Connected on 2011-03-25 12:30:00 from Hamilton, Ohio, United States
- 12:12pm
- Teacher Hey hey!!
- Bugscope Team Yay!
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Teacher Sorry to be "Dr. Ray"...sounds so official
- Bugscope Team Cate is cruising around and I am clicking these into presets
- Bugscope Team is everything working on your end?
- Bugscope Team anything you need?
- Teacher This is going to be a dumb question--but how do I log my students in as students?
- Bugscope Team you should be able to go to the login page, and if Student is not an option use Guest
- Teacher OK--that is what I thought. I don't see student as an option
- Bugscope Team yeah sorry maybe that is browser specific and we don't see it because we never use it
- Bugscope Team hey dr. ray- those "hair" patches on either side under the legs- are they gills?
- Teacher We can confer driving power to guests, right?
Bugscope Team yes we can
Bugscope Team yes
- Bugscope Team 'scope and I can, anyway
- Bugscope Team this is mayfly
- 12:17pm
- Teacher This is the mayfly? They should have gills under their armpits and along the abdomen
Bugscope Team yes
- Teacher Hi Chelsea, hi Brennan
- Guest Hi
- Bugscope Team we think the stringlike things are the gills on the mayfly, Dr. Ray
- Bugscope Team as in the preset
- Bugscope Team Hello Moserb
- Bugscope Team wasp head
- Teacher OK--we'll take a look
- Bugscope Team the stonefly seems to have a different mechanism for breathing
- Teacher those are some crazy antennae
- 12:23pm
- Teacher I think this is a moth
- Guest Is this still a stone fly
Bugscope Team no this is a tiny moth
- Bugscope Team Nickey we are making the presets, so we're bouncing quickly from specimen to specimen right now
- Guest Thank you
- Guest hello
- Guest hello
- Teacher Brochosomes!
- Guest Dr. Ray.. What are we suppossed to do/
- Teacher I am expecting quite a lot of guests today...I hope the server can handle everyone!
- Guest hey Dr. Ray! what are we looking at?
- Guest how small is the super small mosquito
Bugscope Team when we get back to it you can check it against the micron bar
- Teacher This is a longhorned beetle!
- 12:28pm
- Teacher Stand by..we will "start" at 1:30
- Guest Should we take notes?
- Bugscope Team the connection time is 1:30 your time, so we could be a bit late setting up
- Guest okay.. and are we supposed to be able to hear anything?
- Bugscope Team Dr Ray do you know what this is? It's like a 6-legged aquatic rolypoly?
- Guest what are we supposed to be doing?
- Teacher We will ask and answer questions as soon as the Bugscope people are finished with the setup.
- Guest Hi Austin
- Teacher The unknown is a water penny beetle larvae
- Guest Will you tell us when it actually starts
- Bugscope Team we are ready to roll -- sorry it took a little while for the sample to pump down; just one housefly to go...
- Teacher yes
- 12:33pm
- Guest hi dr. annie ray!
- Bugscope Team okay we are good
- Guest So we just watch and read the text?! I feel so cool chatting with Dr. Annie Ray
- Guest la la la
- Guest Chitin?
- Teacher We are go
- Guest Why do I keep getting disconnected?
- Teacher This is a fly head
- Guest errrr chiton*
Bugscope Team chitin is correct
- Guest im dazed and confused dr ray
- Bugscope Team yes you do
- Bugscope Team try it out
- Guest What is a fly head?
- Bugscope Team the fly looks like it just jumped out from a dark corner and is trying to scare you
- Bugscope Team You have control.
- Guest heyo
- Bugscope Team we are dealing with huge lag today
- Guest Is that THE Ardag?
- Bugscope Team yes you have control
- Bugscope Team for some reason things are not working nearly as fast as normal
- Guest Fly?
- Guest the one and only
- Guest Ardag where are you?
- Student Are we supposed to be doing something?
Bugscope Team you could be driving the microscope if dr. ray wanted to confer control to you!
- 12:39pm
- Guest looks cute
Bugscope Team they always looked kind of gross to me when I see them all close up with setae sticking out everywhere
- Guest kind of looks like you joeabj
- Guest earth
- Guest what is this?
- Guest what are we supposed to do?
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the longhorned beetle
- Bugscope Team Dr Ray's class we are so sorry about all of the problems; it's like the connection is very poor right now
- Guest I don't have a picture anymore
Bugscope Team hit refresh, for that
- Bugscope Team Dr Ray please let us know if we should confer control to anyone
- Guest Look at those mandibles
- Guest is this the beetles top side or bottom
Bugscope Team this is the ventral side -- the bottom
- Teacher Ardag, want to drive?
- Guest Ardag is a genius!
- Guest dont mess this up ardag
- Guest Ardag, you are the man
- Guest What are the structures called that look like mini hairs
Bugscope Team setae
- Guest how are we going to be tested over this.... he never shows us pictures..
- Guest how are we going to be tested over this.... he never shows us pictures..
- Teacher Setae help the insect to sense its environment
- Bugscope Team sometimes the mini hairs -- the really small ones -- are called microsetae, or trichae, or microtrichae
- Bugscope Team sometimes the hairs are just called spines or bristles or hairs
- Bugscope Team ardag has control if he wants it
- 12:44pm
- Guest hahhaahaha
- Bugscope Team the hairs are mechanosensory, or chemosensory, or thermosensory
- Guest This is gross. Yay bugs
- Bugscope Team things seem now to be straightening out a bit
- Teacher Scot, do I have control of the scope?
- Guest i wanna drive
- Guest Ardag click on a preset
- Guest love me some JAMO
- Guest palella, what are we lookin at
- Guest a bug
- Teacher Ardag, click on a preset\
- Guest everyone wants you to take charge captain lets go step up
- Guest diatoms?
Bugscope Team there are diatoms on some the aquatic insects
- Guest Commandant Ardag, please explain the current state of affairs.
- Guest Dr. Ray, Justin Smith and I went to a different building to get internet access.
- Guest Are those hairs setae also?
Bugscope Team yes most of the fine hairs we see are setae
- 12:49pm
- Guest What is the setae for again?
Bugscope Team setae can be mechano- (touch) sensory
- Guest Is it eating it's arms or is that just another Structure that come out of the mouth
- Bugscope Team Setae works to give senses to the insect
- Bugscope Team they can also be chemo- (pheromones or chemical scents) sensory
- Guest jamo
- Bugscope Team they can also be thermo- (hot/cold) sensory
- Guest give it to lil boss!
- Bugscope Team The palps are seen here coming out of the mouth area. They often look like the insect was eating another insect
- Bugscope Team setae can also serve other purposes, such as the tenent setae that help insects stick to surfaces
- Teacher can you confer driving ability to B. Davis?
Bugscope Team B Davis should have control
- Guest What the purpose of the palps?
Bugscope Team palps are used for manipulating food, or prospective food, including tasting it
- Guest Is that the "jaw bone"?
- Bugscope Team Here's a cute water beetle- a whirligig I believe
- Bugscope Team It's head is similar to a ladybug's
- Guest Where is the mouth?
Bugscope Team the mouth is often obscured, even when we are looking at the face, which of course we are not right now
- 12:55pm
- Guest lets check out the mosquito
- Guest Armand is the man.
- Guest ive only got half a picture
Bugscope Team Try to refresh the browser. It might help
Bugscope Team try hitting refresh on your browser; we are having a lot of failed connection problems today, worse than ever, and this is important to us with Dr Ray -- we are sorry for the problems
- Bugscope Team We believe these are the mayfly gills
- Guest im disconnected
- Guest What is that?
- Guest jamos connected
- Guest gimme that wheel
- 1:03pm
- Guest What are the little stringy things?
- Guest hand over the keys
- Teacher These are the gills of a mayfly
- Guest :'(
- Guest may I have the control?
- Guest Lets roll
- Teacher It is advising and room selection day and I think the internet is all clogged up
Bugscope Team we are having problems with our server
- 1:08pm
- Guest this stinks :(
- Teacher Can you give me driving power?
- Teacher Students, you are dismissed...this is a bit unexpected]
- 1:14pm
- Teacher We are having internet problems
- Bugscope Team Hey Chas don't know if you can see this but we were able to close everything down finally.
