Connected on 2010-11-23 12:00:00 from Kintnersville, PA, US
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- Bugscope Team sample is in the chamber and pumping down...
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- Bugscope Team We are ready to roll.
- 12:08pm
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope, Mrs. H-T and Mrs. P!
- Bugscope Team Ms. Drake and Mrs. Balliet! Welcome to Busgcope!
- 12:14pm
- Teacher Thank you, we are excited to be here!
- Bugscope Team Great!
- Bugscope Team Let us know when you have questions -- about anything.
- Teacher Thank you!
- Teacher Will do....getting set up!
- Bugscope Team presently Mrs. H-T has control of the 'scope, but we can confer it to anyone who wants it, one person at a time.
- Teacher Sounds good.
- Bugscope Team this is a caterpillar, and you can see what other presets we made -- locations on the sample stub -- on the screen to the left
- Bugscope Team the person with control of the 'scope can click on one of the presets and the 'scope will drive to that place
- Teacher Okay, I'm back. I will start changing the image as soon as we get all of the kids logged on.
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- Bugscope Team ok great :)
- 12:20pm
- Bugscope Team the kids may have to log on as guests if the student notation is not available
- Bugscope Team this is a brand-new interface that still has a few glitches...
- Guest Hi
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- Bugscope Team hi there
- Teacher Hi
- Bugscope Team Hello! Welcome to Bugscope!
- Guest Hello
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- Guest hello scot can i ask you a question
Bugscope Team you bet!
- Guest Hello
- Guest Scot I have a Q.
- Bugscope Team let us know when any of you have questions
- Guest How old is Bug Scope?
- Guest How long does it take to make a scanning electron microsope?
- Guest About how many different bugs do you look at per week?\
- Guest WHATS YOUR FAVORITE BUG TO EXAMINE?
- Guest ok why do scaning electron microscopes youse electrons instead of protons
Bugscope Team I think it's because it's much easier to work with electrons, compared to protons
- Guest WHATS YOUR FAVORITE BUG TO EXAMINE?
Bugscope Team i like wasps and bees because you can sometimes see their stingers and they usually have some cool looking pollen on them
- Guest ok
- Guest cate can i ask you some questions
Bugscope Team sure
- Guest scot, whats your favorite part about being a scientist?
- Guest why do so many scientists look at bugas
- Guest Why aren't the legs part of the 3 body parts
Bugscope Team the legs are part of the thorax, one of the three body part
- Guest When was the first SEM created
- Guest IS IT HARD TO USE THE SCANNING MICROSCOPE SCOT
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE EXAMINING BUGS
- Guest Why is the electron microscope so big
- Guest what is your favorite specimen to look at
- Guest How long does it take to vacum all of the air out of the chamber ?
Bugscope Team four or 5 minutes, usually
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- Guest why do so many scientists look at bugs
- Guest hi what makes a scanning electron microscope better than a light microscope?
Bugscope Team the electron microscope uses electrons instead of light. Electrons are much smaller which means we can resolve much smaller things (as small as 2 nanometers with this microscope)
- Guest HOW FAST DOES LITE TRAVLE
- Guest How many bugs have you looked at this month?
Bugscope Team 30 or 40 or more
- Guest joe
- Guest scot can i ask a question?
- Guest How does the image gets into the computer?
- Guest why don't the baby bugs have wings?
- Guest HOW FAST DOES LITE TRAVLE
- Guest why do so many scientists look at bugs?
- Guest what is the highest magnification you can go to using the scanning electron microscope
- Guest WHY DO U LIKE EXAMINING BUGS?
- Guest What was the most interesting specimen you have ever looked at?
- Guest Why is the electron microscope so big
- Guest Is the electron microscope easy or hard to use?
Bugscope Team I think this microscope is pretty easy to use. We have shown this microscope to little kids before and they were able to drive around pretty well in under 5 minutes
- Guest Is your job dangerous in any way?
Bugscope Team sometimes we work with bad chemicals, but we have fume hoods and gloves
- Guest About how many different bugs do you look at in one week?
- Guest HOW FAST DOES LITE TRAVLE
Bugscope Team 186, 300 mps
- Guest Scot, what is your favorite specimin to look at?
- Guest KATe or SCOt WHEN WAS THE SCANNING MICROSCOPE MADE
- Guest How long does it take to make a scanning electron microscope?
Bugscope Team it seems like a few months
- Guest Hello do you have to have certain size bugs?
Bugscope Team Yes, they can't be too big. Usually the smaller the better because those small insects usually have a lot of cool features to look at
- Guest How do you like working wtih a electron microscope?
- Guest What was your favorite specimen to research?
Bugscope Team no it is easy, really
- Guest What do electrons look like
- Guest scot colud I asky you a question
- Guest What is the highest magnification of a scanning electron microscope?
- Guest What inspired you to be a scientist?
- Guest How much has the electron microscope contributed to science?
- Guest WHY DO U LIKE EXAMINING BUGS?
Bugscope Team they are so cool looking on all levels of magnification
- Guest How long have you been working with microscopes?
- Guest can you scan a live human
- Guest Who created the first electron microscope?
- Guest IS THE MICROSCOPE EASY TO WORK
- Guest Hello how does the microscope work without light?
Bugscope Team it uses electrons rather than light, and the images come as signal, not as light
- Guest What is your favorite specimen tp look at under the SEM
- Guest Are they Currently Planning a new microscope?
- Guest How hard is it to opporite the microsope?
- Guest Cate or Scot, what is your favorite specimin to look at?
- Guest what is the highest magnification you can use
Bugscope Team 200,000x is about it for research grade imaging
- Guest What type of Bugs do you mainly focus on??
- Guest WHAT MADE YOU LIKE BUGS??
- Guest What is it like working with a scanning electron microscope
Bugscope Team so much fun
- Guest thanks cate! What are the coolest things you've seen under a microscope?
- Guest which microscope do you like better
- Teacher Scot, how do you center the microscope with these new controls to focus on something else?
- Guest What is a sed
Bugscope Team secondary electron detector
- Guest How far does the SEM zoom in?
Bugscope Team This one can zoom in to around 200,000x, but with insects we don't usually need to zoom in any more than 40,000x or so
- Guest WHAT POWERS THE MICROSCOPE
- Guest SCOT IS THE SCANNING MICROSCOPE EASY TO USE
- Guest WHAT MADE YOU LIKE BUGS??
- Guest scot what is your favorite specimen to look at
- Guest when did You get the SEM
Bugscope Team we got this microscope around 11 years ago
- Guest O I never knew that ok so the next question is Is it hard trying to get a good look at the specimen?
- Guest Can you look at more then one item at once?
- Guest have you ever discovered something new
- Guest what are the difference between compound eyes and simple
Bugscope Team compound eyes have many facets, and simple eyes are just single eyes that sometimes are not as good
- Guest How did you create this microscope?
- Guest is it fun looking at all the bugs????? (:
- Guest Is it hard to prepare a slide?
- Guest cate what is your favorite specimen to look at
Bugscope Team I like wasps and bees. Stingers are cool to see on them, among other features
- Guest WHY DO SO MANY SCIENTISTS LOOK AT BUGS?
- Guest why don't you see many SEMs
- Guest How can the sem use electrons to see
- Guest Why is the image only black and white not color?
- Guest How long does it take to prepare the SEM??
- Guest What type of bugs do you mainly focus on?
Bugscope Team small ones, and usually not generalists like roaches
- Guest how big is sem?
- Guest SCOT ; WHAT POWERS THE MICROSCOPE \\\\\
- Guest what are tgose hairy things on the bugs
- Guest HOW IS THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE DIFFERENT/BETTER THAN A LIGHT MICROSCOPE?
- Guest HOW DOES WHITE LIGHT GOING INTO A PRISM MAKE A RAIN BOW
Bugscope Team the prism breaks the white light into its components, which are all different colors
- Guest hi,how long have you been studied bugs?
Bugscope Team I've been looking at insects for 5 years. I am no entomologist, but I know a fair amount about insects
- Guest How long have you been useing microscopes?
- Teacher Everyone in my group is logged on.
- Guest Can you control it from a computer
Bugscope Team yes we can
- Guest Hiya! What is your favorite part of using the SEM?
- Guest Do you catch your own specimens?
- Guest do u like bugs? do they make u happy inside? (: :)
- Guest Why are ther different types of microscopes?
- Guest which microscope do you like better?light or electron
Bugscope Team electron for sure
- Guest What is your favorite specimin to look at?
- Guest Why does it not need light?
- Guest how many bugs have you scanned
- Guest WHAT MADE YOU LIKE BUGS??
- Guest Why do you like the electron better?
- Guest What is your fav. part og your job?
- Guest have you ever discovered something new
- Teacher I am switching to the spider face....BOO!!!
- Guest What is your favorite bug?
- Guest How big is SEM
Bugscope Team it's like a very large desk with a column at one end about 6 feet tall
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- Guest what made you like bugs?
- Guest how do you kill the bugs that you use as specimens? why do you kill them that way?
- Guest how many bugs did you study this month???/
- Guest why don't you see many SEMs ?
- Guest Have you ever discovered a new bug?
- Guest SJ can i ask you some questions?
- Guest WHAT MADE YOU LIKE BUGS??
- Guest How does the technology work
- Guest WHAT IS THE HIGHEST MAGNAFACATION YOU CAN GO TO SCOT
- Guest Scot, how long have you been working here?
- Guest hey scot how big is SEM?
Bugscope Team maybe 8 feet long 3 to 4 feet wide, and 6 ft tall at one end
- Guest whats the coolest thing you found by looking at a bug?
- Guest hello how many species do you discover
- Guest Cate, about how many different bugs do you look at in one week?
- Guest WHAT BUGS DO YOU MAINLY FOCUS ON?
- Guest Hey Scot how long have you been useing microscopes
- Guest have u ever made a rainbow?????
Bugscope Team yes but not with this kind of 'scope
- Guest Whats the most dangerous thing about this microscope???
Bugscope Team explosure to x-rays I suppose. But the instrument is well shielded, so I'm not too worried about that
- Guest How many species of bugs have you looked at?
- Guest HOW LONG HAS THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE BEEN "ALIVE"?
- Guest Are the currently Planning a new type of microscope?
- Guest how do the electrons go through the tube without sticking to it
- Guest Can you look at more then one item at once?
- Guest How do you see a thick object through a microscope?
- Guest have you ever discovered something new
- Guest Any kind
- Guest Is it hard trying to get a good look at the specimen?
- Guest When was the first electron microscope made?
Bugscope Team about 1931, but it was a different kind
- Guest Cate whats the biggest diffrence between the microscopes?
- Guest SCOT is the scanning microscope easy to use
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Guest how does SEM help you?
- Guest When were scanning electron microscopes invented
- Guest do you like your job
Bugscope Team yes I love it. I never get bored- always something new to look at
- Guest do bugs just die?
- Guest scot ur cooll u made a rainbow!! (:
- Guest hOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A SCIENTIST?
- Guest Cate, How many microscopes are there
- Guest How many times have you used a SEM
- Guest have you ever discovered somethin new
- Guest Who created the first microscope do you know?
- Teacher Is it proper to call these critters bugs?
Bugscope Team generically...
- Teacher How much does an electron microsope cost?
- Guest hOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A SCIENTIST?
- Guest what was your 3 favorite bugs you study
Bugscope Team earwigs, ticks, weevils
- Guest Cate, How long have you been a scientist?
Bugscope Team I've been working in this lab since before I graduated from the University of Illinois. I started here in 2005.
- Guest How often do you use it
- Guest SCOT what is the highest magnifacation you can do ??
- Guest What is the biggest speciman you have ever used?
- Guest DO U LIKE EXAMINING BUGS???
- Guest awesome!
- Guest What is the microscopes highest magnification
- Teacher Am I able to reposition the view to focus on specific parts?
- Guest scot why is the electron microscopes so big
- Guest Whats a SEM?
- Guest Whats the most complex thing you have ever looked at under the microscope?
- Guest Hey scot when was SEM invented?
- Guest who invented the SEM?
Bugscope Team one guy who helped was once a chancellor here: Everhart
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH MICROSCOPES???????????
- Guest SCOT, what type of bugs do you mainly focus on??
- Guest how long have you worked with bugs??????????
- Guest How many types of bugs have you studied since you started working as a scientist? SCOT.
- Guest Scot, how long did it take to build this microscope?
- Guest What is the highest MAG?
- Guest WHAT MADE YOU LIKE BUGS??
- Guest what info are you looking for?
- Guest Why is the electron microscope so big?
- Guest Scot, about how many different bugs do you look at in one week?
- Guest How long have you bin a scintists answer mine please
- Guest Scot,How many times have you used a SEM
- Guest WHAT MADE YOU LIKE BUGS??
- Guest What is the highest Mag.?
Bugscope Team we can go to over 800,000x but the best images are no more than 200,000x
- Guest please answer this scot , what is the highest magnifacation you can go to
- Guest scot, what makes both microscopes show slides?
- Guest Can insects eat there own speices?
Bugscope Team yes, praying mantises are one example. Spiders, though they aren't insects, are another example
- Guest ???
- Guest What is the microscopes highest magnification?
- Guest Is the microscope hard to use at first?
- Guest WHAT MADE YOU LIKE BUGS??
- Guest Can you look at more then one item at once?
- Guest What got you into science?
- Guest Hey Scott what do you find intresting about your work?
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH MICROSCOPES???????
- Guest Do you look at live specimens?
- Guest How long have you been in this line of work?
- Guest Why do you coat the specimen in metal
- Guest SCOT or CATE when was the scanning microscope invented
- Guest IS THERE ANY NEAT CHARACTERISTIC OF A fly?
Bugscope Team yes they have big compound eyes, their antennae are unique to flies, and they also have halteres, which flies only have as well
- Guest Hey scot what is your favorite bug to examine?
- Guest how many bugs have you seen under the electron microscope
- Guest Question: What is the best microscope to use and why? P.S. Scott, and Cate thank you for taking your time to answer our questions
- Guest SCOT, what type of bugs do you mainly study/
- Guest whats the best part about being a scientist?
- Guest do you enjoy the SEM
- Guest What year did you start using the SEM
- Guest Are there any neat characteristics of a fly? :)
- Guest is it easy to work
- Guest whats your faveorite specimen to view?:)
Bugscope Team weevils
- Guest Is there a SEM that can see in color
- Guest Are there certain bugs you look at
- Guest WHAT MADE YOU LIKE BUGS??
- Teacher Scot, I need help...how do I reposition the view to focus on something specific?
Bugscope Team click on the screen to re-center
- Guest DO YOU HAVE DO PLUG IN A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE?
Bugscope Team yes, it has a very big plug, but we leave it plugged in and on at all times
- Guest Is there a new microscope in plans?
- Guest What is the lowest magnification on the electron microscope?
Bugscope Team 17x
- Guest SCOT, what type of bugs do you enjoy studying??
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- Guest WHEN WAS THE SEM CREATED?
- Guest WHAT GOT YOU INTO LIKING BUGS???
- Guest what is the coolest thing youve seen under the sem
- Guest Is it possible to break a SEM?
- Guest scot what is your in your opion a cool bug to look at
- Guest How do you use this microscope? like you use a regular microscope??
- Guest WHEN DID YOU START EXAMINING BUGS???
- Guest hOW IS A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE BEEN "ALIVE"?
- Guest what are the difference between compound eyes and simple
- Guest Hey Cate what do you dislike about your work?
- Guest What made you whnt the job you have?
- Guest DO YOU LOOK AT OTHER THINGS OTHER THEN BUGS
- Guest DO YOU ENJOY WORKING WITH IT
- Guest Thanks
- Teacher How big of a magnification would we have to go to in order to see individual molecules or atoms?
- Guest WHEN was the scanning microscope made
- Guest what is the highest magnifcation on the electron microscope
- Guest How long does it take to prepare a specimen?
- Guest HOW MANT BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER ELECTRON MICROSCOPE?
- Teacher Why is important to study bugs?
- Guest what is the highest magnifacation you can do
- Teacher Is it possbile to use this microscope on humans?
Bugscope Team only if you look at pieces of them
- Guest WHY DID YOU CREATE THIS MICROSCOPE????
- Guest WHEN WAS THE SEM CREATED???
- Guest What makes a SEM magnify so high, cate?
- Guest HOW LONG HAVE YOU WORKED WITH BUGS??:)
- Guest HEY SCOT IS SEM HARD TO USE?
- Guest SJ,How many microscopes are there
- Guest What year was the first sem made?
Bugscope Team the first commercial SEM, 1965 by Cambridge Instruments
- Guest Hey cate are you scared of any bugs
- Guest IS THE VACUUM SPECIAL OR NOT
- Guest is there any color
- Guest Scott or Cate do you wish you would be doing any other job besides this job?
- Guest CATE when was the scanning microscope invented
Bugscope Team Charles Oatley in 1952, but Max Knott created the first prototype of the SEM in 1935
- Guest WHEN WAS THE SCANNING MICROSCOPE MADE
- Guest IS THERE A WAY TO LOOK AT LIVE BUGS WITH THE SEM?
Bugscope Team we can but it is not nice to the bugs, which have to hold their breath
- Guest how many bugs have you seen under electron microscope
- Guest what is the coolest thing youv ever seen under the sem
- Guest Hey Scott what is your favorite thing about microscopes?
- Guest How long have you been working here?
- Guest Whats a SEM?
Bugscope Team scanning electron microscope
- Guest Are there any other kinds of microscopes you use?
- Guest HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE INSIDE OF THE SED
- Guest CATE, ABOUT HOW MANY DIFFERENT BUGS DO YOU LOOK AT IN ONE WEEK?
- Guest HEY SCOT IS SEM HARD TO USE?
- Guest Why are there different microscopes?
- Guest HOW IS THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE DIFFERENT/BETTER THAN THE LIGHT MICROSCOPE?
- Guest Do you know who created the first microscope?
- Guest how many bugs have you seen under the SEM
Bugscope Team thousands. Bugscope has been running nearly 12 years
- Guest Hiow long have you been working here?
- Guest HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN MAD AT THE sem
- Guest What is the microscopes lowest mag?
- Guest What kind of college did you go to to become a scientist?
Bugscope Team I graduated from the university of Illinois with a bachelors in physics. Scott has degrees in both english and biology. To be a scientist you need a degree in some sort of science field.
- Guest Scott what are you studying right now?
- Teacher What is the magnification of the photos we are looking at?
Bugscope Team right now just 40x
- Guest when was the electron microscope invented
- Bugscope Team oops I mean right now just 50x
- Guest Cate,Why don't you see many SEMs?
- Guest how many different types of microscopes are there???
- Teacher Why doesn't it say the magnification anymore?
- Guest Cate, whats your favorite part of your job?
- Guest Why is the microscope so big?
- Guest how long have you been in this line of work?
Bugscope Team since 1983
- Guest DO SOMETIMES YOU WANT TO SMASH THE SEM?
- Guest Whats your favorite part of the job
Bugscope Team it never gets boring. When we aren't having fun doing bugscope, we do other projects
- Guest Cate how many microscopes are there
- Guest What made you want the job you have?
- Guest what is the coolest thing youv ever seen under the SEM
- Guest THANK U
- Guest SCOT, WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BE A SCIENTIT?
- Guest cate how long have you been working
- Guest HOW LONG HAVE YOU WORKED WITH BUGS? :)
- Guest how do most bugs comunicate?
- Guest who created the scanning microscope.???>>
- Guest what is the coolest thing youv ever seen under the SEM\
- Guest why are their more than 1 microscopes?
- Guest whay do you like to look at ticks?
- Guest How much did the SEM cost?
Bugscope Team This one cost around $600,000 11 years ago
- Guest who created the scanning microscope.???>>
- Guest SCOT, HOW MANY BUGS DO YOU EXAMINE A DAY?
- Guest THANKSS SCOT:)))
- Guest Thanks, Cate, that makes sence. (:
- Guest how come you cant see as much detail on a light microscope as a SEM?
- Guest who created the scanning microscope.???>>
- Guest HEY SCOT IS SEM HARD TO USE?
- Guest scot how many microscopes are there
- Guest Scot, About how many different bugs do you look at in one week?
- Guest CATE, WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BE A SCIENTIST?
- Guest How long have you been working here?
- Guest Is it hard to operate the Scanning Electron Microscope?
- Guest How long ago was the First Microscope created?
Bugscope Team 400 years ago
- Guest Where do you get your specimens?
Bugscope Team some of the specimens are from other schools that had leftovers, and some are from what we find around the lab
- Guest WHAT IS THE HARDEST PART ABOUT USING AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
- Teacher What kind of spider are we actually looking at?
- Guest How much has the elaectron microscope contributed to science
- Guest Scot what is your favorite part of your job.
- Guest who created the scanning microscope.???>>
- Guest Scot, what made you want to have the job you have?
- Guest Whats your favorite parts about examining bugs?
- Guest who created the scanning microscope.???>>
- Guest Scot Is there any color??????????
- Guest SCOT, HOW LONG HAS THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE BEEN INVENTED?
- Teacher This is the butterfly's claw.
- Guest what is the coolest thing youv ever seen uner the SEM
- Guest ???
- Guest What is your favorite part of your job and why?
- Guest WHAT BUGS DO YOU LIKE THAT YOU HAVE LOOKED AT?
- Guest HAVE U DICOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest Who invented the SEM microscope?
- Guest why don't the baby bugs have wings?
- Guest HEY SCOT IS SEM HARD TO USE? PLEASE ANSWER
- Guest Can you name three types of bugs you liketo look at?
Bugscope Team ticks, weevils, and earwigs; ticks are related to spiders. they're not insects
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- Guest Who mad it?
- Guest If air got in the camber would it effect the electrons
Bugscope Team yes, we wouldn't be able to get a good image
- Guest what was your first bug you looked at in the sem
- Guest CATE, HAS A BUG EVER BLOWN UP IN THE SED?
- Guest who invented the SEM?
- Guest What was the first specimen you viewed?:)
- Guest How long have you been working here?
- Guest SJ,Why don't you see many SEMs?
- Guest whats the best part about being a scientist
- Guest Scot, what are we looking at right now?
- Guest Are there any other kinds of technology you use?
- Guest who invented the SEM
- Guest WHO INVENTED THE SEM
- Teacher the butterfly claw Joe F.
- Guest Cate why is the Sem so much bigger than the other microscope?
- Guest who invented the SEM?
- Guest what is a SEM?
- Guest CAN YOU USE ANY TYPE OF BUG ON THIS MICROSCOPE?
Bugscope Team anything small is best
- Guest Who invented this microscope?
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every day?
- Guest cate, how many bugs have you seen under electron microscope
- Guest Cate Whats your favorite type of bug?
- Guest HOW MANNY KNOWN SPEICES OF INSECTS ARE KNOWN TO MAN SCOTT ANSWER ME PLAESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest what is the coolest thing youve ever seen under the SEM
Bugscope Team brochosomes, a really awesome looking pollen...
- Guest Hi Scott
- Guest HOW LONG HAS THE SEM BEEN INVENTED?
- Guest why are their more than 1 kind of microscopes
- Guest Cate. Whats your favorite part of your job?
- Guest whats your favorite bug color :)
Bugscope Team iridescent blue
- Guest HO INVENTED SEM?
- Guest thanks scot
- Guest CATE
- Guest who invented the SEM?
- Guest How long does it take to prepare a specimen?
Bugscope Team after it is dry, only a few minutes to coat with gold-palladium
- Guest Cate, is it hard to prepare a slide?
Bugscope Team No. I first take an aluminum disc and put double stick carbon tape on it. From there I pick out what insects I want to use, unless the school sent some in, and then wherever I want to lay down an insect, I dab a little silver paint to help glue the insect to the tape and also to help make the sample more grounded. The hardest part is not crushing the sample as I pick it up. Insects get very brittle after they die and dry out.
- Guest thank you scot
- Guest is it hard to prepare a slide
Bugscope Team it is easy
- Guest is it hard to prepare a specimen
- Guest what are we looking at
- Guest thanks cate! What are the coolest things you've seen under a microscope?
- Guest HOW MANY SEM ARE THERE
- Guest Scot, what made you want the job you have/
- Guest how long does it take to get a bug you want to study??
- Guest Where do you get the bugs from
Bugscope Team people send them to us -- my mom even sends them
- Guest how do the images get on the computer screen
- Guest Why do you coat the specimen in metal
- Guest What is the best part about your job?
- Guest SCOT, HAVE YOU EVER MADE A SPECIMEN SLIDE
- Guest SCOT, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest SOMEONE HOW BIG ARE BUGS BRAINS
- Guest Cate,what is your favorite part of using the SEM.
- Guest Who invented this microscope?
- Guest Scott this is for you,how many university have a scanning microscope
Bugscope Team most of the large universities have at least one
- Guest Whats the hardest thing to remember when using the microscope?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest So scott, why are their more than 1 kind of microscopes????
- Guest SJ HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest SCOT, IS IT FUN STUDYING BUGS?
- Guest WHY IS SEM BETTER THAN A LIGHT MICROSCOPE?
Bugscope Team much better resolution
- Guest Scott, how many years in college does it take to become a scientist?
- Guest How long have you been looking at the SEM?
- Guest NO BODY IS ANSWERING ME
- Guest neet o
- Guest Cate, what made you want the job you have/
- Guest wHY WAS SEM INVENTED
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE WORKING WHITH MICROSCOPES????????
- Guest Hey scott, did you ever break an SEM?
- Guest why do you paint the spesimen gold why not silver?
- Guest how much has the SEM contributed to science?
Bugscope Team it is hard to say, but it certainly does help. we see that here
- Guest DO YOU WANT TO DO ANY OTHER JOBS?
Bugscope Team Not currently. I like where I am!
- Guest WHATS YOUR FAVORITE BUG TO EXAMINE CATE?????????????
- Guest Does any one know how long it takes to prepare a specimen?
- Guest CATE, IS IT HARD TO PREPARE A SLIDE??
- Guest Cate how many bugs do you look at per day
- Guest Who invented this microscope?
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest what makes an SEM have such a high magnification?
Bugscope Team the ability to have a very fine stream of electrons
- Guest Thank you Cate, now scot how long have you been working
- Guest What does the SEM run on? Electricity? Solar?
Bugscope Team electricity for sure
- Guest How big can an item be to fit into the SEM?
- Guest IS IT HARD TO PREPARE A SLIDE?
- Guest CATE OR SCOT, CAN YOU MAGNFI MORE THAN A REGUALAR MICROSCOPE?
- Guest Cate, what made u want the job you have?
- Guest Why is the SEM bigger than the light microscope?
- Guest WHO INVENTED SEM
- Guest how does the image from the microscope apear on the computer
- Guest So Cate, why are their more than one kind of microscopes???
- Teacher we can't scroll down
Bugscope Team try refreshing your screen?
- Guest Who made this microscope?
- Guest If the SEM costs $600,000 11 years ago what does it cost now?
- Guest HOW LONG HAS THE SEM BEEN ALIVE?
- Guest what is the coolest thing youv ever seen under the sem
Bugscope Team we have seen a cool gecko toe and also a cool starfish leg.
- Guest how much has the SEM contributed to science
- Guest SOMEONE HOW BIG ARE BUGS BRAINS
- Guest HOW MANY SEM ARE THERRE
- Guest How do you look at a live dangerus speisimen without geting hurt?
- Guest Would The image be black if on electron failed
- Guest WHY IS THERE NO COLOR
Bugscope Team we are collecting secondary electrons as signal, so they come in intensities. white is a lot and black is none
- Guest What is the microscopes lowest mag.?
Bugscope Team about 50x
- Guest How much has the sem contributed to science?
- Guest SCOT, IS THERE PLANS IN MAKING A NEW MICROSCOPE IN THE PLANS
Bugscope Team always
- Guest What was the best image you have ever looked at?
- Guest how long does it take to prepare a speciman Cate?
- 12:45pm
- Guest whats the best part of being a scientist?
- Guest why did you choose to study bugs?
- Guest One electron failes
- Guest .....WHY DO YOU HAVE TO COAT A SPECIMEN WITH GOLD?
- Guest scot, is it hard to prepare a speciemen
- Guest how much has the SEM contributed to science
- Guest SJ, do you like to work with microscopes
- Guest Can you look at living cells under the SEM or do the electrons zap it/
- Guest Scot, who invented the SEM
- Guest Did you ever eat a bug? (:\
- Guest why don't the baby bugs have wings?????????
- Guest whats the best image you have ever looked at:)))
- Guest HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN APART AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
Bugscope Team we have taken parts off when we try to find where a problem is coming from. Sometimes we get vacuum leaks or some other weird stuff
- Guest Who made this microscope
- Guest what's your favorite part of your job?
- Guest CAN YOU FIT AN APPLE IN IT
Bugscope Team it would fit but be too juicy to pump down; we have looked at dried pieces of apples
- Guest How often do you use a microscope?
- Guest How many kinds of bug are there?
- Guest WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INSECTS
Bugscope Team weevils, because they are so cute
- Guest how does the image from the microscope apear on the computer screen
- Guest ......WHAT INSECTS DO YOU MAINLY FOCUS ON.....?
- Guest Why gold why not silver?
- Guest SJ
- Guest .WHO CREATED THE SCANNING MICROSCOPE.
- Guest w
- Guest How much has the sem contributed to science
- Guest Scott what is the speciment you are studying right now.
- Guest What is the SED in a Sem?
Bugscope Team SED stands for Secondary Electron Detector. It is responsible for gathering the signal of the image you see
- Guest SCOT, what TYPE of microscope is there in plans?
- Guest WHY DID YOU PICK THIS TO BE YOUR JOB?
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest What are we looking at?
- Guest .......WHY IS SEM BETTER TO USE THAN THE LIGHT MICROSCOPE?
- Guest How many years do you need to go to college to become a scientist
- Guest Have you ever looked at anything other than a bug?
- Guest when was SEM invented??
- Guest how much has the sem contributed to science
- Guest WHO INVENTED THE SEM???????
Bugscope Team Charles Oatley in 1952, but Max Knott created the first prototype of the SEM in 1935
- Guest CAN BUGS JUST DIE?
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest How big can an item be to fit in the SEM?
- Guest HOW LONG HAS SEM BEEN INVENTED?
- Guest Scot, who invented the SEM?
- Guest Awseome question Justy! Scot, did you ever eat a bug
- Guest who invented sem
- Guest Who invented SEM
Bugscope Team a few different people contributed over a number of years
- Guest CATE, WHAT TYPE OF BUGS DO YOU MAINLY FOCUS ON?
Bugscope Team I don't really focus on any one type of insect
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest Why are there different microscopes?
- Teacher What are some of the purposes you use the SEM for beyond just viewing interesting bugs?
- Guest Can you study a human body with an sem...?
- Guest do you enjoy microscopes
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH MICROSCOPES??????????
- Guest how long does it take to prepare a sem for use.
Bugscope Team it needs to be running all of the time, and then it takes 4 or 5 minutes, maybe
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest how does the image from the sem apear on the screen
- Guest What are the coolest things you've seen under a microscope?
- Guest How big can the largest thing be that you can put in the SEM???
- Guest May I ask a question? What is the best part of your job?
- Guest WHAT IS TH MOST POPULAR MICROSCOPE THAT YUO HAVE USED
- Guest how high can the magnification on both a light microscope and an SEM go?
- Guest Sorry Cate I spelled your name wrong. Is it hard working with micrscopes?
- Guest IS THERE ANY COLOR?
Bugscope Team the detector only gathers a signal here. We can put in false colors on an image we take
- Guest How many bugs have you looked at?
- Guest WHAT INTERESTED YOU TO BE A SCIENTIST?
Bugscope Team the logic - the sense things make when you start to understand them
- Guest Thanks Scot!
- Guest Scot, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest Do you like your job
- Guest CATE DO YOU LIKE WORKING ITH THIS SEM OF YOURS
Bugscope Team yes I find it is easy to control
- Guest CATE, WICH WOULD YOU PERFER. THE LIGHT MICROSCOPE OR THE S.E.M?
- Guest thanks cate! What are the coolest things you've seen under a microscope?
- Guest whats the difference between compund eyes and simple
- Guest gabby why did you say that lol, and scot, whats your favorite bug???
- Guest Scot, who made the SEM?
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest What kind of live specimens have you looked at?
- Guest how high can the magnification on both a light microscope and an SEM go?
- Guest What is the microscopes lowest magnification?
- Guest DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest HOW DOES THE IMAGE FROM THE SEM APEAR ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN
- Guest CATE , CAN YOU USE ANY TYPE OF BUG IN THIS MICROSCOPE?
Bugscope Team the bigger ones are a little difficult because they take up so much space, but we pretty much can
- Guest SCOT or KATE, what TYPE of microscope is there in plans?
Bugscope Team there are a variety; light microscopes are getting better and better; TEM and SEM are becoming more refined
- Guest Cate how long have you been working here?
- Guest HOW OLD IS BUGSCOPE????
Bugscope Team about 11 years old
- Guest Scot, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest HAVE U DIDCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest What are the coolest things you've seen under a microscope?
- Guest DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
- Guest can you use a timy timy bug and can you still see the bug? cate or scot
Bugscope Team yes we sometimes even see mites on insects!
- Teacher I am going to pull up the housefly head. Notice the differences between its mouth parts and the butterfly's.
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest SCOT, WHAT BUG DO THINK IS THE MOST INTERESTING?
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest SCOT,HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM?
- Guest Cate Is the microscope hard to use and first
Bugscope Team it might seem difficult, but that is usually because you are afraid to break something
- Guest How long have you been studing bugs?
- 12:50pm
- Guest Who invented the SEM and how did the SEM work when you first invented it
- Guest Hey Cate
Bugscope Team hey
- Guest Can you look at mor then one item at once?
- Guest do you have to go to colledge before you become a scientist
- Guest Scot, how long have you worked with the SEM?
- Guest DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
- Guest How long have you been useing the SEM?
- Guest why do you like you job?
- Guest does anyone know how long it takes to PREPARE SEM WHEN YOU USE IT? PLEASE ANSWER I NEED ONE MORE ANSWER
Bugscope Team ha it only takes four or five minutes to get started once the sample is pumped down
- Guest WHAT IS THE BIGGIEST BUG YOU'VE LOOKED AT UNDER THE SEM?
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest What are the coolest things you've seen under a microscope?
- Guest ...................CATE, WHAT BUGS DO YOU MAINLY FOCUS ON?..
Bugscope Team I don't single out any insects. I look at whatever seems interesting!
- Guest Whats your favorite part of the job?
- Guest hey scot How long does it take to prepare a specimen?
Bugscope Team about 20 minutes
- Guest CAN BUGS DIE FROM AGE ?
- Guest ................SCOT, FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE AS A SCIENTIST, WHAT BUG DO THINK IS THE MOST INTERESTING TO STUDY?
- Guest What is your favorite speciman to look at?
- Guest DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
- Guest how much has the sem contributed to science
- Guest Whats you favorite part of your job?!?
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest cate, is you job hard
- Guest Cate how long have u been working here/
- Guest CAN YOU FIT AN APPLE IN IT
Bugscope Team no it can only take something that is less than 28mm or so big
- Guest HJave you ever eatting a bug?
- Guest Kate,How long have you been working here?
Bugscope Team about 5 years
- Guest Is it expensive to make a slide? And if so, then what is it made out of?
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest how come you cant see as close to a slide on a light microscope than an SEM?
- Guest SCOT or KATE, i meant what type of NEW microscopes are they planning and what would it DO?
- Guest Scot whay do you like to study ticks?
- Guest CATE DO YOU LIKE BEING A SCIENTIST
- Guest What are some colleges you can go to to do this?
- Guest So sunflower seeds could fit
- Guest scot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
- Guest CATE HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM
- Guest what is the maximum size of a specimen?
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest HAVE YOU EVER EATIN A BUG?
Bugscope Team flies taste like paper
- Guest have you ever discovered something new?
- Guest WHO INVENTED THE SEM
- Guest Cate, Do you enjoy looking at bugs and studying them every single day?
Bugscope Team we only look at insects about 2 times a week. On other days we look at other specimens or help students with their samples
- Guest What are the coolest things you've seen under a microscope? THANK YOU VERY MUCH
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
- Guest ............WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO STUDY BUGS?.........
- Guest PLEASE ANSWER how is the light bent in a microscope???
- Guest Oops typo. I mean have you ever eatting a bug?
- Guest HOW BIG IS A SEM ??
Bugscope Team maybe 8' long, 3 to 4' wide, and 6' tall at one end
- Guest is your job hard and if it is whats hard about it?
- Guest scot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
- Guest how come you cant see as close to a slide on a light microscope than an SEM?
- Guest What is the most interesting that you have ever studied??
- Guest What is the Sed in the SEM please anwser
- Guest have you ever discovered something new?
- Guest What is the most interesting that you have ever studied??
- Teacher Mrs. H-T, when/if you go back to the butterfly, can you zoom in on the miniscus (not sure if I spelled that right)?
- Guest who do you work with
- Guest What specimen do you study?
- Guest how come you cant see as close to a slide on a light microscope than an SEM?
- Guest What made you want to do what you do/
- Guest SJ, HOW AMNY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM \
- Guest HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU STUIDED?
- Guest What is the machines lowest mag.?
- Guest What kind of bugs do you work with./
Bugscope Team we try to work with ones that are more interesting, more specialized, if we have a choice
- Guest wWHY DID YOU WANT TO BE A MICROSCOPE PERSON?
- Guest What is your favorite thing about microscopes Cate?
Bugscope Team that you can see stuff with them that you couldn't before. It's like a different world when using a microscope
- Guest WHO INVENTED THE SEM?
- Guest scot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
- Guest What is your favorite speciman?
- Guest have you EVER EATIN A BUG?????
- Guest What kind of bugs do you work with?
- Guest Cate who made it?
- Guest What was the most interesting specimen you have ever looked at?
- Guest What made you want to become a sientice?
- Guest HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS :) :) :)
- Guest SCOT OR CATE HAVE U DISCOVERED ANY NEW BUGS
Bugscope Team we have worked with entomologists who are describing new species, so we have helped but not discovered them ourselves
- Guest Please tell me what is the best microscope collage in the world? Thank You.
- Guest scot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH???
- Teacher We are now moving to a ladybug's head.
- Guest Thanks Cate! How long have you been studying bugs for?
- Guest How Do you like working with the SEM/
- Guest WHO INVENTED THE SEM?
- Guest have you ever discovered something new?
Bugscope Team we are able to show people whether their experiments work or not, and often we find something we did not expect, nor did they
- Guest WHAT IS THE LARGEST BUG YOU CAN FIT IN THE SEM?
Bugscope Team we don't like to put anything larger in there than the cicada killer that we have today. It is a monster!
- Guest WHY WAS THIS INVENTED
- Guest how come you cant see as close to a slide on a light microscope than an SEM?
- Guest Why is it important to study bugs?
- Guest who envented the sem
- Guest whats your favorite bug?
- Guest who invented the sem ?
- Guest Can you look at more then one item at once in the SEM?
Bugscope Team yes, like now, we have a whole platter of insects
- Guest What is the machines lowest mag.?
- Guest Do you like studying the specimens?
- 12:55pm
- Guest did you ever look at bacterea?
Bugscope Team yes we sometimes see bacteria on insects or sometimes people will process them and have us image e.coli or some other type of bacteria
- Teacher Remember from the video that this is one of the mouth parts used for eating.
- Guest Scot, what is the maximum size of a specimen??
Bugscope Team the stage allows a sample 50 mm in diameter
- Guest who invented the sem
- Guest What kinds of bugs do you work with?
- Guest who invented the sem?
- Guest Who invented the SEM?
- Guest What is the craziest bug you have ever looked at?
Bugscope Team owlfly larvae
- Guest What is the machines lowest mag.?
- Guest SJ, CATE, SCOT, i seriously need my question answered, what is the biggest thing you can look at with a scanning electron microscope?
- Guest how long have u been doing stuff like this????????????????? SCOT??? OR CATE???
- Guest Thanks! Cate, How long have you been studying bugs for?
- Guest What is the weirdest bug you have ever looked at/
- Guest scot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
- Guest how come you cant see as close to a slide on a light microscope than an SEM?
Bugscope Team electrons are much smaller than light and can therefore resolve much smaller things
- Guest Why are there different microscopes?
- Guest How do you like workking with the SEM?
- Guest WHO INVENTED THE SEM??
- Guest WHY WAS THE SEM INVENTED CATE
- Guest SCOOOOOT OR CATTTTTTTTE WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MICROSCOPE
- Guest did you ever kill something to look at it? :(
- Guest BOBBY, THAT QUESTION WAS ANSWERED
- Guest WHO INVENTED THE SEM???
- Teacher Why, if the SEM is so big, why can the specimen be only 50 mm across?
- Guest BOOBY YOU KEEP WRITING THE SAME QUESTION?
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens?
- Guest What kind of live specimens have you looked at?
- Guest what is the coolest bug youv ever seen
- Guest who invented the sem please and thankyou
- Guest What is the microscopes lowest mag.?
- Guest Why is owfly larva the crazyest thing you ever looked at?
- Guest What bug is the hardest to examine?
- Guest Cate, how long have you been working
- Guest What is the best thing about studying bugs?
- Guest Have you ever looked at anything other than a bug?
Bugscope Team often we look at other things; most people here are looking at cells, or flexible silicon, or selfhealing plastic, or bacteria or food
- Guest exactly how many bugs did you study?? and did you have any problems with the SEM
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens?
- Guest what is the coolest bug youv ever seen
- Guest DO YOU USE THE SEM
- Guest What is that?
Bugscope Team this is a mosquito claw
- Teacher This is a mosquito claw
- Guest Excuse me somebody how many known spices are known to man
- Guest Thank you Scot & Cate for answering my Q's :0)
Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest SORRY MS H-T
- Guest What are we looking at right now Mrs. H-t?
- Guest what makes both microscopes magnify?
- Guest Do you like being a scientist?
- Guest Cate, What's the coolest bug to examine?
Bugscope Team some flies can be cool, like horseflies have biting mouthparts. Earwigs are cool because you often see mites on them. Honeybees are nice because you might see a stinger and pollen
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH MICROSCOPES????
- Guest When was the first electron microscope made?
Bugscope Team 1931. a transmission electron microscope, or TEM
- Guest Why is everything so hairy?
- Guest Scot, How long have you been studying bugs for?
- Guest CATE, WHY DO YOU TAKE SUCH INTEREST IN BUGS?
- Guest CCCCCCCCAAAAAAAATTTTTTEEEEEEEE WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MICROSCOPE
- Guest How long have you been doing what you do Cate?
- Guest what is your favorite bug
- Guest What do you sem for
- Guest scot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISHscot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISHscot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISHscot..DID YOU STUDY BUGS...OR EXAMIN THEM WHEM YOU WERE YOUNGER AROUND MY AGE...12 OR 11..ISH
Bugscope Team when I was young I liked plants more, and I made little terrariums
- Guest what makes both microscopes magnify?
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH MICROSCOPES????????
- Teacher Again, this is the mosquito claw
- Guest Hey Scott
- Guest thank you scott
- Guest how the gold help
- Guest SJ is it possible to look at seeds
Bugscope Team yes! some people here look at seeds (this is both Scot and sj)
- Guest Are bugs the most important organisms on Earth?
- Guest Scot or cate What tipe of microscope is ur favorite light or sem
Bugscope Team Dude! SEM for sure.
- Guest what makes both microscopes magnify?
- Guest WHAT IS THE MICROSCOPES LOWEST MAGNIFICATION?
- Guest WHAT ARE THE COOLEST PARTS OF AN SEM??? THANKS AGAIN!
- Guest Cate, How long have you been studying bugs for?
- Guest what is your favorite bug
- Guest How many bugs have you examined in your career?
- Guest SCOT what is the best microscope collage
Bugscope Team Illinois is good; also the University of Washington
- 1:00pm
- Guest does your school you work/learn at have a facebook? (:
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens?
- Guest Cate, What's your favorite thing about being a scientist?
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH MICROSCOPES??????????????!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest CATE. WHY DO YOULIKE MICROSCOPES?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest Kate. is it possible to look at seeds
- Teacher This is the mosquito's head and thorax. The "moon"-like surface is the plate where the bugs are placed.
- Guest HOW IS THE LIGHT BENT IN A MICROSCOPE???????????????? PLEASE ANSWER.
- Guest SSSSSSSSCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MICROSCOPE
- Guest what made you want to study bugs?
- Bugscope Team also, Lehigh University is good, and Notre Dame now has some cool 'scopes
- Guest What are we looking at now?
- Teacher How often do you clean off the stage so there are no stray bug parts on it when you put a new bug up?
- Guest how does the image from the sem apear on the cumputer screen
- Guest do u look at live specimens???
- Guest Can you look at other things besides insects?
Bugscope Team we have looked at microcapsules, carbon nanotubes, a starfish leg, a gecko toe, e.coli, dirt, animal feed
- Bugscope Team this is a female mosquito, the ones that bite
- Teacher It's looking to the left, and its mouthpart is the long tube all the way to the left.
- Guest what is your favorite bug
Bugscope Team weevils
- Guest do you enjoy sem
- Guest Cate, how long have you been studying bugs for?
- Guest WHAT BUG DO YOU ENJOY STUDYING???WHAT BUG INTERSTS YOU THE MOST???
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens?
- Guest scott,scott,scott,scott,scott,scott
- Guest HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM
- Guest When was the first microscope created?
- Guest DO U LOOK AT LIVE SPECIMENS????????? PLEASE ANSWER!!!!!!!! thanx (:
- Guest C A T E WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MICROSCOPE
- Guest Have YOU ever found a new specimin? Scot or Cate.
- Guest What made you want to do want to do what your doing?
- Guest Cate what is your favorite type of butterfly?please answer
- Guest Hey CATE. What do you like best about micro scopes
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH MICROSCOPES???!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest What is the best microscope to use?
- Guest what is your favorite plant
- Guest How much money is a SEM???
Bugscope Team this one was $600,000 11 years ago
- Guest what gives both microscopes the ability to magnify a slide? please answer this
- Guest What is your part of this job/school?
- Guest WHAT IS A WEEVIL?
- Guest what gives both microscopes the ability to magnify a slide?
- Guest WHAT ARE WE
- Guest Scot, How long have you been studying bugs for?
- Guest What is your part of this job/school?
- Guest .......HOW MUCH MONEY DOES THE SEM COST/.......
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens?
- Guest why does argon gas turn blue?
Bugscope Team because it has a current running through it, like neon, xenon, krypton it lights up when it has a current running through it
- Guest why are there different types of microscopes?
- Guest PLEASE ANSWER What are the coolest things you've seen under a microscope?
- Teacher Here is a front view of the mosquito.
- Guest What made you want to do whatb your doing?
- Guest HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING WITH SEM
- Teacher I think he is smiling at us, but I'm not sure.
- Guest HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM CATE
Bugscope Team ha lots! That reason is why I am like an entomologist without the degree. I can usually tell you what type of insect something is because I have looked at so many
- Guest SCOT, WHY IS A WEEVIL YOUR FAVORITE BUG?
- Guest How long have you been useing the SEM?
- Guest what gives both microscopes the ability to magnify a slide?
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH MICROSCOPES!!!!!???????????!!!!!!!
- Guest What is your FAVORITE part of your job? Please answer this. Thank you
- Guest ....................HOW MUCH DOES THE SEM COST.....
- Guest what do you think will happen in the future? A: Make bigger and better microscopes B: Make less interesting microscope C: make one giant super microscope
- Guest How long have you been studying bugs for?
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH MICROSCOPES!!!!!???????????!!!!!!!
- Guest how many different types of microscopes are there?
- Guest thats cool and thakn scot!! (:
- Guest HAVE U EVER LOOKED
- Guest WHY DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH MICROSCOPES!!!!!?????
- Guest I mean thanks (:
- Guest CATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MICROSCOPE
- Guest What is your favorite bug?
- Guest C A T E WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MICROSCOPE
Bugscope Team I like this one and the fluorescent microscope.
- Guest THANK
- Guest 0
- Guest How long have you been studying bugs?
- Guest have you ever looked at a dung beetle
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- Teacher Do you look at macroinvertibrates and can you guys do a session on them?
Bugscope Team like worms you mean, or sea cucumbers?
- Guest s
- Guest SORYY DIDNT MEAN TO WIRTE THAT
- Guest How long have you been working with the SEM?
- Teacher How much do you charge to rent time on the SEM?
- Guest Cate, what is your favorite part of this school/job?
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens?
- Guest Is SEM hard to learn??
- Guest ..................SCOT, WHAT BUG DO YOU MAINLY TAKE INTEREST IN STUDYING....?
- Guest what gives both microscopes the ability to magnify a slide?
- Guest have you ever looked at a dung beetle
- Guest Why do you like to work with microscopes?!
- Guest Scot, how many types of bugs have you examined so far in your career?
- Guest I MENT THANK YOU SCOT,:)
- Guest HAVE U EVER LOOKED AT LIVE SPECIMENS????? PLEASE ANSWER PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest Thanks Cate! c What got you interested in microscopes?
- Guest when you were younger did you like too study bugs??? cate
- Guest are micro scopes interesting to you
- Guest k
- Guest When was the first microscope created?
Bugscope Team about 400 years ago
- Guest so scott why are their more than one kind of microscopes???
- Guest scot who created the mircoscope
- Guest SCOT HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOUSEEN UNDER SEM
- Guest ..................SCOT, WHAT BUG DO YOU MAINLY TAKE INTEREST IN STUDYING....?
- Bugscope Team see the compound eyes of the mosquito?
- Guest How big is an SEM?
- Guest how high can the magnification on the SEM and the light microscope go?
- Guest cate, what was the first specimen you ever viewed?
- Guest ......DO YOU ENJOY USING THE SEM/
- Teacher What insect adaptations have you observed with your SEM?
- Guest Hey Scott what is the favorite bug you studied?
Bugscope Team weevils, and I like earwigs because they often have mites, which are cool to look at
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens?
- Guest Is SEM hard to learn?
- Guest how many types of bugs have you studied?
- Guest Scot, What got you inerested in microscopes?
- Guest How long have you been working with the SEM?
Bugscope Team 1988
Bugscope Team me since 1988
- Guest what is the part of the bugs you like to look at?
- Teacher Here is a microscopic Spongebob...No, it is a grain of Wendy's salt!
- Guest SCOT HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM
- Guest what made you want to do what you do?
- Guest What is the machines lowest mag.?\
- Guest Hi Scott
- Guest whats the first microscope created?
- Guest have you ever looked at a dung bettle
- Guest can there be a solar powered SEM?
Bugscope Team possibly, but it would be a big project
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do?
- Guest how high can the magnification on the SEM and the light microscope go?'
- Guest what is the hardest part about using the SEM? thanks for your time
- Guest Whats your favorite type of bug to study???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens
- Guest HI
- Guest Do you look at other things other than bugs
- Guest what is the mangafacation
- Guest Why do so many scientists look at bugs and insects?
- Guest tell me the meaning of microscopic
- Guest were do you get the bugs you look at?
- Guest Scot, What got you inerested in microscopes?
- Guest how high can the magnification on the SEM and the light microscope go?
- Guest HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM
- Guest .........WHATS YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT BEING A SCIENTIST?........
- Guest can you look at icecream with the SEM?
- Teacher I've moved to the cicada killer's tongue.
- Guest What your favorite thing about being a scientist?
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- Guest HI
- Guest If the bug was to big for the plate what would happen
- Guest Hi Scot, How many hours do you work in a day?
Bugscope Team probably averaging 9, more right now
- Guest CATE. DO YO LIKE BEING A SCIENTIST
Bugscope Team yes
- Guest scot, why did you choose to study bugs?
- Guest Do you like observing the specimens?
- Guest Thanks SCot:)
- Guest HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM?
- 1:11pm
- Guest cate do you like being a scientist if you do why ?
- Guest why more right now?
- Guest how high can the magnification on the SEM and the light microscope go?
- Guest HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM?
- Guest Hey CATE! what are you stuying right now
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do?
- Guest Do you like using the SEM?
- Guest CATE,WHAT IS THE OLDEST BUG AROUND?
- Guest SCOT WHERE YOU GOING TO ANSWER ME?
Bugscope Team I am sorry it has been busy and I am sorry if I missed your message.
- Guest Scot have you ever examined a fire ants? please answer
Bugscope Team I don't think we have, not that I recall
- Guest IF YOU COULD NUMBER THE SEM FROM 1-10 WAT WOULD IT BE??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
- Teacher My students want to know if you could magnify a toenail of their's or a hair off their head?
- Guest HI
- Guest Cate, what got you inerested in microscopes?
- Guest SOMEONE ANSWER ME HAVE U EVER LOOKED AT A LIVE SPECIMEN PLEASE ANSWER ME I NEED AN ANSWER PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ANSWER ME!!!!! :(
- Guest cate or scott do you like being a scientist????
- Guest What made you want to do what you do?
- Guest what is the highest objective you have on the sem
Bugscope Team they don't have objectives like a light microscope; they are really different
- Guest SCOT DO YOU LIKE BEING A SCIENTIST
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do?
- Guest How long have you been doing this job?
- Guest how high can the magnification on the SEM and the light microscope go?
- Guest Scot or Cate, what's your favorite thing about being a scientist?
- Guest do you like using the SEM?
- Guest Why do you like working with microscopes?!
- Guest what is the mangafacation
- Guest HI
- Guest Whats the highest MAG you can zoom into on a SEM
- Guest HOW MANY BUGS HAVE YOU SEEN UNDER SEM?
- Guest What is the machines lowest mag.?\
- Guest What is the highest and lowest objective you ever looked at?
- Guest do you like using the sem?
- Guest Scot, What got you inerested in microscopes?
Bugscope Team it was kind of an accident, but maybe it was my uncle who was a pathologist
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- Guest Is the SEM hard to use, and why?
- Guest do you like using the sem?
- Guest what is the hardest part about using the SEM?
- Guest What got you interested in this job?
- Guest CATE OR SCOT, WHY DO YOU LIKE BUGS?
- Guest HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU WORKED WITY BUGS? PLEASE ANSWER ME!!!!!:) THANK YOU
- Guest what happened to sj
Bugscope Team that is me as well, on the computer in my office. I am by the 'scope now
- Guest SJ WHAT IS YUOR FAVORITE MS
- Guest How big can the speiciman be?!
- Guest Whats your favorite thing about the SEM
- Guest Do you like using the SEM?
- Guest Scot how do you prepare a bug for examination if it's poisonous?
- Guest WHAT INSPIRED YOUTO BE A SCIENTIST..??
- Teacher This is the caterpillar's head.
- Guest Why do you like working with microscopes?!
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do?
- Guest Whats your favorite part of your job?
- Guest how high can the magnification on the SEM and the light microscope go?
- Guest I MENT TRAINING SORRY
- Guest do you like using the sem?
- Teacher Sorry about these zeros. My computer was adding them by itself, so I logged out.
- Guest Thanks S
- Guest What we looking at right now
Bugscope Team this is a caterpillar head
- Guest What would you say is the most exciting part of being a scientist?
Bugscope Team being able to see all of the cutting edge research
- Guest Mrs. H-T what are we viewing now?
- Guest Thanks Scot.
- Guest Cate or Scot Have you found any different species of bugs recently?
- Guest Cate, why did you choose to study science??
- Guest What is the job like?
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do? THANK YOU?
- Guest how high can the magnification on the SEM and the light microscope go? please please answer
- Guest Catie why do you like working with microscopes?!
- Guest CATE OR SCOT, DO YOU LIKE BUGS?
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- Guest WHAT ARE THOSE HARIY THINGS? SCOT
- Guest Cate what speciman do you like studying the most?
- Guest do you enjoy usin the sem
- Guest What's the highest MAG?
Bugscope Team over 800,000x
- Guest Cate, w
- Guest SCOT OR CATE, WHAT IS THE LOWEST MAGNIFICATION FOR THE MICROSCOPE?
- Guest tHATS OK SCOT.
- Guest Have you always wanted to be a scientist?
Bugscope Team only since college, really
- Guest Thanks Scot! What was the most interesting specimen you have ever looked at?
- Guest scot please answer what is the biggest specimen you can look at
Bugscope Team 50 mm in diameter
- Guest how many bug specimen do you have
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do?
- Guest how high can the magnification on the SEM and the light microscope go? please please answer
- Guest what is the hardest part about using the SEM?
- Guest Have you always wanted to be a scientist?
- Guest What is that
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do?
- Guest Do you enjoy using the SEM?
- Guest what is that
- Guest Hi Scott
- Guest What is that
- Guest What are you looking at right now
- Guest How long did it take to make the SEM?
- Guest how does the image from the sem apear on the computer screen ?please and thankyou
Bugscope Team there is a screen capture card that lets us get the image from the microscope
- Guest Scot Or Cate, why did you choose to study science???\
- Guest bye people!!
- Guest I LOVE MICROSCOPES YAYAYAYAYA
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do?
- Guest DO YOU
- Guest Thanks guys
- Guest Bye Scott and Cate!!!!!
- Guest what is a sem
- Guest Is there going to be another microscope and what it planed to do?
- Guest Hi scot. How does the electron microscope work diffrenttly then a normal microscope
Bugscope Team it uses electrons rather than light, and it uses metals to give contrast, and it uses electromagnetic lenses rather than glass
- Guest bye it was nice to meet you
- Guest bye
- Teacher Okay Scot, unfortunately, we have to log off now. Thanks so much for letting us use the SEM and for answering our millions of questions!
- Bugscope Team have a great thanksgiving!
- Guest bye EVERYONE(:
- Guest whats the smallest spesimen you ever looked at?
- Guest have a good thanksgiving cate:) and scot
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team This was really a lot of fun for us.
- Guest have a great thanksgiving \
- Guest Cate why do you like working with microscopes?!
Bugscope Team you get to see a whole world that you couldn't see before
- Guest have a wonderful day!
- Bugscope Team You have a great Thanksgiving as well!
- Teacher Scot, why did they change the format of the controls?
Bugscope Team we wanted to improve it, using what we have learned, and at the same time provide for more people to be able to get on at one time. this was a big test today.
- Teacher I had trouble centering and maneuvering more this year than last.
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- Bugscope Team in a way Chas wanted to make changes just for something different, and I am sorry - we had some lag this year in being able to control, and also to get to questions
- Teacher I like the format of the chat better, but not the controls.
Bugscope Team we are still working the kinks out, hopefully the next time you use it, we will have everything under control better
- Bugscope Team fill out the feedback and let us know how you want it changed so we know!
- Teacher There's no question I'll still sign up for next year. The kids LOVE it! Thanks again for answering all the rapid fire questions!
- Bugscope Team we also wanted to have fewer people driving off the stage....
- Teacher I will lfill it out...oh yeah, I remember driving off the stage! Ha!
- Bugscope Team As Cate says we should have some of the problems with this interface ironed out soon.
- Teacher Okay, I must go back to my class...have a great Thanksgiving!
- Bugscope Team This was really a lot of fun. Please let the kids know we were not trying to ignore anyone.
- Bugscope Team You Too!
