Connected on 2010-05-14 09:00:00 from Springfield, IL, US
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- Guest hi
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- Guest ew
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- Guest Hello
- Guest Hey
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- Bugscope Team Good morning!
- Guest hi
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Guest this is so cool
- Guest hi how are you?
- Guest Hello!!
- Guest thanx
- Guest hi Chaos
- Guest Hi Anna! Hi Savannah!
- Guest good morning
- Guest What is that?
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team this is Scott, but I am logged into this computer as Chaos
- Guest Idk!
- Guest what is that
- Bugscope Team we are finishing the presets
- Guest what r u doing?
- Guest elena its a lady bug
- Guest Is this a ladybug?
- Guest kool!
- Bugscope Team we are driving around on the sample and finding cool places for you
- Guest ohhh
- Guest what r those marks on ladybug
- 8:56am
- Guest I know! Right??
- Bugscope Team that was a ladybug
- Guest wierd
- Guest They look like feathers!
- Guest what is that
- Bugscope Team now we're looking at part of the wing of a moth
- Guest wow
- Guest what is it???
- Guest cool
- Guest ewww
- Guest sweet
- Guest oh that is really cool
- Guest cool
- Guest cool!!
- Guest grody
- Bugscope Team they do look like feathers -- they are moth scales
- Guest groday?
- Guest grody?
- Guest woah
- Guest groovy
- Guest whats this
- Guest ?
- Guest gross and nasty together
- Guest hi mommy
- Bugscope Team eeeuuuww
- Guest what is that
- Guest thats wierd
- Guest kool!
- Guest What are we looking at?
- Guest wow!!!!
- Student hi patrick
- Student What is that?
- Student woah
- Bugscope Team this is some kind of nasty-looking insect larva
- Student it looks like a bee-hive
- Guest lol kool!
- Guest can we see the numbing thingymajig of the mosquito?
Bugscope Team that is preset 9
- Guest this is really cool!!!
- Guest that is very interesting
- Student yeah!
- Guest How long have you worked at Beckman Institute?
- Guest chaos what is your favorite bug?
Bugscope Team I like earwigs because they often have mites. and I like weevils
- Guest cool
- Guest is this the mosquito?
- Guest oh thx
- Guest its a larva
- Guest do you know what kiund of larva
- Guest oh cool
- Student How big is the microscope?
- Guest what is a weevils
Bugscope Team weevils are sometimes called snout beetles because they often have a long proboscis
- Bugscope Team Molly I am sorry we don't know what kind of larva it is
- Student MAY I HAVE CONTROL OF THE MICROSCOPE?
- Student what is this
- Guest this is so cool
- Guest This is really amazing!
- Guest nice job luke with the caps
- Guest what does it take to get into bugscope?
- Guest what is this?
- Student yea luke
- 9:01am
- Bugscope Team Luke you are the supreme ruler, dude
- Guest Chaos how did you decide to work at bugscope?
Bugscope Team I got hired in 1998 to help start it
- Guest what is a earwig ?
Bugscope Team they are those skinny pincher bugs you find when you pick up a rock
- Teacher Hello I am the science teacher working with the computer teacher
- Guest oh okay
- Guest How long have you worked at Beckman Institute?
- Student hi karla
- Guest hi mommy
- Teacher Are we working with an insect?
Bugscope Team this is an insect larva, but I am sorry we don't know what kind it is
- Guest hi Cate
- Bugscope Team Luke you should see controls on the top right, and you can click on any one of the presets to go to that place on the stub
- Student TAKE IT BACK
- Guest whar does it take to get into bugscope
- Guest what is this
- Bugscope Team Okay I gave Mrs Belz control
- Student what insect is this?
Bugscope Team Dude we don't know -- it is a larval stage, like a caterpillar
- Student can we have the microscope?
Bugscope Team Mrs Belz has it now
- Student (jeremy asked that)
- Guest what are the spikes on his back?
Bugscope Team they keep other insects and birds from biting it
- Student do you have multiple scopes up?
- Guest are the spikes hair
- Guest wat does it take to gt into bugscope
Bugscope Team you mean to be on the team?
- Guest that is cool
- Guest who sent this in
Bugscope Team we had this in a jar with a bunch of other ones. I don't know where it came from though
- Guest What's the most interesting bug you have seen or discovered using the microscope?
Bugscope Team we have seen some beautiful beetles, and mites, and weevils, and flies... it is hard to think of the coolest
- Guest How long have you been working here?
- Guest yes
- Student DID I HURT THE MICROSCOPE
Bugscope Team no you didnt
- Teacher What are the phangs coming out of his mouth
Bugscope Team those are palps -- they are used to help taste and manipulate food into the mouth
- Student how can you hurt the microscope
Bugscope Team you could jam the specimen into the pullpiece (where the beam comes out)
- Student Can we have the microscope?
- Student mrs. belz look at preset 13 or 14
- Guest ok
- Guest Chaos what are the spikes on the bugs back??
Bugscope Team those are likely defensive -- to keep birds from eating the larva -- and also to help keep parasitic wasps at bay
- Guest where are the eyes
- Guest who started the institute ?
- Bugscope Team but really you wouldnt be able to do that with bugscope
- Student what are the spikes on its back?
Bugscope Team those are probably for defensive measures. Things will be less likely to eat it when there are spikes
- Student ok
- Student Can we see a mosquito?
Bugscope Team we have a couple on here
- Guest wat does it take to get on the team of bugscope
- Bugscope Team we've made it break proof for the most part
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- Guest wat r da spikes on da back?
- Guest do you enjoy your job,why?
Bugscope Team this is so much fun
- Student Why does the picture apaer white.+
- Guest Wow!!!!!!! That is so amazing! Thanks Chaos!!!
- Student speak english noah... jkl
- Student Why does it have a spike-like thing coming out of its mouth?
- Teacher Can you swithc the microscope to Curry
Bugscope Team Curry has it
Bugscope Team curry has control
- Student what are the hairs on its legs?
Bugscope Team insects have lots of hairs on them. They are called setae when found on bugs. 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 ya
- Guest what is the most interesting bug you have ever seen with bugscope
Bugscope Team actually we saw some really cool mites that were shedding their cuticle, like slipping out of a t-shirt
- Guest why did you decide to be on bugscope
- Guest wow
- Guest can i have da microscope after curry plz?
- Guest Does it have hairs?
Bugscope Team the things that look like hairs are called 'setae,' and they are often sensory
- Guest wow
- Guest hairy
- Student this bug is really COOL (Elaine)
- Guest how much can you zoom in
- Guest What is this?
- Student wat is thet
- Guest r those tiny hairs all over its body?
- Guest Is that suciton cups?
- Student can i look at preset 14 if so how?
Bugscope Team click on the preset!
- Student what is this!
- Student what is that?
- Student WHO HAS THE SCOPE
Bugscope Team curry has it
- Guest what is that???
Bugscope Team these are sticky setae that help the ladybug cliing to surfaces
- Guest What is your favorite part about bugscope?
Bugscope Team learning about insects. we came into bugscope knowing next to nothing, but in all the years we've been doing this, we've become pretty knowledgable
- Guest wow what is that
- Guest hairs?
- Guest Which bug are we looking at right now???
- Student Why is it harry
- Guest it looks like mushrooms
- Student curry,stop
- Student im happy you can switch control
- Student Come on curry
- Teacher Can averi have the microscope?
- Guest o cool
- Student What is that? because it is awesome
- Student what is this?
- Student Their hairs look like little nails got hammered into its skin.
- Guest is that hair?
- Student can i have the microscope?
- Student CATE,CAN WE CHANGE THE BUG???
- Guest can i have the scope
Bugscope Team you have control!
- Student Chaos do you like your job?
- Student what is happening?????????????????
- Student oh
- Guest neat.
- Guest can i have it after her
- Student Me thinks the stuff is blood cells
- Student What is this?
Bugscope Team this is a ladybug palp, which is used to help the insect move or taste the food. In the palp you will also see little rods, those are bacteria@
- Student what is this
- Guest please
- Student bwood cells
- Student what is this'
- Guest is this its mouth
- Student This is intresting............
- Guest wat is this
- Student hi will
- Student who has the microscope
- Guest Is that its mouth, Cate???
- Bugscope Team this is one of the accessory mouthparts
- Guest Are those blood cells?
- Guest no
- Guest thats neat!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest it looks like a mouth
- Student gros
- Student whello
- Teacher Can Dylan have the microscope
Bugscope Team dylan has control
- Student Cool!
- Student is this the mouth?
- Bugscope Team the very small pill-like things are bacteria, as Cate said
- Student Hey what are the little ovals
Bugscope Team the larger ones are comparable to tastebuds on your tongue
- Student mrs belz can i have the microscope
- Student preset 10 looks like a pinapple
- 9:11am
- Student Can I have the microscope? (Jeremy wants to know.......)
- Student Can i have the microscope after dylan ??
- Student I think the stuff on the microscope is blood cells, is anyone interviewing Cate
- Guest Do you do this a lot? Like, chat with kids and teachers about bugs?
Bugscope Team twice a week. we really enjoy it
- Student i called it
- Guest wow!!!
- Student this is towards cate and chaos(scott) are you professers or students/
Bugscope Team we are neither. We are scientists. we work in a lab with many different kinds of microscopes and other imaging equipment
- Student Woah. Cool
- Guest can I have the scope?
- Guest look like cucumbers
- Guest how many bugs do u get a year?
Bugscope Team hundreds
- Student Are bugs the only things you look at under the microscope?
- Guest what does the institute focus on?
Bugscope Team the institute has four themes that have to do with computer-human interaction, imaging, lots of stuff like that
- Student so is that what bacteria looks like??????
- Student hi
- Student What are we looling at?
- Teacher Can Elaine have the microscope
- Guest wow!!
- Guest cate, how did you first get interested in bugscope
Bugscope Team scott kind of threw me in it one day, but when i got going I found it was really interesting. I knew nothing about insects when I started!
- Student Why are their holes in the sides with thornish things in them
- Guest is this a fun job?
- Guest What is that, Cate???
- Student what is that!
- Guest what is that?
- Guest wut is this?
- Student eww
- Guest cool dude
- Student What are we looking at?
- Student Wht do u like most about working at bugscope?
Bugscope Team getting to see cool stuff like this and having the opportunity to share it -- this is a $600,000 scanning electron microscope, so most people do not have access to one
- Student Is that a hair sticking out
- Student oh i thought this was a college thing
- Guest If you could have any bug to use under a microscope, what bug would you use?
- Student what kind of microscope is this.... a light microscope or atomic force microscope
- Student what is this
- Student can i have it
- Guest can I have the scope?
- Guest kool!
- Teacher Can Chris S have the microscope
- Guest what is the most fasinating bug you have?
Bugscope Team right now the scales on the moth are pretty interesting. The mosquitos are fun to look at too
- Student what is this?
- Student WHAT IS THAT
Bugscope Team this is the head of the ladybug
- Student what am i looking at
- Student can i have the micro scope
- Guest wow
- Guest why are you on the team of bugscope?
Bugscope Team it's sort of natural -- we train people to use microscopes to do their research
- Student keep zooming out i want to see where this is on the bug
- Student dang
- Student May I ask what this is
- Student Have you ever had the microscope break down?????????????????????????????
- Student thats a ladybud?
- Student what are we looking at right now?
Bugscope Team this is the head of one of the ladybugs
- Guest wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest what is that
- Guest ehat is that
- Student what is the biggest bug you have ever gotten?
Bugscope Team I think the biggest we've received was a cicada
- Student That is legit.........
- Student i mean cool
- Student Can we have the microscope?
- Student so....... how about me having the microscope
- Student that was a tongue!
- Guest If you could put any bug under a scope, what would you use?
- Student that bug is really cool
- Guest Can we have the microscope
- Student What is the stuff in the background
Bugscope Team that is doublestick carbon tape
- Student can me have scope
- Student this is legit......
- Guest have you ever gotten a wasp?
Bugscope Team yes we have
- Student oopppss
- Guest is this a view from the top or underneath?
- Student Who has control
Bugscope Team Anna
- Student Have you ever looked at a bee?
Bugscope Team you bet
- Student some1 zoom in so we can see cells.... we can do that right?
- Student has it stung u
- Guest what am i looking at?!
- Bugscope Team looks like it needs to be focused
- Student that makes me dissy
- Student i know you can with some scopes
- Student may i be next?????
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- Student is this a ladybug or a fly
- Guest where is beckman
Bugscope Team we are at the university of illinois in Champaign-Urbana
- Student that was jeremy
- Student uh oh?
- Student hey
- Student may we please have control of the becman institute microscpe
- Student wat
- Student its pluto!!!!
- Student wut the
- Student may i be in control please
- Student what is this my sreen is white
- Student Why is there only white???
- Guest looks like a comet
- Guest nice
- Guest wat happened
- Bugscope Team try focusing
- Student This is so cool!
- Bugscope Team it's because the image is a little out of focus
- Student now i see it
- Student go super far in
- Teacher Can Patrick have the microscope
- Student y is it blury
Bugscope Team you have a lot of control of the microscope, and like we can, you can lose focus sometimes
- Guest looks lik,e somthing out of a gost movie
- Student cooooooooooool
- Guest how long have you been working there?
- Student i see nothing
- Guest what am i looking at
- Guest Would you recomend doing bugscope for people who are interested in science?
- Student +
- Student What is this?
- Guest how long have you worked at Beckman?
- Student how long can u work here? choas
Bugscope Team I have been here for more than 11 years now
- Student is that a tounge that is sticking out
Bugscope Team the flat things that look like vacuum cleaner nozzles are palps
- Student Why did you choose the beckman?
- Student how long have you worked here cate?
- Student how many requests from schools do you get for bugscope?
- Guest .Do .
- Student do flies sleep?
Bugscope Team insects dont sleep like we do, but they do go into a period of inactivity call torpid when they need to rest
- Guest how can we focus the scope?
- Student Are bugs the only things you look at under the microscope?
- Student is it hard to run the mocroscopy suite?
- Student cate how long have you been working
- Guest If you could have any bug to use, which would you use????
- Student is that a fly?
- Student How many bugs do u get a year?
- Student do u look at bugs all day
- Guest Do you plan on making any improvements or changes to the microscope???
Bugscope Team we are constantly improving the software that runs Bugscope, but we don't mess with it too much, beyond making things for it that help us image people's samples
- Student lets look at eyes
- Guest how mant times do u have this a week?
Bugscope Team we do this around 3 times a wekk
- Student what do you mostely focus on
- Student why does it have 1 nostril
- Student hey
- Student hi
- Teacher Can ben p have the microscope?
- Student is it hard to use the microscopy suite
- Student hey
- Guest what is your favorite bug Cate?
Bugscope Team ants are fun to look at and so are wasps. They can both have stingers and they have cute faces sometimes
- Student hi
- Student hey
- Guest what is the most common species of insect?
- Guest is that the face?
- Student how far can the scope zoom in
Bugscope Team we can zoom over 600,000x but take meaningful images at no higher than about 200,000x
- Guest What is this?
- Student why a moth, riley
- Student how often do they go into this period of innactivity?
Bugscope Team if they are day insects like bees, they will go into the state of *torpor* (i spelled it wrong before sorry) all night and 'wake' in the morning. I think night insects like moths are the opposite
- Student i wish i could do that... just watch tv not need to go to sleep heheh
- Student how many admins do you have at the Beckman Institute
Bugscope Team today only two, but sometimes five, perhaps
- Student hi
- Student zoom out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student hey
- Student hi
- Guest neat!!!!
- Student zoom out this is gros
- Student What other bugs do we have?
- Student wat is this
- Student hi
- Guest What is the most interesting bug you've ever looked at?
Bugscope Team maybe a weevil
- Student hey
- Student hi
- Teacher Can sydney have control
- Student Can we look at mosquito head please????
- Student This is so cool!
- Student hi
- Student hey
- Student can you zoom in all the way???
- 9:21am
- Student hi
- Student what is your favorite bug chaos
- Student sweet
- Student why was this invented?
- Student to the eye ben to the eye!
- Student cool
- Student stop saying hi patrick
- Student How much eyes does this speciment have........................
Bugscope Team this one has 2 compound eyes. some flying insects will have 5 total- 2 compound eyes and 3 simple eyes called ocelli
- Student That is cool
- Student woah!
- Guest who is in control???
Bugscope Team sydney
- Student Whats a weevil?
- Student o geez thats cool
- Student i like this pic
- Student What is your favorite bug? cate
- Bugscope Team actually stinkbugs are sometimes interesting, and mosquitoes have cool creepy mouthparts
- Student wat is bugscope?
Bugscope Team it is a high-resolution scanning electron microscope
- Guest What bug is this???
- Guest it looks like an ant
- Guest this is cool
- Guest what is the most common species of insect?
- Student wow
- Student aunty may
- Student Does it have 4 pinchers or6
Bugscope Team None of the insects in the scope today have pinchers or stingers. Sorry
- Guest fix it
- Guest Is this an ant???
- Student when you want to see who has it look at the who's online scroll
- Student Cate, whaty is your favorite bug?
- Guest what inspired bugscope
- Student Why is it so bright?
- Guest Do you ever collect bugs yourself to use?
Bugscope Team yeah sometimes we will go get insects from our house like spiders
- Student cool
- Guest what is this?
- Student !*
- Guest What kind of beetle are we looking at?
Bugscope Team this is a tiny water beetle we found in someone's collection
- Guest that is neat!!!
- Student what inspired you to decide you wanted to work at bugscope?
Bugscope Team this is so much fun, but we just happened into it -- we made it!
- Student What kind of bettle is this ?
- Student were in control!
- Guest wow!!!!!
- Guest why do you like wasps cate?
Bugscope Team they have cool faces and sometimes you can see a stinger. They also dont charge up with electrons like big bees do. But the stingers on honeybees are fun to look at as well because they are barbed
- Student cool
- Guest this is weird
- Student its a ladybug
- Teacher The kids are having a great time!
- Guest If you could have any bug to use under this microscope, what would you use?
- Guest we say this one
- Guest WOW!!!
- Student how much $ does scope cost??????????????
- Teacher Can Isabella have the microscope
- Student Who started bugscope?
- Student Cate, why did you decide to work at the beckman institute? Chaos, why did you decide to work at the beckman institute?
Bugscope Team I like science, and let me tell you, beckman institute is like THE big science building on campus. So it's perfect for me
- Guest WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest doesit have ieys
- Student Jack are you clicking rapidly
- Student What is the farthest school you've ever done this with?
Bugscope Team we've connected with school is Hong Kong and in Ireland
- Student Chaos, what is the farthest school you've hooked up with
- Student whats the farthest school u have ever did this with
- Student WHY ARE YOU IN BUGSCOPE???????
- Student can i delete some text so that i don't fly 1,000 lines down if i move the bar a mm?
- Student FIX IT
- Student frank thats rude
- Student PLEASE
- Student Have u ever talked to a school in Japan
Bugscope Team yes!
- Student The screen just went totally white!
- Guest do you also like hornets to cate?
Bugscope Team They can get kind of big so we dont look at too many hornets in bugscope
- Guest AWESOME!!!
- Student /
- Guest why is the screen so bright
- Teacher Can Isabella have the microscope
Bugscope Team got it now
- Student DID JACK AND GEORGE DO SOMETHIMG BAD
Bugscope Team no they were just playing with the controls which is fine
- Student how many people work in the institute?
- 9:26am
- Student cate, was there ever a time when you didnt want to do this?
Bugscope Team not that I can think of. Maybe when I was really small and wanted to be an artist lol
- Student have u talked to taiwan people? like has thescope done this with tiawan
Bugscope Team we have worked with Shanghai but not Taiwan, that I recall
- Student have you ever s
- Guest eyes?
- Student mines broken
- Student emily is ess
- Student spot clicking
- Guest Oh my gosh!!! This is incredible! How many years did it take to build the microscope???
Bugscope Team it takes a year maybe to build on of these
- Guest ok
- Student how is it working there
- Student Why is it so bright?
- Guest this looks like a crab
Bugscope Team crabs and lobsters aren't too far off from insects. A rolypoly is actually a crustacean!
- Guest Cate what is your favorite bug
- Student Is the microscope really big?
Bugscope Team it's kind of the size of a large desk with a tall portion -- the column -- on one end
- Student cate, were you a good artist?
- Student CCCOOOLLL ARE U GOOD AT ART
- Student Cate: did you expect to work at bugscope or did you have other dreams while you were young?
Bugscope Team i really didnt know where I would end up. But I'm happy Im with beckman institute
- Guest Neat!!!
- Guest what is the most common species of insect?
Bugscope Team not sure -- beetles are a large group. and ants are all over
- Teacher Can Frank have the microscope?
- Student How many microscopes like this have you guys built?!
- Student Woooooooooooooooooo????????????
- Guest Is this all you do at the Beckman Institute?
- Student HOW MUCH WAS THE SCOPE????????
- Student Have you always been interested in bugs, Cate?
Bugscope Team no not really. A lot of them are kind of gross when they are alive if you ask me. I dont like the small crawling things
- Guest hi
- Guest what is that?
- Guest COOL!!!
- Bugscope Team this is a male mosquito
- Student How many people (employes) use the microscope?
Bugscope Team four or five, but we also train students to run it themselves
- Teacher Can Vinny Ve have the microscope
- Guest cool
- Guest cool
- Student HOW WAS THE SCOPE
Bugscope Team this microscope was $600,000 when we bought it over 10 years ago
- Bugscope Team the males do not bite -- only the females need blood
- Guest neat!!!
- Guest oh, cool.
- Student Patrick is undercover as Sydney
- Guest Do you have any partners?
- Student the scope is gone :(
- Guest this is SO cool!!!
- Guest how do males eat and what
Bugscope Team some males dont eat anything. They die after mating. Other males will eat nectar
- Student Why do only females need blood?
Bugscope Team the females need the blood in order to successfully lay their eggs -- they need the protein in the blood
- Student Cate, do you look at anything other than bugs?
- Student How big is the microscope?
- Guest what made want to join buscope cate
- Student HOW DID YOU GET THE MONEY FOR THE SCOPE?
Bugscope Team we got a grant from the National Science foundation
- Teacher Can Madeleine have the microscope
- Guest THIS IS SO AWESOME!!! How many people helped build the microscope?
- Guest neat!!!!!!!!!!
- Student what is this?
- Student how long have you been working together?
- Student CHAOS, HOW DID U GT INTERESTED IN BUGSCOPE
- Student So, is the institute a college?
Bugscope Team yes this is part of the University of Illinois
- Student thats a lovely relationship!
- Guest is that its thing that they put in our skin
- Guest cate, what is the most common species of insect?
- Guest COOL
- Student what is this bug
- Student Cool!
- Guest do females mate with diffrent species of insects
Bugscope Team no not very often does that happen. Usually they will be attracted to their own species by the sounds or chemicals the males make
- Student Oh, Eveything makes sense now.
- Guest what's the strings?
- 9:31am
- Teacher Can Madeleine have the microscope
Bugscope Team sorry we just got to changing the controls to her
- Student What are we looking at right now? Are those hairs? They look like grass.
- Guest neat!
- Student dis is amazing the coolist one EVER.
- Guest cate: is the institute about bugs?
Bugscope Team no, it's about different science projects. Where I work in the building has different kinds of microscopes. We don't just do bugscope all day. We also image different kinds of samples like carbon nanotubes or microchips.
- Student so how do the rolly pollys breath do they have lungs too?
Bugscope Team apparently the gills allow them to breathe air -- like crabs that live on the land
- Student What are we looking at right now?
- Student OS THIS A HEAD
- Guest what are pill bugs?
- Student IF YOU COULD HAVE A BILLION DOLLARS AND CHOOSE A NEW MICROSCOPE OR EVERY BUG IN THE WORLD. WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE!?!?
Bugscope Team Dude if we could get the microscope we could collect the bugs for free
- Guest what is this?
- Student who liked josh's picture taking
- Student not me
- Student Whats' this?
- Student me
- Guest do you have a rolly ppolly we cn look at?
- Student What is this?
- Guest how do chemacails make sounds
- Student IT LOOKS LIKE A TENNIS BALL IS STICKING OUT.
- Guest SWEET!!!
- Student it worked
Bugscope Team good deal!
- Student i guess they're so small they can like pick water out of the air
Bugscope Team I think you are right.
- Guest what is the smallest bug you have ever seen
Bugscope Team The smallest we have seen would probably be a mite on an insect
- Guest have you ever discovered a bug hybrid?
Bugscope Team not really - we thought we had once, but it just looked that way
- Student rolly pollys have gills?
Bugscope Team they are hard to find but they are near the base of where their legs attach
- Student What are we looking at?
Bugscope Team this is part of a leg
- Teacher Can Mallary have the microscope?
- Student Cate why are u in this program???????????????????????????????????????????
- Guest what are these
- Guest what made you want to join bugscope cate
Bugscope Team I like learning new things so what better project than bugscope, where I am always learning it feels like
- Guest is this bug is a shell
Bugscope Team you know all insects have an exoskeleton, so they all have shells, in that way
- Student HOW MANY SCOPES DO YOU HAVE AT THE INSTITUTE
Bugscope Team we have maybe 15 down here, and there are more throughout the building, but ours are generally better, more versatile
- Student Cool
- Student what is a" bug hybrid" cate or choas
- Student leg????????????????????????
- Student by hybrid you mean a cross bread type of thing right/
- Guest What bug is this???
- Student sorry
- Student who is in control
- Student Have y ever seen a radio active beetle?
- Student have you ever study anything other than an insect
- Guest wat is a pill bug????
- Student have you ever discovered a new species?
Bugscope Team we have helped entomologists take the images that allow them to describe new species
- Student If You Drowned A Rolley Poley What Would Happn?
Bugscope Team it would probably not drown
- Teacher Can Noah have the microscope
- Guest do we have a rolly polly we can look at?
Bugscope Team no sorry.
- Student that don't sound right that rolly pollys have gills
Bugscope Team yeah it doesn't, does it?
- Guest they have gills patrick
- Student who has control right now?
Bugscope Team noah does
- 9:36am
- Student CAN I HAVE THE MICROSCOPE PLEASE NEXT
- Student not me
- Student what i sthat
- Student How much did all of the microscopes together cost? Dylan says 9 million dollars.
Bugscope Team probably about right
- Student WHAT IS THIS
- Student Cate,, who is the creator of bugscope? And is he still there
Bugscope Team Daniel Weber created the original bugscope interface when it started. He isn;t around here now. Chas Conway developed the interface you are using now. The old one was java based. Chas is around but I don't know where he is today. He is currently working on another upgrade to the interface
- Student # we can look at?'
- Student cate, why are u in this program???????????????????
- Student what is the largest bug in the world
Bugscope Team goliath beetle is one of the contenders; there are also walking sticks that may be 15 inches long
- Student that is reallly weird but it is also cool
- Guest cate, if u tryed to drowned a rolley pollie, what would happen?
- Guest what is the coolest bug uve ever had
- Student cate, why are u in this program?????
- Guest Where did you get the money?
- Guest how often do you do bugscope
- Student Is it hard to work there?
- Student Thsoe bugs must be ginourmous!
- Teacher Can Reanna have the micrscope?
- Student i think this is cool. who else???
- Student The largest bug in the worl, I mean.
Bugscope Team the goliath beetle is as big as your fist.
- Guest chaos do you have a picture of a goliath beetle?
Bugscope Team no they are way too big to fit into the microscope
Bugscope Team you could go to http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/beetle2.jpg to see a big one if you can
- Guest wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student ZOOM OUT
- Student have u ener looked at a millipead?
Bugscope Team yes we have
- Student cate, why are u in this program?
- Student CAN ERIK HAVE MICROSCOPE
- Student This is cool beans..
- Guest what is the coolest bug uve had?
Bugscope Team not sure but maybe some of the weevils are the coolest
- Student wat is this/
- Student What is your favorite bug Chaos?
Bugscope Team I really like mites, which are not insects but arachnids
- Guest what is the most common species of insect?
- Guest Wow! How many people have used the microscope?
- Teacher Can Evan have the microscope?
- Guest wat is the largest bug you have gotten?
Bugscope Team we've gotten lots of cicadas after they emerged a couple years ago. We also have gotten a humongous millipede that is as big as our hands that scared Chaos
- Student Have you ever looked at a dissected bug under the the telescope?
- Student how many different kinds of bugs are there
- Student What are weevils?
- Student HAVE YOU EVER SHOWN A GOLIATH BEETLE
Bugscope Team Dude they are so huge you don't need a microscope to see them and they would not fit anyway.
- Student which is your favorite bug?
- Guest thanks chaos
- Student jfjfjfjfjjfjjfjjjfjjfjjjfjjjfjjjfjjfjjffjjfjjjfjfjjfjfjfjfjfjfj
- Student have you shown seaweed
Bugscope Team not that I remember but we do look at plants
- Student Cate, what are weevils?
Bugscope Team weevils are like anteaters of the insect world. They have long snouts and are a type of beetle
- Student o i see wat
- Guest this is awesome
Bugscope Team thanks, Anna
- Student choas what is a bedbug? besides its a bug that lives in ur bed
Bugscope Team they live in the walls or on the frame of your bed, and they creep up and suck your blood while you are sleeping
- Guest what is this?
- 9:41am
- Guest funny
- Student Ben c. wrote that not me
- Student cool
- Guest they look lke almons
- Student uio
- Teacher Can Elana have the microscope?
- Guest is a rampant ladybug big?
Bugscope Team Isabella that is kind of a joke because it is standing up, so we said it was rampant, which is a term in heraldry that means the lion, for example, is standing.
- Student wut is praying mantis?
Bugscope Team praying mantises are insects that have big forearms that are used to grab other insects so the mantises can eat them. They often look like they are praying before they spring and get the insect.
- Student \
- Student THIS IS AWESOME
- Student why is it dark
- Student what are weevils
- Guest bugscope is awesome
- Guest Can you use bugscope on any other species besides bugs???
- Student bedbu gs suck ur blood choas?
- Student so thats were we got the phrase, dont let the bedbugs bite
- Guest this is so cool
- Student what is this bug that we are looking at right now
- Student WHO HAS CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student CHANGE THE LIGHT
- Student not through it but they sqeeze between your eye and 3rd eye lid?
Bugscope Team Curry I think they just go for your skin and penetrate it with their proboscis.
- Guest how big are bed bugs, can u see them
- Guest I'm a little afraid to go to bed now!
- Teacher Can Erin and Jeremy have the microscope?
- Student dylan says there are NO bedbugs
- Student CAN I HAVE THE MICROSCOPE
- Guest chaos have you ever wondered why goliath beetles are so big?
- Guest paige said that
- Guest i wont be able to sleep to night
- Student i did not say that
- Student cate why are u in this program
- Guest can we see a praying mantis?
- Guest do you have a bed bug we can look at?
- Student i just heard it from my mom, maybe i heard wrong
- Student cool
- Guest do bed bugs bite
- Student there is no pic of a pray mantis
Bugscope Team not today -- these are not technically pictures -- they're live images from the electron microscope
- Teacher Can Molly have the micrscope next?
- Guest how old is this bug?
Bugscope Team probably less than a year old
- Student Stop asking pointless questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student Do you like looking at bugs all day?
- Student this is cccooollll
- Guest what is the smallest bug you used the microscope with
- Student how big is it. wat is it made of
- Student how many people work the scope at once
Bugscope Team usually just one person
- Student COOL
- Student i meant how big is the scope whats it made of
- Student Cate, do you ever look at any dissected thing under the microscope?
- Student whya re u in this program
- Student seriously move the microscope plz!!!
- Guest what is the biggest bug uve had!!
- Guest Is it true a billion dust mites live in your bed/ pillow?
Bugscope Team there are a lot of them, but most of them are likely dead, after awhile -- they become dust themselves
- Student don't mean to be rude
- Teacher Can Molly have the micrscope erin and jeremey accidentally logges off
Bugscope Team molly has control
- Guest jygu7
- Student can we have the microscope back
- Guest opps
- Student stop asking gross questions people
- Student its staring me down
- 9:46am
- Student o. o
- Guest can we look at a different bug
- Student ERIN IS MEAN 2 ME SHE YELLED AT ME
- Student SYDNEY C. DONT DO THAT
- Student this doesnt look like a lady bug................
Bugscope Team this is a view we do not usually have
- Guest can we see a rolly polly
- Student hi curry
- Guest cool
- Guest it isnt wor3king
- Student have you ever inspected a live one
- Student OH MY GOSH THIS IS SO AMAZING I DON'T BELIEVE THIS
- Student o why
- Bugscope Team you can see the small epcot centers on either side of its head. Tjose are its compound eyes
- Student ??????
- Guest so I'm sleeping in deceased dust?????
Bugscope Team well if you wash your sheets and use bleach they are pretty clean, so it is not that bad
- Student ewwwwwwwwwwwww
- Guest chaos have you ever put a dust mite in the microscope?
Bugscope Team not on purpose. They dont dry well like insects. They shrink and dont look very good, But sometimes we find them on their insect host
- Student Why do bugs have compound eyes?
- Student CAN WE SWITH THE BUG
- Student molly look at the eye plz
- Student can we see a bedbug choas
Bugscope Team we don't have any now but you can look them up on the Bugscope website
- Student DOES IT HAVE EYEBROWS
- Student cate why are u in this program,?
- Teacher Can Megan have the miscoscope
Bugscope Team Megan has it
- Guest can we see a dif. bug
- Student BYE CATE AND CHAOS
- Student can erin and jeremy have the micropscope back please, we accidentally logged off
- Bugscope Team bye patrick!
- Student cani see teeth
Bugscope Team not on insects, which do not have teeth, but we can look at them for sure
Bugscope Team insects dont have teeth but they do have some sharp jaws that open out like a gate (opposite how our jaws work)
- Student thank you so much
- Student thank u so much i loved this
- Student we learned a lot
- Student we have to go to the next class
- Guest thank you sooo much! I have to go now, but this was awesome Thanks again!!
- Student thank you gota go
- Student sry we have to leave! thx a lot theses pictures are sweet!!! hope we can come back!
- Guest thank you very much for letting us do this
- Guest thanks a million!! we have to go to our next class!! thanks again!!
- Student thank you so much we learned alot goodbye cate and chaos
- Guest bye cate and chaos!
- Guest Bye, thanx for you're time!
- Student we have got to go now! Thank you SOOOO much Cate and Chaos!
- Bugscope Team bye Madeleine and dylan
- Student thank you for having us i have to sign autograghs
- Student Thank you so much!!!! I really enjoyed all of the bugs i saw but i have to go to my next class!!! Thanks bye
- Student thank you very much!!! We learned alot! Bye~nya! We have another class to go to~nya!
- Student got to go to my next class
- Guest thank you a lot... ...we have to go yo our next class.
- Student THANX SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! THIS WAZ THE KOOLEST THING EVER!!!! BUT WE HAVE TO GO 2 R NEXT CLASS NOW... THYANX CATE AND CHOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest thanks for showing us these bugs and answering our questions. we have to go to our next class Bye!!
- Student thanks for your time. this was cool. i liked it
- Bugscope Team Thank you all for chatting with us about insects
- Bugscope Team Bye!
- Student :)
- Bugscope Team We had a great time!
- Student BYE!!!!!!!! THANKS FOR YOUR TIME!
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Student Thank you so much! This was really fun! Unfortunately, we have to go to our next class! Bye!
- Bugscope Team (me)
- Student see ya
- Bugscope Team See you next year!
- Bugscope Team oof= out of focus
- 9:52am
- Guest bye cate
- Student HAVE A GOOD DAY
- Teacher The kids learned a lot today.
Bugscope Team That is good to hear. Thank You!
- Guest thank you soo much i appericate it! it is time for our next class!! :) Bye!! :)
- Guest goodbye chaos and cate!
Bugscope Team GoodBye! Thank You!
- Bugscope Team bye chris
- Guest bye cate
- Bugscope Team this is pretty high mag on the scale
- Student I have to go to history now
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Guest and thank you chaos
Bugscope Team Thank You, Chris.
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-025/
- 9:57am
- Teacher Thanks. They are so excited. They will be talking about this for a long time!
- Bugscope Team logging off now...
- Bugscope Team tht is great to hear!
- Bugscope Team hey that is great, just what we like
- Bugscope Team Mrs R we will peel out now unless you would like to drive some more.
- Bugscope Team over and out...
- Teacher OK Thanks for your time have a good day
- Bugscope Team Bye!
