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Connected on 2012-09-19 13:00:00 from Pinal, Arizona, United States

12:18pm
Bugscope Team sample is pumping down
12:30pm

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12:47pm

Bugscope Team hello!
Student hi
Bugscope Team Hi Yoda!
12:53pm
Student hi scotj
Student what is this!?!?!
Bugscope Team we are on a leafhopper. they have conical shaped heads

Student oh thank you
Student hi
Bugscope Team the bunny rabbit looking insect here is a honey bee

Bugscope Team stinger!

Student are u scientists
Student hi rudy
Student Who has the controls?
Bugscope Team I do now since we're making presets...
Student Tell me now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team sorry Dude.

12:58pm
Student im yodaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Student cool, we can talk to scientists
Student what is the scientific name for it??
Bugscope Team it's apis and they are part of the hymenoptera order
Student im nathaniel and yoda

Student jppj
Student what are the hairs on the leafhopper for
Student who is Tim
Student Hello
Student these pics are so cool!!
Student who is scot/ apology accepted
Bugscope Team rigth now scot is drivng the microscope and we are making presets
Student i know
Student do the wasp stinger please.
Student Hello,my name is rudy!
Student lol
Student :)

Student im yodaaaa

Student hello
Student hi
Student hi padma hi yoda
Student Testing
Student to cate, thanks
Student These bugs are all awesome!! Whoo-ooh.
Student soo cool!
Student this is very interesting
Student What are the things on the wasp head that look like bratches
Bugscope Team this is an earwig
Student awsomeeee
Student are all bugs the same

Student all of these pictures are interesting!
Student this is cool
Student The leafhopper claw looks really interesting
Student This is an interesting bug
1:03pm

Student Why is the stink bug head look like a claw?
Student Hello bugscope team
Bugscope Team Hello!
Student what?
Student hello
Student i love this, this is sooo cool!!
Student this is epic.
Student Our favorite buggie is the Spider Fangs!!:)

Student what is a honeybee
Bugscope Team it's a small bee that produces honey...

Student we think the cricket palp
Bugscope Team that is bizarre

Bugscope Team Yoda has control...

Student Cate are you a scientist?
Bugscope Team yes I am, and so is Scot
Bugscope Team this is the tip of one of the spider's legs
Student Whoa! The Cricket compound Eye is wierd!

Student how do i zoom out?
Student Yeah it kinda looks cool chris and craig
Student i mean we think the cricket palp is cool
Student This is Mrs. Bliss, the whole 5th grade team is logged and in and having a blast!

Student http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/sessions/thumbnails/2012-039_139169.jpg

Student :P

Bugscope Team Cate just checked -- it's a black trapdoor spider.

Student :O awesome
Student what is it?
Bugscope Team that was a palp, one of the 'feelers' insects have that help them taste and manuever food.
Student what is that?
Bugscope Team this is some sort of small beetle
Student hello
Bugscope Team maneuver, that is

Student We also like the Honeybee Bug
Student we offically love bugscope!!
Student wow!

Student how many eyes are on a beetle
Bugscope Team they have two compound eyes with numerous ommatidia

Student I like the spider fangs!
Student EPIC

Student Cool
1:08pm
Student i do to
Student Whoa! Is the "Spike" really his compound eye?
Bugscope Team the spike is on the compound eye
Student EPIK EPIK EPIK
Student which one?

Student Nice buggies!!
Bugscope Team the spike is a sensory seta that lets the cricket know when something is touching it
Student :)
Bugscope Team this is awesome
Bugscope Team the moth head
Student that looks odd
Student EPIK EPIK EPIK
Student EPIK EPIK EPIK
Student EPIK EPIK EPIK
Student EPIK EPIK EPIK
Bugscope Team it has a coiled proboscis -- its tongue
Student EPIK EPIK EPIK
Student this is sweet
Student EPIK EPIK EPIK

Bugscope Team normally the proboscis is coiled tightly except when it's extended into a flower
Student you should look at the honeybee stringer
Bugscope Team its really hard to see
Student http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/sessions/thumbnails/2012-039_139164.jpg

Student WE LIKE ALL OF THEM!!

Student me too
Bugscope Team insects have hairs and claws
Student I never knew water beetles had claws.
Bugscope Team they have long narrow sharp claws compared to terrestrial beetles
Student honeybee stingers rule!!
Bugscope Team unless it's stuck in your skin

Student idk
Student how many stingers are on a honeybee stinger?
Bugscope Team there's just one stinger, but it is separated into cutting/sliding parts
Student Th moth head looks really big but in real life it is very small.
Bugscope Team that's right!
Student We love bugscope!!
Student For a fact moths have little hooks in the back of their wings
1:13pm

Student they do?
Student Whoa! The Honeybee's Stinger looked like a Gigantic Spike!
Bugscope Team honeybees lose their stingers when they sting mammals, because mammals have thick skin that holds them in
Student male
Student It looks like a lobster.
Student Male stink bug
Student male
Student yes
Student yes

Student maby

Teacher Which is found more often-- a male stink bug or female??
Bugscope Team not sure...
Student no its yes i think
Student what is a hamilu
Student It is very interesting that a honeybee stinger gets lost when they sting a mammal
Student what does the queen bee look like?
Student does it hurt when a stink bug pinhes you?
Bugscope Team not too much. Their claws are really small. Ladybugs will often pinch their claws on your skin when you pick them up. They don't hurt at all, it just feels like they are 'sticky'
Student a huge bee
Bugscope Team this is one of the leafhopper's claws. it has what looks like an expanding portion in between the actual claws that helps it hold onto a surface
Student :p Awesome
Student how many bugs have you studyd
Bugscope Team it seems like a few hundred
Student the honey bee teeth look like a bunny's teeth
Student a lot
Student cool scotj!
Student What does the spike in the cricket compound eye do?

Student what is that
Bugscope Team Cate checked for us. The female stinkbugs are larger, and male has raised bumps on the upper dorsum whereas the spots/bumps on the upper dorsum of the female are less raised.
Student what bug was the most hard to study

Student it's neck looks like it's a spider web!
Student It does look like a bunny
Student both mabie
Student what is a leafhooper
Bugscope Team leafhoppers are small insects, true bugs, that live on plant juices, usually
Student up close the stinger doesnt look sharp
Student The water beetle looks weird!!
Student bees
Student ow that looks like it would hurt
Student what are found more often, bees or wasps
Bugscope Team probably wasps because there are thousands of species of tiny parasitoid wasps
1:18pm

Student What is that?
Student Bugs are so different up close!
Student Why does the Wasp Stinger have lots of hair surrounding it?
Bugscope Team a lot of what looks like hair is actually sensory setae
Student w
Student since we live in arizona the honey bee's stinger looks like a cactus?
Student small beetle heads r little in person
Student lol
Student what is found more often crickets or grasshoppers
Student how species of scorpions?
Student how do you tell genders apart of a beetle???
Student Is a stinger of a bee poisoness?
Bugscope Team no, but there is a venom pouch within the abdomen that the stinger is attached to. When the stinger goes into the victim, the pouch pumps the venom into the wound. Some people are really allergic to the histamines in the venom
Student i think bees are more often rudy
Student i am spiderman
Student it does
Student were are the eyes
Bugscope Team now we see that they are below the bases of the antennae
Student Hi, Do we realkly control the microscope
Bugscope Team Yoda is now. We will give you control...
Student How many eggs can a small beetle lay at a time?
Bugscope Team I Heart Science now has control of the microscope.
Student how many eggs can a spider lay
Bugscope Team depending on the type of spider, anywhere from a couple hundred to a couple thousand
Student the beetle head looks like an octopous
Student do beetles have teeth?
Student when you get stug by a bee how much do they put venom in you
Student what is the round square on the small beetles back
Student are thay blind
Bugscope Team is what blind; I don't think anything here is blind unless there's a mite we missed
Student do boy earwigs look like girl earwigs
Student do beatles lay eggs
Student what species is this beetle
Student how many eyes does a beetle have
Student the cricket head looks diffre
Student these r sweet pics.
Student We Love the Moth Claw
Student Opps we mean different
Student the beetles skin looks like its scaley
Student WHEN YOU STUG BY A BEE HOW MUCH VENOM DO THEY PUT IN YOU
Student is a bee more poisenes then a hornet
Student why does the beetle's head look like that?
Bugscope Team not sure what its habitat is, but there must be some advantage to having the eyes so low and pointed downward.
Student no
Student How many eggs do spiders lay?
Bugscope Team up to around 2000 eggs
Student Spiders lay 100's of eggs, Zach L.
Student Is it true that you slice bugs?
Bugscope Team Dude you have control, you know. We try not to slice bugs unless they are super huge and we want to show you, like, just the head.
1:23pm
Student noooo
Student The beetle's skin looks "hairy"
Student Hello
Student i heart science
Student Can beetles lay eggs?
Student do you like beadlehead
Student the stink bug claw looks like a scorpian
Student what spider is the most posioness
Student angelica and faith
Student Are there more than one type of this bug?
Student Why are there tubes on the beetle's head?
Bugscope Team those are antennae and also palps, which are feeding feelers
Student the claws look different up close.
Student yes

Student how long is the incubation time for a june bug????
Student They have to eyes
Student millions
Student beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team looks like it has about 50 ommatidia per compound eye
Student i think
Student do small beetle have stingers
Bugscope Team some insects have two compound eyes and three simple eyes called ocelli.
Student beetles are so cool
Student the eye is an acorn
Student This is a cool picture!
Student small beetle
Student The eye looks like a golf ball
Student What's the name of this bug???
Bugscope Team Zach we are not sure about this one.
Student ???`1
Student The eyes on the beetle look very cool close up>!
Student how many eyes dose the beatle have
Bugscope Team they have 2 compound eyes. The compound eyes is made up of many facets, like a diamond, that are called ommatidia
Student i wound how it looks with all of those eyes
Student is it a male or feamale
Student what does the beetle eat?
Bugscope Team not sure about this one
Student over 50
Student I thonk the beatle eats leafs
Student What is the reason for compound eyes
Student idk
Student that looks like the eyes of the first compound eye made of rock wow just wow it has the best features
Student is this beetle very poisoness
Student why do beetles need that many eyes
Student the beetle eyes look like spider eggs
Student it loks like bubbles
Student what happens if you get bit by this kind of bettle
Bugscope Team you probably wouldn't feel much of anything. It is very small
Bugscope Team at least less painful than getting bit by a japanese ladybug
Student The eyes look dirty
Bugscope Team yeah they are but it may have happened after it died
Student That is so cool i wonder what it would look like if it were closer
Student Can be beetles be poisonous at all?
Bugscope Team no it's not
Student japenese ladybug????????????
Student eyes on the beetle up close look weird
Student It lookes like a bee hive
Student what is on the eye of the beetle
Student yess
Student why is the eye dirty
Student they look like bubbles!
Student it looks soo cool
Student what are those flakey things
Student idk
Student Do stink bugs have poison?
Bugscope Team i think the stuff that comes out that makes then stink is just an irritant
Student Whoa! the eye looks awesome!
Student Why does the beetle's eye have small things on it?
Bugscope Team lots of juju in the air and in the water that adheres to the eye
1:28pm
Student scotj
Bugscope Team Dude!
Student yhe eye looks like a honey bee hyve
Student cool
Student Is that the eye?

Student is it true that they have more than 50 eyes
Student is there 50 eyes
Student cool
Student how many spieces of scorpions are there?
Bugscope Team there are around 1700 species
Bugscope Team described species, which means there could be many more
Student it looks like its eyes have 500 eggs on his eyes
Student Awesome Beetle Head. It kinda looks weird
Student do they have mor than two yes?????????
Student i heart science
Student it look like heagons

Student coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool
Student do they have more than two eyes??
Student Is that the moth eye?
Bugscope Team yes!
Student It looks like it has bumps in the eye itself!
Student woooooooowwwwwwwwwww
Student what is the most poisness spider
Student how big can beetles get?
Student Why does the moth head look so lumpy?
Student cooooooool compond eye how many parts it has
Bugscope Team they can have thousands of ommatidia per compound eye
Student its looks like you can see every molecule in the eye
Student does the female beetle look different then the male beetle?????
Student the moth eye look interesting!
Student idk
Student whoa.....
Student the eyes look weird
Student What are all the little balls?
Bugscope Team those are tiny features of the ommatidium that seem to help capture and direct light
Student why are there so many eyes
Bugscope Team flying insects usually have more complex compound eyes, most likely because they rely on them more
Student spiders are my favoite bug
Student How big is this moth head???
Student this looks wierd it dosnt look like a moth
Student how much shapes are in the eye
Student how long does it take for a beetle to grow
Student is that the eye
Student Whats the most common spider?
Student Why do moths like light?
Student why are moths hairy anyway????
Student Why is there things on the head of the beetle that look like leaves?
Bugscope Team the things that look like leaves here are the scales on the moth head
Student I have caught a moth that is the biggest bug i have caught so far
Bugscope Team I bet! They get really large. Like a Cecropia moth.
Student 2 compound eyes crazy
Student What do moths eat?
Student Beacuse they are atractted to light
Student so how big is this moth head
Student Hello
Student why are moths so hairy
Bugscope Team the scales are the same stuff that comes off on your fingers when you touch them
Student do males look diffrent than females
Student Yes they are scotj
Student its interesting that theyre all pieces of the eye are hexagons
Bugscope Team that seems to work out because it's the best shape for stacking ball-shaped things into a sphere.
Student that is realy close to the eye
Student http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/sessions/thumbnails/2012-039_139167.jpg
Student my favorite bug is a bee
Student what are the feathery things near the the eye
Student the moth head like millons of eyes
1:33pm
Student is a head hairy
Student does a beetle have more then a 1000 eyes
Student why does the moth have little bubble looking things on its eye?
Bugscope Team those are the ommatidia, which are like lenses and produce their own images
Student Do you have any mites loaded on the presets
Student How wide is the moth's eye?
Student My favorite bug is a Scorpion.
Student My favorite bug is the wolf spider.
Student it looks like it hs fur on its head the moth.
Student moth
Student why do bugs have shells or hair
Bugscope Team insects have hairs to help them sense what is going on around it through their tough exoskeletons. They can't feel things through their exoskeletons like we can our skin, so they have hairs to help tell them when they are touching something, when there is a temperature drop, or even to help them taste their food
Student HOW BIG IS THE MOTH HEAD?
Bugscope Team looks like it is a bit more than a millimeter in diameter
Student i never knew it looked like that
Student best website but bugs have short life spans so i guessed that a day for a bettle is 30-1 hour am I close
Student thats cool
Student why do there legs look like that
Student how big can moths get
Student is the moth blind
Bugscope Team no it can see quite well; it can also see in the UV, which people cannot
Student stefani & kylee dont demand answers
Student how many eyes do flies have?
Student do mouths like citerice
Student how many bugs have you tested on
Student Why do moths have intenas?
Student Do the mothes have more then 2000 eyes?
Bugscope Team they only have 2 compound eyes, but they may have more than 2000 facets in their eye
Student No i thnk they only have 2 eyes
Student what do moths eat
Student why do moths eat cloth????????????
Student can a moth grow bigger then an inch?
Student do they have more than two yes
Bugscope Team a lot of flying insects have essentially five eyes; two compound eyes and three simple eyes
Student why are the mothes have big eyes
Student o thats what I thought.
Student Rudy what are you doing here
Student how fast can a moth fly?
Student What is your favorite picture on bugscope
Student ya thats what i thought
Student what do moths eat
Student it's tonge is so curly!!!
Student DO THEY HAVE MORE THAN TWO EYES
Bugscope Team yes moths have ocelli, so they have five eyes
Student How long does an average moth live?
Bugscope Team around a month
Student Yes they do
Student can they swim??????
Bugscope Team moths? no
Student wasp stinger
Student testing
Student this is cool
Student how big can a moth get
Student No they have just 2 eyes
Student do moths use their intenas to talk to other bugs?
Bugscope Team they could. Ants do that with other ants.
Student WHAT DO MOTHS EAT
Bugscope Team mostly nectar from flowers
Student Moths eat cloth
Student watermelon
Student How small can a standard mothes get?
Student The moth head is very cool up close!
Student how fast can a moth fly ?
Student /wow
Student That is not a long life span!
Student can moths fly a long distance?
Student how old are the moths when they learn to fly?
Student How many legs does the moth have?
Student could you do stink bug asorbing layer thing please?????
Student why cant a lot of bugs swim
Student have you worked on spiders??
Bugscope Team yes we have worked with lots of spiders, insects, hexapods, scorpions...
Student how fast can a moth fly?
Student how ong is a moths average wingspan
Student How do moths steer when they fly
Student How many eggs can an average moth lay?
Student The inside of the wing almost looks fury!

Student How many species of moths are there?
Bugscope Team There are over 10,500 identified species of moths in North America
Student how many eggs can a moth lay??
1:38pm
Student cool!!
Student How long can a moth live?
Bugscope Team around a month
Student it looks lihttp://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/sessions/thumbnails/2012-039_139157.jpgke it has a hook in its mouth.
Student Kbliss
Student thank you
Student How long is the moth's wingspand?
Bugscope Team this moth is really small, maybe an inch or so
Student is the hair every were on its body
Bugscope Team pretty much, on a moth
Student it looks like a blanket
Student how do cricket talk to oneanother
Student what are that catus thing
Student what are those bumps
Student What would you prefer a stink bug or a moth?
Student HOW MANY EGGS DO MOTHS LAY AT A TIME
Student How small can a standard moth be?
Student what does a stink bugs absorbtion layer do?
Student are ants the same as a moth
Student when scorpions bite is it at poieness as when it stings you
Student how bad do stink bugs stink
Student ARE STINK BUGS POSIONESS
Student do stink bugs eat
Student what is the biggest moth called?youve had sent?
Student No
Student can a stink bug fly
Student Is that a beetles shell?
Student Can stink bugs fly?
Student yes they can
Student How do stinkbugs spray their predators?
Student What is the biggest stink bug you have?
Student Yes bailey stink bugs eat but im not quite sure of what they eat
Student how far can a moth fly in the sky
Student when you look closer to the stink bug it look's like identical moutains
Student what are those bumps
Student What kind of a stink bug is this/
Student Are you afraid of any bug cate?
Student How do stinkbugs communicate?
Student Why does the picture look like that?
Student how many years has scotj worked at bugscope?
Student what is that one thing sticking up on the stinkbugs absorbtion layer?
Student why do stink bugs have a layer

Student How long has scotj been on bugscope
Student that is weird the stink bugs absorving
Student About how long does a Stink Bug live?
Student what are the stink bugs habitat
Student layers
Student how do bug react to us
Student cool this is just the science website EVER just so sciency but does this asorb moisture or something?????
Bugscope Team this absorbs the stink so the stinkbug does not have to smell it her or himself
Student This is a very interesting image!
Student what do stink bugs eat\
Student Whats there gland?
Student are stenk bug hert you
Student how long can a stinkbug live
Bugscope Team it could be a month or it could be around 9 months if they overwinter in someone's house
Student How big can stimk bugs grow?
Bugscope Team About the size of your thumb, perhaps.
Student what do stinkbugs eat and drink?
Student earwing head is very interesting
Student how big can stink bugs get
Student cool
Student is it true moths are atracted to light
Student does the stink bug gland release the smell
Student is that a canyon in its body it looks like a canyon
Bugscope Team that's going into the bug's body
Student \
Student that looks like a cave
Bugscope Team that is the opening to the stink gland, which is inside
Student cool
Student what is agland
Student is that cave where the stink comes out?
Student Is the gland how it releases the "stink"?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
1:43pm
Student is that where the stinkbug contains its smell?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
Student it look like a canyon
Student \
Student why are they called a stinkbug
Bugscope Team because they release a stinky smell when they are bothered
Student What are those eyelash things?
Bugscope Team they are similar to eyelashes or nose hairs. They help keep out particles
Student do stink bugs have pinchers
Student Are there more than one type of stinkbug?
Bugscope Team yes there are lots of them
Student does a stink bug really stink??
Bugscope Team yes it does
Student What is the gland of the stink bug??
Bugscope Team where they make their stinky smell from
Student The gland is their smelling part for when they they land they can smell where they are
Student it looks like a moldy eye
Bugscope Team haha Yeah gross
Student do they eat
Student how long can it live
Student where do stink bugs live

Student how does it release it smell???
Student thanks Scotj
Student How many legs do they have?
Student why dose it look like it has fur
Student how do bugs not get killed on the way there or something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team that's why there are so many insects, so that at least a few will survive and do what they are meant to do, which is usually make more bugs
Student How many stink bugs are there?
Student does a stinkbug have an exoskeleton like a scorpian
Student It releases its smell when they land
Student does this bug stand for anything?
Student What is that fuzzy stuff under the release compartment?
Bugscope Team when we look at it up close it looks kind of like wax, like a wax we see on insects sometimes
Student how long do stick bug live
Student how many eggs does it lay
Student How much does the stink bug stink compared to a skunk?
Student what are those bumps
Student How does a stinkbug contain its smell?
Student when was this website made????
Student can it lay eggs
Student Does a stinkbug lay eggs??
Student Does a stinkbug lay eggs??
Bugscope Team they lay eggs and looks like they lay around 20 or so
Student are stinkbugs poisonous
Bugscope Team no
Student how big aer stinkbugs
Student is that its legs
Student Were is that on the stink bugs body?
Bugscope Team Alexa now you can see; pretty much right next to the second set of legs on each side
Student Thanks Cate
Student what is on it
Student do stink bugs stand for something? why are they called syink bugs?
Student do stink bugs bite??
Student How do you get all the facts about the bugs
Student Whoa! It's gland is near it's legs?
Student how do they defend there selfs
Student how many eyes does he have
Student the leg look like a pile of sticks
Student how does the stinkbug contain its smell but release it when it dies?
Student Where does the stink bug's glande lead to in its body?
Student will we be allowed to control the camera?
Bugscope Team you have control
Student Does the stink bug have more than one gland?
Bugscope Team i think they have one on both sides of their body
Bugscope Team that is true
Student how long aer the legs?????
Student Ok thank you Cate.
Student It looks like a fly
Student how big can a stink bug get
Student how big to stick bug get
Student what do stink bugs do for protetion beside spray at the enemy does it have some other way to protect its self
Student \
Student How many legs do stink bugs have?
Bugscope Team six legs -- all insects as adults have six legs
Student why are their eyes on the sides of their head
Student what is the food a stinkbug eats???????? :)
Student where do they breath+
1:48pm
Student Are their legs hairy?

Student they r cool

Student when a stink bug lays eggs do they stink

Student those look like palm trees
Student what part of the body is that
Bugscope Team the thorax, which is kind of like the 'trunk' of a person's body. the legs are all attached to the thorax
Student where do they breath?
Bugscope Team they have spiracles along their abdomen. Spiracles are little breathing ports that are all connected from a trachea and that runs along their body, supplying oxygen

Student is that hair

Student Wow it looks like iceciles

Student why do the spider claws have hair

Student do stink bugs have teeth?
Bugscope Team no. They have a proboscis that is like an elephant trunk that it uses to drink liquids
Student Do they have more than one claw on each leg?
Bugscope Team they often have paired claws that open and close
Student Is that how they really look?
Student They look like a squrbon
Student Im thinking the stinkbug has only 1 gland
Student What is the most poisonus spider?
Student does dust and stuff get stuck on there legs?
Student It looks like tree bark, or a tree trunk.

Student Is a spider claw as sharp as a hook?
Student are spiderclaus nasty julian said
Student How many legs does a stinkbug have??
Bugscope Team 6
Student do spiders use there claws at there enemy
Student how many specie of spiders are there
Student that is the.... SPIDER CLAW it looks like a flea leg are they related some how or not sorry for this long question

Student the spider claw look like spike
Student are the claws what help them stay on walls for hours
Bugscope Team yes part of what helps them cling to the wall
Student it looks like clay
Student Yes alexa that is how they really look like
Student Why do spiders have claws??
Student it looks like sticks!

Student what is the spiders enemy???
Bugscope Team birds, mice, other spiders, some insects
Student Why do spiders have claws??
Student what is the most poiseness

Student how poiseness is a black widow??
Student how do they create more web if they run out

Student May i please have control?
Student What is the spider's prey?
Student Do the fangs have poison in them?
Student They look really drity

Student How do spider creat, or spin, their web?
Student it looks like crab claws
Student Im thinking the spiders enemy is other insects like flys
Bugscope Team flies don't really have much of a chance; they are more food than enemy
Student How big is a standard spiders claw?
Student do spiters have posine in there fangs
Student how big are spider fangs

Student it looks like crab hands when you zoom out alittle

Student theres a spider on our wall thats been there since the first day of school
Student How can a spider use there fangs
Student why is 1 bigger then the other
Student the fangs lool like cat claws what species of spider is this????
Bugscope Team black trapdoor spider

Student poison is toxic
Student are black widos posens
Bugscope Team yes they are
Student Do spider fangs have venom pouches?
Student What is the most poiseness spider???
Student i mean crab claws
Bugscope Team yes they do

Student Estimated, how many spider speices are they?
Student black widow
Student This spider can walk on water
Student how long are spider fangs??????????
Student what kind of spider fangs is this

Student how poiseness is a black widow?
Bugscope Team 15 times more toxic than a prairie rattlesnake

Student Is as sharp as the claw?
Student whoa it has hair too,cool well trapdoors do ambush so they have to eat quickly!!!!!
Student are spiders friendly to squipions because they ar part of the aracnoid family
Bugscope Team good job driving!
Student it crawls on water to get its bugs!!
Student preety toxic
1:53pm
Bugscope Team wow you found the poison pore!
Student it looks like hair
Bugscope Team sweet!
Student on a scale from 1to10 how poiseness is the posiness spider
Student Why do spiders have claws??
Student Why do spiders have claws,they use their claws to clime up things
Bugscope Team and to walk along their webs
Student Is the daddy long leg the most posiness spider?
Student What is the hole at the end of the fang??

Student It looks like a caterpillar is near it's poison-release!
Student About how many speices of spiders are their in the dessert?

Student is the black widow only black or black and red
Bugscope Team pretty sure that is true
Student why dose thespider fang have hair
Student Why are there fuzzy things on the fang?

Student The black widow is black,red
Student Black and red
Student what is the most poisinous insect youve ever encountered

Student whats that fur thingy on top of it?
Student what do spiders eat.
Student how many peices of hair does the spider fangs

Student it looks like a finger
Student when you zoom out
Student the out core is black and a little spot is red in the middle

Student there is a pore wow and in their teeth???? is that where posion is stored???
Student how big can a truantula get??
Student do spiders have hair on there fangs

Student No they dont have hair on their fangs
Student ugh

Student it looks like a black hole
Student what is that crevis
Student How long do spiders live?
Student is that a hole on top of it
Bugscope Team yes that is where the poison comes from
Student Is there a white spider?
Student cool!!
Student Do spiders eat bees?
Bugscope Team yes they can if they want to
Student W hat is that hole
Student Why is there a hole in the fang
Student my teacher wants the spider gone please
Student is a daddy long the most biggest spider in the world
Student How big do they grow?

Student do spiders trie to harm us
Student what is that crevasis
Bugscope Team that is the opening of the poison pore/venom pore

Student how big are spiders.
Student No they dont try to harm us wolf

Student is that the mouth
Student please take off the spiders
Student Are they blind?
Bugscope Team spiders have pretty bad eyesight but can see changes in light and some movements ok, not so good as fly eyesight
Student What do spiders eat.
Bugscope Team they are generally insectivorous; they also eat other spiders no problem

Student Where do most spiders live?
Student Thanks ScotJ.

Student This is a good image!
Student ok.
Student what are those little hairs

Student The biggest spider yet is a tranchala
Bugscope Team I think that is true. They are very fragile.

Student is that a shell and hair
Student which spiders can poisin you the most
1:58pm

Student do spider bit?
Student is there black widows here?

Student why it does have hair
Student look it looks like a cactus
Student Is that hair?
Student Its is hair
Student how poisinos is a trulantula
Bugscope Team no tarantula bite has been known to cause harm to humans
Student I know

Student on the side it looks like cracks what are they?
Student is a black widow mean
Student is it true that daddylong legs are the poisness spider
Student what is the most poiseness bug the you have ever came across
Student Why are their little hairs on the beetles head?
Student How big can beetles grow?
Student is that a black window
Student how poisinous r wasps
Student why so much hair it is like a hair forest!!!!!! is there many pretadors of a beetle or what?????

Student It looks like it is smiling!
Student it looks like it is smiling

Student Are those inntenas on the head?
Student how do spiders communicate
Bugscope Team they can see, somewhat, and they feel vibration very well; I think some of their communication is through vibration
Student what part of the body is that

Student what is the biggest spider yet
Bugscope Team goliath birdeater is the biggest spider and are around 12 inches
Student how do spiders communicate?
Student on the side on the left it looks like a crab claw is that its hand
Student whay are the called betls

Student Thats the head!

Student it looks like a bug
Student why are earwigs called earwigs?????
Student how do earwigs bite
Student do ear wigs go in your ear
Student do you scotj and cate are the only ones who work there

Student how many eyes do a earwig have
Student Do earwig bite you when there scared?
Bugscope Team yes they do -- they whip their pincers around and pinch you with them
Student how long can thay live?
Student it looks like a bee hive
Student Whoa! It looks like a bumblebee hive!
Student How do spiders attack there prey?
Bugscope Team that depends on the spider. Some will trap them in their webs, some build trapdoors for the spiders to hide in and then they jump our and grab their prey
Student How many eyes do earwigs have?
Bugscope Team two compound eyes with numerous ommatidia

Student Are the circles eyeballs?

Student how many eyes
Student have you ever worked on scorpians
Student looks like bubles.
Student what is a earwig

Student black widow
Bugscope Team we don't have a black widow in the microscope, and they aren't too common where Scot and I are, which is central Illinois
Student it looks like eggs
Student what is that
Student iis that slime?
Student do spiders have ears?
Bugscope Team no -- they sense vibration (noise is vibration, for example) using their setae -- the hairs
Student a long time

Student how many eyes
Student that is cool how many eyes they have isnt it
Student thx scotj
Student do earwigs have fangs
Bugscope Team they have mandibles (jaws) but not fangs
Student spikes
Student Do you like doing this?
Bugscope Team we love doing this. It's fun. We get to look at insects and talk to people like you about insects and other bugs

Student it looks like a bumpy beachball

Student the eye look crusty.
Student ahg

Student is that the fang
Student what are the spikes and it's purpose?
Student What is the most poiness spider in the world?
Student Ew, Why does it have a point?
Student so why are you magnifying it so large????
Student what is that

Student why does it haave a ponity thing
Student see right there what are those??
Bugscope Team the seta we see now is mechanosensory -- it is touch sensitive

2:03pm
Student Why are there spikes on the eye?
Student how big can earwigs get
Bugscope Team about two inches long
Student What is that?

Student looks like ice.
Student do spiders balane their staminna
Student why is every singel bug tiny
Student wow earwigs are small
Student The Earwig head kind of looks like a bee stinger!
Student is this its mouth?
Student Yes it does
Student is that a fang or something on the eye

Student hi
Student ahg
Student How big are earwigs?
Student wow
Student that looks like a brain
Student can earwigs poison you
Bugscope Team no
Student How big can earwigs grow?
Student that looks like a monster with 100 eyes!
Student looks like an tapeworm.
Student what are the spikes on the eyes for????
Bugscope Team they help the insect feel like if maybe something is touching it
Student that is weird looking
Bugscope Team some people would say the biggest bug is a stickbug, some of which can be 15 inches or so long
Student it looks like a fish
Student do earwigs actually lay eggs in your brain
Bugscope Team no they won't
Student what is a water beetles pulp
Student It looks like a whale.
Student why do earwicks go in your ear? how do you get them out once they're in?
Student why is it so high magnified it is like almost close to an atom like maginify it 300000000 more times
Student The water beetle kind of looks like a fish!

Student i never wanna see that in my bed!

Student can an earwig pinch you with its cercopods??
Student it looks like a face

Student What are those little holes?
Student it looks like coral
Student what is that??
Bugscope Team these are similar to tastebuds on our tongue
Student are those scales?
Student how many bugs r u putting to show us
Student It is magnified so we can see the details.
Student it looks like those things that are at the bottom of the ocean
Student what is that
Student lots
Student what are those

Student they kida look like olives
Student why does it look like barnacles is it because the enviroment so they can swim faster???????
Student is that crust
Student Do water beetles bite.
Bugscope Team they can, and it is supposed to hurt
Student How do water betele breth under water
Student the top part looks like scales.
Bugscope Team yes it does
Student it looks like there ready to pop out

Student is the biggets spider in the world mean
Student looks like snake skin?
Student it looks like rocks with seeds in them
Student How big can water beetle grow?
Student does the spider have a butt
Bugscope Team yes it's also the place where they spin their webs
Student Where do water beetles live???
Student coral?
Student the water beetles palp is awesome and why is it called a water beetle
Bugscope Team just 'cause it lives in the water, or on the water
Student can water beetles breath under water
Student how much does the biggets spider in the world weigh???
Bugscope Team the goliath birdeater weighs 120 grams

Student They look like cinnnomon rolls

Student Thanks ScotJ
2:08pm
Student what exactly is a palp
Bugscope Team they are a mouthpart used for tasting or moving around food for their mouths
Student they look like hotdogs!!!
Bugscope Team those are chemosensors on the palp -- they are used to smell or taste
Student are those the eyes

Student how does this bug help us
Student Yes bailey they can swim
Student Whoa! how bad would it hurt?
Bugscope Team it's kind of a sharp surprise

Student is there food on it

Student whoa interesting
Student how many bugs r u showing us to look at cause this is sweet
Bugscope Team there are 12 or 15 today, all sent by your teacher

Student /is that a rock
Student O_O this is creepy

Student hi
Student How many eyes do water beetles have?
Bugscope Team they just have 2 compound eyes
Bugscope Team all adult insect have 2 compound eyes and then some special flying insects will have 3 ocelli (simple eyes like a spider) near the top or back of their head
Student Why does it look like that

Student cool
Student sweet
Student How big are they?
Student It looks like a bunch of rocks.
Student it looks like in eye
Student is it true that spiders poision people when they get scared or frightened
Bugscope Team usually that is the case. They know they can't eat people because people are too big, so they bite if you bother them to make you leave them alone
Student how big can they get??
Student the beetales palp look like soft rockes
Student Whoa! are those scales?
Bugscope Team those are indentations in the cuticle -the exoskeleton shell of the water beetle.
Student it is in sections!!!!!!!!!!! how many?????? )-: ?
Student what does the middle do?

Student this is so cool thank you for replying to us
Bugscope Team sorry we are so slow, or at least I am, in typing
Student woooooooooooooo what is that?

Student there like needles
Student /yeagh

Student what is a palp?
Bugscope Team a palp is a feeler, like an accessory mouthpart. there are two sets of palps
Student thats fine
Student it looks like a forest
Student Are honeybees dangerous?
Student How much hair do bees have?
Student is that hair
Student The pictures are changing too fast!
Student is that hair
Student That's Ok
Student RRRRAAAAGGGGGEEEE FFFFAAACCCEEE
Student what does the middle do
Student /no
Student That looks like a dull stinger
Student sorry
Student it looks cool do think to
Student it looks like a cave
Student it looks like iceicles

Student What does the stinger do??
Student that is a bummble bee stinger right
Student What is the biggest beetle?
Bugscope Team goliath beetle is most often cited, about the size of your fist
Bugscope Team they are biggest for weight which is up to 3.5 ounces
Student whoa i wonder what it fells like i have never been this close to bee or this far because we like 1000-2000 miles away!!!!

Student whats juju?
Student You can tell what it is by looking in the top left hand corner of the picture

Student How big are the bees stingers?
2:14pm
Student how many eggs can an ant queen lay per minute?
Student Whats juju?

Student the stinger looks like a forest of hair
Student Yes it does look like iceicls from a cave hanging from the celling

Student Is it true that bees can only sting once before they die.
Student how much does the biggest spider in the world weigh
Student zoom out
Student Is it true that a bee sting can kill you?

Student what are the things that are on the honeybee stinger
Student How big are the bees queen?\
Bugscope Team they can be a few (like 2) inches long or longer
Student how many types of beetals are there
Bugscope Team beetles includes more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms. About 40% of all deescribed insect species are beetles (about 400,000 species)
Student the teeth look like bunny teeth

Student How big are the worker bees?
Student why do bugs have weird looking heads
Bugscope Team they probably think the same of us

Student Why are bugs so hairy?
Student are those big thing teeth
Student Thanks ScotJ.
Student what is that
Student obiousvly
Student is that slime??
Student What are those teeth looking things?
Bugscope Team that is the glossa, or tongue
Student yeagh good point scotj
Student what do they eat
Student the fangs look like bunny teeth

Student are teacher is alergece to bee's
Student it looks like it has hiar on its tonge.
Student Is it any better than the misqito disease?
Student what do they eat
Student are honey bees harry
Student it looks like a beaver
Student how do they eat
Student Yes
Student whats that?

Student yeagh it does look like a beaver
Student yes thay are hairy.
Student how long can a honeybee live?
Bugscope Team usually 40 to 60 days, depending it the bee's job
Student Are those whiskers by the tounge?
Student why do they have those teeth
Student How different is a wasp from a honeybee?
Student Can wasp sting you more than once?
Student Yes honeybees are hairy.
Student is it just youguys doing this right now/
Student it looks like a squirrel!!! what does the teeth thing do is that where they regurgitate the pollen mixture with nectar????
Bugscope Team they use the tongue to slurp up the nectar. They store the nectar in a second stomach where it sits and then they regurgitate it later in the hive to make the honey
Student That looks so cool
Student not to small
Student How small are honey bee's
Bugscope Team they are usually very small, like large flies
Student How many eggs do the honybee lay at once
Student Then how long can a queen bee live
Student it looks like it has buckteeth
Student How big are the bees?
Bugscope Team about the size of a large fly
Student how long can a queen bee live??
Bugscope Team around a couple years. The other bees live for around 1-3 months

Student aghhh

Student how many eggs does the queen bee lay in a day????
Student how many honey bees are in a coloney
Student Is a wasp more dangerous than a bee?

2:19pm
Student Wow that is one furry eye!

Student Or born?

Student how many eggs do spiders lay at once
Student is that one eye or more
Student is that its eye
Student with royal honey
Student What is the black dot
Student how do bees make honey?
Student so thay can sence wheare thay are.....
Student How many eyes does the honey bee have
Student Which one is more toxic a Bee or a Wasp?
Student how long do they live
Student How is a queen bee "chosen"?
Bugscope Team the 'nurse' bees must have some way of counting how many bees they feed royal jelly to, and how much
Student The honeybee eye looks like a fly eye.

Student i bet it is hard to see to it because it has hair on its eye
Student were do honybees lay their eggs

Student how fast can honey bee's go
Student its eye looks hairy

Student ahg\

Student that looks like spines on a cactus
Student It is>
Teacher What poison makes bees so dangerous to some people
Bugscope Team something in the venom... just a sec

Student NO
Student What is the hole for
Student why do they havehair onthere head
Student Can bees kill you?
Bugscope Team they can if enough sting you at once and/or you are allergic
Student why do they have hair on their eyes
Student yes bees can kill you

Student HIMOM
Student are those its ears
Student why are some people alergic to bees
Student How come there teeth are big
Student wooooooooooooow

Student Why is there a hole?
Student ???
Student Cool! How do bees "Socialize"?
Bugscope Team partly through chemical communication, partly by 'dancing.' likely also partly by buzzing
Student They socialize with their intenas
Student why do bees like pollen so much
Student it looks like trees
Student how much can a honey bee hold
Student is that hole where they breath?
Student It kind of looks like buck teet
Student Why are bees so hairy?
Bugscope Team it helps them thermoregulate, and also keep warm, and it helps them float better in the air, likely
Student what makes the bee sting you??
Student What do bees eat?
Student Cool! What is the time length from birth to hatching?
Student if someone ate a bee but took the stinger out first would the person die
Student it looks like grass
Student ??????????????
Student Is that all hair?
Student do honey bees have a heart
Student it looks like grass
Student Can wasp kill a bee?

Student it look like a beach
Student what is that whole
Student Do think they look like a bunny
Student how many live session can you do a day mostly
Student wooooooooooo brain
2:24pm
Student do some bees hate eachother
Student how many eggs can a queen bee lay???
Student is that its ear canal
Bugscope Team it is called an anterior tentorial pit, and it goes into the head but doesn't have an opening inside the head. it is an infolding that supports the shape of the head from the inside
Student how many eggs can they lay?
Student is that the bottom
Student are those his legs on the bottom?

Student are those the legs
Bugscope Team those are pincers
Student Crickets are really creepy up close...

Student if a person ate a bee but took the stinger out would the person die
Bugscope Team this is a female earwig

Student How many eyes do crickets have?
Bugscope Team two compound ehes
Student i bet it is haed for bugs to live if we keep on smashing them

Student Why is there so many crickets this time of year?
Bugscope Team not sure; maybe we notice them more now
Student are those its fangs
Student ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Student Do girl earwigs bites hurt more than a male earwig?
Student Because it close to fall
Student it looks like a beek or claws
Student What are cercopods?
Bugscope Team they are the little pinchers you see on the earwigs
Student bye!!!!
Student the pop is dead
Student is it true that when bee's will die when they sting you
Bugscope Team yes because their stinger is torn from their abdomen when they sting, and it makes them bleed out
Student it look like buck teeth
Student Thank yo
Student I am sorry, but our students have to go to specials now. Thank you so very much for this wonderful experience!
Student what does the it do
Student this is interesting

Student how many eyes doese a scorpoin have
Bugscope Team they have up to 8 eyes, but sometimes less
Student can a ear wig pinch you with it cercopods
Bugscope Team yes it can!

Student good by
Student Thank you!
Student Good bye! thank you so much

Student why do crickets have ears on their legs their legs dont their ears hurt because of that
Teacher Thank you so very much!!!
Bugscope Team thank you for using bugscope today!

Student how do ear earwigs comunacat
Bugscope Team probably most of it is chemical, via pheromones

Student see u later
Student Good Bye!
Student byyyyy guys thanks for sharing info with us
Student thank you for taking to us
Bugscope Team Thank You All!

Student Bye! We have to go. This was very fun and entertaining! Thank you!
Student bye bye thank you
Student bye see you asta la vista sayonara anyeongaysayo!!!!!!
Student thank you
Student bye
Bugscope Team Sorry we could not answer all of your questions.
Student Bye!
Student thank you
Student Good bye Bugscope Team and thank you so very much!
Student Thankyou for letting us use Bugscope this is a great website
Student It's OK ScotJ!

Student Thank you.
Student THANK YOU!
Student by we really love this site by and thankyou
Student \\\\\\\\\
Student good bye this was fun working with you :)
Student how do spider commitcat
Bugscope Team sometimes it is visual, sometimes I think also via vibration
2:29pm
Student how do earwigs commiunicate?
Bugscope Team most likely they use chemicals like pheromones to communicate and read the chemicals with their antennae
Student Thank you
Bugscope Team hey this was really fun for us today -- Thank You!
Student Bye! this was such a GREAT experience for me and my counterpart! Thank you! Have a nice day!
Student I like the bugs you put there
Bugscope Team your class sent them, and they were all nice specimens
Student bye!!

Student thank you for everything and for letting me control the camera
Bugscope Team good job driving!

Student Goodbye
Bugscope Team Bye Shane!

Student Thank You!!!
Bugscope Team Thank You, Kyo!
Student thank you!!

Bugscope Team Bye Matthew and Jasmine!

Student bye

Student Bye now! Great experience with bug-learning!
Bugscope Team Bye Chris and Craig. Thank You!

School Name	Peralta Trail Elementary School
School Homepage	www.ajusd.org
Location	Pinal Arizona, United States
Community	Rural
Type	Public

Subjects Taught	Math, Science, Social Studies, Reading, Writing
Grades Taught	5th Grade
Number of Students	100

Project Title	Project Bugscope
Insects To Study	Scorpions, spiders, centipedes, crickets, grasshoppers, moths, flies, butterflies, and anything else we can find!
Project Description	I applied for this Bugscope Project this school year and was approved. Actually, my students just completed their "Going Buggy Over Bugs" with Bugscope today and they just absolutely loved it. So, I am asking for the this wonderful opportunity again for my new 5th graders in the 2012 to 2013 school year. This is my first year teaching every subject, and this project was fantastic! It is hands-on, real life, relevant, high interest, and really gets my kids thinking. They, we, were all so amazed to see the bugs that we actually caught, up close, and personal:) Please, give us the opportunity to do this again with our kids next year. Thank you so much for today, I know we will all remember for a long time to come!

Session 2012-039 with Peralta Trail Elementary School

Application

The School

The Class

The Project

Miscellaneous

Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2012-09-19 13:00:00 from Pinal, Arizona, United States