Connected on 2011-10-31 12:00:00 from Cumberland, Maine, United States
- 10:25am
- Bugscope Team sample is in chamber and pumping down
- Bugscope Team we are waiting for the vacuum in the specimen chamber to get better
- 10:31am
- Bugscope Team Hi Winka!\
- Bugscope Team This, presently, is a view of all of the insects in the chamber.
- Bugscope Team Good morning, Mrs A!
- Bugscope Team Mrs A we are connecting at 1 your time -- is that correct? I am setting up early.
- Guest What kind of insect are we looking at?
Bugscope Team so there are a couple of houseflies, a mosquito, a cricket, a jumping bean, a moth from a jumping bean, a Japanese beetle, maybe some ants if they didn't blow away in the vacuum, some beetles, etc.
- Bugscope Team The sample is pumping down fairly quickly, and I should be able to bring the electron beam up soon.
- 10:36am
- Bugscope Team Once the electron beam is on we will have a different view. We'll be making some quick adjustments to the microscope and then cruise around looking for cool places on the stub to save as presets for today's class.
- Bugscope Team oh there is a spider as well
- 10:42am
- Guest hi
- 10:47am
- Guest hi
- Bugscope Team Hi Martin!
- Guest hi how are you
- Guest hello!!!
- Bugscope Team Hello MYP!
- Guest how are you?
- Bugscope Team good, Thank You!
- Guest what is that
- Bugscope Team that was the haltere but you could not see it very well
- Guest ok
- Bugscope Team there's another large fly on the stub, and maybe we can find a better one
- Guest ok
- Guest theo thayib
- Guest martin huddleston
- Guest martin huddlseton and theo thayib are from RMS!
- 10:52am
- Guest yea
- Bugscope Team cool!
- Guest wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!
- Guest That looks epic
- Bugscope Team ha yeah
- Guest sugar cubes
- Guest is that salt?
- Bugscope Team salt from a Wendy's
- Guest burger
- Guest bettle butt ??
Bugscope Team yes the abdomen
- Guest bettle mouth
- 10:57am
- Guest *beetle farts
- Bugscope Team be cool you guys
- Guest *beetle gasses
- Bugscope Team we want to be good hosts for today's school
- Guest do betle caryy their babbies on their belly
Bugscope Team I don't think these do. There are none that I know of but that does not mean it doesn't happen.
- Guest thx
- Guest do bettles have FUR!!!!!
- Guest or scales
- Guest or both?
- Bugscope Team sometimes they have a lot of setae that resemble fur. most of them do not have scales, but the large beetle I saw earlier may have some. Scales are modified setae anyway. And you know that setae is what we call the things that look like hair.
- 11:03am
- Bugscope Team oops, loose limb there
- Guest ouch
- Bugscope Team okay I am going to run upstairs for food.
- Bugscope Team be right back
- Bugscope Team please be sure to be nice to Mrs A, whose classroom is connecting with us today.
- Guest bring me some
- Bugscope Team brb
- Guest cool
- Guest hello?
- Guest is anyone there???
- 11:08am
- Guest guess not...
- Guest awkward silence...
- Bugscope Team MYP I am back.
- Bugscope Team I'm back too.
- Guest ............................................................
- Guest martin............................................................
- 11:13am
- Bugscope Team can you see my messages?
- Bugscope Team the screen is blank on Bugscope now
- Guest yes]
- Guest hi?
- Guest what happened to the screen?
- Guest ......
- 11:18am
- Guest screen.... is...... blank....... now..... what... happened... to.... the..... screen.....?
- Bugscope Team we had some kind of server crash, looks like
- Bugscope Team can you see my messages?
- Bugscope Team Alex is coming down to take a look.
- Bugscope Team our sysadmin
- Guest l
- Bugscope Team you guys please let me know if chat is working
- Guest whats happenimg
- Guest why does it ceep on saying that I'm connected, then a few secconds later disconnected, then connected, and back and forth?
- Guest connected
- Guest l
- Guest lol
- Guest disconnected
- Guest connected
- Guest disconnected
- Guest connected
- Guest disconnected
- Guest connected
- 11:34am
- Bugscope Team we had a videoserver crash, you guys
- Bugscope Team we're rebooting it
- Bugscope Team if we can
- Guest Waiting on the image capture device to come back up
- Bugscope Team image back!
- Guest yea
- 11:39am
- Bugscope Team okay I may have to remake presets for the session
- Bugscope Team Hi Angie!
- Bugscope Team This is Scott
- 11:44am
- Teacher Hi all
- Bugscope Team Hi Mrs A!
- Teacher We're logging in a bit early, as suggested.
- Bugscope Team We had a scare a few minutes ago.
- Bugscope Team Totally cool.
- Teacher I noticed the word crash. Not fun.
- 11:50am
- Bugscope Team yes our videoserver blinked out; had never done that before and we had to figure out what was going on/
- Teacher Are you all set? The pictures look amazing!
- Bugscope Team But we are good. The presets I'd made before that are still good. And you can take over control of the 'scope if you would like.
- Bugscope Team So Mrs A you now have control of the microscope. I can confer control to any of your students if you wish. Please try clicking on a preset (screen to the left) for starters.
- Bugscope Team Please let us know if you have any trouble at all, and let us know when you have questions about anything..
- Bugscope Team Mrs A you should be able to take the mag down or up on this spider, change the focus, change contrast/brightness, and also click on a feature to center it.
- 11:55am
- Bugscope Team Ms Fairweather can you see the chat?
- Bugscope Team some of today's guests are from a school we connected with months ago; they come back to visit from time to time.
- Teacher Ok, all computers are ready. I'll try to take control!
Bugscope Team Cool.
- Bugscope Team awesome, we are ready for you and your students!
- Bugscope Team looks like you just clicked on the screen and centered it in a different place
- Teacher It says another microscope has control?
Bugscope Team you are the supreme ruler; no one else has control except Alex and me, and we're not driving
- Bugscope Team sometimes we have to wait for a command to take place
- Bugscope Team these are the chelicers, or chelicerae, that hold the fangs
- Bugscope Team in the lower center of the screen is a thing that resembles a knee
- Bugscope Team that is the edge of one of the fangs
- Bugscope Team the eyes are behind all of those hairs (setae) that are sticking up
- Bugscope Team setae are like the spiders skin. the setae is what allows spiders to feel their environment
- Bugscope Team be sure to click on one of the presets on the lefthand screen when you wish
- 12:00pm
- Bugscope Team now you can see that the spider has a friend with her
- Teacher I think it's working. Is it normal to be slow?
Bugscope Team yes, it is not instantaneous, there is a slight delay
- Bugscope Team you are driving a $600,000 scanning electron microscope from your classroom
- Bugscope Team your students can ask us questions anytime
- Bugscope Team we're looking at a small brown spider, and it just happened that an ant fell onto it before I put it on the stub this morning.
- Bugscope Team yes, don't be shy to ask any questions about what you are seeing
- Bugscope Team that was me driving, since I'm sitting at the 'scope.
- Bugscope Team you can see the compound eyes of the any here
- Bugscope Team ant i mean
- Bugscope Team almost all ants we see are female
- Bugscope Team on either side of the head lie the compound eyes
- Bugscope Team male ants look like female ants but have wings
- 12:05pm
- Teacher We're having a few computer glitches.
Bugscope Team awww
- Bugscope Team well we did today as well
- Bugscope Team it's Hallowe'en!
- Bugscope Team that is weird
- Teacher I click, then have to refresh each time.
Bugscope Team maybe a log out and log back in might fix it, i think your login stayed through our server crash so a logout/login might help to flush out the badness?
- Bugscope Team it is also possible there is a firewall in place
- Teacher The kids are logged in as students. Should they log in as me, using my password?
Bugscope Team no, they should stay on as students
Bugscope Team the kids should just log in as students -- the software will recognize that they are from your school.
- Bugscope Team Mrs. A, can you try a preset and see how that works for ya?
- Bugscope Team *please* try one of the presets; let's make sure that is working
- Teacher Sorry, what's a preset?
- 12:11pm
- Bugscope Team the screen to the left has an assortment of images on it that you can click on
- Bugscope Team and the 'scope will drive to that place on the stub
- Bugscope Team so you won't have to stay in one area like this
- Bugscope Team cool!
- Bugscope Team Whoa sweet!
- Bugscope Team these are ommatidia, or individual facets of the compound eye
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- Bugscope Team from here you can take the mag down, or up
- Bugscope Team this is 5 or 6 times the mag you can get with a light microscope
- Bugscope Team each one of these facets (ommatidia) has a lens in it, so the bug brain actually has to process hundreds/thousands of images at once
- Teacher What's that little 'stringy' think coming out of the middle?
Bugscope Team that is a seta, which is what a single 'hair' is called
- Bugscope Team insects have no bones; instead they have an exoskeleton
- Bugscope Team it is thought that those little hairs on the compounds eyes help the moth to send sind while flying
- Bugscope Team which is kind of like wearing armor
- Bugscope Team so they have lots of tiny setae (see-tee) that stick through the exoskeleton and help them sense their environment
- Bugscope Team some of the setae are mechanosensory, which means they are touch-sensory
- 12:16pm
- Bugscope Team some setae are chemosensory, which means the insect can taste the air with them and sense smells
- Bugscope Team and some setae are thermosensory, enabling the insect to feel hot and cold
- Bugscope Team some setae are modified into the scales we see on butterfly wings
- Bugscope Team do you still have to refresh after every command?
- Teacher The student computers won't stay connected. It says disconnected in the upper left hand corner. I have to refresh their page for them to see what Mrs. Abbott is controlling.
Bugscope Team i think the next thing to try is to have everyone log out and back in again, should only take a few moments for each computer. i fear the server crash might be causing the disconnect problems. or like scott said, if it's a firewall, then there's not much we can do about that
- Teacher yes...the teacher computer disconnects as well. We are using Firefox as the browser. Should we switch browsers or log out and then log back in?
- Bugscope Team I would try logging out and then back in again.
- Bugscope Team we are using Firefox as well.
- Teacher See you in a few minutes
- Teacher The students are on Safari
Bugscope Team both safari and firefox should work fine.
- Bugscope Team let's see if it works for you
- 12:22pm
- Bugscope Team I am worried that there is a firewall that may have to be modified for this kind of session.
- Teacher We have a filter, but not a firewall.
- Bugscope Team we have not had problems with firewalls for years, but maybe they're back
- Teacher We can override the filter.
Bugscope Team do you have to refresh to do chat?
- Bugscope Team ugh I am sorry about all of this
- Teacher Me too. I'm going to try Safari. I do have to refresh. Occasionally, it disconnects me.
- Bugscope Team Mrs. A., now that you have logged out and back in again, can you try to move the scope and then see if the having to refresh problem is gone away?
- Bugscope Team If the refresh problem is still there, then I suggest disabling the filter for this session, if you can, it'll be interesting to see if that fixes the refresh problem?
- Bugscope Team that worked from our end
- Bugscope Team you can try another preset as well
- Bugscope Team yeah what I found earlier is that I was trying to go too fast, and I was waiting on my own commands
- 12:27pm
- Bugscope Team these are the bristles/spines on the edge of the wing of a housefly
- Bugscope Team the tiny setae are on the wing surface, and they're called microsetae, big surprise
- Teacher I get this. Ignored request because another microscope control command is still pending. It did move a bit, but it is slow. Is that normal?
Bugscope Team Well, the speed is the same as it is on the actual scope. It is not instantaneous, so there is a slight delay, that is normal. And then depending on network speed it might slow down a bit more.
- Bugscope Team all of the images you acquire today are stored on your Bugscope members page
- Bugscope Team Looks like it might be working now? You've moved a few times in a row...
- Bugscope Team https://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-084
- Teacher It seems to be working, but I do need to refresh every few minutes.
- Teacher Are the big spikes the setae? Or the littler ones?
- Bugscope Team looks like you are controlling well from your end
- Bugscope Team the little ones are microsetae -- they do not connect to nerves
- Bugscope Team the big spikes/spines/bristles are setae that are connected to nerves and let the fly sense what is touching it, or also, with some of them, the wind
- 12:32pm
- Bugscope Team now you can see the fly's compound eye, and above it to the left a bit are its antennae
- Bugscope Team the mouth is to the lower left, and we can see only part of it
- Bugscope Team the large bristles we see are comparable to a cat's whiskers
- Teacher Where is the antenna?
- Bugscope Team I will move to it
- Bugscope Team there is a pad-like component and a branched component called an arista
- Bugscope Team we see two aristae right now
- Bugscope Team let's go to another fly -- I can take us there
- Bugscope Team ok these are a few of the scales on a Monarch butterfly wing
- Teacher Ok, sorry, take us away!
Bugscope Team no problem at all of course
- 12:38pm
- Bugscope Team a detour on the way!
- Bugscope Team do you know what this is?
- Bugscope Team its antennae are completely missing
- Bugscope Team and it has scales too!
- Teacher How did they get off?
Bugscope Team they are very fragile, and they fell off after the (it's a) mosquito died.
- Bugscope Team that is where one of the antennae was, in the center of this pedicel
- Teacher Is that the spot where the antenna fell off?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Teacher Is that its leg?
Bugscope Team that is its proboscis, and inside is the fascicle that it bites you with
- Bugscope Team but it does look very much like a leg
- 12:43pm
- Teacher And this is the leg?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Bugscope Team you can see that it has scales on it like the butterfly wing
- Bugscope Team scales have lots of purposes. one important one is to help keep you (if you have scales) from getting stuck in a spider web
- Teacher Got kicked off for a minute. Can we see probosis again please?
Bugscope Team yes we can!
- Teacher We are surprised that the scales don't make it easier to get caught!
Bugscope Team the scales fall of easily, and thus they get stuck in the web but the insect can slip out and get away!
- Bugscope Team the proboscis is a sheath that has all of the cutting mouthparts and the siphon tube inside it
- Teacher Can we please zoom back to where it goes into its head?
Bugscope Team you bet
- Bugscope Team now it is easy to see that the proboscis is a sheath that splits open along its center
- 12:49pm
- Teacher What's that?
- Bugscope Team this is another fly, and we can see its antennae a bit better
- Bugscope Team you can read at the top of the screen, above where it says "Magnification."
- Bugscope Team it's a trapdoor in the Mexican jumping bean
- Bugscope Team there are a lot of scales here too, and that is not a surprise because the insect that comes out of the bean is a moth
- Bugscope Team see the moth? one of its antennae is broken as well
- Bugscope Team it has large compound eyes
- 12:56pm
- Bugscope Team this is a Japanese beetle
- Bugscope Team this is its mouth, and you can see palps on either side, which help it manipulate and taste its food
- Bugscope Team this clublike thing is one of its antennae
- Bugscope Team are you still with me?
- 1:06pm
- Guest Are you able to zoom in to see a cell?
Bugscope Team Hi Angie!
- Bugscope Team If we had individual cells we could see them, yes.
- Bugscope Team I just gave you control of the microscope.
- Bugscope Team please let me know if you have any trouble.
- Bugscope Team driving
- Guest It is working!
- Bugscope Team please feel free to drive around
- Bugscope Team also, you may select from any of the presets on the screen to the left of this one
- Bugscope Team all of the images you gather will be accessible on the member page for today's
- Bugscope Team school
- Bugscope Team red blood cells are 8 to 14 micrometers in diameters and you can see that you are at a high enough mag to see them if there were there
- Guest Do you have to do anything to capture an image?
Bugscope Team the images are automatically stored
- Bugscope Team spider face
- 1:11pm
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-084
- Bugscope Team they will be on this web location, as well as a transcript, after the session
- Student Scot, are you there?
Bugscope Team yes I am!
- Bugscope Team I just got your email. I am very sorry things were so messy today.
- Bugscope Team let us know if we can reschedule you
- Guest Can you turn the control to a student as well?
Bugscope Team yes I can
- Bugscope Team I can confer control to one person at a time, regardless of who it is
- Student I'll email.
Bugscope Team cool
- 1:16pm
- Bugscope Team the individual features you see now -- the rods or cones of the eye (not really) are less than a micron in diameter, so you are looking on the nanoscale
- Guest Do the chemical sensors look different?
Bugscope Team sometimes they are flat -- placoid; sometimes they look like setae (they can be setae) but have a little button at the tip
- Bugscope Team you can see that this little fly has scales from another insect on its eye
- Bugscope Team if we look at earwigs, they often have mites on them
- Guest It is working without problems under my firewall. I am really looking forward to doing this with a class! Thank you forthe opportunity!
Bugscope Team You bet, Angie!
- Bugscope Team the toughest part is scheduling, since we are booked far into next year
- Guest I will be in touch with you soon. Thank you.
Bugscope Team Thank You!
- 1:21pm
- Guest Do you have any advice for secondary teachers who have several classes a day?
Bugscope Team what we do is try to get them to do a long session, sometimes a few classes over a couple of hours
- Bugscope Team I'm sure it is hard for the teachers to do that sometimes.
- Bugscope Team we are taking over a research microscope for this, and it takes up our time as well, so we can do this only twice a week, usually, and usually for only a few hours
- Guest That is understandable! When they are scheduling, can they just request the next available spot?
Bugscope Team the next one that fits into their schedule. our secretary has to do the scheduling, and that can be very difficult
- Bugscope Team we connect mostly with people in the US, but sometimes we work with people in other countries and have to come in at odd hours
- Guest OK, well I'll be in touch soon. This is such an amazing resource. Happy Halloween.
Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team See you soon.
- 1:26pm
- Bugscope Team shutting down...
