Connected on 2010-09-13 14:00:00 from Tucson, AZ, US
- 12:21pm
- Bugscope Team We are setting up now -- doing the presets...
- 12:26pm
- 12:33pm
- 12:39pm
- 12:45pm
- 12:51pm
- 12:58pm
- Bugscope Team Presets are done!
- 1:07pm
- Bugscope Team Hi Donna!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Guest hi
- Guest thanks we are scheduled for tomorrow - just checking in
- Bugscope Team I just gave you control so you can try driving it you'd like.
- Bugscope Team You are scheduled for Thursday, right?
- Guest right - my mistake
- Bugscope Team no problem
- Bugscope Team but the 'scope does have a problem today, when you try to take the mag down
- Bugscope Team Donna this is one of the presets. You can choose from among any of the presets -- just click on it and the 'scope will drive to that place.
- Bugscope Team this, with the vignetting, should be fixed by Thursday.
- Bugscope Team It's something we cannot fix.
- Bugscope Team We cannot fix the vignetting ourselves and need to have our service guy do it....
- Bugscope Team this is the edge of the eye region of a scorpion's head.
- Bugscope Team was ;)
- 1:12pm
- Bugscope Team this is the tip of the proboscis of an assassin bug -- a 'true bug'
- Guest sorry - I am still in awe
- Bugscope Team hey no problem at all
- Bugscope Team this is an owlfly's face
- Bugscope Team a predator on other insects
- Bugscope Team the same problem that gives us vignetting does not allow us to see the whole head at once
- Bugscope Team Hello Mr M!
- Teacher He y'all!!
- Teacher Good to "see" you again
- Bugscope Team hi mr. m!
- Bugscope Team Donna I am going to give Mr M control now. Thank You!
- Teacher No kids yet. They will be coming in soon.
- Bugscope Team Donna is working with us Thursday and got a chance to drive for a few minutes before you came on.
- Guest Thank you for letting us take a look! Very cool
- 1:18pm
- Bugscope Team Thank you, Donna.
- Bugscope Team Mr M the big problem we have today with the microscope is that we cannot go to low mag without seeing the edge of an aperture that our service guy did not install at the correct height in the column , apparently.
- Bugscope Team so we get vignetting at low mag...
- Bugscope Team this is the weevil you sent
- Bugscope Team Donna you can run sessions various ways, and if you have access to a computer lab you can have your students log in individually, or more often, in pairs, to communicate with us.
- Bugscope Team you can also project the session onto a screen, and you can also use a smartboard; you don
- Bugscope Team oops, I think Donna is gone...
- Bugscope Team but Mr M is as well...
- Teacher Can you hear me now? :)
- Teacher I can't see myself in the chat log.
- Bugscope Team yes I can
- 1:23pm
- Bugscope Team I had to hit refresh and got everyone back.
- Bugscope Team Dude can you see yourself in Chat now?
- Bugscope Team both of you greyed out and came back, not sure what the deal is.
- Bugscope Team and again...
- Teacher Getting the kids set up. Let us know when you are ready.
- Bugscope Team ah cool
- Bugscope Team we are redy when you are
- 1:29pm
- Bugscope Team yes we are ready, as Cate said
- Bugscope Team Hi m!
- Bugscope Team this is the ventral side of the weevil
- Bugscope Team was...
- Bugscope Team these are some of the tarsi -- the terminal arm/leg segments -- of the assassin bug
- Bugscope Team the claw is to the north]
- Bugscope Team Alex!
- Bugscope Team hello!
- Bugscope Team You can see that Mr M, and m, and donna keep greying out, losing connectivity.
- Bugscope Team m please let us know when you have questions.
- Bugscope Team we are having some campus network problems, network might be intermittent. there are many users across campus experiencing the degraded network
- Teacher Kids logged in and ready!
- 1:34pm
- Bugscope Team cool
- Bugscope Team Mr M you have control.
- Student Hi
- Bugscope Team Hi!
- Student hi
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team Hello m!
- Bugscope Team Hi Blue222.
- Student this is cool
- Student Hi
- Student hay
- Student upp
- Student waSSUP
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team 2 of a kind has control
- Bugscope Team let us know when you have questions
- Bugscope Team 2 of a kind, you've got control
- Bugscope Team we have presets and they are labeled by the number if that if how you want to change between them
- Student kfkfkkfkkfkfkfkfkk
- Student hi
- Student hi
- Student I love this is amazing
- Student this is amazing
- Student hi
- Student were dose a bug hear from?
Bugscope Team they sense vibration, which is what hearing is, and they use other means besides ears. some insects are said to have one big ear, though.
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team good question about hearing
- Student this is cool
- Student hi
- Student whats that insect called???
Bugscope Team this is a scorpion, so it is not actually an insect
- Student dah
- Student what is this?
- Student its ear
- Student how does a bug peee?
Bugscope Team sort of like people do, but generally they conserve liquids
- Student tiff
- Student STOP IT
- Student hi
- Student what is it???
- Student What ?
- Student Why do they have so much spines
Bugscope Team th spines help protect them from other enemies
- Student whos la coca racha???
- Student where is the poison in the scorpion
Bugscope Team there's a little sac in the tail part
- Student whoz rawring ppls
- Student how aRE YOU
- 1:39pm
- Student Why does it have all the hair
Bugscope Team the hairs are sensory -- they give the insect/arthropod the ability to sense their environment by touch and smell and thermal capability
- Student What Is This?
Bugscope Team this is a scorpion pincher
- Student 5
- Student why is it so rough
- Student why do they always look like plants!!???
Bugscope Team that helps them blend in to hide from predators
- Student ola
- Student aspen and frida are rawarazing ppls
- Student to fell
- Student were does it live???:)
- Teacher please give control of the microscope to Chri
- Student are those hairs???
- Student How does a scorpion release it venom?
- Teacher sorry, Chris
- Guest WHAT IS THAT
- Student how much has bugs evolved
Bugscope Team some, like dragonflies, are much as they have always been, and some have changed more recently
- Bugscope Team chris has control now
- Student why do bugs have hair
- Student to sence things
- Guest HI
- Student hey zenia and brian it has a tail
- Student What is that stuff on the pincer
- Student how does it clean its self
Bugscope Team sometimes they have built-in combs to clean their antennae, for example.
- Student why does it have hair on it
Bugscope Team the hairs (setae) are sensory
- Student hi
- Student Why do they have Pinchers if they already have Stingers?
- Student why does it have cristals
- 1:45pm
- Student hi
- Student thats a scary thing... what is it???
- Bugscope Team this is the eye of the robber fly, up close, and you can see these crystals on it that we do not recognize
- Student why are they shaped funny???
- Bugscope Team that is, we do not know where the crystals came from -- probably a liquid that dried down and formed crystals
- Student what is it called
- Student what is your favorite bug
- Student Why do their eyes resemble that of Honeycombs?
- Student what type of christal is that
- Student whats a spider/
- Student at are eggzz????
- Student are those little eyes??
Bugscope Team yes they are little lenses of larger eyes
- Student what is on the eye
Bugscope Team some kind of crystals we do not recognize
- Student How Many eyes dose a bug have?
- Student what are eggzz
- Student what are those things on top of the honey comb??s
- Student i dont know
- Student WHAT DO ROBBER FLIE
- Guest hey
- Student hi
- Student eye'
- Student what is this
- Student WHAT DO ROBBER FLIES DO
- Student Estimated, How many "Smaller Eyes" are in the actually
- Student how come bugs have more than 2 eyes most of the time
- Student why does it look like a feather????
- Student KO
- Guest gross
- Student why do they have hair on their eyes???
Bugscope Team well, not hair, it's called setae (pronounced see-tee) and those setae help it fly or sense things in their environment
- Student WHat is this insect ?
Bugscope Team this is part of a ladybug palp
- Student What is This
- Student Why does it look like that?
- Student hi holy and tiff
- Bugscope Team this is a ladybug
- Student why does it look dirty
Bugscope Team handrea it really is dirty
- Student hi people
- Guest what is that
- Student what are the dots
- Student do buds have hair on there eyes
- Guest what are the dots for
Bugscope Team the little dots are kind of like tastebuds that sense smells
- Student why are they like this ?
- Student why does this ,look like a fish opening its mouth???
Bugscope Team that is the way the palp looks, sort of like a vacuum cleaner nozzle
- 1:50pm
- Student 965+
- Student Are those dots taste buds?
Bugscope Team ha yeah exactly!
- Guest hi frida
- Student are the dots 4 mateing?????
- Student what are the little dots for ?
- Student how many eyes does a ladybug have
Bugscope Team two compound eyes with 100's of facets called ommatidia
- Student what are the dots for
- Student is this the mouth?
Bugscope Team this is near the mouth
- Student that is amazing !!!!!
- Student melanie wats r nick name?
- Student do they have taste buds???
Bugscope Team yes they are chemosensors
- Guest what is this thing
- Student What are tastebuds??
- Teacher please give zenia & brian control of the scope
Bugscope Team done
- Student do you like starwars
Bugscope Team used to
- Student what are tastebuds made of
- Student what is that
Bugscope Team this is the eye of an antlion adult, so it is likely an owlfly
- Student melanie???????????
- Student i want control of the scope!!!!
- Student okay were going
- Student how old is this bug
- Student do you have any kids
Bugscope Team not me
- Student what is that
- Student can theye acually compare sour from sweet like us humans???
Bugscope Team yes they can
- Student what is this
Bugscope Team this is an other palp, but on a weevil
- Guest what does it eat
Bugscope Team some weevils eat grain, seeds
- Student is that its toung
- Student what is this
- Student how does it make a living???????
- Student is it the eye of a bee
- Student awesome man!!!!
- Student Heey! :D
- 1:55pm
- Student how does it hear
Bugscope Team it hears by sensing vibrations using some of those setae
- Student looks like a worm
- Student what is that and what dos it do
- Student what are those things in the little hole
- Student what does it eat??
- Student what does this bug eat
- Bugscope Team this is the tip of the snout of the weevil
- Bugscope Team weevils are sometimes called 'snout beetles'
- Student what part of the bug i this
- Student it is an eye?
- Student what eats this bug/
- Student are bugs clean
- Student what is that
- Student this bug looks like a cat fish
- Student what is that
- Bugscope Team was...
- Bugscope Team now you can see that the 'scope has a problem at low mag
- Student you cant even tell what its doing or what it is!!!:(
- Student k martina
- Student How small is this bug without the mircoscope?
- Student if it can
- Guest its a bug
- Student what does it eat ??
- Student WHAT does it eat
Bugscope Team they eat grains and seeds, stuff like that
- Student we are not typing the nonsence, its just poping up
Bugscope Team heh me too
- Student what is behind the bug
Bugscope Team doublestick carbon tape
- Student te voy a putiar
- Guest hi frosty
- Student were do they most offten live???
Bugscope Team in temperate environments, and where there are seeds -- think of the boll weevil in the south
- Bugscope Team the eyes are streamlined into the side of the head
- Student how does this work
Bugscope Team we coat the samples with gold-palladium and beam electrons at them in a vacuum
- Student okay
- Student whats up
- Student itis a cricket?
- Student si komono
- Bugscope Team what we see are the secondary electrons from the coating on the sample
- 2:00pm
- Student what is this
- Student vas a ver
- Student how do they have babies???????
Bugscope Team mostly it's from laying egges
- Student Where can you find these bugs?
- Student k thank u
- Bugscope Team eggs
- Student what is this
- Student how dos it eat
- Student Is that a mouth???
- Student what does it eat?
- Student in mexico
- Guest is it sliced open
- Student can it open up
- Student 0252
- Student dos martin
- Student what are those little things at the end of it???!
- Student can it open
- Teacher please give control to BLUE222
- Student Can that open??
- Student ewwwy
- Student what is that
- Student can it open
- Student what???
- Guest ;D
- Student Why soo hairy
- Student Ok, so... its sorta looks like a Dandylion
- Student who blue 222
- Student how many babies do they have a year??
- Student where do es it eat
- Student byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- Bugscope Team the robber fly injects venom into its prey and then sucks out the insides as they dissolve
- Student i really dont enjoy looking at bugs much... but< i think its pretty cool that we all get to zoom in and out as we wish
- Student what are those little hairs at the tip of it ?
Bugscope Team those are sensory hairs -- setae -- that are used to sense chemicals -- they're chemosensory
- Student why does it have so many hairs
- Student blue 222 is carlos
- Student how many babies do they have a year??
- Student thhank you for answeri
- Student why so harry
Bugscope Team the hairs -- setae -- are what allows them to sense their environment through the exoskeleton, which is kind of like wearing armor
- Student 1451
- Student why does it have hair aeound its mouth
Bugscope Team those particular hairs are probably chemosensors, like taste buds in this case
- 2:05pm
- Student la cucaracha is martin
- Student do they have more eyes
- Student like
- Student w
- Student it looks like a wasteland
- Student What are those bumos???
- Student What Are Those Little Lumps on Itz Eye.
- Student what are thosed cirlcles on the eye
Bugscope Team the super bumpy things are protective ridges next to the eyes
- Student Are those hairs??
- Student thheeerre ggrreat
- Student how long do they live???
- Student how long can a roache live with out its head
Bugscope Team it probably depends on whether all of the hemolymph bleeds out, and how fast -- maybe part of a day -- I am not sure.
- Student are the scorpions tooo dangeraus?
- Student OR SCALES???
- Student BUMPS
- Student why are they ca
- Student how long do they live???
- Student how long can a roache live with out its head
- Student how long can a roache live with out its head
- Student Wat are those little 3 lumps
- Student where is the mouth?
Bugscope Team the mouth is hard to see in insects, often
- Student euwwwwwwwwww xD
- Student what is that sharp thingy
- Student what is the slim
- Student slime
- Student What Is 0T1235hat?.
- Student what is that?????
- Student Is that slime??
- Student why are thay called assasin bug
Bugscope Team they sit still and then attack other bugs
- Bugscope Team the mouth is usually covered by the jaws and accessory mouthparts if it is that kind of insect/arthropod.
- Student were does this animal come from
Bugscope Team this is one your class sent
- Teacher please give control to yesenia&sara
- Student this is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun
- Student 5201634
- Guest hi marysoul
- Student hi baylee
- 2:10pm
- Student this is sooooooo fun!!!
- Student what is this bug????????????
- Student is that vanes on that
- Guest what are we loking at
Bugscope Team this, now, is the tip of a grasshopper leg
- Student that looks like an elephant
- Student what
- Student hi jessica
- Student Is that a claw??
- Student noo it looks like a bat hanging \
- Student is that piony
- Student pionty
- Bugscope Team the round thing between the claws is called the arolium, and it can be pumped up to help it fit into and attach to crevices
- Student bigdady your so annoying
- Student it looks funny
- Student :)
- Student hi
- Student pointy
- Student why is it so scal
- Student :)
- Student thoes scales???
Bugscope Team they are kind of like scales -- they are the surface of the cuticle, or chitin, or the exoskeleton
- Student you dont know who we r blue222
- Student it looks like a bat hanging upside down!!!
- Student cool
- Student Is that dangerous ??
- Student those looks like scales
- Student haw can grasshoppers jump so far with there little legs
Bugscope Team they have big legs for their size, and they may also have wings to help when they jump
- Student :P
- Student whats that hole right there
- Student how long does it live????
- Student cool
- Student :D
- Student Or a claw??
- Student can bugs be re;lat
- Student oooooooooooo ohhhhhhhh
- Student lazer dragon how are you
- Student what do grasshoppers eat\
- Student hi
- Student im typin with my nose
Bugscope Team sweet
- Student can bugs be related to some other animals that arent bugs?????
Bugscope Team no not really
- Student blue222 is crlos
- Student that is cool
- Student a person
- Student lazer dragon how are you
- Student '
- Student lazer dragon how are you
- Guest there head looks dirty is it
- Student i am nick
- 2:15pm
- Student is that a bone
Bugscope Team that is the proboscis of the assassin bug, what it bites with
- Student wat the gd$#&^
- Bugscope Team we call insects bugs, but there are also 'true bugs' which are a family of insects like this one, called Hemiptera
- Student it looks like a bone in dirt
- Student lazer dragon how are you
- Student are bugs clean or dirty
Bugscope Team they are often dirty
- Student wat is that thing %^&%$&
- Student la cucaracha is martin
- Student 78
- Student b c\
- Student blue222 is carlos
- Student gh3kgr4k
- Student hey scott why are the eyes on the side
- Student when you get bit by a assasin bug does it hurt
- Student u are loco in the cabeza
- Student why is the things
- Student ohhhh
- Student Shut up nick
- Student crossed up
- Student Are those the legs??
- Student Um This looks like a mouth? Is It?
Bugscope Team this now is the mouth, but those are not legs -- they are palps
- Student stop it
- Student why does it has alot of sticks?
- Guest what is that on there face
- Student do they take showers
- Student whos freda
- Student whats on its face
Bugscope Team lots of scales from a moth or something it attacked and ate
- Student hi frida
- Student i dont know
- Teacher please give control to AC
- Student Are those sticks between the eyes??
- Student can this bug clean it self
Bugscope Team yes while it is alive it has use its limbs to clean itself
- Student do all insects have antas
Bugscope Team yes one set of antennae
- Student Why does it have little spikes??
- Student whos tiffy-wiffy
- Student hi bailey
- Student :)
- Student
- Student whats on the bottom
- Student is that a tounge
- Student if it has stuff on its eyes can it still see perfectly
Bugscope Team it can likely process just fine with all of the other ommatida working
- Student
- Student What are those holes for??
Bugscope Team those are pits that have chemosensors in them
- Student hi aspen u r awesome=)
- Student
- Student lazer dragon how are you
- Student :)
- Student whos big dadyap
- Student u r awesome frida
- Student how does it eat
- Student i am nick
- Guest how do they eat
Bugscope Team they catch other insects in flight and est t
- Student patrik
- Student i amnick
- Student hi i am baylee
- Student and
- Guest hi im evan
Bugscope Team Hi Evan
- Bugscope Team oops eat them
- 2:20pm
- Student hi bigdaddy or KEVIN
- Student hi
- Student Why Dose The Mouth Have Little Sharp Stuff in front of its mouth? Is it Teeth Or stinging thing like wat a bee has ?
Bugscope Team Insects often have lots of stuff in front of their mouths -- two sets of palps, mandibles, etc.
- Student is that its tounge
- Guest hi kevin
- Student no
- Student what are they doing?
- Student me
- Student im evamn
- Student are they the bugs legs?
- Student is this the legs
- Student What is its purpose of Existance
- Student does the bug get frustrated with all the leaves on them
- Student hello your answers to our questions are really good and understandable!!! by the way i am frida
Bugscope Team thank you, Frida
- Guest eye ball
- Student hi oksanna it is baylee
- Student can they see good
- Student That looks alot like a globe
Bugscope Team the insect can see better -- it has better peripheral vision -- if its eyes are shaped like that
- Student the eye looks like the world
- Guest the bugscope dude is hugo
- Student and aspen!!!!
- Student nick has a black shirt
- Student Is that a head??
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student dont tell them
- Student what
- Student you see the face
- Student yes i am
- Student are there two diffrent colors or is it just one???
Bugscope Team we are seeing these images in greyscale because the electron microscope sees things as signal, not as light
- Student YOU ARE VERY WELLCOME SCOT>>> BY THE WAY MY FRIEND ASPEN WANTS TO SAY HI\
- Guest what are the little black things
- Student i see it
- Student Thanks scot
- Student hi kevin
- Teacher please give control to Tiff-Wiffy\
- Guest nick is frosty
- Student no i have squars on my shirt
- Student k
- Student is it an egg?
- Student This Looks like a big Snack Egg but this also looks like a big big bug? What Is this Big Big thing
- Student i think it is an eye?
- Guest even is not frosty
- Student Hi Frida And aspen
- Student does it get frustraed with the dirt on its eye
- Student who ts lasor dragon
- Student hi
- Student what does it eat?
- Student hey gurl whatzzz upp!!:)
- Student
- Student are they able to fly?
- Student Is that a wing??
- Guest what is up
- Student ;hearts
- Student why are there hairs on it
Bugscope Team they are sensory and defensive spines
- Student :hearts&
- Student that a wing
- 2:25pm
- Student ok thankyou
- Bugscope Team this is the wing of the owlfly, and you can see the veins on it, like those of a dragonfly
- Student Looks like Bamboo
- Student the wibgs looks like sicks with web in between them
- Guest what are the spikes for
- Student itt looks like a tree branch
Bugscope Team yes it does, quite a bit
- Student hey frida i mean sis
- Guest even is not frosty
- Student what is the hair for
- Student hi
- Student hey nick
- Student !!
- Student "+_
- Student {+}
- Student \
- Student it looks like sticks
- Student why does it look like its ripping on the side?
- Student hi
- Student :{}
- Student but why does it have hair.. well atleast i think its hair... is it???
- Guest who is evan never heard of him
- Bugscope Team so you all -- today we do not have the ability to go to low mag, as you may have noticed
- Student pillowssss
- Student i think it is a theth?
- Student what is this
- Student :>
- Student 5203045888 thats my nunber
- Student These look like meny miny teeth
- Student evan is me
- Student >
- Student what are the dots
- Student what is that
- Student those look like teeth
- Student why does it have a dent in its eye
Bugscope Team it is a little shrunken since it dies
- Student are they the butterflys eyes?
- Guest who is frida
- Bugscope Team the dots are part of what directs light in to the lens, we think
- Guest never seen her
- Student hi
- Student STOP Sending personol 0stuf
- Student l.lkk
- Bugscope Team oops since it died
- Student i have a green shirt
- Bugscope Team this is super high mag
- Student who
- Student Why dose it look like many little eyes
- Student why is it dented
Bugscope Team because it is dry and starting to shrivel
- Bugscope Team you can see that the 'dots' are maybe 125 nm in diameter
- Student what is that
- Teacher please give control to frosty the snowman
- Student what do they eat?
- Student How high can it fly up
- Student what is your name
- Bugscope Team we have seen a lot of crystals like this, and we are not sure what they are
- Student they do make a good couple
- Bugscope Team you could also call them salts
- Student is that a foot???:_)
- 2:30pm
- Student those look like two feet then just one
- Student ohh it looks like marsmellows
- Bugscope Team these are the pads on the claw of the robber fly
- Student the feet look like sponges
- Student why does it have claws on its foot?>
Bugscope Team we have found that most adult insects have claws, much like we have hands
- Student is that a foot?
Bugscope Team it is one of the feet, or part of one of the feet
- Student why deos it look like a carpet
- Guest mario is frosty
- Student What are claws for?
Bugscope Team grasping things, like the same way we use our hands
- Student it looks like a leave
- Student what is this
- Guest is that a leg
- Student is this a stick
- Student is it the foot?
- Student what is that
- Bugscope Team and hooking things...
- Student thank you once again scot
Bugscope Team hey no problem
- Guest does evan have a white shirt
- Student what is that
- Student SHWGXJHGWSXF
- Bugscope Team this is the eye of the grasshopper
- Student how old ar yuh
- Student ???
- Student whats on it
- Bugscope Team here we see that vignetting that does not allow us to use the whole screen
- Student Poor Antena
Bugscope Team exactly!
- Student lets goooooooo
- Guest pice ou every body thank you
- Student thank you for your time
- Student thank for time
- Student thanksssszzzzzzzxxxxxxxzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!from aspen and FRIDA
- Student Thanks For Evrything
- Student THANK YOU BUGSCOPE FOR YOUR TIME
- Student thanks for your time to show us the bugs
- Student Sadly we're put of time but thank yoy "
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student thank you for your time bug scope people
- Student you*
- Student THANKS SCOT AND EVRY ONE
- Bugscope Team See you next year!
- Teacher Do I have a minute to take a few more pictures?\
Bugscope Team sure; then let me know -- I need to put a new sample in for your next sessionthe next
- Student thank you for your time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!andrew patrak
- Student thank you bug scope people for your help...elizabeth and marisol
- Bugscope Team d'oh
- Bugscope Team anyway let me know when we have the larger break so I can make new presets from the other stub
- Bugscope Team that was today, right?
- Teacher I'm at the beginning of the break now. Can I get control for a few more pics?
- 2:36pm
- Teacher Thanks for your patience with the kids.
- Bugscope Team how long is the break?
- Bugscope Team hey the kids were good, n.p.
- Teacher The internet connection seem to smooth out towards the end of the session
- Bugscope Team it's something the University is having trouble with today, apparently. hope they got it straightened out
- Teacher This is a 71 minute break
- Teacher Did the snout break off the weevil?
- Bugscope Team okay, please take a few minutes and then I will set up
- Bugscope Team it is still there
- Bugscope Team curved toward us, maybe
- Bugscope Team see the eyes and the antennae?
- Bugscope Team brb
- Teacher amazing antennae
- Bugscope Team yes nice antennae
- Teacher Do scorpions have 8 eyes?
- 2:41pm
- Bugscope Team not sure -- looks like this one does
- Bugscope Team lots of dried film on the head here
- Teacher wow nice and crisp
- Teacher Aristate describes the shape of the antennae?
- Bugscope Team the shape of that part of the antenna, yes
- Teacher Do the hairs help increase surface area?
Bugscope Team yes and they pick up pheremones if they are chemosensory hairs (setae)
- Bugscope Team as opposed to the pad-like part, I forget the term
- Bugscope Team oops sorry pheromones
- 2:46pm
- Teacher no worries
- Teacher so super hairy
- Bugscope Team I think the fluted setae are generally mechanosensory
- Bugscope Team like this one
- Teacher yes
- Teacher Ok I had to look one more time at these legs. So much detail!
- Teacher Thanks for letting me get a few more pics. My next class will coming in around 1:50PM (3:50PM your time)
- Bugscope Team note if you click directly on the micron bar that you get a info about the sample/state of the 'scope
- Bugscope Team cool I am swapping samples now...
- Teacher I like that
- Teacher Ok back in 30 mins, getting lunch
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- Bugscope Team 'scope is pumping down again
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- Teacher Back on. Sorry, got caught up with some colleagues
- Teacher Kids will be coming in about 3 minutes and I'll be getting them set up in the lab
- Bugscope Team working on last few presets
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- Bugscope Team alright! I think that is good -- 23 presets
- Bugscope Team the stinger looks like it does not have a single duct for the poison, but rather is porous
- Bugscope Team Cool pores
- 4:04pm
- Bugscope Team this looks more like a trapjaw any to us
- Bugscope Team ant
- Bugscope Team it does not have serrated mandibles, but maybe it is a soldier
- Teacher ok, we are ready to roll
- Bugscope Team you can see the ball and socket joint where the antenna attaches
- Teacher Hairy mandibles, awesome!
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- Student COOOL
- Bugscope Team trapjaw ants have trigger hairs
- Student thats hairy
- Bugscope Team we hope to be looking at some this week with highspeed video
- Student im suprized it has hairs
Bugscope Team after you have looked at lots of insects and other arthropods, you are not so suprised. the hairs (called setae) are what allow insects to connect with their environment.
- Student how come it has hairs?
- Student why does it have hair
- Student y does this have hair
- Student how do they cut leaves with those
Bugscope Team they are not serrated like those of a normal leafcutter ant, so that is a good question
- Student it has tiny eyes?!!
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- Teacher please give control to lil j lil A
- Student y do the eyes have circles
- Student hi im bob
- Student does it produce gasses
- Student thank u scot
- Student wats that\
- Student why dose it have hair?
Bugscope Team the hair functions to help the insect sense its environment through its exoskeleton. it is sort of like if you were wearing a suit of armor all of the time you would not feel things touching the surface of the armor
- Student what is it?
- Student Why does the antena look like an ear?
- Student is it a soldier ant?
- Guest what are the stuff on the antana
- Student is that skin?
- Student why does it look like skin?
- Student They look like crystals
- Student what is it
- Student what do they eat
Bugscope Team leafcutter ants are farmers; they cut leaves and take them to their nests, where they grow fungus on the leaf parts and eat the fungus
- Student what is it
- Student r those scales
- Student what is it
- Student does it eat other curture
- Student wat is it
- Student what are those white things?
- Student why isn there dots
- Student do ants have poors
- Student ewww! pores!
- Student it look likes a potato
Bugscope Team that is the scorpion stinger
- Student it looks like a potatoe
- Student wats up people
- Guest What are those little circles
Bugscope Team I think those are sensilla -- they help the scorpion feel where it is stinging
- Student why does it have little holes?
- Student ok thank you
- Student it needs a moisturizer
- Student need focuse
- Student how does it sting you when it dosent look like it can
- Student it looks like like the moon
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- Student ewwwwwww!!!!!!!!!:O
- Student why does it look like that
- Student how come it has wholes
Bugscope Team the holes in the stinger were where the poison comes out, I think
- Student that is weird
- Student wat r those cicles
- Student it look mouth
- Student it has hair
- Student it has hairs
- Teacher please give control to cobra
- Student it looks like a little claw lobster kind! mmmm yum
Bugscope Team yeah lobsters are very big bugs
- Student what is that
- Student :O
- Student oh ouch
- Student are they harry
Bugscope Team the hairs, called setae (see-tee), are mechano-, chemo-, or thermosensory
- Student it looks weared
- Student what is this??/
- Student are those claws
- Student I mean it looks werid
- Student wat is that hole
Bugscope Team that is where the unguitractor is -- it helps the claw open and close, like a tendon
- Student is it marred
- Student why is there a hole
- Student does it have hair
- Student thats a nasty poop
- Student it lookes like a crab
- Student that is poop
- Student it looks pocky
- Student looks like a joint
- Student it lookes like a crab
- Student he is angry
Bugscope Team this is just the end of one of the legs
- Student oh
- Student awesome
- Student it is a crab
- Student ll
- Student right
- Student looks like teeth
- Student it lookes like a crab
Bugscope Team no it is not a crustacean; it is a beetle, and an insect
- Student yo-ho ho hooo
- Student what is it
- Student so can the leg cut skin?
Bugscope Team looks like this one could
- Student wats up jose
- Student it is a crab
Bugscope Team okay daddyO
- 4:19pm
- Student ewwwwwww
- Student ow...
- Student what is that
- Student it Will jose topia
- Student is that an eye
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student Why does it have a lot of scales
- Student hey its got wood chips on its eye
- Student why does it look all dirty
- Student cause it is an eye
- Bugscope Team there is also a lot of junk on the surface
- Student i think so thats is a eye
- Student why dose havealot of circles
Bugscope Team those circles were the eye facets, if we are talking about the same thing
- Student mouth??
- Bugscope Team this is where the gaster is connected to the thorax of the ant
- Student what is this
- Student whats a gaster?
- Student wat is that
- Student What is a gaster
Bugscope Team in an ant, you call the abdomen a 'gaster.'
- Student ???
- Student why dose it have a hole
- Student what is that
Bugscope Team that is where the gaster is broken away from the petiole
- Student looks like a small tiny mouth
- Student it looks like the boogy man
- Student is that the spider spinner??
Bugscope Team that is another preset you can drive to later
- Student what is it like
- Teacher please give control to LongShot 123
- Student can ants get tired or have emotions
Bugscope Team I think they can get tired but not really have emotions; they are machine-like in the way they work
- Student what does it do :O
- Student thx u
- Student scary
- Student that is pretty
- Student what is that
- Student liitle circles on the eyes, why???
- Student heyy that looks weried
- Student it looks funny
- Student is it a grate vine bore
- Student is that a toung
Bugscope Team yes that is the proboscis, so it is much like a tongue
- Student why is it all drity
Bugscope Team after it died it suffered various indignities
- Student what is that
- Student oh
- Student What does it have on the toung
- Student what does it use the hairs for?
- Student can bugs die from dehidration
Bugscope Team yes they can
- Student ewwww!!! looks like little haiers
- Student what does this help with
- Student wats that
- Student focus
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- Student what is thiss
- Student who made the scope
Bugscope Team Philips Electron Optics, in the Netherlands; they were then bought by a U.S. company called FEI.
- Student +
- Student ?
- Student +
- Student it looks like leaves
- Student what are those
- Student is that just dirt'
- Student say what
- Student =] THATS NASTY
- Student cool
- Student scalee
- Student why does every bug have little circles on its eye???
Bugscope Team they are facets of the eye, and each is a lens, or functions like a lens
- Student scales!!!!
- Student why do most bugs have junk on it
- Student 0
- Student barf
- Student 2
- Student What is all that stuff on the eye
- Student why r the eyes like that =[
- Student can bugs get sick
Bugscope Team yes bugs can get sick; they can get diseases
- Student OMG ITS GODZZILA RUN AWAY YOU HOMOSAMPIANS
- Student why does butterfly eyes have scales
- Student hexagon
- Student why does it look like loges or something on the eye/?????
- Student do butterflys tougus get wet ever
- Student are human eyes like that
- Bugscope Team if you had compound eyes you would have good peripheral vision
- Student time
- Student cool
- Student is that rock lik thing funguse
Bugscope Team the rock-like things are crystals, some kind of salt, but there could be fungus on there as well
- Student fungi
- Student fungi!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team and also, if you had compound eyes you would get quicker updates about movement, like for example someone trying to smack you
- Student SORRY MR.MILLER
- Student mostly every insect have hexigons on its eye
- Student it looks like glass
- Student what e
- Student what
- Student what exactly is that?
- Student what is that
- Student spineerteetts
- Student HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student your those hairs
- Student why do spiders have little hairs
Bugscope Team spiders are very sensitive to vibration, and those hairs transmit vibration to the internal nerves
- Student why is it hairy
- Student i knew that
- Student is there a spider with no hair
- Student WHAT IS THAT
- Student ???
- Student it looks crazy]
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- Student what are those hairs for
- Student looks like grass
- Student it looks like a forest
- Student r the hairs pooky
- Student ohh its a spider
- Bugscope Team those are called plumose setae because they are plumose like a pine tree
- Student what kind ofspider
- Student cool!! its still gross
- Student WHAT DOES A SPIDER EAT
- Student does it shed hair?
- Student do those hairs help it sence things around it?
- Student what are those hair used for
- Student wow hairs on hairs
- Student spiders eat flys +]
- Student whats the most HAIREST spider
- Student what would happ
- Student hi
- Student are all insects hairy
- Student hello
Bugscope Team hello
- Student how much web can one spider give :>
- Student hollo
- Student are all insects harry???
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Student spider man spider man have millions of hairs groing on it
- Student hhgghjg
- Student webs? liquid solid wow!!!
- Student wwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww!!!
- Student hello
- Student do all insects have hairs
- Student why are they so hairy
- Student who is spongbob fan:)
- Student what does it help with
- Student thats a lot of hairs! why
Bugscope Team the hairs help the spider sense vibration, and in insects the same as well as smell (chemosensory setae) and also sense hot/cold
- Student where does fungi come from
Bugscope Team spores in the air
- Bugscope Team spiders can eat their web when they're done with it, essentially recycling it
- Student hi
- Student why does some look like wormies
- Student why do spiders eat insects
Bugscope Team that is generally their prey; they inject venom that dissolves the inner organs, and then they suck all of that back up like a milkshake.
- Student why is there lines
- Student bailey
- Teacher please give control to She-Shi pandabear
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- Student do y1ou l2ik studying bu3gs
Bugscope Team we don't do this all of the time, but it is fun
- Student WHAT IS THAT
- Student is this aaa spider
- Student IS THAT FUNGI
- Student wat is that crack
- Student what is it
- Student what are we looking at right now
- Student is that still the spider
- Student wat is tha\
Bugscope Team this is a bunch of dried juju that came out of the spider
- Student what would happen if spid5es didnt have hairs
- Student it looks dirtyy
- Student can spiders break legs
Bugscope Team yes they can; not only that, but they can make their legs fall off if they want to, like if they sense poison entering a leg they can let it fall off before the poison gets to the body
- Student WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT
- Student CAN MOSQUITOS KILL
Bugscope Team they can give you diseases that might kill you
- Student they suck your BLOOD HAHAHAHAHAHAH =]
- Student why is the eye sunkin in
Bugscope Team it's because it is dried out; if it was alive it would be swollen like a basketball
- Student cool
- Student can the mospuitoes kil you
- Student you do insects have like this looking fins
- Student how is spongebob fan
- Student can bugs get cripled
- Student why does it look like that?
- Student IS THIS STILL THE FLY?
Bugscope Team this is the mosquito, which is a find of fly
- Student R THOS HEXAGONS
Bugscope Team yes, sort of rounded ones
- Student is i2t tu6re that bugs can li1ve w7ith thier h9ead o2ff
- Student Y HEXAGONS
- Student what is that long thing that goes down
Bugscope Team sorry missed it Bob
- Student has a masquittoe ever killed anybody
Bugscope Team that can give you diseases that will kill you
- Student there little circles
- Student BUT THAT LOOKS DULL
- Student WHAT IS THIS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT ?
Bugscope Team this is the proboscis; the sharp part is inside
- Student can maquittos kill
- Student NO WAY IT CAN GO IN U
- Student can all insects be blind
- Student it lookes like scales
- Student can mosqitoes eat anything but blood
Bugscope Team some mosquitoes eat nectar, even the females, but most mosquito females eat blood; the males do not take blood meals
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- Student does it have little teeth?
- Student how do they give diseases
- Student it looks like a snake
- Student BUT IT IS DULL NO WAY THAT THIN KAN GO IN YOU
Bugscope Team yeah the part that cuts into you is inside, and it is super sharp, no scales on it, has four cutting blades
- Student does the proboscis have left over blood from the last person it
- Student why does it have hair on the pophosis/
- Student how much blood can they suck
- Student IS it possible for spiders to get disease
- Student WHAT IS THIS
- Student DO THEY LAY EGGS ON YOU/
- Student what are those loooking fins used for
Bugscope Team the things that look like fins are scales, like those butterflies and moths have. they are good for getting out of spiderwebs -- the insect can just leave the scales behind
- Student what do the males to live
- Student hi buddy
- Student do they suck blood from flys or other insects
- Student CAN WE SEE IT MORE
- Student why dont males suck bloood
- Student how big can a mosqito get
- Student Y R THY SHAPED LIKE POTATO CHIPS
Bugscope Team it is a good shape for where they are, and they are ruffled like that kind of potato chips for the same reason -- because it makes them more rigid
- Student Why don't males suck blood?
- Teacher Please give control to J n B
- Student why doesn't the male mosquito take blood
Bugscope Team it may eat nectar but does not need the big protein meal that the female needs to successfully lay her eggs
- Student how does it live like that by jumping
- Student HEY BUDDY WHAT UR NAME
- Student why do flys like poop
Bugscope Team some flies lay their eggs in it
- Student are thoses scales
- Student it looks like a branch
- Student What are we looking at
- Student why does it look like a weaved blanket
- Student .WHAT IS THIS AND CAN YOU GO ANY CLOSER
Bugscope Team these are wing scales, like those on the mosquito, but on a butterfly
- Student can bugs get cripeld
- Student do males lay eggs
Bugscope Team no
- Student why does it look like fabrics thats all
Bugscope Team it has those holes in it to make it lighter, and that is also where the color comes from -- pigment granules and from the shape of the scales and the spacing of the ridges
- Student do flys lay eggs?
Bugscope Team yes
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- Student I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE WINGS WERE FLAT
- Teacher please give control to J n B
- Student can flys lay eggs in you
- Student why does it look like waves
- Student ok
- Student ewww! why does it have a structure of a woven blanket
- Student GGGGGGGGG
- Student its like a nettt
- Student Y DOES IT LOOK LIK A NET
- Student do this butter fly have millions of hairs
- Student it look like a HUGE library
- Student can mosquitos get sick with all kinds of different blood they drink
Bugscope Team not that I have heard of
- Student does it have air capasity for the holes
Bugscope Team I think you are right -- I think scales have a function like feathers in a bird
- Student it lookes like big bumps
- Student R THEY LIK BRIDGES
- Student capasity?
- Student what are we looking at
- Student why does it have little holes on it and what is it used for
- Student y do mosqtoes like blood
- Student it is a speed bump
- Student looks like ribs
Bugscope Team yes we call them ribs
- Student How long do masquitos live for
Bugscope Team usually just a few weeks
- Student ?
- Student ITS LIK NO HAIRS
- Student why dose it have hair
- Student IT GOT SHAVED
- Student wow
- Student why do catupilers be come butter flys
Bugscope Team that is a good question -- one answer would be so they can spread further in the world
- Student why does it have bumps
Bugscope Team those are the spider's eyes
- Student EWWWWWWWWW
- Student are tose the eyes and the legs
- Student what are the big bumps
- Student are all of the eyes not round
- Student can buds get wrinkles
- Student how come they dont have the hexagons
Bugscope Team they are simple eyes, often not very good; they are not compound eyes like those of many insects
- Student Y DONT THEY LOOK LIK OTHER BUGS SCOT
Bugscope Team spiders are arachnids, related to ticks and scorpions, so they are not that much like bugs, like insects
- Student are all eyes not round
Bugscope Team that is true, not all eyes are round
- 4:50pm
- Student what is this?
- Student whats the most dangers bug on earth?
- Student do bugs get fattt
- Student BBQ RIMBS YUM
- Student DO THEY HAVE BLUE OR RED BLOOD
Bugscope Team neither; the hemolymph in an insect is usually clear, but when they get mashed -- when we see them -- there may be some yellow from fat bodies in their as well.
- Student RIBS
- Student what is thatchas
- Student how long do spiders life
- Student what are those
- Student why do spiders dont have hexagons eyes
- Student why does it look smooth?
- Student can bugs get pink eye
- Student can bugs talk to eachother'
- Student DO MANY FEMALE SPIDERS KILL MALE SPIDER
Bugscope Team it seems a lot do; sometimes the females are many times larger than the males, as well
- Student how do they eat their pery and what happen to the bug
- Bugscope Team I don't think bugs have the ability to get fat, really
- Student can mosqitoes get stupid
Bugscope Team yes, from our point of view it sure looks like it
- Student do bugs get sick
Bugscope Team they can
- Student it looks like coral
- Student what is this
- Student can spider lose hair
Bugscope Team Yes! Some actually have what are called urticating hairs that they release to get into your eyes and nose and irritate you enough to leave them alone. Like tarantulas, for example. Good question.
- Student from the ocean
- Student how do bugs get sickness from
- Student it lookes like macand cheese
- Student how do spiders get sick
- Student why does it have fungi?
- Student can a any bug live for a year
- Student are those hairs
- Student what is this picture
- Student why does it look harry like that?
Bugscope Team those are fungal hyphae -- they are a big reason why things rot when they die.
- Student it lookes like spagetii
- Student ewww
- Student why does it look like that
- Student do bug's die if they don't have fungi
Bugscope Team yes they can die of old age, and that comes much sooner to insects
- Student what is that and what does it do to the spider?]\
- Student wwwwwwwwwe
- Student what is that
- Student CAN SOME BUGS GET FUNGI WEN ALIVE?CHAOS
Bugscope Team they can for sure (today I am chaos too)
- Student awsome
- Teacher please give control to spongebob fan
- 4:55pm
- Student dude
- Student who is spongebob fan
- Student ummm what happens if a bug does not have hair
Bugscope Team it would not be able to feel or smell or sense heat/cold
- Student WHY DO THEY HAVE CACTUS ON THEM
Bugscope Team sometimes they are very spiny to discourage other critters from eating them
- Student OK
- Student do bugs get alond with some bugs
- Student why does it look like a golf ball on the side
Bugscope Team that is a good shape for an eye
- Student IS IT LIK AN EYE BALL
- Student do bugs ever mutate into another bug?
Bugscope Team not another bug, but of course they do metamorphose
- Student WHAT HAPPENS IF TEY DO NOT HAVEEYES
- Student why is it green
- Student what are the bubbbles
Bugscope Team the round things are the spider's eyes, and in the background are bubbles in the carbon tape
- Student can this bug swim
Bugscope Team spiders usually cannot swim
- Student why do spider's have 8 eye's
- Student why does it have to be hairy
- Student how come the fangs have hair
- Student CAN SOME SPIDERS KILL PEOPLE
Bugscope Team yes
- Student DO THE EYES HAV HEXAGON
- Student how big can a spider be
Bugscope Team as big as your hand, and even larger sometimes
- Student WHY DO THEY HAVE 4 EYES AND NOT TWO LIKE US
Bugscope Team they usually have eight eyes, and some of them do have good vision, actually
- Student y is their a crack in the middle
Bugscope Team that is the separation between the chelicerae
- Student what are the round things
- Student can those big spiders eat birds
- Student how big can spiders get up to
- Student can flys have eight eyes like spider
- Student WHY DO SPIDERS HAVE MULTIPLE EYES
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- Bugscope Team fangs here, hard to see
- Student do bugs have uvleas
Bugscope Team uvulas? no
- Student how small can thay be
Bugscope Team there is a fly called a fairy fly that is super tiny
- Student spidey sense!!1
- Student IS IS THAT Y THEY USE VIBRATION
Bugscope Team yes it helps them sense movement in the web, and in the dark
- Student those look pointy
- Student what is that
- Student R FANG DAUL OR SHARP
- Student TO SENCE\
- Teacher please give control to BUGS
- Student how small can they bee
Bugscope Team like a mm in length or smaller
- Student can spiders be realy realy realy fat
Bugscope Team especially when they are females and full of eggs
- Student can spiders get really really hungery?
Bugscope Team yes, some starve to death
- Student i think so
- Student are our (human) eyes compound?
- Student HOW CAN BUGS LIVE WITH THIER HEAD OFF FOR A WEEK
- Student how far can they zooom in
- Student how many eggs does the spider carry
- Student HOW CAN A SPIDER BE HEATHY
- Student R DADDY LONG LEGS FANGS SHARP
Bugscope Team they are so small it is hard to tell; I'm sure they are
- Student why is it fat
- Student WHAT THIS SPIDER EAT?
- Student it l;ookes like a scylinder
- Student it looks like glass
- Student THE SMALLER THE SPIDER IS THE MORE POISONUS
- Student ANT
- Bugscope Team pret-ty
- Student looks like ruffels . the chips
Bugscope Team yes they do
- Bugscope Team when things get distorted it is because, usually, they are charging up with electrons
- Student can a spider get rabes
Bugscope Team no and it cannot give you rabies
- Student is that the part that bites you?
Bugscope Team no you cannot see that part today
- Student y does it look like potatoes chips
- Student do bugs cause viruse
- 5:05pm
- Student WHY DO BUGS HAVE SCALES ?CHAS
Bugscope Team Chas may be working on something else and not see you. Scales are very helpful in getting out of spider webs.
- Student can it sting
- Teacher thank you
- Student thank
- Student thank you sooooooooooooooo much
- Student thank u
- Student thank you for your time
- Student BYE PPLZ
- Student thankypu
- Student bye
- Student bye bye
- Student BYE SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR
- Student thank you so much for your help
- Student peace!
- Student thank you for answering all of my questions
- Student BYE PPL
- Student duces
- Student THX FOR UR TIME BYE
- Student grasias
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team This was fun.
- Bugscope Team Gracias.
- Bugscope Team okay I am logging out, shutting things down
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Teacher sorry about that
- Teacher a student shut down my computer
- Teacher thanks again for all your help
- Teacher There were some great images
- Bugscope Team hey Thank You.
- Teacher have a great day, see you next year!
- Bugscope Team see you!
- 5:10pm
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