Connected on 2012-02-13 11:00:00 from San Francisco, California, United States
- 9:46am
- Bugscope Team getting ready
- 10:16am
- Bugscope Team Hi Joe!
- Guest Entomologist Hi Scott
- Bugscope Team we are still waiting for the sample to pump down
- Guest Entomologist cool
- Guest Entomologist what's on the plate today?
- Bugscope Team this connection is scheduled for 11 to 2 -- very long; we expect there will be some breaks
- Guest Entomologist oh wow
- Bugscope Team spider, strawberry leaf -- adaxial and abaxial, human hair, ants, cricket, fruitflies, pollen, a roach
- Bugscope Team you are free of course to come and go as you please
- Bugscope Team vacuum is at 1.5 x 10-3, so we're waiting for 1.3
- Bugscope Team 1.4
- 10:22am
- Bugscope Team as soon as it reaches vacuum Cate will make some adjustments; then start saving presets
- Bugscope Team she's on the ESEM computer and will be connecting from her office once everything is good to go
- Guest Entomologist alright
- Guest Entomologist i'll be back in 10 min or so. gonna go start up something in the lab.
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- 10:29am
- 10:35am
- 10:41am
- Bugscope Team Hi Linnea!
- Bugscope Team we're making presets, seeing what we have today
- Bugscope Team Hi Ms Susie!
- Teacher HI Scott! We sent samples, did they make it?
- 10:46am
- Guest Entomologist Hi Scott! looks like some cool stuff today!
- Bugscope Team we have the strawberry leaf, both sides, the hair, the super tiny bug... the little fish did not make it
- Teacher The leaf is from our garden
- Teacher We looked at hair under a 700X microscope
- Teacher There will be 2 groups
- Guest Entomologist ok back
- Teacher Too bad. It was the class pet that died...
Bugscope Team I thought the fish was dry but it wasn't dry enough for today
- Teacher at 9am (CA time) it will be Mr. Fagundes's class (4th grade) and at 10 it will be Mr. Walker's (5th grade)
- Teacher Freize dried fish
- Teacher What will we look at first/
Bugscope Team you can drive, so it will be your choice
- Bugscope Team however you would like to do it
- Teacher Lets do the leaf first.
- Bugscope Team there's a shed mite 'skin' on the abaxial side of the leaf
- 10:52am
- Teacher cool... Can you explain what a mite is to the kids.
- Guest Entomologist yea, it's a small 8-legged arthropod
- Bugscope Team no problem
- Guest Entomologist ok
- Teacher They will appreciate it!
- Guest Entomologist arthropods are organisms with an exoskeleton
- 10:57am
- Teacher I would even bring it down a notch and say exo meaning "outside" skeletons"
- Guest Entomologist an exoskeleton means that these little guys have a hard outer shell, unlike us, who have bones on the inside and muscles on top
- Teacher I will have them whole class for a few mins at 9 and then I will put them on the comptues
- Guest Entomologist oh sry
- Guest Entomologist haha i thought they were already here
- Bugscope Team we are ready to roll!
- Teacher Oh and my kids are English Language Learners so they will not know the word abaxial. Use fancy words but also define them!
Bugscope Team I had to look up abaxial to ensure I knew which was which. Of course we will be glad to explain it.
- Bugscope Team adaxial is the top side of the leaf and abaxials is the underside, where we usually find the stomates, which are like little mouths that open and close to let air and water vapor in and out
- 11:02am
- Teacher The kids are here and looking at the slide
- Teacher Please say hello!
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Bugscope Team hi everyone!
- Teacher Hi scientists
- Bugscope Team today you have the ability to drive a scanning electron microscope from your classroom
- Teacher Can you tell us a little about the bugscope
- Guest Entomologist We're in Illinois
- Teacher One of the kids wants to know where you are located?
Bugscope Team we are at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois
- Teacher Can you show us the hair?
Bugscope Team this is the shaft of the hair
- Teacher Can we zoom in?
- Bugscope Team Ms Susie you can click on any preset you want and make the microscope drive to that position
- Teacher It says I still don't have control of the microscope
- Bugscope Team huh...
- Bugscope Team someone is driving it
- Bugscope Team this is the hair at about 40,000x
- Bugscope Team and now so high there is not too much to see, about 76,000x
- 11:08am
- Bugscope Team this is the top side of the strawberry leaf
- Bugscope Team you can see that it's a bit dried, and you can see some web, from mites, perhaps; you can also see mold spores
- Teacher The kids are all going to log in.
Bugscope Team totally cool
- Teacher Why does the hair look gray and why is this only in black and white? (question from a student)
Bugscope Team instead of using light to image, we are using electrons. We are blasting the sample with electrons and secondary electrons bounce back from the surface. We are gathering the signal from those secondary electrons to create an image. The signal doesn't carry information about color
- Student hey scientist
- Bugscope Team also, the sample has been coated with gold-palladium to make it conductive so that when we beam electrons at it it does not charge up and glow, which would give us poor images
- Bugscope Team so even if we were using light to see the sample, it would look silvery from the gold-palladium
- Guest Entomologist Hello Arturo
- Student Hey scientist
Bugscope Team Hi Arturo!
- Student hey
- Guest Entomologist Hi everyone!
- Student hey
- Teacher One some of the computers the chat isn't coming up. Just the question box?
Bugscope Team try refreshing the browser
- Student Hi
- Student hi
- Student hi
- Student Hi my name is Julia
Bugscope Team Hi Julia!
- 11:13am
- Student hi
- Student what our those things?
Bugscope Team those are mold spores
- Student hey
- Bugscope Team hi!
- Student hi my name is Tyrone
- Student whasap
- Bugscope Team Hi Michael and Francisco. Hi Tyrone!
- Student you guy are asome
- Student hi
- Student Hey how many times is this zoomed in.
Bugscope Team right now, 4782x
- Student I amDavid
Bugscope Team Hi David!
- Student hi hi everybody
- Student really david.
- Student HI jayne
- Student black
- Student what do rochas do
- Student what do mite do
- Student my name is valeria
Bugscope Team Hi Valeria!
- Student hi scientist my is ariana
- Student sup hilda
- Bugscope Team this microscope can zoom in up to 200,000x and see things as small as 2 nanometers
- Student Whats up Cate
- Student What do you guys do/
- Student Whot is that
- Student what is that
- Student what is that?
- Guest Entomologist this is a fruit fly
- Guest Entomologist Francisco, some mites feed on fungal spores or other tiny things
- Student Whow
- Student what is a nanometer
- Student that picture is weird
- Teacher A nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter! That is small!
- Student can you zoom in to that?
- Student HI.
- Student valeria stop toking to me
- Guest Entomologist you are looking at its head from the underside, so you are looking at its mouth
- Student why does it look white grey
Bugscope Team we are imaging with electrons and not light. We are only getting a signal back from the electrons so there isn't any information about color. The sem images you often see (like in terminex commercials or cleaning commercials where you see bacteria) are artificially colored
- Student can you zoom in
- Student hi
- Student please dont zoom anymore cate.
- Student that is alot
- Student what is mite
Bugscope Team mite are arachnids, distantly related to spiders
- Student the test student is daniela
- Student i dont now
- Student hi cindy
- Student hi cindy
- Bugscope Team 'mites' are, I should have said
- Student are those eyes
- Student Can I soom in.
- Student youre late.
- Student hi cate is this a fly
Bugscope Team yes a fruit fly
- Student scary
- Student what is that
- 11:18am
- Student cool.
- Student nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
- Student wow angel
- Student noooooooooooooooooooooooo
- Bugscope Team we can let other students control the microscope as well if you want
- Student cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student what is microns
- Student not cool.
- Student that is cool
- Student why does he have a lot of hair
- Student omg
- Student How many times is this zoomed in?
- Guest Entomologist insects can use hairs to sense their environment
- Student scot can you put us the roach head
- Student why is it hairy?
- Bugscope Team when Cate makes a sample she puts what you sent and some other things on a disc and coats them with gold-palladium before she puts them into the microscope, under vacuum
- Student nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
- Student david its me daniela
- Student hey people.
- Guest Entomologist since they have an exoskeleton, which is like armor, they need things to stick out and sense things like vibrations
- Student COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student what is that
- Student cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student Coooooooooooooooooool
- Student hey scot wat do you do
Bugscope Team Cate and I both train students to use the microscopes so they can perform their own research
- Student yes show samtin .
- Student that looks cool
- Student hey scot
- Student ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh its horibol
- Student what///////////////////////////////////////////////
- Student linnea what is that
- Student hy scot
- Student hi scot
- Student Awsome!!!!!!!!
- Student cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
- Student hey bro.
- Bugscope Team we are looking at a roach. a very dirty roach
- Student thanks scot
- Student wow
- Student CoooooooooooooL
- Student what does microns mean
Bugscope Team microns are the same as micrometers. 'micro' means one millionth, so a micrometer is a millionth of a meter, or a thousandth of a millimeter
- Student repulsive
- Student thank you scot
- Student where are its eyes
- Student how much did the mrscpoe cost
- Student how muchdoes the microscope cost?
- Guest Entomologist $600,000
- Student sssssssssscccccccccc oooooooooooootttttttttttttttttt
- Student Hi anthony
- Student What is this thing doin
- Student thats coooooooooooooooool
- Student hi scott what is this
Bugscope Team This is the head of a roach. You can see that it has scales from other insects, like moths or butterflies, on its face
- Student cool;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
- Student ddaaau
- Guest Entomologist its eyes are right under the bases of its antennae, at the top left and right of its head
- Student cate you are awsome?
- Student is it dead
- Student noooooooooooooooooooot cooooooooooooooool joana
- Student wow that is a lot ofmoney
- Guest Entomologist yes the roach is dead.
- 11:23am
- Student scot how much does the microscope cost?
Bugscope Team it cost about $600,000 in 1998
- Student what part is this
- Student why is it dirty it does not look dirty
Bugscope Team often insects are dirty, but it's not always their fault after they die
- Student cool roaches are weird
- Student hay julia
- Student thats alot
- Student oh ok but you take a picture of the roach
- Student hy guys
- Student scot what are you doing?
Bugscope Team Cindy right now I am typing as fast as I can. I am kind of slow at it.
- Student that is a lot of money
- Student how much is it magnified
Bugscope Team 1056X
- Student how about now ( scot )
- Student what are those little lines
- Teacher We are zooming in....
- Student hey scot
- Student why
- Student what does magnified mean
- Student how much money ?
- Student scot you are
- Guest Hello, my students are impatient as this is the first time they have texted with real scientists. :)
- Student hey scot
- Student ar dey heri
- Student hi joe
- Bugscope Team all the things you see today are live images (of dead things) that are within the vacuum chamber of the microscope
- Student amal
- Student that is cooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooool
- Student why does it have hairrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr?/////////
Bugscope Team the hairs are called setae, and we see lots of them because they are sensory -- the insects and other arthropods use them to sense their environment
- Student ya what is that
- Student scot now how much does a microscope cost
- Guest Entomologist a lot of insects have 'hairs' so they can sense the environment around them, since they have an armour like exoskeleton
- Student what hairrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr/////////////////
- Guest Entomologist I didn't want to be a scientist when I was little, but I do now, so I am :)
- Student scot what is this
Bugscope Team this is the cuticle, so highly magnified that it is hard to make out; cuticle is what the insect's shell is called, and it is made of stuff like our fingernails
- Student me too cindy
- Student these are all cool stuff
- Student is that the belly
- Student you now when i was little i wanted to be a scientist.
Bugscope Team but you don't anymore?
Bugscope Team You can still do it! It is fun!
- Student whatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt*************
- Student why does it have alot of line
- Student cate are those pimples
- Bugscope Team Oh Valeria when I answered I was ESEM like I am now. --Scot
- Student That is hair
- Student what would a monkey hair look like
Bugscope Team it would look quite like the human hair does
- Guest Entomologist like our own hair
- 11:29am
- Student Why does it look white
Bugscope Team sometimes it charges up with electrons and glows even though we have coated it to make it conduct electrons
- Student hay scotyou are cooooooooooooooooool
- Student is a marine biologist a scientist?
- Student what part of the body is this
- Student now i don 't know what is this.what is this
Bugscope Team Julia we are at a super high mag on the roach's head
- Student can we see a anador animal
- Student joe how would a monkey hair look like
- Student can w e see the female spider fang
Bugscope Team yes !
- Student you know that i think that science is the greatest subject in school
- Student is it fun to be a sicentist
- Student what part of the body is this?
- Guest Entomologist yes it is fun!
- Student what is that
- Student thanks esem now i know
Bugscope Team totally cool. from the microscope I can fix things sometimes, like fine focus
- Student wat do you
- Student scooooooooooooooooooooooot
Bugscope Team dude sorry it's me as ESEM
- Student are you sure thats a fang
- Student wer are you
- Student esem thats what i want to be.
Bugscope Team it's really fun for us
- Student What is tha
- Student is this the head
- Student no fangs
- Student indeed it is,ESEM
- Student do you guys look at dead stuff all the time
- Guest Scientists, could you explain why an electron microscope is useful or what real world applications it is used for?
Bugscope Team an electron microscope allows you to see things that are very small, or very thin, with very good resolution -- much more clearly than if you were to use light to image them'
- Student That is a bag
- Student what do the fang spider do
- Student could you zoom more
- Student hey cate why is it hariy
Bugscope Team it uses the hairs partly as a defense mechanism, where some can cause its enemies to itch, and some of them help tell the spider what is going on around it. Their eyes don't always see so well
- Student i wish i was a scientist
- Student does that thing bite
Bugscope Team yes with its fang
- Student mr .f way are siantist are sow smart
- Guest Entomologist spiders can use their fangs to inject poison into their prey!
- Guest Entomologist Sorry Ariana, I have no idea.
- Student I want to be a scientist when i grow up
- Bugscope Team so there are lots of students here who are looking at a huge variety of samples they wish to study, and sometimes they use electron microscopes
- Student they have poison
- Guest Entomologist This is a spider's mouth parts.
- Student Hi joe
- Student joe how would sombodys nail would look on a microscope?
Bugscope Team It would look kind of smooth, with some ridges in it.
- Student cate you are cccoooolll
- Guest Anthony, They are smart because they studied hard, did all their homework, and paid attention in class. ;)
- Teacher Can you give us your address where the microscope is, I can show them on google earth...
- Teacher My computer crashed. I am back!
Bugscope Team yay!
- 11:34am
- Guest Entomologist the curved thing in the middle is what the spider would use to inject venom into its prey
- Student what is this/
- Student yes they do have poispon.
- Student XD
- Student what kind of spider is this?
- Student good your back ms.susie
- Student ill that thing look/
- Student :I
- Bugscope Team 4 1/2 for me. I received my bachelor degree in Physics
- Guest Entomologist usually their poison doesn't kill, it just paralyzes.
- Guest Entomologist 4 years in college, now in graduate school for probably 6 or 7 years?
- Guest Entomologist yes all spiders are poisonous to an extent. Some of them may not be considered dangerous to humans as we are relatively large, but they are all poisonous.
- Student IS IT HARY
- Student My favorite place is the academy of science.
- Bugscope Team spiders inject venom into their prey. the venom dissolves the inner organs of the prey, and the spider is apparently immune to it because she or he sucks it all up like a milkshake
- Student what are those pointy things
- Guest Entomologist Too many.
- Student are those hair
- Student ccccccooooolllll
- Student xd/ Angilina
- Student way are thay sow ugley
- Student why is that fangshaped like that?
- Guest Entomologist it depends on the spider. only a few are dangerous to humans.
- Bugscope Team I got a degree in English and Biology when I was in college, and during my very last semester I learned how to do transmission electron microscopy, which lets you see inside things at super high mags.
- Student it is cool ariana
- Student why does the sbider have dust
- Student thats wierd iu
- Student spiders are not dangerouse are they/
Bugscope Team some can be. a majority of them aren't.
- Student could you die with bit
- Student thats good i think spiders are cute
- Guest Entomologist yes especially jumping spiders
- Student joe isit fun to be a scientist?
- Student hi ms.susie
- Bugscope Team insects and arthropods like spiders do not have bones or teeth, but sometimes their jaws are hardened with zinc and other minerals
- Guest Entomologist sure, it really depends on if you can find something you truly enjoy though
- Student do people eat spiders ?
- Student are those spiders smart
- Student my favorite view is the acuarium.
- 11:39am
- Guest Entomologist tyrone, spiders are pretty smart. many of them make very intricate webs and have complex behaviors.
- Student joe yore bake
- Guest Entomologist some spiders are eaten in cambodia, they are fried and sold as snacks
- Guest Entomologist Johana, arthropods are animals that have an exoskeleton and jointed legs
- Student spider are men
- Guest Entomologist Amal, each of those bumps are an ommatidium, something that allows the eye to see images
- Student Esem what is that bubbly
Bugscope Team those are the individual facets of the ant's eye, called ommatidia
- Student i dont really like spiders
Bugscope Team i dont really like spiders either, but they eat other insects so as long as they don't bother me I don't bother them
- Guest Entomologist All the bumps together make up what we call a "compound eye"
- Student thanks for answering my question linnea
- Guest Entomologist arthropods are organisms that have a hard outer shell, unlike ourselves, who have soft tissues surrounding bones (endoskeleton). They also have jointed legs and appendages that allow them to move about.
- Student tay are es
- Student you guys are really smart.
- Student what is this ...
Bugscope Team this is a single ommatidium
- Student isopods are rolli polis Cate.
Bugscope Team yes they are. there are aquatic isopods that can get pretty big, like a lobster as well!
- Student how many images Linnea
- Student this is big
- Student what kind of things do you explore
Bugscope Team we help people look at bacteria, at samples they have fabricated themselves, at leaves, at food products, at graphene, all kinds of samples
- Student Hi cate
- Student what is that
- Student and why does it have hair in his eye;;''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Bugscope Team the hair helps an insect sense when something is touching it or there is wind blowing against it
- Student what kind of ant is this?
- 11:44am
- Student maybe 8
- Guest Are you able to look at matter as small as a single atom?
Bugscope Team not with this microscope
- Student why is there bumps on top of the bumps
Bugscope Team sometimes they help focus the light
- Student they alredy anwser your question ariana
- Student ccccccoooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllll
- Student do guys study only insects or other animals too?
Bugscope Team all kinds of stuff -- sometimes human blood cells, all types
- Student maybe 8 karina
- Student how long have you been a scientist
Bugscope Team I have had this kind of job since 1983
- Guest Entomologist I study insects.
- Student is this salt on top or not?
- Student why does it look wet ?
- Student Hi my ns
- Student do you gise study ded people
Bugscope Team usually we don't
- Student that is sow smol
- Student maybe it is wet
- Student thats frikie
- Student is that hard
- Student hi hello
- Student thats impresive Esem
- Guest Entomologist I study insects too, like Joe. In fact we work in the same lab.
- Guest Michael, salt is a mineral
- Student awesome you study that too,ESEM.
- Student why does it brake into cleevge..........................................................................
- Student so smal
- Student i relly like this
- Student is this col?...
- Teacher Mr. F's class has about five mins left, so kids please as your final questions.
- Student is this a rock or a mineral?
Bugscope Team probably it's mineral -- chemicals that have dried on the surface
- Student i did not now
- Student its not col its cool
- Student what is a human sell made out of/
Bugscope Team protein, mostly
- Student cate how does the salt look like when it is wet?
- Student linnea you do a great job.
- Student is this cool?..................................................................................................................................cool...
- Bugscope Team this is really cool
- Student ?
- 11:49am
- Guest Entomologist thanks cindy :)
- Student what is this this
Bugscope Team this is a fruit fly claw. There is a small spiky ball on the left and that is a pollen grain. The little wing like things coming out is a pulvillus, where sticky hairs are. The hairs help the fly stick to walls
- Student thanks Cate
- Student rocks and minerl are cool****************************;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
- Student that lucs laik the loracs
- Student yay were zooming in more
- Bugscope Team Angel we don't get parts of dead people to look at very often.
- Student forwelcome,LINNEA
- Student thats cool and gross
- Student is there pollen all overthe fly
Bugscope Team not all over, but there was a cool looking grain at low mag on the claw
- Student your right valeria
- Student how many times is this magnified?
Bugscope Team 82,688X
- Student relly coolllllllllllllllllllllllllll
- Student lennea, do like to be a scientist?
- Student cool
- Student mr.f im sooooooowww tierde ?
- Student Thats sick
- Student I know right ariana
- Student are they poisened?
- Guest Entomologist Hilda, yes, I enjoy it a lot. I get to learn new things all the time.
- Student THANK YOU
- Bugscope Team salt, when it is wet, looks like it is melting, like a candle
- Student !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student do you love your job so much
- Student thank you.
- Student THAN YOU COOL SCIENTIST
- Student thank you for all the information
- Student everybody says thank you
- Teacher Thank you so much for your time.
- Student have you sean a pearsons heart like examen a heart what shape or color is it
Bugscope Team we would use a transmission electron microscope to see the individual cells
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student it look like it is in the ocean thank you
- Student you guys are my heros.
- Guest Correct me if I'm wrong, you cover the specimines with gold so that you can get a clearer image with the electrons?
Bugscope Team yes, it's actually a gold-palladium alloy
- Student THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Teacher How much does an electron microscope cost?
Bugscope Team they can go into the millions. this was $600,000
- Guest nice, thanks
- Student THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 11:54am
- Student Thank you all for this
- Student THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST
- Bugscope Team Thank you!
- Student bbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy cat and scot
- Bugscope Team this was fun for usd
- Student bye my heros.
- Guest Entomologist Thanks guys you had such great questions!! I have to go now too. I had a lot of fun today! Good luck future scientists!
- Guest Thank you all. The students wont forget this.
- Student you guys are the best
- Student well thanks and goodbye itwas very nice
- Teacher We usually end class by saying, Today in computer class I learned...I will type their responses...
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Teacher Cindy: HOw to chat with scientists.
- Bugscope Team So we have another class coming in now?
- Teacher Daniella: I learned to study hard to know how to use an electron micrscope
- Teacher Yeah we are just doing reflections....
- Teacher Tyrone: Today in computer class I learned that spiders are poisonious but most spiders won't kill you.
- Teacher Valaria: I learned how to look at the hair of Ms. Susie and how cool it looks.
- Teacher Daniella=Teststudent
- Teacher They are lining up and we are waiting for Mr. Walkers 5th grade class...
- 12:00pm
- Teacher When will the transcripts be posted to the website?
Bugscope Team as soon as we are done with today's session with your school all the images and chat will be available
Bugscope Team just visit your member page to see them
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-101
- 12:06pm
- Teacher Hi Scot and Cate! This is Mr. Walkers class.
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Joe and Linnea are here to help as well.
- Bugscope Team this is really beautiful -- it's the surface of the cuticle of the mite
- Bugscope Team like a finger rpint
- Bugscope Team print*
- Bugscope Team this is Scot. I am also sj...
- Bugscope Team when I am ESEM I am at the microscope controls.
- Student hi cate
- Student HI
- Bugscope Team hi!
- Bugscope Team the mite can swell and shrink in size, and its cuticle is thus expandable/collapsible\
- Bugscope Team Hi Antony!
- Student hi
- Student Hi! i
- 12:11pm
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team Hi You All!
- Student hi
- Student hi Cate my name is Dasha.
- Student hey
- Student Do you guys like your job?
Bugscope Team Sammie this is really fun for us.
Bugscope Team very much. It is exciting. Scott and I are always seeing new things
- Student hi
- Student hi im freddy
- Student Hi cate and scot
- Student hello cate this is terrance but they call me TE-HALL hi
- Student hi
- Student hi watch you duing
- Student wats sup! my name is brent
- Student hi am brandon
- Student do u like doing wat u do best :)
- Student hi scot and cate how are you today
- Student cooooooool
- Student hi watch you doing
- Student I am Kevin
- Student hi my name is jaremy but they call me jare somthimes nice to meet u
- Student do you guys like to explore?
Bugscope Team yes and we are lucky to be able to do that using the scanning electron microscope, also called an SEM.
- Student hallo?
- Student hi Cate my name is Dasha
- Student How do you guys get the samples
- Student oh cool
- Student what are you doing today cate and scoo
Bugscope Team we help people do this kind of work
- Student hoo it sounds cool
- Student Is it fun too be A sientist
- Student hi scot this is TE-HALL
Bugscope Team Hey Nice to meet you!
- Student do you elpore hair
Bugscope Team we have in the past. We have also looked at many different kinds of butterfly wings in the past
- Student what do you people explore
- Student what is a SEM
Bugscope Team it's a scanning electron microscope, which lets us collect images like we are seeing now
- Student do u have fun workin
- Guest Entomologist yes it's fun.
- Student i like to write somethimes when im bord
- Student hallo?wat device do u use to see da bugs
- Student what is a might
Bugscope Team mites are tiny arthropods that are often related to arachnids, or spiders
- Student how fun is your job
- Student what is a sem
- Student how fun is exploring in a posebiliti meter
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- 12:16pm
- Student hi joe
- Student what is some of the cool things you discovere
- Student awesome
- Guest Entomologist when they are under the scope they are dead.
- Student hi.
- Student When you study the animal is it alive or dead?
Bugscope Team once something is inside this microscope it is almost always dead
- Student wat kind of bugs do u see??????????
- Student do you explore stof
- Student when did you guys start studing bugs?
Bugscope Team we started Bugscope 13 years ago.
- Student is your job fun
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Guest Entomologist but i also do a lot of studies while they are alive.
- Student Hi I am Little JImmy I have a brother called R truth
Bugscope Team wow cool
- Student hi
- Student how many years have you been exploring
- Student do u guys study stof like spiders
- Student what do you like the most about your job?
- Student do u wok in a bigg place or in a small
- Student hi
- Student Hi Cate
- Student when did u started this job
- Student what kind of bugs to you explore
- Student what studies do u do
- Bugscope Team there are entomologists that specialize in one type of insect usually. Like parasitic wasps or longhorned beetles. Scot and I see lots of different types through bugscope
- Student what do u like best about workin
Bugscope Team we get to see all kinds of things, and we get to see research that hasn't been made public yet. we get to help people take photos of things for the first time.
- Student how did the animal die?
Bugscope Team often the insects just got old
- Student i have a brother named miguel
- Student cool!
- Student yes
- Student do you guys kill the animals?
Bugscope Team if we have live insects, we usually stick them in the freezer to kill them
- Student could I come
- Student no it fun
- Student no u dont
- Student what is the most fun thing of exploring cate and scot
Bugscope Team it's cool when you see something very few people have ever seen, and then you get images of it
- Student why do u kill them
- Student Do you guys think your job is nasty or cool?
Bugscope Team it's cool. we are lucky.
- Student do you like your job
- Student Do you like Angry Birds
Bugscope Team haven't tried it
- Student why do you kill animals
- Student do you like your job?
- Student so do they die of natural causes?
- Student why do u kill animals
Bugscope Team Barney we kill insects by freezing them. We don't kill other critters.
- 12:22pm
- Student Do you guys get grossed out
Bugscope Team sometimes
- Student very interesting???????does she get grosed out???????
Bugscope Team i get grossed out when they are more on the fresh side. When they are dried out and dead I don't get so grossed out
- Student Do u kill animalb by porpos
- Student they do kill them
- Student would u study birds
Bugscope Team we have worked with people studying feathers
- Student scot do u guys study in people bodies
- Student wat r some cool thing you have done???????????
- Student Do you only study animals?
- Student why do you freeze them
- Student OMG that is cool guys
- Student what do you gus
- Bugscope Team i think very dry hair would look extra scaley/flakey
- Student scot or cate do you guys lik your job
- Student do u guys study spiders
- Student What kind of bugs do you like to study
- Bugscope Team Te-Hall we have a lot of fun doing this.
- Student ants
- Student do you study plants
Bugscope Team sometimes
- Guest Entomologist i study longhorned beetles, and also plants
- Student do u guyes use alot off thinks to study animals
- Student do joe or scot do surgery???????????
- Student awsome
- Student sorry i ment what are you guys are studying
Bugscope Team we are done studying in school but like to help people figure out how to do their research, and sometimes we have to study for that
- Bugscope Team Scot and I help run various microscopes, including the one your class is using right now. We see a lot of different samples that people work on, and sometimes image them ourselves. Not always insects.
- Guest Entomologist longhorned beetles bore into tree as larvae and feed on the wood
- Student joe do you like longhorn beetles
- Student what do you guys think about while studing animals?
- Student why would u work there can u give me one good anwser please Cate?
Bugscope Team I like where I work. I have a great boss and I never get bored
- Student wat kind of animals do u see during ur job??
Bugscope Team we work with people who are designing bone scaffolds, for example, so they can learn to fix bone rapidly when it breaks
- Student do you kill bugs????????????
Bugscope Team yes sometimes we do.
- Student hi cate
- Student joe do u kill animals by porpoes
- Guest Entomologist i did dissections a while back, but not anymore.
- Student what do u like more aboute youre work
- Student how much time do u spend with animals?????????????????????
- Student do u feel things
- Student why do u like doing ur job???
- Guest Entomologist I like the fact that i get to go outside and work in the forest.
- Student what is your favorite insect?
- Student y do u kill da animals???????
Bugscope Team Brent we do not kill animals, except sometimes insects and spiders
- Student do u see bears
Bugscope Team no, thankfullu
- Student really
- Student joe do you like nature
- Student do you use microscope
Bugscope Team yes we do -- all kinds
- 12:27pm
- Guest Entomologist yup
- Student Why cant you look at the animals when they are alive?
- Guest Entomologist nature is awesome.
- Student do you see spiders
- Student what kinds of bugs do you study?
Bugscope Team I like earwigs, mites, weevils, and leafhoppers. also, lately, springtails
- Student are you scare of the night
- Student do you like nature?
- Guest Entomologist birds are really cool too
- Student are u guyes studing right know
- Student hey cate do you study about birds
- Student scot are you guys studing in a lab right now
Bugscope Team we work in a lab with maybe 25 microscopes of different types
- Student cool
- Student do you study animals
- Student joe do you like birds
- Student wat kind of animals do u see in ur job???
- Student Have you guys passed college
- Student Why does Cate do surgery on them?
Bugscope Team so we can see cool things that something like a leg could be covering up. We could see the spider fangs better if I had moved some of the mouthparts out of the way
- Student ................................................................................................
- Student really you like does tipes of bugs because I do
Bugscope Team I like bugs that are specialized.
- Student joe do you like dead animals
- Student do you use a microscope
- Student um scot do you study fish???????
Bugscope Team we have a little, here. some of the people we work with study zebrafish
- Student How long did you go to school for?
- Student what kinds of cool stuf
- Student do you like your job
- Student do u travel to get da animals???????????
- Student What do you guys do with the bug when your done studing them
Bugscope Team yo Dude right into the trash
- Student do you like different tipes of birds because i do like different tipes of birds
- Student .
- Student joe do you like working with bars
- Student cool scot do u have any turt69
- Bugscope Team we have imaged bird feathers in the microscope before. They were very pretty
- Student 20]
- Student scot do studt bears
Bugscope Team no I am afraid of bears
- Student do you like your job
- Student if one of the animals that u have have babys do u guyes let them free or u still have them with u
- Student what do you do when you guys finished a dead bug
- Student how does a zebra fish look like
Bugscope Team they're small and sort of rounded, very cool-looking
- Guest Entomologist i do not work with bears. thankfully there are no bears in the forests i work with.
- Student 2ew
- Student scot do you got any turtles?
Bugscope Team not since I was little
- Student 3021500
- Student j;
- Student scot do u study microscopic animals
Bugscope Team yes we do
- Student uygo
- Student do -
- 12:32pm
- Student do u find bugs
- Student do you study mamals?
- Student do u save da animals and den freeee dem???????????
Bugscope Team Brent the only animals we work with that we handle ourselves are insects.
- Student scot do you got birds
- Student do you study other animals
- Student hey cate do you study birds
Bugscope Team no. I've just seen one type of bird's feathers before
- Student can Joe look at alive monkeys
- Student Do you guys study fish?
Bugscope Team we help people who study fish, for example those with electrical sensing systems
- Student Do you guys study mammals
Bugscope Team no no one today studies any type of mammal
- Student rally cate because i have seen lots of birds
- Student ooooo. k.
- Guest Entomologist no but i have a friend who does
- Student scot why do you always write is writing reply
Bugscope Team probably it looks like that until it is done
- Student do you guys study live animals
Bugscope Team no
- Guest Entomologist he's studying mosquito borne diseases and their effects on animals that are very similar to humans
- Student cate is youre job hard
- Student scot do you got any turtles?
Bugscope Team no. I have only plants at home.
- Guest Entomologist in hopes of finding out how they work without testing on humans.
- Student do you guys like insects
Bugscope Team yes we do - they are super interesting
- Student why dont you guys study live animals
Bugscope Team other people in the building study live animals
- Student Scot what is ure favorite animal
Bugscope Team I like echidnas
- Student wen did u first studied animals guys
- Student why do study science
- Student wat is ur favorite animal that u hav see in ur job??
- Student a friend of my dad study snakes his name is Victor
- Student do you study animals
- Student cate .joe.scot are u guys wearing a white long jacket right now?
Bugscope Team scot sometimes does
- Student me 2
- Student scot what kind of insects you study
Bugscope Team nothing in particular but I like leafhoppers
- Teacher So the kids are about to go to recess. Do you have any final questions?
- Student Cate what is your favorite animal to study?
Bugscope Team i like looking at different kinds of bees
- Guest Entomologist nope, no lab jacket for me. I am wearing a hoodie.
Bugscope Team haha
- Student do you study humans when there dead
Bugscope Team once in a while someone will want to look at human teeth or something like that.
- Student cate wat is ur favorite insect??????
- Guest Entomologist echidna are egg laying mammals, they eat ants.
- Student What are echidnas?
Bugscope Team sometimes they are called spiny anteaters
- Guest Entomologist they are closely related to the platypus
- 12:37pm
- Student Are you guys scared of bugs that bite and sting/
- Guest Entomologist which is one of my favorite animals, because it is so weird looking.
- Student joe do you like study bees
- Student what is the most thing that you do always
- Student do you guys got echidnas?
- Student Scot,Cate your the best
- Guest Entomologist also the males can seriously mess up your muscles
- Student cate wat is your favorite animal to study for??????
- Bugscope Team we have looked at gecko toes before in the microscope
- Student when did u guyes decided to study animals
- Student Do you like platipoese joe
- Student scot have you study a leafhoppers
Bugscope Team they are so cool
- Student studing insects r soooooooo coooool!!!!!!
- Student do you like studing animals or plants?
- Student you guys are the best
- Guest Entomologist bees sting as a defense mechanism
- Student what animail likes joe
- Student do u know why bees sting
Bugscope Team most are doing it just to be defensive, like if you are bothering their hive.
- Guest Entomologist cats
- Student fgood by
- Teacher Hey kids say goodbye and thank you....!
- Student thanks
- Student by
- Student bye
- Student Bye thank you?
- Student bye and thank you so much scot ,cate and joe
- Student later guys!!!!!!
- Student bye it was nice talking to u guys
- Teacher We are going to do our reflection now...
- Bugscope Team thank you for all your great questions
- Bugscope Team Bye! Thank You!
- Student bye Scot,Joe,andCate
- Student thankyou so much for everything
- Student bye thank you
- Student thankyou for answering my quetions thankyou alot bye nice to meet u
- Student scot.joe.cate i got to go recess bye see u again!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Guest Entomologist thanks guys!
- Teacher Daeshia: Cate told me that there are two ways to get stung by a bee.
- Teacher Fred: Scott told me that their lab is big and clean.
- Bugscope Team haha not always that clean. All labs have their clutter :)
- 12:42pm
- Teacher Sammie: Cate does surgery on the bugs.
- Teacher Ashley: Scientists study mammals
- Teacher Erick: That they freeze specimens to look at them.
- Bugscope Team scientists study everything. like there is a parasitic wasp for every species and stage of an insect's life, there is also a scientist
- 12:47pm
- Teacher Thank you for your time. I really appreciate this experience!
- Student dasha is back
- Bugscope Team Ms Susie is there another class today?
- Student freddy is back
Bugscope Team awesome
- Student thats cool
- Student joe
- Bugscope Team see the eye on top of the head?
- Teacher No we are done. I just had a few kids that wanted to ask a few extra questions...
- Student thats creepy
- Bugscope Team hey no problem
- Student i now
- Bugscope Team nice pollen grain
- Student do u stay in the lab all day
Bugscope Team yes most of the time we are right here
- Guest Entomologist what's that spikey thing?
- Guest Entomologist pollen?
Bugscope Team yeah
- Bugscope Team I usually don't go outside in the daytime
- Student thats scary
- Teacher They probably never leave the lab!
Bugscope Team it's true!
- 12:52pm
- Teacher Is it snowing there?
Bugscope Team it's supposed to today, maybe 2 inches; but I will be here in the lab
- Student why do u freeze them
Bugscope Team we think freezing insects is more humane, and it also likely keeps them from throwing up
- Student sj do you like working there
Bugscope Team Definitely!
- Bugscope Team some insects, like ants, will just go to sleep when you freeze them. when it warms up they wake up.
- Student can Cate tell me more about bees
- Student bye we have to go to class
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Student if bugs that are alive have babys do you let them go
Bugscope Team Yes!
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team Thank you for working with us today!
- Student byeScot,Cate, andJor
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-101
- Bugscope Team this is your member page, below
- Teacher Thank you so much!
- Teacher Adios!
- Bugscope Team it has a transcript of the session on it
- 12:57pm
- Bugscope Team Adios!
