Connected on 2012-06-05 10:30:00 from Cayuga, New York, United States
- 9:19am
- Bugscope Team good morning!
- Bugscope Team we will be putting the sample in shortly
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- Bugscope Team presets are done and we are ready to roll
- Teacher Good morning. Frank here.
- Bugscope Team Welcome Back to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Good morning, Frank!
- Bugscope Team you have control; let us know if you have any problems
- Bugscope Team and of course let us know when there are Q's
- Teacher Ok. Will do.
- 10:38am
- Bugscope Team hello Team Awsome and Bug Beasts!
- Bugscope Team please let us know when you have questions
- Student hi how are you
Bugscope Team Good! We are ready to roll! Thanks!
- Student what is this picture
Bugscope Team this is an image of salt crystals from a Wendy's restaurant
- Student cool
- Student cool
- Student what is it
- Student asome
- Student What are these cubes
- Student whats in this piture
Bugscope Team this salt does not look quite like 'normal' salt; that's why we like to use it for Bugscope
- Student what is that
- Student it looks weird
- Student is that a bug
- Student is it a fly
- Student is that a fly
- Student is this its real color
Bugscope Team in a way it is because we coated all of the samples with gold-palladium, so in reality everything in the 'scope now looks silver
- Student what is this is it a fly
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student A buggy???
- Bugscope Team this is a housefly, kind of beat up
- Student what kind of bug
- Student yes
- Student this is so cool
- Student what is it
- Student is it a horse fly
Bugscope Team it's a regular housefly, doesn't have slashing cutting mouthparts like a horsefly
- Student why does it have hair on its legs.
- Student how old is this bug
- Student is it hair
- Student is it a fly head
- Student why is it so hairy
- Student why were there cube like things on it
- 10:43am
- Bugscope Team we are using electrons to image, not light. The primary electrons hit the sample and we get secondary electrons that bounce back to a detector. The detector reads a signal and gives us this topographical image. Sometimes you will see electron images in color, but those were false colored afterwards
- Student what are the hairs for
Bugscope Team they are sensory -- they help the insect sense touch, wind, hot/cold, and also sense chemical smells, or actually any smells
- Student what is the thing coming out of the eyes
Bugscope Team the eyes are on the very sides of the head. They are the lighter bumpy parts. The middle top of the head is where the antennae are
- Student its a bird
- Student what is that apendege???
Bugscope Team that is its proboscis -- its sponging mouthparts'
- Student what is this picture
- Student is that a stinger to a bee
- Student what is the thing sticking out
- Student what is coming out of the opening
- Student @ Beaver- Everyone is asking that
- Student is it a bee
- Student is this a misitqo
- Student No
- Student how many eggs do they lay in a lifetime
Bugscope Team houseflies are said to lay up to 500 eggs during their life; I'm sure it varies
- Student what is the spike
Bugscope Team it is a stinger on a wasp
- Student is it a stinger of a bee
Bugscope Team wasp stinger
- Student is that the stinger sticking out
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student what is that thing sticking out
Bugscope Team that is the stinger
- Student cool
- Student why does it look like a tounge
Bugscope Team its a very sharp tongue, then
- Student is this part of the abdomen
Bugscope Team yes it is coming out of the abdomen
- Student how long is the stinger
Bugscope Team looks like it is around a millimeter long, maybe a little less
- Student is that a leg in the background
Bugscope Team there is a leg that is out of focus to the right
- Student How do you reply to a question
Bugscope Team we can click on the question to sort of capture it on this end
- Student what is this picture i
- Student what is it
- Student what is that is it a bee head
- Student is it a head
- Student what type of bee is that
Bugscope Team this, now, is an aphid, which is a tiny plant pest
- Student how much poison does a wasp inject into its prey
Bugscope Team I'm not sure, but it doesn't use it all up; it can sting repeatedly
Bugscope Team Depending on the type of wasp the volume can range from as little as 2 micrograms to as much as 15 micrograms
- Student is this the head or is it a dust mite
Bugscope Team it's a little bigger than a dustmite
- 10:48am
- Student are
- Student the pic is so awsome
- Student what are the holes on the side there
- Student is this insect toxic
Bugscope Team no but they are agricultural pests
- Student is there legs
- Student what part of the head is this
Bugscope Team it's the front of the head: you can see its antennae, its compound eyes, and the base of its proboscis
- Student what are the things sticking out
Bugscope Team the antennae, on the top
- Student is this insect poisenous
- Student why
- Student where are the eyes
Bugscope Team they are the bumpy round parts on the sides of the head
- Student what is the ittle hairs for
- Student is it toxic/
Bugscope Team no but it does kill plants, if there are enough aphids
- Student how many small eyes are in this compound eye
Bugscope Team hard to tell; looks like about 100 ommatidia per eye
- Student do wasp have compound eyeies
Bugscope Team yes they do!
- Student what are the fuzzy things
- Student what is thi
- Student this bug kills plants? how?
Bugscope Team it sucks the juices out of the leaves
Bugscope Team it eats them. It also exudes a honeydew substance that some species of ants like to eat. But the dew isn't good for the plant.
- Student how do you tell a male from a female insect
Bugscope Team sometimes you can tell easily, for example, by size or coloration; sometimes you cannot tell at all unless you can see inside the insect
- Student are the things on the top of the head antenna
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Student AWSOME
- Student is this a upside down log
- Student is their a nose
Bugscope Team they don't have noses, but they use some of the setae to sense chemicals -- to smell with
- Student why is their a space in the middle
- Student is that an upper claw
- Student why does it look like it has dust all over it
- Student is this a swamp insect]o
- Student does this kill plants too
Bugscope Team I think they can, but they do not seem to be as bad as aphids
- Student is it a proboscist
Bugscope Team no this is the end of a leg, where the claw is
- Student is this upside down log
Bugscope Team this is the tip of one of the legs
- Student how does an electron microscope get so close
- Student is it warm or hot blooded
- Student is this a foot of an insect
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student whos sj
- Student ok
- Student on the claw is that mold
Bugscope Team mostly what we see are very small round particles called brochosomes
- Student what is it
- Student Is that mold on them?? IDK what that lumpy stuff is...
Bugscope Team some of the stuff we don't recognize either
- 10:54am
- Student why does it have spikes
Bugscope Team the spikes help it sense whether it has something in its grip, or whether its claws are bent upward, stuff like that
- Student what is this insect
Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper
- Student can this hurt humans
Bugscope Team no I don't think so
- Student A leafhopper
- Student is that the tip of a leg?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student why is there stuff on the claw
Bugscope Team all that stuff are brochosomes. They are nanoparticles that only leafhoppers make
- Student warm or cold blooded
Bugscope Team coldblooded
- Student what are the baby insects called
Bugscope Team larvae
- Student it looks like it has ice sickles
- Student how much money does the microscope cost
Bugscope Team this microscope cost $600,000 13 years ago
- Student is that a spike sticking out
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student where does it live
- Student what is that hole
- Student whats a leaf hopper
Bugscope Team it's a true bug that is in the family called Cicadellidae
- Student wow thats alot of money
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team bugscope started in 1999!
- Student how old is it
- Student 13 yrs ago??
Bugscope Team yes we have had the 'scope for a little more than 13 years, and we have run Bugscope for 13 years now
- Student why is the spike in the middle of the eye??
- Student Where is this part of the body located
Bugscope Team this, now, is the head
- Student why does it look like square
- Student is this a compound eye
- Student is this an eye of a fly?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student why does it look like ice or squares and
Bugscope Team it is a hair, which when we see them on insects we call a seta
- Student what is this
- Student Whats the spike in the middle?
Bugscope Team that is a sensory seta that lets the fruitfly know when the windspeed is high, for example
- Student are those particals on the eye
- Student what are the dots on the eye
- Student do bugs with compound eyes run into things alot
Bugscope Team they see very well, generally
Bugscope Team sometimes yes. cicadas and bumblebees tend to bump into things a lot
- Student is it gooy
- Student why are the eyes square when in pictures they look round
- Student how much does it wigh
- Student are these the lenzes of a compound eye
- Student is it the lense of a compound eye
Bugscope Team the things that look like couch pillows are ommatidia -- the individual eye facets
- Student why are they white
- Student what are baby insects called?
Bugscope Team larvae, usually
- Student is that dirt between the eyes
- Student coool
- Student is this a eye or maybe a compound eye
Bugscope Team it's part of a compound eye
- Student what arer the little dots all over it
- 10:59am
- Student what is the thing sticking out of it
- Student what are those things that look like crumbs?
Bugscope Team there nay be some bacteria there, and then a lot of dirt and debris
- Student what is that spike
- Student how many germs do outside flies have
Bugscope Team it really depends
- Student I do think it is a compound eye
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student what type of fly is this
Bugscope Team it's a fruitfly
- Student how many lenses are on one compound eye
Bugscope Team there are more on flies than on an ant. Some ants will have around 20 lenses, while this fruit fly has maybe 100's
- Student what is that pointy thing sticking up in the middle square in the right bottom coner of it
- Student how much does it weigh
Bugscope Team way less than a gram, not sure
- Student why is there a spike sticking out of it
Bugscope Team the spike helps tell the fruit fly the direction of wind currents
- Bugscope Team now we're looking at the part of the body called the thorax, which is what the arms and legs are attached to
- Student what is that
- Student is this hair on legs
- Student what is in side the holes
- Student is it a nest
- Student is a bugs felers involved with cacthing prey
Bugscope Team sometimes, and sometimes they help taste prospective food
- Student how large is the thoracic spiracle
- Student what is mold spores
- Student what is a thoracic spiracle
- Student is this and thangled mess
Bugscope Team this is a bunch of setae (hairs) that are covering a spiracle. A spiracle is a breathing hole for insects. So the hairs are there to help keep particles out
- Student what are mold spores
Bugscope Team mold spores fly through the air on wind currents and can land, like little seeds, and start to form fungus, or mold
- Student do these move
- Student cool
- Student what are thoses stringy things???
Bugscope Team those are setae that protect the spiracle from getting debris inside
- Student how does it move
- Student what are the things that look like strings for
- Student does a bug choose what it eats
- Student are those germs on it
Bugscope Team these are pollen grains
- Student how does pollen get stuck in a spider web
- Student do the hairs sence things
Bugscope Team they are connected to nerves under the cuticle, which is what the shell of the insect is called
- Student or they are pollen in spider webs
- Student on the last pictrue what is the spike on the eye
Bugscope Team that was a hair that helps tell the fly the direction of wind currents
- Student why does the pollen look like you can just open it?
- Student what kind of spider lives there
- Student why does it look like the pollens cracked
- Student what are the things on the top of the spider web
- Student thats cool
- Student what is on the pollen in a spider web
- 11:04am
- Student why does the pollen group up
- Student why does it look like there is clams in it
Bugscope Team the things that look like clams are pollen, which comes in lots of different shapes
- Student what plants are these pollin grains from
Bugscope Team we do not know for sure, maybe grass?
- Student what are the natural prediters of a bug?
Bugscope Team other bugs, birds, bats, mice, voles, moles...
- Student what kind of spider made this web
- Student why is the pollen in the spider web
Bugscope Team it probably got stuck to the spider web
- Student how large is the pollen
Bugscope Team it is about half the width of a human hair- around 25 micrometers
- Student what kind of spiders have pollen grain
Bugscope Team this spider was outdoors, and that is where pollen is, generally
- Student how did
- Student is the spider in this picture
Bugscope Team it is next to the web
- Student what plant is the 6pollen grains from
Bugscope Team we don't know, sorry
- Student what type of pollen is it from
Bugscope Team not sure. ragweed pollen look like balls with spikes all over them
- Student cool
- Student are bugs canibule
Bugscope Team some are, like assassin bugs, ambush bugs
- Student how many scales are on the wings
- Student is the hole thing the size of a human hair
- Student how many scales on them
- Student is that a plant
- Student how many scales are on a wing
- Student ?
- Student it is it ??????????????????????????????
- Student how many scales are on a wing
Bugscope Team thousands!
- Student what are the scales used for
Bugscope Team the scales do a lot of things, one of which is coming off the wings easily so if the insect flies into a web, the scales get stuck but the insect can get away
- Student what are the scales used for
Bugscope Team scales are similar to feathers on a bird. The scales also give the insect color, and can sometimes help protect them
- Student why does it look like leaves???
Bugscope Team they do look like leaves, or kind of like feathers
- Student how many scales are a butterfly
- Student do bugs eat other bugs
- 11:09am
- Student why are there lines onthem
- Student why is there black spects on there wings
- Student do butterflys need powder or scales to fly
Bugscope Team yes they cannot fly if they have lost too many scales, which appear to us to be powder except at this kind of magnification
- Student how come you cant see these without a microscope
Bugscope Team they are super small -- they look like fine powder to us
- Student is it the butterfly wing
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student WHY DO THEY SPLIT??????????????
Bugscope Team they aren't splitting. They are all individual scales. There may be some scales that are forked while others are more round, and maybe that helps with giving the scales different structural colors
- Student why are they so curved
- Student how many scales
- Student What are the botches
- Student what color are they
- Student are they poiseness
Bugscope Team I don't believe they are; it's not likely an advantage to the insect to have poisonous scales. but Monarch butterflies do have milkweed toxins in them, so actually in this case I could be wrong
- Student what is on its body
- Student how old is it
Bugscope Team probably a few weeks
- Student is this insect poiseness
- Student is that a mouth
Bugscope Team yes this is the spider's mouth, or close to it
- Student what are strings on the spider fangs
- Student what type of spider
- Student is that hair on its body
- Student are those hair or feelers
Bugscope Team these are hairs, and there is some web silk stuck here and there too
- Student what are all those little strings
Bugscope Team some of that is web
- Student where are the fangs
- Student what type of spider is it
- Student WHAT IS A RETENTOIN PLAN???????
- Student what type of spider is it
- Student *RETENTION
- Student what are the string like things
- Student where are the fangs
Bugscope Team you can see one curving from the left up to the center of the image we see now
- 11:14am
- Student what are the spikes connected to
- Student how old is it??
Bugscope Team not sure about this, probably a few weeks
- Student cool!
- Student what kind of spider is it
- Student are those hairs
- Student IS THAT Hair on the fangs
- Student what type of spider is it
- Student were is the spider
- Student what kind of spider is this
Bugscope Team it's a small female spider, but we don't know what kind
- Student are those legs of an insect
Bugscope Team those are the spider's legs
- Student what is that white thing
- Bugscope Team see its eyes?
- Student what is behind the spider
Bugscope Team that is doublestick carbon tape that holds the specimens onto the stub
- Student what are those dots
Bugscope Team those are (were) bubbles in the tape
- Student what kind of spider is it
- Student where are the eyes
- Student no i can not see its eyes where are the eyes
Bugscope Team they are up north now, we are looking so closely we cannot see them now
- Student how ols is it
Bugscope Team about 4 weeks
- Student Are those teath in the back of the mouth?
Bugscope Team they look like teeth, but technically they are not; they are hardened spines that help the spider grip its prey
- Student is that a ant hea
- Student what are the dots on its head
- Student is it the ears
- Student do all of the hairs sense
Bugscope Team some of them do not -- some are called urticating hairs, and the spider releases them to cause irritation and itching
- Student is the circle in the middle its nose
- Student is that an eye are there eyes compound
- Student how much do you get paid every week
- Student what are the dots on the side of the head
- Student how long is a spiders leg
Bugscope Team it depends on the spider -- the ones we saw earlier were likely about a cm long
- Student forget it
- Student is it an ant head
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student is that an eye
Bugscope Team that was where the antenna was
- 11:19am
- Student do ants bite
Bugscope Team sometimes they do for sure
- Student is that hair on its body
Bugscope Team tiny hairs, called microsetae
- Student tha is cool
- Student are they hairs
- Student can you magnify it any more
Bugscope Team yes you can, whoever is driving the microscope
- Student how large are the eyes
- Student what are the lines
Bugscope Team the lines were likely where some of the tiny setae were
- Student what are those LARGE big bumps
- Student Is that one side broken???
- Student is that a wasp stringer tip
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student why does it look so dull but when they sting it hurts alot
- Student why is there two
Bugscope Team it slides side to side to cut into your skin
- Student when ants do bite does it hurt a lot little or not at all
Bugscope Team that depends on the ants. Some will just bite you and it will be like a slight pinch, but others may bite you and then spray an acid into the wound, which would hurt a bit more
- Student is it supposed to split at the end
Bugscope Team yes that helps it cut
- Student what is the line for
- Student what are the points that stick out of the wasp stinger
- Student IS THE ONE SIDE BROKEN??????
Bugscope Team yes one tip is broken
- Student how sharp canthe stinger be
Bugscope Team it has to be sharp enough to cut into what it is stinging but not to break off
- Student what are those points called
- Student why does it have to parts to it
- Student do the spikes help it with its protection
- Student what re the points called
Bugscope Team they are like sawteeth; likely they are called barbs, not sure
- Student is it a saw and if it is, how many points does it have
- Student why is one longer than the other
Bugscope Team one is broken
- Student are the points called barbs
- Student iS IT SUPPOSED TO BE BROKEN??? if not why is it??
Bugscope Team it just shows us that the wasp was using it; it is not supposed to be broken from the get-go
- Student is that bacteria on it
Bugscope Team I don't think there are on this.
- Student did +
- Student what are the clearish things on the stinger
- Student are the points called barbs
Bugscope Team they could also be called serrations
- Student what do they do??????
- Student do the points help get prey
Bugscope Team they help cut, like serrations on a steak knife
- Student is it broken because it got in a fight orr what??
- Student what are those dots called
- Student is the stinger supposed to be sharp
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student can wasp kill animals or people
- Student what do the barbs do????????????????
- Student do wasp stingers hurt
Bugscope Team the stingers themselves are like a very small needle, but it's the venom that really hurts
- 11:24am
- Bugscope Team stingers are modified ovipositors, meaning that they can also lay eggs if that is the kind of insect that lays eggs
- Student what kind of wasp is it
- Bugscope Team the most painful wasp sting comes from the smallest wasp called the fairyfly
- Student why are the edges of the stinger un even
Bugscope Team they slide side to side when they cut into your skin
- Student is it a tick or a flea
- Student what are those spiky thing
- Student does it bite if it does willl it hurt
- Student what are the spikes at the top
- Student why does it not look like a lady bug????????
Bugscope Team this is what ladybugs look like before they metamorphose into the cute little beetles we normally see
- Student how old is it????
- Student how long does take a ladybug to mature
- Student are the spikes on its head for protection??
Bugscope Team yes I think a lot of the spikes or spines we see are for protection from being eaten
- Student is it a ladybug larva
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student are they this big and and are they live in the ground
- Student what are the spike things on top of its head
Bugscope Team i think those help protect the larva from being eaten
- Student why are there spikes on its chin
- Student thanks
- Student mmmm
- Student about how old
Bugscope Team this is the stage that last about 2 to 4 weeks
- Student why do we not see them
Bugscope Team sometimes we do, but they do not fly and are not that obvious
- Student sorry about that it was a mistake
- Student Is the larva a female or a male??
Bugscope Team I am not sure we can tell, with ladybugs
- Student why is there a hole on the leg
Bugscope Team that is where a leg broke, most likely after it died. When insects die, they dry out and their limbs become very brittle
- Student why does it look so fat
Bugscope Team this is the time for it to eat as much as it can so it has energy to metamorphose, first into a pupa and then into an adult
- Student thankyou
- Student how can you tell if thats a male or a female
Bugscope Team we cannot tell; I'm not sure if anyone can with ladybugs
- Student thank you we learned so much
- Student sorry bout that pickle thing logan was typing
- Student THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!
- Student We're guessing a female since its a LADYbug
Bugscope Team yeah really
- Teacher Thank you very much Bugscope team!
- 11:29am
- Student this is soooo cool
- Student thank you very much, we learned a lot. hopefully we can do it again. thanks foryour time
- Student Thank you for answering our questions
- Student how do you tell the difference between a male and a female bug
Bugscope Team it is very hard to tell the difference. Males tend to be slightly smaller
- Bugscope Team Thank You, everyone!
- Student thank you very much
- Student is it a male or femaile
- Student thank you very much bug scope team!!!!!!!!!!
- Student THANK YOU!!!!
- Bugscope Team i have no idea Punisher. Sorry
- Student THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!! BYE
- Student THANK YOU SO MUCH FROM THE BEAVER! :)
- Bugscope Team We enjoyed working with you.
- Student thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooo much
- Student BYE
- Student BYE!
- Student thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student see you next time
Bugscope Team see you next time!
- Student thank you with our questions
- Student bye
- Student BYE
Bugscope Team Bye Ant!
- Student this was so funnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team Sweet!
- Bugscope Team see you next year!
- Student thanks again bye ;0
