Connected on 2011-04-29 09:00:00 from Highlands Ranch, CO, US
- 8:15am
- Bugscope Team venting the 'scope; sample in soon
- 8:26am
- Bugscope Team sample is in the 'scope and pumping down
- Bugscope Team soon we will start making presets for today's session
- 8:32am
- 8:38am
- 8:44am
- 8:50am
- Teacher Good Morning!! Kids are gettting set up
- Bugscope Team good morning!
- Student Why do bugs have hair on their eyes
Bugscope Team this one doesn't but some do to help them feel when things are near to their eyes or to help them feel the changes in air currents
- 8:55am
- Student what kind of bugs are these??
Bugscope Team this one is a grasshopper
- Student What is the maximum magnification of the microsope?
- Student is it possible for a bug to go down the throat when a person is sleeping?
- Student IS THEIR BIG EYES AN ADAPTATION
- Student how do you know what kind of bugs
- Student why do the bugs have haer
Bugscope Team they use the hairs to help them feel what is going on around it. They can also taste/smell with some or feel changes in temperature
- Student do theses bugs have certain qualities that make them very unique and unlike any other bugs
- Student what are the things on either side?
- Student what is the different things on the bugs?
Bugscope Team there are many different features that they use to live, like we do, but we don't always recognize them
- Student Where did you get a degree from?
- Student where r u right now?
- Student What made you want to be a bug specialist???
- Student what are some adaptations that this bug has
- Student where did you go to school to learn about science?
- Student Why are the buggs covered in hair?
Bugscope Team the hair (setae) is often sensory -- it helps the insect sense its environment since it does not have skin with nerve endings, or a nose...
- Student what kind of bugs are we looking at
- Student why does bugs has teeth
- Student why do they have hair on their head?
Bugscope Team the hair helps them sense the wind, and smell, and sense hot/cold
- Student why does the fly have a netted eyes
Bugscope Team it looks like that because it has individual facets
- Student what are the circley things on their eyes?
Bugscope Team those are the individual facets of the calls, we call them ommatidia. They each can grab an image and then it
Bugscope Team it
Bugscope Team it's sent to the brain and reassembled there.
- Student what kind of bugs is that
Bugscope Team this is a silverfish
- Student why is it called a silverfish if it isnt a fish?
- 9:00am
- Student what do the scaly things do on the hairy fly's eye
Bugscope Team those are scales from a moth or butterfly. Insects are sometimes collected in traps and when that happens moths and butterflies tend to get scales on the other insects
- Student what adaptation does the silverfish head have?
- Student how can bugs get you
- Student Does ommatidia help them see better? Can they see in color
Bugscope Team they can often see color depending on the insect, and the ommatidia also give them better peripheral vision as well as the ability to sense motion quickly
- Student why is there so many hand like things by there mouth
Bugscope Team those are like built-in knives and forks that also help taste the food
- Student how many deadly species of bugs are there?
Bugscope Team the deadliest is the mosquito. Bees can be pretty deadly if you are allergic to them
- Student can you see the bugscope in color
- Student how do bugs get in your house
- Student why does the silverfish has hair on its head
- Student What do those pointy things coming out the top do??
Bugscope Team they are either palps or antennae. Palps are mouthparts that help the insect taste or move food around in it's mouth
- Student Why wont you answer our questions?
- Student how many arms does this have?
- Student how can i get one of these microscopes?
- Student what type of microscopes r these? how much money are they?
Bugscope Team You are using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and this one cost $600,000 almost 13 years ago
- Student how much do these microscopes cost?
- Student can you get one of these microscopes for your home?
Bugscope Team it would be super expensive and take a lot of money to keep running
- Student what is the highest magnification can this microscope go
- Student how much dose an electronic microscope cost?
Bugscope Team this one cost about $600,000
- Student what is the smallest thing you can look at under the microscope...
- Student can you see rhino virus with this
Bugscope Team we would use the transmission electron microscope instead, to look at a virus
- Student how long does it take to prepare for scoping a bug?
- Student Why is their a bumpy pattern on their skin?
- Student where do the silverfish breathe out of
- Student why are there layers of skin?
Bugscope Team those are layers or segments of the chitin, which is more like a protein shell, like a fingernail
- Student what are the bumps for?
Bugscope Team those are microsetae, or very small hairs. They are mostly to help the insect feel when it bumps into things or when it comes near things
- Bugscope Team the layers or segments help make the chitin the exoskeleton is made of flexible
- Student what are the holes near the long antenna thing
- Student is the hair on a bug thinner then the hair on humans
- Student what does bugs eat
- Student do you enjoy your job? What are some of the concepts you have to do daily?
- Student why are there holes?
Bugscope Team those are pores. They are where the hairs come out. Underneath they are attached to nerves.
- 9:05am
- Student how do you use the microscope
Bugscope Team we train people to use to to do their own research, in materials, or biology, or biomaterials
- Student where do you go to school
Bugscope Team I went to school at the University of Illinois, where the microscope you are controlling is now
- Student are bugs more sensitive than humans?
Bugscope Team in some ways, perhaps
- Student Are these spikey things hair?
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Student what does microsetae?
Bugscope Team microsetae are the tiny hairs that do not pass through the exoskeleton
- Student why are there spikes, what are they?
Bugscope Team they are hair. If they didn't have any they wouldn't be able to feel what was going on around it. They dont have sensitive skin like we do, so they have all those hairs to help make up for it
- Student how long does it take to prepare all this?
Bugscope Team it takes maybe a half hour to mount the samples and then sputter coat them with gold-palladium
- Student are their hairs or spikes sensetive
Bugscope Team yes
- Student How old are these flies?
Bugscope Team hard to tell but probably a few weeks at least
- Teacher Can you please give control to dynamite?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Student do u like your job. And is it fun?
Bugscope Team yes it is fun. We don't just look at insects all day. We get to help students prepare and image their projects, which sometimes can be very exciting
- Student what did they evolve rom?
- Student What are some of the concepts you go over in your daily job?
- Student do the bugs have good eye sight
Bugscope Team some have very good eyesight, and some depend more on their antennae and/or those sensitive hairs (setae) to get information about what is around them
- Student dose this have a mouth
- Student how many sencor hairs does an average bug have??
- Student in collage did you have to work extrodinarily hard to get this job
- Student why do they have different sizes?
- Student how do you kill these insects without hurting the body so much?
Bugscope Team if they are still alive when we capture or receive them, we put them in a regular freezer and that allows them to sleep and then die without them feeling anything
- Student what is the best sense that this bug has>
Bugscope Team often it seems like the one most used is smell -- they often have a great sense of smell and can read numerous chemical signals
- Student What is pollen made of?
- Student what does it take to be in this kind of buisness?
- Student how many hours do you guys work?
Bugscope Team 45 to 50 hours/week
- Student what are the creases in them for?
Bugscope Team those probably help them get stuck on bug hairs and maybe some other stuff
- Student what is the hardest part of your job?
- Student why do they have have gums
- Student What is the crease in the middle for?
- Student when did they first appear on the earth
- Student is pollen living or non living
Bugscope Team it is living, or has the potential to become something that is going to grow into a new plant
- Student are these foamy feeling or hard?
Bugscope Team they would probably feel hard to an insect. They would be similar to a seed, but to use they feel powdery
- 9:10am
- Student do you think viruses are living or non living, on the bugs?
- Student is the hair on a bug thinner on a humans arm?
Bugscope Team in some ways it is thicker, per unit of area, I think
- Student what are the bumps on the lily o for
Bugscope Team they probably help keep it from collapsing
- Student is their any way of protection for their eyes? Any eyelids?
- Student what are the hairs used for?
- Student is the parasitic wasp eat dead skin
- Student how many sencor hairs does an average bug have???
Bugscope Team I would say hundreds to thousands, depending on the bug
- Student can they see bacteria on themselves
- Student how sharp are there teeth
- Student why is theres hairs on there mouth?
- Student do you think viruses are living
Bugscope Team in a way yes and in a way no
- Student Are you able to see the bacteria on the insects??
- Student why do they lived in the ground
- Student Can u see bacteria on them?
Bugscope Team when there are bacteria we can see them
- Student how cold is the tepterture of the freezer you use.
Bugscope Team the ideal freezer temperature is 0 degrees F or lower
- Student how are they living and non living
- Student can we feel any of there hair
Bugscope Team not typically, unless they are big, like tarantulas
- Student Are you able to see the tinniest part of these bugs?
Bugscope Team we cannot see atoms with this microscope, but we do pretty well
- Student what is the tinniest thing you can see on a bug?
- Student how many more microns can you get closer to the bug?
- Student Why do they have bumps on their eyes?
Bugscope Team those are the individual facets of their compound eyes. One of them is like one of our eyeballs
- Student why is their dry skin?
- Student why are the wasps mouth like that?
Bugscope Team it opens from side to side like a gate, and that seems to be the way many similar insects have their mouths
- Student what do you comminly find on bugs?
- Student do they have teeth?
Bugscope Team no but they have a pair of hinged jaws, mandibles. They open like a gate
- Teacher Can you show the students a shot of the microscope?
- Student how big do their mouths open up...they dont seem to go very far
- Student how many microscopes do you have?
- Student are there any medicines that came from wasps?
Bugscope Team I am not sure about wasps, but some people use bee venom as a medicine
- Student what are their role in the ecosystem?
- Student Does it take a lot of training to operate this microscope?
Bugscope Team i can train a student to use it in around an hour, but it usually takes them at least another hour using it on their own to get comfortable with it
- Student so how do the parasitic wasp eat?
- Student are there multiple parts of a wasp stinger?
- Student how close are microns
Bugscope Team right now the scale bar says 50 microns which is the width of a human hair
- Student what are the hairs?
- Student where does the poison come out
- Student do they have to drink water to survive
- Student does it have to be dark to use it
- Bugscope Team this is the inside of the microscope -- the specimen chamber, which is under vacuum
- 9:15am
- Student How do these bugs interact with the environment if that enviornment is changed?
- Student Do they have protection for their eyes? Any eyelids?
Bugscope Team no they don't protect them really. They can clean them. You might have seen a fly, when it has landed, clean it's head with it's forelegs. It's really focusing on the antennae and eyes
- Bugscope Team the platter toward the bottom of the image is where all of the bugs are mounted
- Student does the vaccum help keep the bugs frozen
- Bugscope Team at the top is a cone that the electrons come from
- Student how do you power the microscope?
- Student WHOA! ..... whats that thing pointing down that looks like a tornado or something?
- Bugscope Team the vacuum keeps electrons from bumping into air molecules
- Student can you see atoms with these scopes
- Bugscope Team Pasta that is the pole piece, from which the electrons hit the sample
- Student When you get stung by a wasp, why does it sting?
Bugscope Team he main component of the venom responsible for pain is the toxin melittin; histamine and other biogenic amines may also contribute to pain and itching. Histamine is what people are allergic to when they say they are allergic to bees
- Bugscope Team AsiansRock! we cannot see atoms with this microscope.
- Student does a stinger come off when the wasp stings someone?
Bugscope Team not usually. That is usually true only with the honey bee. They have special barbed stingers that get caught in our skin
- Teacher Can you please give Indiana Jones control of the scope?
Bugscope Team they have control
- Student why are there hairs on the stinger
- Student once the bee is dead... if you step on the stinger could it still sting you?
Bugscope Team it is possible that for a certain time that could happen
- Student are there multiple parts of the stinger?
- Student how much venom does a wasp produce in there life time
- Student how long ago did these appear on earth
- Student poisen sorry
- Student what is the amount of venom in a wasp stinger
Bugscope Team probably just a few microliters, and it becomes depleted if the wasp stings repeatedly
- Student how do you kill the bugs?
- Student If these bugs got something in their eye and it cant be cleaned off, what will happen?
Bugscope Team fortunately there is more space on the eyes for them to see out of
- Student how many eyes do the green lacewing head have???
Bugscope Team they have 2 compound eyes
- Student what are those hairs that are sticking out?
- Student what is the long thing going down there back!?
- Student where are the leafhoppers eyes?
- Student do bugs sleep?
Bugscope Team they don't really sleep but they have a time during which they slow down quite a bit
- Student where are the eyes
- Student when you get allergy shots does it put the histamine in it
- Student is the center of that the mouth?
- Student Scot, but what if the entire eye gets covered?
- Student Is the mouth in the center?
- Student why does the stinger come off whenever a honey bee stings you?
Bugscope Team they have barbs on their stinger. They only get stuck in mammals. When they try to pull away, the stinger and a muscle that pumps the venom into you come out, and the bee essentially dies
- Student is that the mouth in the center
- Student do you have to research about the bugs in order to present them?
- 9:20am
- Student where are the eyes?
- Student Do they have a hard outer shell like skin?
- Student where is its eyes?
- Student where is the research center
- Student are turantulas deadly
- Student is it hard to operate the microscope??
Bugscope Team not really. You students are controlling it right now
- Student why is the tarantula so fuzzy?
- Student did that foot get cut off?
- Student do these bugs provide any type of human help besides pollon?
Bugscope Team some insects help with pests. Ladybugs help eat aphids which are garden pests. Parasitic wasps can lay their eggs in insects that are garden pests as well like caterpillars, which help control their populations
- Student why are the hairs so important
- Student are insects fragil when you take them out of the freezer or is it hard
- Student what are the lines on it?
- Student why does it look like words are on the wing?
- Student how can you tell if its a male or female?
Bugscope Team it depends on the insect. All things with stingers are females. The stingers are also ovipositors, which is where the eggs come out. With other insects you can sometimes tel with how big the eyes are or how big they are, and others you can't tell at all unless you open them up
- Student why do the wings have layers
- Student are wasps parasites?
Bugscope Team many wasps parasitize other insects; in that way they are beneficial to us because they keep pest populations under control
- Student why are their little holes/
- Student what are the lines
- Student whats the niche of the leafhopper?
Bugscope Team leafhoppers are a type of true bug, which mostly means it has a long trunk of a mouth part which they use to drink liquids. The leafhopper is an herbivore, so they are almost at the very bottom of the food chain
- Student do monarch wings have air holes in them to help them fly?
- Student why do we need insects in our ecosystem
- Student where do you get the bugs? to do research about them...
Bugscope Team some schools will send us bugs, other people may give them to us at the university, and other times we find them outselves
- Student what do monarchs do for the ecosystem?
Bugscope Team they are part of the whole web of life, and sometimes it is hard to see how they fit until they are lost; then you realize that they had a value such as keeping other populations down or fertilizing certain plants, etc.
- Teacher Can abbymack please have control of the scope?
Bugscope Team they have control
- Student why are there holes in the cubes?
- Student are the salt in a square shape?
Bugscope Team yes they are cubic crystals
- Student cate, does the monarch have certain particles that other bugs dont?
- 9:25am
- Student do you have a microscope that can see a virus
- Student how do they only get shapped as a cube? why not circles and stuff?
- Student can we see viruses
- Student butterflies have scales on their wings?
Bugscope Team they have lots of scales on their wings. The scales are the same powder that comes off when you rub their wings
- Student why can salt burn through ice?
Bugscope Team the salt reacts with the ice; both the salt and the ice dissolve into each other
- Student could a bug pass a virus to you from it?
Bugscope Team not likely unless it was a mosquito, and those viruses they carry don;t affect them
- Student where does the salt come from?
Bugscope Team Wendy's restaurant
- Student why cant they fly as well when their wings are wet?
Bugscope Team the water weighs down their wings, making it very difficult for them
- Student what is the smallest thing you can see with the microscope?
Bugscope Team we can see particles that are a few nanometers in diameter
- Student are magots parasites
- Student why are mosqitos the most deadly?
- Student How do the wings get their color?
Bugscope Team they get colors either from structures on the wings or from pigment granules usually
- Student why is the salt clear?
- Teacher Cat, abbymack say they don't have the controls yet?
- Student Is it true that when you touch a butterfly wing the butterfly can no longer fly.
Bugscope Team it's possible because they have delicate wings. So you could end up bending or scratching their wings
- Teacher Scot your funny
Bugscope Team that particular salt, with that cool incised pattern, we get from Wendy's; we think it has an anticaking agent in it that gives it that pattern
- Student What do magots do far the ecosystem? Are they a decomposer?
- Student so salt are crystals? so when we put salt on our food we are eating crystals
- Student can you see a virus with the scope?
Bugscope Team not likely with this microscope. You would need to use a transmission electron microscope (TEM) to see them. A TEM was in the first spiderman movie when they were in the spider lab near the beginning. It was the big machine in the middle of the room
- Student why do the salt have cracks in them?
Bugscope Team it has that pattern because we think it has small amounts of another chemical like sodium azide, that makes the crystals form that way
- Teacher Abbymack froze up :(, can Kaynky have control instead?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Student which insect is the most deadliest
Bugscope Team probably the deadliest overall are mosquitoes; at one time it might have been the fleas that carried the plague virus
- Student why are misquitos the deadliest?
Bugscope Team they can carry a lot of deadly diseases, like west nile virus
- Student how many bugs are there in the world?
Bugscope Team billions!
- Student If the salt is barely touched, is it crushed or what happens
- Student is salt layered? Does all the salt come in a cube form?
- Student do you have a transmission electron microscope?
Bugscope Team yes but you can't control it from your classroom unfortunately
- Student why is it a layer of cubes
- Student Why are the salt crystals made of squares?
- Student how does salt form?
- Student How does the salt get its shape?
Bugscope Team it's the way the sodium and the chloride join that makes that cool cubic shape
- 9:30am
- Student From here it looks like the salt grain is hollow or has a crevice in it, is that true?
Bugscope Team only this kind of salt looks like that; most normal table salt is smooth
- Student are there any organisms that live on salt?
- Student howcome its square?
Bugscope Team it's the way the elements sodium and chlorine fit together
- Student is it ture that magots can get in your eyes and feet
Bugscope Team yes but it depends on where you live
- Student are these bugs ammune
- Student is the salt naturally squared?
- Student are these bugs ammune to bugspray?
- Student why are all the pictures grey?
Bugscope Team we are using electrons to image, not light. When we gather electrons in the detector coming back from the sample, it reads their signal and there is no color in signal, but we can later false color the images if we wanted
- Student but they still are all square shaped, right
Bugscope Team yes it is interesting that it retains that cubic shape
- Student are all the differnt scales on the wasp eye what they see out of individually?
- Student is it true that if you cut off a bugs head its body still moves. And why?
- Student What is the bugs vision like?
- Student why is there hexagons?
- Student is this one grain of salt and if it is how many do u think would b on a wendys fry
Bugscope Team one little cube is a grain, There could be around a hundred grains or more on a fry. I never counted really. I guess it depends on how salty you like them
- Student how can bugs see straight if they have all of those eyes. how can they focus on one thing?
Bugscope Team great question; I think people are still studying that; it is likely they focus where they see movement and/or specific colors
- Student Why is their lines on the wasps eye?
- Student how long do you have to wait for the insects to defrost for the microscope to clearly see the insect
- Student are you usually on here or only here at certain times?
- Student how much venom does a wasp produce in there life time
Bugscope Team it is probably no more than 10 or so microliters, about the size of a small drop of water to us
- Student what is that slit
- Student what is the opening?
- Student what is that slit?
- Student whats that little opening in the wasp??
- Student why do bug eyes have haexagons that make up thier shape?
Bugscope Team the hexagon is the best shape to fit the curvature of the eye. So if an insect has big eyes that cover up the whole side of their head, they usually have hexagon shapes. If they have smaller eyes that don't really need to curve around their head, they sometimes just have round ommatidia
- Student can the bugs feel the dirt and hairs on there eyes
Bugscope Team they can, and they can brush it off; the hairs help them sense it
- Student have you graduated college yet?
Bugscope Team yes scot and I both have
- Student is that bacteria in the hairs or is it a part of their skin
- Student what is the average year of bugs living
- Student Scot, is the opening right there the wasps eye?
- Student what is that?
Bugscope Team that is a spiracle, which is an opening through which insects breathe; there are a number of them on the exoskeleton
- Student what are the leaf like triangles on their hair?
- Student how long have you been studying bugs?
- Student how long are bugs lifespans normally
- Student What are some adaptations of the dragonfly wing
- Student what are the lines for?
- 9:35am
- Student what are the lines that divide up the wing?
- Student when did scientist first start using the electron microscope?
- Student what are the different lines on the dragonfly wing?
- Student how do bugs hear things?
Bugscope Team sometimes they have a membrane that is called a tympanum that vibrates with sound.
- Teacher Also, can Abbymack have control again, they were finally able to get back on?
Bugscope Team they should have control now
- Student Do you have to reasearch all the bugs and find out what they are before you can display them?
- Student who invented this microscope
- Student how do bugs hear?
- Student what are the spikes on the wing?
Bugscope Team dragonflies are predators and sometimes they get in fights. I think they use the spikes to help them fight
- Student microscope
- Teacher What are some advantages of using the electron microscope? Are there things scientists have discovered using the scope?
Bugscope Team the scanning electron microscope has very good depth of focus and allows us to see small 3D things; the transmission electron microscope allows us to see even smaller things; we get an idea of how parts of the cell work, the shapes of viruses, on and on
- Student Is the hole its mouth or nose?
- Student how do bugs die?
- Student how do bugs smell, it seems as if they dont have a nose
Bugscope Team they have special hairs, often by their mouths, that can help them taste/smell food, and they often act like tastebuds
- Student why does it look like the bugs have cuts all through them?
- Student what are those things on their eyes?
- Student how do you afford this????
Bugscope Team to pay for the microscope we received a grant
- Student is it ture that grasshoppers have ears on their knees\
Bugscope Team they have a part of the leg that resonates and amplifies sound, but I am not sure it functions like an ear. praying mantises are said to have a single 'ear' centrally located on the thorax
- Student do you work with microscopes daily?
Bugscope Team yes and not just electron microscopes
- Student since spiders spin webs all the time, how come they dont run out of web?
- Student What is the flowerish stuff near the top right?
- Student What are the different kinds of microscopes you work with?
- Student can bugs get sunburned?
Bugscope Team no they dont have skin, but they can get really hot so they like to stay in shady moist areas, like under rocks
- Student what are the type of microscopes you use?
- Student what are some adaptations that the hairy fly have?
Bugscope Team the tiny setae on the eye help it sense wind speed and direction; the shape and flexibility of the sponging mouthparts help it sop up food
- Student from what collage do you get the grant from? or do get it from the public?
- Student do you have insurance on the microscopes...in case they break.....they are very expensive so if they broke they would be lot to repay< right?
- Student what other types of microscopes do you use?
Bugscope Team we have the SEM, TEM, and we have various light microscopes like the fluorescent microscope, and we also have an atomic force microscope. We also have a few micro ct machines and a nano ct machine
- Teacher Students, we have about 5 more minutes before our next class. Just an FYI
- 9:40am
- Student why does it have legs on its mouth. are those legs?
- Student can bugs store food in there cheeks? if they have cheeks
- Student what do all the microscopes do?
Bugscope Team they allow researchers to see where specific proteins are, for example, and get an idea of how they interact and when they are activated; really there are so many things it is hard to enumerate them
- Student Are really big eys that bugs have made up of smaller eyes?
- Student where did you get your degree?
Bugscope Team i received my degree from this university- the university of illinois
- Student is it true that if u get several of magots in your body it will eat your insides and you can die?
- Student how big are these flies
- Teacher Can Selle have final control over the scope for this session?
Bugscope Team selle has control
- Student do bugs need to drink water
Bugscope Team some do, but mostly they get their liquids from what they eat
- Student is it ture that you can tell if it is a male or female in a plant
- Student why are the pores so much thicker than the hair
- Student whats the lifespan of the green lacewing?
Bugscope Team around 2 months when they are adults
- Student Is all the hair on bugs for traction or to look bigger? Or something else?
- Student what is the smallest bug that we can see under the electron microscope
Bugscope Team we can see mites, and if we had one we would be able to see fairyflies, which are said to be the smallest true insects
- Student do insects have a heart?
Bugscope Team yes they have a heart, but not like ours
- Student are the pores of bugs the same size as humans?
Bugscope Team no, they are much much smaller
- Student how long do bugs live in your skin on average
- Student fun
- Student what colors do they see?
Bugscope Team they can see colors in the ultraviolet wavelengths of light that we cannot see, but sometimes they cannot see colors like red; it really depends on the insect; some ants do not have eyes at all, for example
- Student how tiny would you say the bugs pores are?
- Student whats the flower thing in the middle?
- Student how long can the wasp live for??
Bugscope Team they can live for around a year if they overwinter somewhere, like your house
- Student can you cut open an insect and show the heart? or is the insect small?
Bugscope Team we can but they have to be fresh and not too small
- Student what are some adapatations of a tarantula
- Student what is a plumose setae??
- Student how long do bugs nurse their young?
Bugscope Team some insect mothers will protect their young. Others don't protect them at all, and just leave them to try to survive on their own
- 9:45am
- Student why is it in black and white?
Bugscope Team when we beam electrons at the sample we get electrons back from the conductive coat we have put on it; those electrons come back as signal, a lot or a small amount or in between; so it is the amount of signal we see in a particular spot that all adds up into what we see
- Student what is a plumose setae
- Student how do you know how long they have been living for?
- Student What are all the different types of strands for?
- Student how do bugs communicate
Bugscope Team often it is via chemical scents that they send or leave or sense; they also have visual communications, like the way fireflies signal to each other
- Student what is the plumose setea do
Bugscope Team the plumose setae are shaped like long pine trees, and they are sensitive to vibtration from all directions
- Student what is the bugs exoskeloeton made of ?
Bugscope Team chitin- the same stuff as our fingernails
- Teacher Thank you Cate, Scot and SEM for your time and brains. We appreciate all your efforts to make this an amazing experience once again.
- Student THANK YOU!!! :)
- Student thank you!!!
- Student thank you so much!!!!!!!!!
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- Student is this the hair on the tarantula????
Bugscope Team the plumose setae was the hair yes. An tarantula hair are often urticating, meaning they can make you itch
- Bugscope Team thanks
- Student Thanks you guys are so smart! U rock!
- Student SHANK YOU
- Student thanks
- Student SHPANKYOU!:)
Bugscope Team haha
- Bugscope Team Thank You All for working with us this morning.
- Student you guys are amazing!!!
- Student thank you do you still have the wendys?
Bugscope Team I am not sure there is one in town anymore
- Teacher The students have a pod break now, 10 minutes. Then we will be back with one last class. Thank you so much.
Bugscope Team Thank you, and see you soon.
- 10:05am
- Bugscope Team This is a clip from a piece on the web, on the greenmethods website, about the green lacewing: The eggs hatch into tan-colored, alligator-like larvae, which grow to 8 mm., and are extremely voracious feeders which will go right to work on the aphids — and each other. They can consume 100 aphids or more! The life-span of these predators is roughly 30 days in their immature stages, then less than 2 months as adults. The predacious larval stage lasts roughly 15-20 days.
- Bugscope Team http://greenmethods.com/biocontrols/chrysoperla/
- Bugscope Team because someone asked about the lifespan of the green lacewing earlier today:
- Student Hey what is this picture
Bugscope Team this is salt from wendys restaurant
- Student what is this picter
- Student why do we not see color with the salt?
Bugscope Team we don't see color because we are using electrons, which are super tiny, to generate the images; the images come to us only as signal, with different intensities of white and black -- and gray
- Teacher Can MORGIES please have control of the scope?
Bugscope Team got it
- Student how does this microscope work?
Bugscope Team we beam electrons at the sample and secondary electrons come off and are collected by a detector where it reads the signal and gives us this image- in a nutshell
- Student Hi what is this picture of?
Bugscope Team those were granules of salt from a Wendy's restaurant
- Student What is the highest power?
Bugscope Team we can go to about 200,000x and still get usable images, with some samples
- 10:10am
- Student this stuff is cool!
- Student why did you choose salt
Bugscope Team we think it is interesting to look at, and it is easy to put on the stub with everything else
- Student how big can a baby tarantula be
- Student wow this is amazing
- Student this bug is ugle
- Student how often do these bugs come each year?
Bugscope Team we get insects constantly, but more frequently in the summer months
- Student What is the top of the trantula head? it looks like it is cut. We don't know the name for it.
Bugscope Team it was a tarantula palp and it was covering the fangs so I snipped it off. You were right
Bugscope Team a palp is usually responsible for helping to move around food to help it eat or to taste/smell food
- Student why did you chose this career
- Student How many eyes does a spider have/
- Student ?
- Student When do you get your bugs the most?
Bugscope Team in the summer months when we can collect them ourselves
- Student why are bugs so ugly?
- Student where are the eyes on the trantul
Bugscope Team they're on the other side of the head, which we cannot see now
- Student why some insects so deadly like the black widow
Bugscope Team they can pack a lot of venom, enough so that it is harmful to humans.
- Student Home Dog
- Student where do you get your bugs?
Bugscope Team some people send them to us and other times we will go and collect them
- Student what is the scariest or creepiest bug?
Bugscope Team one scary one is the house centipede -- those things that look like running mustaches in your house
- Student how does the tarantula get its hair
- Student Hey Sj how long have you been working with bugs
Bugscope Team really just a bit longer than bugscope has been going on. so for more than 12 years
- Student why do you do this?
- Student oh how do they hold all that venom for something so small
- Student is there a picture?
- Student what is this???
- Student what is a sliverfish abdomen
- Student What is the most interesting bug you guys have seen?
Bugscope Team I like the ones that are more specialized, like ticks, weevils, mites
- Student where do the tarantula's live
Bugscope Team they are found on almost every continent and prefer the warmer places like southern US, South America, Africa, southern Europe, southern Asia, and Australia
- Student where is the silverfish found?
- Student how much do they cost micoscopes]
- Student Are those scales?
Bugscope Team they are scales, which give the silverfish its color and also help it escape if it is caught in a web
- Student are those gills
Bugscope Team these are scales. They are the same powdery soft stuff that comes off butterfly or moth wings when you touch them
- Student How much do these microscopes cost???
Bugscope Team about $600,000 12 years ago
- Student how much do these micro scopes cost?
Bugscope Team this one cost $600k
- Student wow
- Student is your job hard???
Bugscope Team sometimes it is hard keeping every microscope operating
- Student what .... thats a lot$$$
- Student how do you get all of these amazing bugs
Bugscope Team this silverfish came from scot's house. Other times an entomologist will give us really nice samples they collected from their traps
- Student los espaniles realy realy
- Student this is really cool!!!
- 10:15am
- Student wo what is that?
- Student wow*
- Student why
- Student do they need them
- Student how many microscopes are there?
Bugscope Team we have 15 or 20 fairly sophisticated microscopes
- Student How much do these microscopes cost? Do you think we could get one at our school?
Bugscope Team not unless you got a nice grant, which would be nice
- Student what kind of bug is that^^^^
Bugscope Team this is a silverfish you might find in your house
- Student awsome
- Student why do they need hairs?
Bugscope Team the hairs help them feel what is going on around it. They dont have sensitive skin like us
- Teacher Can Salt and Pepper have control of the scope?
Bugscope Team they have control
- Student Is this microscope big?
Bugscope Team it's decently big. It has a good sized room all to itself
- Student why do you like your job and how small can you see from the microscopes
- Student Why are the images in black and white?
- Student Whats the smallest thing you have ever magnified????
- Student Where did you graduate from?
Bugscope Team I graduated from the University of Kansas with an English/Biology degree, and Cate graduated witih a Physics degree from here, from the University of Illinois
- Student there are no clor y is that?
- Teacher Any chance you could zoom out one last time so the students can see the scope?
- Student why can we only see this stuff in black and whight
- Student why is it's eyes like that
- Student What is the biggest magnifacation of the bugs?
- Student Why do the flies need hair?
- Student can you see things inside the bug???
Bugscope Team only if we break it open, or if we use a different kind of microscope
- Student tell me where do you get these bugs and what is your favoret bug so far??
- Student this is weird and cool!
- Student how far can they see
- Student is that the kind of fly we see at our houses?
- Student How small are the bugs?
- Student Why are the flies eyes like clothish?
Bugscope Team when insects die, they dry out, and don't always stay plump. Often they will deflate some
- Student where do most of your bugs come from
- Student that's nasty
- Student why is it in a vacum chamber
- Student does this scope, ahve a magnification light, to help sight the bugs?
- Student how did you get to become scientists?
- Teacher Thanks, Salt and pepper are ready again :)
- Student are the bugs alive or dead underneath the microscope?
- Student What is the smallest thing you've looked at so far?
Bugscope Team we can see things a few nm in diameter
- Student How big is the microscope?
- Student Whats the smallest thing you have magnified?
- Student good job salt and pepper
- Student how big is the microscope?
- Teacher SEM I received it. Thank you. I just showed the kids, they didn't believe that you guys were actually there :)
- Student what bug is that?
- 10:20am
- Student Whats the pupose of the microscope
- Student what is the purpose of the microscope
- Student SEM what is your favoret bug so far or if you have one yet???
Bugscope Team mites and weevils (I am SEM when I am using the computer at the microscope itself)
- Student why are bugs eyes so big?
- Student what are these used for? what is the purpose?have you faound any scientific breaks?
- Student why are it's eyes so big
Bugscope Team some insects, often flying insects, need to have big eyes to navigate better. They cant move their eyes around like we can, so sometimes their eyes can cover their entire head!
- Student how big are these bugs
- Student What scientific advantages have you had from these microscopes?
Bugscope Team we allow people to see what their samples look like, and from that they are able to make better samples and keep experimenting
- Student do lace wing ever hurt someone?
- Student Do bugs have teeth or something else?
- Student could a super magnification scope....cost as much as $1 million??
Bugscope Team they now cost as much as $7 million
- Student what does the microscope use for it's source of energy? Is it all plugged in?
Bugscope Team yes it's plugged in. It is not a very green machine
- Student Cool! thank you for answering our question!
- Student what do these bugs eat
- Student is the eye of the hairy fly always look smashed
Bugscope Team no it smooshed in a bit and it dried out
- Student what is in their mouth? it looks like a ton of little hairs.
- Student whats the smallest thing you have ever magnified?
- Student What, in you opinion, is the bug that "RULES"?
Bugscope Team unfortunately the one that totally rules seems to be the cockroach, but we like ticks, weevils, mites....
- Student do see the smallest bacteria on the microscope?
- Student how do you kill the bugs
Bugscope Team we stick them in the freezer, which usually works
- Student what is the scariest or creepiest bug there is now
Bugscope Team centipedes can be pretty creepy, and tropical ones are venomous
- Student how many years of college do you have to go through?
- Teacher Maddydot would like control of the scope please.
Bugscope Team they have control
- Student how do you know what bug they are
Bugscope Team sometimes we don't and we have to look them up or ask an entomologist
- Student what is that like little flower thing in the middle?
- Student is it cold in your labratory
- Student How big are the microscopes?
- Student could you use that for studying other things than bugs or like a leaf?
Bugscope Team yes and we have looked at leaves before. We have also looked at circuits and bacteria, and blood cells, and much more
- Student oh is the mouth always open for the fly
Bugscope Team some flies have sponging mouthparts, some have slashing mouthparts, and some have chewing mouthparts. some of those mouths don't really open, or I guess you could say that they are always open
- 10:25am
- Student Hwo big are the Microscopes?
- Student why do you freeze them?
Bugscope Team that is the 'humane' way of killing an insect. The temperatures put them to sleep and eventually they die. Though if you thaw them too soon sometimes they just wake up
- Student what is the grossest thing you have ever seen under a microscope?
Bugscope Team sometimes the guts of insects are pretty nasty looking
- Student My question is that insects that have been frozen or trapped in sap have traces of blood from ancient animals like dinosaurs, have you ever look at an insect/bug that has these traces?
- Student do cocroches really live in high nuclar radiasion, sorry cant spell?
- Student how fast can these fly
- Student how do you collect all the bugs
Bugscope Team the most common way is to pick them up. Entomologists will make traps for them though
- Student why do you look at circuts?
Bugscope Team you can see, sometimes, how they fail -- where the connections wore out or did not get connected properly in the first place
- Student how much power does the microscope have?
- Student what is ugliest thing ever looked at
- Student what is the smallest thing you have ever magnified?
Bugscope Team probably a little line of gold nanoparticles, they were around a few nanometers big
- Student so would a bug survive from the ice age?
Bugscope Team some bacteria would survive, and I suppose it is possible that a flea egg or something similar might survive;
- Student how big is a grasshoppers eye?
- Student Is the only type of animals you look at or study bugs?
- Student what can you use instead of a electron microscope
- Student do the bugs like flies and wasps have eyelids because it looks they don't?
Bugscope Team nope they dont have anything to protect their eyes. SOmetimes their eyes will get scratched too. They can clean their eyes with their legs, but that's it
- Student Why is the skin so textured?
- Student back to $7 million.. would u think that its a rediculouse price for a scope, or would u think its worth it?
Bugscope Team those 'scopes are used for limited research; most people do not need that power or resolution, so they have to decide if it is worth it, and they have to attract people whose experiments depend on that power
- Student have you ever been able to trace anything back to the dinasours
- Student what is that on the eye?
- Student why are the eyes like a funny bubble
Bugscope Team the bubble shape means they can see more area around them without moving their heads
- Student Los Espanoles
- Student is this job great or is it just an okay job?
Bugscope Team sometimes it is great, like now
- Student whay are the bugs eyes smooth?
- Student What is the difference between a normal microscope and this electron microscope?
- Student If the hairs on the bug so small, why do they need them at all?
- Student why are bugs so small
Bugscope Team insects can only be as big as their body will support them; fortunately for us they are limited by how they breathe air, and how well it gets to the tissues
- 10:31am
- Student how do insects breathe?
- Student How do insects breathe
- Student breath*
- Student How*
- Student what is the biggest bug in the world
Bugscope Team it is a type of tropical stick insect. It can cover your entire back
- Student Are those scars on its eyes?
Bugscope Team I think those were little fiberlike things, but we definitely do see scars on eyes sometimes
- Student why were insects so big at the time of the dino's and how did they survive the wipeout
- Student Gow do insects breathe?
Bugscope Team yes they have spiracles, which are holes, along their bodies that are connected by a trachea, like what we have
- Student can females bugs ever have babies?
- Student What is the most Disgusting bug in your opinion
- Student how do insects collect there food
Bugscope Team some will trap them, and most will grab them
- Student If some bugs cant see at all, how do they protect themselves from predators?
- Student What is with all the hair on the bugs?
Bugscope Team insects and similar arthropods have lots of hair (setae) because it can be used to give them information about their environment: like touch, wind, smell, hot/cold
- Student do insects have disease like us humans?
- Student if a gded x
- Student why is the hair there
Bugscope Team some of the hair can detect chemicals in the air, like pheromones, that insects use to signal each other
- Student What does a fly even eat?
- Student what is the oldest bug in the world
- Student What collage did you go to
- Student why do bugs have hair on their legs
- Student do bugs have veins?
Bugscope Team not really, not like ours
- Student have you ever looked at the tropical stick insect?
Bugscope Team not in this microscope, and i have never seen one in person. It wouldn't fit into the chamber of the microscope at all
- Student are those thorns on the leaf hoppers back?
- Student how do grasshoppers jump
- Student Does the leafhopper have claws?
Bugscope Team yes it has tiny claws on its legs
- Student how long does a fly live
- Student what are those white things
- Student how many species of bugs are there
- Bugscope Team prehistoric insects were bigger because there was a richer oxygen content in the air so their bodies could stand to be bigger. If they were that big now, their bodies would collapse.
- Student what new species of bugs do we have
Bugscope Team there is a guy coming in next week who is describing hundreds of new species of parasitic wasps, and he says there is a parasitic wasp for every other species of insect as well as for each life stage
- Student what is that?
- 10:36am
- Student what are thse white things? is that bacteria?
Bugscope Team no these are smaller. These are nanoparticles that are only made by leafhoppers
- Student are their human sized spiders?
Bugscope Team no they could not support themselves if they were this big, fortunately
- Student how many of those white things are on there
Bugscope Team there are thousands just on the exoskeleton of this one tiny insect
- Student do leafhoppers have thorns on their backs?
Bugscope Team they might have big spines that maybe will help deter other insects from eating them
- Student so how often do you have to do this a year is it an all time job?
Bugscope Team we do this twice a week, usually, throughout the year
- Teacher Can chippy please have control of the scope?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Student what is a nanopartacle exactly?
Bugscope Team a very small particle that is nanometers big. These are around 450 nanometers.
- Student what is the highest magnification on this scope?
- Student Do the lines on the wing help them fly?
- Student can the leafhoppers ever exticnt
Bugscope Team they could go extinct if their environment was destroyed or chemicals they could not survive were everywhere
- Student Is there any way to kill a cockroach with nuclear power?
- Student Do all bugs have white things
Bugscope Team nope not unless they were hanging out with leafhoppers
- Student what are the shapes of the wings do to help them fly
- Student What are brochosomes?
Bugscope Team they help keep the leafhoppers' eggs moist
- Student are those spikes on the wings?
Bugscope Team yep
- Student are those whight things eggs
Bugscope Team no but they are thought to protect eggs from predation and/or from drying out
- Bugscope Team these are pollen grains
- Student do you put eggs under microscops?
Bugscope Team we've seen fruit fly eggs and spider eggs
- Student what is in pollen?
- Student cool:D, if you have one insect of one specieces and another and another going on to like a hundred, but only have one of each kind, would you be able to have a new species of insects if they reproduce keeping the in the container?
Bugscope Team it is not likely they would crossbreed, although there is a chance some species could
- Student what did you major in in college?
Bugscope Team English and Biology, and Cate: Physics
- Student What's the difference between veins and nerves?
- Student why do they have spikes on their wings?
Bugscope Team dragonflies are predators and they often fight in the while flying. I think the spikes help them fight
- Student Were is the laundery lint
- Student how far was the longest flight for a bug without stopping
Bugscope Team likely if we tried to look it up we would find that Monarchs fly 2 to 3000 miles, but I am not sure how often they stop
- 10:41am
- Student how do you get to do a job like this?
- Student how do you get to do a job like these
- Student whats your faveorite bug to look at under the microscope?
Bugscope Team often it is the earwig because they frequently have colonies of mites on them
- Student what do these scales help them fly
Bugscope Team the scales are like feathers on a bird. They also give the wings color, both structurally and sometimes with pigment granules
- Student is this like a dream job you dont regret what so ever. something that anyone would enjoy doing?
- Student Is it possible to see an atom under a kind of microscope?
Bugscope Team not in this one, but in another one yes
- Student how do you get to do a job like this?
Bugscope Team it just kind of happened. I was hired to set up and run the microscope and also specifically to help get Bugscope going
- Student How do these bugs fly if their are holes in it's wing?
Bugscope Team if there are holes in the wings, they wouldn't be able to fly very well if not at all
- Student HOw do the spikes help their legs?
- Student what was the best bug you had ever seen in the microscope
- Student do you get board with your job?
Bugscope Team no not easily anyway. There are always new or different projects going on that I get to help with or see
- Student What kind of microscope can see an atom?
- Student Is it fun to reasearch all these different insects?
- Student what is the hamuli of a wasp?
Bugscope Team the hamuli are the little hooks that hold the fore- and hindwing together so that instead of four wings the wasp (and bees too) have only two wings when they fly
- Student why did you choose these species to look at under the scope?
- Student can you see cells with the microscope?
Bugscope Team yes especially blood cells that have been prepped just for this --they are so cool
- Student what is a hamuli
Bugscope Team they are hooks on insects that are bees, wasps, or ants, if they have wings. The hooks hook the fore- and hindwings together when they fly to make it like 1 pair of wings instead of 2
- Bugscope Team bacteria are cells as well, and it is easy to see them with this 'scope
- Student Can we see a blood cell?
- Student what is you favorite thing to look at under the microscope?
- Student How do some bugs see at night
Bugscope Team some insects see infrared, and others may not rely on their sight and rely on their antennae for information
- Student Which microscope can you use to see an atom
Bugscope Team scanning tunneling microscopes and super high-end transmission electron microscopes
- Student is this the most powerful teloscope in the world or are there stronger, how far can the strongest telescope magnify to looking at what certain object
- Student can you see a blood cell
Bugscope Team we have seen them, but there arent any in the microscope today
- Student can you see the noucles
Bugscope Team we can see the nucleus in some cells because it bulges out near the middle of the cell
- Student do the claws of the silverfish hurt or are they to small
Bugscope Team the claws do help them grab onto things like food
- Student Do you bugs have pores?
- Student what happenes when you magnify a firefly
Bugscope Team you cannot see through it, so the abdomen looks much like other abdomens of beetles
- Student how big is a silverfish?
- Student how many times magnified do you need to see an atom
Bugscope Team maybe 800,000x with a resolution corrected TEM (transmission electron microscope)
- 10:46am
- Student is this the most powerful teloscope in the world or are there stronger, how far can the strongest telescope magnify to looking at what certain object?
- Student why are the scales ridged/ pointy?
- Student If you put it on extreme magnification, will you be able to see some of the cells, or what is inside of the cells, like the nucleus or the cytoplasm?
- Student what is your favorite thing to look at under the microscope?
Bugscope Team I think we like things that have regular patterns but are tiny -- even what is in the 'scope now -- a scale -- can be a big thrill
- Student how do fish breathe under water
Bugscope Team their gills extract oxygen from the water
- Student what is this^^^
- Student What is your favorite type of thing to look at under a microscope
- Student why do they have scales on their eyes?
- Student when a bug gets splatted on the wall is the green stuff blood?
Bugscope Team it is insect blood, which is called hemolymph, and the green comes from the intestines breaking as well
- Student do the bugs eyes get damaged from water or wind or weather since they don't have eyelids?
- Student where do you all your knowledge?
- Student what is the smallest bug you have seen under a microscope
Bugscope Team we have seen mites, which can be 200 microns long
- Student is this the most powerful teloscope in the world or are there stronger, how far can the strongest telescope magnify to looking at what certain object?
- Student If fishes gills extract oxygen from the water, then why cant the breathe out of water
Bugscope Team some can, but the gills are specialized to have water running through them, so they do not work well when they're dry
- Teacher Can Duckys have control of the scope please?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Student do bugs hybernate??
Bugscope Team some do, and some try to but not very well
- Student What kind of microscope can see an atom?
Bugscope Team an atomic force microscope (AFM) can see them
- Student no
- Student do bugs have bugs on them?
Bugscope Team some do
- Student where do you get all your knowledge?
Bugscope Team we have been doing bugscope for many years. Some we have learned from entomologists, and some we have learned from books
- Student so if they don't hibernate do they just drop dead???
- Student Can bugs get sick??
- Student Do insects have a heart if so how fast does it beat?
- Student what is a sycnchrotron?
- 10:51am
- Student what s the most dNGEROUS BUG IN THE WORLD?
- Student what is the most dangerous bug in the world]
- Student Why do people eat so much fish but not insects?
- Student do insects have a heart if so how fast does it beat
- Student about what is the longest life span of an insect/bug?
Bugscope Team 17 year locusts spend that many years as larvae, under the ground; but otherwise, some insects can live several years if they are not eaten or starved
- Student what would be the smallest bug you know of that you have looked at under a microscope
- Student do all bees have stingers
- Student how much venom does a wasp have?
- Student how much venom is in a bumble bee?
- Student Why do ticks stay in the fur of dogs??
Bugscope Team they have six legs (as subadults) or eight legs that help them cling to their host; also, of course, their mouthparts can embed and cut into skin
- Student can bugs get sick?
- Student sem do you think we can see a red blood cell on a bug please?
- Student is it true that bees just die after they sting you??
- Student what is a sycnchrotron?
Bugscope Team it is a large track many miles in diameter, often, that physics people use to accelerate particles around
- Student When the wasp or bee stings you or anything else, how does it release the venom?
- Student aren't daddy longlegs themost venemous spider but they dont have teeth right?
Bugscope Team nope they aren't. Daddy long legs which can refer to harvestmen or cellar spiders are not venomous or dangerous to humans. Harvestmen do not have fangs nor do they have venom glands.
- Student What is the biggest spider in the world and how big is it?
- Student how many poisonous bugs are there
- Student coooooooooooool!!!!!!!!
- Student what is a hamuli
Bugscope Team hamuli are the hooks that a wasp or bee uses to connect its fore and hindwings
- Student If a bee stings something, does their stinger break or do they get poisoned and die?
Bugscope Team honey bees have barbed stingers which can stick into mammal skin and won't come back out, so that when the bee pulls away, the stinger and the muscle attachment comes out of the bee and the bee bleeds out and dies
- Student do you know what the most dangerous or poisenous bug in the world is?
- 10:56am
- Student Can I see dust mights?
- Student do you find the bugs alive and then kill them? or do you find them dead??????
- Teacher Can Ninjaflapjack have control of the scope?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Student where is this school located and what do you need to go to it
- Student where do you get all of your knowledge?
- Student what is that thing near it's eye????
- Student do you get multiple organisms of the same species to compare them?
- Student pffhjhgjcghv\
- Teacher Students, we have about 7 minutes left. Choose your questions wisely :)
- Student how fast can a bug fly or walk/
Bugscope Team the Desert Locust, which is thought presently to be the fastest flying insect, is said to fly at an average air speed of 33 kilometers per hour
- Student why do birds eat some bugs and not others
Bugscope Team some don't taste good and some have really hairy and make it hard for them to swallow
- Student Can I see dust mights?
Bugscope Team not today; dustmites are softbodied, so when we see them they are often shriveled up
- Student do you get multiple organisms of the same species to compare them?
- Student how do you get control of the scope
Bugscope Team we use the controls built into the software -- there is a computer that drives the 'scope; and then there is the Bugscope software we are using now
- Student can we get control if the scope
- Student how do bugs live in the artic??
Bugscope Team there are some plants in the arctic they feed off of. The water bears are predatory and sometimes they eat bacteria as well
- Student If the bee's stinger get stuck in the mammal, could it possibly get permenatly stuck in the mammal? Or will it eventually fall out?
- Student What are the bumps on the eyes??????
Bugscope Team the bumps are the individual lenses of the eyes, called ommatidia
- Student what is ur highest magnification, on ur best scope?
- Student why do flies clean their hands before they eat raw food when they are already so dirty?
Bugscope Team they aren't cleaning their hands so much as their eyes and antennae. If youwatch closely, after rubbing their legs together, maybe to get extra dirt off, they will rub them over their head
- Student do bugs sleep?
- Student do you get board with your job?
- Student why are the eyes close up look like diamond shape corn
Bugscope Team a hexagonal shape, kind of like a diamond shape, is the best way to close pack something that is essentially round, and also that is 3D, like the dome shape of an eye like that
- Student that's really cool! Thanks!
- 11:01am
- Student Do you compare two organism that are the same ever?
Bugscope Team sometimes you want to see what the differences might be between a male and a female
- Student h what do insects eat
- Student does the hair on the bugs eyes help it see better or help be warm?
- Student Can bugs live in the artic?
- Student Why do dustmights shrivel up
Bugscope Team they do not have a hard exoskeleton like most insects; spiders are similar because the cephalothorax is hardened but the abdomen is soft
- Teacher Can Justingbeiberfan have final control of the scope?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Student why does the fly look like it was smashed?
Bugscope Team the one was a little smashed -- good call!
- Student Depending on the climate that bugs are found in, if bugs get to hot, can they die or get burned to death? Or if they get to cold, will they freeze to death?
- Student waht inspired you to do this job?
- Student do you ever look at fossils?
- Student do you look at foccles
Bugscope Team we have looked at fossils in the past (that is not supposed to be a joke)
- Student if they have such big eyes why do they have feelers like hairs
- Student how do some bugs are in water and can fly
- Student how long did it take you guys to learn all of this information?
- Student are bugs still alive if they get frozen in the ice age if they thaw out quickly?
Bugscope Team most likely not, but we have thawed out insects from our freezer that woke back up, so i could be wrong. I think eggs tend to survive better.
- Student could bugs shock you if they touck you
Bugscope Team that would be a new one for me!
- Student why does the salt have holes?
- Student how many bones do bugs have? do they have bones?
Bugscope Team no bones at all -- they have their skeleton on the outside, called an exoskeleton
- Student How does the salt have so many cracks but not come apart??
- Student what did you manger in to get this job?
Bugscope Team me -- Biology and English; Cate -- Physics
- 11:06am
- Student what came first the insects or the bugs
Bugscope Team bugs are a type of insect technically. All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs. Cicadas and leafhoppers are bugs
- Teacher Thank you very much for your time and expertise during this session of bugscope. The students are super excited. Thank you.
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- Teacher Thank you again. We had a great time and this was an amazing experience for all my students. They had a wonderful educational experience. You both rock!
- Teacher Is there anything more I need to do as a teacher from here?
- Bugscope Team These are exactly the kind of sessions we like, Mrs. N. It's the way Bugscope is supposed to work.
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- Teacher I have already hooked the rest of the science teachers in the school and they are ready to sign up for next year.
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