Connected on 2010-04-05 10:30:00 from San Antonio, TX, US
- 9:23am
- Bugscope Team samples are pumping down
- Bugscope Team just about there...
- Teacher Hey there! So excited!
- Bugscope Team good morning!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team welcome back i should say
- 9:29am
- Teacher So...did my samples work?
- Bugscope Team we're figuring that out now -- this is from suspect C, who seems to have three different kinds of pollen on her/his laces
- Teacher correct...
- Bugscope Team that should make this more fun
- Teacher the other suspects should have one fewer...
- Bugscope Team the big pollen looks like Stargazer Lily
- Teacher Yes...I got it from a local florist...the others are from flowers on campus that were growing wild.
- 9:35am
- Teacher trying to get all the computers set...
- Bugscope Team ok
- 9:40am
- 9:46am
- Bugscope Team the pollen samples liquefied in the plastic bags, so this is kind of cool -- we have to search pretty hard to find pollen that is close to intact
- Teacher hmmm...as long as we can get 3 samples and one is different then we are good...did you get my note...you guys are a crime lab today...lol
- Bugscope Team these, from the crime scene, look much better, of course
- 9:51am
- Bugscope Team this is more like real life...
- Teacher lol...they are looking at hair under a regular microscope here and then doing a handwriting analysis...
- Teacher we will be rotating in 20 min sessions...
- Bugscope Team okay
- Bugscope Team going back to the shoelace tips to look for more evidence
- 9:59am
- 10:08am
- Teacher Awesome!
- 10:18am
- Bugscope Team We are ready to roll.
- Bugscope Team session is unlocked now
- Bugscope Team a few pollen grains from the shoelace tip from the crime scene
- 10:29am
- Teacher we are loggin in! here we come
- Bugscope Team hi riley, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team welcome welcome
- Student hi Alex!
- Student hi
- Student hi what r we loking at
- Bugscope Team hi vanessa
- Student Hey Venessa
- Student logged on!
- Student hi peoples
- Student Hello every body
- Student lol
- Student Ready
- Student no kyle
- Student H A H A
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope! these are kind of smooth pollen grains we found on the shoelace from the crime scene
- Student um
- Student so where is the sciencetist guy
- Student hai
- Student hi alex
- Student its my twin
- Student yay
- Guest im here
- Student hi jenah
- Guest Hai Kate
- Student :D
- Guest hi kate and alyssa
- Student hiya
- Student Hello evrybody!!
- Student what is this picture of
- Guest Wuz up
- Student wat is that really really gross thing
- Student Hi matt
- Bugscope Team heh, alex e, welcome
- Student its an orange
- Student I like pie and cheeze
- Student yay
- Bugscope Team Alex and I are the scientists, so far. I'm Scott but I am on the microscope itself and logged on as ESEM
- Student alex
- Guest it is?
- Guest Um...what is this a picture of?
Bugscope Team this is pollen
- Student thats nice kyle
- Student you are in illinois?
Bugscope Team Yes, we're in central Illinois, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
- Student IDK
- Student have you seen my uncle?
- Student i know i am
- Student alex hes not really there
- Student What is this?????
- Student What is this?
- Student so what are these pictures for?why are they helpful?
- Student oh
- Student This is pollen from the shoelace.
- Student my uncle is aboveground
- Student Why is there a picture of pollen? It wasn't a piece of evidence
- Guest it's pollen
- Bugscope Team these are pollen grains, evidence in your crime scene
- Student cool
- Student from the shoelace?
- Student cool pollen looks wierd how much is it magnified
- Student The top picture is the shoe lace?
- Student is this the shoelace we found?
- Student Is the top pictuer from the shoela ve?
- Student from what type of plant?
- Student oops
- Student is this a shoelace
- Student why would this be evidence ?
- Student o i mean shoe lace
- Student okey and what should we look at? what is important?
- Student why would a shoelace look like that?
Bugscope Team Kasey this is a high mag image, so it is not easy to see the fibers from the shoelace
- Bugscope Team and the top image in the presets is also from the crime scene
- Student so you do this for a living
- Student this is from the shoelace
- Student cool
- Student how is pollen important??
- Student could you discribe it for us please
- Student ha
- Student its the part you can't see
- Student Does it look like that because it is dirty?
- Student is this a real person
- Student because its so small
- Student This means the guy hit a tree or scrubbed some pollen on him
- Guest Answer?
- Guest what kind of plant did this pollen fall off of?
Bugscope Team we don't know what kind of plant it came off of, but if you look around you may be able to compare this and the other samples and see if there are common features, for example
- Student Is this evedance?
Bugscope Team yep, this is crime scene evidence
- 10:34am
- Guest That looks cool!
- Student That looks awesomely cool dude!
- Student Is this pollen
- Student thats cool
- Student why do we need to see this?
- Student so is the top image a shoe lace if not what is it
- Guest Why is this pollen important?
Bugscope Team The surface structure of pollen is very distinctive to the plant it came from, so you can look for a match between pollen at the scene of the crime and on the clothes of a suspect
- Student alyssa wats up
- Student so do you work this web site all the time
Bugscope Team We all work in a microscopy lab which assists researchers from the whole University. We get to do Bugscope about three times a week.
- Student so what are the things that dont belong
- Student more evidence
- Student ?
- Teacher can you allow me to log in again...the computer I'm on won't let me scroll to the right so I can get to the presets
Bugscope Team try F11 to get full screen
- Student O.k. so I hypothesize this guy hit a tree
- Guest yeah what how does this help us?
- Student what is important in the picture?i mean like why are we looking at it?
- Student cool but what does this picture give that has evidence ?
Bugscope Team Dude say you were looking at a bunch of samples and some of them had pollen on them and some didn't seem to or had a different type of pollen or there was other evidence...
- Guest did someone have to have a pollen tree that the pollen fell from?
- Student How is this important?
- Student how did the pollen get on the shoe?
- Bugscope Team or it might be F10
- Student what is this from
- Student i did f11
- Student it worked
- Student He must have scrubbed of a plant people
- Guest How did the person get the pollen on him?
- Guest how does this help us?
- Student No one is anwsering my question...hmmm...Oh yeah i remembered what i was gonna ask. How willl you find out what flower its from?
- Student how do you view diffrent pictures?
Bugscope Team garcie has control of the scope now
- Student so alex
- Student What is the pollen for
- Student is all this from the shoelace?
- Student so its part of a plant right
- Student Is the pollen on the shoelace
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student or is some other evidence mixed in?
- Student Yes, including all the pollen
- Teacher havin touble moving microscope...can we pull up the presets
Bugscope Team i just switched control to you now, try it
- Guest how does this help us?
- Guest Wait, so the big picture is of pollen, and so are all the other pictures on the side, right?
- Guest there seems to be pollen on all the shoes so we're looking for abnormal amouts?
- Student so your name is alex guy from illinois
Bugscope Team yep, my name is alex, i'm from illinois
- Student why does everyone keep asking about the polen !
- Guest Where's the presets?
- Student hai. how will you find out what flower the pollen is from?
- Bugscope Team Garcie you should be able to click on a preset and the 'scope will drive to that place
- Student No more evidence is shown except the pollen and the shoelace but I see something in the backgrond and I don't know what iyt is.
- Student cool
- Guest the piece of jean, the other sample, did it have pollen on it?
- Teacher got an error message. "Valid session ID not recieved in data request'
Bugscope Team is it working now?
- Student it*
- Student alex did u train on this?
- Student hey alex can you move the diffrent pics?
- Guest how does this help?
- Student or is some edited with other fibers?
- Student why do you work underground
Bugscope Team because there is less vibration down here
- Student whoa
- Student are all the pictures on the side of pollen on the shoelace
- Guest What happened to the picture?
Bugscope Team your teacher is controlling the image, there are live images from an electron microscope
- Student r yall in college
Bugscope Team No, all of us are out of school, but our job here is to assist the students who are doing their research
- Student what is that
- 10:39am
- Guest did the piece of jean have pollen/
- Student What is this?
- Student that looks like grass
- Bugscope Team looks like you've got it working garcie?
- Student plants!
- Student i think it is
- Student the pollen
- Student Chas, what grade r u in, orare u in collage?
- Student diffrent pollen though right
- Student so he went into the bush
- Student so there is pollen all over the shoe lace
- Student This must be when the plant got him
- Guest how does this help us?
- Student r u showing the different pictures on the side of our screen?
Bugscope Team those are the presets, your teacher can click on a preset to move the scope to that location
- Bugscope Team this is evidence from the crime scene as well, and now we see fibers from the shoelace as well as the kind of pollen we saw earlier plus another kind of pollen
- Student Yep
- Guest Did the piece of jean have pollen on it???
Bugscope Team Please ask Garcie to navigate to the "fabric" presets to see what the pollen looks like on the jeans
- Guest what type of pollen is this?
Bugscope Team the big pollen grains look like Stargazer Lily pollen we have seen before
- Guest so this is a shoelace, right?
- Student is that the fibers?
- Student so ...why is it important if it has pollen or not?
- Student so is this the pollen from the shoelace?
Bugscope Team yes this is from the shoelace from the perp
- Student or what
- Student gosh vanessa its evidence
- Guest yeah whatsso important about it?
Bugscope Team The goal is to compare features found on the evidence with features found at the scene of the crime
- Guest o.k.
- Student That must have got him right!
- Bugscope Team this is from suspect A's shoelace
- Student Is this the pollen cause it looks like eggs?
Bugscope Team not all pollen looks like this
- Student in real life would you be able to do this?
- Student so
- Bugscope Team pollen sometimes looks like eggs, like this, and sometimes it is round
- Guest so the picture that's up right now is from suspect a?
Bugscope Team yes!
- Student is this all diffrnt pics of diffrent pollen
Bugscope Team these are not really pics -- they are live images from a scanning electron microscope
- Student then
- Student i think this is like
- Student o.k.
- Student arethe circles pollen
Bugscope Team yep
- Bugscope Team NOTE: If you click on the scale bar in the lower-left corner of the image it will display more information, including the nearest preset -- that will help you keep up with where we are
- Student on the crime scene evidence pic there are no other like it. are you sure it's not the victums shoelace
- Bugscope Team well, they are ovals
- 10:44am
- Student what is so important about this
- Student shoelace?*
Bugscope Team Paul you are right it could be the victim's shoelace. Here we don't know the whole story.
- Student oh cool
- Student so the images we are looking at are live not just pictures that yall took with a camera
- Teacher do we have a preset for suspect C shoelace/pollen?
Bugscope Team presets 1 and 2
- Student those are some pretty wierd looking ovals
- Student did the suspect run through flowers?
- Guest whoa are those things that look like peanuts pieces of pollen?
Bugscope Team totally, you got it
- Guest remeber,kate he trampled on it
- Student so are the round things more pollen?
Bugscope Team the oval things are pollen, yes
- Bugscope Team what is important is that you know what we are looking at each time -- this is from suspect B
- Student s
- Student so we are looking at live images not pictures yall took with a camera
Bugscope Team that's right! these are live images from an electron microscope
- Student why are all the scans different if it is the same item?
- Student oh yeah thanks jenah. at least you answered my question :) lol just kidding
- Student there in diffrent spots
- Guest what are the not oval things?
- Student cool
- Student So this guy must have benn in the flowers at the time right? Or is it still something?
- Student the fibers
- Student could the pollen move over time?
- Bugscope Team THIS IS SUSPECT C SHOELACE POLLEN
- Student we are looking ar the pollen, right?
- Student is this suspect c?
Bugscope Team yes
- Guest That looks weird!!!
- Student will you be my best friend chas?
- Student ok
- Guest thank you
- Bugscope Team And this is also Suspect C Shoelace
- Student could the pollen move or will it not
Bugscope Team well, wind can blow it around yes, but this pollen haven't moved like that
- Student i drew the first one
- Student is this suspect c?
- Guest so this picture is the crime scene pic?
- Student this has lots of pollen
- Student so the more pollent it has ...the guiltier?
- Student thanks alot
- Student thank you
- Guest Thanks
- Student Is this the stargazer lily?
- Student Thank You!
- Student thank you lots!
- Guest thank you for all the help and answering my questions
- Teacher switching groups
- 10:49am
- Student Thanks .
- Guest thanks. but i have to go
- Student thanks for giving me ansersssss
- Student bye
- Guest Thanks for the help peace out!! :D
- Student thank you for answering our questions
- Bugscope Team thanks kids, you did GREAT!
- Student thanks so much u help alot :)
- Student Thanks! thanks you for everything i kno it must have been hard to answers all these questions at one time! thanks!vanessa!1!
- Student your welcome
- Student Thank You Guys
- Student bye people
- Student thxxx your awesome
- Student Thank you for answering everything i asked
- Student Later dudes !
- Student later dudes its been kool
- Bugscope Team you are rule. have a good one!
- Teacher we are back
- Bugscope Team hello, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team yay!
- Student what am I looking at here?
Bugscope Team You're seeing live images from a scanning electron microscope. We have several pieces of evidence on the sample stage, which you can jump to using the presets in the lower-right corner of the screen
- 10:54am
- Student hello
- Student wat type of flower is this
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student Hey guys (and gals)!
- Student not a flower
- Student What kind of pollen is it?
- Student what type of pollen is this?
- Student i can tell
- Student What kind of flower does this pollen come from?
- Student what is this//
- Bugscope Team this is the crime scene pollen
- Student what type of pollen are we looking at
- Student What type of plant is this pollen from?
- Bugscope Team THIS IS CRIME SCENE POLLEN, take a good look at the way the pollen looks
- Student What kind of pollen is that?
Bugscope Team we aren't sure, but to figure out the crime, you need to notice the details of what the pollen looks like
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team The large grains that look kind of like peanuts resemble Stargazer Lily pollen.
- Student ...
- Student do we draw this??\
Bugscope Team You don't need to draw it right now because the images are all saved for you and will be available on our website for you to look at later
- Bugscope Team It's hard to know exactly what kind of plant it comes from, but you can still note the shape of the pollen for comparison to the pollen found on other pieces of evidence
- Student Oooooooookaaaaaay
- Student stop matt. He answered you already.
- Student hi
- Student is pollen the only thing that is atatched to this shoelace?
Bugscope Team looks like it is, for this one
- Student do you know what kind of plant the pollen came from??
- Student dont thinknso
- Student how is illonois
Bugscope Team it's warming up
- Student ok
- Student Well no duh.
Bugscope Team heh
- Student what are the peanuts
Bugscope Team those are pollen grains from a different kind of plant -- pollen comes in many shapes
- Student What is this?
- Student how many pieces of hair is there in this picture?
- Student Megaman has gone Maverick... I am not he real Zero... BLUE LIGHT... MUST KILL!!!
- Student is that hair??
- Student is this the same kind of pollen from the crime scene
Bugscope Team looks like it but we do not see those bigboy grains -- the ones that look like peanuts
- Bugscope Team We can see some pollen grains on the shoelace too. Do they look the same or different from the Crime Scene Evidence?
- 10:59am
- Student Is this still the shoelace?
Bugscope Team this is one of the shoelaces
- Student What is this?
- Student Thanks!
- Bugscope Team the long strands are the fibers from the shoelace from suspect A
- Student what shoelace?
Bugscope Team there are four shoelace tips in the 'scope, and four pieces of fabric
- Student what kind of flower is that from
- Student this is cool it looks alot different than the last
Bugscope Team good eye, mr. detective!
- Student Emily, what do you mean?
- Student What are thoes flaws on one of the strands of the shoelace?
Bugscope Team yeah, small imperfections only seen under an electron microscope
- Student Megaman has gone Maverick... I Am Not The Real Zero... BLUE LIGHT... MUST KILL!!!
- Bugscope Team there is also a set of samples from all suspects -- pollen -- and a sample of pollen from the crime scene
- Student This looks more like hair than a shoelace.
Bugscope Team hair has ridges in it that occur when it grows, and we do not see those
- Student why are there seeds in a shoelace?
Bugscope Team those are pollen grains, and the person wearing the shoes must have walked through a flowerbed
- Student ahaha thanks
- Bugscope Team There are a lot of other pieces of evidence to examine if you'd like to move on
- Student what did you say about megaman
- Student on some of the pieces of pollen, on side has opened up. What is that?
Bugscope Team that is how we often find pollen, with a slot on one side
- Student The imperfections resemble a strand of hair.
Bugscope Team yes they do
- Student is there also poolen seeds in this picture
- Student This shoelace looks worn out.
Bugscope Team We're actually only seeing a few of the many hundreds or thousands of fibers that make up the whole shoe-lace
- Student Stop putting random comments
- Student the pollen looks like it has little cracks in it is that true? or is it natural?
Bugscope Team yes it is natural
- Student Yaeh emily
- Student by tony
- Student do you know what kind of flower the pollen came from?
Bugscope Team we don't
- Student This shoelace has little tears. Is this piece of evidence worn out?
- Student I spell yeah that way for fun
- Bugscope Team THIS IS SUSPECT B
- 11:05am
- Student okay
- Student By god, what is This?
- Bugscope Team ask your teacher to look at the fabric samples
- Student this looks raggedy what is that shredded looking stuff?
Bugscope Team that is some juju on the shoelaces
- Student is This the same pollen as in suspect A?
Bugscope Team looks very much like it
- Student Is this still the shoelace?
- Student is the pollen the same in a and b
- Student Is the pollen similar to suspect A's
- Student yo whats up ilinois dude
- Student what is juju?
Bugscope Team it
Bugscope Team it is our word for dirt, grime, junk....
- Student The pollen looks like seeds.
- Bugscope Team but do we see the big pollen grains we'd seen on the crime scene evidence?
- Student huh?
- Student ohhokayy
- Student What is the stuf that is surounding the shoelace and the pollen?
Bugscope Team looks like some random goo we often call juju
- Student okay thanks
- Student @arturo more like pistachioes
- Student Stop putting dumb comments, John.
- Student wait i wasent ready
- Student oh wow alot different
- Student What suspect is this?
- Bugscope Team this is evidence
- Bugscope Team THIS IS SUSPECT C
- Student why does the pollen look like a beehive?
Bugscope Team that is the way it forms
- Bugscope Team yeah this is from suspect C
- Student Do we know what plant this odd shaped pollen is from?
Bugscope Team it is very much like pollen we had seen a few years ago from Stargazer Lilies
- Student Thank you Alex.
- Student Why are the pollen things bigger?
Bugscope Team well, pollen can be in many shapes and sizes, the important thing here is to notice the difference and solve the crime!
- Student how come some pollen is big and some are small
Bugscope Team the point is that pollen is not all the same
- Student the pollen looks like a brain
- Student This is from a lilly?
Bugscope Team it looks like pollen we have seen in the past that came from a lily
- Student whats up
- Student Is this pollen bigger than the other types or is it just the micro scope?
Bugscope Team No, they are actually different sizes and shapes. Pollen has a lot of variation in structure just like different plants can look very different
- Student are the small and big pollen from diffrent flowers?
- Teacher switching groups
- 11:10am
- Student bye thanks for the info illionois!
- Student bye!! thanx 4 letting us use ur microoscope
- Student Thank you and goodbye people.
- Student bye illinois
- Student ahffliueufdsnvfdsbafrgyfhvnbdsajkf.nhewiufahvrd,abgehrgfhcqjbd,nmgcakhaerhbdcab
- Student byee thanks
- Student thanks
- Student see you guyz later thanx for the info. (its cool chatting with scientists in illinois
- Student thatk u so much but we have to go bye
- Student Awwwww, I don't wanna go.
- Student thanks for your time. Bye,(:
- Student thank you for letting us use your micrscope! byeeeeeee!!!:):)
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team you all did great!
- Student kasey stooppppp!
- Bugscope Team have a good one
- Student Thanks a lot. You were a big help. The rest of this mystory will be a breeze! Thanks!
- Student You're weird, Kasey
- Bugscope Team hi students, welcome to bugscope [CSI edition]
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Student thank you
- Student hi alex
- Bugscope Team THIS IS THE CRIME SCENE EVIDENCE
- Student how far zoomed up are we
Bugscope Team 658x, click on the scale bar in the lower left to find out
- Bugscope Team NOTICE THE SHAPE AND TEXTURE OF THE POLLEN
- Student okay
- Student what it the stuff that is on the shoelace
- Student 85
- Bugscope Team this is 658X
- Student Um, what are we looking at?
- Student This is pollen?
Bugscope Team Yes, the sort of pill-shaped things are pollen grains
- Student What are these things?
- Student wat?
- Student What is the long line in the middle?
- Student what are the oval things
- Student is this pollen
- Bugscope Team the oval shaped things are pollen, yes
- Student is this really gray?
Bugscope Team these are images from an electron microscope, it uses electrons to gather the image, not light, so there is no color
- Bugscope Team we can see fibers from the shoelace, and we can see two types/sizes of pollen grains
- Student Yeah what is that stuff
Bugscope Team the big dudes are one kind of pollen and the small dudes are another kind
- 11:15am
- Student cool
- Student what is the pollen from?
- Student Oh. I get it know
- Student pollen is a grain
Bugscope Team yes!
- Student ??
- Student I meant now
- Student wow this is really cool
Bugscope Team this is a closeup of a portion of a shoelace
- Student that is so cool
- Student is it the germs on it
Bugscope Team We're not seeing any bacteria right now, but you can see bacteria molds and fungus with an electron microscope
- Student Is their dirt on it?
Bugscope Team sure, there can be dirt, grime, junk, we call it juju
- Student juju
- Student this is really cool
- Student juj?
- Student haha juju
- Student i meant juju
- Student what?
- Student wow this is really interesting
- Student Is this the shoelace?
Bugscope Team this is a piece of the shoelace
- Student why is there holes in the big pollen?
- Student Is this a close up portion of the shoelace?
- Bugscope Team THIS IS A PIECE OF THE SHOELACE, FROM THE CRIME SCENE
- Student so this is what a shoe lace really looks like?
- Student They look weird
- Student were did this pollen come from
- Student Please stop using caps lock.
- Student what plant is the pollen from?
- Student where did this pollon come from?
- Student where did this polen come from
- Student is this really black and white and gray
Bugscope Team because we are using an electron microscope we see these images in greyscale rather than color
- Student were did the pollen come from?
- Bugscope Team the pollen must have come from some kind of plant
- Student Are the pollen the big sponge like-things or the small things
Bugscope Team you got it!
- Bugscope Team both
- Student both
- Student i this hair
- Student Where did they come from?
- Student what are we looking at now
- Student what is this?
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student yeh
- Student Is that hair
Bugscope Team no it looks like hair but it is the fibers of probably nylon or another polymer that the shoelace is made of
- Student more pollen?
- Student what is this??????
- Student no
- Student what is this picture
- Bugscope Team THIS IS SUSPECT A SHOELACE WITH SOME POLLEN GRAINS
- Student ok
- Student what are the circular things on the hair
Bugscope Team the oval things we saw earlier were pollen grains, but we do not see any here
- Student Where are the pollen grains?
- Student where r the pollon grains?
- Student where r the grains
- Student ok my teacher is moving it
- Student okay thank you
- Student is their more dirt
- Bugscope Team try zooming out, then finding a pollen grain, then zoom in on it
- Bugscope Team what we see is that pollen is not everywhere
- 11:20am
- Student then that must meen this suspect did not go through the flower patch
- Student Is this hair
- Student How come they are spread out when the shoelace looks like the strings are squeezed together
Bugscope Team this is high mag, so things do not look as compressed as they do at low mag
- Student how small are those pollyn grains
- Student By how much are they seperated from eachother?
- Student There is pollen, right
- Student are other types of pollen bigger or smaller difrent shapes?
- Teacher lol just moving back to the preset...i'm a bad driver...
Bugscope Team you are doing great! hang in there
- Student polle
- Student pollen
- Bugscope Team ah, there's some pollen!
- Student why do some parts looked cracked?
- Student y r the shoelaces coarse
Bugscope Team things look different when you zoom in this close
- Bugscope Team We can see some pollen grains now, one is near the bottom of the image
- Student is this curlly hair
- Student its hair
- Student is this hair now?
- Student so these are the particles of the shoe lace?
- Student Are the seed like things pollen?
Bugscope Team yep, you got it
- Bugscope Team THIS IS A SHOELACE, NOT HAIR
- Student no yellin'
- Student Is this one shoelace?
- Student o
- Student are these the threads of the shoelace
Bugscope Team you are right!
- Bugscope Team it looks like hair, but if you saw hair in the SEM you would see that it has regular ridges on it that get there as it grows
- Student how did the pollen get here
Bugscope Team Pollen is everywhere -- in the air, in soil, on objects. It's hard not to pick up pollen just by bumping into it or having it blow onto you
- Bugscope Team We're zoomed in so much you're seeing the individual fibers that make up the shoe-lace. That's why it looks like hair
- Student ok thank you
- Student who is bob
Bugscope Team I think Bob might be the perp.
- Student the pollon grains look so cool
- Student thats awesome!
- Student robert is bob
- Student Robert is bob
- Student wat!??
Bugscope Team just kidding
- Student is that dirt?
- Student wow thats cool 2 kno
- Student thanks
- Student why does it loook fuzzy is that mold
- Bugscope Team THIS IS SUSPECT B
- Student Why is the pollen so close?
Bugscope Team it sticks to itself sometimes
Bugscope Team good question, sometimes it seems to bunch up. i'm not sure why?
- Student its pollen i think
- Student does that have lots of dirt?
- Student Are the grainy stuff dirt?
- Student what is that binding it together
- Student is that mold?
Bugscope Team It doesn't look exactly like mold. It might just be dirt and such
- Student Robert doesn't sound anything like Bob.
- Student how big is this
Bugscope Team this is about 1300 times magnified
- Student is that lots of dirt under the pollen?
- Student r those more pollen?
- Student Where are these pollens coming from?
- Bugscope Team sure, there's some dirt, maybe some mold around this sample
- Student what is that coarse stuff?
Bugscope Team juju
- Student ok thanks
- 11:25am
- Student what r those little grain looking things?
Bugscope Team the oval shaped things are the pollen
- Student stop using that word
Bugscope Team sorry megan, i thought you liked it. we'll stop
- Bugscope Team mold spores actually look like pollen but often with smaller spikes
- Student coarse
- Student thank you alex
- Student Where are these pollens coming from?
Bugscope Team Pollen is how plants reproduce. They get spread by insects and wind
- Student what r the strip things
- Student Is there bacteria in it?
Bugscope Team we could see bacteria if there were any but we do not
- Student not the pollon but it looks like its dirty
Bugscope Team yes it is dirty
- Student hehe juju
- Student what word
- Student May I ask what word?
- Student aww i liked that other picture
- Student nnjjdhklajdsflasdj ol iioolo ; kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkl;
- Student wat is that¿
- Student Is that bacteria?
- Student what r the pockets in the pollen?
- Bugscope Team THIS IS SUSPECT C, those ovals are pollen
- Student Corbin.... I excuse you.
- Bugscope Team suspect C has those small ovoid pollen grains as well as the larger peanut like grains of pollen
- Student sorry didnt mean to do that
- Student Im back guys
- Student what kind of pollen is that? do you know?
- Student thank you
- Student ok
- Student what kind of pollen was that
- Student Is there Bacteria?
- Student How did the shoalace collect so much pollen?
Bugscope Team Pollen is released from plants like a dust. You can come into contact with it just walking through grass or bushes
- Student wath is the pollen on
- Student hey my screen went blank
Bugscope Team try F5, to refresh your screen
- Student what kinda pollen
- Student How about toward the bottom? That's pollen, right? The non-spongey one?
Bugscope Team yes it is another kind of pollen
- Student its all pollen
- Student what is that stuff in the right hand corner?
- Student what r the little pockets?
- Bugscope Team what is cool is that we have had Stargazer Lily pollen in the lab before, and it looks like the big cool-looking grains we see now.
- Student what are those string things? haha
Bugscope Team parts of the shoelaces
- Student bottom sorry
- Student is the pollen like a sponge
- Student ♥yeh, wat
- Student is there any mold here
Bugscope Team we have not see mold. mold spores often look like gum drops, or small pollen grains
- Student thank you
- Student Is there Bactria?
Bugscope Team sometimes we can see bacteria, but i don't see any here now
- Student can we zoom out a little?
Bugscope Team your teacher can zoom out
- Student Oh thanks alex
- Student yes please
- Student i
- Student no
- Teacher they are finishing their final sketches...You guys are amazing! They were able to come up with a thief!
Bugscope Team Excellent, great work!
- Student ojdgohkjpodghjkh[jklphkjpohkjohgkjohgkjoghkjopghkjotkjoltkyu[oiytuptoyijtyojk
- Student wow this is sooooo cool
- Student yay!
- Student Please, just please stop.
- Student pollen
- Student thanks for the help you guys
- Student what is thestuff in the bottom right hand corner
Bugscope Team that is mushed up pollen
- Bugscope Team Ivy!
- Student Yes!
- Student Bye
- Bugscope Team GOOD WORK, I'LL MAKE SURE NOT TO COMMIT ANY CRIMES OR ELSE YOU GENIUSES WILL CATCH ME!!!
- Student thank you!
- Student thanks
- Student thanx sooo much for ur help i appreciate it
- Student thank you you guys are awesome!!!!!
- Student Thank you so much.
- 11:30am
- Student Thanks!
Bugscope Team Thank you!
- Student Im have to leave thx
- Student thank you! bye
- Student Thank You.
- Student thnx guys have a wonderful day
- Student no yellin`¿♣
Bugscope Team heh sorry Bob, glad you are not the perp
- Student thank you guys in illinois
- Bugscope Team garcie, remember that all the chat and images from today's session are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-139
- Bugscope Team you all did great, good work
- Bugscope Team Cari I think I figured it out!
- Bugscope Team Let us know if you have other questions. Did you get everything you needed?
