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Connected on 2011-04-28 10:30:00 from Highlands Ranch, CO, US

9:02am
Bugscope Team we are in a little early
Bugscope Team Cate and Kiersten are making the sample in the wet lab.
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9:45am

Bugscope Team now we're making the presets for today's session

9:51am

Bugscope Team and we are ready to roll!
9:58am

10:05am

10:12am

Bugscope Team Hello Andy!
10:18am
Bugscope Team welcome to Bugscope!
Bugscope Team our school should be logging on soon -- in about 15 minutes
10:23am

Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper
Bugscope Team with its streamlined head and tiny sharp proboscis
Bugscope Team for probing into leaves

Bugscope Team you can see the tip...
10:46am
Bugscope Team Cate I called Chas, got him, and asked him to call Myka
Bugscope Team Hello Hannah!
Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
Bugscope Team you have control of the microscope now
Bugscope Team can you see the chat?

10:51am
Bugscope Team hello MT Tiger, El Tigre...
Teacher Hello Scot
Bugscope Team Hello!
Bugscope Team hello and welcome
Student sup bro
Student what is that
Student whats a filnger
Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper, right now
Student i like u
Student asdrthnrsbte
Teacher Is it a girl or boy?
Student hello
Student Hey, whats up Mr. Scot!
Student I have a question
Bugscope Team shoot
Student how do you do scott
Student what do you do each day
Student what is this thing scott
Student what is this
Student scot what kind of bug is that
Student is that a grass hopper?
Student Hi Scot!
Student what are we looking at?
Student Mr. scot what do yu study for a liveing/
Bugscope Team I do this kind of work -- microscopy -- full time
Student what is this?
Student what kind of bug is that?
Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper. It is a type of small true bug that you might see jumping if you walk in the grass
Student hey scot what kind of bug is this?
Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper
Student Mr. Scott what do you study

Student ok, what does that bug do?
Bugscope Team it drinks plant sap and hops around.

Bugscope Team Oh I should say that I am Scot as well as sj]
Student what part is that?

Student Where does this bug live?
Student y do you study these bus?

Student how big do those things get
Student Thats cool! How does it work, like how do you study them? do you disect insects or find different diseases for them?...

Student Does it see really well?
Bugscope Team we train people -- Cate and I do -- to use the microscopes to do their research
Student how do you click on a different bug
Student Does the bug fly?
Bugscope Team it does have wings but I don't think they really rely on them too much. That is to say I've never seen them flying around before
Student what is a thorax?
Bugscope Team the thorax is the 'chest' part of the body that all six legs are attached to

Student what are the pokey things?
Student Does this bug nest?
Teacher scott we're trying to click on a different one, how?
Bugscope Team you -- oh it looks like you got it!
Student what is that?
Student What is this?
Student is that its eye
Bugscope Team yes the big round area by the thing that looks like a stick (which is its antenna) is the compound eye
Student what part of the bug is that?
Student what is that mcovin
Student what is that!
Bugscope Team now we are looking at a wasp's antenna, close up
Student they look like fuzz on a blanket
Student is that hair???
Bugscope Team yes the little spikes are hair, which we call setae (pronounced see-tee)
Student hey scott, what is this? Are they cells or hairs?
Student how does the microscope work
Student how does the electron microscope work?
10:56am

Student CReepy
Student Do yellow jackets nest?
Student how does this microscope work?
Student how old do they live
Bugscope Team often a few months, or perhaps an average of 6 weeks to 2 months

Student yellow jackets have claws

Student hi
Student are those fangs?
Student Do yellow jackets have stingers?
Teacher Hi Scott, can you please give Ballers control of the scope? Thanks
Bugscope Team ballers has control

Student ouch

Student is that the hand or claw?
Bugscope Team right now we see two claws, or two hands
Student woww i didnt know they had claws?
Student do they cut theyre naild
Student Are the claws sharp, like can we feel them
Student Bugs have feet?
Student nails
Bugscope Team all the insects are dead and are inside a vacuum right now being scanned with electrons and collected by a detector to give us the image we see now
Student that is cool!
Student How do yellow jackets survive?
Student How many legs does this bug have?
Student how many hands do they have?
Bugscope Team they have one "foot" per leg so 6

Student austin, can we see the stinger?

Student do they cut there nails by them selfs
Bugscope Team their nails probably wear through use
Teacher Are these our bugs?
Bugscope Team to my knowledge we didn't receive any insects from you...
Student do yellow jackets have hair

Student like a real vacum
Bugscope Team it's a high vacuum

Student Do they collect pollen?
Student can you zoom out
Student can you zoom out
Student can you zoom out?

Student DO THEY TRIM THEIR NAILS
Bugscope Team their claws do not grow, so there is no need to
Student whats a high vaccum
Student HOW BIG R THEY

Student whats that?
Student oops caps

Student how big is it?
Bugscope Team you can see the micron bar in the lower left; a micron is a thousandth of a millimeter
Bugscope Team a micron then, also called a micrometer, is a millionth of a meter
Student are there bugs other than the wasp to look at?
Bugscope Team we have a water strider, a whirligig beelte, a few flies, a parasitic wasp, and a leafhopper
Student does it take awhile to start up the microscope or is it always on?
Student woa
Student Are yellow jackets like bees and hornets?

11:02am
Student whats is that?
Bugscope Team we are up super close to the part of the tarsus that helps the insect stick to surfaces
Student so if its thousanth of a milimeter how big is that

Teacher may we please see a water strider?
Student How big is you're microscope?
Teacher Can you show the kids what the microscope looks like

Student you keep them in a vaccum???
Bugscope Team when we use the microscope we have to have no air in the chamber

Student can we see the stinger?
Student thats a claw

Student why do you guys have them in a vacuum????
Bugscope Team the electrons would be too erratic in air. With a vacuum you can control them a little better. They tend to bounce off water molecules
Student What is the biggest bug
Student What is a Bacterium
Bugscope Team a bacterium is like e. coli. The stuff that can make you sick

Student what is that?

Student woa!!!!
Student you look at them alive?
Student cool
Student why is the room so dark?
Student that is a microscope a big micro scope
Student how long does it take to start up the microscope?
Student are they already dead when you get them or do you kill them?
Bugscope Team sometimes they arent dead, so we just stick them in the freezer to go to sleep and eventually die. It is like the humane way of killing insects
Student You work on that machinery all day long?
Bugscope Team the insects are all on a kind of platter inside the vacuum chamber

Student how big is the micro scope?
Bugscope Team it's about the size of a large desk, with a taller part on one end
Student why was the room so dark?
Student mrs nielsen wonders if jrfluffy floo can have control

Student Is there a way to see the whole bug?
Student How long does it take to start up the microscope?

Student how cold is the freezer? how long does it take for them to fall asleep?
Student i dont see anything
Student Can you zoom out and show us the entire microscope
Bugscope Team we cannot show you the whole microscope from here, but you can see it if you look around on the home page
Student i dint
Student how do you kill these so called "BUGS"
Bugscope Team we freeze them
Student How long does it take to start up the microscope?
Student the screen is black
Student Can u show us a butterfly
Bugscope Team sorry we do not have a butterfly in the microscope right now
Student Are these bugs living or alive? What is the differnces of a dead bug you guys disect and a living one?

Student What is that???

Student can we see the whole bug please?

Student is that a mouth?
Student what is the vaccum chamber and how cold is it inside

Student do you look at live buggs?
Bugscope Team we could but they wouldn't survive the vacuum or electron beam very long, plus they wouldn't be very good at sitting still so we could look at them
Student How long does it take to start up the microscope?
Bugscope Team it runs all of the time, but it takes a few minutes to put a sample in and pump it down
Teacher Can JRflufflyfloo please have control?
Bugscope Team they have control
Student like in a frig at home?????????????????????\
Bugscope Team yes!
Student do you find them in a window seal?

Student how do you kill the bugs without smashing them
Bugscope Team we freeze them, usually
Student Do u use solar power
Bugscope Team no we don't
Student interesting

Student How big is a micron
Bugscope Team it is one thousandth of a millimeter

Student usually???????
11:07am

Student How big is a yellow jacket?
Bugscope Team it's a little less than 2 cm long
Student whirling beetle!
Student qwhat in the world is a water strider
Student What is your favorite bug
Student What si a water strider
Bugscope Team they are a different type of true bug that have long spindly legs. The long legs help them have extra surface area so they can walk on water
Student thats a beetle! right?
Bugscope Team yes it is!

Student Is this a dung beetle
Student What is the whriggiling beetles habitat?

Student what color is this bug?
Bugscope Team this one is dark brown. almost black

Student are the males bigger than the females

Student why do bugs have claws?

Student is that a claw?

Student is that the tail that he stings ppl with

Teacher can you tell the difference between a male and female?
Bugscope Team with some insects it is easy and with some you cannot tell easily from the outside
Bugscope Team most of the ants, bees, and wasps you see are females. They have the stinger, which also works as an ovipositor.

Bugscope Team whirligig beetles live in streams and ponds
Teacher El Tigre would like control. Please
Student how cold is the freezer? how long does it take for them to fall alseep?
Bugscope Team it is just below freezing, just like at home
Student Do water striders have hair
Student Do water striders fly over the water or do they walk across it?
Bugscope Team the adults can fly to new habitats, but they mostly prefer to walk on the water
Bugscope Team they feed on other aquatic insects
Student how cold is the vaccum chamber and what is it
Bugscope Team the chamber itself is not cold; that is what we saw when we went to the view of the whole sample holder
Student what is a ovipositor
Bugscope Team where the eggs come out

Student fall asleep??
Bugscope Team sometimes they wake up and sometimes they don't
Student is that a face

Student how do water striders glide on water?
Student what is that
Student what is a spiracle
Student what it that
Student What is that?????
Bugscope Team that is a spiracle, through which insects breathe
Student What is this in a wasp???
Student a parasitic wasp
Bugscope Team got it!
Student thats cool
Student if they have claws, how do they stay above he water?
Bugscope Team they can flex their claws up if they wanted to, but the claws are so small that they might not hinder the insect while on the water

Student do they live in nests
Student how big is a parasitic wasp
Bugscope Team this is a cm or so long
Student how long does it take for the bugs to die once they are in the freezer?

Student are those eggs?
Student how big is a horsefly

Teacher El Tigre would like control of the scope please.
Student why are there hairs on the eye?
11:12am

Student does the eye have little hairs like hair
Student Are you guys very gentle or just gentle when moving the bugs and placing them on the trays?
Teacher How long do the wasps typically live?
Bugscope Team it depends on what kind but generally several weeks to a whole season
Bugscope Team workers (the females that you see all the time but are sterile) live for around a month.
Student why do they have hair on there eyes?
Bugscope Team El Tigre is the supreme ruler of the 'scope now.
Student What would happen if the bugs perspired? would you still use them?
Student why are there so many dots in the eye
Bugscope Team each bump is a facet of the compound eye. They can each gather an image and send it to the brain
Student ?
Student why do they have hair on their eye
Bugscope Team the hairs, which are called 'setae,' help them sense touch and smell and hot/cold

Student this is fun
Bugscope Team awesome
Student why is there hair in the eye?
Bugscope Team the hair help them feel when things are touching it, like eyelashes almost, and they also help the fly detect wind motion
Student what is that?
Student it looks like a face
Bugscope Team these are the extra eyes on top of the head
Student Are you guys very gentle or just gentle when moving the bugs and placing them on the trays?
Student what is an ocelli

Student Are you guys very gentle or just gentle when moving the bugs and placing them on the trays?
Bugscope Team we tease each other about not being careful and mashing the insects
Student why do they sence with their eyes rather than their claws, of "hands"?

Student What do the flies use the hairs on their eyes?
Bugscope Team they often help them sense things like wind speed

Student y is that tongue so rough?
Student whats that for?
Bugscope Team this is the wasp tongue. it laps up nectar with it
Student That would be gross like mashed potatoes?

Student How do they eat?
Student whats an ocelli?
Bugscope Team it is a simple eye that barely registers dark and light, and it helps insects stay oriented with the sun, for example
Student Are beetles big?
Student .

Student how many bugs do you have under the microscope at a time?
Student Do bugs have tongues?
Bugscope Team they often have parts that are similar to tongues

Student how long to these live
Student zoom in on the mouth

Student is it big
Teacher How long did you guys go to school to do this?
Bugscope Team each of us went to college -- Cate in Physics and me in English and Biology
Student can we actually move the picture
Student do u have a phd?

Student are those sharp things hair or spikes?
Student are those dots on the eyes, their pupils?
Bugscope Team usually they do not have pupils the way we would think of them
Student what else do you use these types of microscopes for?

Student what else do you use eletronic microsopes for? whats the purpose?

11:17am
Bugscope Team we aren't real entomologists, but we have been with bugscope long enough that we just naturally learn a lot about them that we are like junior entomologists. Sometimes we have real entomologists join us and help answer the really hard questions
Student it does have fangs
Student how big is it on the scop?
Student why are the legs of the beetle coming out of its back?
Student how big is this bug on the scope?
Student what does it eat
Student how big is this on the scope
Student do zthe quwomen eat the males like zthe spiders
Student what is an electron microscope
Bugscope Team it is a microscope that uses electrons to collect images of things
Student how do you get to work with these scopes?
Student What else do you use the electron microscope for?
Student whats there life span

Student what are the pointy things on their mouth? like going up...
Bugscope Team it has a bunch of matted hair around its mouth, that are mostly used for feeling things that are around it
Bugscope Team like cat whiskers
Student how close can we see a bug with a less powerful microscope?
Bugscope Team a light microscope maxes out at a out 1200x

Student how big is a waterstrider

Student does it have whiskers
Student does it help them survive or anything?

Student what is an electron
Bugscope Team it is a super tiny particle that normally flies in an orbit around an atom

Student how does a water strider glide on water?

Student What else do you use the electron microscope for?
Bugscope Team we use a different kind of electron microscope to see inside cells and also look at nanoparticles up close

Student are those claws or hairs?
Student numnumnumnum
Student thats us
Student can i have control next plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Teacher xxx da man would like control of the microscope.
Bugscope Team they have control
Student ooooo

Student what is an atom
Bugscope Team an atom is an individual particle that all matter is composed of. atoms are what the different elements are made of, like carbon hydrogen oxygen calcium, etc.

Student whats that?
Student quwht is an atom
Student what are those hairs used for
Student what are nanoparticles
Bugscope Team particles that are smaller than micrometers -- in the nanometer range

Student oh cool
Student could that kill a person
Student what is that thing that is hanging over? why do bugs have so much hair?
Student what is smaller then an atom?
Bugscope Team electrons, protons, and neutrons, for example

Student what are those hairs used for
Student is matter smaller than an atom
Bugscope Team some matter may be considered to be smaller than an atom

Teacher Where is your lab located?...Can we vist
Bugscope Team you can visit if you really wanted. We are located at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL in Beckman Institute
11:22am

Student is that a disc

Student are those two claws on one arm?

Student does it have scales
Student for a stink bug, how does that bug release its smell?
Student do all bugs go through metamorphisis?

Student can we feel the claws when the bugs land on us???
Student why is there sooo much hair on a bug?
Bugscope Team the hairs help them sense their environment; because they do not have skin, but rather a shell, they need the hairs to help them feel things, taste things, smell, etc.

Student do they suck blood

Student does it also keep them warmer like other animals?
Student Do u like illinois
Bugscope Team not right now
Student how big are thosse bugss

Student can we feel the claws when the bugs land on us???
Student where does a leafhopper live?
Teacher How big are most of these bugs on the plate?

Student do they eat leafs
Student do they kill people

Student can we feel the claws when the bugs land on us???
Student how thick is the antenna?
Student do all bugs go through metamorphisis???
Student what are those used for?
Student do parastic wasps spread parasites
Student can u make the pictures in color???
Bugscope Team we could colorize them after we take them, but because they come to us as signal, there is no color

Student oo adrn!
Student is that pollen/
Student is it just me, or did i see hair on the hair?
Bugscope Team could be!

Student can we feel the claws when the bugs land on us???

Student can we feel the claws when the bugs land on us???
Bugscope Team sometimes you can but they are very small
Student those look like hands

Student do all bugs go through metamorphisis?
Bugscope Team yes although it really varies

Student how thin are the wings

Student do all bugs have anttennas?

Student what are halteres
Bugscope Team halteres are former hindwings that became small counterbalances, like weights, that beat opposite the way wings beat
Student how many legs do they have
Student do bugs have ears or just hole or what do they have to hear???
11:27am
Teacher We have about 8 minutes before we go to lunch for this class.
Teacher What do you think these bugs evolved from?
Bugscope Team well, from more primitive bugs, and before that, simpler multicelled creatures

Student do bugs antenas use the five senses?

Student what are those lines that are on the wings?
Teacher To our scientists, can one of you take control and show the students some neat things they might be missing before we have to go?
Student HOW DO YOU CHANGE THE BUG ON THE SCOPE

Student did u know that flys take off backwards
Student do wings provide lift and tilt like airplane wings
Bugscope Team yes they often do. Most insects have 2 pairs of wings, like dragonflies, which help them maneuver really easily

Student how many sets of wings do fly's have

Student what are the main ways, bugs travel by?
Bugscope Team most with wings will fly, others like to either walk or hitch rides on others things

Student do bugs have ears or holes or what do they have to hear??
Bugscope Team a praying mantis has a single ear, but most bugs do not really have ears; they do sense vibration, however, which is kind of the same thing
Student can this bug fly fast?
Student how do bugs eat?

Student are there colonys of flys

Student do bugs take

Student what is a stylet
Student can bugs hear things like earthquakes because of the rumbling?
Teacher Do wasps and bees hibrinate? Or do they die during winter?
Student do bugs have the 6 characteristics?
Bugscope Team insects have six legs, a head, thorax, and an abdomen, and I believe they are have single set of antennae
Teacher Can you zoom out one more time to show the students the scope?
Student how good are the noses of a bee

Student do bugs see in black and white
Bugscope Team many see in color
Student it has fangs and antennaes

Student one time i was stung by a yellow jacket

Student what do bugs eat? how do bugs eat?

Student do bugs eat their own speices of bug
Bugscope Team yes that often happens, especially when their other food sources are hard to find

11:32am
Student why do the bees stingers hurt if there so small.

Student does your microscope use a light reflector
Student can we feel the claws when the bugs land on us???
Bugscope Team not often. They are usually super small, so really hard for us to feel

Student do you know who invented this microscope?

Student do bees die if they sting you all the time?

Student mmmmmmm
Student does it have a beak
Student why when bees sting they die?
Bugscope Team only the honey bees die because they have barbs on their stingers that make it hard for them to pull back out of mammal skin. When the bee pulls away, the stinger stays and the bee eventually dies from bleeding out

Teacher Any chance you guys want control so that the kids can wrap up and see some things they aren't used to?
Bugscope Team Mrs N I am sorry we are not ignoring you, just trying to field questions

Student it has large eyes

Teacher No worries, they do have a ton of questions :)

Teacher Do wasps and bees hibernate or do they die during winter?
Bugscope Team some can crawl in during the winter and try to last, but they often die of dehydration
Bugscope Team your students are doing a great job driving everywhere, as it is

Student is there a certain season where insects hibrenate?
Bugscope Team in temperate climates like this, it is the wintertime
Student Can insects migrate?
Student are bugs cannibals
Bugscope Team they can be especially in the case of a female that needs food to have babies and the male can't get away fast enough

Student lol

Student do bugs migrate
Student how do water striders glide on water?

Student ok
Student Do certain bugs survive in the winter?
Bugscope Team fleas can, as eggs
Student hi
Bugscope Team and some places, you know, it does not get cold and the insects live year-round

Student can all bug swim
Bugscope Team no a lot will drown before they can get out of the water

Teacher Thank You!!
Bugscope Team once an insect does fly it is considered an adult, and it does not molt after it gets wings
Student that was great!
Teacher To Scot and our other wonderful scientists, we thank you for your time and efforts to make this a positive experience. The students will go to lunch now, and I will bring in my next class at 11:13 .
Bugscope Team Cool!
Student Thank You very much for your knowledge!
Student thanks we had lots of interesting fun
Student thanks very much guys. this has been really cool!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team ok see you soon
Student Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, and THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student thank you for what you have done for us.
Student thank you scott and cate and all the other scientists for helping us and your time
Student Thank you so much for showing us these cool bugs and amazing features of them!
Bugscope Team Thank You!
11:37am
Student from your biggest fans t
Student thank you scot and all the other scientists. Peace out bros
Student thx u
Student timmy and mattt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Teacher We appreciate answering our many questions, (by the way Hannah is a student, not a teacher)
Bugscope Team I am going to grab something to eat, and be right back!
Student :-)
Student YOUR EVEN BIGGER FANS
Student thank you for your time and minds i humbly thank you machohombre:):()
Student Thank you for showing us your wonderful bugs and answering our curious questions. now that we have more knowledge on bugs we find that we want to reseacrch them more!
Student Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are great scientists! Learned alot :0[) :)o
Bugscope Team You are all great kids, Thank You!
Student thankyo;uu
Student no way im ur bigget fan!!
Student :)
Student bye!!!!!
Teacher Again, we'll back in a few . Thanks
11:44am

11:54am

12:02pm

12:11pm
Teacher Hi Scot, the kiddos just came back. Let me get them set up and we'll be on in a few minutes.
Bugscope Team ok we will be ready and waiting!
Bugscope Team awesome
Teacher Thanks Cate and Scot
Teacher The kids are getting signed on, can you please give clinger/stephanie controls?
Student i dont really know
Student what is that???
Bugscope Team these are nanoparticles on a leafhopper called brochosomes
Bugscope Team these are made only by leafhoppers
Bugscope Team they are thought to help keep eggs from drying out, and are about 450 nanometers big!
Bugscope Team you would not be able to see things this small on a light microscope
Student why is there no color
Student how big is an electron microscope
Student and how do you spell it
Student what is a brochosome ?
Student what is the most interesting/disgusting bug you've ever seen?
Student How does the Eclectron microscope work
12:16pm
Student what is a brokasome
Bugscope Team brochosomes are the tiny particles we are looking at that are produced by leafhoppers
Student can you see blood cells using this microscope
Bugscope Team yes we can!
Student why is the color of the picture black and white
Bugscope Team because the electron images come to us as brighter or darker areas -- as signal
Student can u see the inside of a bee in this microscope?
Student what is a leafhopper?
Student are the little holes are they blood cells
Student what exactly is a leaf hopper?
Student what does um mean>?
Bugscope Team um actually the u is supposed to be the Greek letter mu, and it means micrometer
Student Hey how does the Electron Microscope work?
Student what is the coolest cell you've seen
Student How come this wouldnt work on a light microscope?
Bugscope Team light comes in wavelengths that are often larger than what we see here
Student what exactly is a leaf hopper?
Bugscope Team they are usually small and green and you will see them bounding around when you walk in taller grass
Student ........how do they get so close
Student why can you only see black and white?
Student what is the most interesting bug youve ever seen?
Bugscope Team maybe a tick, or a weevil, or an earwig with mites on it
Student how big is an electron microscope
Bugscope Team the main component is about as big as a fridge and the computer component is as big as a large desk
Student are leaf hoppers like grass hoppers?
Bugscope Team they are similar but they are not related
Student thanks
Student ok thank you!
Student repl my question
Bugscope Team Dude what was it? sorry
Student What do the insides of a bug look like?
Student How do you manipulate the microsope in such a way to see that close
Teacher Can you give controls to Clinger/Stephanie ?
Bugscope Team they have control
Student how come house flies have so many different eyes?

Student Can you see electrons through the microscope?
Bugscope Team no. some electron microscopes can see atoms, but not electrons

Student how does a electron microscope work?
Student what is the coolest thing you have ever seen under the electron microscope
Student Where is the electron microscope?
Student Hey the cells you have right hear what are the
Student Can you use this on anything other then bugs?
Student .......how do the microscopes tell what is under it
12:21pm

Student So we would only be able to see the light wavelengths instead of what we see here?
Bugscope Team yes the detector here is gathering a signal from the electrons. when looking through a light microscope we get a some form of light brought back to us.
Student wow!!!
Student how many electrons are used to produce a good photo
Bugscope Team trillions

Student What are we looking at?
Bugscope Team this is close up on the antenna of a wasp
Student How far does a Elctron Microscope zoom in over objects?
Bugscope Team this microscope can zoom in as far as about 200,000x and still get a good quality image. There would be to be something worthwhile to look at at the mag though. With insects there usually aren't
Student what are those spike like things??
Bugscope Team those are setae, or bristles, or spines that are chemosensory, for the most part
Student Hey my q is how did you manipulate the microscope to do this?
Student how close can an electron microscope zoom?
Student how many cells are in the yellow jacket antenna
Bugscope Team hundreds of thousands
Student what is the closest magnifacation the electron microscope can get up to
Teacher Can you zoom out and show the students what the scope looks like?
Student What is chemosensory?
Student do you only use the electron microscope on bugs?
Bugscope Team no we do this part only for fun, unless we are working with entomologists
Student this looks cool
Student what is the farthest you have seen magnified??
Student do those spikes help the wasp feel things
Student What is the biggest thing you can magnify?
Student how many bugs can be under the microscope at a time??
Bugscope Team that depends on how big the insects are. Someone can stick around 20 or so very small insects. On average we try to stick on around 10 insects or so. If there is a rather large insect stuck on, then there won't be much room for others
Bugscope Team in order to see the whole microscope from the outside, you would need to go back to the bugscope homepage

Student is there no color because it is dark

Student how big is the lensne
Bugscope Team there is a high vacuum there
Student Whats the claw looking thing?
Bugscope Team might have been the chamber door, which is curved
Student how much does a microscope cost
Bugscope Team this microscope cost around $600,000 almost 13 years ago
Student how far can these microscopes magnify>?
Student What is chemosensory?
Bugscope Team they sense chemicals like pheromones
Teacher Can Pauly D have controls of the scope?
Bugscope Team got it!
12:26pm
Student what is photomultiplier?

Student what is the most powerful microscope today?
Student are there any microscopes that can magnify to corks

Student Can you buy one of those mirco scoop for personal studies??
Bugscope Team there are table top ones that cost a bit less than this one, but they are still priced high for the average consumer to buy

Student what do the spikes do for the bug?
Bugscope Team they help it sense things that might be touching it, they help it sense the position of its own limbs and body, and they sense hot/cold as well as lots of chemical scents
Student what are all the little hairs for?
Student what is a photomultiplier?
Student whew that is alot of cash why did you guys spend so much let me rephrase that how come it is so expensive
Bugscope Team in part it is expensive because there are so few of them, but mostly it is because they are very complicated instruments

Student How do you move the microscope? Is in manual or automatic?
Bugscope Team most of the time it is manual, but you can save areas of interest that you drove to before and get back to them automatically
Student what can you use a microscope for except for bugs
Student why do we want to use a electron microscope?
Student how big does the spikes get??
Bugscope Team they are so small you wouldn't be able to see them with the naked eye or feel them for that matter

Student what is the biggest thing you can magnify?

Student Is that black dot the pupil?
Student can you use an electron micro scope on humans?
Bugscope Team no because it produces x-rays and requires a relatively high vacuum

Student are there many diffrent eyes or just one?

Student whats a vaccum
Student what was the smallest thing you have magnified
Bugscope Team I think we have imaged 5-nm gold beads
Student can you use it on other things than bugs?
Student how many eyes are there in a fly?

Student what is a high vacum
Bugscope Team vacuum is like what is inside a lightbulb; it is the abscence of air or other gases
Student what other things have you studied on the electron microscope?

Student Do you only study bugs?? or can you study humans or other animals also??
Bugscope Team for bugscope we usually just look at bugs, because that is something everyone knows about. this microscope is often used by other students here at the university for their research and will sometimes look at different types of dried small baby animals, blood cells, circuits, smal structures they have built, foods, and soil

12:31pm
Student how many components are comprised into creating the electron microscope?
Bugscope Team thousands of components from pumps to resistors to the computers and the electromagnetic lenses
Student can you see cells on this microscope?
Student how do you produce the electrons?
Student Hey ummm I have a Question did the bugs have to be dead to do bug scope
Student what are the tenticle like parts for on the fly
Student how do you get the electrons for the electron microscope?

Student what are the spikes on the fly claw
Student what is that hair used for?
Bugscope Team often they are mechanosensory -- touch sensitive

Student Where do you get the electrons from??????
Student can you magnify big objects?
Bugscope Team we can but you wouldnt be able to see them as a whole.
Bugscope Team we can probably fit something the size of a small fist in the chamber

Student where do you get the animal parts or animal cells? Do you raise them at your university or do you pay someone to go kill them in the wild???
Bugscope Team we collect insects ourselves; people who work with mice or rats often raise them themselves
Student can you see cells on this kind of microscope

Student how do you produce the electrons?!?
Student do bugs have the same senses as us? (hear,touch,taste,smell,and see)
Student how long did it take to learn all that you have learned?
Bugscope Team years and years, but that does not mean you could not drive the microscope; and you always keep learning anyway

Student what type of materials are used to grab or look at them??
Teacher Can you please give H&L control?
Bugscope Team got it
Student are the bugs under the microscope right now
Bugscope Team they are inside the vacuum chamber, so essentially Yes

Student how do you get the microscope right on the bugs because when we used microscopes we barely found the bugs
Bugscope Team that is sometimes a problem with super tiny samples

Student Do you cut open the bugs or does your micro scoop see through their skin?
Student are electrons produced or are they just there???
Student what education do you need to study this ?

Student have you guys had this job your whole life
Student where do you study at??
Bugscope Team we are at the University of Illinois in champaign-urbana, IL. But to get the jobs we have, Scott has a degree in biology and I have one in physics.

Student What education do you need to use the E microscope
Bugscope Team I have a degree in English and Biology, and Cate has a degree in Physics
Student what do you need to know to use a E microscope?

Student how did you get the internet to controll the microscope?

Student why does that bug have spikes?
Bugscope Team they are hairs that are often used to help the insects feel what is going on around it. It can feel when it bumps or comes near something-- like cat whiskers

Student how many years do you need to to study to do your job?

12:36pm
Student how do you control the microscopeto get right on the bug
Bugscope Team there is a combination of mechanical movement and movement controlled by electromagnetic fields

Student is it possible to have a colored picture

Student do the hair sense anything?
Student do they have these kind of jobs in the military to maybe study exzotic bugs
Student can you look at an individual cell?
Student How many years did you guys Mr.scot and Ms.cate have to go to college in order to get this job
Bugscope Team I have a bachelor degree so 4 years
Student can you actually look at a cel;l
Student do all bugs have spikes for there sense of touch?
Bugscope Team generally I think yes, they have some type of setae that relay that sense to their nervous system
Student can we look at a cell?

Student can you look at an idividual cell??
Bugscope Team yes we can, like when people want to look at blood cells of various types
Student can u look at i=an individual ceel
Bugscope Team yes we can

Student will you look at one
Student are you working on your masters?
Student what are those balls on the eyes?
Student do you get paid to answer our question or are you doing an intership?
Student what are the individual balls on the eyes called?
Student how do you control the microscope do you use like a stick or do you use a computer
Bugscope Team it has computer control plus some manual controls

Student can you magnify so small that you can see through pores

Student what happens if an animal pops?????

Student how far can you magnify before the image starts to deterioate
Student What's Contrast?\
Student how much enerrgy does it require to use it.
Student could you look at different cells like cancer or a virus like the flu?
Bugscope Team if we wanted to look at virus we would use the TEM, the transmission electron microscope, which is down the hall
Student t
Teacher Can you give shorty beasts control of the scope
Bugscope Team got it!
Student What's Contrast?

Student Now that you know what the bug is do you know what type of diseases it can ge?
Bugscope Team we usually get that info by reading, but for example we have seen bacteria on ticks
Student why does the fly have a hair inbetween each eye??
Student do you guys use scalples to cut the bugs
Student How fragile is the lens?
Student how small is a virus?
Bugscope Team maybe they average 50 nanometers...

Student how many microscopes do you have that can look at other things
Student Can you magnify over 1 million times magnified?
Bugscope Team with the TEM we can but not everything perfectly

Student so are there different electron microscopes for different things?
12:41pm
Student is it hard to control the microscop?
Bugscope Team no it is really pretty easy -- you could do it

Student what kind of bacteria can you find on the bugs??
Bugscope Team the ones we have seen are bacilli -- the rod-shaped bacteria

Student what discoveries have been made from this microscope?
Student What discoverys have been made using this microscope?
Student What discoveries have there been made using the microscope?
Student can you find diseases in bugs

Student how many microscopes can you have in all

Student What's Contrast, please?
Bugscope Team contrast is the difference between black and white, in way; like how black and white a sample appears compared to how gray it might be

Student How fast are the electrons traveling

Student sorry the question was how many microscopes do you have
Student can you magnify snake skin?
Student Is it possible to get that type of disease by touching the bug???
Student what are the different pillars on the toung?
Student can you see the blood cells if you are looking at a mosqito that is carrying blood

Student what does sonicate mean?
Student what does sonacate mean?
Student How far magnification can you go?
Bugscope Team usually with this 'scope about 200,000x max

Student how many insects are there in the world that have been discoered

Student whats the worst disease that you can get from a bug??
Bugscope Team plague, from fleas, perhaps is the worst
Teacher Can you give Ciana/Carter control of the scope?
Bugscope Team got it!

Student what is a polepiece?
Bugscope Team it's the area where the beam comes out and hits the sample
Bugscope Team in the case of this microscope it is the last part of the metal tube from which the electrons come

Student what discoveries have been made using the electron microscope?

Student What's a sonocate?
Bugscope Team it's similar to how an ultrasound works, but is a bit more intense. So intense that it can shake the particles, often shaking off the debris like dirt
Student have you ever looked at a misquito or a bug with HIV/AIDS

12:46pm

Student if you can see our hair without a microscope, if you feel a fly, can you feel the peaces of hair
Student why did you pick this job?
Bugscope Team i like all things science, and working in a lab with tons of microscopes I get to experience many field of science at once. It is fun and never seems to get boring
Student How come everything is always grainy what are the main most important parts of an Electron microscope
Student Can you see a prion with this microscope?
Bugscope Team not with this 'scope; even with a TEM it would be hard to see something that made sense
Student what does a proboscus look like of a mosquito ?????
Student can you see the dandriff/lice on a bug if it has it??
Bugscope Team lice are often big enough that we can put them on individually but we can see mites on other insects yes
Bugscope Team prions are misfolded proteins
Student what are the pillar like things on the tongue?
Student can you see a virus that has a virus?

Student did the world find most of the worlds bugs through this
Student can u magnify something thats like powder?

Student if you get ancient maskito blood will you be able to make dinosaurs like in Jurassic Park?
Bugscope Team i think there is a video debunking what they did in Jurassic park. Basically no we wouldn't be able to do it

Bugscope Team can you click on the yellowjacket for one of our guests?
Student if you zoomed in all the way can you see the dna of a cell
Bugscope Team it would look kind of like much, or strings

Student do you beleive that viruses are alive or not
Bugscope Team they are not really alive -- more like half alive

Student Can you see amino acids with the scope?
Bugscope Team they would not look like the chemical drawings we see

Student How can viruses be half alive?
Student Hey How long does it take for the Energy to power up.
Bugscope Team the 'scope is on all of the time, but it takes a few minutes to vent and then to pump down

Student i think are alive!
Bugscope Team you could be right, but it is a different kind of life
Teacher Can you please give Turtle/Soccer 107 controls of the scope?
Bugscope Team got it!

12:51pm

Student how long have you study this??how much bugs do u study each day
Bugscope Team we don't usually study bugs -- we help people work with all kinds of samples besides bugs
Student whyis the adaptation for flies and wasps/bees do they have lots of seperate eyes?
Student What are the little hairs on the yellowjacket's head?

Student Ewwwwww that is grottttytytytyyt

Student could you see the ribosomes ?
Bugscope Team no you would need to use a TEM, or transmission electron microscope to see the little parts of a cell. For TEM the electrons pass through an ultrathin sample, heavier things will look darker. Usually when you see an image of a cell, and especially if it is black and white, then it is a tem image

Student what is your opion on the gene theroy
Bugscope Team I think they are finding that it is more complex than they imagined, or than they outlined at first

Student is this a program like this that we can use a tem
Student Is there there are program for the TEM?

Student How can viruses be half alive/
Bugscope Team they are poised to be able to do things given the right circumstances
Student THat is only a face a mother coould lovve!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team ha Yes!
Student if a virus infects a living thing can an insect or arachnid get a virus
Student How does a compound eye work?
Bugscope Team each facet, or bump, on the eye will collect an image, not always with visible light waves, and put them together in the brain. Much like how our brain assembles 2 images from our eyes to make 1 image that our brain sees
Student how long does it take to study one bug or any kind of animal???
Bugscope Team really a long time, so it is broken up into different functions
Student what are the spikes below the antenna
Student are there different eyes within one eye or is it just one eye that may move in many different directions at one time allowing it to see things all around?
Student is there another program to use a tem
Bugscope Team no, not here at least.
Student can we use a tem
Student can we use a tem
Student how long does it take for the microscope to zoom in over one hundred thousand
Bugscope Team just seconds to get there, and then a minute or so after focussing to take an image
Student Do flies see the image upside down like us and have the brain flip the image?
Student how many scientists do you work with, If any?
Student why do flies and bees/ wasps have the adaptation of many different eyes
Student what are the different functions you guys go though to study an insect??
Student do you ever think that there is something that bacteria would have to look from a microscope to see a smaller organism
Bugscope Team ha yes
Student Can we please use a TEM please please

Student what direction can the eyes move
Bugscope Team ah, unlike our eyes, their eyes do not move. Which is why they can sometimes have eyes that cover almost their entire head and give them a 360 degree view of the area around them. Sometimes insects can move their head around as well.
Student are we looking at the teeth of the actual wasp?
Bugscope Team you are looking at the jaws of the whirligig beetle; insects do not really have teeth but they do have hardened jaws
Student can bacteria get viruses?
Bugscope Team I think you could say yes they do
Student can an insect or arachnid get a virus????
Bugscope Team for sure
Student how many people do you work with?
12:56pm
Student Bugs can spin there head around 360 degrees??
Student what is the most dangerous disease you've ever seen on a bug?
Student is there a microscope to zoom in so far to see the common cold virus?
Student how many eyes do flys have alltogether
Bugscope Team they have 2 compound eyes, which can be made up of 100's if not 1000's of ommatidia, or facets, and then they have 3 simple eyes called ocelli, which they use to triangulate the position of the sun and help keep them upright. so 5 total.
Student how many people or scientist work on one bug??
Bugscope Team sometimes one person works on the taxonomy -- where it fits into the classification of all insects, but someone else might study its gut bacteria, for example, or how its eyes work
Student if viruses are harbored into insects could the electron microscope see the virus?
Teacher How big are these bugs on the spinner?
Bugscope Team you mean inside the microscope? the stub they are on is 1.75 inches in diameter
Student if you had a cold or something comunicable can other bugs get that
Bugscope Team i don't think the viruses pass from human to insect. Rarely do they go form insect to human, and if that happens, like in the case of the mosquito or tick, the virus is not affecting them
Student how many species of bugs are there?
Bugscope Team hundreds of thousands
Student can you see eggs on the microscope?
Student Hey Can you please tell us if the EM is open to the whole scientific community

Bugscope Team possibly a few million species of insects
Teacher CAn you please give Tanner control of the scope?
Bugscope Team no problem, got it!
Student could we use bugs to study different viruses to help us find cures

Student what is the most mutated bug you have ever seen??
Bugscope Team hard to say --you could say a cockroach, and you could also choose a specialist like a batbug

Student what is a batbug??

Student Hey R u Smart?
Teacher Just an FYI we have 5 minutes left until you go to your next class.

Student do insects breath air
Bugscope Team yes but not through their mouths -- they breathe through their spiracles, which distribute air inside the body via tubes called tracheae

Student how long do you stay in the lab? how much do you get paid just to stay in the lab?????
Bugscope Team probably 9.5 hours a day, and what we get paid varies

1:01pm

Teacher Scot and Cate, my last class comes in at 12:08 and we'll go until 12:50, is that right?
Bugscope Team yes!
Student what is a batbug?

Student of a insect breathes air can it get smog in its body?

Student Can some bugs (that aren't water bugs) survive in water for a certain amount of time? If so, how long?
Bugscope Team yes they can. They can close their spiracles, which are their breathing holes, and well, hold their breath. How long they can hold their breath depends on the insect I think. Roaches can hold their breath a long time.

Student can we use bugs to study viruses to help us find cures?
Student What are spiricals
Bugscope Team they are little pores on the sides of each body segment (often) that can be opened and closed to let air in or out
Student what part of the beetle is this
Student can you tell the diference from a bug with a virus from one without
Student could i buy a mini electron microscope at like a science store?
Bugscope Team no a tabletop SEM still costs too much for the average consumer. You would also still have to go through the manufacturer to get it, I believe

Student If you drown a wasp and take it out can it come back to life?

Student what is your favorite bug to look at under the microscope

Student can we use bugs to help us study different viruses to help us find cures?
Student how many years do you have to take in college to be a scientist? what classes do you have to take?
Bugscope Team it depends on what kind of scientist; at least 4 years, but many people here go on for another 5 or 6 or more

Student Hey Cate WHat colledge degree do you have to have to use the microscope
Bugscope Team To use the microscope you don't need any really. We teach other students that don't have a degree to use the microscope all the time. For my job I have a bachelor degree in physics and Scot has one in biology and in english
Student Which bug is closest related to humans?
Bugscope Team wow I am not sure

Student how many people do you work with each day?
Bugscope Team a few a day can come on the microscope. If they didn't sign up a lot of time, then more could be fit into the schedule. 3-4 people on average for this one a day
Student what is a batbug? and where does it live?
Bugscope Team batbugs often live in attics where bats can also get in, or they live in caves, and they are quite like bedbugs
Student dito
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Student thankyou
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Student THankssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!so much!!!!
Student thank you SCOTT AND CATE!!!
Student Thank you for your time!
Student THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student thank you
Student THANK YOU SCOT AND CATE
Student thank you for your time in trying to answer all of our questions!!! Thank you!! :)
Student your awesom
Student thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student bye bye thanks
Student thaknkyuo very much
Student thank u from pauly d from the jersey shore
Bugscope Team this is really fun for us. Bye!
Student Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the first time that we've stumped a scientist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team ha ha
1:07pm
Bugscope Team I'm afraid we can be easily stumped, but we do know how to look most things up
Bugscope Team I think you have to know how to phrase your question, like designing an experiment, to get the answer you want.

1:13pm
Teacher Hi Scot and Cate here they come :)
Student what am i looking at?
Student what am i lookin at here?
Student what type of phylum is this in?
Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper
Student what bug is that?
Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper, which you often see as little green things that hop around when you walk in taller grass
Student Does this bug have a virus?
Bugscope Team it would be hard to tell if it did
Student why is it in black and white?
Bugscope Team we are using electrons to image this insects of light. Electrons are smaller and can see finer detail than light can
Student what is this?
Bugscope Team the phylum is arthropoda
Student what addaptations does this bug have
Bugscope Team it has an odd adaptation that it uses to keep its eggs moist
Teacher Could you please give Peykin control of the scope?
Student is this a flea
Bugscope Team no it is a leafhopper, bigger than a flea
Student what collage degree do you have
Bugscope Team English and Biology for me, and Physics for Cate
Student what kind of a microscope do you need to see this
Bugscope Team you could see it with a dissecting microscope
1:19pm
Student what kind of microscope do you use to get this close to an animal
Bugscope Team a scanning electron microscope
Student how old do you think this bug is?
Bugscope Team i think they live for around a season long, so assuming this is an adult, maybe a few months old
Student what type of college degree do you have Cate?
Student do you take the pictures
Student how many legs does it have?
Student where is this usually found?
Student what do the spikes on its legs do for the bug?
Bugscope Team they are often like cat whiskers- they allow the insect to feel when things come close to it or they bump into things
Student whats the smallest bug you could see with this microscope??????????!
Student how big is this leafhopper?
Bugscope Team An additional and unique character of leafhoppers is the production of brochosomes, which are thought to protect the animals, and particularly their egg clutches, from predation and pathogens.
Teacher Can you possibly show this class what the scope looks like?
Bugscope Team that is a clip, below, that I got from Wikipedia..
Bugscope Team this is what the inside of the microscope looks like
Student How many cells does this have
Bugscope Team probably hundreds of thousands to a million
Student how many bugs do you get a year
Student it isn't as bib
Student does it use those feather things because it is blind? like and adaptation?
Bugscope Team it is not blind -- it has compound eyes on the sides of its head
Student big
Student how many eggs does it lay per year
Bugscope Team they can reproduce up to 6 times during their life, but I;m not sure how many eggs they lay at once. And they can live for up to a year, sorry. They can sometimes overwinter in your house.
Student yas i thought
Student how does the electron microscope work?
Student what part in the food chain is the leafhopper?
Bugscope Team well it is a herbivore, and it gets eaten by larger things like ambush bugs
Bugscope Team only thing they feed on are plants, as scot said, so they are just above the bottom of the food chain
Student BOB SAGGET!! whats the one thing you cant see in tha microscope?
Teacher CAn you give Peykin control of the scope?
Bugscope Team they have control
Student how does the eloctron microspope work
Bugscope Team we beam high-energy electrons at samples that are conductive and in a reduced atmosphere -- a vacuum. we get secondary electrons back from the surface of the sample, and because we are constantly scanning the images constantly update
Student BOB SAGGET!! whats the one thing you cant see in tha microscope?
Bugscope Team color!
Student is the leaf hopper like a grass hopper???
Student where does the leaphopper live

Student BOB SAGGET!! whats the one thing you cant see in tha microscope?

1:24pm
Student where does the leaphopper live
Bugscope Team grassy areas. They like long grasses like prairies

Student does this bug have any ansestors
Bugscope Team its ancestors would look like it but be a little more primitive, and perhaps larger

Student how many eyes does this thing have and what kind of animal is this
Student How many years have you been in school???????????????????????????????????

Student how far can the leaphopper jump
Bugscope Team it seems like 10 or 15 m inches, probably depends on the species

Student how many legs does this leaphopper have?
Bugscope Team it's an insect, so 6

Student what are the adaptations for this bug for that claw

Student how old are bugs?

Student how many claws are on one of those?
Bugscope Team they have a claw on each of their legs at the ends, so they have 6 claws
Student what is the purpose of the "pores" or "little hairs"
Student why does it have spikes on its skin?

Student do you go out and find these bugs?
Bugscope Team sometimes we do, or we will find them in our homes, or people will send them to us

Student where did u go to college
Bugscope Team University of Kansas, and Cate went here, to the University of Illinois

Student Could this bug cause you any harm or infections?

Student how long can bugs live???
Bugscope Team depends on the insect. Most insects live for around a season, but sometimes they can overwinter or migrate so they can live for a year or longer

Student have these bugs ever been known to live in a different envirement?
Student whats the coolest bug you have looked at??????????????????????????

Student why are they're larger claws than the other ones?

Student is there any form of poison on these bugs?
Bugscope Team not that we know of, but many insects have chemical defenses against ants

Student r those good colleges
Bugscope Team I think so, esp. Illinois

Student what is its skin made of?
Bugscope Team it doesn't have skin, it has an exoskeleton, which are bones on the outside. They are made of chitin- the same stuff our fingernails are made of

Student what is the leafhopper's purpose
Bugscope Team it feeds on plants, so it is likely considered a pest
Student can you feel these bugs crawling on you? Or are they too small?
Student what is their defence system against other bugs?
Student how big is this bug with out using a micro scopeee

Student how sharp are the claws
Bugscope Team we can sort of see how sharp they are, but you know they are very small

Student how close to are there organs with humans
Bugscope Team not much like humans

Student can bugs die from viruses
Bugscope Team yes
1:29pm

Student jow many haairs does it have
Bugscope Team hundreds and maybe thousands
Student Can we get viruses from bugs?
Student Can you see bacteria and viruses on the bug
Student can we get viruses from bugs
Bugscope Team yes in some cases

Student are these bugs harmful to humans?

Student what kind of cases can we get viruses

Student how do you know what kinda of bugs your looking at???
Bugscope Team we compare them morphologically -- by shape, mostly

Student are the bugs eyes just like regular human eyes?

Student if these bugs could give us viruses what kind of viruses would they be?
Student what are they
Student can bugs live in are body when wer 3?
Bugscope Team there are tiny mites that live on you, like in your eyelashes

Student what bugs can give us viruses?
Bugscope Team the deadliest insect is the mosquito, you can get a whole slew of viruses from them. like west nile virus, malaria, yellow fever
Student what is the most dangerous bug
Bugscope Team overall probably the mosquito

Student Can bugs shed?
Student are spiders dangerous

Bugscope Team ticks can carry some viruses as well
Student what makes the mosqutio bites itch?

Teacher Can you please give Jordan and Avery control of the scope?

Student what is the smallest bug that you know of?
Bugscope Team fairyfly, which is actually a small parasitic wasp with a very painful sting

Student how many yellow jackets are there usually per bee hive?

Student how big is the yellow jackets tounge
Student What is the bug with the most important job??

Student can bugs live in bugs

Student what is the worst case of west nile?
Student is the yellow jacket and the leahopper closely related?
Bugscope Team not at all actually. A leafhopper is a type of true bug, an insect with a piercing mouthpart, and a wasp is related to bees and ants

Student how are the bees able to fly

Student can someone die from a mosquito bite
Bugscope Team yes if they are weak or don't get treated
Student what does the tongue of the yellow jacket do to help it adapt to other foods?
Bugscope Team it is shaped so that it can easily collect liquids

Student can you die from yellow jackets bites
Bugscope Team maybe if you were allergic and went into shock

Student when a bug "molts" what happens
Bugscope Team it's like when a snake sheds its skin, they climb out of the molt or shell that used to be their exoskeleton
1:34pm
Student How can bugs get infections from other bugs?
Bugscope Team one way is by hanging out together, and one is by stinging or biting
Teacher Can Avery/Jordan have control of the scope?
Bugscope Team they have control

Student how has the mosquito evolved over time to make it one of the most dangerous animals
Bugscope Team probably in its ability to sense CO2 and/or body heat
Student are bug ever found in fossils???
Bugscope Team yes they are

Student How many different kinds of this bug are there
Student What does this bug use it's hair for?

Student why have bugs evoled to be small?
Student thank you scot

Student how do you get rid of bed bugs
Bugscope Team it is pretty drastic, but often it involves discarding all fabrics and your mattress etc.
Student what are we looking at
Student What r we looking at right now

Student what does that rough skin do to help the bug
Bugscope Team it's not really skin -- it is more like a shell, and the roughness often gives it strength
Student are some mosquidos more deadlyer then others? why or why not?
Student Can bugs get the flu just like humans? or do they have their own illnesses?
Bugscope Team i dont know if they can get the flu, but they do have their own illnesses.
Student Can bugs live inside a human?
Bugscope Team yes they can
Student does gloss on the yellow jacket's tounge help it to protect itself from viruses fom other bugs it eats?

Student could this shell molt?

Student have pine beetles evolved so that chemicals dont affect them
Student Can bugs find their way out of the human body???
Bugscope Team when they grow they worm their way out of your skin or go into your digestive tract

Student what is the halters
Student do any kind of bugs carry aids or that kinda of disease?

Student can this bug hear as well or better then humans?

Student Do bugs taste the food they eat just like humans do?
Bugscope Team yes, they have little chemoreceptors that are like our tastebuds on their palps, which are little mouthparts

Student Why do bugs go inside the human body????
Bugscope Team it might be that part of their life cycle is completed there

Student do all insects have ears

Student Do all bugs have hair?
Teacher Can you please give Pillowpetters control ?

Student are those the ears of an insect?
Bugscope Team usually they do not have actual ears but hear by sensing vibrations in the air or the ground
1:39pm

Student what do illnesses doo to buugss

Student Can you name one bug illness? And what does it do to the bug?
Bugscope Team insects can get fungus that takes over their brain and makes them climb to high places, where the fungus can spread via the air
Bugscope Team they can get a bacteria infection that can be treated with antibiotics

Student how has this bug evolved over time
Bugscope Team actually flies once had four wings, and now they have two plus to halteres
Student what do these hairs do to help the bug to survive
Student w

Student do u know everything about bugs

Student what do you do for a living
Student do the fly halteres make a significant diffenerence to the fly?

Student Will the bugs in the future become bigger?

Student how complex are flies compared to humans
Student Why are bugs so small? And how does being small help them????
Bugscope Team being small helps them breathe efficiently; thankfully they cannot get too big because they cannot supply oxygen efficiently to the whole body if they are above a certain size
Student in a scientific prediction what do you think the yellow jacket will look like 100 years from now

Student what is your degree
Bugscope Team English and Biology, and for Cate, Physics

Student Why do flies have thousands of eyes???
Bugscope Team it helps them see a larger area at one time and also to sense changes in the visual field very quickly

Student could this bug live inside another animal??

Student what do you do for a liveing why do you know so much about bugs?
Bugscope Team we have been doing bugscope for so long that we just naturally learn it. Like taking an entomology course over and over again

Teacher I know you are super busy, any chance pillowpetters can get control of the scope?
Bugscope Team they have control
Student that is awesome and how long do u have do go to school to do this
Bugscope Team we have been paying attention to entomologists and reading about insects for years, just from doing Bugscope, but we did also go to college
Student Do insects see in color?

Bugscope Team often an insect can climb into someone's ear on accident because it is a moist warm area.

Student do any bugs live in the freezing weather
Bugscope Team some insects are far better than others at surviving the cold; some ants, for example
Student does this eye have hair on it like humans do?
Student why do bees live in hives?? and how do bees make honey????
Student how long did u go to college
Bugscope Team 5 years

Student What's on the eyes?
Student could any bugs live inside another bug that lives in a different envirement
Bugscope Team they do as eggs or larvae quite often
Student why do dragonflies have 4 wings and others only have 2
Bugscope Team most have 4. diptera, or flies have 2 because they have a pair of halteres that beat opposite their wings to help give them balance.
Student if so would it effect the bug in any way?
1:44pm

Student do the many eyes on the fly see diffrent things or do they see the same thing ehen they are flying around

Student Can insects go into other animals???
Student what is the purpose of the bug being so small
Bugscope Team it means the overall survival of the species is likely better if only because there is abundant food if you are small

Student what color does this bug see?

Student Do bugs see in color?
Bugscope Team some more than others, and some see certain colors better than others
Student can a spider rip your skin?
Student are the adaptations similar to ours in a certain way?

Student why are flies born as larva and not flying
Student how many bugs are there in highlands ranch colorado in the zip code 80126
Bugscope Team probably millions, easily
Student do bugs drink water and if they could could they drink soda or koolaide

Student d

Student do some bugs live off of viruses? do they help thm live
Student do all insects have six legs?
Student is there a microscope that can see viruses
Bugscope Team The TEM or transmission electron microscope can see the fine details of viruses and cells. If you see an image of a virus in a movie, it's most likely a tem image

Student is there anyway you can find a virus in a bug and if you can, can you cure it
Bugscope Team bugs don't live long, generally, so it is unlikely you can cure it. still you should be able to find it by looking at the hemolymph, for example, using a TEM. tranmission electron microscope
Student how do bees make huny and how come there the only bugs that can?
Teacher Any chance we could give controls over once more to Purple Pandas?
Bugscope Team oops transmission electron microscope = TEM

Student Which bug is the most similar to humans?
Student what was the earliest bug and what adaptations did it have

1:49pm
Student what do the hairs on the wings do to help the bug???
Bugscope Team the hairs likely increase the surface area without affecting weight so much, so they help provide lift, in the air
Student if two different bugs where to mate would it become a problem for human life

Student Which bug is the most similar to humans?
Student do the bees stingers help them make honey????
Bugscope Team no. bee stingers are also ovipositors, so that is where the eggs come out if they are fertile. Honey is made when the bee ingests nectar in a special stomach, and then mixes it with their mix and spits it out
Bugscope Team mixes it with their spit*

Student what is the biggest thing a bug could eat?
Bugscope Team there are spiders and praying mantises that can eat small birds and lizards
Student Why do queen bees have a dot on their back?
Student Why do bed bugs bite us three times????

Student can the same species of bugs be cannibals?
Bugscope Team yes especially if their normal food source is not available. Spiders will often eat each other
Student do some types of bugs live in space?
Student what is that?
Student do flies really puke every time they land?
Bugscope Team no, just when they want to eat something. They spit up on the food to help dissolve it, and then they slurp it all up. YUM
Student if one bug had a viruse do you think it would it be possible for it to be passed onto another bug?
Bugscope Team yes
Student why do queen bees have a dot on their back?
Student what was the eirliest bug and what adaptetions did it have
Student Which bug is the most similar to humans?
Bugscope Team I am really not sure. If there is an answer, we might find out from the entomologists next week when they come in
Student thank you
Teacher THank you so much for your time and expertise with the bugscope. We thank you very much. What an amazing experience for our kiddos.
Student Thanks bro
Student thank you
Student thx
Student thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
Student thanks
Bugscope Team Thank You!
Student thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Student THANKS! Have a good rest f your day!
Bugscope Team thanks for hanging out with us and asking such good questions
Student THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!! Learned alot :
Student gracias amigo thanks
Student thanks :)
Student your wolcome
Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-077
Student thank you soooooo much scot and cate it was fun talking!!!!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!!!!! We had tons of fun
Bugscope Team yes very good questions
Bugscope Team yes we will be here
Teacher Thanks Scot and Cate. Will you be our scientists tomorrow as well?
Bugscope Team yes we are the only people who do this, presently
Student buy
1:55pm
Teacher You guys are awesome!! Thank you for responding to my students so well. They have lots of questions :)
Teacher Our time looks like between 7:45-10:15 Mountain Time? Is that right?
Bugscope Team that's what we have for CDT, so if the time zones are the same right now, yes
Bugscope Team oops, we are off by an hour
Bugscope Team yes that should be right
Teacher Thank you!!!
Teacher See you tomorrow.
Bugscope Team see you!

School Name	Mountain Ridge Middle School
School Homepage	< LEFT BLANK >
Location	Highlands Ranch CO, US
Community	Suburban
Type	Public

Subjects Taught	Science
Grades Taught	7th Grade
Number of Students	150

Project Title	Understanding technology and how it may enhance your understanding
Insects To Study	To be decided by students
Project Description	I participated in Bugscope two years ago with my middle school students and it was amazing. The students were extremely interactive with your assistants. I had students come up with purposeful questions about insects and such ahead of time. I do a small lesson on the differences in insects, etc. I've never seen the kids so excited about learning and am anxious to try this again. This is my second year teaching and if you have other ideas I am completely open. Thank you for the wonderful opportunity.

Session 2010-077 with Mountain Ridge Middle School

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Connected on 2011-04-28 10:30:00 from Highlands Ranch, CO, US