Connected on 2011-09-26 11:00:00 from Kitsap, Washington, United States
- 10:04am
- Bugscope Team good morning!
- Bugscope Team I am going to get the sample out of the sputter coater in a minute and put it into the 'scope.
- Bugscope Team now you can see that the sample is in the 'scope
- 10:09am
- Bugscope Team the 'scope is now pumping down
- Bugscope Team is anyone there right now?
- 10:15am
- Bugscope Team we're starting to make the presets now
- 10:20am
- 10:26am
- Teacher I am here now.
- Bugscope Team Yay!
- Bugscope Team Welcome back to Bugscope!
- Teacher Trying to remember how to log in my 13 student teams.
- Teacher Got it!
- Bugscope Team you should be able to select Student, rather than Teacher, and you will not need to use your password each time.
- Bugscope Team totally cool -- looks like you were there before I finished typin'
- 10:32am
- Student Is that a moth?
- Student Is it a moth?
- Bugscope Team yes a tiny one, like the kind that come out of Mexican jumping beans
- Student What are the spikes?
- Student What are those sharp things?
Bugscope Team those were the cercopods of the earwig -- the pincers
- Student Is that a leg?
- Student What are we looking at?
Bugscope Team this now is a mite on one of the cercopods
- Student Are those claws?
Bugscope Team yes those were the moth's claws, just one pair
- Student What are the circles with stick-like things sticking out of them?
- Bugscope Team this is so awesome
- 10:37am
- Bugscope Team a mite walking on the earwig's foreleg
- Student Is that a bee mite
- Student how sharp is it?
- Student Is that a head?
- Student What are the sharp things?
Bugscope Team those were bristles, or setae, on the earwig's leg
- Guest wow
- Student Are those hairs?
Bugscope Team yes in a way -- they are often sensory hairs
- Student Is that a leg?
- Student What are those tiny bugs?
Bugscope Team they're mites that probably come from the soil and like to live on insects like earwigs
- Student What part of the bodt is that?
Bugscope Team it's the upper thorax, the chest area, and it is the side
- Student How small are mites
Bugscope Team you can see that they are less than 200 micrometers long, so less than a fifth of a millimeter long
- Student What is the stuff that looks like dirt?
Bugscope Team sometimes it really is dirt
- Student What kind of mite?
Bugscope Team we don't know, but we see them fairly often
- Student What part of the bug is that?
- Student How long do fly's live?
- Student Are the mites eating?
Bugscope Team we think they feed off of stuff that the earwig does not eat, but we are not sure
- Student What is it
- Student How many legs does a mite have?
Bugscope Team I think these have eight legs -- they are related distantly to spiders
- Student Why is it really dirt?
Bugscope Team it is hard to tell just what it is
- Student Are all of those mites?
- 10:42am
- Student What are those rice things ?
- Student What are those?
- Guest Are all those things mites?
Bugscope Team now, this is pollen
- Student Are those eggs?
Bugscope Team they're pollen from a stargazer lily
- Student is all pollen bumpy?
Bugscope Team sometimes it is surprisingly smooth
- Student what tipe of pollen is it?
- Student What is that?
- Student Does the earwig feel the mite?
Bugscope Team I think it can if it runs over those sensory hairs, but it might feel like pressure more than something walking on it
- Student How many mites are on an average bug?
- Student is that pollen?
- Guest What is that brick like thing?
Bugscope Team salt from a Wendy's
- Student What are those cubes?
Bugscope Team grains of salt
- Student what is that?
- Student Are those eggs?
- Student Is that more pollen?
- Student are those mites?
Bugscope Team those were onecelled silica shelled creatures that live in the water --- diatoms
- 10:47am
- Student Is that it's mouth?
Bugscope Team yes it is - it is a predator in the water
- Student Is that eggs?
- Student whoa what is that?
Bugscope Team those are the gills
- Guest That looks cool
Bugscope Team ha yeah Gnarly
- Student Are those larvae
Bugscope Team they're the gills of the caddisfly larva
- Student cool.
- Guest gills for what?
Bugscope Team oh so it can breathe underwater
- Student cool
- Guest what is that?
- Student wha-?
Bugscope Team haha
- Student how many dots are there
- Student so cool
- Student How big is it's eye?
- Guest whoah
- Student Is that a bug in its eye?
Bugscope Team this is a green true bug -- Hemiptera
- Student Is that its mouth the long tude?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Guest What is that? a leg?
Bugscope Team the legs are in the way of the eyes
- Student what is that
- Student What is that
Bugscope Team it's a green true bug of some sort, probably feeds on leaves and stems of plants
- Student What is that long tube?
Bugscope Team that is the proboscis
- Student is that water?
Bugscope Team no water in the 'scope today
- Student oh
- Student ohh
- 10:52am
- Student how many dots in the eye
Bugscope Team there are maybe a hundred ommatidia, not very many compared to a wasp or fly
- Student Thats so cool
- Student Is it green
Bugscope Team yes but of course we cannot tell because we're using electrons rather than light to get these images from the microscope
- Student What is that?
- Student Is that the end of its tube mouth
- Student Do they have mites?
- Student Is that a leg?
- Student What are those hairs for?
Bugscope Team the hairs are sensory -- some for smelling, some for touch, some for hot/cold...
- Guest what is that?
Bugscope Team this is the tip of the proboscis
- Student What is that sharp thing?
Bugscope Team this is what it uses to stick into a plant to get the juice out
- Student is that bug fuzy?
- Student How long does a friut fly live?
Bugscope Team I think usually just a few weeks
- Student How big is the SEM
Bugscope Team about as bug as a large desk, with a tall column on one end, over 6 feet tall
- Student Is that dust on it?
Bugscope Team yes there is dust and dirt
- Student how sharp?
- Bugscope Team here we can see some tiny mold spores on the center of this part of the tarsus
- Student h
- Student are those spikes
- Student What are bee's nests made of?
Bugscope Team different stuff, sometimes dirt and sometimes held together with saliva
- Student why is it so hariy
- Student How much dirt can it carry?
- Student Is that pair of claws
Bugscope Team sharpness is measured by the radius of curvature at the tip -- those are fairly sharp but you would hardly feel them 'cause thet are so small
- Student do all bugs have nests?
- 10:57am
- Student What does the claw do?
Bugscope Team it helps it grasp things, comparable to what we do with our hands
- Student What part helps it hold on?
Bugscope Team the claws can often pinch together to grab small things
- Student what tipe of moth is it?
- Student how tall is it
- Student how long do moth live
Bugscope Team Usually just part of the warm seasons -- a few months
- Student Are those mites?
- Student Do the antenne curl
Bugscope Team let's go look
- Guest what is that?
- Guest are those scales on the moth's wings? (lower right area)
- Student are those scales
- Student How many species of bugs and insects can fly?
- Student how long are the wings
- Student Why is it hairy?
Bugscope Team insects have an exoskeleton, which is like a shell or a coat of armor, so they cannot feel things touching their skin -- they have no skin. the hairs stick through the cuticle, shell, armor, chitin, and help them sense their environment
- Student How many moths are in the world?
Bugscope Team there are maybe 150,000 to 250,000 species of moth in the world
- Bugscope Team this is a tiny moth like you might find in your closet
- Guest is this specimen awake, or dead?
Bugscope Team it is dead and dry
- 11:02am
- Guest ok
- Student how far can the SEM zoom i
Bugscope Team we can go to over 200,000x when we use it to look at other samples
- Student Are those wings?
Bugscope Team you can see only the tops of the wings
- Guest are they dangerous?
Bugscope Team I don't think they are dangerous
- Student Do black ants bite ?
Bugscope Team some of them do, and some of them sting
- Guest Is that a head?
- Student is that the eye
- Bugscope Team ants are almost all female, except for the few you see with wings. and they have different jobs. the soldier ants will guard the nest and often hanve large mandibles to bite you with
- Student How many dots are on that eye?
- Student How many eyes does an average eye have?
Bugscope Team it really depends, but it can easily be in the thousands of individual ommatidia\
- Student What do flys eat?
Bugscope Team this one spits up digestive juices that dissolve what it wants to eat, and then it sponges that all up
- Guest Are those mandibles in the center of the image?
Bugscope Team this does not have mandibles; instead it has sponging mouthparts
- Student how big is the wing
- Guest What is that?
- Bugscope Team the other things on the head near the mouthparts were palps, which you can also see here
- Student do all bugs have nests
Bugscope Team no, and some are solitary as well
- Student Where are the eyes?
Bugscope Team on either side of the head, wide spaced apart
- 11:07am
- Guest Is it upside down?
Bugscope Team this is a Japanese beetle, and its head is facing us, rightside up
- Bugscope Team you can see the lamellated antennae
- Student how big is the beetle
Bugscope Team it's about a centimeter long
- Guest how long is it
Bugscope Team about a centimeter, maybe a bit longer
- Guest dis
- Guest what are lamellated antennae?
Bugscope Team they have different sections that can fan out; they look kind of like submarine sandwiches
- Student Are those it's antennae?
Bugscope Team yes they are!
- Guest gusting
Bugscope Team ha yeah you get used to it
- Guest Is it upside down?
- Student What is the heaviest beetle?
Bugscope Team there is a beetle called the Goliath beetle that is about the size of your fist and pretty hefty
- Guest That looks wierd
- Student Where exactly is the mouth?
Bugscope Team you know it is always hard to tell, exactly; hard to see
- Guest im guesing that is an arm ?
Bugscope Team this is one of the antennae
- Guest yum
- Guest lamellated antennae!!!
Bugscope Team so the layers are called lamella
- Guest That looks like a submarine sandwich.
Bugscope Team ha Yeah exactly!
- Guest yumy yumy in my tumy
- Guest another blown up hairy sandwich
- Guest and prickly
- Student Is that hair?
- 11:13am
- Guest what do the hairs do?
- Guest do the hairs come through the exoskeleton? what is their purpose?
- Guest nuthing
- Student Are those mites?
Bugscope Team not here...
- Student Arwe those scales?
- Guest in my mind
- Student What does the claw do?
Bugscope Team the claw helps it grasp thjings
- Guest what do the hairs do?
- Student are those hairs
Bugscope Team kind of like hairs, but they help the insect sense its environment
- Guest hi theo
- Guest guess
Bugscope Team lunch, probably
- Guest yum
- Student Does it have hair?.
Bugscope Team they don't have hair like mammals, but they have lots of what are called 'setae,' pronounced see-tee.
- Student Do flies have mites?
- Guest what are pulvillus?
Bugscope Team the pulvillus is the pad between the claws here that helps the fly stick to the ceiling, for example
- Guest peneat buter and japanese beatle YUM!!
- Bugscope Team the pulvillus has what are called tenent setae on it that stick to things
- Student Is that a claw?
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Guest do crickets have pilvillus?
Bugscope Team no, and it means it is difficult for them to climb
- Guest looks like a cracker
- Student What is that?
Bugscope Team this is the pulvillus, with all of its tiny tenent setae
- Guest im hungry
Bugscope Team I guess so!
- Student are those spikes
- Bugscope Team I'm going to the microscope so I can make some changes in the image more easily
- Guest are thos pad like things the pulvillus?
Bugscope Team those are the suction-cup or sticky pad-like ends of the tenent setae
- 11:18am
- Guest wow
- Guest when insects sense their environment, is it for temperature?
Bugscope Team some of the setae sense hot/cold
Bugscope Team so yes you are right!
- Guest this delicous
- Guest yes it is
- Guest are those the sticky stuf?
Bugscope Team there is a lot of juju on there as well
- Guest the potty
- Guest potty
- Guest what is juju?
Bugscope Team it's what we call stuff we don't recognize, like dried slime
- Guest THAT LOOKS COOL
- Guest looks like squid
- Student what is that
- Guest yum
- Student What do earwigs eat?
Bugscope Team they eat plants, and parts of plants
- Guest where are the eyes?
Bugscope Team these are the eyes, to the left
- Student What climate do earwigs live in?
Bugscope Team mostly temperate climates, as well as in the Tropics
- Guest are tose mandibles
Bugscope Team we saw some of the mouthparts, and the mandibles were among them
- Guest dsjc
- Student How big do they get?
- Student Are those bumpy spot oer there the eye
- Guest is there an animal on it?
- Guest mite?
Bugscope Team yes!
- Guest nevermind
- Guest yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
- Guest thanks :)
- Guest its bben speared
Bugscope Team I think it walked around those bristles on the legs
- Guest eirhioghio5hg5iuoe4
- Guest what is the mite doing?
Bugscope Team maybe looking for a snack
- Student How big is that mite?
Bugscope Team a little less than a fifth of a millimeter long
- Guest in it's leg?
Bugscope Team on the earwig's leg
- Guest wow
- 11:23am
- Student What is the mite on
- Student Is that mite alive?
- Guest bacteria
Bugscope Team we could see them if they were here. they are about 2 micrometers long, or 2 microns
- Student Do earwigs have a portective exoskeleton?
Bugscope Team yes they do
- Guest is this deep fried
Bugscope Team no it is dry and we coat it with gold-palladium to make it conductive
- Guest what Tony???
- Guest gold
- Guest gold wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww
- Guest I WANT GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest what is a micron?
Bugscope Team it is the same as a micrometer -- it is a millionth of a meter
- Guest i LOVE gold
- Guest WOW
- Guest how much bacteria is on it
Bugscope Team we have not seen any yet
- Guest why do we want mites on our eyelashes
- Guest do bugs get bacteria
- Guest is the mite upside down?
Bugscope Team the earwig is upside down, and the mites are so far pretty much rightside up
- Student Do mites have hair
- Guest oh.
- Student Do earwigs have hearts?
Bugscope Team not like ours -- they are kind of like little pumps, but there are no veins and arteries.
- Guest do bugs get diarea
Bugscope Team they can
- Teacher May my student teams have control of the microscope? I'd also like to ask some of the other participants to please be appropriate and model appropriate responses.
Bugscope Team team 1 has control now
- Student what are those two dots on the bug?
Bugscope Team those are mites
Bugscope Team if that is what you were referring to
- Guest dont zoom plz
- Student how long are the mights legs
Bugscope Team like 30 microns?
- 11:28am
- Guest are there like mites on a mite?
Bugscope Team there can be. I have seen photos but never encountered them myself
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team if you click on a preset and what you expected is not there, it may be because the insect has dried a bit and the area moved since I made the preset
- Student Do mites have a shell?
- Guest sorry miss willson i did not know there were young children in the presence
- Bugscope Team Mrs Wilson please let me know when you would like to change the team controlling the 'scope
- Student Did he lose a leg?
Bugscope Team I think we just did not see all of the legs, but it for sure happens
- Guest holy inch a ladas
- Guest what are those spiky parts?
- Teacher Team 2 is ready
- Guest WOW! What is that?!
Bugscope Team this is the compound eye of a fruitfly, and you can see that it has lots of mechanosensory setae on it
- Student What happened top the eyes?
- Student What are those sticks
Bugscope Team those are setae that help the fruitfly sense wind speed and direction
- Student What are the broken things?
Bugscope Team they're setae that have broken off from handling
- Guest Wha??
- Guest good bye im going to eat bbbbbbbbbbbbbbuuuuugsssssssssssss
Bugscope Team bye Martin!
- Guest jk
- Guest did one of the sticks break off?
Bugscope Team yes
- Student is that pollin on the eye?
- Guest aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- Guest WOW
- Guest What is that thing?
Bugscope Team they live underwater and eat other insect larvae, for example
- 11:33am
- Guest holy mites
- Bugscope Team things grow on them, and they also trap diatoms in the setae on their surfaces
- Guest theo thaiyb
- Student do caddisfly larva have teeth?
Bugscope Team they have mandibles that function like large jaws, but they don't have true teeth like we do
- Teacher Team 3 is ready.
- Guest theo thaiyb is
- Student Big setae?
Bugscope Team yes
Bugscope Team you can think of setae, some of them, as comparable to rat or cat whiskers
- Guest bubbles
- Guest what are the fuzzy things by the mandibles
Bugscope Team I'm sorry -- I'm not sure now.
- Guest martin huddleston
- Bugscope Team this is a special kind of salt
- Guest what are you doing?
- Guest what kind
- Bugscope Team that forms these cool looking Aztec like cubic crystals\
- Student How is it special?
Bugscope Team normal salt is smooth
Bugscope Team like normal table salt is cubic but smooth on the sides
- Teacher Team 4 now
- Guest was this salt deep-fried or exposed to extreme heat?
Bugscope Team actually we think it has an anticaking agent added to it, but really we do not know
- Guest what are those flaky things?
Bugscope Team super tiny particles, maybe salt, maybe other debris
- 11:38am
- Guest COOL
- Bugscope Team we would be able to see bacteria at this level no problem; they are usually about 2 microns long
- Bugscope Team 142,000x!
- Guest OMG!!! THAT IS SO AWESOME!!!!!
- Guest Holy cow!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest omg......................................
- Student Why cant we see bacteria?
Bugscope Team only because there are none where we have looked so far
- Bugscope Team you can see those jagged lines from vibration
- Student What is it?
Bugscope Team this is just super high mag on the salt granules. really not much to see.
- Guest That was cool
- Guest l
- Guest h
- Guest WOW THAT IS SOO COOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team if we went to the head of the small fly it is possible we could see nanoparticles called brochosomes
- Guest why eyes
- Guest o yea
- Bugscope Team you can see that the broken-tipped seta is fluted
- Guest shesh
- 11:43am
- Teacher Team 5 is ready
Bugscope Team Team 5 are the Supreme Commanders now.
- Guest ha
- Bugscope Team oops now try...
- Bugscope Team those are antennae, on the front of the fly's head
- Guest se ya im going to have jap bettle sandwicch
- Bugscope Team there is a pad like part and a branched part called an arista
- Student Is that fly eye dented?
- Guest THAT WAS AWESOME!
- Student Why is the eye dented?
Bugscope Team probably just from drying out
- Student Is that cloth?
Bugscope Team looks like it, doesn't it; it is the cuticle the eye is made of
- Student what are the long hairs for?
- Bugscope Team to the lower left we see one of the spiracles, through which insects breathe
- Guest hjfvibvbief
- Guest bvhjwbv
- Student Are those feathers
Bugscope Team those are scales, from a moth probably
- Teacher Team 6 is ready
Bugscope Team team six are now the potentates
- 11:48am
- Guest That looks really cool!
- Teacher Team 7 now. Moving along.
Bugscope Team Team 7 now own the 'scope
- Bugscope Team beetle head!
- Student '
- Bugscope Team you can see all of the mouthparts -- two pairs of palps, and the antennae, and the mandibles, which are thin and narrow
- Bugscope Team (me focussing)
- Bugscope Team team 8 now has the reins
- Student that is really cool
- Guest claw
- Guest wow
- Bugscope Team this is the claw, one of the claws, of the Japanese beetle
- Bugscope Team inside the tarsus is a long tendon called an unguitractor that lets the claw open and close
- Student Do they have an exoskeloten?
Bugscope Team yes they do
Bugscope Team some parts of the exoskeleton are more flexible
- Teacher Team 9 is up next.
- Guest what do the bumps do?
- 11:54am
- Guest bob
- Student If we had compound eyes, would our eyesight be stronger?
Bugscope Team you would have trouble getting sunglasses, but you would see changes in the visual field more quickly; it depends on what kind of insect you would be -- you might be able to see UV light
- Guest I WANT TO HAVE COMPOUND EYES!
- Student Are they bones?
Bugscope Team no -- because insects have an exoskeleton, there are no bones, but sometimes the claws or mandibles can be hardened with zinc, for example
- Guest wow
- Student do bugs have ears
- Student What are those bumps
- Student Whoa.
Bugscope Team Also, if you had compound eyes you would have much better peripheral vision -- you could see more without moving your head
- Teacher Team 10 is eager to try.
Bugscope Team got it!
- Student What is that hole?
Bugscope Team sorry I missed it. it may have been an anterior tentorial pit if it was on the head
- Bugscope Team this hole is a spiracle, and the thing we are looking at now is the haltere, which balances the motion of the wings on two-winged insects -- like flies
- Bugscope Team the haltere is like a heavy punching bag that moves opposite the motion of the wing
- Teacher Team 11 is set.
- Student Do bugs sleep?
Bugscope Team they do not sleep but may enter a state of somnolence in which they are really slowed down
- 11:59am
- Student What are those,hairs?
Bugscope Team some of those are microsetae, which do not feel things but help for example with coloration and with thermal regulation -- keeping the body temperature steady
- Student It looks like the fur is wet?
Bugscope Team it probably was wet with some fluid, like hemolymph, that then dried
- Teacher Team 12 is up.
Bugscope Team team 12 are now the supreme rulers
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- Bugscope Team the mite
- Bugscope Team sweet
- Student What do mites eat?
- Bugscope Team we don't know how mites feed, and for example whether they live on fluids that they suck up through the cuticle or they eat food that the insect has dropped
- Teacher And our last team, 13, is set.
Bugscope Team rock and roll
- Student I'm sad that this is almost over.:(
Bugscope Team yeah me too, but it has been a lot of fun!
- Student Do bugs sleep
Bugscope Team they don't really sleep, but sometimes they rest
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team this is a spiracle
- Bugscope Team insects breathe through the spiracles
- Bugscope Team you can for sure see that there is dried fluid there
- Guest Are the guests going to get a chance to control the microscope?
Bugscope Team after the class leaves I can let you drive
- 12:04pm
- Bugscope Team 10 microns is five bacteria long
- Student thank you and goodbey
Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest ok. THANKS
- Guest GOOD LUCK
- Bugscope Team This has been a lot of fun.
- Student Thank you bugscope and good-bye!
Bugscope Team Thank You! Good Bye!
- Teacher On that note, we will say good bye and thank you. We saw a lot of cool things.
Bugscope Team Bye!
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- Student thank you and bye
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Student Thank You , this was soooooo much fun good bye :)
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Guest Good luck with school
Bugscope Team You ahve control...
- Bugscope Team um but I cannot spell, obviously
- Bugscope Team MYP I will be right back. Please don't crash anything ;)
- Guest ok
- 12:09pm
- Bugscope Team okay I am back, on the SEM
- Bugscope Team you are at such a high mag that there is nothing to see, at least here
- Guest ok
- Bugscope Team and I am back as well
- Bugscope Team this is one of the flies
- Bugscope Team if you want I can show you something here
- Guest cool
- Guest sure
- Guest wow! what is that?
- Bugscope Team not seeing what I want yet...
- Guest holy freaken cow!
- Guest Is that like a moralle mushroom?
- Bugscope Team this is a film on the fly's face, and I am looking for some tiny particles I had seen earlier
- Guest cool!
- Guest that looked like a venus fly trap!
- 12:15pm
- Guest lace
- Bugscope Team those two things are brochosomes, which look like wiffle balls, kind of
- Guest is there bacteria on there?
Bugscope Team haven't seen any yet
- Guest cool
- Guest WOAH!!!
- Guest WHAT IS THAT?!
- Guest what are brochosomes?
Bugscope Team they are particles produced only by leafhoppers
- Bugscope Team and they are true nanoparticles
- Guest REALLY COOL
- Guest another one of the brochosomes?
- Bugscope Team no good ones yet -- Yes that was one -- to the left is a mold spore
- Bugscope Team go ahead and drive if you would like
- Guest That is really cool! Thanks!
- 12:20pm
- Bugscope Team so I had said earlier that when we run Bugscope we do not have full high-magnification capability
- Bugscope Team that is because we keep the sample at a long working distance
- Guest how big is the mold spore?
Bugscope Team you can see it's about 4 microns long
- Bugscope Team if we were working at a short working distance we would have better resolution at high mag
- Guest ok
- Guest what is that web like thing?
Bugscope Team it is probably the remnants of dried liquid
- Bugscope Team bacteria produce -- some of them -- a biofilm that looks like that when it dries
- Guest Is the mold spore supposed to look bumpy?
Bugscope Team it is a bit dried and shrunken
- Bugscope Team (me)
- Guest What is that?
- Bugscope Team these are the silica shells of diatoms on the exoskeleton of the caddisfly larva
- Guest how big are they?
- Bugscope Team about 10 microns long
- Guest THAT LOOKS SOOOO COOL!
- 12:25pm
- Guest * diatom
- Guest Is that a diathom?
Bugscope Team yes they come in a huge variety of shapes
- Guest are all diatoms the same size?
- Bugscope Team no, but close, in a range
- Guest So about 10 microns?
Bugscope Team yeah
- Guest Is that another diatom?
Bugscope Team yeah there are lots, and parts, and some of what we see are setae as well
- Bugscope Team MYP I am going to shut down and get some food...
- Guest ok.
- Guest what are inside diatoms? are they hollow?
Bugscope Team now they are hollow but once they had living critters in them
- Bugscope Team Thank you for logging on today.
- Guest Thankyou bye
- Bugscope Team Bye!
- Bugscope Team See you another time!
- 12:30pm
- Guest Thank you for your extra time and control of the microscope!
Bugscope Team no problem
- Bugscope Team that is the inside of the microscope
- Bugscope Team CCD camera view
- Bugscope Team GoodBye!
