Connected on 2009-12-21 12:00:00 from Newport News, VA, US
- 10:54am
- Bugscope Team pumping down...
- Bugscope Team starting to make presets
- 11:03am
- Bugscope Team hi mich, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team Hi Mich!
- Bugscope Team we are setting up presets for today's session
- Guest Thank you. My class will be doing this next month -- just wanted to observe
- Bugscope Team awesome, please ask any questions if you have them
- 11:08am
- Bugscope Team hi umesh!
- Bugscope Team Hello Alex. I hope you are doing well. The DC has snow and everything is closed. But, I am in the govt. building.
- Guest It was 70 here in LA yesterday -- but colder todayt
- Bugscope Team Enjoy the LA! In central IL, we experience that in the summer.
- Bugscope Team i like snow, so i'm upset we only got 1/4" in illinois
- Guest Born in Balt. came here from Chgo -- been here 10 yrs
- Bugscope Team Did you know that May Berenbaum was on NPR yesterday. She was talking about bugs and something else - I will let you figure this out via the NPR.org site.
- Bugscope Team Here there was 20-inches in some places. The Federal govt. is closed. I am totally surprised.
- Bugscope Team hey I know her!
- 11:15am
- Bugscope Team Baltimore, like John Waters
- Guest Should I send 2 or 3 bugs in case one does not make it there in tact?
- Bugscope Team yes for sure Mich; we get lots of insects it turns out we cannot use
- Bugscope Team thanks for thinking about it that way
- Bugscope Team send like 17 bugs!
- Guest Thanks. I'm sending isopods
- Guest we do darkling beatles too is one better than the other?
- Bugscope Team um well by definition all of their legs will look the same ;)
- Guest but they are breathing through their feet right?
Bugscope Team they are crustaceans and I thought the deal was that they have gills that are hard to recognize
- Bugscope Team darkling beetles are good as well, also flies, like houseflies; the coolest are earwigs
- 11:20am
- Guest we've got earwigs here I could send those
- Bugscope Team Earwigs would be fantastic
- 11:26am
- Guest Isopods are not really considered bugs because they have 7 pairs of legs ok my mistake i just looked it up they use all 7 pairs of legs for walking and nothing else. yes they are crustaceeans
- Guest ok so earwigs it will be for my students
- Guest we just do a unit on isopods and darkling beetles and their needs in an environment but my students will love learning this way about anything
- Bugscope Team hi palmer, welcome to bugscope!
- Teacher Good Afternoon, I am logged in for the teacher...Mrs. Palmer. The students will arrive in about 25 minutes.
Bugscope Team cool, we are setting up presets for you, will be ready soon
- Guest hello
- Bugscope Team mrs. palmer, if you have any questions in the meantime please go ahead and ask
- 11:32am
- Bugscope Team Welcome Mrs. Palmer.
- Teacher Good Afternoon Umesh Thakkar...Mrs.Palmer is not in the lab yet. I am just setting up the computers for her class. She will arrive with her class in about 15 minutes.
- Bugscope Team You can call him Umesh.
- 11:37am
- Bugscope Team this is Scott
- Guest Is there an advantage to having the students do this in a compter lab where they are on the computers vs. a teacher projecting it on to a huge overhead screen?
Bugscope Team yes, kids can ask questions themselves when they are logged in. we find that students are much more enthusiastic when they can ask questions themselves
- Bugscope Team although, if we too many kids logged in (more than 15-20) then it can get too busy. in those cases, we prefer if the students double up on a computer
- Guest my students are second language learners and cannot spell or put their thoughts into the written word very well -- but they are very orally qualified to ask and have me type for them
Bugscope Team ah yes, well then in that case, it is probably best to project your display onto a screen, and you can ask questions
- Bugscope Team we do have session like that as well, and they go very well
- 11:43am
- Bugscope Team we are here to help you, the teacher, instruct your students. we are not trying to create any lesson plans for you. so really it is your call on how you want the session to go
- Guest Good. most of my students are below the poverty level and do not have comupters of their own and so they are not very comoputer literate
- Guest we have a portable lap top lab that I could set for them if it would have been better.
- Bugscope Team oh yeah, totally. we don't want to make any students feel intimidated by bugscope. we want them to be awe inspired to learn something new
- Bugscope Team Mich: You can use a variety of scenarios to get your students participate in Bugscope. One would be a computer screen that can be projected on a screen, with students taking turns in groups of 2.
- Bugscope Team You can use a US map and show the geographic distance.
- Guest I like to do things like this for them to stimulate their imaginations and to let them know the places they can go and the things they can do and not just become house cleaners and gardeners.
- Guest I think I will do that -- have several computers up but with the master one showing on the overhead.
- Bugscope Team cool mich, you sound like a good teacher :)
- Guest It seems they come to see settling for mediocraty but I'm on a mission to change that each year.
- Bugscope Team Some times teachers have students collect bugs, which are then sent to IL. Then students look at same bugs in class and via Bugscope. They share using the scope and asking questions. You will have your own home page. So, you can link to it later from the school site. You can let your local newspaper know about it. Many possibilities to engage your students (and their parents) and your fellow teachers.
- 11:49am
- Guest Great ideas -- I'll mention the news to my principal and I will have the students collect the bugs. We have a few low powered microscopes that they can use to look and compare to what you are showing them. I do have a student who is sure that she wants to be a marine biologist -- hope she makes a good impression on the others
- Bugscope Team good point umesh. mich, all the images and chat from your session are saved to your bugscope member page, and you and your students can review that page anytime
- Guest It's great that the kids can go back and do it more slowly. That will work really great for them.
- Bugscope Team That would be terrific, Mich. They will soon see that in class there will be limitations to see (1000x as a max) and in Bugscope, then can go to 5,000x. Bugscope will store images, the class mag. will not. Thus, you have many discussions on how to do science today using the Internet. You will be a leader/catalyst for your principal.
- Bugscope Team Umesh we can go well over 5000x. Like 20,000 or more.
- Bugscope Team hi abby, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team We can actually take publishable research quality images at 200,000x.
- Guest The more experiences I get for them the more litterate in our language they become
- Bugscope Team it's seems as though mrs. palmers students are starting to login
- Bugscope Team Welcome Abbey!
- 11:54am
- Bugscope Team Mich, before, I forget, chatting with Bugscope staff over the Net will be a good skill for your students, too.
- Bugscope Team ok, we are done with preset mrs. palmer, i've unlocked the session, and you should see controls on the right side of the browser now
- Bugscope Team hi students, welcome to bugscope!
- Guest Yes it would -- but knowing their spelling as I do -- could you really understand them? Sometimes it takes me a while to interpret what they mean to say
- Bugscope Team hi nicholas, daniel&brandon, welcome to bugscope
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team Good Afternoon! Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team mrs palmer, you should have control of the scope now, you should see magnify, navigation, focus and adjust... all to the right of the image
- Student hi
- Student hi!
- Student Hey
- Bugscope Team let us know when you have questions about what you're seeing!
- Student Hi
- Student how old are you guys
Bugscope Team i'm way old... 38
- Bugscope Team yes, please, ask away
- Student hello, good afternoon
- Bugscope Team This is part of the wing of the damselfly.
- Student 10
- Bugscope Team it's a wing vein
- 11:59am
- Student I'm jack and hes mason
- Student whats a pm
- Bugscope Team cool!
- Student what is the thing that looks like a sucction cup
- Student what college did you go to
- Bugscope Team a um is a micron. one micron is one millionth of a meter!
- Student What degree do you have?
Bugscope Team i have two degrees in music composition. scott has degrees in english and biology
- Bugscope Team that is a Greek letter mu and an m.
- Student This is really cool but thats kind of different because I really am not fond of bugs
Bugscope Team yeah you don't have to touch them
- Student what part of the bug is this
- Student How ya doing
- Bugscope Team this is the wing
- Student cool]
- Student what is the sphere with holes in the middle
Bugscope Team we were not sure, actually, whether it really belonged there are was a fungus or something
- Bugscope Team Bugs are cool. There are more bugs than students/people.
- Student what is the tube thingy
Bugscope Team it looks like some kind of fungus on the wingvien
- Bugscope Team mrs. palmer, using "click to center" is a little easier than click to drive
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team oops wingvein
- Student what college do you go to
Bugscope Team i went to the university of illinois
- Bugscope Team ah, cool, this is a stink bug, it's head
- Student UGLY!!
- Student does he have pinchers
Bugscope Team he has claws
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a stinkbug, which is a true bug (hemiptera)
- Student what are the holes for
- Student What is on its head
- Student Where were you born scot
Bugscope Team Kansas City Kansas
- Student do the stink bugs really stink when you kill one?
Bugscope Team they stink when you bother them
- Student cool
- Student why are the eyes on the side
Bugscope Team it gives the insect better peripheral vision
- Bugscope Team stink bugs are also called shield bugs
- Student what are the spikes?
Bugscope Team some of those are protection against being attacked, some are the antennae
- Student ohhhhh so no wonder it didn't stink when i ran over it.
- Student How do they stink when there so tiny? I would think you couldn't really smell them
Bugscope Team the smell is pretty strong, like perfume -- you don't need much
- Student are the circuler balls the eyes
Bugscope Team yes
- Student why are there so many holes in the bug
Bugscope Team those form its pattern and strengthen its armor -- its exoskeleton
- Student what is that line right down the middle
Bugscope Team that is the proboscis
- Student what are the holes in it's chest
Bugscope Team those are where the front legs were
- Student what are the holes beside the pipe looking thing?
Bugscope Team that's where its front legs are busted off
- Bugscope Team the stink comes from an organic compound, called an aldehyde
- 12:05pm
- Student are the jointed cylinders the anntenae
Bugscope Team yes at the top
- Bugscope Team a proboscis is any kind of tube structure that comes from the head area. the largest proboscis in the world is the elephant trunk
- Student where are you guys at
Bugscope Team Illinois, 23 feet underground
- Student why are they called shield bugs
Bugscope Team because their whole body is shaped like a shield
- Student ewww, that disgusting
- Student why is one anntennae broken off?
Bugscope Team well, bugs can get hurt too, like humans can. this one's antenna got hurt
- Student why are you underground
Bugscope Team less vibration down here for the microscopes
- Bugscope Team we almost always mount them on the dorsal side so we can see the ventral side
- Student Why are there spines on it's side for
Bugscope Team they help keep things from attacking
- Bugscope Team also, bugs dry out when they die, and that can cause them to become fragile and easy to crack or break
- Student how big is the microscope you used
Bugscope Team well, mrs. palmer is controlling the scope right now, it's a large scope, about the size of a desk
- Bugscope Team cool, you can see the compound eyes on either side of the head!
- Student sweet
- Student why are his eyes like spongews
Bugscope Team those are compound eyes, made up of hundreds of individual facets, called ommatidia
- Student this is marleah but we had to get a new nickname
Bugscope Team works for us!
- Student does a stinkbug have hair
Bugscope Team sort of like hair but called setae, and they are sensory
Bugscope Team well, not hair really, they are called setae (pronounced see-tee)
- Student what is the hair for
Bugscope Team the hairs are called setae (see-tee), they help insects to sense their environment
- Student What are those ripplies?
Bugscope Team the ripples are mechanoreceptors that let the fly know how fast its haltere is moving, opposite the beats of the wings'
- Student what part of the fly is it
- Student what are the little hair looking things on its body and what are they used for?
Bugscope Team they are called setae (see-tee), they help to sense their environment
- Student is this the eye
Bugscope Team this is the shaft of a haltere on a fly
- Student what is mechanoreceptors
- Student what are those hairs on the bug
- Student have you ever ate a fly
Bugscope Team oh yeah, we all have...
- Student what part of the fly is this
- Student what are the spine looking things next to the setae?
- Bugscope Team setae (those hair looking things) stick through the insect exoskeleton, to nerves underneath. that's how they feel things.
- Student i know i have!
- Bugscope Team flies have only two wings, and they have halteres, like this, that beat with an opposite motion to stabilize the fly as it flies
- Student why is there a hole on the top
- Student How old is scott?
Bugscope Team a really old prime number
- Student how big is this part?
Bugscope Team check out the scale bar in the lower left of the image, one um = one micron = one millionth of a meter. so this is really small
- 12:10pm
- Student what does a fly taste like?
Bugscope Team heh, i don't remember! good question though :)
- Student it looks hairey and ugly
Bugscope Team yes lots of insects are hairier than we expect
- Bugscope Team if you take the mag down lower you can see where you are on the fly's body
- Student is that a hole inside of the body
Bugscope Team not here; it's just a folded area
- Bugscope Team i wonder if a fly tastes like chicken?
Bugscope Team no they taste like paper to me
- Student what are the spine looking things next to the setae?
Bugscope Team the setae are spinelike themselves
- Student how many years have you been doing this bug stuff?
Bugscope Team 11 years
- Student Wow thats a long time
- Student what kind of fly is it
Bugscope Team looks almost like a housefly
Bugscope Team i think it's a normal house fly
- Student how big was the biggest fly you ever saw
Bugscope Team craneflies are large; they look like giant mosquitos
- Student What is your favorite bug?
Bugscope Team i like spiders!
- Student those things look like bendy straws
Bugscope Team yeah
- Student is this the inside of a fly
Bugscope Team this is part of the haltere
- Student sounds tasty
- Student what was your favorite bug that you rememeber?
- Student el wants to eat a fly
- Student what is the haltere
Bugscope Team a haltere is like a little punching bag that beats opposite the way a wing beats in a two-winged insect -- in a fly
- Student it looks lik a leaf
- Bugscope Team this is a ground beetle
- Bugscope Team this black beetle eats other insects and worms; you can see a mite on its mouth there
- Student whats a brown beetle
- Student is it upside down
- Student what are all of the things that are sticking out of it's head
- Student could you see all these features of a bug whithout a microscope
- Student are they all that fat looking?
- Student are all the things on the top of its head antennae i thought there was only two
- Student what are the hairs
- Student why is it called a ground beetle
Bugscope Team they cruise along the ground and scavenge for food
- Bugscope Team yes, it is upside down, the underside of insects is usually more interesting than the topside
- Student is that its mouth
Bugscope Team yes, somewhere in there
- Student why is he uneven
Bugscope Team one reason he is not bilaterally symmetrical is that he has a mite on his face
- Student does it have a neck
- Student do they have teeth
- Student my sister hates spiders
- Student my brothe ate one of those things
- Student are those fangs?
Bugscope Team you can see the jaws
Bugscope Team no, these are antennae, things to help it sense things that it might want to eat
- 12:15pm
- Student do they have teeht
Bugscope Team they don't have teeth, but the jaws are sometimes hardened
- Student teeth
- Student is it laying on a leaf
Bugscope Team it is on some silver paint on carbon tape
- Student what is the diet of a ground beetle
Bugscope Team they eat worms and aphids and little bugs, stuff like that
- Student srry about the typo
Bugscope Team no problemo
- Student are they meat eaters
Bugscope Team some beetles eat other insects, yes, so they are called predatory insects
- Student is this a male or a female?
Bugscope Team we don't always know, we cannot always tell from the outside
- Student what are the things that look like they fold out of the side on the left and right
Bugscope Team those are antennae
- Student do they eat their own species?
Bugscope Team sometimes'
- Student is it one of our bugs
- Student that is gross!!!!1
- Student what is all the stuff that looks like snot
- Student where is the mite
Bugscope Team the mite is to the right of the mouth area, just to the right of center, it looks like an oval m&m
- Student where does he live
- Student how many legs the mite have
Bugscope Team not sure: six or eight
- Student GROSS!!!
- Student wait where is the mite
- Student do they have pinchers
- Bugscope Team the mite is to the right of center
- Student does it have a exoskeliton
Bugscope Team right on! all insects have an exoskeleton, good work!
- Bugscope Team you can see the hard shell of the mite
- Student what are the quarter circles on the bottom right and left
Bugscope Team the eyes were near those, a little further back
- Bugscope Team not much is known about many of the mites
- Student can we see the spider claw
Bugscope Team your teacher, mrs. palmer is controlling the scope
- Student are those the eyes on the side of his head?
Bugscope Team i think so yes, usually the eyes have clear bumps (ommatidia) but these are smoother...
- Student what are those cyliders
Bugscope Team the bases of the antennae
- Student doesa it able to eat human food
Bugscope Team no this eats sap, plant fluids, stuff like that
- Student where are his eyes
Bugscope Team on the side of its head
- Student I mean is it able to eat human food
Bugscope Team oh yeah, humans have a large diet, and i'm sure we share it with the insect world
- 12:20pm
- Student what is a true bug
Bugscope Team true bugs (hemiptera) have piercing/sucking mouthparts, and there is also something about the elytra/wings that is different
- Bugscope Team the big thing in the middle is what helps it pump fluids into its proboscis
- Student what is the big thing in the middle
- Student What is this type of bug?
Bugscope Team this is a "true bug"
- Student is this the top or the bottom
Bugscope Team this is the top, the head
- Student does it have hair
Bugscope Team well, yes, but it's not like our hair. it's called setae (see-tee), and they help the insect to feel things
- Student why do they call it a true bug
- Student how small is the mite
Bugscope Team a few hundred microns long; there are 1000 microns in a millimeter
- Student what are the tubes on the top side of the head
Bugscope Team those are the broken off antenna
- Student eat
Bugscope Team sap and other plant juices
- Student sorry our nickname is really James and ryan
Bugscope Team we will remember, then, thanks
- Student is the thing in the bottom right an arm?
Bugscope Team or a leg, i think?
- Student my nick name is sage
Bugscope Team cool!
- Student disgusting!!!!!
- Student no its not sage is b rabbit
- Student It looks like a Monk
- Student our new nickname is marlemarle. Not marmarlele
Bugscope Team I thought you were Marleah.
- Student Is that hair sticking out from everywhere?
Bugscope Team well, not hair really, it's called setae (see-tee), they help the insect feel things
- Student brandon is a wise herb
Bugscope Team ha
- Student my nickname is d ps:his nickname is b rabbit
- Student mason's nickname is m & m
- Student what do these bug do to give it the name true bug
Bugscope Team they have piercing/sucking mouthparts and a distinct way their wings and elytra are formed
- Student is that the brain on the top
- Student It looks like a corpse
- Student how big is it
Bugscope Team you can see that it is several mm wide
- Student :( i dont have a nickname
- Student what bug is that?
- Student is it sleeping
Bugscope Team permanently
- Student We were marleah at first but then we changed to mamarleah then now marlemarle
- Bugscope Team see, insects have a hard shell instead of skin, called an exoskeleton. they can't feel anything in that shell, it'd be like you wearing a suit of armour. now, those setae (hairs) stick through the exoskeleton, to nerves underneath, and that's how information about the outer world is passed to the insect
- Student cool:}
- 12:25pm
- Student I mean the BRAIN
- Bugscope Team this is a closeup view of the antenna of the cricket
- Student what is the stuff sticking out of it?
- Student what is the circle thingy on one of the3 spikes
Bugscope Team some kinda dirt
- Student why does it look like waves what are they
- Student what are the spikes?
Bugscope Team those are setae
- Student What is the round thing on the spikey things?
Bugscope Team juju... dirt, gunk, stuff like that
- Student it looks like a bead of nai;ls
Bugscope Team yes it does
- Student sorry no 3
- Guest Thank you for letting me in as a guest. Now I know what to do for my students in Feb. See you then. Bye.
Bugscope Team Thank You Mich!
- Student is that a mite on the hair
Bugscope Team no it is just some kind of dirt, but it is always a good idea to check
- Student it looks like a dead forest
- Bugscope Team bye mich! see you later
- Student What do the waves have to do with an antenna
- Student is it dead skin
Bugscope Team they really do not have skin -- they have a shell, which is like armor, so they need to have the little setae to poke through that to sense things
- Student so long mich
- Student do some of the bugs scare you or do you have no fear!?
Bugscope Team everyone has fears, and yeah, some bugs scare me
- Student why is som hair white and some grey
Bugscope Team just the way it looks -- like scales, kind of. it is the way the antenna grew
- Student what bug is this
Bugscope Team this is a cricket antenna
- Student :(
- Student some sorry
- Student is this a broken off antenna
Bugscope Team well, these are setae on an antenna, i'm not sure if the antenna is broken?
- Student Which ones are you afriad of?
Bugscope Team well, mosquitos kinda freek me out, because i know they can carry disease, really nasty stuff
- Student doesit make calls for mating
Bugscope Team yes it does; it uses its legs
- Student sorry about the typo will was typing
- Student why are the spikes different colors
Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure, but i think it's just because it is in the scope, and the electrons are charging some of the setae more than others.
- Student us too
- Student What are those skailly looking things on it.
Bugscope Team on the antenna?
- Student cool
- Student how does a cricket make that noice at night
Bugscope Team it rubs its legs a certain way; it is called stridulating
Bugscope Team it rubs its legs together
- Student why are there holes
Bugscope Team well, some of the holes are on the background double-sided tape we stick the bugs to
- 12:30pm
- Student what is the thing in the bottom right?
- Student yeah sorry about that.
- Student is this the crickets head
- Bugscope Team this is one of the spider
- Bugscope Team 's claws
- Student is this dangerous? if you get pinched?
Bugscope Team no it is too small for you to feel
- Student I brought thbug to school
- Student why is the spider claw hairy
Bugscope Team spiders also have sensory hairs, and they need them because they often have very poor eyesight
- Student what are those feather like things
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, i think to help feel things it is grasping
- Student sorry for the typo
- Student good. From marmar. Awww from lele
- Student why does it look like a tiny peakock
- Student are any of the bugs you handle poisonous?
Bugscope Team sometimes, but they are almost always dead. we did get a live scorpion once, but it was sick
- Student creepy!!!!!!! :0
- Student is that a common house spider
- Student what is the spikey thing in the backround
Bugscope Team those are long setae
- Student how do they have bad eyesite with eight eyes
Bugscope Team some of them do see well, but they depend more on the ability to sense vibrations
- Student becauscaught one befor
- Student how big is it ?
- Student is it deadly
- Student what is the holes
Bugscope Team some of the setae fall out of the exoskeleton, thus the holes
- Student is that a powerful part of the spider
Bugscope Team no just one of the claws
- Student I would never look at bugs this close but now I know how cool they are.
Bugscope Team rock on!
- Student oh cool
- Student Oh
- Student wow
- Student lol
- Student whatall those parts
- Bugscope Team spiders can do this thing where if they sense poison entering a leg, they can make the leg fall off.
- Teacher When my next class comes in can we just continue what we're doing, with them logging in with their names? I'll show them different bugs so you don't have to answer the same questions.
Bugscope Team sure, that's fine with us. whatever works best for you
- Bugscope Team it is called autotomizing
- Student I mean what are all of those parts for
Bugscope Team we don't know exactly what all of the parts are for, but likely some of them help it with its web
- Student can sj answer some questions please ? I'm asking nicely
Bugscope Team sorry, we are trying to answer everything, please ask again
- Student what are the tall things with the dots on them :?
- 12:36pm
- Student co
- Student cool
- Student Who is Umesh_Thakkar
Bugscope Team Umesh is a guy who helps us, and he is doing an important fellowship in DC
- Student cool
- Student what type of spider is this
Bugscope Team I am sorry we are not good at identifying spiders, and this one was partially squished
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, sorry
- Student can you tell how old a bug is
Bugscope Team sometimes you can, but it's very difficult
- Student is that grass under the claw
- Student what about alex
Bugscope Team i'm sitting right next to the electron microscope
- Student it looks like a dirtycocoa puff
- Student what are those flakey bumps?
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, sorry, maybe they help sense things that the spider is grabbing with its claw
- Student arent spiders arachnids?
Bugscope Team yes they are!
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team so are ticks!
- Bugscope Team Compound eye!
- Bugscope Team awesome
- Bugscope Team this is the eye of the weevil!
- Student does all eyes look like that?
Bugscope Team many compound eyes look much like that
- Student it looks like a golf ball
Bugscope Team sure does! but it is an eye, trust us
- Bugscope Team you can see it has a couple of hundred facets
- Bugscope Team those bumps are the individual facets of the compound eye, each one has a lens in it
- Student why is it called the compound eye
- Student Why is it callled a compound eye
Bugscope Team it is made up of hundreds of individual facets called ommatidia. it is made of many parts, thus it is a compound eye
- Student what is the difference of a compound eye and a regular eye
Bugscope Team a regular eye is called an ocellus or a stemmata
- Student what is the deadlist type of bug you ever looked at
- Student what is the bump on the eye
- Student what bug is this
- Student Wow
- Student woa why does it look like a snake skin
- Student why is there hexagon shapes
- Student why does it look like a bee hive
Bugscope Team well, the shape is hexagonal so that the surface can be curved yet completely covered. think about it, you couldn't curve it like that if the facets had to be square, right?
- Student that was also will
- Student Thats facinating
- Student what is around the eye
- Student how does it defend itself
Bugscope Team not sure how the weevil defends itself; it may release chemicals
- Bugscope Team and a compound eye has many facets, like hundreds and sometimes thousands of tiny lenses
- Student what are the things around the eye\
Bugscope Team those a scales
- Bugscope Team human eyes have a single lens in a movable socket. bugs don't have eyes like that. they have unmovable sockets, but to compensate, they have hundreds of facets, each with a lens in them
- Student what are the shell thingys around it? this t
Bugscope Team scales
- 12:41pm
- Student that time it was me jake :)
- Bugscope Team mosquitos, butterflies, moths, silverfish, and some weevils have scales
- Student daniel wants to know what are those things around the eye
Bugscope Team cales
- Bugscope Team scales, sorry
- Student =:0)
- Bugscope Team if you had compound eyes you would be able to sense changes in the view (motion) much more quickly.
- Student what are those hexagon things
Bugscope Team those are the individual facets of the eye, called ommatidia
- Student what is on the eye
- Student what is that looks like jelly stuff?
- Student do you know why all eyes are circular?
Bugscope Team not all are circular but many are, and it has to do with maximizing the field of view and the ability to see
- Bugscope Team ah, here is another compound eye, just much closer
- Student what is the worm
Bugscope Team that is a seta
- Student what ids the hair?
Bugscope Team that is a seta, some compound eyes have setae on them, to help sense wind while the insect is flying
- Bugscope Team cool, you can see a setae sticking out of the eye too
- Student can the bug look in many different directions at one time
Bugscope Team it can see in many different directions at once, you are right!
Bugscope Team totally, all because the compound eye is curved and has many ommatidium pointing in all directions
- Student it looks like a honey comb
- Student sorry for the typo i do not do typos often
- Student cool
- Student is a wasp compound eye different from the one we just saw
- Student whats a seta
- Student exept it's grey not yellow
- Student what is a seta
Bugscope Team seta (singular), setae (plural), the hair type things...
- Student why arnt the hexagons equal
Bugscope Team sometimes they are a little more perfect looking, but here they aren't; it is normal
- Student I know I say this all the time but this is AWESOME
Bugscope Team right on
- Student why is the eye SO dirty
Bugscope Team oh, you'd look just as dirty at this mag as well. there is dirt and dust all over this world
- Student where does it live
- Student what is brochosomes?
Bugscope Team brochosomes are tiny pellets that look like soccerballs made of wax
- Student how are our eyes different from bugs?
Bugscope Team humans have a much more complex eye socket, the lens can move around in it. insect eyes can't do that. but to compensate, they have tons of sockets
- Student what is a brochosomes
Bugscope Team cool! a brochosome is a special product from a leafhopper
- Student can you keep these as a pet
- Bugscope Team only leafhoppers can make brochosomes
- Student what is a leafhopper
Bugscope Team it is an insect that lives on plants, on the juices from the leaves and stems
- Student what are the white bumps
- 12:46pm
- Student have these been around since prehistoric times
Bugscope Team yes, i think some beetles go back millions of years
- Student and the holes
- Student is the eye gray or is it just the microscope
Bugscope Team just the microscope, which sees in gray scale
- Student what is under the brecchosomes?
- Student what is the the tubr
Bugscope Team that is a spine on the wasp's abdomen
- Student sorry
- Student what are the honey comb looking things
Bugscope Team those are the brochosomes
Bugscope Team those are the brochosomes!
- Student why does it look like honey combs i want to eat themm Jamie
Bugscope Team yeah, they look yummy, don't they?
- Student sweet
- Student what is that stick thingy
- Bugscope Team heh
- Student wow:o
- Student cool
- Student What is under the brochosomes?
Bugscope Team the surface of the wasp's abdomen
- Student whats the stem
- Student From the other picture
- Student what are those splatches
- Student what is the web
- Bugscope Team this is highly magnified, 18,000x now
- Student what are the white dots that surround it
- Bugscope Team brochosomes are VERY small, you can fit half a million of them in one meter
- Student What is an abdomen?
Bugscope Team stomach area
- Student why is hte surface so bumpy
Bugscope Team well, remember, we are magnified at 18,000x here, that means we'll see detail you wouldn't otherwise
- Student what kind of car do you own?
Bugscope Team 68 El Camino
- Bugscope Team or even a million of them...
- Student what kind of wasp is this
- Student EWWWWWWWWW:P
- Bugscope Team this is cool, I think it is an ichneumon wasp but I am not sure
- Student what is the pocket on the top
Bugscope Team that is a compound eue
- Student is it standing
- Student is that a compound eye
Bugscope Team yep
- Bugscope Team eye
- Student Oh wow
- Student why dose it have hair
Bugscope Team the hair (setae) helps it sense its environs; it may also serve to help identify it to other wasps, and it may also help provide lift in the air
Bugscope Team all insects have setae, that's how they feel things
- Student thanks
- Student what are the hairy thing next to its eyes?
- Student why are the eyes so big
Bugscope Team well, the more facets they have, the better they can sense movement, very important for flying
- Student does this wasp have a stinger
- Student how manY spots are in there eyes
Bugscope Team thousands, flying insects usually have thousands of facets, called ommatidia
- Student where is it's eye?
- Student what is the two tubes on its head
Bugscope Team antenna of some kind
- Student are those fangs
- Student how long does the average wasp live
Bugscope Team probably 4 or 5 weeks
- 12:51pm
- Student why does it have such a skiney neak
- Student Does he have nose?
Bugscope Team no, insects don't have noses, they smell with those hairs (setae) and they breath through spiracles (holes on the sides of their bodies)
- Student why are the atenna stuck together
Bugscope Team they are very close, but at the ends they are separated
- Student was the microscope alot of money?
Bugscope Team about $600,000
- Student when did you start studying bugs
- Student is it's mouth cracked
Bugscope Team no it has jaws with those toothlike shapes to them
- Student what!
- Student why
Bugscope Team why what?
- Student how tall are those attenae
- Student okay
- Student does a wasp have fangs
Bugscope Team no it has those jaws that open side to side but no fangs
- Student what is the thing in the bottom left corner
Bugscope Team that's the body of the wasp
- Student Why does it live a seasomn
Bugscope Team well, worker wasps are busy little dudes, and many don't need to live very long. a queen would live much longer.
- Student do you like your job
Bugscope Team love it. go for a job that interests you, it makes work fun and worth while
- Student is that thing in the bottom right corner a wing or not
Bugscope Team yes it is the base of the wings; there are four wings
- Student season i mean
- Student does the tube coming out from his head connect to someting?
Bugscope Team those were the antennae, in the middle rising up
- Student This has been really fun. We leave the lab in like 4 minutes. SADNESS
Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student whats the hole on the side
- Student is this a strong part of a wasp
- Student does that claw hurt?
Bugscope Team it is too small to hurt
- Student is that the stingger
- Student Your welcome
- Bugscope Team you all ROCKED, thank YOU!
- Student looks likea leaf
- Student is that the thing that stings you
Bugscope Team no it is a claw; we could not find the stinger
- Student hurt you and hurts
- Student what does the wasp eat
- Student why are ther lines
Bugscope Team the lines are ridges that strengthen the claw
- Student Should you get a financially secured job or a job you enjoy?
Bugscope Team well, that is your decision ultimately, but i would suggest a job you like is more important.
- 12:56pm
- Student is that grass in the back round?\
- Student how
- Student why could not find it
- Student os the microscope bigger than me? (i am about 5 ft 5)
Bugscope Team it is bigger than Alex, even, and he is over 6 ft tall
- Student how many classes did you get bugs from?
Bugscope Team maybe 25%
- Student sorry i am 4 ft 5
- Student it look like a leaf
- Student it looks likeleaf
- Bugscope Team marlemarle, we are all learning, everyone, even old people, we still learn about life and how to live it. what job to get, what to do, etc. only you can know for sure what is right for yourself.
- Student it looks like a leaf
- Student see ya later
Bugscope Team see ya!
- Student pece
- Student what is your favorit part of this jobb
Bugscope Team this is it; we don't do this all of the time
- Student goodbye thankyou
- Student peace
- Bugscope Team Thank You for all of your questions
- Student thanks you
- Student thank you guys.we lerned alot
Bugscope Team you are totally welcome
Bugscope Team cool!
- Student bye! thanks!
- Student see you later
- Student THANK YOU we leaned alot
- Student >:< i wish we had longer
Bugscope Team ask your teacher to do another session sometime
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team see you next time!
- Student thank you for everything
- Student Thanks for the FUNNESS. PEACE LOVE AND HAPPINESS
Bugscope Team :)
- Student thanks a whole bunch it was cool see ya! jake hres will:) (: ( bye
- Student :(
- Bugscope Team okay, we are ready for your next bunch. this is going great mrs. palmer... good session
- 1:01pm
- Bugscope Team Hi Jac!
- Bugscope Team Let us know if you have questions before this next session gets going.
- Bugscope Team hi spencer&miles, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team hey, it's spencer and miles!
- Bugscope Team Xavier and Sam!
- Teacher the next group should be looging in now
Bugscope Team eeuw
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope, students of riverside elementary
- Student so what kind of bug is this
Bugscope Team this is the tip of the claw of a wasp
- Bugscope Team this is a wasp
- Bugscope Team the claw of a wasp
- Student cool is that the stinger?
Bugscope Team well, no, we couldn't find the stinger, this is a claw, like a hand
Bugscope Team no this is one of the claws on one of the limbs
- Student cool
- Student what are those bumps on the wings
- Student what is the sise of the micrscope you use to see the bugs
Bugscope Team well, the whole thing is the size of a desk, the chamber the bugs are in is about the size of a bread basket
- Student How magnified is this picture?
Bugscope Team check out the magnify level, right now 387x, but the scope can magnify up to 800,000x, click on the scale bar in the lower left, you'll get more info
- Student what kind of bugs do you study?
- Student what is the upside-down h and w stand for?
Bugscope Team mu and m
- Student what kind of microscope are you using
Bugscope Team this is an electron microscope, it uses electrons to get the image, not light
- Student what part is this
- Student Why does it have quils
Bugscope Team those quill-like things are setae that help it sense touch, and smell and hot and cold
- Bugscope Team it stands for micro meter
- Student what is this?
Bugscope Team there now you can see it better
- Student what kind of wasp is this
Bugscope Team I was thinking it was an ichneumonid waps, which can drill into wood to lay eggs, but it is hard to tell
- Bugscope Team since we are not using light to get the image, we don't have color. but the upside to using electrons is the magnification is way way high
- Student Is this a leg?
- 1:06pm
- Student have you ever collected bugs before?
- Student what is the big needle called?
- Student can you show the stinger
Bugscope Team sorry, but we coulnd't find the stinger
- Student is this a spider
- Student how long is this stinger
Bugscope Team the stinger is missing; this is one of the arms
Bugscope Team this is a claw
- Student Thats so cool!
- Student Are those hairs?!!
Bugscope Team well, kinda like hairs, they are called setae (pronounced see-tee), they help the bug to sense its environment
- Student that is too bad
Bugscope Team yeah, sorry, sometimes we can get a stinger, sometimes not
- Student What is the coolest bug you've ever seen?
Bugscope Team we have seen some super cute weevils
- Student how long is the arm
- Student eeeewwwwwwww
- Student weird
- Bugscope Team this is the tip of the mosquito proboscis
- Student is that where it sucks blood
- Bugscope Team see, insects have a hard outer shell, called an exoskeleton. they can't feel anything with that exoskeleton. so those hairs (setae) stick through the exoskeleton to nerves underneath, that's how they feel things
- Student why do mosquitoes drink blood
- Student What is the thing at the end of the nose?
- Bugscope Team and you can see part of the fascicle, the part that sticks into you, at the end
- Student when you first look at this did it creep you out
Bugscope Team yep, totally
Bugscope Team yes a little
- Student why is the noes rough
Bugscope Team it has junk on it, and it looks that way because underneath the junk are barbs that cut into your skin
- Student how?
- Student Do misquitoes mate?
- Bugscope Team hey, this is the stinger!! did you find it scott?
- Student why did you decide to do this?
- Bugscope Team good work
- Student what is the fasicicle
Bugscope Team the part of the mosquito that has all of the cutting stylets and the siphon tube and sticks into your skin to get the blood out
- Student is the stinger where it sucks blood
Bugscope Team yes
- Student Would this stuff look different if the bug was alive?
Bugscope Team hmm, interesting question. i'm not sure, but i think it would look simliar
- Student how long was this
- Student how small is a micrometer
Bugscope Team a micrometer, or micron, is one one-thousandth of a millimeter
- Student why does the bug do that
Bugscope Team food = survival = live longer. always a good thing for an organism
- Student what is the actual size of the nose
Bugscope Team several mm long
- Student How long is the nose in cm.
Bugscope Team about 0.4 cm
- 1:12pm
- Student which mosquito sucks blood?
Bugscope Team the female mosquito sucks blood; if it does not get a blood meal it cannot lay its eggs
- Student How much blood does a misquito suck a day?
- Student wow
- Student how fast can a mosquito hatch
- Student what kind of a mosqueto is this
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, sorry
- Student do you study crickets
Bugscope Team we have some but we do not study them
- Student Does a mosquito need blood to live?
Bugscope Team yes
- Student is this nose of a full grown mosqueto
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student SORRY IS IT A MALE OR A FEMALE
Bugscope Team i do not know, sorry
Bugscope Team female
- Bugscope Team males do not bite
- Student what would be the differance
Bugscope Team males also have frilly antennae
- Bugscope Team ah, thanks scott
- Student are females larger than males
Bugscope Team sometimes they are fatter
- Student how many eggs does a mosquito lay per year?
- Student would it drink a blood of a cow
Bugscope Team some would
- Student where did you find this misqueto?
Bugscope Team someone sent it to us
- Student thank you
- Student how did you catch it
Bugscope Team we catch them in bottles sometimes
- Student Which gender of mosquitos is more dominate?
Bugscope Team the females are the ones that are more aggressive, because they are the ones that bite
- Student oh
- Student how do you tell if it is male/female?
- Student zoom out
Bugscope Team mrs. palmer has control of the scope now
- Student why do fleas only bite furry things?
Bugscope Team they could bite things that are not furry but maybe it is harder to hold onto something that is not furry
- Student sorry we forgot
- Bugscope Team so, the female mosquito does not require blood, but the male usually does.
- Student what is the differance of a nose of a baby mosqueto or a full grown mosqueto
- Bugscope Team both male and female mosquitos feed on nectar as well
- Student how far would it be able to fly in a day
- Student what part is this
- Student what is THIS???
- Student why does the mosquito appear black and white under the microscope
Bugscope Team when we look at things using this microscope we are not collecting light; we are collecting signal from secondary electrons that have been ejected from the sample
Bugscope Team this is an electron microscope, it uses electron to image things, not light. since color is a product of light, and since there is no light in the scope, we don't see color
- Student why do mosquitoes have feathers
Bugscope Team scale, not feathers
- Student Why do miqueto wings have featthers
- Student can the wings atack
- 1:17pm
- Student why do they look so stringy
Bugscope Team this is right at the end of the wing, and it is a sort of fringe
- Student what part of the mosquito is this?
- Student how many times does a mosquito wing go up and down in a second
- Student How many times a second do mosquitos flap their wings?
Bugscope Team good question, but i don't know the answer, sorry
- Student How come the scales look like feathers
- Student do mosquitoes have scales when they are young?
Bugscope Team not when they are larvae, I don't think they do, because they are in water
- Student do these help them fly
Bugscope Team yes, the scales are light weight and that helps the mosquito to be able to fly
- Student where do mosquetoes like to reproduce
Bugscope Team they lay their eggs in stagnant water, or still water
- Student Have you ever discovered any new species?
Bugscope Team heh, no, i'd called it alexsquito!
- Student is the bug 40 micrometers, or is the bug itself?
Bugscope Team the scalebar is 40 micrometers long to give us a sense of the lengths of everything near it
- Student do these scales enhance the mosquitos flying ability
- Student Do you study things like this all day
Bugscope Team we do a lot of different things at our jobs, looking at bugs is only a small part
- Student why do mosquito wings have feathers?
Bugscope Team the things that look like feathers are scales, and one thing you can do it if you have scales is slip out of a spider web
- Student How many scales are on a mosqitos wings?
- Student what do the larva eat
- Student how fast can a mosquito fly
Bugscope Team they are said to be able to fly 1 to 3 km per hour and 3 to 4 hours straight, so it means they can fly a couple of miles in a few hours
- Student what is the rarest bug you have found so far?
- Student Do you enjoy your jobs?
Bugscope Team oh yeah
- Student why are they not congruent
- Student why are the scales diff\
- Student Why do female spiders eat they're kids?
Bugscope Team sometimes they are just hungry and will eat anything
- Student on the head what is the open part
- Student ok
- Student Why do female black widows eat their mates?
Bugscope Team food, maybe?
- 1:22pm
- Student whate do they eat
- Student why are the sides of the flies head look so rounded
Bugscope Team those are the eyes: compound eyes
Bugscope Team those are the compound eyes
- Student did it creep you out
- Student is this bug poisonous
Bugscope Team no, a damselfly is not poisonous
- Student what do damselflys do?
Bugscope Team they eat other insects
- Student Are their legs jointed?
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Student Do the Damsel Fly have eyes?
Bugscope Team oh yes
- Student is it upside down
Bugscope Team yes it is on its back so you can see its mouthparts
- Student did it creep you out
- Student is this fly dead
Bugscope Team yes it is dead
- Student Are those hairs on the legs?
Bugscope Team not hairs, setae
- Student can this bug fly
Bugscope Team yes it can; it has four wings
- Student Where do you find a Damsel FLy?
Bugscope Team you can catch them in traps or with a big net
- Bugscope Team damselflys are also known to feed on spiders
- Student cool
- Student its head looks like two lobsters!!!
Bugscope Team heh, lobsterhead
- Student wow how many eyes do they have
Bugscope Team at least two compound eyes; I am not sure if it has ocelli or not
- Student What are the antenae like things
- Student Do they eat any other bugs?
Bugscope Team yes they do!
- Student do they have claws
Bugscope Team yep, most insects do have claws
- Student Why do flies have separated eyes?
Bugscope Team yeah, good question, they have two compound eyes, one on either side of the head. this allows the fly to have a much great range of sight, which is very important when flying around
- Student What other bugs do they eat?
- Student What would you do if you found a bug in your house?
Bugscope Team heh, i usually let it go. i'm a sucker for bugs now. if it's a mosquito, i kill it though...
- Student where is the thing they suck blood with located
- Student How big are they?
- Student would this fly eat a entire chickin
Bugscope Team given enough time, it would try...
- Student sorry we had tenichal difficlties
- Student Are those folded things arms?
Bugscope Team those are palps, which are accessory mouthparts
- Student ben really realy?
- Student wow i fell sorry for the chicken
- Student How long is this bug in cm.?
- Student What happens when a black widow bites you?
Bugscope Team it injects venom that rots your skin and muscle
- Student feal
- 1:27pm
- Student can they bite and if they do does it hurt?
Bugscope Team I don't think they bite people, and their mouths are fairly small
- Student what are the little hairs on it
Bugscope Team not hairs, setae, they help the insect to feel its environment
- Student I love chicin
- Student Are scorpions considered bugs?
Bugscope Team they are not insects; they're related to spiders
- Student how big does the enemy bug have to be for this bug to eat it?
- Student where would it live
- Student why do they have such big eyes
Bugscope Team so they can see things that are moving very fast, there's thousands of lenses in those compound eyes
- Student is that on the inside or outside of the bug
Bugscope Team outside
- Student ooooooooooooooooh creeaappppyyyyy
- Student What is it biting?
- Student What type of enviornment do these bugs live in?
Bugscope Team this is a spider
- Student Are spiders aarachnids?
Bugscope Team yes!
- Bugscope Team very cool, this is where the venom comes out of the spider
- Student What do poison pores do?
Bugscope Team well, that's where the poison comes out when the spider bites you
- Student what kind of spider is this?
Bugscope Team i'm not sure
- Student what is the gapcalled
- Student What kind of spider is it?
- Student what part of the spider is this?
Bugscope Team the tip of one of the fangs
- Student Is this the inside of a bug?
- Bugscope Team spiders inject poison into their prey, and the poison rots the inside of the prey -- dissolves it. Then the spider sucks it all back up like a milkshake.
- Student How big is the fang?
- Student what are the tubes that look like veins called
- Student What is the dark spot?
Bugscope Team that is the pore
Bugscope Team that's the pore in the fang, where the poison comes out of
- Student ooh he has a cavity...
- Student is that the only fang are there two?
- Bugscope Team there's the two fangs
- Student how would the sting feel to you
Bugscope Team often you do not feel it bite
- Student cool twofangs
- Student What is this dark area in the middle?
- Student What's the stringy stuff?
- Bugscope Team the stringy stuff is fungus
- Student it's hard to tell this is a spider...
Bugscope Team if mrs palmer zooms out more, you can start to see the spider
- Student can this pop a ballon
Bugscope Team maybe if it could extend a bit
- Student what are the two nedles
Bugscope Team those are spider fangs, tips of the fangs
- Student why does the spider have fungi?
Bugscope Team probably started to rot after it dies
- 1:32pm
- Student How many teeth does a spider have?
Bugscope Team it does not really have teeth, and we are looking at the fangs
- Student How much venom can this spider inject?
- Bugscope Team after it died, that is
- Student the two needles are the fangs i think
Bugscope Team yeppers
- Student oh
- Student Are those vains inside the spider
- Student ew
- Bugscope Team now you can see the whole spider
- Student now i see it
- Student where is this located
Bugscope Team we are in urbana, illinois
- Bugscope Team he's kinda a big fella
- Student isit a turantula
Bugscope Team no it is very small, a different species
- Student ya
- Student where would the spider like to live
- Student What part of the spider is this?
- Bugscope Team mrs palmer, the minimum X of the scope is around 40x...
- Student What type of enviornment does this spider live in?
Bugscope Team we are not sure where this came from, but probably a somewhat protected environment, and they are often territorial, not moving around much
- Student this is very neat
- Student buck teeth
- Student hes huge and is this spider upside down
- Student What bug has the fastest-acting poison, and which one has the deadliest?
- Student haha hahah buck teeth
- Student How fast can spiders go?
- Student what is the point of these hairs
Bugscope Team so the spider can feel its environment
- Student what would it like to eat
Bugscope Team it is a predatory organism, so it feeds on insects and the like
- Student How many species of spiders are their?
Bugscope Team well, today we know of about 40,000 different species of spider, but that is growing
- Student Do they feed off of other bugs?
Bugscope Team yep
- Student so what is a tarsus
Bugscope Team the tarsi are the last four or five segments of the arm or leg
- Student it looks like a grappling hook
Bugscope Team yes it does!
- Student Are those antenae?
Bugscope Team no those are claws
- Student cool
- Student What is is that?!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team this is a claw
- Student what are the hook shaped things
- Bugscope Team a beetle claw
- Student Which segment of the leg is this?
Bugscope Team this is the final segment, where the claw is
- Student where is the tarsis
Bugscope Team the tarsis is behind the claw
- Student what bug?
Bugscope Team beetle
- Student ok
- Bugscope Team they open and close when a tendon-like thing called an unguitractor pulls up or down
- Student Is there a reason it looks like an anchor?
Bugscope Team in a way; it is used for grasping and hooking onto things
- Student Oh!
- 1:38pm
- Student where is this tarsus located
- Student What bug is this?
- Student what are the spikes in the background
Bugscope Team those are spines on the arm that help it keep from getting bitten
- Student What bug has the fastest-acting poison, and which one has the deadliest?
Bugscope Team i'm not sure, sorry
- Student it has pointy things on its claw
- Student Is this just a part of the bug or the whole thing?
- Student what bug is this
- Student What is the little bumps on the claw?
- Student Are those claws?
Bugscope Team yep
- Student is the bottom one broken
Bugscope Team yeah, it's cracked at the tip
- Student What is this in the background?
- Student How big is the claw?
- Student what kind of microscope do you use?
Bugscope Team an electron microscope
- Student What is this?
Bugscope Team a beetle claw
- Student was it like that when you got it
- Student How many species of beetles are there?
Bugscope Team probably hundreds of thousands
- Bugscope Team there is an ant that has a very poisonous sting
- Student Why is the claw torn near the bottom?
Bugscope Team accidents happen
- Student What ant is that where does it live
Bugscope Team i think there are some dangerous fire ants in south america
- Student Do these beetles fight?
Bugscope Team some will, yes
- Student does the tarsus have hair
Bugscope Team yes, but not hairs, setae. setae is found all over insects
- Student how many legs does a beetle have
Bugscope Team six, always six
- Student is it a
- Student Wow that is alot of species?
Bugscope Team I think they are the most numerous
- Student why are there only two claws
Bugscope Team there are probably six pairs of claws
- Student unless one falls off
- Student is it all bone
Bugscope Team the exoskeleton is made of chitin, which is like what our fingernails are made of, or like a shrimp shell
- Student haha good one sam
- Student woah
- Student xavier sez woah
- Student How big is the cricket claw?
Bugscope Team 200 micron
- Student what are the hairs for
- Student If a bug's exoskeleton cracked open, would their insides ooze out?
Bugscope Team yeah, pretty much
- 1:43pm
- Student What are the little bumps on the claw
Bugscope Team that's where the setae are stick out right?
- Student I didn't know that crickets have claws!
Bugscope Team yeah, it's cool, most insects have claws of some kind
- Student How many different colors can a cricket be?
- Student is thate setea
Bugscope Team yep
- Bugscope Team beetles cannot type like we do, though
- Student IIs the surface of the claw prikley?
- Student Oh
- Student are those hairs or setae and what do they do
Bugscope Team they are setae, and most of them are mechanosensory -- touch sensory like cat whiskers
- Student That makes sense
- Student good to know
- Student This is cool
- Student what are tose hairs
Bugscope Team setae, they sense their environment with setae
- Student Do you have a picture of their insides?
Bugscope Team we have imaged the insides in the past
- Student What is the difference between hairs and setae?
Bugscope Team well, insects don't have hairs really. these are all setae. they help insects to sense their environment
- Student Is this a zoom in of the same picture?
- Student is that setea
Bugscope Team yep!
- Student Does a cricket kill anything with its claw?
Bugscope Team well, i think it could, not sure it does that on a regular basis though
Bugscope Team more likely it bites something to kill it
- Bugscope Team this is live imaging -- they are not really pictures
- Student O.O wow this bug has a lot of setae..
Bugscope Team totally. insects are covered in setae
- Student cool pollen
- Bugscope Team a pollen grain!
- Bugscope Team setae act like our skin does. so yeah, they have lots of setae
- Student pollen is pointie
Bugscope Team yes it helps it stick to things and get dispersed that way
- Student whate flower is the pollon from
- Student woah does that hurt the bug?
Bugscope Team not really
- Student Is this photo from a black cricket?
Bugscope Team this is a live image, not a photo, although of course it looks like a photo
- Student Why is is it so spiky
- Student How far may this cricket carry the pollen grain?
Bugscope Team for its entire life, i could imagine
- Student Do crickets feed off of other bugs
- Bugscope Team it is from a brown cricket
- Student Why do cricets make sounds?
Bugscope Team they want to attract other crickets as mates
- Student why is it under the hair
Bugscope Team that's where the pollen ended up, just happened that way
- Student what flower is the pollen from
Bugscope Team not sure; many pollen look like this
- Student wow
- Student why do the setae have little ridges
- Student setae looks like yarn from up close
Bugscope Team these do. some are smooth
- Student What are the chances that it will carry it all its life?
- 1:48pm
- Student Don't crickets make noise by rubbing there wings together?
Bugscope Team their legs
- Student Is it from a black cricket?
Bugscope Team yep
- Student Oh
- Bugscope Team a brown cricket, sorry, not a black cricket
- Student 23
- Student what part is it sticking to
- Student ++
- Bugscope Team if you take the mag down you can see where we are
- Student do crickets have jointed legs?
Bugscope Team yes they do, and this is on one of the joints
- Student I thought is was a brown cricket
Bugscope Team brown cricket
- Student whate crickot is this
- Student Oh! their legs!
- Student You're welcome!
- Student what cricket is this
- Student is it covered in pollen
- Student this is so cool how you discover what kind of insects are on the screen!~
- Student Why are the setae spiraled?
Bugscope Team I think those are touch receptors, and they are stronger if they are spiral compared to being flat
Bugscope Team i'm just not sure, sorry
- Student what part of the cricket on
- Student How many pollen grains can the cricket collect it at a time?
Bugscope Team sometimes hundreds, but here there only seem to be a few
- Student Why do wasps have big eyes?
Bugscope Team they fly, and they need to be able to see well
- Student head of wasp WOAH TALK ABOUT STAR WARS...
- Student is it dead
Bugscope Team yes, all the bugs are dead. we need them to be still when we look at them so close
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student that is so cool
- Bugscope Team ants and bees and wasps are related
- Student are those big bulgy things the eyes
Bugscope Team yes!
- Student Why don't they have eyelids?
Bugscope Team they do not have skin, so no eyelids
- Student does it have setea
Bugscope Team yep, lots of setae, you are getting the idea :)
- Student Is it true that insects can see thousands of ways?
Bugscope Team they can collect thousands of images and form them into a coherent whole that also lets them gauge motion
- Student yes
- 1:53pm
- Student Those eyes are huge, Man!!!
Bugscope Team totally dude
- Student hairy also
Bugscope Team well, not hairy really... setae-y
- Student SHAVE CRICKIT! (improvising)
Bugscope Team shaved cricket wouldn't be able to feel anything at all!
- Student What does a wasp eat?
- Student Can bugs die by crashing into windows?
Bugscope Team well, they could yes, but they rarely do. those setae would help to let the insect know that the air pressure is changing, and it would fly another direction
- Student since the eyes of a wasp have many little squares in the eyes do they see many images of the thing they are looking at
- Student thank you so much it is so cool
- Student ty
- Student Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
- Student Thank you so much for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student thank you! Bye!
- Student tttttttthhhhhhaaaannnnkkkyyyooouuu we have learned alot
- Bugscope Team you all were AWESOME!!!
- Bugscope Team thank you!
- Student ploopyyyyyy! that means thank you
- Bugscope Team it was our pleasure to help you and answer your questions
- Student fofi: I learned so much thanks !!!!!
- Student Thank you! We learned so much today!
- Student thank you for the coment see you later :)
- Student thank you so much bye !
- Bugscope Team mrs. palmer, remember, all the chat and images are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-130
- Student thank you for answering our questions, we learned alot
- Bugscope Team Wasps as adults are said to feed on nectar and honeydew, but they also feed their young other insect parts
- Bugscope Team insects have nerves on the inside that are connected to the setae on the outside, so they can feel, and they can feel pain...
- Bugscope Team palmer, any last questions?
- Bugscope Team remember your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-130
- Bugscope Team you can review all the chat and images on that page, long after the session
- 1:59pm
- Teacher Thanks, , I'll be checking back later to read their questions more carefully. This was great. I will definitely be doing it again!!
- Bugscope Team ok, nice session every, we are closing it down... cool mrs p, great work!
- Bugscope Team any questions, please email us at bugscope@beckman.illinois.edu
- Bugscope Team great sessions
- Bugscope Team good bye!
