Connected on 2012-04-13 10:30:00 from Douglas, Colorado, United States
- 8:54am
- Bugscope Team sample for today's session is pumping down
- 9:16am
- 9:24am
- 9:31am
- 9:37am
- 9:44am
- Bugscope Team we are making presets.
- 9:51am
- 9:58am
- Bugscope Team yay! Welcome Back!
- 10:04am
- Bugscope Team Cate and I are finishing up the presets. This is cool -- a diatom!
- Bugscope Team Ms N can you read this/can you respond?
- 10:09am
- Teacher Hey Scott and Cate, we have one internet connection.
- Bugscope Team sweet!
- Bugscope Team oh wow
- Teacher Kids don't come in until 9:30
- Teacher I will ask their questions for them and perhaps let one work the scope through my computer
- Bugscope Team so you're using Mi-Fi?
- Teacher perhaps, not sure
- Teacher A sprint hot spot
- Teacher seems to be working
- Bugscope Team you have control now; we are finished setting up
- Bugscope Team Cate is heading up to her aerie.
- Bugscope Team this is a female
- 10:25am
- Guest Entomologist hi
- Bugscope Team hi Joe!
- Bugscope Team hey joe!
- Guest Entomologist Awesome
- Guest Entomologist hi cate, hi scott
- Guest Entomologist we have a diatom?
Bugscope Team yeah it's on an insect we don't recognize...
- Bugscope Team this is it - it has long wings, past its body
- Bugscope Team Joe do you know what this is?
- Guest Entomologist hmm
- Teacher Hi guys, students are here and ready to go
- Bugscope Team Cool!
- Guest Entomologist looks like it has chewing mouthparts and 4 wings?
- Guest Entomologist best guess is a booklice?
Bugscope Team whoa
- Guest Entomologist it looks tiny, so a psocopteran of some sort would be my guess
- Bugscope Team Ms Nielsen you have control. Please let us know when you have questions, of course, and let us know when we can help.
- Bugscope Team you have 2 logins for teachers. is there a log in you prefer we give control to?
- Bugscope Team the log in nielsen has control, but if nielsenm is better, let us know
- 10:30am
- Bugscope Team it has a diatom near the base of one of its antennae, so it must have crash landed into some dirt, or water
- Teacher kids want to know what the bumpy the
Bugscope Team the insects are mounted on doublestick carbon tape; that is the background we see
- Bugscope Team also, there is some silver paint where the background is smoother
- Bugscope Team see the compound eyes, antennae, mouthparts?
- Bugscope Team also you can see four of its six claws
- Bugscope Team Hello Valdes!
- Guest hello
- Guest hello
- Guest Hi
- Guest hi peoples
- Bugscope Team wow. where are you from?
- Guest what is this a picture of?
- Guest kyle
- Guest How many legs does this bug have
- Guest what is this insect under the lens
- Guest a place
Bugscope Team funny
- Guest this is cool
- Guest Hello
- Guest a lot
- Bugscope Team it's a flying insect we have not fully identified yet
- Guest what type of bug is this?
- Guest Hi
- Teacher can spillman have control over the scope please
Bugscope Team Spillman is the supreme ruler.
- Guest this is a moth right
- Guest is this a fly
- Guest how many hairs does thing have??
Bugscope Team yes a lot! There are hairs all over the body. The hairs, which we call setae, help the insect sense what is going on around it. It can't feel through its tough exoskeleton like we can with our skin
- 10:36am
- Guest what are the furry things?
Bugscope Team the whole insect is covered with setae; note Cate's answer.
- Guest four that you can see
- Guest O thats really cool
- Guest thanks
- Guest What is that
- Guest How many legs does this bug have
Bugscope Team six legs -- all insects, as adults, have six legs
- Guest Does this bug have good ey sight
- Guest is this the face?
- Guest What is that?!?!?!?!?!?!
- Guest Why did you choose this profession?
- Guest What part of this bug is this
- Guest what are the things sticking out of the black parts on the face of the bug
- Guest how big is this bug
Bugscope Team you can get an idea from the scalebar to the lower left of the screen. the one was about a centimeter long
- Guest it looks like there are bumps on the bug, what are they for?
- Guest why do the bugs need hair on their bodies? Does it help with their niche?
- Guest Wow your job is cool
- Guest Entomologist this is the head
- Guest where is this bug found?
- Guest the mold spores are the black dots correct?
Bugscope Team no we haven't got there yet -- they're very small
- Guest Entomologist the compound eye is that oval thing you see at the bottom right corner that is slwly disappearing
- Guest what part of the bug is this?
- Guest how many eyes does this bug have?
Bugscope Team flies have 2 compound eyes, which are the big parts on the side of the head, and then they have 3 simple eyes at the top/back of their head
- Guest SJ What is your profession?
Bugscope Team I am an electron microscopist. I have a degree in English and Biology.
- Guest What type of bug is this?
Bugscope Team this is a female housefly.
- Guest what are the small black holes
Bugscope Team those are holes in the carbon tape that we use to stick the insects on.
- Guest mold im guessing
- Guest how long does it take for the sea salt to dissolve?
- Guest what is the name of the beatle that fights for the females?
Bugscope Team lots of them do. a rhinoceros beetle, for example
- Guest close
- Guest What majors and clases do you need to take to get this job
- Guest How many eyes dose this have
- Guest is this the eye?
- Guest Entomologist yea for the most part, my job is awesome!
- Guest Why do the bugs have mold sopes?
Bugscope Team they show up quickly on dead insects
- Guest Do you guys enjoy your job
Bugscope Team i like my job. I get to look at insects with students like you, and i also get to image other students' samples, which aren't always insects
- Guest ferguson make a comment
- Guest Ok
- Guest it looks... differant
- Guest ewe hair in eyes
- Guest So how do you use the bugscope for your job?
Bugscope Team this is an outreach program we created and have run for 13 years
- Guest this is cool
- Guest Cate whats your profession
Bugscope Team I am the same as Scot. I am an electron microscopist. I have a degree in Physics though
- Guest what is in their eyes?
- Guest the*
- Guest What are the hairs behind the head?
- Guest What do the dots do for the misquito on the head?
Bugscope Team those are individual eye facets
- Guest i hate misquitos
Bugscope Team mosquitos can be very deadly too!
- Guest Do you know how many of these microscopes are in the world
- Guest what does the siphon do on a mosquito?
- Guest does the hair serve a perpose?
- Guest how much do these microscopes cost?
- Teacher Can hodges please have control of the scope for a bit?
Bugscope Team hodges has control
- Guest where do they suck thr blood from?
Bugscope Team the proboscis has what is called a fascicle in it. the fascicle has four cutting blades, a siphon tube, and something else I don't recognize, all pressed together
- Guest Can you turn on the inner camera
- Guest Entomologist the hair on the insects are used for sensory purposes, so they can feel their environment
- Guest can we see internal camera on microscope please???
- 10:41am
- Guest can we see the inside of the microscope please?
- Guest Do you ever get to name a bug?
Bugscope Team sometimes we can
- Guest can u turn on the internal microscope?
Bugscope Team just a minute...
- Guest can you turn on the internal camera in the inside of the camera
- Guest sea salt
- Bugscope Team sometimes it is too dark to really see well
- Guest WOW THIS IS SO COOL
- Bugscope Team the electrons come from above, and the sample is at the bottom
- Guest cool
- Guest That is so cool is the white thing the bug
Bugscope Team yeah that is the moth
- Guest ok cool acan you please give it back to hodges
- Guest How Do the Mosquitos suck blood and use it?
Bugscope Team only the females suck blood. They need a blood meal in order to reproduce. They have a long proboscis, which is like an elephants trunk that has little tubes in it for sucking and little cutting parts to cut into the skin
- Guest How long did you have to go to college for this job?
- Guest ok cool can you give it back to HODGES
- Guest ok cool can you give it back to hodges
- Guest ok cool can you give it back to hodges
- Guest why is it useful to know what the texture of salt does?
Bugscope Team it isn't, actually, but it is interesting to us
- Teacher perfect! Hodges would like to try and control it for a bit longer :)
- Guest what is the difference of wendy's sea salt and sea salt or is there one?
- Guest What is the best part of your guys job
- Guest thats cool
- Guest why does it look crumbly?
- Guest they look giant
- Guest I always thought that they were little circles!
- Guest i thought they were small circles too.
- Guest why are they squares
- Guest over sized sugar cubes
- Guest How its this one grain? Because they look all sperated can you explain?
- Guest that is really cool
- Guest why does the sea salt look moldy?
Bugscope Team it has a grainy surface
- Guest true story Valdes
- Guest What is sea salt used for in nature?
- Guest cool, like if there made of carbon and stuff like that
- Guest We eat that???!!!!
Bugscope Team yes we do, at least if you have wendy's. Other restaurants may use slightly different salt
- Teacher Deangelesek would like a shot at the scope
Bugscope Team Deangelesek has control
- Guest where does the sea salt come from?
- Guest What is the best part of your job
Bugscope Team this is one of the super fun parts, but also -- we get to see all kinds of cutting edge research in many different disciplines
- Guest where do you get the salt?
- Guest Entomologist sea salt is used to make the ocean salty
- Guest It looks so WIERD!!!!!!
- 10:46am
- Guest how long did you have to go to school for this job?
Bugscope Team it is helpful to have gone to college
- Guest they look like sugar cubes
Bugscope Team sugar cubes don't look so pretty but it's the same idea
- Guest this is interesting
- Guest What was the most interesting bug you have seen on the scope? (Details or design)
Bugscope Team I really like weevils, ticks, mites, and leafhoppers
- Guest what new things have you found out with microscope?
- Guest How many years of college did it take?
- Guest how many legs does it have?
- Guest so how is wendy's sea salt different then and regular sea salt
- Guest Entomologist sea salt is just the type of salt that's been evaporated from ocean water
- Guest How did you find out about this job?
Bugscope Team I had someone call me -- I'd had a microscope like this in my last job. Cate just appeared here one day and started working.
- Guest what have you discovered anything really weird/interesting using the scope????
- Guest Entomologist 2 legs per body segment
- Guest Entomologist so lots!
- Guest how many legs does that have
Bugscope Team not sure, maybe 40?
- Guest What are some of the cutting edge things you get to see sem
- Guest why does a millipede have so much hair on its legs?
- Guest Entomologist sorry i meant 4 legs for body segment
- Guest what is the biggest thing that you looked at
- Guest Are the hairs on the legs sensors for feeling things?
Bugscope Team yes they often are; sometimes the hairs are thermosensory, and sometimes chemosensory
- Guest Why dose the milipeade curl up or is it dead?
Bugscope Team all the insects are dead. Bugs tend to curl up when they die because they dry out. As they dry out, their tendons which moves their legs and body shorten
- Guest Do millipedes actually have a million legs?
- Guest Is the eye the bummpy part?
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Guest what is those pokey things?
Bugscope Team those are the legs
- Guest Wow. This is cool. This is making me want to do this job.
Bugscope Team awesome
- Guest this is making me hungry
Bugscope Team haha
- Guest have you ever mistaken a dead bug and something bad happened to the scope because it actully was not dead
- Guest what are the ridges?
- Guest Entomologist this is its outside
- Guest where is this found
- Guest Do the segments enable the bug to move
- Guest is this inside of it or outside?
Bugscope Team it is curled up into a ball with its head near the center
- Guest Entomologist the ridges look like they're grooves on their body
- Teacher Can sack try to scope please?
Bugscope Team Sack is the supreme commander now
- Guest Are you collage students?
- Guest how far can you magnifi??
Bugscope Team this microscope can magnify to around 200,000x and still see things, if there is anything to see at around 2 nanometers. There isn't usually anything interesting at the mag on insects
- Guest 200,000 thats like way better the the microscopes we use at shool
- Guest what have you discovered anything about the millipede using this scope?
Bugscope Team we don't see them that often, but it does tell us, for example, that it has compound eyes
- Guest what are the ridges in the skin?
- Guest Cate why does the eye look like that?
Bugscope Team compound eyes are made up of ommatidia, which are the facets of the eye (like a diamond). They each can see a part of their environment around them
- Guest can you see atoms or just cells?
Bugscope Team we can see cells, but we need another kind of 'scope to see atoms. we have those too.
- Guest Is that ball the joint?
- 10:51am
- Guest what are the bumps?
- Guest What are the segments pr ball and joint called
- Guest What are those bumps?
- Guest what are the bumps?
- Guest what are the bumps near the eye?
- Guest if you have a scope that can see atoms what does it look like
- Guest WOAH so they can see different things at the same time?
- Guest can we see some cells?
- Guest What is your favorite insect to zoom in on? The millipede is cool.
- Guest what are we seeing
- Guest can you see the organelles in the cells?
Bugscope Team you can with a transmission electron microscope, but here we are looking only at the outer surface of the sample
- Guest what is that
- Guest what are the ridges?
- Guest Do you guyes have a bug that is opened up to see the inside and study that?
Bugscope Team i don't think we do. They aren't always interesting to see, because the insects are all dried up. So all the insides are dried up too
- Guest how many bugs are studied are in one year
- Guest How far do you have to zoom in to see a cell?
Bugscope Team we could see them at 5000x no problem
- Guest it looks like a duck
- Guest What are the things on the eye?
- Guest there is a duck there
- Guest what are all the things all over the eye??
- Guest What is the thing that looks like a duck
- Guest how many eyes do flys have?
- Guest Can we see some cells??
- Guest Can we sell cells??
- Guest What can you see thats smaller than a cell>/
- Guest *?
- Guest Sorry See cells
- Guest What a TEM??
- Guest When you see the cells, can you see all the things in the cell?
- Guest how many eyes does the fly have?
Bugscope Team well they have 2 compound eyes and 3 ocelli. The compound eyes have hundreds of ommatidia on them on the fly
- Guest if you look to the side it looks like mountains
- Guest Are those hairs?
- Guest Entomologist depends on the species flies have 2 compound eyes and sometimes also simple eyes
- Guest What are coming out of the pores
- Guest what is the TEM
Bugscope Team transmission electron microscope
- Guest what is this??
- Guest How did you feel when you guys first saw your first cell or atom, and was it inspireing
- Guest what are the bumps around the hole?
- Guest What is a ant spiracle
- Guest have you ever looked at the human skin?
- Guest what are the ant's spiracle used for
- Guest thanks
- Guest bye
- Guest Thank you!
- Guest Thank You
- Guest thank you for your time
- Guest THANK YOU
- Guest Thanks Aton that was fun
- Guest thank you guys soo much!!!!
- Guest Thank You So Much!
- Guest Thank you!
- Guest Thank you guys. this was really cool
- Guest Well GOTTA GO THANKS ALOT?
- Guest Thank You!!
- Guest Thank you to so much for letting us do this
- Guest Entomologist spiracles are holes insects use to take in oxygen
- Guest Thanks You guys rock at your jobs!!
- Guest Thank you for your time. It was very educational.
- Guest thank you for your time and showing us this awsome stuff
- 10:56am
- Guest Entomologist they lead to their tracheal system that brings the oxygen to each cell
- Bugscope Team thank you for looking at the insects with us today. Sorry we didn't get to all your questions
- Bugscope Team whoa sorry I had people coming in to climb up into the ceiling
- Guest What bug is it?
Bugscope Team we are on the ant right now
- Teacher can chaplinl have controls please?
Bugscope Team they have control!
- Guest What discoveries have you made in recent years? and along with rainwater what bug is it
Bugscope Team lots of people from a huge variety of labs use the microscopes, and what they find is mostly incremental information -- little pieces of info at a time
- Guest what are those spikes in the whole
Bugscope Team those we think are a kind of filtering apparatus that keeps large things from coming into the tracheae
- Guest hi
- 11:01am
- Guest what bug is it
Bugscope Team this, presently, is part of a scorpion
- Guest what is the hair on the claw used for?
- Guest is that hair on hair claw
- Guest Hello
- Guest panda
- Bugscope Team the scorpion grabs its prey with these long pincers, and then it stings it
- Guest Whats the max magnification of the microscope
- Guest Entomologist yea those are hairs on the claw
- Guest Why are they shaped like cubes?
- Guest thanks joe!
- Guest what are those things
Bugscope Team the toothlike elements help hold the prey, and the setae help the scorpion feel that it is gripping something
- Guest what is this
- Teacher Is Joe the guest etomologist?
Bugscope Team yes he is!
- Guest hi joe
- Guest salt tastes awful
- Guest does this help if their is a keystone from one animal
- Teacher That is awesome!
- Guest Moths have scales? does that make them reptiles
- Guest how old are moth scales
- Guest thats looks really cool but why are they open?
- Guest what do moths use scales for?
- Guest What is that web stuff
- Guest BUTTERFLY LICK SALT OFF TURTLES EYES
- Guest This is salt?
- Guest is this the wing of the moth?
- Guest what kind of bud is this
- Guest what are the circles/holes
- Guest Entomologist this is a stink bug
- Guest are those pores on this insect?
- Guest how long have u been a entomologists
Bugscope Team Cate and I are electron microscopists but have been working with insects for many years now
- Guest is this a view from under the head??
- Guest WHat is this spider like web
Bugscope Team that was a moth scale. The structure gives the scale color when the light refracts on it
- Guest what are those dots
- Guest Entomologist it sucks on plant juices
- Guest Entomologist most of the time
- Guest cool
- Guest wow
- Guest Entomologist some stink bugs are predators
- Guest what r the dotts
Bugscope Team the dark spots are pores that are filled in with some sort of oil
- Guest Are those pores on the stinkbug?
Bugscope Team they're places that hold a kind of sensory setae
- Guest Is that a cut
Bugscope Team yes a crack
- 11:06am
- Guest whats the crack from?
- Guest what are the cracks from?
- Guest is that a crack on the skin
- Guest What is the crack?
- Guest why do thay have cracks on the skin
- Guest why are there cracks in the skin
- Guest What are those cracks?
- Guest why do you think the stinkbug has those cracks
- Guest what is the bump for?
- Guest can you zoom so we can see the cell
Bugscope Team there's a thin film on the cuticle, but normally we cannot distinguish individual cells this way
- Guest joe what is the coolest thing to look at in the scoop
- Teacher Can rainwaterb manipulate the scope?
Bugscope Team the microscope needs to pump to a high vacuum in order to image the samples. If there is water, it won't be able to pump down, or it will just take a long time
- Guest Entomologist the crack is probably just damage from transport or something else?
- Guest Can we see a cell of the stinkbug
- Guest does the stinkbug have pores? is that what the holes are on its skin
Bugscope Team they are said not to be very happy about their own smell, so they have absorbent elements on their cuticle that keep them from smelling themselves
- Guest WHAT IS THE MAX MAGNIFICATION POSSIBLE WITH THE ELECRON MICROSCOPE?
Bugscope Team this microscope can magnify up to 1 million x, but you won't be able to resolve anything above 200,000x, allowing you to see nano-sized particles.
- Guest what is happinig
- Guest happining
- Guest what are the things you use electron microscope for?
- Teacher How can we get close enough to see a single cell?
Bugscope Team it is not possible this way because the chitin is all grown together. if we find some bacteria, those are singles cells, of coursde
- Guest Entomologist they are all cool to look at, i guess from this set, the mosquito scale/head is cool to look at
- Guest its rough even when you get close down in
- Guest Why is it grey
- Guest WHAT IS THE SMALLEST THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN WITH THE MICROSCOPE
- Guest its rough even when you get close down in
- Guest what are some other things you can look at
- Guest what is that
- Guest what other things do you use besides bugs on the electron microscope
- Guest what are the types of thing the scoop is use for
Bugscope Team people use it to see what their samples look like, including things they have designed and fabricated as well as biological samples, and even cells they have grown
- Guest is that its eye ots attacking?
- Guest using this microscope, is there a way to tell the difference between sea salt and the other kind of salt?
- Guest What are those claw things
- Guest What are they types of things you use for the electrone microscope?
Bugscope Team some people image crystal structures, or structures on a leaf. Some people look at bone or carbon nanotubes. We image a wide variety of samples with this microscope
- Guest how long have u been a entomologists and do u like your job
- Guest why does it have those lines going down its body
- Guest Is that a bug on a bug
- Guest Have you had any break throughs recently using Electron microscope
- Guest that so cool
- Guest What are all the little sections on this millipede?
Bugscope Team that allows the millipede to bend. If it were made out of one piece it wouldn't be able to curl/bend or hardly move at all
- Bugscope Team this is the silica shell of a diatom, which lives in the water normally but is found in dirt as well, once they die
- Guest Entomologist so that's a diatom, it's the most abundant photosynthetic cell on earth
- Guest what is that and is it eating away the other cells?
- Teacher Rainwaterb would like control.
Bugscope Team they have control. Sorry
- Guest Entomologist *in a given ecosystem, usually
- Guest what is the cell that we are looking at now attached to?
- Guest Why is there a webbed appearance on the cell?;)
- Guest is that a hair
- 11:11am
- Guest what are those slots
Bugscope Team they likely do some kind of filter-feeding when they are in the water
- Guest Is that a cell
- Guest Entomologist i need to stop hitting return before i finish my sentences
- Guest is that cell eating other cells?
- Guest are those hairs on the back?
- Guest why can you see the whole in the skin
- Guest what are those lines on the cell
- Guest why are the holes for the hair so large?
Bugscope Team it shows us that they can move, and that movement is translated to nerves beneath the cuticle
- Guest what are those ridges in it
- Guest What species does this cell belong to?
- Guest How long does it take to prepare the machine to look at something
- Guest why are there lines on the cell
- Guest what are those lines on the thing
- Guest That looks like a cell with other cells on it
- Guest howcome the cell has texture
- Guest what insect is this of the cell pic
Bugscope Team this is on the book louse, or whatever exactly this insect is -- I'm sorry we did not recognize it
- Guest what is those spots on that single cell
- Guest Do you ever look at live bugs with the microscope or do they have to be dead so they cant move?
- Guest what are those ridges on the cell?
- Guest Entomologist this is not an insect, but rather a an algae
- Guest WHAT IS THAT
- Guest What is coming out of the eye?
- Guest can you still get a clear picture like this when you go down as far as you can?
Bugscope Team when we take pictures we slow the beam down and also bring the sample closer to the electron source. that gives us an advantage we don't have right now
- Guest what is coming out of its eye ball
- Guest Is that hair coming out of its eye
- Guest what is coming out of the eye
- Guest Entomologist the mosquito is full of scales and hairs
- Guest are those its eyes? the large multi circle objects
- Guest are those feathers on the head?
- Guest Entomologist the hairs are so they can sense their environment
- Guest Why is there hair comming out of the eye
- Guest why is their a bunch of hair on the mosquito
- Guest Do you ever look at live bugs with the microscope or do they have to be dead so they cant move?
- Guest joe
- Guest Are there hairs coming out of its mouth
- Guest Entomologist that "feather" is actually its antenna
- Guest Do you ever look at live bugs with the microscope or do they have to be dead so they cant move?
- Guest joe
- Guest the cells that make an insect, do they repair the body the same as are cells repair us?
- Guest how many scales to a mosquito have
- Guest do u like your job and how long have u been doing this
- Guest Do you ever look at live bugs with the microscope or do they have to be dead so they cant move?
- Guest why is there hair coming out of the eyeball?
Bugscope Team that thing that looks like a ball with a hairy stick poking out is the base of the antenna.
- Guest Entomologist a lot of scales, not sure how to quantify that, sry
- Guest Do you ever look at live bugs with the microscope or do they have to be dead so they cant move?
- Guest what part of the mosquito is used to bite?
- Guest When the moscito bites is it cells that comes out of there mouth into the humans skin? If so then what types of cells are they?
Bugscope Team it is remotely possible that someone else's blood cells could come back out, but mostly it would be bacteria cells, which are smaller
- Guest Entomologist the eye is actually the part that looks all bumpy with little circles
- Guest What are the antennas used for
- Guest joe
- Guest Why do only females bite humans
Bugscope Team the females need the protein from a blood meal in order to successfully lay their eggs
- Teacher Can Mark control the scope for a bit?
- Guest What is the thing in the bottom right corner with the scale things
- Guest so do mosquitos have hair all of there body so that they can sense everything around them
Bugscope Team yes they do! and most insects are the same
- 11:16am
- Guest So do they lay eggs when they bite you
- Guest Entomologist i like my job alright, i haven't been doing bugscope long, i work in a lab studying beetles that bore holes in wood
- Guest So when the moscito bite why does it itch so much?
Bugscope Team the saliva irritates our skin
- Guest Entomologist so i get to be out in the forest a lot, it's great
- Guest Why is the skin of the mosquito look like scales
Bugscope Team the mosquito is covered in scales. They have scales like moths, butterflies, and silverfish (another type of insect)
- Guest can we see the entire bjug
Bugscope Team you can ask the person who's driving to take the mag down
- Guest What are the things that are poking off of the antena?
- Guest Why does the eye look like popped raisins?
- Guest Do you ever look at live bugs with the microscope or do they have to be dead so they cant move?
Bugscope Team we can look at live insects, but it can be difficult to image them and they could move making it hard to see them
- Guest Is this a female or a male mosquito?
Bugscope Team this is a female; you can tell by the antennae, which are frilly in males
- Guest So the saliva is made out of bacteria?
- Guest what are those small balls
- Guest it looks like peach fuz
- Guest how much venom does a mosquito hold to make it itch so much
- Guest Entomologist the mosquito's mouthpart is modified into a hard piercing sucking apparatus, like a straw
- Guest do the insects cells help the bug as much as human cells help us? or are they the same
- Guest What senses are the hairs for? Just feeling or other senses too?
- Guest what are the small balls next to the antenna?
- Guest Why is there hair on the eye
Bugscope Team when we see hair on the eye it is often mechanosensory -- touch sensitive
- Guest Entomologist that's what it uses to bite us
- Guest Why are there diffrent shapes on the left
- Guest Entomologist the bubble wrap stuff is the eye
- Guest How do the scales benefit their body or protect the body?
Bugscope Team having scales helps with temperature regulation and also protects the insect from spider webs
- Guest joe what happens if u put a bug that does not need air in the scoop
- Guest WHere is the mouth?
- Guest what is the white netting looking thing?
- Guest can you tell if this a male or a female? if so how can you tell? are there systems like humans'
- Guest Do you always look at dead or alive bugs
- Guest So when you itch your moscito bites it spreads which irritates our skin even more, right?
- Guest what is that gash
Bugscope Team the mouth opening
- Guest Entomologist insects have compound eyes, so what you're seeing there is actually individual eyes called ommatidia that make up the compound eye.
- Guest Whats the point of having hairs if its so small it may not benefit the bug?????
- Guest Entomologist mosquito is a type of fly, so some flies have scales but most do not
- Guest do all insects have hair on its head that you can only see when you're really close up?
- Guest Do flys have scales?
Bugscope Team mosquitoes, which are a kind of fly, do
- Guest is that the mouth to the right?
- Guest Is that a protective lens on the eye?
Bugscope Team no it does not really have any protection
- Guest What is the thing in the bottom right corner with the scale things on the mosctito
- Guest How does the bumpy surface on the eye benefit?
- Guest what happens if you bug put a that does not need air in the scoop
- Guest why do flys have hair ???
- Guest where are the eyes is that the thing on the left?
Bugscope Team yes that is one of the compound eyes
- Guest What is a palp?
- Guest how long have you been doing your job and what are your favorite things
- Guest Why can only horse flys bite you and other flys cant?
- Guest Entomologist you probably would itch more if you scratch the area because you're irritating the nerves in that area more
- Guest is that the eye!?!
- Guest are those cells on the eye
- Teacher What type of researches use this microscope? We did watch the video about different uses for it. Anything recently you have found interesting?
Bugscope Team biologists, materials researchers, the self-healing polymer people, pollen and seed people, leaf people, people who are making microchannels out of corn protein
- 11:21am
- Guest are thoose cells all bunched together
- Guest if mosquito is consider a fly then why dont flys bite
- Guest What is that sponge looking thing on the eyes
- Guest are those bumps the cells?
- Guest What are microchannels?????????
- Guest ahh i see. thanks joe
- Guest What is the thing in the bottom right corner with the scale things on the mosctito
- Guest Why are they hexigons
Bugscope Team that is the best shape for close-packing round objects into a spherical shape, so you see it a lot, includin when people stack fruit
- Guest How do all of these sections of the eye help them see better then us humans?
- Guest what happens if you bug put a that does not need air in the scoop
Bugscope Team it can hold its breath for awhile; it could live if we let it out soon enough
- Teacher Can taylorschley have control for a bit?
Bugscope Team taylor has control
- Guest are all of those little circles there to help the vison
- Guest Entomologist @mircetics: flies and most insects have hairs so that they can sense their environments better since they all have a hard exoskeleton
- Guest have you guys found any research on anything other then insects? like animal cells?
Bugscope Team yes we have, lots of animal cells, and human cells -- blood cells, for example
- Guest Are those things hairs?
- Guest Does our eye have texture like the moth
Bugscope Team no it does not -- ours are quite different
- Guest where is the claw on the bug
Bugscope Team there is usually one at the end of each leg
- Guest You said they have an exoskeleton, does that mean that their skeleton is on the outside of their body and not the inside?
- Guest Mosquitos have claws???\
Bugscope Team yes they are at the end of the legs
- Guest why are some "bumps" on the eye larger and smaller than others?
Bugscope Team they are generally the same size but you see small differences
- Guest What is the thing in the bottom right corner with the scale things on the mosctito
Bugscope Team that was the tip of the proboscis
- Guest Does our body have texture similar to the mosquitos
- Guest Why does that look like a ruber ducky??
- Guest are thoose scales?
Bugscope Team yes they were!
- Guest Why so the mosquito have mold spores?
Bugscope Team once an insect dies they gather quickly
- Guest What are they now
- Guest There are mold spores on the eye?!
Bugscope Team sometimes, yes
- Guest do mosquitos live in water when they are young and have u seen one that is in the scoop
- Guest How can the eye see if it has mold on it?
Bugscope Team an insect can rub stuff off of its eyes
- Guest WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE A DUKKY
- Guest How much is an electron microscope worth$$$?
- Guest have you ever seen a catipiller underneeth this
- Guest why are there so many hairs on th eantenna
- Guest Do ants anttenas have hair on them?
- Guest What's inside the antenna?
- Guest WHY IS IT SOOO BIG!!
- 11:27am
- Guest why do they have multiple eyes and not just one big eyes
Bugscope Team it is better in giving the insect the ability to see all around it without moving its head; also, compound eyes, with many facets, are more responsive to movement -- the insect is able to see motion very quickly
- Guest Are the hairs feelers?
- Guest Is it true that ants smell with their antennas?
- Bugscope Team bees can see ultraviolet
- Guest what is the hairs
- Guest do animal and insects cells look different under the microscope? like theyre blood cells?
Bugscope Team if you were to culture the cells, I think they would look similar
- Guest HOW MUCH DO THESE MICROSCOPES GO FOR NOWDAYS???
- Guest thank you for your time
- Guest Thank you :D
- Guest Thank you!!!!
- Guest thank you so much for your time!! this was cool!!
- Guest thank you
- Guest Thank you soooooooo much for your time.
- Guest Thank you so much for your time. Have a great day!:)
- Guest Entomologist they use their antennae for lots of things, recognize nestmates, enemies, food etc...
- Bugscope Team ants rely on their antenna to give them chemical feedback. They give other ants chemical signals
- Guest Thank you for your time!
- Guest Thank you for your time! That was a really cool experience
- Teacher I have another class coming in a minute :)
- Guest what is an ants antenna used for, is their a certain purpose?
Bugscope Team they do a lot of communication via scent, and the antennae are the prime sensor for that chemical communication
- Guest thank you for your time i really injoyed it thanks again
- Guest Thank You for your time and for answering all of our question!! Have a fantabulous day!
- Guest Thank you all scientists for the time you toke out of your day to answer any of our questions!!!!
- Guest thank you for your time spent with use i really enjoyed it!!!!!!!!:)
- Guest thank u .............................................................................love ...........you ......joe
- Guest Thanks so much!
- Guest i love you joe
- Guest Thank you for all the information you have given us and the time you took out of your day to shre with us!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest Thank you for your time. i earned some pretty cool stuff. Have a nice day :)
- Guest Thanks, I think it's time for me to go. I learned a lot about the electron microscopes!
- Bugscope Team we had a good time and enjoyed working with you
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team phew! Joe I am glad you are here to help!
- Guest Entomologist heh np
- Bugscope Team (I changed my login on the SEM to Scot.)
- 11:32am
- Bugscope Team this session goes to 1:30 if you have time to stay with us that long
- Guest Entomologist it'd be less confusing if i can also do the replying thing, but i'll just do the @ thing so it's more apparent who i'm replying to
- Guest Entomologist i might actually
- Bugscope Team yeah you need to be able to reply better
- Teacher Can lavauxm have controls of the scope?
- Guest Entomologist but i'll be gone for a short bit in between i think
- Guest Entomologist about 10 min or so around noon
- Bugscope Team yeah it is pretty clear we need to make that a priority
- Guest There are hairs on ant antennas?
- Teacher Thanks for being here Joe!
- Guest what do the hairs do for the antenna?
- Teacher You were great.
- Guest Entomologist @nelsonal, yup!
- Guest Entomologist @nielsnm, no problem.
- Guest Entomologist it's my pleasure
- Guest With the bug scope can you all tell how many hairs are on one ant??
Bugscope Team there are too many to count, for us
- Guest how many hairs on average are on an ant?
- Guest What was the smallest thing u magnified on?
- Guest What do you resarch with this microscope?
Bugscope Team we train people to do their own research, and we help ensure that the 'scopes work optimally so they get the best images
- Guest what else do you look at? And do u love what you do
- Guest w
- Guest What are the little indentions on the ant?
- Guest Entomologist @diehlt the hairs usually are used in mechanosensing, so they can sense movement nearby,
- Guest What's the main purpose for the ants antennas?
- Guest what are the hairs on the antantennas there for?
Bugscope Team the hairs, which are called 'setae' (see-tee), are chemosensory, thermosensory, and mechanosensory.
- Guest do the ants use there antennas to feel?
Bugscope Team yes but more often to smell -- to pick up chemical signals
- Teacher Any chance Lavauxm can try the scope out ? :)
Bugscope Team they have control
- Guest Do u use this microscope for human research?
Bugscope Team not very often
- 11:37am
- Guest What are the little dots on the ant???
Bugscope Team those are dried up spots of goo. Maybe an oil they got into
- Guest What is at the base of the hair?
- Guest What is your favorite thing to look at with this microscope?
Bugscope Team leafhoppers, mites, ticks, sometimes carbon nanotubes
- Guest What is the most interesting thing you have reserched?
- Guest what is the best thing you have discovered with this microscope!
- Guest woah!
- Guest have you discovered anything new?
Bugscope Team lots of our users find out new things about their samples, every day
- Guest Wow
- Guest How did you get this job?
- Guest Entomologist @smithe that's the ant
- Bugscope Team often what people find is that the principle they are studying is not as simple as they'd thought at first
- Guest This microscope is POWERFUL
- Guest what are we looking at now/
Bugscope Team this is an ant, all curled up
- Guest how did you kill the ants to get them to use for research
- Guest ?
- Guest Entomologist right now its head is facing down and you're looking at its back
- Guest why is the leafhopper one of your favorites?
- Guest do insects have to be dead to be under this
Bugscope Team it is better if they are -- we don't want to be hurting them
- Guest how long have you been doing this?
Bugscope Team i've been doing this since 2005, but bugscope has been around since 1999!
Bugscope Team 13 years!
- Guest how did you get this job?
- Guest How long have you been working with the electronmicro scope
Bugscope Team fulltime since May 1983.
- Guest Who invented the microscope?
- Guest What else is bug scope used for?
- Guest How has this technology developed from ten years ago?
- Guest what do hairs do for the fly?
- Guest Why do bugs have many eyes in one instead of just one eye like humans?
- Guest do you catch thease bugs?
Bugscope Team sometimes we catch them. Most of these insects were caught by Scot
- Guest does this give you a lot of information about things you have questions about? Also have you ever done anything with human cells or anything
- Guest what can you discover with this microscope!
- Guest Once you look at a bug do you dispose of it or store it for later use?
- Guest what do you mainly look at under a microscope?
Bugscope Team we work with materials scientists, biologists, biomaterials people, and they look at a huge variety of stuff
- Guest what is the smallest thing you have looked at?
Bugscope Team carbon nanotubes are pretty thin, a few nanometers wide
- Teacher Can Fischal1 work with the scope a bit?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Guest Entomologist @lanere, they have compound eyes, this allows them to detect motion better, and in many cases, see better in the dark, however, they lose resolution, so what they see is more mosaic, and less high definition
- Guest Has anybody had the idea of using the electron microscope on something besides bugs or insects?
- Guest Do you use a normal scope still or just this one?
- Guest How many types of bugs have you studied?
- 11:42am
- Guest Can you use this to cure cancers or diseases for humans?
- Guest Do you guys use more then bugs?
Bugscope Team yes we look at for example, chemicals that are used to neutralize explosives
- Guest Can you use this scope to find any diseases?
- Guest what college digery do you need to yous one of of these as a job
Bugscope Team I have my degree in Physics. Scot has degrees in biology and english. Some sort of science background is helpful to get a job like this.
- Guest How many different species of insects have u used this on?
- Guest Why do bugs have so many eyes instead of one
- Guest have you ever discovered a new type of bug before with the scope?
Bugscope Team we have imaged or helped people image hundreds of wasps that had never been described before
- Guest In 2017 will the technology be more developed in the scope?
- Guest do you work with new bugs every day?
Bugscope Team we don't reuse insects, so yes we do. But we sometimes will still look at the same kinds of insects like flies, moths, mosquitos
- Guest Why does the eye look loke there's nettin over it? For pretection?
- Guest w
- Guest Entomologist @prokoschsj the hairs called 'setae' are for chemo-, thermo- and mechnosensory
- Guest what is the most complex bug or creature you have studied under this?
- Guest have you discovered anything new with the microscope?
Bugscope Team we often find that things do not look or work quite like we'd imagined they did
- Guest why does it have a lot of hair
- Guest What is on its eye and why?
- Guest How can you tell if bugs have eye cancer since were looking at the eye of a moth right now?
- Guest Has anyone tried to modify the electron microscope to have the ability to look at things such as animals?
Bugscope Team yes! there are a variety of modifications, and this 'scope has some of those
- Guest How many electrons are used to create the image?
Bugscope Team trillions
- Guest how many of us does he see with his eye
- Guest why are moths so furry?
Bugscope Team the scales, which are actually also setae, help with thermoregulation, pattern recognition, and also help the moth escape from spider webs
- Teacher Can prokoschsj to a crack at the scope?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Guest Can you use this to cure cancers and diseases for humans?
Bugscope Team we can use it to help people identify cells that are cancerous
- Guest Entomologist @prokoschsj it may also have something to do with thermoregulation, since most moths are active at night, but not all of them are hairy so...
- Guest What bugs are u still trying to understand?
- Guest why does mold grow on the fly?
- Guest Would you be able to inlarge a cell so see all of the orgonelles?
- Guest Why are there so many bumps on the eye of insects?
- Guest what is one of the most intresting bugs to look at under the microscope?
Bugscope Team mites, leafhoppers, weevils....
- Guest How often do you use this microscope
- Guest do you know why their eyes are a hexagons?
Bugscope Team the hexagons are the best shape to fit the curve of something round. You can fit the most of that shape in the area than any other shape
- Guest How do the electrons get the picture?
- Guest how far can the scope be magnified!
Bugscope Team it can be magnified to around 200,000x and still be able to resolve details.
- Guest what is the largest object you have looked at under this?
- Guest Why are bugs skin so jagged?
- Guest do bugs have hairs through out their whole body
- 11:47am
- Guest what is the biggest addvans in scince by yousing this
- Guest how far can you magnify the scope
- Guest Can you find out a way to stop the growth of cancerous cells?
- Guest Is the micro scope only used on bugs or are they also used for other creatures?
- Guest Has anyone modified this type of microscope to look inside of something, (like an organ) and zoom in as far as now.
- Guest What is the coolest thing you've researched?
- Guest Is this one little hair?
- Guest are you guys all in the microscope room together
- Guest Where did you go to school to get this job?
Bugscope Team i went to school at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois
- Guest Have you always had a passion for science and the microscope?
- Guest are the hairs on the flys legs used to sitck to walls?
- Guest why does mold grow on the fly?
Bugscope Team it is always in the air, and when the fly die it grows and spreads
- Guest how big is this microscope?
Bugscope Team about like a very large desk with a tall component at one end -- about 7 feet tall
- Guest what is the most interesting bug to magnify
- Guest Do you have to replace the electrons or do they last forever
Bugscope Team we use an electron gun that shoots multiple electrons at the sample. Sometimes it needs to be replaced.
- Guest Do you catch them alive or find them dead?
- Guest w
- Guest how many legs does a millipede have?
- Guest Why do bugs fingers look like claws?
Bugscope Team that's what they have- claws. All the legs end in a claw
- Guest ooooooooo
- Guest what is you favorite bugs to magnify!
- Guest why are cells so hard to see?
- Guest Entomologist @deeringm they have 4 legs per abdominal segment
- Guest what are the hairs on the eye
- Guest Why did you chose to be a scientist?
Bugscope Team I did it to try to bring up my gpa, which was not very high
- 11:52am
- Guest what are the hairs on the on mosquito?
Bugscope Team they help it sense its environment, because it does not have skin or ears, for example
- Guest Entomologist @hothemdr I want to see some copepods! (although they're crustaceans and not insects)
- Guest Do you have to replace the electrons?
- Guest Why does this insect look like a doll?
Bugscope Team it's super cute, isn't it?
- Guest why do you like to look at bugs for a living
- Guest yaaaaaa
- Guest What are the small circles that look like eyes?
Bugscope Team those are the pedicels -- the bases of the antennae
- Guest Entomologist @SJ until they all realize that's a mosquito
- Guest What is that on the side of its face?
- Guest Entomologist buzzkill!
- Teacher Can smothersj control the scope?
- Guest Entomologist the eye is the bubble wrap like area on the left
- Guest do*
- Guest why do you like to look at bugs for a living
- Guest Were are the eyes?
Bugscope Team the compound eye is on the left
- Guest Do they have eyes
- Guest Entomologist each "bubble" is an ommatidia that makes up its compound eye
- Guest How do you think the electron microscope will help us in the future?
- Guest What are the circles on the side of the head for?
- Guest why does the skin look like bubble wrap?
- Guest what is the skin of a mosquito made of
Bugscope Team it is made of chitin, which is the same stuff your fingernails are made of
- Guest Entomologist @deeringm yup!
- Guest With the Wendeys sea salt, are all grains of salt cubes?
- Guest do mosquitos die after a curtain amount of bites?
- Guest is that its eye
- Guest Why do they need to suck blood to reproduce though?
- Guest why do bugs have different shape patterns on their skin? are they for a purpose?
- Guest what are the things that look like scales?
- Guest Is science your favorite subject in school?
- Guest How much does this cost?
- Guest why do mosquito stay away from bug spray?
- Bugscope Team oh sorry joe.
- Guest œ∑´´®†¥¨ˆøπåß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬Ω≈ç√∫˜˜µµµµ,.÷≥≥≥≥÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷æ……¬æææææ“π‘“‘‘“‘“‘‘‘≠–––––≠≠≠«
- Guest How many bug species are living?
- Guest Entomologist no prob, i mess that up all the time
- Bugscope Team Safari locked up in my office
- Guest How much do these scopes cost?
Bugscope Team about $600,000
- Guest Are those pollen spores (oval shapes)?
Bugscope Team yes they are!
- Teacher Can smothers take a shot at the scope?
Bugscope Team smothersj has ultimate control!
- 11:57am
- Guest are these scopes easy to break
- Guest How big is the scope
Bugscope Team it is like a large long desk with a tall column, about 7 feet high, to one side
- Guest What is the apporxamate weight of this telescope
- Guest How much money do you make with this job?
- Guest what do you primarly look at in bugs
- Guest How come a grain of salt is square?
- Guest why does the salt have holes in it?
- Guest Can we break this thing from here?
Bugscope Team Thankfully not.
- Guest what's salt made up of?
- Guest The salt has a so different perspective than our human eye!
- Guest Have you ever looked at chemical reaction under the scope?
- Guest Would you say its worth the $600,000?
- Guest Can you only find out how things on the outside of an organism work or can you find out how things on the inside of the organism work also?
- Guest what do you primarly look at in the bugs itslef
- Guest Entomologist @prokoschsj, atoms of Na+ and Cl-. seasalt probably has other minerals and such in it
- Guest itself sorry
- Guest How come you decided to be a person to work with bugs?
- Guest THANK YOU!
- Guest Thank you so- much it was so fun!
- Guest Thank you so much!! :)
- Guest thank you sooo much
- Guest Thank u for your time hope we can do this again
- Guest Thank You for your time!! :)
- Guest thank you so much :)
- Guest Thank you so much for letting us use the microscope!
- Guest THANKS!!!!
- Guest Thank You
- Guest Entomologist @pomeroyc because they are cool, like bowties.
- Guest Thank you soo much! This was so cool! Cant wait to do it again :)
- Guest sup
- Guest Thank you so much for doing this live interaction! I really enjoyed it!!!
- Guest Thank you so much, that was a lot of fun!
- Guest yeeep
- Guest Thank you so much for your time I really appreciate it! Ya'll have a fantastic day!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team the sea salt from Wendy's also has magnesium carbonate in it
- Guest fischal1 loged off but she says thank you too
Bugscope Team tell her Thank You!
- Guest why do mosquitos stay away form bug spray?
Bugscope Team The repellants are made of chemicals that either mask the skin's scent or deter them away
- Guest cheese
- Guest USing the microscope are you able to see what inside salt makes it disolve?
Bugscope Team we can make it dissolve and re-form with this microscope, in another mode of imaging
- Guest Thank you!!!!! :)
- Bugscope Team Thank You Everyone!
- 12:02pm
- Teacher So..most of the kids are going to lunch, however some are going to stay in and play. There will only be a few. If you could let Wilsonn have control for a bit that would be great.
Bugscope Team wilsonn has control
- Guest Entomologist ok brb!
- Guest What is this?
Bugscope Team those were hairs (setae) on the edge of this pedicel
- Bugscope Team I am sitting at the microscope, so I can control it a bit more quickly.
- Guest Wow.
- Bugscope Team insects have lots of sensory setae that make up for not having noses and skin
- Guest hmm. What are the bumps on the skin?
Bugscope Team those are folds in the membrane at the base of this antenn
- Guest Can you guys control it for a while and show us more?
Bugscope Team I just modified the focus so you can see where we are more quickly. Are you sure you want us to drive?
- Guest Yeah, I'm sure.
- Bugscope Team please let us know when anyone wants to drive on her/his own
- 12:07pm
- Guest is that the cell
- Bugscope Team this is a diatom, and an individual cell, yes
- Guest Why is the skin wrinkly?
Bugscope Team it's not really skin, but when it dries out it does get more wrinkly
- Guest Why does our skin feel so smooth to the touch but in the picture it is roung and bumpy looking
- Guest is that a cell?
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Guest cool
- Guest does our skin look like that and does our cells lay at the top of the skin
- Bugscope Team yes this is a diatom
- Guest What is it, then?
Bugscope Team its made of chitin, which is a protein that forms a shell
- Bugscope Team they are generally found in places like streams. They are algae
- Guest what is the coolest thing u have seen in the scoop
Bugscope Team I like mites.
- Guest cool
- 12:13pm
- Guest is that hair
- Bugscope Team looking at bone with a different type of detector is fun
Bugscope Team yes!
- Guest What do you mean by a different type of detector?
- Guest how much is the electron microscope
- Guest can you zoom in a little?
- Guest what are mites
Bugscope Team they are arachnids that live on other insects like parasites
- Guest what is a dectectr
Bugscope Team the detector collects the electrons that bounce back from or out of the specimen
- Guest that is super cool :3
- Guest what do mites look like
Bugscope Team kind of like flat beetles, or weird small turtles
- Bugscope Team these are the simple eyes on the top of the fly's head, called ocelli
- Bugscope Team these look much like spider eyes
- Guest what is the hardist part of your job
Bugscope Team i think how to prepare the samples can be the hardest part. Insects are easy, but not all samples are.
Bugscope Team actually for me it is the paperwork and dealing with contracts as well as trying to buy expensive things and making the justifications for that
- Guest How many (big) eyes do the flies have
Bugscope Team they have 3 of these more simple eyes, which are used for navigation. They also have 2 bigger compound eyes on the sides of the head
- Guest what is the advans in science while yousing this
Bugscope Team people find out information about their samples that they did not know before
- Bugscope Team when people work with us, they are using one or two or more different means of getting information about their samples, but they are studying them in lots of different ways
- 12:18pm
- Bugscope Team we have a large variety of microscopes in a series of rooms, and people use the microscopes they need to get the information they want to find out
- Guest is that a hole in them
- Guest it looks as if the hair is different sizes. does it have different lengths like we do or is it something different
- Guest Do you think that we can look at something else?
Bugscope Team sorry Wilson
- Guest can one of us it
- Guest scary
- Guest i know that frogs have a clear coating over the eyes do other animals have anything similar to that we could see
Bugscope Team insects and comparable arthropods do not have anything protecting their eyes, unless you count the setae that sometimes cover them, as with a bee or a fruitfly
- Guest Entomologist @jensenel birds?
- Bugscope Team this is a mosquito -- did you already look at this?
- Guest Entomologist oh i misunderstood the question
- Bugscope Team this is a female mosquito
- Guest do u like cholate milk
Bugscope Team uh oh. Hi Pandaman!
- Guest hi
- Guest Can someone control?
Bugscope Team Rosack I gave you control...
- Guest I don't think that question's relevant.
Bugscope Team haha yeah
- Guest I was talking about the Chocolate Milk question.
Bugscope Team Dude I agree.
- Bugscope Team this is cool
- Bugscope Team you can see the scales on the mosquito's limbs.
- Guest cooolllll
- Guest Cool!
- Guest sry
Bugscope Team hey we are fine - let us know when you see something in the 'scope that you have questions about
- Guest What scales??
Bugscope Team the things that look like potato chips are scales
- Guest Entomologist the ridged things that look like potato chips
- Guest y do they need scales
- 12:23pm
- Guest Entomologist the scales do different things depending on where they are
- Guest Hows you're day goin?
- Guest Why are they flat?
Bugscope Team they fit fairly close to the exoskeleton, but they are also loose enough to fall off when for example the insect flies into a spiderweb
- Guest oooooooooooohohhhhohohoho
- Bugscope Team good driving!
- Bugscope Team scales are modified setae -- the hairs
- Guest Entomologist on the legs, they make it so that the mosquito doesn't sink into the water
Bugscope Team cool I didn't know that
- Guest What are the other ways an insect can die (besides the spiderweb)?
- Bugscope Team they also help many insects with thermoregulation
- Guest Scott do u text
Bugscope Team yeah but not in this contect
- Guest Cole p
- Bugscope Team duh not in this context
- Guest Entomologist yea it has something to do with the contact angle
- Guest sry
Bugscope Team hey no sweat, Dude
- Guest THAT LOOKS LIKE POTATO CHIPS
- Bugscope Team there...
- Bugscope Team the scales are also responsible, for example in butterflies and moths, for the colors we see
- Bugscope Team the shape of the scales interferes with visible light and gives us what are called structural colors
- Bugscope Team scales can also have pigment granules within the finest features we see now, so they can have normal colors as well
- Guest On the "potato chip" looking things the lines that separate the little tiny lines why are they so deep.
- Guest COOL
- Guest It's amazing how such small insects have such cool adaptations.
- Guest YEH I Agree
- Guest Yeah, I think they look like potato chips, too. Why do they have ruffles?
Bugscope Team I think the ruffles help make the scales rigid, much like the potato chips, so they don't bend easily
- 12:29pm
- Guest Would you mind giving jensenel control?
- Guest Entomologist @jensenel, they're called scales, a modified type of setae
- Guest can we look at the compound eye
- Guest Thank you so much for your time. I really had a great time:)
- Guest I think it's time for me to leave. Thanks for teaching us a lot about this!
- Guest thank you got to go
- Guest what is the coolest thing you have ever don on this
Bugscope Team looking at carbon nanotubes is cool. looking at brochosomes, which are produced solely by leafhoppers is cool. one of the best things we do is help researchers get great images of their samples -- we know how to make the 'scopes work a little better than they do, often, and it is great to be able to help
- Bugscope Team thank you, Everyone!
- Guest bye love u
Bugscope Team Thanks, Pandaman!
- Bugscope Team great to get to work with everyone today
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Teacher Hi there, the troops have returned from lunch. Thank you for taking the time to chat with a few of our students during their lunch break :)
- 12:34pm
- Hi Neilson, are we still on then?
- oops sorry about spelling
- Nielson do have another class or two?
- Teacher I have two left
- Teacher This one and the next one
- Teacher Can I possibly get control of the scope?
just a couple of minutes, sorry -- I have to get the vacuum back up.
- Teacher Not a problem.
- Teacher We are up until 12:30 my time correct?
when we had that last batch of kids I thought we were done -- wasn't watching the clock.
- Bugscope Team I think Scot got confused and vented the chamber a little early
exactically
- Teacher no problem. We can sit and chat.
- Guest what is one of the best bugs you looked at
I really like weevils, mites, leafhoppers...
- Guest what is the coolest thing that you looked at on the microscope
- Guest Do you know why the pictures from the microscope are in black and white instead of color pictures?
- Guest So what is the best parts of your jobs on the SEM
- Bugscope Team the cooler insects to look at tend to be the smaller ones
- Guest Why do you like looking at bugs?
- Guest How long does the whole process take to prepare the microscope?
- Guest What are you going to do with the information after you are done researching?
- 12:39pm
- Guest how many bugs do you look at a day
Bugscope Team we look at bugs usually just twice a week, when we do this
- Guest what bugs do you study the most?
- Guest what are the little pores for
- Guest Have you ever looked at something from a human? If so, what did you look at?
- Guest What types of cells do you guys look at?
Bugscope Team blood cells, bacteria of all types, fibroblasts, osteoblasts, nerve cells, muscle cells
- Teacher Can mainridgeh take a shot at the scope?
Bugscope Team mainridgeh has control
- Guest How many times do you guys use the ESM everyday?
- Guest how do the little hairs help the bug?
Bugscope Team they help the insect feel what is going on. They can't really feel anything through their exoskeleton. It would comparable to you wearing a suit of armor
- Guest What are some of the biggest diffrences between the bugs?
- Guest What are the bumps?
Bugscope Team they are dried droplets of fluid
- Guest why is the eye shaped like hexagons?
- Guest what are all the small dots?
- Guest why are there so many hairs?
Bugscope Team they have a lot of uses to the insect, depending on what sense they are using
- Guest do each hair feel everything
- Bugscope Team if something brushes the hair, the insect will feel it
- Guest how many of those dots are there on the eye?
- Guest why are the eyes shaped like a hexagon
Bugscope Team the hexagon shape is best for closepacking things that are essentially round into a spherical shape, so we see that a lot
- Guest can you see other things that are bigger then small bugs
Bugscope Team yes, but not as a whole. Only parts of it.
- Guest How many hexagon are on the bugs eye
- Guest why are there little circles in the moth eye
- Guest is the bug dead or alive when you put it under there
- Guest are all the bumps in the eyes like small pupils
- Guest how many tiny hexagonal shapes are there on it
- Guest can flies see every direction
Bugscope Team more directions than we can at one time, and also they can sense motion much more quickly
- 12:44pm
- Guest Does it ever get confusing as to what you are looking at?
Bugscope Team yes!
- Guest Is the eye of moth have anything in common with a basketball as in texture?
Bugscope Team looks much like it, yes!
- Teacher can Rwalsnc try it for a bit?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Guest do snakes have that same ability like in flys?
- Guest why are some dots bigger than others?
Bugscope Team they are close to the same size but we do see variation
- Guest how do the bumps help the bug?
Bugscope Team not really sure unless they somehow help polarize the light
- Guest when you look at a bud what are some things you are looking four
- Guest Entomologist @kingmg, no the bugs are dead
- Guest why are the legs spirls
- Guest are the bugs alive in the microscope?
Bugscope Team not they are dead
- Guest Entomologist @chavez b, what did you mean by same ability?
- Bugscope Team no they are dead, I should have said, like Joe
- Guest what are the really big legs near the head?
Bugscope Team those are antennae
- Guest what are the hairs on its legs?
- Guest is that his head
- Guest why do they curl up
- Guest Are those hairs on the body?
- Guest Are the little hairs for sense on the legs?
- Guest are those scales near the top?
- Guest can millepedes lose a leg and grow it back
- Guest what adaptations have you noticed with the millepede since you looked at the bug through the microscope?
- Guest Entomologist @rinkera The really big leg you are referring to is the antenna.
- Guest do you guys use bugs that are alive?
Bugscope Team no; it is best if they are dead; it would be cruel to use live bugs
- Guest whay would it be cruel? does it hurt them?
- Guest have you ever looked at a live one?
Bugscope Team we had a live chrysalis in the microscope once, and a Monarch hatched out later, after we took it out
- Guest Where do you get the bugs?
- Guest Why do millepedes have so many legs
Bugscope Team it helps them support that long body
- Guest what do the bumps on the side of their head do
Bugscope Team some of those bumps are the compound eye, is that what you mean?
- Guest what are the bands with lines across them used for
- Guest do you use the SEM to see the amount of legs or lines on its body
Bugscope Team we could if we wanted
- Guest how many legs do millepedes have
Bugscope Team I think this one has about forty.
- Guest Do millipedes have the same hairs to sense as spiders do on there legs?
Bugscope Team no, not that I have seen.
- Guest what are the hair in the claw
- Guest are those pores with hair coming out of it?
Bugscope Team yes in a way -- they are pores in the exoskeleton
- Guest If in the future you can find out even more on the ESM and make it bigger could we look at a human maybe?
- Guest what is that
- 12:49pm
- Guest is a scorpion claw also poison?
- Teacher Can Breel have control for a bit?
- Guest Why does the scorpian claw have all the little hairs?
- Guest Entomologist @rinkera yes, the millipede has an exoskeleton made from chitin, pretty similar in hardness to your fingernails
- Guest what are the jagged parts made of?
- Teacher I mean lukeb :)
Bugscope Team got it!
- Guest Entomologist @madesianjw if i had to guess, those are probably mechanosensory hairs, so that they can sense movement
- Guest what is that
- Guest What is this? What is it used for
- Guest what are the holes that the hair comes out of
Bugscope Team they are holes in the exoskeleton
- Guest Do all bugs have hairs on their body to feel around them?
- Guest what are the little circles on the hair
- Guest Entomologist @popwskiaj, no the claw does not have poison, the poison in only in its tail
- Guest Are the hairs water-wicking(water proof)
- Guest What are we looking at exactly?
Bugscope Team this is the fly pulvillus
- Guest have you ever gotten "mystery" a fragment to identify?
- Bugscope Team the pulvillus is covered with tenent setae, as Cate said
- Guest Have you guys ever tried Dust?
- Guest Is that a certian kind of salt?
- Guest how does salt get in to cubes??????
- Guest the stuff that looks like dust on each grain of salt what is that?
- Guest what is the most interesting to look at under the microscope
- Guest Why are there some indentations on the salt?
- Guest what else do you use the ESM for other then insects?
Bugscope Team bacteria, corn proteins, carbon nanotubes, eukaryotic cells
- Guest What kind of thexture does the salt have?
- Guest Have you guys ever tried Dust?
- Guest Do you know why the grains of salt are cube shaped?
Bugscope Team sodium and chlorine form cubic crystals
- Guest why dose it look fuzzy on the salt
- Guest what is this?
- Guest what is that hole?
- Teacher What type of data do you find from looking at corn proteins? Or why would you look at corn proteins?
- Guest what part of the ant is that
- Bugscope Team salts are made of lots of other chemicals as well
- Guest Have you guys studied a cell?
Bugscope Team we do sometimes look at cells in the microscope. We can't really see into a cell with this microscope but we can with some of the other one we have
- Guest were is this located on the ant
- 12:54pm
- Guest Why does it look like there is a light inside?
- Guest What is the diffrence between the old wendy salt and the new wendy salt?
Bugscope Team they changed their salt at some point and started using this new sea salt, which is bigger and rounder
- Guest Do you know why ants breath through their armor?
- Guest what is "spiracle"
Bugscope Team it is a pore in the exoskeleton, one of many, that the insect uses to breathe
- Guest why is the inside of the spericle white
- Guest is that the inside of the body
- Guest How many spiracles are there on an ant?
Bugscope Team not sure 8 or 10?
- Guest Are there muscles in the holes that help the ant breathe?
- Guest were do the holes go to
Bugscope Team they connect to internal tubes that are called tracheae
- Guest Entomologist @knightw, the points probably help eliminate larger particles so they don't get inside?
- Guest Why are there holes in the moth scales?
- Guest why do moths need scales? I thought they had hair...
- Teacher Can rinkera control for a while?
- Guest Is there a reason they have this kind of texture or form?
- Guest what do the bumps do
- Guest what are the scales made of?
Bugscope Team chitin, which is the protein the exoskeleton is made of
- Guest have you ever tried to zoom into a piece of pepper?
Bugscope Team no we haven't. We have seen sugar crystals, but they aren't as exciting to look at
- Guest Entomologist @kingmg not all moths have hair, but all moths have scales on their wings. Helps them escape predators and from spider webs
- Guest Why are the scales so flakey?
- Guest how do moths have that texture of their scales
- Guest Do the moths use their scales as a type of armor?
Bugscope Team the scales come off easily, so if the moth flies into a spiderweb it can shed its scales and possibly get back out safelt
- Guest What is the most complex organisim you have seen under the microscope?
- Guest Entomologist you'd be amazed how little of their wing the moths actually need to still be able to fly
- Guest Are the scales pourous
- Bugscope Team ommatidia with mold spores
- Guest Why are the eyes bumpy?
- Guest are thoes eys
- Guest what are the tiny lines across the eye?
- Guest Do moths use these scales to protect themselves?
Bugscope Team they can use the colors on the scales to ward off potential predators or to camouflage. They can also shed a few scales to get loose from a web.
- Guest why is mold on the eye?
- Guest how did mold grow on their eye
- Guest How does mold grow onto the eye?
- Guest how do flys get mold in their eyes
- Guest How has the technology of the microscopes increased to let us see these amazing close ups?
Bugscope Team we have been able to get better and better resolution using better means of generating finer streams of electrons
- Guest dose the mold efect its sight
- Guest Does the mold hurt the fly?
Bugscope Team not really, but when it dies it helps make it rot
- Guest Can th flies feel the mold on their eye, like we can feel something on our eye?
- Teacher Can madesianjw have controls for a bit?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Guest how did mold get in the fly's eye
- Guest Entomologist @weisers the compound eye is a collection of ommatidia (units of the insect eye), so the bumps you are seeing is that
- 1:00pm
- Guest Do you think when a bugs eye has specs on it does it look like smudged glasses
- Guest does the mold effect the flys seeing
Bugscope Team most of the mold probably showed up after the fly died, but if the mold was on the eye while still alive, the fly would just clean it off using it's front legs
- Guest how do misquitos help our ecosystem?
- Guest is that a fealer
- Guest what is that thing coming out of the eye
- Guest It looks like the mosquito doesn't have eyes... do they have eyes?
- Guest is that the part that goes intoour skin?
- Guest why is there hair on the eye
- Guest thankyou
- Guest thanks
- Guest Thank you! Have a good day!
- Guest Thank you!!
- Guest Thank you! Deuces.
- Guest Do you know what virus created the mold?
Bugscope Team mold spores come from mold that has established itself and is actively decomposing whatever it is on
- Guest thank you have a great day bye!:)
- Guest Thank you so much that was a lot of fun
- Guest that was fun
- Guest thank you!!!!!!!
- Guest Thank you so much for the amazing oppertunity!
- Guest Thank you it was very fun and educational.
- Guest Thank you so much this was awesome!!
- Guest Thank you
- Guest thank you
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest you were AWESOME THANK YOU WE LEARED ALOT
- Guest Thanks you a lot!
- Guest Thank you for letting us see these AMAZING pictures!!!!! This is really cool! Have an excellent weekend!
- Guest thanks scot and joe
Bugscope Team and Cate!
- Teacher Thanks! One more :), then we're done :)
- Teacher of course Cate!!
- Bugscope Team thanks!
- Teacher Here they come ! :)
- Bugscope Team yay!
- Bugscope Team let us know if you have any questions!
- 1:05pm
- Guest What are the little hairs on the millipedes eye? are they important
- Guest what is use of the sem for you
- Guest are these pictures real? they look kind of fake to me.
Bugscope Team they are all real and are live images of samples that are actually in the microscope
- Guest Has the electron microscope ever been updated or improved since it was invented?
- Guest cool
- Bugscope Team the eye is the bumpy part
- Guest what are the pointy things that are on the right?
- Guest Entomologist @doruskyi those are its legs
- Guest is the ESM a big machine?
- Guest whats the wendy's salt is that like the salt from wendy's
- Guest what are bumps just about in the center of the millipede just above the hole?
- Guest what is that a Pic of?
Bugscope Team this is a millipede
- Guest what is the ring next to its legs
- Guest Entomologist @gayk, this is a millipede, it's a detritovore
- Guest Are the pictures always in black and white or can they differ in colors
- Guest hi
- Guest what are all those little hairs?
- Guest Entomologist *detritovores eat decaying plant and animal matters, sometimes also poop
- Teacher Can you please allow Clementss control?
Bugscope Team clementssv has control
- Guest or what looks like legs
- Guest what year was the machine invented in
- Guest what are the fibers by its legs
- Guest Entomologist @mijalicje those little hairs are sensory hairs, they can be for chemicals, mechanical sensing or thermosensing
- Guest how has this invention changed your reasearch
Bugscope Team the scanning electron microscope allows researchers to see the surface of their sample better.
- Guest what are the spikes
- Guest whats the wendy's salt is that like the salt from wendy's
Bugscope Team yes that is right
- Guest Next to the hairs are like these bump looking flakes... What are they?
- Guest Entomologist @fatianowsp, that's the millipede's compound eye.
- Guest What are the small little bumps?
- Guest What do you enjoy most about the electron microscope?
- 1:10pm
- Guest have you made any discoveries in the last few days or weeks
- Guest hmmmm
- Guest what are we currently looking at
- Guest what are inteanas used for?
Bugscope Team the antennae kind of work like eyes, but they read signals. They read chemical signals from other things
- Guest how long have you been working with an electron microscope?
- Guest what are the little spikes
- Guest have you discovered anything that could help understand more about bugs or a certain species
- Guest what are all those spickes for?
- Guest what are the claws for
Bugscope Team they are like hands for the insect. They help them hold onto things
- Guest Do scorpions have hairs on their claws for to sence and feel items?
- Guest thanks
- Teacher controls
- Guest what are the scorpian claws for
- Teacher Can you give stewartb
Bugscope Team he has control
- Guest are all bugs that hairy?
- Guest What are those little hairs on the scorpion claws
Bugscope Team they are there to help the scorpion get a good grip on its prey.
- Guest Entomologist What kind of fly was this, do you know?
- Guest did you kill the bug your self?
- Guest Are those hairs visible to the human eye?
- Guest are these bugs dead
Bugscope Team they are all dead, yes. It is helpful to get nice images to have everything dried out
- Guest What magnification can a electron micro scope have
- Guest Are the hairs like censors?
- Guest is all the hair used for sencing things?
- Guest what makes this microscope work
- Guest how do you dry them out
- Guest Entomologist @stenbergcl the claws are used to grasp the scorpion's prey
- Guest what magnification can you go up to?
Bugscope Team around 200,000x, but there isn't usually anythng exciting to look at with that mag
Bugscope Team when looking at insects
- Guest How many "Fingers/Claws" (or what ever it is called on the flys hand) are on a fly per hand
- Guest What year was the microscope invented?
Bugscope Team TEM about 1931, SEM (this) in the 50's with the first commercial 'scope in 1965
- Guest Entomologist @martinezt, ludivigkr yes those hairs are for sensing things
- Guest What is the purpose of the tiny hairs on the claw do?
- Guest why is there wendy's sea salt on here when everything else is bugs
Bugscope Team just to show that this microscope can look at more than bugs
- Guest Are we using more than one microscope? How can we see so many different pictures and bugs?
- Guest how do you dry them out
- Guest Who invented this microscope?
- 1:15pm
- Guest are the bugs dead or alive?
Bugscope Team they are all dead right now
- Guest What is the largest insect you have currently studied?
- Guest how big is this bug
- Guest are those self defense spikes?
- Guest Are the fly's claw sharp?
- Guest What does blood look like under the microscope
Bugscope Team red blood cells look like donuts with almost-holes in them
- Guest Have you had any new discoveries lately?
- Guest what is the spiky things for?
- Guest do you have any new discoveries
- Guest have you had any new discoveries in your lab
- Guest What is the largest insect you have currently studied?
- Guest how powerfull are the pinchers
- Guest what is the differnces between the salts?
- Guest what are the cube like figures
- Guest what is wendys salt
- Guest what are the boxes or cubes used for
- Guest can you put live bugs in tunder the microscope
Bugscope Team you can, but it is a little difficult to image them, especially if they started to move
- Teacher Can gaddisc use the scope for awhile?
- Guest have you discovered anything new in salt?
- Guest Have you had any new discoveries in your lab using this microscope?
Bugscope Team i don't think we have had any discoveries we personally have made. We have helped researchers make discoveries of their own or at least confirmations in what they thought would happen
- Guest What kind of bugs are used in this microscope?
Bugscope Team mostly smaller ones -- big ones like cicadas are not that interesting
- Guest Do use the same bug over and over or do you have multiple bugs?
- Guest why are the salt grains square
Bugscope Team the way the sodium and the chlorine fit together makes cubes -- it is really kind of cool
- Guest What would you say the most amazing insect to study?
- Guest Is salt supposed to look like that?
Bugscope Team often it looks a little smoother but this is sea salt and also has magnesium carbonate in it
- Guest is that the kind of salt we eat
- Guest who invented the telescope
- Guest what is the biggest thing you can look at under the microscope?
Bugscope Team the stage limits are about 1.75 inches -- one and three quarters of an inch
- Guest What is the power source of the microscope
- Guest Entomologist @gayk yup, @mijalicje it's salt from a wendy's restaurant
- Guest Have you ever put live bugs under the microscopes?
Bugscope Team scot has put live mites in the microscope. No one else wanted to help because they were mites that could cause you to itch if they got on you
- Guest is there a difference at looking at a live bug or a dead one under the microscope
- 1:20pm
- Guest what is the smallest bug you have seen under the microscope
Bugscope Team we have seen mites, which can be 100 micrometers or so long. if you consider bacteria to be bugs we can see them, at about 2 microns long
- Guest why is the salt so rough?
- Guest who invented the microscope
Bugscope Team several people. one was Ernst Ruska
- Guest is looking under the microscope something you love to do and the reason you love going to work in the morning?
- Teacher Can gaddisc use the scope for a bit?
Bugscope Team got it!
- Guest thanks
- Guest when was the first microscope used?
- Bugscope Team the guy who invented ESEM, this microscope, is named Gerry Danilatos
- Guest what is this?
- Guest what are the spikey things on the hair
- Guest how do you name the body parts
- Guest How are we seeing so many different things all at once?
Bugscope Team we have a lot of samples on one stub, and when you click on one of the presets, the microscope drives to that place on the stub
- Guest what are these hairs used for?
- Guest Are theses used as a sensor for the fly?
- Guest What is the greatest achievment that has been made using this microscope
Bugscope Team a hundred or so people have received their PhDs using it
- Guest how does it see small things with a laser and can you see in the ant spiracle plz :)
- Guest what is the smallest organism you can look at
Bugscope Team mites are pretty small.
- Guest What is that cirlce?
Bugscope Team that is a spiracle, which is a breathing pore insects have a number of
- Guest what is the spikey things in the hole
- Guest what are the spike things inside that circle?
- Guest Entomologist @mijalicje mites, although they're not bugs/insects
- Guest Is using the microscope easy to opperate where it is stationed at?
- Guest Why are there so many ridges in it?
- Guest how much energy does the microscope use?
- Guest when the insects are dead does it change anything internally?
- Guest cool
- Guest When was this microspoce invented?
- Guest Do you need any qualifications to become a scientist who uses an electron microscope?
- Guest what is the fly tenent setae?
Bugscope Team they are special hairs near the fly's claw that help the insect to walk on vertical surfaces like a wall
- Guest Have you solved any major problems having to do with bugs by using this microscope?
- Guest why are their holes in there and why are they so tiny?
- Guest what is the power source of the microscope and how much power does it require
- Guest does old salt start to get holes in it?
- Guest what makes it different from regular salt?
- Guest why are we back to salt?
- Guest what is the moth scale used for?
Bugscope Team moth scales provide temperature regulation, sometimes color -- both structural and pigment derived, they protect moths when they fly into spider webs, and they function kind of like feathers
- 1:25pm
- Teacher Can fatianowsp have a go at it?
Bugscope Team they have control!
- Guest have you used this microscope to cure illnesses
Bugscope Team we have worked with cancer researchers who used the microscope to identify circulating tumor cells
- Guest cool
- Guest How much does each microscope cost?
Bugscope Team this one was $600,000; it depends on options kind of like a car
- Guest what makes the microscope so expensive
- Guest Can you see cells with this microscope?
- Guest what upgrades are there?
- Guest where do you get dead bugs from? Do you have some that live in a lab that you use?
- Guest can anyone like me get me or shane
- Guest does all old salt get like this or just sea salt?
Bugscope Team it's all a bit different and we have not looked at enough to be able to say for sure
- Guest have you furthered any research on AIDS with this microscope?
Bugscope Team no i don't think we've done anything with AIDS
Bugscope Team for AIDS research we would work with the transmission electron microscope (TEM)
- Guest can anyone get one like me or shane
Bugscope Team they are expensive but you could do it
- Guest oh
- Guest Do you preserve the bugs to observe them later?
Bugscope Team we almost always just throw them away and use new bugs for new participants
- Teacher Did we lose you?
- Guest Do all bugs have hair? scales?
- Guest Thanks
- Guest thank you!!!
- Guest GRACIAS!!!!!!
- Guest thank You
- Guest thank you
- Guest thank you this was so cool
- Guest What upgrades are there?
Bugscope Team like working with wet samples, collecting x-rays, using hot stages or cold stages, stretching samples...
- Guest Thank You!
- Guest Thank you you guys!
- Guest THANK YOU SO MUCH! I HAVE LEARNED A LOT FROM YOU!
- Guest hanktay ouyay
- Guest thanks
- Guest Thank you! Have a good friday! :)
- Guest thank you sooo much for taking time out of your day to answers our questions
- Guest Thank you for letting us use bug scope!
- Guest do you think that future findings will be done with the micro scope or will we have to upgrade it further to find better things
- 1:30pm
- Guest when you became a scientist where you aware that you where going to use the ESM?
Bugscope Team not me. I had a class in which the professor told us how hard it was to prepare samples for TEM, and it was a surprise that I started doing it.
- Teacher Scott, Cate ??
Bugscope Team yes!
- Guest Thank you for everything!
- Guest thank you for this thing
- Bugscope Team Thank you, Everyone!
- Bugscope Team https://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-087
- Bugscope Team this is your member page, which has transcripts of today's session on it as well as images
- Bugscope Team is anyone there?
- 1:45pm
- Student We lost you
