Session 2011-002 with University of Illinois/Beckman Institute

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Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2011-02-26 16:00:00 from Champaign, Illinois, United States

• 4:37pm
• Guest Heh!
• Guest I know you are setting up--I will be quiet
• Bugscope Team Annie!
• Bugscope Team Yay!
• Guest I am away from my office where all of my passwords are kept, so I will just be a guest today :)
• Bugscope Team I am setting up, Cate will be here soon, Leilei is heading over to Foellinger, as is Alex.
• Guest Are you hiding in the basement this year?

• Bugscope Team When Cate gets here I will head over to IF3
• Guest Is it -20 out?
• Bugscope Team no it is overcast and I think in the low 30's; there is snow in the back of my truck but it is mostly gone elsewhere

• Bugscope Team so it is like really pleasant for IF3

• Guest Yeah, that is nice for once.
• 4:42pm
• Guest Thrips!

• Bugscope Team ha you are helping me out already
• Guest My students are really excited about Bugscope on Mar 25.
• Bugscope Team good deal

• Guest I will get some insects together soon.
• Guest I have a bunch of malaise samples, so I will send stuff in ethanol...well, sort of in ethanol.
• Guest This is cool

• 4:48pm

• 4:54pm

• Bugscope Team you know it does not matter if there is not admin chat because we are 'open' on both ends this evening

• 5:00pm

• Bugscope Team hey did my name come out garbled?

• Bugscope Team I see it worked this time
• Bugscope Team wow this is so well preserved

• Bugscope Team yo

• Bugscope Team earth to bugscope, do i have the right session?
• Bugscope Team hey DaddyO!
• Bugscope Team yessir
• Bugscope Team sup, biatches!
• 5:07pm

• Guest Hi hi

• Guest I am checking on a roast...be back soon. Ian is visiting.

• Bugscope Team hey scott, i'll need you to authenticate to wireless when you get here. you can only login to UIUCnet with one login at a time, i'm on the windows laptop, but leilei forgot his netid password, the dingleberryhead...

• 5:12pm

• Bugscope Team ok np holmes
• Bugscope Team never,ind, we goit ti figured out]
• Bugscope Team yo my pimpin biatches
• Bugscope Team so do you guys have everything you need?

• Bugscope Team yep, we are good to go!
• Bugscope Team be kid friendly mac daddy!
• Bugscope Team yo got it dude
• Bugscope Team me change name now
• Bugscope Team that was the Otaku talkin'

• Bugscope Team we are ready to roll!
• 5:17pm
• Bugscope Team yes sir
• Guest wasps wasps wasps
• Bugscope Team one of your favorite insects right?

• Guest meh
• Guest they are really interesting...
• Guest ommatidia
• Bugscope Team she was jokin', Kiddo
• Bugscope Team heh
• Guest :)

• Guest Doors open in 40 minutes?

• Bugscope Team yeah should bee

• Bugscope Team Hi to Ian!
• 5:22pm

• Bugscope Team yeah, 6PM right, there's tons of ento's setting up already

• 5:28pm

• 5:34pm

• Bugscope Team cool presets scott

• Bugscope Team Thanks, Holmes. Cate made the sample.
• Bugscope Team this is a wasp that parasitizes cockroaches
• Bugscope Team is the caterator going to join us tonight?
• Bugscope Team She is here.
• Bugscope Team they have a bucket of parasitic wasps that they are going to chow on a catepilar later on tonight
• Bugscope Team well, i guess not chow on it, but lay eggs in it?

• 5:39pm
• Bugscope Team yeah that is what they do do do
• Guest Some of M Allyene's work has shown that some of the wasps drink the hemolymph of the host after they oviposit.
• Guest Insult to injury
• Bugscope Team still the same thing
• Bugscope Team oooh like little vampires
• Guest reason 1005 that I am happy I am not a caterpillar

• Bugscope Team we're glad you're not a caterpillar too
• Bugscope Team scott, are you coming here?
• Guest Puts a nice perspective on life
• Bugscope Team yes I am
• Bugscope Team made us think of how the true to life spiderman would look
• Bugscope Team oh wait, kaos is cate!
• Bugscope Team yeah! Chaos and ESEM are like off-limits until Chas can figure out where they are and delete them
• Guest Where did they go? Skynet?!
• 5:44pm
• Bugscope Team um yeah
• Guest I knew this day would come.
• Bugscope Team skynet? you mean like in terminator?
• Guest yes...
• Bugscope Team cool
• Guest Or like the malicious computer in than Xfiles episode?
• Guest *that*
• 5:50pm
• Bugscope Team i have a funny xfiles movie story, but it's too long to tell over chat
• Guest All of the original Xfiles are available on Netflix
• Guest TV shows
• Bugscope Team scott, people are starting to pile up at the doors....
• Bugscope Team do you netflix to your tv?
• Guest To my computer...still don't have a TV
• Bugscope Team gotta reboot to install patches, back in a sec
• Guest OK
• Bugscope Team gotta get a tv annie, i netflix to a 46" LCD, it is way cool
• 5:55pm
• Guest I'll get a TV when I get a house...so in this economy, never
• Guest I don't have a good place for a TV in my apartment
• Guest I wonder if the same old Champaign figures will show up this year? The lady with the bike...the guy who asks how to have a species named for him...
• Bugscope Team there's an illini game right now too, so croud might be light?
• Guest The crowd has never been light...not even that year when it was -20!
• Bugscope Team heh
• 6:01pm
• Bugscope Team okay, we are ready to roll, doors open, i'm going to control the scope
• Guest Ok...I will be here making idle conversation

• Guest wasp mouth

• Guest So it seems that when an insect has a lot of closely packed ommatidia, it is probably active during the day

• 6:06pm

• Guest Tiny wasp!

• Guest You can see almost all the mouthparts here

• 6:12pm

• Bugscope Team these look like eggs but are pollen grains

• Guest This is what aggravates peoples' allergies

• Guest crazy wasp antenna!

• 6:17pm

• Guest These are all little setae that help the wasp to sense its environment. It has setae to smell, to taste, to sense the direction of the wind, and even for protection or for decoratiob
• Guest decoration!

• Guest hellgramite?
• Guest nevermind

• Guest Look at its gills on its underside
• Guest it helps it to breathe underwater

• 6:22pm

• Guest (BRB)

• 6:27pm

• 6:33pm

• Bugscope Team bumble bees are even hairier

• Guest Bees are pretty furry

• 6:38pm

• Guest nice caterpillar

• 6:43pm

• Guest I have a stinkbug flying around my apartment

• 6:48pm

• 6:55pm

• Guest stinger

• Guest and...gone

• Guest it's back

• 7:00pm

• Guest OK Cate, Scott, Alex, et al...have fun at the festival! Give my warm regards to all. I am out.

• Bugscope Team bye annie thanks!
• Bugscope Team thank you, Annie!
• Bugscope Team how's it going on your end guys?
• Bugscope Team Cate mostly what we're doing is capturing kids and asking them to drive if they want.
• Bugscope Team you cannot see the chat screen very well, just maybe the first line.

• 7:05pm

• Bugscope Team pretty crowded

• Bugscope Team they're starting the first presentations in the auditorium
• Bugscope Team cool

• Bugscope Team Jackie and someone else are doing facepainting next to us.

• 7:10pm

• Bugscope Team there's a big line for facepainting

• Bugscope Team one of the 'wasps' is actually a male ant

• Bugscope Team you can tell by the petiole

• Bugscope Team Cate you would've noticed it had you made that preset.

• Bugscope Team which one

• Bugscope Team this one?

• Bugscope Team it was in the vial- just assumed they were all wasps

• 7:15pm
• Bugscope Team it's "parasitic wasp," between "wasp head" and "parasitic wasp 2"
• Bugscope Team in the presets
• Bugscope Team Jim Whitfield pointed it out to me
• Bugscope Team huh cool

• Bugscope Team oops sorry

• Bugscope Team thanks for fixin' it

• 7:20pm

• 7:26pm

• 7:31pm

• 7:37pm

• Bugscope Team Cate what are you doing? Are you watching Dune?

• Bugscope Team no just hanging out
• Bugscope Team i have a show on hulu im finishing up, and later I can listen to music or read a book

• Bugscope Team it's slowing down a little

• Bugscope Team well it might pick up some

• 7:44pm

• 7:49pm

• 7:54pm

• Bugscope Team Cate can we see the CCD image for a sec?
• Bugscope Team here it is!
• 8:00pm
• Bugscope Team okay Thank You!
• Bugscope Team the images would be black and white anyway because of the metal coating we give them. There wouldn't be much color if we could detect it. --Let them know that!

• 8:07pm

• 8:12pm

• Bugscope Team hairy face

• Bugscope Team needs to shave!
• 8:18pm

• 8:23pm

• Bugscope Team heh yeah

• 8:28pm

• Bugscope Team Cate we are ready to shut down.
• 8:33pm
• Bugscope Team ok
• Bugscope Team thanks cate!
• Bugscope Team i'll take it down from here then
• Bugscope Team need me to do anything else?
• 1:39pm
• Guest does the cephalodes ant have pinchers?