Connected on 2011-05-17 09:30:00 from San Antonio, TX, US
- 8:59am
- Bugscope Team Hi welcome to bugscope. I was just checking over the presets. I believe they show what you want to have
- Bugscope Team Suspect B had 2 types of pollen on it, so I put them both on. I think it will still work out for you
- Teacher Hello...it looks different than last year! Very nice!!
- Teacher We will have a lab of about 30 students in about 30 min...are you ready??
- Bugscope Team yes we are ready here
- 9:04am
- Teacher The presets look GREAT!!
- Bugscope Team Good. The baseline pollen looks like it has 2 different types but i think the rounder looking ones are just ones that somehow didn't dry out like the rest. I just thought I would show both
- 9:11am
- Teacher There may have been multiple ones... It's been so long I can't remember...lol
- Bugscope Team it's ok. It all looks like it shows what you want
- 9:19am
- Teacher going to get the kids...
- 9:33am
- Bugscope Team let me know if you have any questions
- 9:43am
- Student In suspect a
- Student in suspect a... what are the little things on the material? are they the polen
- Student Are the long strands hair or pollen?
Bugscope Team the long strands is the material that makes up the shoe lace and the little things clinging to them are the pollen grains
- Student What are we looking at
Bugscope Team we are magnified on suspect a's shoelace evidence. The shoelace looks like a bunch of long strands when you zoom in. The little banana shaped things are the pollen grains
- Student what are the blobs on susupect a's lines or strips
- Student Are the little things pollen
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Student what are the little bacteria like things?
Bugscope Team they would be very big bacteria, but they are similar in shape. They are the pollen grains
Bugscope Team bacteria are about 2 microns (micrometers) big. These are about 100 microns
- Teacher We are sketching this image now for our evidence collection.
- 9:48am
- Student so theyre related to bacteria
Bugscope Team no not at all. Bacteria job is to help eat away at whatever it is on. The pollen grains are here because the shoelace brushed up against the plant. The pollen grains are meant to be easily transported to another plant
- Student why do the pollen appear to be bent?
Bugscope Team most likely because they dried a little bit. The rounder looking ones are the ones that haven't dried as much. Like the 2 in the upper part of the screen
- Student the little things are pollen?
Bugscope Team yes
- Student why are there weird bent stuff and then straight stuff?
- Student haha ok
- Student suspect b2 and the crime scene pollen look the closest in comperison.. but not exactly.. are they the same but something happened to one of them??
Bugscope Team I think that is for you to decide. I can only help you with describing what you see,
Bugscope Team On suspect B there were 2 different kinds of pollen found on the piece of shoe lace
Bugscope Team The baseline pollen looks like 2 different kinds but I believe the flatter ones are the more dried out pollen grains like the bent ones we see on suspect a
- Student Why is the pollen in different shapes and sizes. Does it change with the magnification of the microscope
- Student Are these the inner fibers of the shoelace or the outside fibers of the sholace?
Bugscope Team inner and outer fibers should look the same, but we are seeing the outer
- Student why does the pollen look stringy
Bugscope Team the strands are the fibers from the shoe lace, but the bent things are the pollen grains and they are good at sticking to materials
- Student Why is the pollen in different shapes and sizes. Does it change with the magnification of the microscope.
- Student oh cool
- Student suspect a and b look the same to me.
- Student ooo ok.. but what is the difference between b and b2
Bugscope Team the difference is, there are 2 different kinds. One looks like what you see on suspect a. and one looks like round balls. If the teacher would like. SHe can click on the presets to move to one of them
- 9:53am
- Student Is there a substance on the pollen that makes it stick?
- Student why isnt it in color? or is it dirt? just wondering
- Student So all the photos will be of the outer fibers
Bugscope Team yes
- Student shoa
- Student How does the pollen get on the shoelace??
Bugscope Team Usually you just have to rub up against the plant to get the pollen grains on it
- Student Ohh ok.
- Bugscope Team So you can see this part of the suspect b shoe lace looks similar to suspect a
- Student So are these ones less dried out because they appear 2 be more closed
- Student well i guess what im asking is why is it b2 instead of something else..is it still on the same shoelace
- Student Why does the pollen look rinkled
- Student Why is there so much more pollen on Suspect B??
Bugscope Team maybe suspect b walked in more of that type of plant
- Student why is suspects b shoelace all swirled together?
- Student are all the dots on the shoelace bacteria
Bugscope Team no those are pollen grains. I didn't find any bacteria on the fibers
- Student Could the shoelace have been untied?
- Student what is that big thingymabobber in the middle
- Student There seems to be more pollen in this photo. Is it because the suspect went through more pollen than suspect a?
- Student On b what are those huge chunks? are they pollen or what?
- Student B and A look very similar.... But why do the pollen grains look different?
Bugscope Team these pollen grains probably are the same as found in suspect a. The other pollen grains found on this suspect are different
- Student john.. i think its because one of the showlaces were frayed
- Student whats frayed? is it burnt?
- Student why does there seem to be more pollen in this photo
- Student Was this shoelace possibly frayed?
Bugscope Team it looked a little frayed at the ends maybe
- Student Why is there much more polen on suspect b??
- Student Did suspect B go in a patch of flowers
Bugscope Team it's possible
- 9:59am
- Student why does there seem to be more pollen in this photo
- Student Why are some of the pollen particals open, and some closed?
- Student Are the flat pieces of pollen different from the rounder pieces??
- Student Why is the shoelace all wirled together
- Student why did the sh
- Student ya and whats in the middle
Bugscope Team the fibers on clothes and shoelaces are often braided together, like rope. It makes them look like spaghetti. The little flat round things are the pollen grains
- Student why did the shoelace fibers twirl up
- Student What are the chunks on b ?
- Student Why is the shoelace in a vortex shape
- Student Could some pollen be different from others?
Bugscope Team here all the grains look the same. There is another patch on the same lace that looks different
- Bugscope Team here on the same piece of lace, the grains are different
- Student are these still pollen or something else
Bugscope Team these are still pollen grains
- Student ooooo thanks
- Student are the shperical things pollen?
- Student why do they look different than the other pictures
- Student why are these different could they be from seperate plants?
- Student is this a different type of pollen maybe?
Bugscope Team it looks very different doesn't it. They don't look all look as flat
- Student So it iS! a different type!
- Student Why is it all bunched together
- Student How come the pollen on b2 is rounder than the others?
Bugscope Team these are different pollen grains then found previously on suspect b. A person can walk in different plants. Suspect A looks like it walked only in one plant. Suspect b looks like he/she walked in 2 different kinds of plants
- Student why is there b and b2?
Bugscope Team because there were 2 different patches of pollen grains on the fibers
- Student yes i was rigut!
- Student why are some pollen flat looking and some rounder?
- Student what are those little balls
Bugscope Team those are pollen grains
- Student did the same thing happen on this sample
- Student Johne those are the pollen.
- Student what plant, do you think, suspect b2 walk threw?
- 10:04am
- Student daqda\
- Student just looking at the pictures on the first page.. what are the base line pollens?
Bugscope Team baseline pollen 1 and pollen 2 are the same, but I believe 2 is a more dried variety. They sometimes flatten out. baseline pollen 1 had that small patch that somehow resisted drying out a little, but are still different from the pollen you see in Suspect B 2
- Student and the crime scene pollen..
- Student Is B2 just another part of B? And if it isn't could suspect B have gone to two different places?
Bugscope Team yes
Bugscope Team suspect b 2 is still suspect b. Just wanted to differentiate the presets
- Student Could susbect b have had their shoes untied and took a different path?
Bugscope Team it means suspect b walked in a different area than suspect a, since suspect a didn't have those rounder pollen grains on it
- Student it looks like differet types of pollen
- Student Is the really thin grain dry?
- Student suspect C looks like peanuts
- Student The pollen here looks similar to Suspect a, could they be the same type of pollen?
- Student The pollen grains look like cashews.... Do you know why?
- Student why does the pollen look like seeds
- Student why are the pollen bigger. Is it because that haven't dried up yet?
- Student almost every string has a thingy atached to it. why is that
- Student Is that very dry pollen? Or is it something else?
- Student i guess what im asking is what was the baseline pollen on when the picture was taken?
Bugscope Team the baseline pollen was on a small part of the flower it is found on
- Student Are there still different kinds of pollen on suspect c?
- Student Are the thin but straight grains dry?
- Student is that all pollen? because i can see is big pollen.
Bugscope Team they are big pollen yes
- Student what are those big plant like thins
- Student why are the pollen bigger. Is it because that haven't dried up yet?
Bugscope Team we are zoomed in more on them, they are the same size
- Student Why is there so much pollen?
- Student why do they look like sunflower seeds
- Student Some pollen have holes in the center, is that due to dryness?
Bugscope Team partly yes. They would look a little more round like the baseline pollen 1 normally. Think of them as what happens when a football loses air in them
- Student Are the straight lines the shoelace or still pollen??
- Student oh okay but they seem to be more fresh and not dried up because in the others the are flat and these seem puffy
- Student ryuqweiryqoweryweioryeqo
- Student Is that all just 1 kind of pollen???
Bugscope Team yes
- Student Were these samples all taken from the same place?
- Student Why do they look like seeds
Bugscope Team they are kind of like seeds. But much smaller. They have a hard coat on them to protect the cells inside that germinate the flower
- 10:09am
- Student Why does the pollen look like cashews?
- Student oh okay but they seem to be more fresh and not dried up because in the others the are flat and these seem puffy
- Student Is that straight but thinish pollen dry?
Bugscope Team the straight things are the fibers
- Student k
- Student Are this all the same pollen or are there diffrent kinds mixed together??
- Student Are they folded. Or is that how they already are?
Bugscope Team they do get little folds in them, but the deeper folds mean they dried out some- they deflated a little
- Student What exactly are the lines down the center?
- Student Was this sample on a flower or some kind of plant?
- Student why is one of them squished
- Student 51
- Student and the crime scene pollen was on the patch of flowers?
Bugscope Team the crime scene pollen did come from a flower but I took the pollen and stuck them straight to tape
- Student The pollen that is in the middle, is that dry?
Bugscope Team yes these are all a little dried out
- Student a lot tyson
- Student is the pollen from a sunflower
Bugscope Team i'm not sure
- Student Are some of the pollen dried up
- Student how many grains of pollen do you think there are?
Bugscope Team hundreds on here, if not more.
- Student why is one of the pollens sort of bent and crushed?
- Student yes steven
- Student Was this pollen given time to dry out or was it found like this?
- Student so it is the same pollen as the base line.. just on tape??
- Student do different fibers attract different amounts of pollen
Bugscope Team it's possible. You wouldn't think things like silk would be able to carry as much as wool because wool is a lot fuzzier
- Student why is the pollen so hairy
- Student What are the cracks?
- Teacher Nevermind...seems my CSI genius, Dylan, already asked all the tough questions...
- Student why there are alot of cracks
- Student Are they on a leaf?
- Student is that all pollen?
- Student We don't know if it's a leaf
- Teacher Cate, I think the baseline pollen A is actually the crime scene evidence (shoelace)
Bugscope Team no they are slightly different. I had them at completely different areas of the sample holder. Baseline pollen 1 is just a small patch I found that somehow didn't dry out as much, and I wanted to show that. If you want to ignore that preset altogether you can, since it is different from everything else
- 10:14am
- Student whyis the pollen crushed
Bugscope Team the rounder ones are the ones you want to focus on. It is possible when I brushed them on, I got some that were crushed. It happens
- Student again why is the pollin cracked
- Student Are the cracks from the sidewalk?
- Student Which suspect did this pollen come from???
Bugscope Team This is the crime scene pollen- pollen found at the crime scene. So the real question is, which suspect has this type of pollen on him or her
- Student Johnny L. it's probably dried out or something
- Student why are the pollen broken into pieces
- Student oh thank you the fibers material could attract more pollen than something lighter or softer
Bugscope Team yes, for sure
Bugscope Team bees are ultra hairy to help collect pollen
- Student shouldn't the pollen be hairy
- Student The pollen are the width of a human hair?
- Student Are the pollen shown 2 different kinds?
- Student This pollen looks alot like Suspect b and b2 correct?
Bugscope Team My guess is these look just like the pollen grains found on the part of suspect b fibers that we see in the preset image suspect b 2
- Student Were on the shoelace was the pollen found?
- Student This pollen looks alot like the pollen that appeared on B and B2.. could it possibly be the same?
- Student oh ok i see thanks.
- Student it looks like ice
- Teacher Baylor, that's the microscope
- Student why are the pollen broken into pieces
Bugscope Team some of the little bits that don't look very nice might be bits or pollen or dirt. The rounder ones are the better looking pollen grains
- Student Are the cracks from the sidewalk or something else?
Bugscope Team that is the carbon tape that the pollen grains are sititng on
- Student why is the backround of the pollen cracked? And why does the pollen look rough?
- Student No Lauren T., the whole view is the size of a human hair, the pollen is even thinner than a hair! so we r very close
- Student it looks destroyed
- Student why is the bottom cracked
- Student is it possible for pollen to break apart?
Bugscope Team yes, that is where the cells are that are for germination. So each pollen grain is holding a group of cells.
- Student is that pollen shown the same kind?
- Student pollen is so small gosh
- Student why does it look like someone stepped on it
Bugscope Team maybe someone did :)
- Student whoa
- Student how many fibers are there
Bugscope Team there aren't any fibers here
- Student Thank you for answering our questions
- Student so would saying suspect b was the person who did it be right? or atleas close?
Bugscope Team Yes since, as you can see, neither suspect a or c have pollen like this on them
- Student fe
- Student thanks for answering.. i think our group figured it out
- Teacher Cate, we are wrapping up with this group and then we will rotate...back in 5-10min
Bugscope Team ok sounds good
- Student what nathan said..Thank you
- Student Thank you for answering our questions
- Student if you look at the bottom left cashew thingy it has a part of another thingy was it destroyed
- 10:19am
- Student thanks you!!!!!!
- Student Thank you so very much!!!!
- Student Gracious
- Student Thank you Cate
- Student Thank you very much Cate I had fun
- Student Thank you Cate from Illinios
- Student Thanks for all the help :)
- Student Thank you !
- Student thanks i think we got the answer
- Student thank you for answering our questions
- Student God bless
- Student Thanks for answering all of our questions! :)
- Student what are those rock like things
Bugscope Team those are the grains
- Student thanks for helping Cate!
- Student thanks for helping us
- Student Thank you so muchhhhh you were a very big help:)
- Student Thank you for answering our questions! :D
- Student Thank You!
- Student thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- i win
- Student Thanks for awnsering my questions!
- Student thank you for letting us do this
- Student Bye. Thank you for helping us, Im sure your very busy.
- Student u are the best person ever ur even cooler than me and im pretty much the best person I know
- Student CATE I KNOW YOU WILL GET LOTS OF THANKS SO MINE IS CAPPED AND YOU WILL NOTICE IT. THANK YOU!!!!!
- Student Thank you, you have been a ton of help and we couldn't have done this with out you you're the best!
- Student Thank you, Cate, you were a big help
- Student thank you
- Student no caps
- Student thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student go illy
- Bugscope Team thanks michaell/art
- Student squeel
- Student ttyl
- Student TANK YOU
- Student God Bless, talk to you some other time bye!!!!!
- Student dylan must squeel
- Student too bad keats
- Student good bye we luv u
- Student Thanks again... had lots of fun!
- Student angie thats what i said
- Bugscope Team haha thanks and bye
- Student Cate thanks for all your help. I really appreciate it. =D=D=D=D=D=D
- Student ya, what gage said
- 10:35am
- Bugscope Team hi everyone
- Student hello
- Student hi
- Student HI
- Student hello my friend
- Student Thanks for doing this.
- Student hi
- Student How ya doin
- Student coraline is sitting next to me
- Bugscope Team alright. So the long spaghetti strands are the fibers from the shoe lace
- Student hola
- 10:40am
- Student heyy
- Student coo stuff ya got here
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team The little banana/cashew shaped things are the pollen grains
- Student hey ryan
- Student you rock for giving us this for free
- Student cool
- Student Oh interesting
- Student Cool
- Student wow
- Student wow
- Student i see how it is no heyy kiska:(
- Student hey guys
- Student hey
- Student hi quinn
- Bugscope Team pollen grains are meant to be easily transported onto clothes and fur and insects to help pollinate other flowers or plants
- Student and cole
- Student hi kiska
- Student hi cole
- Student looks like bean sprouts
- Student wow
- Student o thats really interasting
- Student .....
- Student hi zach kiska needs to leave coraline alone
- Student haha yeah it does
- Bugscope Team kind of.
- Student looks stringy
- Student ..........
- Student hi maddie and macy
- Student ha thts wat she said red
- Student it looks creepy
- Bugscope Team The long skinny things are fibers, and the smaller things are the pollen grains found on suspect A
- Student what ar those blobs
- Student i said thts wat she said red
- Student ya how big
- Student What are the penut things attached to the strands
Bugscope Team pollen grains
- Student cool awsome
- Student it looks like a plant
- Student who knows
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student i think coraline shuld be nice to airgoood
- Student wow thats big
- Student thats hugh!
- Student break it up yo's
- Student cate hi
- Student This looks like stems and leafs
Bugscope Team the things that look likes stems are part of the shoelace. Cotton looks this way. They are individual strands that are often braided together. The leaves are the pollen grains found on this suspect
- Student what is that
- Student is this the shoelace
Bugscope Team yes
- Student hi macy
- Student what are the ball things
- Student wat are the string things
- Student wow that's cool
- Student this is a very accurate microscope.
- Student What is the string like thing?
Bugscope Team cotton fibers from the shoelace.
- Student Thank you for answering my question!:)
- Student brax twss
- 10:45am
- Student how does the pollen grains get on the shoelace
Bugscope Team usually all you have to do it rub against the plant. In this case, the suspect a walked by the plant and the shoelace brushed against it
- Student sup quinn
- Student maddie penque hi
- Student this is so awsome. how much does the microscope cost?
- Student sup fool
- Student what kind of pollen is it?
- Student thats helpful info in this case.
- Student no zach
- Student it says at the bottom of the magnification human hair though cate
Bugscope Team it's not saying it's human hair, just giving you an idea of something you know, so you can see how much we are magnified
- Student is this a whole grain of pollen or a piece
- Student yes what kind of pollen type is it
Bugscope Team I'm not entirely sure what type of plant/flower it came from
- Student oh ok i was just wondering
- Student are the pollen tings alive?
Bugscope Team in a way yes. They are like seeds. They contain cells that germinate plants
- Student sorry but what is those long wide strings :)
- Student did you find pollen on any other evidence
- Student is there alot of bacteria in the shoelace
Bugscope Team I didn't find any.
- Student cool
- Student this is one shoelace?
- Student are they alive?
- Student Do real CSI investigators use this type of microscope?
Bugscope Team yes they do. You often see images like this, but maybe with some weird coloring (false coloring) in the shows like csi and bones
- Student are the things on the shoelace fibers
Bugscope Team yes
- Student how much does the microscope cost?
- Student they look like little catapillars
- Student did you find this same pollen on any other evidence?
- Student Is there a reason that the pollen is shaped like that?
- Student me too
- Student this is a very accurate microscope.
- Student it looks like a cartoon
- Student i watch csi miami
- Student im fused:]'!?!@
- Student how much would this microscope cost???????
Bugscope Team it cost around $600k in 1999
- Student what is this?
- Student it looks like clover Ha
- Student that looks like spagehetti with meatballs
- Student hahaha
- Student what is this?
- Student are the balls pollen seeds if they arent what are these
- Student its amazing how you guys know everithing about this
- Student WHat is this.
- Student what is this
- Student wut are the strands again?
Bugscope Team cotton fibers from the shoelace
- 10:50am
- Student what are the round thingys?
Bugscope Team pollen grains found on this suspect
Bugscope Team suspect b had a different kind of pollen on it
- Student oh their cotton fibers! i didnt know opps
- Student is this the same thing but bigger?
- Student pollen grains were on the other suspect to right
- Student what is this?
- Student Is that another shoelace
Bugscope Team Yes this is Suspect B, before we saw Suspect A
- Student so is this another shoelace
- Student It looks twisted
- Student looking at it up close is interesting huh
- Student What type of pollen is this?
Bugscope Team This is from some type of yellow plant.
Bugscope Team at least that is the color of the pollen
- Student Why are the strings stuck together?
Bugscope Team if they weren't our clothes would have holes
- Student what are the stringy things? shoelaces?
Bugscope Team yes, just a small portion of the shoelace
- Student the pollen grains were on suspect A right?? :) :) :)
Bugscope Team there are pollen grains on all 3 suspects. The question is, which is from the crime scene
- Student Wht are the round things on the shoe lace
Bugscope Team those are the pollen grains on this suspect
- Student cool thanks cate
- Student why is the pollen long and strand like if im explaining it correctly!?
Bugscope Team the strands are fibers. The pollen grains here kind of look like rocks
- Student thts wut im sayn
- Student can pollens merge
Bugscope Team good question. I don't think so. Maybe they can kind of get stuck together but that's it
- Student is this the same pollen from suspect A?
Bugscope Team suspect a's pollen grains kind of look like cashew nuts or deflated footballs. These are rounder so I would think they are different
- Student how come these pollens come in different shapes and sizes
- Student so we are checking the pollen and trying to match it with the plants at the crime scene
- Student what would happen if we tried to consume this
Bugscope Team the pollen grains or the shoelace? :p I assume the pollen grains. I don't think anything would happen unless you had a corresponding plant in your body for it to germinate
- Student So suspect A and B both walked in plants?
- 10:56am
- Student is pollen deadly
- Student would you ever eat one in order to get a deises
- Student What are pollen grains made of
Bugscope Team The shell is made of cellulose, which is plant material. Inside are cells that are both reproductive and non reproductive
- Student So both suspect A and B walked through plants but diffrent plants?
Bugscope Team yes
- Student This is pretty beast:)
- Student so what do the pollen grains do? what is their purpose?
Bugscope Team they germinate plants
- Student What are pollen grains?
- Student how does an electron microscope work?
Bugscope Team electrons hit the sample, and if the sample is conductive, secondary electrons are returned to a detector where a signal is read and we are given this 3d image of the sample
Bugscope Team to make this sample conductive, we coated it with a thin layer of metal
- Student thats very neat!
- Student does your microscope have some of the same parts as a classroom microscope? (I think we use compound microscopes (: )
- Student what does germanite do
Bugscope Team they ultimately make sperm cells which are transfered to the female part of the plant
- Student omg that looks awsome
- Student all the pollen looks differnt how do you tell if they are the same
- Student that looks really cool
- Student Why is this part of the shoelace twisted together?
- Student what is this?
Bugscope Team the ropes are the cotton fibers. The pollen grains are slightly different here, which would probably mean suspect b walked through 2 different kinds of plants
- Student have you ever had to use the microscope to solve a real mystery?
- Student it looks like the ''speghetti'' is wraped up together
- Student Why are they all tangeled togteher?
- 11:01am
- Student is this pollen too
- Student are there different kinds of pollen on this
Bugscope Team yes these are more of the kinds of pollen we found on suspect a. Looks like suspect b walked in the same kind of plant, but then also walked by another plant to get those round ones we saw earlier
- Student oh ok thanks cate!:{)
- Student why does the pollen look clumped?
Bugscope Team it happens sometimes. They don't look very pretty either. Maybe it got a little bit of plant sap to goo them up and stick them together
- Student 2 diffrent pollens on 1 shoelace
Bugscope Team yes exactly
- Student that is weird
- Student wait so if suspect B went through two diffrent plants? does that mean this is suspect B still?
Bugscope Team yes.
Bugscope Team to help you know which suspect we are looking at, look at the upper left hand corner of the image. It should say where we are currently 'near'
- Student Is the fiber cracked?
- Student why does the fiber look cracked or dusty?
Bugscope Team probably got some plant sap on it. Not very clean
- Student What kinds of pollen are in there?
- Student gotcha
- Student the pollin thing
- Student O_o
- Student what is the little wedge in the middle left
Bugscope Team hmm... I mostly just see fibers all woven together. There are pollens on the left and one in the upper right area
- Student how can the microscope zoom in so much?
- Student why does the grain that is tucked in look like shredded meat
Bugscope Team ew, I think it's because it got on it whatever is making the strands look dirty. My guess is plant sap
- Student -O_O- ugh i wish i was smart ihave no idea what to ask
- Student o_o O_O thanks cate
- Student is that a third kind of pollen in the upper left, of the pollen from suspect a?
- Student how can the microscope zoom in so much?
Bugscope Team the microscope can zoom in much higher- up to 200,000x, but to answer your question, we are using electrons which are much smaller than lightwaves
- Student thanks.
- Student What is this one?
- Student Does pollen break apart
Bugscope Team yes it can happen. They are really just plant material
- Student a lot of like cashews
- 11:06am
- Student it looks like pea pods
- Student this is more fun than a field trip!
- Student way to much pollen
- Student those pollens things looks like peanuts
- Student those are some dirty shoelaces
- Student that is alot of pollen
- Student no it isnt
- Student I agree with Cole
- Student plant sap like what kind of plant a tree maybe??
Bugscope Team all plants have sap in them. Mostly made of water. Insects drink it for sustenance
- Student same here
- Student oh ok thanks cate
- Student About how many diffrent pollen grains are on suspect C's shoelace?
- Student on the left
- Student is that plant sap i see dripping
Bugscope Team it's possible. Or it could be some sort of dust maybe? Not sure. It's a good guess.
- Student Is there a camera in the microscope?
Bugscope Team there is an infrared camera in it
- Student wait did all three suspects have this same pollen
Bugscope Team yes. But remember suspect b had 2 different kinds of pollen
- Student what is the small object in the left corner
- Student what is the small object in the let corner
Bugscope Team the lower left, could be what caroline v thought- plant sap, or maybe dust. Upper left could be anothe rpollen grain
- Student what type of pollen is this?
- Student Why are the samples black and white?
Bugscope Team because we are detecting a signal coming from the electrons. You might sometimes see images like this, but in color, and those were false colored after they were attained. We aren;t using light to get these images
- Student is this one shoelace zoomed into
- 11:11am
- Student y does she have nasty shoe laces???? :P grodie
- Student Thanks Cate
- Student i think im done
- Student if the samples were in color would we get a better idea of what they looked like
- Student same here
- Student so are these thins on our clothes,shoes, US?
Bugscope Team it's very possible if you have been walking through plants or fields in general. They can also travel in the air, which is why people get such bad allergies
- Student Is there something in the pollen because there is a slit in the peices
- Student how often do you use this microscope?
- Student how hard is it to operate the microscope?
Bugscope Team not too hard to do the basics. Your teacher is driving right now
- Student did u find any life in the shoelace
Bugscope Team no sorry. That would be cool to see though
- Student Thanks for all your help cate :]
- Student cool.\
- Student cool
- Student So Cate pollen in the air causes allergies?
Bugscope Team yes.
- Bugscope Team here is the crime scene pollen
- Student how come there is no lines
- Bugscope Team So these are the round ones that I'm sure we found on one of the suspects...
- Student why are there cracks?
- Student what does the microscope run on
Bugscope Team electricity. Or did you mean something else?
- Student nevermind
- Student The pollen looks like fossils
- Student this is the pollen from suspect b.
Bugscope Team yes. The kinds that look a little like rocks
- Student Why is there alot of cracks in this picture?
- Student what are the crackis in the floor
Bugscope Team the cracks are from the carbon tape the samples are sitting on
- Student no i didnt mean anything else
- Student yes they're the one snes we found on suspect b right?
- Student did the pollen on the right get mutilated or torn?
- Student Why are some of the pollen grains rounded and the others kind of flattened
Bugscope Team well the better ones are the round ones, but yes some are flattened. And it happens. They are made of plant materials, so to a human they are extra squishy
- Student one 1 flower are there different types of pollen or not?
- Student are pollen living organisms?
- Student is pollen skwishy
- Student why do some of the look round or oval and the outhers look like deformed or messed up
- Student will pollen break if touched
- 11:17am
- Student Aren't asll pollen peices yellow
Bugscope Team no they can come in different colors like green and brown and grey and some are even a little red
- Student What is that thing the one in the right corner tht looks squished?
- Student When the pollen grains get flattened does any fluids come out?
Bugscope Team I think some would. They can get dried out a little. But I dont think much will come out
- Student so this id the pollen tat all three suspects had?\
Bugscope Team these don't look like cashews or flattened footballs to me....so no
- Student a
- Student how often do you use the microscope?
Bugscope Team everyday, but we do a bugscope session usually around twice a week
- Student are pollen living organisms?
Bugscope Team they don't breathe, but they have living cells in them
- Student maybe suspect B did it becuase he has many diffrent pollens
- Student did the pollen on the right get torn?
Bugscope Team yes it looks that way
- Student haha fluids
- Student thx cate
- Student Thank you
- Student thank you cate :)
- Student so pollen is what is on plants and what gives us allergies? right -o_o-
Bugscope Team most people are allergic to ragweed. But some can get allergic to tree pollen or grass pollen
- Student thank you for letting us use this microscope.it was very fun!
- Student yes thank you cate
- Student thank you! this was so fun XD
- Student thankyou for providing the oppertunity to look at the microscope! :]'
- Student thank you!! :)
- Student thank juw
- Student TY
- Student thank you
- Student thx!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student thank you for letting us use your micrscope :-)
- Student Thank you :) you guys are beast!
- Student that wasoneofthe coolest things ive ever seen thanks kate!
- Student Thank you Cate, this was really fun!
- Student Thank you for letting us look through your mircoscope, and answering our questions.
- Student Thank you for everything
- Student Thank you Cate I learned alot :)
- Student Why do pollen create allergies
Bugscope Team when we inhale them, our bodies think they are like viruses and attacks them ,even though they are harmless
- Student thank u so much for giving us this apportunaty to learn about this i wish we cuold do this soon thanx again have a good day and good bye cate
- Student thank you for ansewering our questions! thanks!
- Teacher We are wrapping up now. Thanks so much again for a great session! Please have admin send me the link for submitting the feedback and I will complete that today! LOVE YOU BUGSCOPE!!!
Bugscope Team thanks for using bugscope today. This was very fun and different from what we usually do
- Student thank you so much you gave us an oppertunity to look under this amazing microscope i am very happy i learned so much
- Bugscope Team you can see chat and images from tody at your member page: https://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-105
- Student thanks
- Student Thank you very much Cate
- 11:23am
- Bugscope Team and sorry that this had to be rescheduled from your original date
- Teacher I worked out fantastically with the extra time!!
- Teacher It...lol
