Connected on 2011-06-27 08:00:00 from , NY, US
- 7:16am
- Bugscope Team setting up...
- 7:25am
- Bugscope Team Pumping down...
- Bugscope Team good morning!
- 7:30am
- Bugscope Team sample is pumping down; then I'll be making presets
- Bugscope Team good morning Diamond!
- Student good morning
- Bugscope Team in a minute I'll turn the beam on and start setup
- Bugscope Team now you're looking at the inside of the vacuum chamber with the sample stage at the lower middle of the image
- Student i cnt c it..
- Bugscope Team hit refresh
- Student y u bloking it????
- Student ooohh
- Student srry
- Teacher Good morning. Our class only starts at 8:40, so we are early.
- Student how does this work
- Student good morning everyone
- Student good morning to you ti
- Student eeeww
- Student what is this?
- Student wat
- Student what is that
- Bugscope Team sorry to be so slow to respond -- I'm setting up
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a grasshopper, and you can see the eye to the left
- 7:35am
- Student eeeewwww
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team this is the compound eye
- Student awsome
- Bugscope Team looks like it has little droplets of oil or something on the surface
- Student OMG
- Student is this still the grasshopper
Bugscope Team yes it is I know it's hard to tell the way I'm jumping things around
- Student no
- Student what are those little paricles
- Student idk
- Student particles
- Student oh okay
- Student now i understand
- Student thta is a fly
- Student ??/
- Student look at the nose
- Student OMg
- Student this thing is so cool
- 7:41am
- Student are those claws ?
Bugscope Team yes those were claws; there are six legs, six sets of claws
- Student can you put any bug under the scope?
Bugscope Team as long as they're pretty small, like a cicada is too big, really
- Student what is a cicada
Bugscope Team one of those big dudes that lives underground for 17 years and then comes out and makes a lot of noise, breeds, lays eggs, and dies
- Student what is a cicada
- Student what is this?
- Student okay
- Student that is interesting
- Bugscope Team this is a wing scale from the butterfly
- Bugscope Team way close up
- Student it has pretty patterns
- Student it looks like a hive
- Student what are those
- Student Are the bugs grey or that's how it is on the microscope?
Bugscope Team the microscope does not get color images because they (the images) come in as signal from the electrons that are ejected from the surface of the sample. the electron beam is smaller, thinner, finer than the wavelengths of light
- Student what are the rock things
- Student ?
- Teacher this thing look like 3d rock but is not
- 7:46am
- Student forget it they're sugar crystals
- Teacher oh
- Teacher so they can get sweet in their bodys i think
Bugscope Team good point that is what many insects feed on -- sugary nectar from flowers
- Teacher [I'm letting some students use my login -Mr. Fixl]
Bugscope Team got it
- Student really
- Teacher Lets go look at a butterfly claw
- Student can any one microscope a bug
Bugscope Team sure!
- Bugscope Team I'm locking the controls for a few minutes...
- Teacher OK
- Student k
- Student why are they hairy?
Bugscope Team they're hairy because insect use those hairs to help sense their environment
- Teacher the legs are very hairy and is kin of weriod looking
- Bugscope Team just 'cause I want to go over the whole 1.75-in. stub and try to collect some good places for you
- Student are they legs to a bug?
- Teacher i wonder how a butter fly legs look in the inside
- Student cool
- Student wow i never knew that
- Student can you cut them open?
- Student eeewww
- Student can the hair be used for climbing?
Bugscope Team some of the hairs -- the setae -- are indeed used for climbing
- 7:51am
- Bugscope Team they don't have skin with nerve endings in it; instead they have an exoskeleton -- like if you were wearing armor. so they need to be able to feel, taste their environment
- Student how can they lay eggs
Bugscope Team they're different, of course, but many use an ovipositor, which looks much like a stinger and sometimes is as well
- Student ???
- Student oh
- Student thank u
- Teacher can the legs be cut open?
- Student what is that?
- Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly, and you can see one of the legs, the tip of the leg with the claws
- Teacher when they go on ur skin and they grab you with that can that hurt?
- Student WHAT DO THEY EAT ???
Bugscope Team fruit flies eat the fungus that grows on fruit
- Bugscope Team those little pads have tiny hairs on them that help them stick to things
- Teacher ok
- Teacher do they only eat fruit?
- Student thank you for that info
- Bugscope Team you can see it has a hole in it where it was pinned, in someone's collection
- Bugscope Team and you can see that after it died it really dried up and shriveled
- Teacher if is dead and you take the wings can it be turn into dust?
Bugscope Team if you rubbed them in your fingers they would crumble to dust
- Student do bugs adapt to cold climate?
Bugscope Team not if they're used to it being warm, but some apparently have mechanisms for dealing with cold. still they are 'cold-blooded,' so they're not that mobile when it is cold
- Teacher ok
- 7:57am
- Teacher do they sleep
Bugscope Team they don't sleep but go into a state of sort of somnolence -- I can't remember the proper word for it. Like suspended animation, or really being sluggish and dull
- Student yes
- Teacher how?
- Student idk
- Student what is that? the bottom part of the fly?
- Student what is that the bottom part of the fly?
- Teacher do they bugs sleep in midair?
- Teacher do they sleep in mid air???
Bugscope Team no. that wouldn't be a good idea -- they'd get eaten by birds or bats or other insects like dragonflies pretty quickly
- Student why do they have that hole in that area??????????/
Bugscope Team that's where someone had collected the beetle and pinned it for her/his collection
- Student k
- Student thats cool
- Student what is that
- Student is that the head..
- Student ?
- Student what animal is that
- Student is that a fly?
- 8:02am
- Bugscope Team this is a small beetle, like a cucumber beetle -- not sure really there are so many beetles
- Student \
- Student never mind
- Student thats a bug not an animal
- Student it looks like the eyess.
- Teacher hello =]
Bugscope Team hello!
- Student hairs.
- Bugscope Team heh now we're on one of the antennae, and you can see it is pretty dirty
- Teacher like you
- Student it looks like a cateripella
- Teacher ayoo sincere
- Student like who
- Student hello
- Student hemwatie
- Student stalker
- Teacher not you
- Student what bug is that
Bugscope Team Tianna I'm not sure. I was thinking it was a ladybug larva.
- Teacher idk
- Student thats a big bug
- Teacher ewwwww
- Student what is it
- Student haha
- Student it only has 3 leg
Bugscope Team it should have six byt we cannot see all of them
- Student no
- Teacher no it dsnt
- Student it only has 2 legs
- Student haha
- Teacher yess 2
- Student no
- Teacher its 2
- Student its really hairy
- Student really
- Teacher its 6
- Teacher legs
- Student we dont know how to count
- Student hi
- Student someone preserved it right
Bugscope Team that one just dried, not that well preserved if you look up close
- Teacher i doo
- Student heyyy
- 8:07am
- Teacher hellooo
- Student helllo
- Student whats up
- Student it has a little head
- Teacher lookinq at somebug -.-
- Student Hola +}
- Student x)
- Teacher =]
- Student r they the jaws of that bug?
Bugscope Team you got it -- these guys eat other bugs, but small ones, like aphids
- Teacher its wierd
- Student :O
- Student looking
- Student so they kill the bugs and just put it under the mircoscpoe
- Teacher yeooo.
- Teacher yupp
- Student hi is aury :)
- Teacher wats dat!?
- Teacher klkk!
- Student this is sincere
- Teacher hellooo=
- Teacher ]
- Student was popinq
- Teacher nah akiiii
- Teacher bebiendooo whiky wiky
- Student lol
- Teacher ...
- Teacher .
- Student bueno
- Bugscope Team these are the setae that help ladybugs climb on walls - they're on a kind of little pad on the surface of each leg
- Teacher yah losbae
- Bugscope Team flies have something similar
- Student am go to yah house 2day ii we gonna chill
- Teacher scotyour so smart -.-
- Student your suppose to ask questions
- Bugscope Team actually many insects have similar structures, and you can tell, like by looking at a beetle, whether it would be able to climb a wall or not
- Teacher ....
- Student k
- Teacher is that the baby?
Bugscope Team it's not a baby -- it's a full-grown bug but very small. I think it is a kind of weevil
- Student this looks like a lady bug
- Student dude
- Student iut has big eyes
- 8:12am
- Student it*
- Teacher thats not the eye i think
- Student hi
- Teacher =]
- Student where is CHAos
- Student why does it look like that
- Student how are you scot
- Teacher becuz it looks lyke that
- Teacher lol
- Bugscope Team yeah that is one of the compound eyes, with lots of facets, each of which functions like an individual lens
- Student chaos
Bugscope Team Tianna the control computer next to me is Chaos, so sometimes I get on it too. There's only one of me this morning, with three logins.
- Teacher yesss
- Teacher =]
- Student mymy name nane hasa scot
- Teacher duh everybodyknoes that
- Student ayoo was qudd
- Teacher =]]
- Student :)
- Teacher byee. x3'
- Student :] oh ok my bad
- Student noo lalii
- Teacher lol
- Teacher dime
- Student what other bugs are there?
- Student m huj
- Teacher some of them
- Teacher u mah dum
- Student fsdghj]\
- Student oh like the horse fly
- Teacher wah?
- Teacher -.-
- Student its pretty big fly
- Student :O
- Student so what happen 2 the real chaos
- Teacher yeaaaa
- Bugscope Team I'm just figuring out what Cate put on the stub. She made the sample yesterday and is out today.
- Student ok
- Teacher oh okaie.
- Student like the horse fly right scot
- Student who is Cate ur assistant
Bugscope Team Cate is another microscopist.
- Student thats a big head.
- 8:17am
- Teacher ?
- Student where do u work
Bugscope Team this is the University of Illinois, the Beckman Institute, in a lab 23 feet underground.
- Student hello also like the horse fly
Bugscope Team horseflies are some bad little dudes, with slashing mouthparts
- Teacher where do u live?
Bugscope Team in Champaign Illinois, the middle of nowhere
- Student the real diamond put that
- Teacher byee x3' mkt
- Student wats a horse fly
Bugscope Team kind of a large fly that feeds on animal blood and uses its slashing mouthparts to cut into the skin -- the get the blood to flow
- Teacher wq
- Teacher i cant find u like dah
- Student YU GOT ALL YUR DEGRWEES
- Student HOW OLD ar u
Bugscope Team unbelievably old
- Student luks at the winings.?
- Student can we get back to bugs please
Bugscope Team sure, Tianna
- Student If you work underground doesn't it make it hard to do things?
Bugscope Team really it is just like a deep basement
- Bugscope Team you can look up photos of us on the web site later
- Student thank you for your cooperation ...cot
- Teacher wah bug is dah
- Student \scott
- Student Scot
Bugscope Team yo
- Student so\
- Student y
- 8:22am
- Student sorry typo
- Bugscope Team heh, sorry
- Teacher wah bug is dah
- Bugscope Team the person who is using Mr Fixl's login has control of the microscope now
- Student wat dah heck iz yo?
Bugscope Team I think yo is kind of an informal response when someone calls to you, or in that case it was
- Bugscope Team this is a small fly
- Student ok!!
- Student can the microscpe help detect bugs?
Bugscope Team yes we work with entomologists sometimes, and they often want to be able to characterize insects by the features they see
- Student i noe wat iz yo mr. scientist.
Bugscope Team of course, but I am sorry it was kind of rude of me
- Student thanx dictionary
- Student wat bug iz dis now?
Bugscope Team this is a fly
- Student hey its me sai sai
Bugscope Team hi Sai Sai
- Student no it isnt it is mine cuz we are mean kids
- Student BUGGFS
- Bugscope Team you can use click to center to move around
- Bugscope Team and you can click on any one of the presets to get the 'scope to go to that area
- Student CHANGE IT
- Student !!!
- Bugscope Team HL do you want to drive?
- Student heyyyyyyyy nelson
- 8:27am
- Student YESSSSSSSSSS PLZ!!!!
- Bugscope Team Mr Fixl is doing a good job.
- Student Nelson in the house
Bugscope Team HI Nelson
- Student SCOT IS A GUY THAT LIVES.
- Teacher thanx
- Student cool
- Student hi
- Student UUUUUUU FANCY
- Student EXPENSIVEE..1
- Student can kids visit to work there
Bugscope Team the guy who wrote the last version of our software started working with us when he was 15
- Student back to creepy crawlies!!!!!!
- Student nooo stupid!!
- Student is this website only for bugs
Bugscope Team pretty much -- just because not much other stuff is that interesting to a wide number of people
- Student duh.
- Student i am chinese
- Bugscope Team alright if I give HL control of the 'scope?
- Student MY SOCKS ARE GREEN
- Student AND FUZZY
Bugscope Team heh nice
- Student BUT I AM WEARING SANDALS
- Student stupid
- Student y r u being stupid
- Student 143
- Bugscope Team this is the stuff that Monarch butterflies eat
- Student 143^^^^^^^^
Bugscope Team Tianna sorry to be dumb but what does that mean?
- Student HAIRS.
- Student THAT LOOKS LIKE GRASS MR. SCIENTIST
- Student Can we see a picture of the lab
Bugscope Team on the Bugscope web page, like later, you can see what the 'scope looks like. it is pretty big
- 8:33am
- Student IS THAT HOW OLD U R?
- Student my friend nel wrote that for me sorry
- Student i love u = 143
Bugscope Team thanks, Nelson
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the butterfly
- Student THIS NIS A FLY RITE?
Bugscope Team this is the head of a butterfly. it does look like a fly
- Student hey shirly
- Student look at the nose that sucks out blood...
Bugscope Team the nose -- the proboscis -- can be extended when the butterfly wants to feed
- Student hi scot.
- Student it look like it has 2 wooden eyes
- Student my friend has scott as a last name.
- Student they have fences over their eyes?
Bugscope Team there are scales stuck to the surface of the eye now, but the butterfly could brush them away when it was alive
- Student how can they see with so many things over eyes?
Bugscope Team also, each of the eye facets gets an image
- Student hey im back
Bugscope Team hah nice
- Student does it hurt them
Bugscope Team no, not really
- Student this is diamond
Bugscope Team oh cool. welcome back, Diamond
- Student ?
- Student hey diamond i see u ur sitting rite ne
- Student so when thery break a wing, do they die?
Bugscope Team if it breaks badly, yes -- they don't regrow. it'd be eaten or just die
- Bugscope Team you know I'm going to miss some questions but I'll do my best
- 8:38am
- Student we should just talk about bugs
- Student its ok scot. theres many people.
- Student yeah i couldn't get back on my login
- Student hi
- Student bye mr. scot
Bugscope Team what? that's it?
- Student its ok questions r question and there r 2 many
- Bugscope Team Thank You for connecting.
- Student bye shrily
- Bugscope Team Diamond I just gave you control, Dude.
- Student hey tianna and scot
Bugscope Team Hey Sai Sai.
- Bugscope Team these are palps, covered with scales
- Bugscope Team the scales are kind of like little feathers
- Teacher ling ling march is back
- Student u6
- Teacher can a butterfly suck blood out of a person body
Bugscope Team there is a moth in Russia that can suck blood but almost all other butterflies and moths drink nectar from flowers
- Student hey watz up
- Student hensen?
- Student it looks like a stomach
Bugscope Team the round thing is one of the eyes -- one of the compound eyes
- 8:43am
- Student no thats mosquitoes
- Teacher oh
- Bugscope Team Diamond try going to another preset.
- Bugscope Team you can just click on it
- Bugscope Team whoop you're greyed out
- Bugscope Team whoa did I lose everyone?
- Teacher can the butter is likeus the people or do they see very different from us?
- Student ?
- Student i am from russia
- Student i am from russia
Bugscope Team cool!
- Student cool only in russia thats good
- Student rusia all dayyy
- Student i have swine flu
- Student have u seen biting moths
Bugscope Team Sai Sai they're on youtube, at least there is one link
- Student one timre
- Bugscope Team Diamond! Click on another preset so we can see some of the other critters.
- Student from a mpth
- Student moth
- Student were u born in illinois
- Student i am from russia
- Teacher do the butter see like us or do they have their own different way of seeing
Bugscope Team well they have much better peripheral vision of course, with the dome shape, and they see colors we can't see, but they may not see all the colors we see
- Teacher i mean butter fly
- Teacher hi scot is ling ling march
- Student RATAKK
- Student HOW JU DOIN???
- Student JALA MA JKHA LENOOPIIUW THATS MY NAME
- 8:48am
- Teacher oh so they could see some things that we can't see? right!
- Student SCOT
- Bugscope Team if you had compound eyes it would be hard to get sunglasses that fit, and you might not be able to get dates easily, but you would have a very good ability to see motion.
- Student hensen get off ur writing stupid things
- Bugscope Team like when you try to swat a fly, it sees you in what would be like slow motion, so it can easily move out of the way
- Student im from MEXICO
- Student SO BUTTERFLIES ARE LIKE PEOPLE RIGHT...
Bugscope Team not so much, but they do see pretty well.
- Bugscope Team Saionna do you want to drive?
- Student hensen i heard bout chu u like jensen ackles
- Teacher oh
- Student go MEXICANS!!!!!!!!!!
- Student yes
Bugscope Team okay I just gave you control
- Student saionna i heard u lik jared padalecki
- Teacher do they do some things like humans do? ( like us the people)
Bugscope Team well they have to eat and breed and stuff but they are not that much like us
- Student and hes from russia.
- Student DID THE PIGS OR PEOPLE GIVE US swine?
Bugscope Team probably it was first noticed in pigs, and it was found to be tranmissible to humans
- Bugscope Team you can change mag, go in/out of focus, select -- uh I see you got it ;)
- Student do tjey mate?
- Student klk
- Teacher oh ok
- Teacher do fly kiss?
Bugscope Team not really, or not like romantically...
- Student Scot do you have the Swine Flu
Bugscope Team heh I hope not
- Student ?
- Student ?
- Student ?
- Student ?
- Student o.o
- Teacher ok i just wanted to know
- Bugscope Team --.--
- 8:53am
- Teacher lol
- Student i thought u were old school
Bugscope Team Dude I am pretty much old school -- I don't know all of the new stuff.
- Teacher :)
- Student -__________-
- Bugscope Team this is a larva of something I am not sure about
- Bugscope Team like this may be a ladybug larva -- they look much like this
- Teacher how do the fly go to the bathroom?
Bugscope Team pretty much like people -- but it is more dry. they conserve liquids.
- Student ;9
- Teacher scot i think u are cool and cool to talk to
Bugscope Team Hey Thanks!
- Student do u have facebook
Bugscope Team no I don't like the idea of being so exposed.
- Student i wanna see weevil heads
- Student is the swine flu in russia cuz im there
- Bugscope Team I'm sitting at the microscope console, so I can drive sometimes from here.
- Bugscope Team this is a pretty cute little bug
- Bugscope Team see the mandibles?
- Student ur old school scot then how old r u
- Teacher how do flys go to the bathroom??? :O
- Student i dont think ur that old
- Student what is that
Bugscope Team this is the little weevil
- Bugscope Team an insect's mouth opens from side to side
- Student ohh
- Teacher ok i am a girl i am using my teacher computer
- Student are flies reproducers
Bugscope Team you mean do they reproduce? sure! they have maggot babies. like pretty gross
- Student ioh cool
- Student shut up hemwatie
- Teacher are all these bugs dead
Bugscope Team yes. they're in a vacuum chamber -- that is where we are looking at them
- 8:58am
- Student shut up Jainabou and melissa
- Student hey scot , jainibou likes u...
- Teacher how many babies can a fly give birth to?
Bugscope Team I think hundreds, at least
- Bugscope Team I just switched the 'scope so you can see the inside of the chamber.
- Student bugs are cool things, and they cunique like us humans
Bugscope Team they are unique, quite different from us but need to be able to do many of the same things
- Student thats cool
- Student yah dum fiks
- Student werd shut up hem
- Student im done drivingggggggggggggggg
- Student yes dey are
- Teacher ok
- Student okay saiokau!!!
- Student hemm
- Student no cursing!!
- Student wdf??
- Bugscope Team Hey Sai Sai good job.
- Student tianna i dont know who r so leave me alone
- Student bugs
- Bugscope Team Hensen has control now.
- Student what?
- Teacher what is that the mouth/
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Teacher ?????
- Teacher can the y chew up people skin?
Bugscope Team some can, but that was very small
- Bugscope Team these are the tenent setae -- the sticky hairs that help insects stick to things
- Student thats the eye?
Bugscope Team it is hard to tell, maybe, but those are little tiny hairs
- Student thanks scot
- Bugscope Team good job driving
- Student sdfu!
- Student saionna shut up and scot how do u look
Bugscope Team you can see what I look like on the Bugscope web page
- Student milkweed
- Student maybeh
- 9:03am
- Student stop cursing tianna
- Bugscope Team if that is what you meant, Tianna.
- Student im not
- Student MILKWEED.ONARCHS ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT EAT THIS\
Bugscope Team got it Dude. it is poisonous to many things.
- Student well yaa need to stop
- Student no i dont have 2 shutup
- Student AND THIS IS STILL POISONUSE
Bugscope Team yes it makes the Monarchs taste bad, and spiders will cut them out of their webs instead of trying to bite them.
- Student that is what im talking about thanx
- Student I AM NOT A DUDE IM A DUDEE
- Teacher what are we looking at ?
- Student DUDET
- Student if u had a chance to be young again what would different
Bugscope Team I would have been more careful about what I chose to do.
- Student saionna suck a dick
- Student milk weeds
- Student hola
- Teacher um....
- Student tianna didnt write that it was little stupid kids
- Student WOW....
- Student tianna is on im back
- Bugscope Team we're cool
- Student ok
- Student oh
- Bugscope Team be sure and take the mag down if you want to look around more
- Student I was here +)
- Student that was malbinson
- Student hensen was here :)
- Teacher OK. I think we are done for today. Time to clean up. Thank you Scott - Mr. Fixl
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student ok bye mr scot
- Bugscope Team It was really fun to work with all of you today.
- Student bye mr swine flu
- Student BYE mi amigo
- Bugscope Team heh
- Teacher ok bye
- 9:08am
- Student hensen is a girl
- Student it was a joke
- Bugscope Team See you next year!
- Student what?
- Bugscope Team Bye Saionna!
- Student STALKER
- Student STALKA!!
- Student LOL
- Student GVCNMGSAERHTUKIHG
- Student \\
- Teacher bye
- Bugscope Team Cool Bye to Ling Ling March!
- Student peace
- Teacher ok bye
- Teacher out
- Bugscope Team Bye Mr Fixl!
- Student duces
- Teacher peace out
- Student hi bye
- Student fhgysduh
- Student fdshgvdus
- Student uj
- Student ke
- Student gfg
- Teacher yeah duces
- Student ed
- Student osdxcgfvbghjonhjohyo
- Student bazllxs
- Student jhugdwluifte7IGFYIuedfkUTYHEF;hyelkjgt8iyWGVBE;KUGSDIGB bye
- Student juh
- Student y
- Teacher sorry type o
Bugscope Team heh ok I am shutting down...
- Teacher ok
- Teacher good bye
- Teacher it was fun talking to u
- Bugscope Team yeah that was a lot of fun
- Teacher ok i just saw ur picture
- Bugscope Team Sai Sai I am shutting down -- over and out!
- Bugscope Team good for a few laughs
- Teacher yup
- Teacher how come u waas not talking to us
- Bugscope Team you guys are all done, right?
- Student Diamond quick question
- Bugscope Team if someone else is on I am cool
- 9:13am
- Bugscope Team yeah?
- Bugscope Team this is Scot, of course, again
- Student if bugs were not alive would it change humanity
Bugscope Team it would be so completely different
- Student we saw ur picture
- Student how
- Bugscope Team really -- bees help crops grow, for example
- Student ok thanks bye
- Bugscope Team and many insects are decomposers -- they help get rid of dead things and let it all start over
- Bugscope Team Bye!
