Connected on 2010-04-19 11:00:00 from Columbia, MO, US
- 9:53am
- Bugscope Team sample is pumping down
- 9:59am
- Bugscope Team Hi Dan!
- Bugscope Team we'll be setting up in a minute
- Bugscope Team waiting for the vacuum to get a bit better
- Bugscope Team almost there
- 10:07am
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- 10:18am
- Bugscope Team Hi DoctorXX!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team We're setting up for today's session at 11.
- Bugscope Team um bye
- 10:23am
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- 10:35am
- Bugscope Team hi! welcome to bugscope ms spencer
- 10:41am
- Bugscope Team welcome back
- Bugscope Team is everything okay ms spencer?
- Bugscope Team Ms C you now have control of the microscope if you would like to test.
- Bugscope Team you can change the mag, drive (click to center is best), change focus, modify the brightness/contrast, and you can choose from among the presets on the right side of the chat.
- Bugscope Team Clicking on a preset will take you to that place on the stub.
- Bugscope Team and you can drive around from there if you wish, as well
- 10:48am
- Bugscope Team Ms Spencer let us know if you have any questions!
- Bugscope Team Or if you have any trouble. Can you see the whole screen alright?
- Bugscope Team this is a part of the tiny true bug that has these odd structures we've seen on stinkbugs before
- Teacher I'm going to practice driving....
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team Cool!
- Bugscope Team any questions just let us know
- Teacher Are all the presets from the samples we sent you?
Bugscope Team we added a few insects of our own as well
- 10:53am
- Teacher We're going to get the kids in here in about 5 min. They'll each log in with their name...
- Teacher Do we all have to look at the same preset at the same time?
Bugscope Team yes once you select the preset, the microscope goes to that place, and then you can change the mag to see where you are, for example, or whatever you want
- Bugscope Team where we are now is preset no. 23, but moved a bit
- Bugscope Team now the microscope moved to this other He,
- Teacher WE'll start with this preset.
- Bugscope Team oops can't type Hemipteran
- Teacher My teck is THRILLED to be helping. She says...Its a good thing we can't see all this on this level!
- Bugscope Team you can see its eyes, and its piercing mouthparts, the proximal end...
- Bugscope Team heh you can see now. yeah you would feel sorry for the insects if they were looking at you while you mashed them
- Bugscope Team feel free to drive around or click on another preset -- you can always come back
- 10:59am
- Bugscope Team Hello! Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team let us know when you have questions
- Student What kind of insect is this?
Bugscope Team this is a true bug. they kind of look like beetles but they arent. They have a proboscis they use to stab into either plants or other insects to drink from them
- Student COOL!
- Bugscope Team Hemipterans like this ('true bugs') have piercing/sucking mouthparts, and they have a sort of half membranous/half hardened shell wing
- Bugscope Team you can see the compound eyes,s and you can see where one of the antennae is busted off
- Bugscope Team Ms S can drive and take you on a tour of the exoskeleton
- Bugscope Team or with her permission we can give you control of the microscope -- one person at a time
- Student it looks really wierd
Bugscope Team yeah, the bugs can look strange at high magnification
- Student why is it called true bug?
- Student i agree
- Student What part are we looking at?
- Student whats that hole on its head?
Bugscope Team that is where its antenna had broken off
- Student what is that?
- Student What does this insect eat?
Bugscope Team true bugs eat a lot of plant matter, leaves and such. that's why you see them often on leaves.
- Student what are we looking at
- Student hi
- Student EEEEEEEK!
- Student What is that line
Bugscope Team this looks like a segment of the abdomen
- Student why is it called a true bug?
Bugscope Team it is to differentiate them from other 'bugs,' kind of odd, but someone decided to call hemipterans true bugs
- Bugscope Team this, now, is the abdomen
- 11:05am
- Bugscope Team the dark spot is probably a piece of junk like dirt
- Student why is this called the true bug?
- Student is that the exoskeleton
Bugscope Team yes! very good, the exoskeleton covers the entire body of the bug
- Student whaaa?
- Student Where does this bug live
Bugscope Team they live all over the temperate regions; we don't know the exact range
- Student it looks like outerspace
- Student da!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student look at the hair!
Bugscope Team yeah, cool huh? it's not really hair though, those are called setae (pronounced see-tee) and they help insects to sense their environment
- Bugscope Team edge of the world
- Student whatis this?
- Student really
- Bugscope Team try not to drive off the edge of the stub ms spencer
- Student yeah right
- Student i dont think ms s is driving
- Student what color isit
- Student What are we looking at now
- Student what is it?
- Student ZOMBIE!!!!!!
- Student is it a posnis bug
Bugscope Team some true bugs -- the ambush bugs and assassin bugs, for example, inject a venom into other insects that dissolves their internal organs, much like a spider does
- Student What is it
- Student does it bite
Bugscope Team it could and it would probably hurt. one of the jaws is the very top of the head you see
- Student woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
- Student bok!
- Student wut isit
- Student what part of the insect is this
- Student what is this bug?
- Student are those legs?
Bugscope Team those are not legs, but they are thought to have evolved from legs. They are palps and they help the insect taste or move around food
- Student how big is this bug
- Student is that a leaf in the backround
Bugscope Team nope. those are just bumps in the sticky tape we put the bugs on
- Student what is that?
- Bugscope Team since all bugs have a hard exoskeleton that can't feel anything, they need some way to sense their environment. that's where the setae come in. they are sensory organs that stick through the exoskeleton and attach to nerves underneath
- Student are those pincers
- Student what was that long thing on the 1 imeg
- Student are they dead
Bugscope Team yep, totally RIP
- Student thats gross
Bugscope Team heh
- Student what are those leg things
Bugscope Team those are palps -- mandibular and maxillary palps
- Student dont laugh at me
Bugscope Team well it is gross, but we see this a lot -- we weren't laughing at you
- 11:10am
- Student akward
- Student is that yhe mouth?
- Student this bug is hairy
Bugscope Team all bugs are hairy, in that they have lots of setae. setae are needed to feel things.
- Student is that a spider?
Bugscope Team we dont have any spiders here today. You did send us a couple but they werent dry enough to use in time
Bugscope Team it was a beetle
- Student what bug is this
- Student are those hairs on it?
- Student beast
- Student what is that?
- Student ew
- Student what is this?
- Student WHAT IS THAT???
- Student is that a mosquito?
Bugscope Team yes!
- Student weird
- Student What is that
- Student is that hair?
- Student no way!
- Student what part is that?
Bugscope Team these are palps on the face of the mosquito
- Student is the mosquito bad to the envierment
- Student are those scales
- Student what part bites you
Bugscope Team the part that bits is the part sticking out of the face towards us. You can't see the actual parts right now because they are sheathed in that long tube
- Student what part is this
- Student eeewwwwwwww
- Student yeah they are bad, they BITE!
Bugscope Team only the females bite, and there are some species of mosquito that actually do not feed on blood, neither the females nor the males
- Student How many weeks does a mosquito live?
- Student shrunken eyes????
Bugscope Team yeah, when insects dry out they can shrivel up like thise
- Student or years, or days,
- Student what does a baby mosquito look like
Bugscope Team it has an aquatic form, so it looks like a wriggly little caterpillar, kind of, in the water
- Student is that a antina
Bugscope Team yep, good eye!
- Student ew
- Student how long does the misquito live
- Student its cracked?
- Student what do they eat?
Bugscope Team most mosquitos drink blood but there are some that eat other things
- Student weird
- Student are those hairs
Bugscope Team those are setae that extend from the antenna
- Student dont females bite when their pregnate cuz they need blood
Bugscope Team that is correct -- they need a blood meal in order to be able to successfully lay their eggs
- Student how long does it live
Bugscope Team mosquitos can live up to 100 days
- Student does the antenna come out of the eye?
Bugscope Team no, not from the eye itself, but from near the eye
- Student are those hairs
Bugscope Team yes they are on the antenna
- Student are those antenea?
Bugscope Team yes!
- Student it looks like a bridge with hairs
- Student do they ever live in water like as baby
Bugscope Team yes they do -- that is why you can control for mosquitoes by emptying little pools of water in the area you want to protect
- Student is that the antenna
- Student OK what is that, hair
Bugscope Team not hair, setae
- Student akward
- Student zoom in on one of the hair things coming out of the anntena please.
- 11:15am
- Student thats weird
- Student zoom zoom zoom in
- Student is that a katydid?
Bugscope Team yes, good eye
- Student what is that
- Student ew
- Student freaky!!!
- Student the eye looks big
- Student thats the head, right
Bugscope Team yes it is the head, and this is a small katydid. If we put in one of our larger ones, you wouldn't be able to see as much of the head as we are seeing now
- Student that is a huge eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student really?
- Student no i just heard the teachers talking
- Student where are the anntenea
Bugscope Team the antennae are sticking straight up from the head
- Student is that a eye
- Student is that the mouth?
Bugscope Team the mouth is to the lower left
- Student chomp!
- Student is this a girl or a boy
Bugscope Team it is a girl -- we can tell because at the other end of the body it has an ovipositor for laying eges
- Student is hair inportint
- Student what are the bumps on its i
- Teacher Could you center the scope over the eye?
- Student how do you know all of this about bugs
- Student How big is the eye?????
Bugscope Team if we compare the width of the eye to the scale bar we can see that it is more than 1000 microns -- more than a millimeter -- in diameter
- Bugscope Team the ommatidia -- the fine features of the eye -- are very smooth on an insect such as this
- Student setae? why is it called setae?
Bugscope Team setae (pronounced see-tee) is the name given to those hair like things. I'm not sure where the word comes from though.
- Student that huge bump is an eye right?
- Student that eye is HUGE!
Bugscope Team it is. if you had compound eyes you would have better peripheral vision -- note that they are like domes. and also you would have a better ability to sense motion with all of the individual lenses -- the ommatidia
- Student that is a huge eye!
- Student what are the bumps on its eye/
Bugscope Team lot of dirt on the eye
- Student big eye? maybe?
- Student it looks like the moon
- Student is the setae inportint
Bugscope Team oh yeah, totally. without the setae, insects wouldn't be able to feel anything, because their exoskeleton is hard and has no nerves in it
- Student what are bumpy things on the eye?
- Student whats that stuff on the eye
Bugscope Team some of it is just dirt and grime, we call it juju
- Student do insects have noses
- Student dirt on the eye?
- Student rolly polly
- Student it has dirt on its eye!
- 11:20am
- Student ilove roly polies
- Student EWWW why is there dirt on their eye
- Student yuck
- Student wow.
- Student THATS a rolypoly!
- Student What is a rolypolies favorite snack
- Student are those legs
- Student wow.wow.wow.
- Student how long do the rolly pollys live?
- Student ?
- Student the rolly polly looks funny
- Student are those leg?
- Student what are those things?
- Student i dont like rolypolys anymore
- Student what is the shell made of?
Bugscope Team chitin, like a shrimp shell, or like the exoskeletons insects have. but this is a crustacean
- Student why are there spikes on the legs
Bugscope Team so the legs can feel things, those spikes are setae, i think
- Bugscope Team roly poly's are not insects, actually, they are a species of crustaceans, like lobsters.
- Student are those legs?
- Student how can u tell if its a boy or a girl
- Teacher Can you center over the head
- Student those legs r cool
Bugscope Team they are called 'isopods' because all of their legs -- all of their feet -- are the same: 'iso'
- Student what does a rolly polly eat
Bugscope Team they feed on decaying plant matter
- Student what are the things on its legs?
- Student what does a rolly polly eat?
- Student what r those spikes
- Student do Roly Polys have claws???
Bugscope Team they have single claws, unlike many insects
- Student The legs look sharp when magnified!!
- Student if rolly pollys are not insects, then why are we looking at them?
Bugscope Team sometimes we will put non insects in the scope because they are still fun to look at. Sometimes we will even have salt to look at
- Student y does it have so many legs
- Student whats that!
- Student what is that thing??
- Student hehehe
- Student huh? what is that?
- Student why do thay have spicks?
- Student what part r we looking at?
Bugscope Team this is the underside of the head
- Student what is that
- Student is this the head
- Student what is that??
- Bugscope Team they eat decaying vegetation, so that's why you see them in dark damp places with decaying leaves and such. to them that's dinner. yum!
- Student DECAYING PLANT MATTER???
Bugscope Team totally. breakfast of poly-ans.
- Student how long do they live
- Student WHAT IS THAT THING?
- Student ohhh
- Student where are the eyes?
- Bugscope Team I just moved us to the eye -- one of the eyes
- Student what is rolly polly like what famliey if its not a insect
- Student those eyes are bumpy. Y?
Bugscope Team they are compound eyes with individual facets, and those bumps are the facets
- Bugscope Team breakfast of champolyans
- Student what does a roly poly eat?
Bugscope Team decaying plant matter
- Student looks like a bunch of grapes!
Bugscope Team yeah or a raspberry even!
- Student How long does a rolypolie normaly live?
Bugscope Team they can live for about 2 years
- Student whats polyans?
Bugscope Team oh i just made that word up... i was combining champion and poly
- Student is that an eye?
Bugscope Team that bumpy part is the eye
- Student ant
- Student is this compound
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student eek ants
- Student is that a eye?
- 11:25am
- Student they look like a bee hive
Bugscope Team yes it is a conserved shape to many insects/arthropods
- Student is that a compond eye
Bugscope Team yep
- Student it looks like an hand gernade
- Student wheres the ant?
- Student is that an antr
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student yuk
- Bugscope Team you know an ant is an ant when it has elbowed antennae
- Student cool
- Student is that an ant?
- Student is that the mouth
- Student is that a ant head???????????????????????
- Student that mouth is cool
- Student is that dead?
Bugscope Team yep, all the bugs are dead, need to be still to be imaged well
- Student are those legs too
- Student are those antena
- Student r those bent tings antena
- Student why do ant bites itch
Bugscope Team they can spray formic acid into the wound after they bite you which causes the pain or itchiness
- Student how many times is this magnified
Bugscope Team click on the scale bar in the lower left of the image, that'll tell you the current mag as well as other cool things
- Student are those legs?
- Bugscope Team the first part of the antenna -- the stiff part closer to the head -- is called the 'scape.'
- Student are those legs coming out of its eyes
Bugscope Team Hannah we can't see the eyes because they are on the other side of the head. Ants often look like they have legs coming out of their mouths.
- Student y are there hair like things on his mouth
Bugscope Team yep, probably used to taste or smell the food. setae can do that. setae are way cool.
- Student that looks like a machine!
- Student what part is that?
Bugscope Team this is near the back of the head from the under side
- Student what part is that?
- Student Do ants ever kill other ants for food?
- Student r those frekles
- Student do they bite people?
- Student how much can they carry at a time in the mouth
- Teacher We're trying to get to the mouth, can you help us out?
- Student how long do ants live?
Bugscope Team well, the queen can live years, but the workers die quickly, maybe weeks or months at most?
- Student what is that pattern on his face
- Student why is it called the scalp?
Bugscope Team the portion of the antenna is called a 'scape,' but I am not sure why
- Student is it true that ants can count?
Bugscope Team wow I hadn't heard that. I don't know.
- Bugscope Team ants sometimes look like they are consuming other insects because of the palps sticking out
- Student wasp
- Student where do the ants put the babies?
- Student hi cate
- Student what is that?
- Student is that the thorax
- Student is that a wasp antena
Bugscope Team this is the antenna.
- Student looks like a spike pit!
- Student what is that?
- Student is that sedae
Bugscope Team those are setae, yes
- Student what is that
- Student what are those spikey things?
Bugscope Team those are micro-setae
- Student it looks sharp
- Student this looks really cool
- Bugscope Team this is a close-up of a wasp antenna
- Student is that setae\
- Student is that theleg????????????
- 11:30am
- Student its a wasp anntena
- Student what are the spikes
- Student thats cool
- Student cool
- Student zoom in on the spikes!!!!!
- Student this is a wasp head, right
Bugscope Team yes!
- Student tose are sencers?
Bugscope Team Desmond many of the setae are sensory: mechano- or thermo- or chemo-sensory.
- Student ms spencer thot iswus sensers
- Student looks like a mad scientest!!!!
- Student this thing is creepy
- Student are those chewing mouth parts
- Student hehehe
- Student Oh my gosh!! How high did you magnify that!?!?
- Student what are those two round ball things?
Bugscope Team those are the compound eyes
- Student is one of its anntenae cut off?
- Student reeaallyy??
- Student zoom zoom zoom zooooooooooooooooooooom in on the mouth
- Student ewewew
- Student what is that thing in front of his mouth
- Student m
- Student Can Wasps bite
Bugscope Team they can bite but their mouths are small compared to us, so they usually sting
- Student can u zoom even farther
- Student is that a mouth
- Student what are the 2 fuzzy things
- Student are those teeth
Bugscope Team they dont have teeth, they have their jaws and palps they use for eating
- Student what is that?
Bugscope Team this is the mouth of the wasp
- Student how long do wasps live
- Student what are the spikes
- Student what are those spikey things
- Student does a wasp die after it sting
Bugscope Team no it can sting again
- Student what part is that?
- Student is tha t the mouth open
Bugscope Team sort of; it is hard to actually see into a mouth
- Student what do they eat
- Student what are we looking at
- Student no teeth?
- Student what are the spikes?
- Student are those spick?
- Student Do wasps have teeth
- Student how do they eat without teeth
Bugscope Team they have chewing mouthparts, some of them, and the mouthparts are made of chitin, which may in some insects be hardened with minerals such as calcium and zinc
- Student how zoomed in are we
- Student what part is that?
- Student does the wasp's stiger break off?
- Student Now its getting creepy, CAN you even zoom in farther?
- Student what do they eat?
- Student ya
- Student what do wasps eat
Bugscope Team wasps will eat garbage. like how you usually see them buzzing around picnic tables or at places where you eat outside
- Student setae, maybe?
- Student can you zoom farther
- Student wasp stinger
- 11:35am
- Student can we see the stinger
- Student whats zinc
Bugscope Team zinc is a silvery gray metal
- Student i dont think picnic food is garbage
Bugscope Team good point
- Student that exsplains
- Student how do they reproduce?
- Student it looks harmless
- Student looks like a hotdog.
Bugscope Team haha, it has some liquid gunk that got dried on it by the looks of it, so it wouldn't always look like that.
- Student what are those bumps?
- Student is that the butt
Bugscope Team it comes out of the abdomen, which to us seems like a butt
- Student how come the stinger doesnt look sharp
Bugscope Team one reason is does not look sharp is that it is highly magnified. I think I would rather be stung with something sharp because something blunt would hurt more
- Student thats the stinger?
- Student katie to wasps it is
- Student that looks dull not sharp
- Student are those bumps dirt?
- Student what are the spikes on the stinger?
- Student good point.
- Student if the stinger persis skin how come its so dool
Bugscope Team it's still sharp enough to pierce, it just doesn't look like in when viewed from a powerful microscope
- Student are the stingers poisonous
Bugscope Team they are attached to glands that produce venom, and you could be allergic to it
- Student that dosen't look like a stinger
- Student that looks like a bee hive
Bugscope Team this is a moth eye
- Bugscope Team here's a compound eye, with a scale on the right side
- Student thats a compound eye
- Student that's huge!!!!!!!
- Student why do the stingers hurt
Bugscope Team the venom hurts, and the stinger hurts because it pierces your skin
- Student why is it hexagons
- Student is that a bit of a eye
Bugscope Team yes that was part of a moth's eye, and you could see a scale to the right
- Student when a bug stings u y does it swell
Bugscope Team your skin reacts to it -- to the venom that is delivered by the stinger
- Student how many eyes are in that eye?
- 11:40am
- Student what is that
- Bugscope Team sorry the insect preset moved a little so the tastebuds aren't viewable anymore
- Student is that taste buds of a true bug
- Student wha t do bugs tast
- Bugscope Team that was preset 9
- Student is thateggs
- Student scratch that!
- Student what is that?
- Student what is that
- Student that look really weird
- Student what are those things
- Student whats that goop?
Bugscope Team sometimes when insects die they throw up, or hemolymph, which is their 'blood,', comes out of their joints
- Student Where are we going!?!?!?!?!?!?
- Student i fed a cabbage luper to my stikbug
- Student i dont have any time to write!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student is that a mouth?
Bugscope Team that is the tip of the proboscis, and those tiny setae are chemosensory -- they help the bug taste what it is eating.
Bugscope Team this is a mouth part for the true bug
- Student what is that
- Student :]
- Student WHAT DO BUGS TAST?
- Student What is that???????????????????
- Student eww thats throw up
- Student looks like a cave
- Student nnassssstttttttttttttyyy
- Student ARE THOSE TEETH
Bugscope Team those are chemosensory setae used for tasting, no teeth on this bug
- Student it loo ks like a dinosaur
- 11:46am
- Student are those things teeth
- Student what are the spikes
Bugscope Team the spikes were chemosensory setae that could smell food
- Bugscope Team okay I did that -- I just moved us to the moth eye
- Student ummm...
- Student wats this
- Student whats going on
- Student what is the thing on the right side
- Student is that a wing too
- Bugscope Team this is cool
- Student in the i
- Student is that a compound eye
- Student those eyes looks like its hard to see through them
- Student do bugs see in coler
- Student do bugs see color
Bugscope Team yes they can see color, although they may be sensitive to different colors, and some insects can also see in the ultraviolet wavelengths of light, whereas we cannot
- Student definently compound.
- Bugscope Team now we see that the eye does look like lots of hexagons stuck together, as Evan said
- Student Does the insect see lots of dinnerent images or just one? How does the compound eye help it? This is Ms. Spencer
- Student do bugs see in color
Bugscope Team Yes, some of them see colors. Some see "colors" that we can't see in the ultraviolet range (the same as a black-light). In fact, many flowers have pretty patterns that can only be seen with a UV camera, but they're there to attract insects
- Student if ! eye is hurt does it effect all the eyes
- Student What are those little dots
- Student I mean different images
- Student what are those dots for?
Bugscope Team we are not sure what the dots are but we think they may have to do with the better ability to see that the moths have
- Student no
- Student cool
- Student there like dogs
- Student never mind
- Student this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student .....
- Student You can see bigger lumps, are those eyes or dirt or what else
- Student do insects smell things better than us?
Bugscope Team they seem to be very good at smelling very small amounts of chemicals in the air -- I would say yes
- Student if one eye is hurt does it effect all the eyes
Bugscope Team i dont think so, they just have a little blind spot
- 11:51am
- Student how long do they live
- Student what insect is this
Bugscope Team this is a moth
- Bugscope Team most insects will rely on their antennae more than their eyes
- Student if one eye is hurt can it heal
Bugscope Team the insect does not live long, and the eye will likely not heal in that short time
- Student thats creepy to think thats a moth
- Teacher We're going to move to preset 15
- Student how do insects smell?
Bugscope Team with the setae (hairs), insects don't have noses like humans do
- Student What the heck...WHAT IS THAT
- Student what is that body part
Bugscope Team these are tenent (to have, to hold) setae near an insect's claw
- Student what r those
- Student what is that?
Bugscope Team these are tenent setae, used to help insects that have them climb on vertical surfaces
- Student thanks!
- Student what are those?
- Student what happens if the bug dameges one wing can they still fly
- Student Do moths have more than 300 eyes
Bugscope Team well, the compound eye can have more than 300 facets, or ommatidia, in it. sometimes thousands!
- Student looks like candeland
- Bugscope Team near the tip of a beetle's claw
- Student what is that thing that looks like a bunch of squids?
- Student are those sencers?
Bugscope Team in this case they are not sensors -- they help the beetle cling to surfaces
- Bugscope Team they can act like velcro or suction pads
- Student How high is it magnifyed right now?
- Student y is there two lines pr dot
- Student whats that goop between yhe setae?
- Student how long do they live
Bugscope Team depends on the beetle, but usually a season in this part of the world
- Student cool
- Student What are the dots?
- Student What are those balls
Bugscope Team those are called 'brochosomes,' and they are produced by leafhoppers and thought to help them protect their eggs from drying out
- Bugscope Team brochosomes!
- Student what are those round ball things?
- Student What is that
- Student is that fungi
- Student cant they burrow
- Student what the????
- Student or mold
- Bugscope Team check out the cool shape of the brochosomes, like little soccer balls
- Student it says it is Brochosomes
- 11:56am
- Student what is that?
- Student what are the balls/
- Bugscope Team those are true nanoparticles
- Student how long do they live
- Bugscope Team they are less than 500 nanometers in diameter
- Student nanometers?
- Student what is that?
- Student what r those balls
- Student are the eggs inside the Brochosomes
Bugscope Team no the brochosomes usually coat the eggs
- Student y r there dots on them
Bugscope Team the dots show us that they are hollow, kind of like wiffle balls
- Student what happens if the eggs dry out?
Bugscope Team they would not be viable -- they would not hatch
- Student looking at bugs makes me wonder, have scientists found all insects or bugs in the world?
Bugscope Team not even close! there are probably millions of undiscovered species in the world
- Student t mean
- Student why is there abranch?
- Teacher Would you please zoom in on the eye
- Student is that his antenna
- Student how far can a leaf hopper hop
Bugscope Team usually no more than a foot or so
- Student is the annteae coming out of its eye
Bugscope Team no it's just running along the eye, it's not connected there
- Student how long do they live
Bugscope Team they live for around 40 days
- Student what is that?
- Student whats that back round
- Student How many lenses in that eye?
- Bugscope Team this is the compound eye
- Student What are those tiny little white things?
Bugscope Team those are the brochosomes
- Student is that the compound eye?
- Bugscope Team hundreds of lenses, called ommatidia
- Student is that salt or sugar on his eye
Bugscope Team if you could see them closer you would see that they are brochosomes
- Student they looked different from the last pic
- 12:01pm
- Student sugar!!!
- Student hi
- Teacher Thanks SO much for this terrific. We have to head on to our next class. This how been wonderful for us.
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student thank you
- Student thank you
- Student thank you for the facts
- Student thanks
- Student cool
- Student thanks!
- Student thanks you guys are awesome
- Bugscope Team ms spencer, don't forget that all the chat and images from this session are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-024
- Bugscope Team thank you for using bugscope today!
- Bugscope Team over and out! Thank You!
- Student thank you so much!!!!!!!!
- Student THANKYOU cate, chas, alex, and scot
- Student Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team good job students, you did GREAT!
- Student pease
- Student THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Teacher We are logging off, friends. We'll write.
- Bugscope Team have a good day
