Connected on 2012-04-05 13:00:00 from Portage, Wisconsin, United States
- 12:11pm
- Bugscope Team sample is pumping down
- Bugscope Team hello Saints!
- Bugscope Team we will be making presets for your session in a few minutes
- 12:18pm
- Bugscope Team Hello Bell's Class!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- 12:24pm
- 12:29pm
- 12:35pm
- Bugscope Team hello 2nd Graders!
- 12:40pm
- Bugscope Team this is a ladybug claw
- Bugscope Team we are connecting with you at 1, correct?
- Bugscope Team can you see this, and answer?
- 12:47pm
- Teacher Yes
- Bugscope Team sweet!
- Bugscope Team we have a couple more presets to save and we can let you control the 'scope
- Bugscope Team please feel free to ask us questions anytime!
- 12:53pm
- 12:58pm
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a large housefly
- Bugscope Team you can now drive, wherever you would like, and also please let us know when you have questions
- Teacher Can we see the mouth in this view?
Bugscope Team this is the mouth
- Bugscope Team part of the mouth is folded or torn away
- Bugscope Team flies like this tend to lap up their food. If it isn't liquid they will spit on it first to dissolve what they want
- Bugscope Team houseflies like this have sponging mouthparts, but they are broken or folded away here
- Bugscope Team so we are looking right into the mouth
- Teacher Thank you! They love it! We learned it's called a mop up mouth.
- 1:03pm
- Bugscope Team often, with houseflies, you can tell the boys from the girls because the girls' eyes are far apart and those of the boys are close together
- Teacher Now we would like to see the eyes close up. Thanks!
Bugscope Team now we can see both eyes. can you tell if it
- Bugscope Team can you tell if it is a boy or a girl fly?
- Bugscope Team in boys, the eyes sometimes almost touch each other
- Bugscope Team now we see the eye facets, from just one eye, up close
- Bugscope Team the eyes are called 'compound eyes' because they are made up of many lenses, called 'ommatidia'\
- Teacher The vote is close, but the majority think it's a girl.
Bugscope Team that would be correct!
- Bugscope Team Yay!
- Bugscope Team do you recognize the shape of the eye facets -- the ommatidia?
- Bugscope Team oh this is cool
- 1:09pm
- Bugscope Team see the claws?
- Teacher like a stop sign....
Bugscope Team exactly!
- Bugscope Team how many sides does a stop sign have?
- Teacher This is what holds onto us, not pokes us, correct?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Bugscope Team this is the tip of one of the six legs of the mosquito
- Bugscope Team insects always have six legs
- Bugscope Team you wouldn't be able to feel the claws, unless the insect was very big
- Bugscope Team they have a head, a thorax, an abdomen, six legs, and two antennae
- Bugscope Team you can see that the mosquito has fine scales on its body, even on its arms, that look like seashells, or potato chips with ridges
- Teacher What are those black holes on the very end?
Bugscope Team those are places where there used to be hairs sticking out. The hairs fell off at some point after it died
- Bugscope Team so pretty
- 1:14pm
- Bugscope Team this is the tip of the part that bites us, and you can see that one of the cutting lancets, or stylets, is visible
- Bugscope Team the stylet is serrated, like a steak knife
- Bugscope Team see the rounds things with bumps on them?
- Bugscope Team they look like pollen grains, but they are smaller than pollen
- Bugscope Team mold spores
- Bugscope Team this is really cool too
- Bugscope Team where we are now
- Teacher Are we under the wings?
- Teacher Do you know if this was really a lady bug or was it an Asian beetle?
Bugscope Team we are not sure, but in our area there are many more Asian beetles than ladybugs
- Bugscope Team this is one of the pads on one of the legs
- 1:19pm
- Bugscope Team ladybugs are bright red with black spots. Asian beetles can range in color- light orange to dark orange, and may or may not have spots
- Bugscope Team oops I mean pulvillus
- Bugscope Team the asian beetles also swarm while ladybugs do not
- Bugscope Team the thing at the top that is very bright is one of those pulvillus pads, and that is what helps the ladybug stick to a surface
- Bugscope Team now we see the claw, one of six
- Teacher They smell bad too! We have a lot of them around here.
- 1:25pm
- Bugscope Team this is the head of the Monarch butterfly you sent
- Bugscope Team in the middle is the tongue, which is coiled up
- Bugscope Team this is a set of hooks called hamuli
- Teacher Where would those be on a bee?
Bugscope Team they are on the back of the forewing
- Bugscope Team when the bee flies, it hooks its fore- and hindwings together
- Bugscope Team the bee has four wings, and they are usually not hooked together
- Bugscope Team but when it flies, it hooks the wings together so it essentially has only two, one on each side
- 1:30pm
- Bugscope Team this is the bee's head
- Bugscope Team you can see its mandibles -- the forked jaws, in front
- Bugscope Team each compound eye wraps around the head and kind of has a horseshoe shape
- Bugscope Team you can also see its antennae
- Bugscope Team and on the top of its head you can see this mound, through the setae, called an ocellus
- Bugscope Team the ocellus is a 'simple' eye, compared to the compound eyes
- Teacher What is the bump in the middle?
Bugscope Team that is a simple eye, called an ocellus
- Bugscope Team there are actually three simple eyes there but we can see only the one right nwo
- Bugscope Team now...
- Bugscope Team ocelli are not very good at focusing, but they allow the bee to see where the light from the sun is compared to where they are
- Teacher Do they have an eye on each side? Then where is the third one?
Bugscope Team they have two compound eyes, on either side, and they have three ocelli, in the middle and on the top of their head
- Bugscope Team wasps and moths and many other flying insects also have ocelli -- simple eyes -- on the tops of their heads
- Bugscope Team you can barely see smaller bumps on either side of the dome-like ocellus we see now
- 1:36pm
- Bugscope Team the other ocelli are not smaller -- they are just further down on the top of the head
- Bugscope Team these are just a few of the ommatidia -- the facets of the compound eye -- on the bee's head
- Bugscope Team this looks like a piece of dried leaf, part of a plant, right on the compound eye
- Bugscope Team hexagons are the best shape to fit something that is curving around. Gives you the maximum number of ommatidia in a space
- Bugscope Team some wasps have as many as 17,000 ommatidia on just one compound eye!
- Bugscope Team this is the bee's stinger
- Bugscope Team it has serrations in it like those on the mosquito's stylet that help it cut into your skin
- 1:41pm
- Bugscope Team this is a spur on one of the forearms of the bee
- Bugscope Team it has little spines in it like a comb
- Bugscope Team the bee can use it to comb pollen out of its antennae
- Bugscope Team you can see a moth or butterfly scale stuck to the comb
- Bugscope Team the thing with the ridges that looks like a leaf is from a butterfly or a moth
- Teacher Cool!
- Bugscope Team bees obviously cannot carry combs around in their pockets, so they have built-in combs
- Bugscope Team ants are related to bees and wasps, and they have combs as well
- Bugscope Team insects have a very advanced ability to smell
- Bugscope Team the antennae are covered with receptors that help the bee, in this case, pick up chemical scents from the air
- Teacher Some of these look like cones, rather than hairs, are those receptors?
Bugscope Team yes! receptors have all different shapes, but those with the dull tips are what we think they use as one kind of chemical receptor
- 1:47pm
- Bugscope Team this poor moth...
- Bugscope Team you can see its compound eyes very well. its ocelli are on the other side of the head so we do not see them
- Teacher What was wrong with him?
Bugscope Team actually he was probably fine until he died, and then part of his face broke away
- Bugscope Team butterflies, moths, silverfish, and mosquitoes, along with very few other insects, have lots of scales on their bodies
- Bugscope Team the scales are kind of like feathers are to a bird
- Bugscope Team the scales give them color so that they can either warn predators to stay away or they can blend in with their surroundings
- Bugscope Team monarch butterflies are brightly colored to warn potential predators to stay away. They are poisonous because of the milkweed they like to eat.
- Bugscope Team Spiders will even cut them free if the monarch gets stuck in its web
- 1:53pm
- Bugscope Team this is super creeepy!
- Bugscope Team when the scorpion stings its prey, the venom goes through that little pore, which does not look so small now
- Bugscope Team now you see the stinger we just looked at, and you can see where the venom is stored
- Bugscope Team scorpions have claws, kind of like lobsters, and they grab their prey with the claws and then sting it
- Bugscope Team they actually chew their food
- Teacher Thank you for everything!! This was great! We learned a lot!
- Bugscope Team Thank you!
- Bugscope Team thanks for joining us today!
- 1:58pm
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