Connected on 2011-02-17 07:30:00 from Cayuga, New York, United States
- 8:39am
- Guest SEE YA!!!
- Guest but we are going to the academy
- Guest ;0
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team See You!
- Bugscope Team Good morning, Frank!
- Bugscope Team Frank we are ready to roll. Our visitors from Scotland just left.
- Guest bye
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Bugscope Team or most of them. they were very nice
- Teacher We are here. Trying to get everyone set up.
Bugscope Team totally cool
- Bugscope Team good morning, and Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team please let me know when you have questions
- 8:45am
- Student what is it?
Bugscope Team this is salt from a Wendy's restaurant
- Bugscope Team salt from Wendy's has this cool incised look to it.
- Bugscope Team normal salt is smooth, a smooth cube
- Student How old is the salt?
- Student is it old ?
Bugscope Team not too old; the pattern would look like this if it was new
- Bugscope Team we think it looks like this because there is an anticaking agent added to it, but we do not know for sure
- Student how did you make this salt
Bugscope Team we didn't make it; we just got it out of packets
- Student how did you get it that close ?
- Bugscope Team we like it because it looks like it was made by Aztecs
- Student Where did you get it from?
- Student What is that?
- Student what is that?
- Bugscope Team those are diatoms, on the head of a caddisfly larva
- Student WHAT IS THIS
- Student what insect is this
- Student why does it look like theres strings
- Student Is this some sort of larvae ?
- Bugscope Team diatoms are silica shelled microscopic creatures that live in the water
- 8:50am
- Bugscope Team so they're not insects, but we found them on this insect
- Bugscope Team there are millions of them in pondwater, for example
- Student what is the white strings
- Student what is this
- Student are they around new york state
- Student how did you find this creacher?
Bugscope Team we looked on the head of the caddisfly larva
- Student can you eat these?
- Student Where did you get this picture from
- Student what insect is it ?
Bugscope Team this is on the head of a caddisfly larva, so the insect is a caddisfly
- Student can you show the fly larva?
Bugscope Team sure!
- Student how big is it?
- Student is this a land creature or a water creature
- Student What is the little white thing
- Bugscope Team there...
- Student what is that
- Student is that a fly
- Student what insect is that
Bugscope Team this is the larval stage of a caddisfly. when it is a larva it lives underwater, in streams
- Student thank you
- Student is this a fly
- Student is this a dust mite?
- Student where is this located
Bugscope Team now? it is in the scanning electron microscope here
- Student where is the insect
- Student how old is this creature?
Bugscope Team probably a few weeks, at least
- Student how long has that been dead?
Bugscope Team months, since the summer
- Student looks like a monster from a movie!
Bugscope Team yes it does!
- Student is this caddisfly larvae?
- Student What is the insect?
- Bugscope Team Praying Mantis is that what you meant?
- Student what stage of life is this
Bugscope Team it is the larval stage
- Student what is the stringy things
- Student what is the insects name
Bugscope Team caddisfly
- Student -*
- Student is this a bettle
- 8:55am
- Bugscope Team --.--
- Student 7yuyu
- Student what is it
- Student what is it
Bugscope Team this is the caddisfly larva
- Bugscope Team it is the larval, aquatic stage of the caddisfly, so eventually it would grow into a flying insect
- Student yeah what is it
- Student how did you get the bugs or how did you find it?
Bugscope Team someone collected these from a stream and sent them to us
- Student thank you scot
Bugscope Team Sure!
- Student where did it come fromd
- Student how long dose it live?
- Student what is the population of this insect?
Bugscope Team they live in clean streams all over, but if the stream is polluted they do not survive. so they are indicators of water quality
- Teacher I am trying to confer to another student group and a pop up box asks for username and password. What do I use?
- Student What is inside of the stomach?
Bugscope Team those are gills, and they're really on the outside
- Student how big do they get
Bugscope Team maybe a few centimeters
- Student oh!
- Student where did you get these
- Student when did it die
- Student how many teeth do they have.
Bugscope Team insects do not have teeth, but some have hardened mandibles
- Student where does it live
Bugscope Team they live in temperate regions, in streams
- Student where did i come from\
Bugscope Team someone collected it and sent it
- 9:00am
- Student what part is it
Bugscope Team this now is the tip of the mouthparts of a large fly
- Student what is this creature?
- Student what are the strings on the end ?
- Student what is this
- Student what is mandibles
- Student where is this from
- Student what is that?
- Student what is that
- Student Are there sensors on the proboscis?
- Student What are the long things?
Bugscope Team those are bristles that let the fly sense when it is close to touching something
- Student is that its tounge?
- Student how big do they get?
- Student how do you get the bugs under the microscope?
Bugscope Team I will show you what the vacuum chanber looks like.
- Student what insect is that?
- Student which end is that at front or back
Bugscope Team that was the front
- Student what is the problem?
- Student this is cool
- Bugscope Team this is the inside of the specimen chamber of the microscope
- Bugscope Team so this is under vacuum, and you can see all of the insects on the stub today
- Student what is on it
Bugscope Team lots of insects plus some noninsects
- Student how do you get these incects
- Student jxhdcicjdxusdjususususisksuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
- Student What insect is the chamber?
Bugscope Team this one, for starters -- a large fly
- Student can you show us a compound eye?
- Bugscope Team also a moth, a beetle, a fruit fly, a mosquito
- Student about how many eye cells do they have
- Student Why are the flies eyes so big/
- Student how many teeth do they have?
Bugscope Team no teeth, insects do not have teeth
- Student so cool
- Student how many eye cells do they have
- Student about how many lenses are there in their eyes?
Bugscope Team this probably has a few thousand lenses, also called ommatidia
- Student what does a caddisfly eat
Bugscope Team other insects
- Student wat do they eat
- Student how fat do they get
Bugscope Team they are usually pretty trim
- 9:05am
- Student how long is there lifespan
- Student what is the thing betwwen both eyes like were nose would be?
Bugscope Team there are some sensory bristles, and the proboscis (the mouthparts) in the lower part of the face
- Student How many bugs have you got so far
- Student how many eyes can it see out of
Bugscope Team it sees out of all of the eyes, and you can tell that it has very good peripheral vision.
- Student when did you get these insects
- Student what do flies eat
Bugscope Team some eat sweet stuff, like nectar from flowers, and some eat blood, like horseflies and deerflies
- Student what is the mouthpart called
- Student how many socets are in the compound eyes
- Student how long is there lifespan
Bugscope Team an average would be a few weeks
- Student do colage students study the bugs under the microscope
Bugscope Team some do; we work with some entomology students
- Student how many cells do flies have?
Bugscope Team at least hundreds of thousands
- Student how much did the electron microscope cost?
Bugscope Team about $600,000
- Student were do they live?
Bugscope Team in temperate regions like we do
- Student xwaj
- Student if they have wings could they lose there wings
Bugscope Team only in an accident
- Student how long do flies live
Bugscope Team some live for a few hours, like mayflies, and some live for a few months
- Student how long do they live
- Student how much money does this coast
- Student can you eat the caddisfly?
Bugscope Team good protein but probably not too tasty or filling
- Student how big are there wings
- Student how big are there wings
- Student where do these insects live
- Student do the students at kuga collage study them ?
Bugscope Team I imagine some do.
- Student how big are there wings
- Teacher How do I confer control to another group? I tried and got asked for username and password.
Bugscope Team do you want to give control to students? we can do that
- Student fly can see out of how many eyes
- Student How long are their legs
- 9:10am
- Student can you show us the salt
- Student is this a large fly
Bugscope Team this is a very large fly
- Bugscope Team username is 2010-127 is password you should know, frank
- Student how big can they get?
- Student yes scott
- Student can we control the microcope?
- Teacher Who is changing the pictures? Are you scot?
Bugscope Team you are the only person with control save me and now Cate
- Bugscope Team Butterflys you now have control.
- Student how much do they weigh
- Student how fast can they fly.
- Student how long do flys live?
- Student how long can flies fly at one time?
- Student how fast can a fly fly
- Student they look furry. are they?
- Student flies are born in eggs right?
- Student where is the tympanum?
- Student how are butterflies in control?
- Student can some of them be posines
Bugscope Team some can be poisonous, like tsetse flies
- Student how far can a fly go in one day?
Bugscope Team I'm not sure. Probably a few miles.
- Student how many lenses are in a mosquito eye
- Student why do they look like eggs
- Student does the fly have a pronotum?
Bugscope Team yes it does. that is what the upper surface -- the dorsal surface -- of the first thoracic segment is called
- Student how much do they weigh
Bugscope Team they weigh from less than a gram to perhaps to or three grams
- Student can the eye cells fall of?
- 9:15am
- Student what is wrong?
- Student are these compound
- Student why are the eyes hairy
- Student how fast can flys go
Bugscope Team a tabanid fly, related to a horsefly, can fly 90 miles an hour
- Student are those little hairs on the compound eye?
- Student can we see the butterfly wing scale?
- Student is there any pictures of bugs prono\
Bugscope Team here we usually have almost all of the insects on their backs, so you would not see the pronotum
- Student why are they so close?
- Student can we control the microscope
- Bugscope Team beatles we just gave you control
- Student can we be the leader
- Student can we be in control next please?
- Student are those there eggs
Bugscope Team these are the individual facets, called ommatidia, of the compound eye
- Student l
- Student what is this?
- Student what is that
- Student these are cool
- Student how many eggs do flies lay
- Student how many egg can a fly have
Bugscope Team A female fly can lay upto 500 eggs in batches of 75 to 150 eggs over a period of three to four days.
- Student what is a tenent setae?
Bugscope Team tenent setae are sticky hairs that help insects walk on vertical surfaces
- Student can we be in control after the beatles?
- Student how fast can flies fly
- Student cool
- Student could you eat a horse fly
Bugscope Team they taste kind of yucky
- Student do b
- Student how many cells are in there eyes
Bugscope Team thousands and thousands of cells- because there are thousands of ommatidia
- Student how much did the electron microscope cost!?
Bugscope Team about $600,000
- Student what are those?
Bugscope Team these are tenent setae of the ladybug- they allow the ladybug to walk on walls
- 9:21am
- Student why did they look like strings??
- Student how are the beetles in control?
- Student do they have joints
- Student how long can they live
- Student can we see the salt
- Student thanks scot!!
- Student fly knees are furry?
Bugscope Team yes who knew? cool, huh?
- Student do bettles have a wepon
Bugscope Team sometimes they can have some bad looking mouthparts, sometimes they have horns on thier heads
- Student can we have control
Bugscope Team ants wanted it next
- Student do they eat each outher
- Student why do this look like this
- Bugscope Team so ants in our pants has control now
- Student can we be in control next please?
Bugscope Team you are now the supreme rulers
- Student when can we have it
- Bugscope Team this is a ball and socket joint, we are looking at where the ball hooks into the socket here
- Student do bugs eat ]
Bugscope Team yes they do
- Student what is this
- Student Do stag beetles kill each other ???
- Student ccan we be in contral
- Student do all bugs eat eachother
- Student can we have the contral next
- Student what part of their body is this?
Bugscope Team these are the mandibles -- the jaws
- Student do bugs eat each outher
Bugscope Team yes very often- especially when they are hungry they will eat each other
Bugscope Team the praying mantis females will eat the males, and sometimes the female spiders will eat the male spiders
- Student these are cool
- Student can people eat this dead?
Bugscope Team you could, but the protein might be all dried out, some people eat chocolate covered ants and they are dead
- Student how was bugscope invented?
- Student why do flies land near feces ?
- Student are flies good to eat
- Student can we be in control next? please
- Student How big is there scale?
Bugscope Team scales are maybe a few hundred microns long
- 9:26am
- Student thats a butterflies wing
Bugscope Team yes it is one single scale from a butterfly's wing
- Student what is the pronotum
- Student what is this
- Student What is that
- Student Do spiders swim
Bugscope Team I think some of them can.
- Student can we be in control next? we need to see the salt.
- Student please stop changing it ?
- Student is that mold
- Student what is in between the antenna
- Student How many anteenies can they have?
- Bugscope Team Dragonflies are now the Supreme Rulers of the Microscope
- Student can you give the butterflys controle
- Student are those hairs
Bugscope Team those are setae, which are also sometimes called hairs, bristles, trichae
- Student are those the hair on a dog?
Bugscope Team no it really is on an insect
- Student could you show a mayfly???
Bugscope Team these are images of what is in the microscope now, and I am sorry we do not have a mayfly
- Student what are those?
- Student can we be incontrol
Bugscope Team after locas, I think
- Student how big is the moth scale
- Student do insects shed
Bugscope Team they sometimes molt as adults if they live long enough. But yes insects molt through their different life stages. If they lost a limb and molt, it will be back good as new
- Student can you show the male mosquitto?
- Student Can they go inside ryan vanacores belly
- Student whens locas incontrol
- 9:32am
- Student does flies help the world ,how
- Student can you show us a picture of a bugs pronotum
Bugscope Team these are live images from the 'scope, and to top it off, unfortunately, we rarely look at the top of the back
- Student is that a pronotum
Bugscope Team I am sorry. The pronotum is the top surface of the thorax, and we have all of the insects on their backs.
- Student how much hair total is on the body of a flie
- Student can u put the beatles in control?
- Student May you please show us the salt?
Bugscope Team you'll have to ask the person driving to see it
- Bugscope Team Locas are now in control.
- Student do they sleep
- Student who is locas?
- Bugscope Team here's the salt
- Student how do dragonflies lay eggs
Bugscope Team some have pointed, sharpened ovipositors and some use the tip of their abdomen
- Student what does a dragonflies wing look like
- Student do insects harm people?
- Student how much salt is this
- Student how big is this salt?
- Student Does this salt come from flies?
Bugscope Team no it comes from Wendy's
- Student how much is it magnified
- Student why does the salt look cubed
Bugscope Team the way the sodium and chloride fit together makes a cubic shape
- Student how big is that salt when its not magnified?
Bugscope Team less than a millimeter, perhaps half that as an average
- Student do flies eat that salt
- Student do flies hibernate
Bugscope Team not really
- Student how long would they live for in the cold
- Student how do they sleep
Bugscope Team I think they don't really sleep but have a senescent period in which they are just kind of chillin'
- Student How much does the system cost?
Bugscope Team this microscope cost $600,000 11 years ago
- 9:37am
- Student why do these look like jellyfish stingers?
Bugscope Team it's a total coincidence, maybe because they are all strands that go in the same direction
- Student does a beetle have over 100 setae?
Bugscope Team it's very likely- they need those hairs to get feedback on what's going on around it.
- Student are they ribs?
Bugscope Team these are ladybug tenent setae- they allow the insect to walk on vertical surfaces
- Student what color is a butterflys blood
- Student why does salt looked cubed
Bugscope Team salt forms that shape naturally. compared to sugar -- sugar does not form natural cubic crystals
- Student Is this affective to other beatles?
- Student can a beetle swim?
- Student do people hurt insects on purpose
Bugscope Team yes sometimes they do
- Student do they grow over a couple of inches
- Student can you see what we see
- Student what color are most bugs
- Student what color is a butterflys blood
Bugscope Team it is usually clear, but when you squish them you see other contents that weren't really in the hemolymph
- Student why are there hairs on this?
- Student do insects harm people
- Student How much do flies weigh
- Student do some insects have vename
- Student Is this a claw?
Bugscope Team this is the proboscis of a mosquito. A proboscis is a tube like mouthpart. Kind of like an elephant's trunk
- Student how many scales are on a butterflies wings
- Student why do flies have haires?
Bugscope Team this is pretty cool: it's because they do not have skin, they have more like a shell, like armor. so the hairs stick through the shell and let them sense their environment that way, attached to nerves
- Student how long Is a proboscis ?
- Student can you change who is in control?
- Student do mosquitos suck your blood
Bugscope Team the females do; they need it to be able to successfully lay their eggs -- they need the protein
- Student why does salt looked cubed
- Student does insects have as many bows as us
- Student how big can mosquittos get?
Bugscope Team not much larger than the ones we see; maybe half again as large but I think that is it
- Student what is that?\
- Student we think this is skin is it
- 9:42am
- Student why do these look like flippers
- Student how long does there hair grow to
Bugscope Team it's not really hair, and it doesn't grow like hair. the setae, which is what they are usually called, extend to the length they need to be able to sense their environment
- Student can beatles be in control
- Student what do bugs eat
- Student What does there skin fell like
- Student can some bugs live more than a year
- Student can bugs eat humans
Bugscope Team yes, in a way- mosquitos feed off our blood, bed bugs bite us, but to totally consume a full body it would take a lot of insects.
- Student does a frog swallow all its prey whole?
- Student how do they migrate
- Student how big is a moth scale
- Student what family are the insects in?
Bugscope Team the Simpsons
- Student who ever is in charge, can we see tiny grasshopper?
- Student why are the insects in the simpsons family
- Student stop changing the pictures locas
- Student What are the simpsons
- Student Is a flies wing as big as its body
- Student how many kinds of bugs are there
- Student what is a simsons family is it the one one on tv or a real bug family
- Student if you weigh them on a scale how much would they weigh
- Student how long do queen bees live
- Student what are the simpsons
- Bugscope Team Insects are in the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Arthropoda, the subphylum Hexapoda, and the class Insecta. After that there are subclasses and then I think families, like The Simpsons.
- Bugscope Team insects don't really have ribs. Their bones are on the outside- exoskeleton. They are more like plates
- Student how long do grasshoppers live?
- Student how big do spiders get?
Bugscope Team some spiders will get as big as your hand
- 9:47am
- Student do grasshoppers have compound eyes or simple eyes
Bugscope Team they have compound eyes.
- Student Are there ribs like xylaphones?
Bugscope Team they don't really have ribs, since they do not have bones, but the body segments may look like ribs
- Student what is on the bugs pronotum
Bugscope Team whoa yeah there is a pronotum for you, to the right!
- Student how far does grasshoppers jump
- Student How does the Grasshopper jump so far
Bugscope Team it has powerful muscles in its hindlegs
- Student do ladybugs have simple or compound eyes?
Bugscope Team all adult insects have compound eyes. They might not as larvae.
- Student this is cool
Bugscope Team yay!
- Student When are the bugs born?
Bugscope Team all of the time, but usually in the warm months
- Student what is that insect it looks cool.\\
Bugscope Team this is a very small cute little grasshopper
- Student +
- Student how high can grass hoppers hop
Bugscope Team usually just a few feet, but some also have wings that help extend their jump
- Student How long are butterflies in cacoonns?
Bugscope Team a few weeks or more
- Student how long are butterflys in there cacoonns
- Student have grasshoppers been since the dinosours?
Bugscope Team I think so.
- Student what kind of envirements do grasshoppers like to live in
- Student what kind of envirements do grasshoppers like to live in
- Student How long are butterflies in cacoonns?
Bugscope Team they are in a chrysalis for around 2 weeks
- Student How big is the grasshopper in this photo?
Bugscope Team it's like a cm or a little longer, very small
- 9:52am
- Teacher Okay thanks bugscope team. Off to lunch of chocolate covered grasshoppers and deep fried crickets. Thanks for your time.
- Student THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!:)
- Student THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME SCOT AND ESEM
- Student Thank you Scot and esem for teaching us cool stuff
- Student Thank you bugscope
- Student thank you!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student thankyou from the beatles
- Bugscope Team ESEM is Cate.
- Student thank you!
- Student Thank you Bug scope team!!!!
- Student It was awesome!
- Student Thanks for your time!!
- Bugscope Team Thank you John Paul George and Ringo!
- Bugscope Team Thank you Locas
- Student THANK U!
- Bugscope Team Thank you ants and mantis and bug bustors
- Bugscope Team and Awesome!
- Bugscope Team and Magic Marshmellow!
- Bugscope Team thank you, we hope you all had fun
- Bugscope Team enjoy your insect food
