its environment
- Guest what are the spiky things?/
Bugscope Team etae
Bugscope Team setae
- Guest what kind of a spider are we looking at?
- Guest Do all spiders have the exact same thing as this one
Bugscope Team no, there are lots of differences among spider species
- Guest how does the web come ot?
- Guest what those the adomen do
Bugscope Team the abdomen is the round part at the back; it is like a belly, but it has the web-producing glands as well as the reproductive system inside it
- Bugscope Team some spiders, like tarantulas, have irritating hairs that they release when you come near them
- Bugscope Team Ug, I am not very good at identifying spiders, sorry
- 10:35am
- Guest what are the holes
Bugscope Team most of these holes are where the setae broke off and the hole is where the seta stuck through the exoskeleton
- Guest How big is this spider in real life?
Bugscope Team less than a centimeter across
- Guest what is that?
Bugscope Team the hooks are called crochets
- Bugscope Team switching control over to rawlings
- Bugscope Team These are called prolegs because they don't exist in the adult butterfly
- Guest why do they need them (what are the crochets)?
Bugscope Team The prolegs, with crochets, help the caterpillar to hang on to leaves and branches
- Guest where are the eyes?
Bugscope Team they are the bumps you can just see at the top of the head
- Guest what are the humps
Bugscope Team those are called chelicerae, they kind of look like buck teeth on spiders, but have fangs attached at the ends
- 10:40am
- Guest Do all spiders eat insects
Bugscope Team They are generalists. They will pretty much eat anything smaller than them. Some large spiders can eat baby birds or lizards.
- Guest what are the little yarn things?
Bugscope Team those are longer setae that almost cover the fangs
- Guest Do all of these insects have mold on them?
Bugscope Team no, not all, but it is not uncommon
- Bugscope Team most of what we see here are the chelicers, or chelicerae, as Cate said while I was struggling to type
- Guest what are the strings in between the to humps
Bugscope Team those are long setae that seem to have a kind of filter function
- Bugscope Team there is a jumping spider, called Bagheera kiplingi, that eats mostly plant material
- Bugscope Team the Bagheera kiplingi is the only known mostly herbivore diet spider in the world
- Bugscope Team you can see one of the fangs, lower right
- Guest do they have 2 different spiricals or just one or more?
Bugscope Team Spiders have a different type of respiratory system--they have something called book lungs.
- Bugscope Team yeah right a vegetarian spider, like a vampire that doesn't bite people -- a PC vampire
- Guest what is a filter funtion?
Bugscope Team often when we see something like that -- a fringe -- it has the function of filtering dust, keeping it away from the mouthparts, for example
- Guest what is the things on top of the vans
- Guest Do they have palps too or do they have something else?
Bugscope Team They have palps as well.
- Guest Can you tell how old a spider is by the size of it 's fangs
Bugscope Team I don't think so. I am not sure if there is a reliable way to tell how old a spider is.
- Guest How many palps do they have just 1 or 2?
Bugscope Team they have two big palps that look like legs, on either side of the chelicerae
- Guest do the fangs grow?
Bugscope Team they might grow if the spider grows. They have a chance to grow with each molt they have. When they molt, they can also grow back legs they might have lost previously
- Guest what is a filter funtion
Bugscope Team I meant the capability of filtering dust, for example
- 10:46am
- Guest can they breathe out of all the holes at once or just one at a time
Bugscope Team well, they don't breath like we do with forcing air in and out. air just goes into the spiracle holes, and organs inside the insects absorb the air
- Bugscope Team spiders have the ability to jettison legs that they sense have been bitten and have venom entering them
- Guest Does this spider use there fangs a lot?
Bugscope Team that is how they eat -- the fangs inject venom that dissolves the insides of what they are eating, and then they use the fangs again to suck all of the juice out like a milkshake
- Bugscope Team so yeah, air goes into all spiracles at the same time, unless it's covered up by some kind of spiracle pillow
- Bugscope Team it is called autotomy
- Guest what kind of spider is this
Bugscope Team sorry, but i don't think we know the exact species
- Guest can we go somewhere else?
Bugscope Team ask clopton to click on a preset
- Teacher Can clopton control?
- Bugscope Team clopton, you have control now
- Bugscope Team clopton, try clicking on a preset
- Bugscope Team I clicked on something to see if there was a holdup
- Bugscope Team and there is...
- Bugscope Team okay, sorry about that, it's fixed again
- Bugscope Team Alex just fixed it, sorry clopton.
- Guest that is soo cool
- Guest Does that thing have eylashes?
- Bugscope Team try again clopton, if the scope is unresponsive, just let us know
- 10:51am
- Bugscope Team I mean Clopton...
- Bugscope Team Nice!
- Bugscope Team we don't normally see it crash so much, sorry about that
- Teacher Are those eyes?
Bugscope Team those are chemosensory palps, we think. there are eyespots on them other side
- Bugscope Team this is the capitulum -- the head of the tick
- Guest what is the fang looking thing
- Teacher Waht is the "w" shaped apparatus?
Bugscope Team the w's are the recurved spines that help the tick head stay in your skin
- Guest Where do they bite?
Bugscope Team They dig the pointy part of their head into your skin
- Guest What are the spikes on the bottom right now?
- Guest what are the spikes facing each other
- Guest Why do tick suck?
Bugscope Team They need to have blood to complete their development. Both male and female ticks suck blood
- Guest on the top
Bugscope Team those are setae, hairs that help insects sense their environment
- Guest what is the fang looking thing
- Bugscope Team when they bite the side parts we see now fold away
- Guest to live
- Bugscope Team and the part behind it...
- Guest Where do they out all the blood in them?
Bugscope Team in their stomachs
- Guest Every where?
- Guest what is the fang looking thing\
Bugscope Team that is one of the eight claws
- Bugscope Team or, it is one of eight sets of claws at the end of the eight legs
- 10:56am
- Guest What do they use the claws for?
Bugscope Team all kinds of things: grabbing food and stuffing it towards their mouths, holding onto other bugs for defense, grasping plants as they try to climb them, etc.
- Bugscope Team click once to stop
- Bugscope Team take the mag down if you want to get a better view
- Bugscope Team this is carbon tape that the critters are stuck onto
- Bugscope Team they use their claws kind of like we use our hands
- Teacher We are about to start another session
Bugscope Team okay, sounds good
- Teacher Guion and Smith did not get to control and they be first in for 2 minutes
- Bugscope Team what they do, actually, is hook one or the other of the built-in hooks on the top of the thorax, on the ventral side, over a leaf of grass, and then they can extend all eight arms to grab you as you go by
- Bugscope Team hi students, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team you can see one of the eyes to the left
- Bugscope Team this is a rolypoly
- Bugscope Team these are live images from an electron microscope, right now your teacher has control of that scope
- Bugscope Team Guion we gave you control of the microscope.
- 11:01am
- Bugscope Team cool, guion, you have control
- Bugscope Team this is the underside of the head of the rolypoly, near the mouth
- Bugscope Team when using navigation, "click to center" is much easier to control than click to drive
- Bugscope Team click once to drive, and once to stop
- Bugscope Team okay, click again to stop, there ya go! nice
- Bugscope Team good work guion!
- Bugscope Team this is the wing of the lacewing
- Bugscope Team you can see little scratches on it
- Bugscope Team you can see the wingveins, which have little spines on them, and as Cate said, you can see lots of scratches.
- Bugscope Team birds and other animals that eat insects often just spit the wings out
- Bugscope Team the head is to the north
- Bugscope Team see the compound eye? ooops not now
- Guest Where's is eye
Bugscope Team to the left -- there!
- Bugscope Team you can take the mag lower to see better
- Guest it almost looks kind of furry
- Bugscope Team that is the rolypoly compound eye
- Guest Why is the eye bubbly?
Bugscope Team those bubble are the individual facets of the compound eye, each one has a lens in it!
- Bugscope Team rolypolies are not insects -- they are crustaceans
- Guest what is a compound eye?
Bugscope Team a compound eye has many individual facets, called ommatidia, that serve as lenses
- Teacher Smith needs to control
Bugscope Team smith has control now
- 11:07am
- Bugscope Team there are rolypolies that live in the sea that get as big as poodles!
- Guest What is that?
Bugscope Team this is one of the claws of the termite
- Guest what are the spikes?
Bugscope Team most of those spikes are setae (pronounced see-tee), they help insects to sense their environment, kinda like cat whiskers
- Teacher Like a sea cucumber?
- Teacher The rolypolies?
Bugscope Team they are called giant isopod. They get to around 4 lbs in weight
- Guest Why are the pictures only black and white?
Bugscope Team when we get images from the microscope, we get them as signal from 2ndary electrons, not as light, where you would see color
- Guest Where do these termites live?
- Guest What happens to the shell of a rolly polly when it's eat'en by its predator.
Bugscope Team likely it is not digested, like if you were to eat the shell of s shrimo
- Guest what is that?
- Bugscope Team no, it's moving i think?
- Bugscope Team can you click on a preset?
- Guest Why is it furry? Or is it dry skin or something?
- Bugscope Team smith, click on a preset see what happens?
- Bugscope Team looks to be locked again. sorry fixing now
- Guest what are the circle things?
- Guest What are the little hill like features?
- Guest What is that?
- Bugscope Team smith, you should have control again.
- Teacher Can arndt control?
- Bugscope Team this is a spiracle on an assassin bug
- Guest How big is the microscope?
Bugscope Team it's the size of a desk, with all the different parts
- Bugscope Team okay, arndt, you have control
- Guest what are the things that look like branches
Bugscope Team those are setae, and inside we see what we think function as filters to keep dust out of the spiracle
- Guest whats the spiracle
Bugscope Team a spiracle is a hole in the abdomen of an insects, air goes into the hole and the insect gets nutrients from the air that way. it's how bugs breathe
- Guest Where does this assassin bug live?
- 11:12am
- Guest what is that?
- Guest What is that?
- Guest what is that
- Bugscope Team this is a spiracle, a breathing hole on an insect
- Guest What Are these?
- Guest Why does the insect look dusty?
Bugscope Team well, bugs get dirty too, just like humans can
- Guest what are the things that look like dirt?
Bugscope Team there really is dirt there
- Bugscope Team these hairs are called setae (pronounced see-tee)
- Guest is that dirt in the setae?
Bugscope Team yes!
- Bugscope Team setae are hair like structures that stick out from the exoskeleton on insects, they help insects sense their environment
- Guest What is the hair for on the bug.
Bugscope Team insects do not have nerves on their skin, because they don't have skin -- they have an exoskeleton, which is like wearing a suit of armor would be for us. So the setae stick through that armor and let the insect feel its surroundings.
- Bugscope Team it's not always the fault of the insect if it is dirty after it died
- Guest What is a setae?
Bugscope Team they are basically just hairs found on insects
- Guest Whats the little crevisis
- Guest How big is this assassin bug in real life?
- Teacher Dingman controls please
- Bugscope Team try not to drive off the edge of the scope
- Guest what is that?
- Guest I know that cats lick their kittens and there selves, but how do bugs clean there selfs?
- 11:17am
- Bugscope Team okay, we drove so far off the edge of the scope that time, it took more to fix it...
- Guest What is that?
- Bugscope Team we are getting back to normal, hold on a sec
- Bugscope Team try using "click to center" instead of click to drive
- Bugscope Team scott is now controlling the scope
- Bugscope Team this is the body of the assassin bug
- Bugscope Team this is rotting plant material the assassin bug was eating
- Teacher DO assasin bugs jsut eat plants?
Bugscope Team no no, they eat tons of bugs!
- Bugscope Team this is fungus on one of the claws
- Bugscope Team and these are mold spores
- Guest What are the balls at the end of the string things?
Bugscope Team those are the actual spores
Bugscope Team those are parts of the mold spores
- Teacher What is it doing eating a palnt?
Bugscope Team well, i think it ate it accidentally, then spit it out?
Bugscope Team that was some stuff one of its prey spit up
- Guest what are the string things?
Bugscope Team those are mold spores, pretty cool huh?
- Guest Are they poisonous.
Bugscope Team sometimes they are said to have venom, and if they bite you it could hurt
- Guest Why is it moldy?
Bugscope Team well, insects get moldy when they don't clean themselves, kinda like humans do
- Guest why does the tubes look so flat
- Guest What are those ball looking things
Bugscope Team those are mold spores
Bugscope Team those are parts of the mold spore
- Bugscope Team this is one of the claws on the assassin bug
- Bugscope Team it's very dirty...
- Bugscope Team now we are moving towards the assassin bug head
- Bugscope Team this is the head
- Bugscope Team this is the head!
- Guest What kind of bug is this?
Bugscope Team this is an assassin bug
- Bugscope Team and eye
- Teacher Why are soem pwarts really light and some parts really dark?
Bugscope Team well, that's the contrast from the scope
- Guest is that it's face?
- Guest What type of asassin bug is this?
Bugscope Team not sure, some of them are called wheel bugs because they have what looks like a half gear, or wheel, sticking out of the back
- Guest Can bugs get so dirty they die?
Bugscope Team hmmm, well, yeah, but dirt is on living bugs too
- 11:22am
- Bugscope Team if we had more time, we could make sure the contrast was better
- Guest What is that stick looking thing?
Bugscope Team i think that's the proboscis
- Guest What is the big bump?
Bugscope Team that is the compound eye
- Bugscope Team the proboscis sticks into other insects, and the assassin bug sucks out the insides of its prey
- Guest What doess a probiscis do?
Bugscope Team this proboscis is used for feeding, like a straw
- Guest is that more mold?
Bugscope Team yeppers
- Guest what are those little balls?
Bugscope Team those were mold spores
- Guest Are those ball things more mold spores?
Bugscope Team yep
- Guest what is the giant sac for.
- Guest Is that the hed?
- Bugscope Team this is now a spider
- Guest what part of the body is this?
- Bugscope Team this is now the spider
- Bugscope Team yes, this is the head area
- Bugscope Team you can see the simple eyes
- Bugscope Team they are pointed north-west
- Bugscope Team there's 3 eyes
- Bugscope Team now 4
- Guest Why does some of it look like shattered glass?
Bugscope Team that was the background tape we stick the bugs to
- Guest what is that thing that looks like a rock?
- Bugscope Team these are the fangs
- Guest How many eyes do they have?
- Guest what are those strings that are all together?
Bugscope Team those are setae
- Bugscope Team the big things in the middle are the chelicerae, which are like huge powerful sideways jaws
- Guest Why do the spider eyes semm so big?
Bugscope Team well, we are magnified pretty high
- Teacher Why do spiders ahve two types of eye?
Bugscope Team they usually have just those eight simple eyes. some spiders see well, but many do not
- Guest why do the eyes have things sticking out of it?
Bugscope Team some compound eyes have setae sticking out of them, to help the eye to keep dirt off it. but these simple eyes are clean i think?
- Guest why are the eyes so weird shaped?
- Guest is the hairy looking at the end there teeth
Bugscope Team that is a setae packet, helps to keep the fangs clean i think?
- Bugscope Team now we are going close-up to the fang
- 11:28am
- Bugscope Team here is a fang tip
- Guest How many eyes do they have?
Bugscope Team 8 eyes on spiders
- Guest Is that the fang.
Bugscope Team yep
- Guest what is that thing that the strings are on?
- Guest why is there hair on most bugs
Bugscope Team those hairs are VITAL, they are how bugs feel things in their environment
- Guest is there hair on all bugs?
Bugscope Team yes, even ones that seem like they dont have any hair like roaches will still have hairs
- Teacher That looks like fan coral.
- Guest Why does it look kind of scaly?
- Bugscope Team since bugs have an exoskeleton, and since that exoskeleton can't feel anything, they have these setae stick through the exoskeleton to nerves underneath, that's how they feel things
- Bugscope Team this is a scale
- Guest why does it have wholes?
Bugscope Team we think those scale holes allow the entire scale to be lighter
- Bugscope Team that is a scale from a butterfly or moth
- Guest Why does these things look like strings?
- Guest what makes the computers load slow?
- Teacher Disregard that question from root
- Bugscope Team so this spider, probably ate the moth, and the setae helped keep the scales out of the spider, so the spider could feast on the body of the moth
- Guest What is this stuff?
- Bugscope Team heh, computers need good processors and memory and disk to work fast
- Guest why are there spikes?
- Bugscope Team these are more scales
- Guest does every bug or insect have mold on it?
Bugscope Team no
Bugscope Team well, unless a bug lived in a vacuum or was doused in alcohol
- Teacher Can we have a look at the wheel bug?
Bugscope Team unless we have been calling it an assassin bug when it's really a wheel bug, we have no wheel bug on here
- Bugscope Team this is kind of cool -- we have found what the frilly setae on the spider's face do
- Guest So the setae is kinda like the trigger hairs on a Venus Flytrap?
Bugscope Team hey, good analogy! yes, kinda like that. although setae can have multi functions: some setae sense chemicals, other setae sense movement, so bugs can use setae to feel, taste, smell, sense wind direction, etc.
- Guest is the line in between thebig and long ones like rien forcements
- Teacher THANK YOU for taking control, by the way.
- Guest Is that the spider zoomed out?
- 11:33am
- Teacher COO:L!
- Bugscope Team no problemo missfitz, we just want to show you everything so we took control
- Bugscope Team here's a tick!
- Bugscope Team see those hooks on either side of the head?
- Guest Is that all that the setea does?
Bugscope Team is that all??? what else can they do, cook you dinner?
- Bugscope Team the hooks are below the head
- Teacher Maybe zoom in a bit
- Bugscope Team those hooks allow the tick to hold onto things, all the while using its legs to try and grab onto something else
- Bugscope Team the head is called a capitulum, with palps on either side
- Guest So ticks are arachnids?
- Teacher So which part are they biting you with?
Bugscope Team see the center of the head, that's the part that digs into your skin. the sides fold down first
- Guest Can the setae be used as a defencee from other bugs and insects?
- Bugscope Team so those palps fold down, and then the tick can bite into you
- Bugscope Team they are arachnids, yes
- Guest Where is the mouth?
- Bugscope Team the central part, the hypostome, is what sticks into you
- Guest What is the thing in between the eyes?
Bugscope Team the things that look like eyes are sensory structures that smell, we think
- Bugscope Team the mouth is right down the center, sort of at the top of the head
- Guest Why is the setea connected to the bottom part of the mouth.
Bugscope Team those setae are probably chemosensory setae, so they sense chemicals, in this case the setae sense taste or smell
- Bugscope Team there are eyespots on the other side of the head
- Bugscope Team ok, now we are moving towards the mouth, down the center of the tick head
- Bugscope Team this is the mouth
- Guest Are those small teeth?
Bugscope Team no, not teeth
- Bugscope Team the things that look like w's are recurved spines that help the hypostome stick into your skin
- 11:38am
- Guest what are the little scaly things?
Bugscope Team the smaller things are rasping surfaces that cut your skin and make the blood flow
- Guest What are the scale for on the tic.
- Teacher Why do insects have complex mouths?
Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure why really, but they do. at least the inside part of the mouth area. like the ladybug, she's got a crazy looking mouth area, often looks like another bug is inside its mouth
- Bugscope Team well, this is't really an insect, but still, the mouth looks complex
- Guest what is a good way to get a tick off of your skin?
Bugscope Team use forceps and grab it as low as you can, nearest the head, and gently work it out
- Guest If you slap mosquitos doesn't it just go into your skin?
Bugscope Team it could but usually doesn't that easily
- Guest Why do they stick whenever they are on us?
Bugscope Team well, they stick on you so they can start to feed on you. it's all about survival: feeding and breeding
- Guest if those things are not teeth then what are they?
Bugscope Team they're barbs like on a honeybee stinger
- Guest why do the eyes have hairs on them?
Bugscope Team well, some compound eyes have setae on them to help sense wind direction. but these aren't compound eyes.
- Guest If the head of the tick is still in your skin, how do you get it out?
Bugscope Team fine forceps, maybe have a doctor help
- Guest what are barbs then?
- Bugscope Team this looks like a claw of some kind?
- Guest and what do the barbs do?
Bugscope Team think about an arrowhead
- Guest why do ticks dig in to your skin and why are there more then one color?
- Bugscope Team it's like the wing parts of an arrowhead, but a lot of them
- Teacher Why does the barb have a leaf shaped attachment?
Bugscope Team this, now, is one of the claws
- Teacher to the SW
- Guest What are the web like things on the side?
- Bugscope Team we are thinking, some of these questions are challenging for us
- 11:43am
- Guest Are the claws backward or is that what it's post two look like.
- Guest How many claws does a tick have on each hand?
Bugscope Team two claws. adults have eight arms. juvenile ticks have only six arms
Bugscope Team usually a single claw pair on each hand
- Bugscope Team the leaflike thing is probably a pulvillus, which is a sticky pad
- Guest what is the tube thing right by the claw?
Bugscope Team to the right is actually a piece of plant fibetr
- Guest what do the claws really do?
Bugscope Team they grip, much like we use our hands
- Bugscope Team fiber
- Bugscope Team we are driving somewhere else now
- Guest can ticks drink turtle blood?
Bugscope Team sure, why not?
- Guest What are the dots?
Bugscope Team those are bubbles in the tape we stick the bugs to
- Bugscope Team this is a roly poly, or pillbug, it is an isopod. meaning all its feet are the same
- Guest How do bugs clean them selves?
Bugscope Team some bugs have combs, and they use those combs to help keep themselves clean
- Guest Ticks suck blood, but do they also eat other insects?
Bugscope Team they do not mess with insects, as far as we know; they want blood
- Guest what is that hole in the back?
- Guest Why are the legs folded up like that?
Bugscope Team maybe when it died it curled up?
- Guest What is the bubbly thing?
Bugscope Team that is the compound eye
- Guest what are mites?
Bugscope Team mites are tiny little insects
- Bugscope Team the compound eye is made up of individual facets, each one has a lens in it
- Bugscope Team interesting, tiny little crystals on the eye
- Guest what do mites do?
Bugscope Team there are different kinds of mites, and some live on insects
- Bugscope Team these are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team on a roly poly, this is not a mite
- Guest Can bugs catch deseases from other bugs?
Bugscope Team well, yeah, i think so
- 11:48am
- Guest why does it have crystals on it's eye?
Bugscope Team we don't know! kind of interesting
- Teacher Why are there crystals on the ee?
- Guest is it posible that bugs can die from having to much dirt or mold on them?
Bugscope Team well, if a bug was completely encased in dirt, then yes, i would think it would be in trouble... too much of any one thing is usually bad for anything
- Guest Do compound eyes have any advantages for bugs?
Bugscope Team yes, very much so. compound eyes provide excellent vision for flying insects, that's why flys are so good at evading your hand swats
- Guest What are mites?
Bugscope Team mites are tiny athropods that live on and among insects and other arthropods
- Teacher Disregard my question
- Guest how did this bug die? did you kill it?
- Bugscope Team some pure chemicals formed into salts like that
- Guest Can you tell how a bug died?
Bugscope Team not usually, sometimes we know that one froze, or that it was gassed
- Guest How many eyes does a tick have?
Bugscope Team i think just two compound eyes
- Guest What are the crackes on the eye.
- Guest can people get mites on them?
Bugscope Team people are said to have mites that live on their eyelashes
- Bugscope Team but this is a roly poly, not a tick
- Teacher How do insects keep their eyes clean without lids?
Bugscope Team they wipe them with their arms, and sometimes they have built-in combs for their antennae
- Guest What do you mean "gassed"?
Bugscope Team like if someone uses CO2 to kill the insects
- Bugscope Team bee's often have combs to brush dirt off themselves
- Bugscope Team ok, now we are going to the head of the lacewing
- Bugscope Team but first, let's check out the wing vein
- Guest what is the lacewing?
Bugscope Team it's a flying insect that eats other soft bugs
- Bugscope Team ok, so this is a lacewing wing, close up, these are the veins
- Guest Why do the bugs look kind of sectioned?
Bugscope Team just the way it happened i guess
- Guest whats the hairs sticking out of the vien
Bugscope Team those are setae too. setae are everywhere on bugs!
- Guest areAre the things sticking out mold?
- Guest what are those things that look like skicks?
Bugscope Team those are probably mechanosensory setae, to help feel the wind
- 11:54am
- Guest What does a lacewing do?
Bugscope Team feed and breed. like all organism. they like to feed on other small soft bugs
- Guest do tickes only live off of blood
Bugscope Team yes they do
- Bugscope Team this is silver paint
- Guest what is the mechanosensory setae?
Bugscope Team it is a seta that senses movement or wind, as opposed to a chemosensory seta that can sense chemicals
- Guest Aren't there many tiny eyes on bug eyes
Bugscope Team well, yeah, but they are individual facets of the whole compound eye
- Guest So they have 2 compound eyes too?
- Guest is the mechanosensory setae a type of setae?
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Guest did it chip it's eye?
- Guest How many mouth parts do bugs have
Bugscope Team lots of mouth parts: jaws, clypeus, palps, other things we don't know the names of but somebody does...
- Guest is that the eye
- Guest it that the eye? it looks like a golf ball
- Teacher Are some of the mouth parts broken?
Bugscope Team yes some of them are broken
- Guest Are these compound eyes or they just really big?
Bugscope Team these are compound eyes yes
- Guest what are those things right next to the eye?
Bugscope Team palps
- Bugscope Team or, this IS a single compound eye, rather
- Guest What is the part that looks like a tube on the top right corner?
Bugscope Team that looks like a palp
- Guest what are palps?
- Bugscope Team we are now going to center in on the palp
- Bugscope Team palps are mouth parts that help insects to feed and taste their food
- Guest how did the palp break?
Bugscope Team oh, how does anything break, something broke it
- 11:59am
- Teacher Why does the palp have cracks?
Bugscope Team however it broke was from some kind of stress, and we see the resultant fracture
- Guest are palps just like mouths?
Bugscope Team no, they are like tongues outside of the mouths
- Guest What is the gooey looking thing at the end of the palp?
Bugscope Team might be some goo, like hemolymph, which is what insects have instead of blood
- Guest what is this? a leg?
Bugscope Team this is the one antennae that was not busted off
- Guest Can setea break?
Bugscope Team yes they can
- Guest did the other antenea break off?
Bugscope Team yes
- Teacher Well, tha is pretty much our time limit
Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest what part of the lacewing is this?
- Bugscope Team Alex had to go help someone with a computer.
- Bugscope Team this is the antenna tip
- Teacher Thank you so much!!
- Guest thank you!
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- Guest THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was GREAT!!!!!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest Thanks for answering the question.
- Guest thank you!
- Bugscope Team See you next time!
- Teacher YOU ALL ARE AWESOME!
- Guest thank you!:)
- Guest Thank You!!! I hope we can do it again!
- Teacher You bet!
- 12:04pm
- Guest thank you
- Bugscope Team this is the inside of the microscope, and we see the caterpillar
- Guest Thank You
- Bugscope Team we're venting it, and you may be able to see my hands when I wakt the sample out
