Connected on 2011-06-01 20:15:00 from Orange, California, United States
- 7:03pm
- Bugscope Team sample is pumping down...
- Bugscope Team it's 7:04 p.m. here
- Bugscope Team this is the CCD camera view of the inside of the chamber
- Bugscope Team until the vacuum gets good enough to let us turn on the electron beam
- 7:09pm
- Bugscope Team almost there
- 7:15pm
- Bugscope Team now making this evening's presets
- 7:23pm
- 7:28pm
- 7:35pm
- 7:41pm
- 7:48pm
- 7:53pm
- 7:59pm
- 8:04pm
- Bugscope Team welcome to Bugscope, Papke!
- Teacher Hey thanks
- Teacher I'm just turning on all the classroom computers and getting everything set to the right page
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- Bugscope Team almost done w presets
- Teacher We're not set to start until 6:30 so it's looking good
- Bugscope Team you can drive around once you get set up
- Bugscope Team if you want
- Guest just testing one of the kids computers ....
- Bugscope Team hello test guest 1
- Bugscope Team workin'!
- 8:10pm
- 8:20pm
- Bugscope Team I am just driving around looking for diatoms on the caddisfly larva -- it's like diving on a shipwreck
- Bugscope Team now the leafhopper
- 8:27pm
- Bugscope Team nanoparticles
- Bugscope Team self-assembled
- Bugscope Team produced only by leafhoppers
- 8:35pm
- Bugscope Team they're about 300 nm in diameter; thinner than the wavelengths of visible light
- Bugscope Team Hello Nate, Ilrath, N8!
- Bugscope Team Hello Naomi!
- Bugscope Team Nate has control of the microscope now.
- Bugscope Team hello everyone! I can't keep up with all of the names
- Teacher Hi, the class is here and we are getting started. Thanks
- Bugscope Team Nate you can take the magnification down to see where you are if you want.
- Bugscope Team this is 59,210x!
- Bugscope Team like, super high mag for Bugscope
- Bugscope Team please let us know when you have questions
- Bugscope Team and let me know when someone else would like to drive
- Teacher I don't see the zoom in and out buttons like I did earlier
Bugscope Team that's 'cause Nate has control. just a sec.
- Bugscope Team now you are the Supreme Ruler
- Teacher thanks
- Bugscope Team female housefly
- 8:40pm
- Bugscope Team the antennae are in the middle here
- Bugscope Team and the compound eye
- Bugscope Team thousands of facets -- ommatidia
- Bugscope Team the eye is a little bit collapsed
- Student where is it's mouth?
- Student how well does this bug see
Bugscope Team pretty well -- it has very good peripheral vision and can also see changes in the visual field very quickly, which makes it hard to smack it
- Guest the eyes look like bubbles
- Guest how long does the fly live
Bugscope Team usually a few weeks to a month or so
- Student why are his eyes hexagonal
Bugscope Team it turns out to be about the best way to close pack things that are essentially round, and also three dimensional
- Guest how fast does this female housefly
- Student k
- Guest do flys really start out as worms
Bugscope Team as maggots, sort of like worms
- Student why do they like to fly on poop
Bugscope Team not sure but the smell may attract them
- Student do flies really throw up and poop on your food when they land?
- Student do flies mate every week
- Guest why do they come out more during summer
Bugscope Team they don't do s o well in the cold weather, which is good for us
- Guest how long do they live
Bugscope Team usually a few weeks to a month or so
- Bugscope Team the ambush bug is disguised, sort of, as a leaf
- Bugscope Team hey there is a pollen grain!
- Student where do they live?
- Student why is it called an ambush bug?
Bugscope Team because it attacks other bugs when they get too close, not having seen it
- Student Where do they live?
- 8:45pm
- Student k
- Student k
- Guest how does the ambush bug catch its prey?
Bugscope Team it pounces on it and catches it in its forelimbs, then pierces it with its mouthparts
- Student What other insect/bug is the ambush bug closely related to?
Bugscope Team assassin bugs, other true bugs
- Student where do they live?
- Student is it a prey or predator
Bugscope Team the latter -- a predator!
- Guest is it true that flies have alot of bacteria?
Bugscope Team we don't see them as much as we see them on ticks
- Guest adrian I think its both
Bugscope Team probably something eats it as well
- Student where r u celia
- Student what does it usually eat?
Bugscope Team other insects; I'm not sure how picky it is
- Student does it belong to special type of spieces
Bugscope Team there are probably a number of species of ambush bugs; I am not sure
- Student cool
- Guest where are you adrian
- Guest why is the eye so bigger then the head
Bugscope Team it's helpful, especially if you fly, to be able to see very well
- Student idk
- Student thank you and where is its stinger?
Bugscope Team you cannot see the stinger, I'm sorry -- I checked earlier
- Guest is it true once it stings u it dies
Bugscope Team that is only for some bees, and only when they sting mammals, with their relatively thick skin
- Guest does a wasp sting hurt more than a bee sting
Bugscope Team it depends on the wasp; probably certain wasps are more painful than bees in general
- Student wat up n8
- 8:50pm
- Guest what are the dimensions of a wasp's eye?
Bugscope Team it just depends on the size of the head, but easily a few mm in some cases
- Guest to eat!
- Guest and kill
- Guest :)
- Student kill what?
- Guest (:
- Student both
- Student idk
- Guest which one is more dangerous? wasp or bee?
Bugscope Team I am not really sure. I think it depends how many stings and if you are allergic
- Guest scot is the guy at the university
- Guest hi
- Guest what are the bumps on it
- Guest THANK YOU CELIAA(:
- Student horrible
- Guest hi
- Student What bug is this?
- Student hay
- Student what is it
- Student how is it that you feel a sting when you are awake but when you are asleep you cant feel anything
Bugscope Team if a wasp stings you when you are asleep you will feel it and likely wake up. I was stung when I was sleeping once.
- Guest does the lace bug bite
- Student Where do they live?
- Guest scot,what is a wooly bear head and where can i find it??????
Bugscope Team it's a super furry caterpillar
- Guest what do they eat?
- Student tomahawk
- Guest is it in the same family as the jellyfish?
Bugscope Team no but both are invertebrates, you could say
- Guest how long is the animals wings
- Guest how much does the wooly bear grow
- Student like 3 inches i guess
- Student so you don"y feel a mosquito bite just a wasp?
- Guest how many years does a wooly bear live
Bugscope Team probably no more than a month before it starts to metamorphose
- Student What does it need to survive?
- Student 3 years
- Guest ooo haha k thanks! i know where to find one ha
- Student What is a palp?
- Student what is a palp?
- Guest i think a wasp bite hurts more than a mosqutio..i cant really feel mosquisto bites..well only sometimes
- Student mouskito has a longer snout
- Student What is a palp?
- 8:55pm
- Student yes.
- Guest do wooly bears have any wings
Bugscope Team when they metamorphose they turn into tiger moths
- Guest fro an insect
- Guest :D
- Student yup
- Guest :p
- Guest isnt a plap like a straw?
Bugscope Team they are more like feelers that help the insect taste and manipulate its food
- Guest (C
- Student BY
- Guest (x
- Guest how come you never feel a mosquito on you while it pokes/stings you
Bugscope Team the stylets are very thin and sharp, so often you do not feel them
- Student SEE YAAAA
- Guest XD
- Guest thank u so much for ur time.
- Student LATERRRRRRRRR
- Guest bye
- Guest like sensors/anteannes?
Bugscope Team sort of, yes; in a way they are like built-in eating utensils that can also help you taste your food before you eat it
- Student thank youuuuuuu every much for everything
- Student THANKS
Bugscope Team Thank you!
- Student does this bug suck your blood if it does what does it do with the blood?
Bugscope Team mosquitoes -- the females -- need blood in order to be able to successfully lay their eggs
- Guest bye scot thanks alot
Bugscope Team Thank You, Gera!
- Guest buy scot
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Guest whats the difference between mosquito n wasp
Bugscope Team a mosquito is a kind of fly, and a wasp is not; wasps are related to ants, and also to bees
- 9:01pm
- Bugscope Team on the left we see one of the ladybug's palps -- the ones that look like vacuum cleaner nozzles
- Teacher that group left and the next one will be here in 5 minutes ... thanks for answering a million questions
Bugscope Team hey no problem I get as many answers as I can
- Bugscope Team the students asked what lacewings eat -- I think as adults they feed only on nectar
- Bugscope Team some eat other insects as adults
- Bugscope Team see the two pits on the lacewing's face?
- Bugscope Team they're indentations where the exoskeleton folds into the inside of the head to support jaw muscles, etc.
- 9:06pm
- Bugscope Team so that pit does not go anywhere, in a way
- Bugscope Team hello!
- Bugscope Team welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team this is a female housefly
- Bugscope Team you can tell it's a girl because the compound eyes are far apart
- Bugscope Team the eyes of a male are close together in flies, often, compared to those of females
- Bugscope Team in the middle of the head we see the antennae, with a kind of pad and also a branched part called the artistate antenna
- Bugscope Team you can see the mouthparts, too!
- Bugscope Team this fly spits up on its food and then sucks up what dissolves
- Bugscope Team kind of a messy way of eating
- Bugscope Team the fly also has three more small eyes on the top of its head; those are called ocelli
- Student what is this animal ?
Bugscope Team it is a housefly
- 9:11pm
- Bugscope Team a female housefly
- Bugscope Team these are crochets on the prolegs of the wooly bear caterpillar, which will grow into a tiger moth
- Bugscope Team crochets are the little claw-like hooks
- Bugscope Team all of the hairs on the body of the wooly bear help protect it
- Student what is a crochets on groleg, wooly bear
Bugscope Team crochets are the little hooks
- Bugscope Team prolegs are like fake legs, sort of
- Guest what is this crotchet
Bugscope Team a crochet is a hook
- Bugscope Team this is an insect scale stuck to the ladybug palp
- Student is a ladybug a type of beetle?
- Bugscope Team a palp is an accessory mouthpart that helps an insect taste and manipulate its food
- Teacher what is a ladybug palp
Bugscope Team there are four palps -- two mandibular and two maxillary, and they are limbs that help the insect feed
- Guest what is a famale house fly
Bugscope Team a girl fly
- Student what is caddisfly larva?
Bugscope Team it is the lifestage of an insect that lives in the water until it becomes a fly
- Student where are the eyes
- 9:16pm
- Bugscope Team the caddisfly larva lives in streams and eats insects and other things that fall into the water
- Student what is a backswimmer
Bugscope Team an insect that swims on the surface of the water, and I think it can dive as well
- Guest what is a leaf hopper
Bugscope Team an insect you often find on plants; it may live on sap, for example, that it sucks out of leaves and stems
- Student what is a aphid cornicle??
Bugscope Team there are two cornicles, kind of like exhaust pipes, on the back of an aphid; some produce nectar that ants like to eat
- Guest what is a unid
Bugscope Team unid means unidentified
- Guest Is that the real head of a ladybug
Bugscope Team now we are looking at a horribly dried up mosquito head
- Student what is aphid cornicle
Bugscope Team it is a tube that comes out of the the aphid, on either side, and sometimes it produces nectar that ants like, so the ants 'farm' the aphids and also protect them
- 9:21pm
- Guest what is a tenant setae
Bugscope Team 'tenent' means that it has a holding capability, so the setae, which are like tiny hairs, help the fly or other insect stick to a wall, or a ceiling, or a tree...
- Bugscope Team this is a tear in the wing
- Student what is a lacewing ing
Bugscope Team the wing of an insect called a 'lacewing'
- Student is that the real head of a ladybug
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student what are
- Bugscope Team sweet!
- Guest what is a stemmata???
Bugscope Team stemmata are the primitive eyes of the caterpillar
- Student what exsactly is a ladybug palp
Bugscope Team a palp is a feeding mouthpart; it can taste and also manipulate food toward the mouth
- Bugscope Team there are usually four palps: two mandibular and two maxillary palps
- Student what is tenent setae
Bugscope Team tenent means that it can hold onto something; and a seta is a hair
- Student does a moth have a head
Bugscope Team yes it does!
- Guest what is the ommatidia w setae in between????
Bugscope Team ommatidia are the facets of the eye -- the individual lenses of the eye, and the setae in between are what the fruitfly uses to gauge the speed of the wind going by the head
- 9:27pm
- Student what is the halter???
- Student r u the ones working with the micorscope
- Student what is a retention plan??
Bugscope Team it is a joke -- it is how the dragonfly grabs and holds its prey so it can bite it -- so it is part of the arm
- Bugscope Team good job driving!
- Student what is the haltere???
Bugscope Team a haltere is a modified hindwing that beats with a motion opposite that of the wings and helps balance a fly in the air
- Student are this about the width of your arm hair
Bugscope Team maybe -- about 75 micrometers or so -- less than a tenth of a millimeter
- Student what is the butterfly powder made of
Bugscope Team those scales we saw are so small they seem like powder to us
- Student WHAT IS A LADY BUG PULP
Bugscope Team a mouthpart that helps the ladybug taste the air, and its prospective food
- Bugscope Team see where we are now -- those spines on the arm are very sharp
- Student thanx 4 everything!!!!
- Student what and where does the ambush bug come from
Bugscope Team it hides on branches and leaves and attacks insects when they land or walk there; it then sucks the juice out of them
- Student about how long have you been working at this job?
Bugscope Team 12 years plus
- 9:32pm
- Student Thanks for all the info
Bugscope Team You bet!
- Teacher Thanks!! All the kids really liked this
- Bugscope Team totally cool!
- Teacher The parents thought it was neat too
- Bugscope Team awesome
- Teacher I learned a lot too
- Teacher You guys rock!!!!
- Bugscope Team this is all archived on line
- Teacher everyone just left to go out to the raffle .... so we are all done. thanks sooooo much
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-057
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- Bugscope Team Thank You for connecting with us this evening!
- Bugscope Team see you next year!
- Teacher hopefully we will get to do this again next year at science night
- Teacher See ya!
- Bugscope Team sweet!
- Bugscope Team See ya!
