Connected on 2012-10-25 10:30:00 from Sioux, Iowa, United States
- 9:16am
- Bugscope Team sample is in 'scope and 'scope is pumping down
- Bugscope Team we will start making presets soon
- 9:32am
- 9:37am
- Bugscope Team good morning, everyone!
- Bugscope Team you can see that we are starting to make presets for today's Bugscope session
- 9:43am
- Guest hi
- Bugscope Team Hi CJ!
- Guest hi
- Bugscope Team this is an ant
- Bugscope Team Hi Bibi!
- Guest Cool images
Bugscope Team Thank you -- we're collecting them as you watch.
- Guest nic pics
- Guest hi scott
- Guest Hey SCOT
- Guest hihihihihihihihihhihihihih
- Guest Hi
Bugscope Team Hi Angelie!
- Guest sUP
- Guest that,s sooo cool
- Guest HELLO my really name is mariam
- Guest hay
- Guest heyy
- Guest what upp!
- Guest hi
- Guest hi
- Guest Who is KIKIBLESSEDXOX?
- Guest and this is so cool
- Guest hey angelie
- Guest hi
- Guest hi scot
- Bugscope Team Hi You All!
- Guest hihihhihihihihihihihihihihh
- Guest hi nirusha
- Guest ow
- Guest wow
- Guest hi peyton
- Bugscope Team This is one of the ant's compound eye.
- Guest my names dorothy
- Guest really Roxanne?
- Guest rohans keaf monkey
- Guest hi
- Guest lol
- Guest hi
- Guest yes
- Guest lmao
- Guest this s greet
- Guest how r u
- Guest hola
- Guest lol
- Guest how many parts are there to a bees stinger?
Bugscope Team it has at least two parts that slide, side by side, to help cut into what it stings
- Guest oh cool compond eye
- Guest stop annoying scot
- Guest hi
- Guest guys stop say weird stuff
- Guest stop saying that
- Guest LOL
- Guest roxane is great
- Guest WHO IS KIKIBLESSEDXOX
- Guest hi
- Guest yea listen to the teacher
- Guest yolo
- Guest hi
- Guest is the bug alive
- Guest hi
- Guest that so cool
- Guest hi
- Guest hi
- Guest how many legs does the bug have?
Bugscope Team insects all have six legs as adults
- Guest u poopoo head
- Guest hOW ARE ANTS INVENTED
- Guest hi i am a gust so is it not nasty to see the bugs
- Guest does it shed its hair
- Guest ymcmb
- Guest roxane is great
- Guest thanks!
- Guest is their hairs on the bug?
Bugscope Team lots and lots of hairs, called setae, and pronounced 'see-tee'
- Guest What type of insect is this ?
- Guest this is discusting
- Guest How long is a bugs span?
- Guest yes jj yes
- Guest How long is a bugs life span?
Bugscope Team it depends, of course. some are adults for only a few hours -- like mayflies
- Guest is it ture that some ants spurt acid
- Guest how can you do this sem?
Bugscope Team I am sitting at the scanning electron microscope (SEM), so I am drivng the microscope and also saving the presets
- Guest How long is a flies life span?
- Guest what is this bug
- Guest do they lose thier legs easly
- Guest What school are hyou guys in?
- Guest can that bug bite someone or somrthing
- 9:48am
- Guest what the life span of an ant
- Guest does the bug have pores
- Guest how long can an ant live
- Guest your sooooo lucky sem
- Guest what does insect is that
- Guest what does the insect eat?
- Guest how long is that eye
Bugscope Team if we look at the scalebar, we can see that it is about 300 micrometers long, which is 0.3 millimeters; 3/10ths of a mm.
- Guest does all bugs have eyes like this
- Guest how much eggs can a bug lay all at once
- Guest what ants spurt acid
Bugscope Team some do; there are so many species
- Guest so are those hair or pointe things on the bug
- Guest kk
- Guest How long is a Bugs life from when their born to when they are dead? (For almost every insects)
- Guest how much bugs are in the world?
- Guest ya
- Guest how long is their whole body
- Guest How long is a Bugs life from when their born to when they are dead? (For almost every insects)
Bugscope Team I think it averages 6 weeks, but think about cicadas -- some of them live underground as larvae for 17 years
- Guest What are those pointy things on i think its back
- Guest live?\
- Guest can the swarm of bugs kill a person
- Guest how much of eyes does an ant have?
- Guest how do bugs see
- Guest what kind of bug is it
- Guest how long does it take for a baby ant to develope all its parts
- Guest where do flies live in the winter
- Guest thanks sem
- Guest is it true that there as many bugs in the world compared to a human
Bugscope Team quite a few more than there are people
- Guest How long is a Bugs life from when their born to when they are dead? (For almost every insects)
- Guest how much bugs are in the world
- Guest hi
- Guest by how much
- Guest ew
- Guest do animals have stingers athoer than bees
- Guest how much bugs do you hove
- Guest How long is a Bugs life from when their born to when they are dead? (For almost every insects)
- Guest is that a heart
- Guest its me peyton
- Guest what colour are the bugs your
- Guest Are there alive or dead? sem
- Guest ewewewe
- Guest looking at
- Guest How long is a Bugs life from when their born to when they are dead? (For almost every insects)
- Guest how much bugs are in the world
- Guest how many types of species of ants are there in the world?
- Guest do do ants communicate?
- Guest are there alive or dead?sem
- Guest How long does an ant antenna grow ?
- Guest how many parts are there to a bees sting
- Guest how much bugs are in the world
- Guest what size is the bug
- Guest How long is a Bugs life from when their born to when they are dead? (For almost every insects)
- Guest Is the bug a composer or producer?
Bugscope Team it's probably mostly considered a decomposer
- Guest how much bugs are in the world
- Guest Marcus Wat Is So Discusting
- Guest is this bug a composer
- Guest do ant's have stingers?
- Guest how much bugs are you looking at
- Guest some ants have a stinger
- Guest how much bugs are in the world?
- Guest how come no one is answering questions
- Guest how long does a queen ant live for?
- Guest How long is a Bugs life from when their born to when they are dead? (For almost every insects)
- Guest ?
- Guest Wat is soooooo discusting marcUS?
- Guest how many ant species are there
- Guest is the thorax of the bug the most sensitive comared to abdomen ?
- Guest how did bugs come a live
- Guest Where is the most common place you will find a flying ant ?
- 9:53am
- Guest pic
- Guest Is a bees sting deadly
- Guest yea nini is right sorry people are so not looking at the chat because your only one person
- Guest if you get stung by a bee, how long will the stinger stay in if you dont take it out
Bugscope Team forever, I guess, until it gets rubbed off
- Guest poor bee
- Guest qwerty
- Guest do ants have spines, if not how do they move?
- Guest is a bees sting deadly
- Guest what's the bug called
- Guest How many years do ants have to survive?
- Guest when you get sting by the bee and then the bee dies right or no
- Guest no
- Guest how many ant species are there
- Guest Sem i think theres more then a million
- Guest wat is that bug?
- Guest gh
- Guest can some ants have stingers
- Guest oh because i got stung by a bee and i never saw the stinger
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- Guest how long does it take for a bug to be come an adult
- Guest \
- Guest how many different bug are there
- Guest Which bees are the most common ones thata sting
- Guest knj;okkyihetmgfjlb ij4wq i 4iypbaf7-9
- Guest what is that on the bug is that the leg
- Guest thenks
- Guest who are u
- Guest do bees die after they sting someone
Bugscope Team only honeybees do. Their stinger is barbed, which causes it to get stuck in the skin of mammals
- Guest what happens when a fiy bite
Bugscope Team it hurts! They don't inject you with any venom or anything
- Guest about how long is the ants legs
- Guest cate can you tell me what kind of bug is that ?
- Guest does a bee have spikes on its stinger
- Guest how do bugs die?
- Guest which bees are common in toronto
- Guest How can you take the bees stinger out ?
- Guest how do bugs die
- Guest where is sem cate
- Guest do bees only sting humans
- Guest can this insect breed
- Guest which is more dangerous a wasp bite or a bee sting?
- Guest how did you guys create a microscope that could see so deep in an insect?
- Guest is it true that when you get stung by a bee and you dont take out the stingrer within three hours the venom may cause death
Bugscope Team not unless you are extremely allergic. The only other thing that might happen if you leave the stinger in is you could get an infection.
- Guest HOW MANY EGGS DOES A A BUGG LAY A A TIME
- Guest stop peyton
- Guest THE DIE
- Guest what's the red marks
- Guest is that grems
- Guest $
- Guest Are 75% of bugs poisonous
- Guest Is that hair or something else?
- Guest who is leaf monkey
- Guest rohan
- Guest it is rohan
- Guest yes didn't you know that leaf monkey
- Guest how do bugs die
Bugscope Team if we get live insects, we freeze them, which is like a humane way of killing them. Other insects may die because they get eaten or they don't have enough food or water
Bugscope Team some insects also can die from diseases
- Guest whats that stuff in his mouth?
- Guest which bugs are poisonous
- Guest yeah it is rohan
- Guest Are 75% of bugs poisonous
- Guest how long after a bee stings does it die
- Guest poisonous
- Guest i got sting by a bee but the stinger wasnt in their is my skin weaker than the bee
- Guest who some special
- Guest when they sting us people they die
- Guest what does a bee do
- Guest how many eggs does an ant lay at a time
- 9:58am
- Guest Are bugs poisonous
Bugscope Team most are not
- Guest does a bee die if it stings someone
Bugscope Team when a honeybee stings you and they lose their stinger, they will die from bleeding out. Bumblebees that can sting you multiple times won't die from stinging you unless you end up squishing them in the process
- Guest where do the poisonis bugs live
- Guest how do you know the difference betwwen a bee and a wasp
- Guest what does a beed do
- Guest bee*
- Guest does an insect have enough venom to kill a human
- Guest Why do bees sting ?
- Guest How long does a butterflies life last(Life Span)?
- Guest what do leafhopper's do
- Guest HOW DOES A MICROSCOPE Work
- Guest how many ant species are there
- Guest what kind of bugs is that ?
- Guest how might you get rid of the bees stinger
- Guest if a got stung by a bee and the stingers not in there is the bee still alive to sting someone else
- Guest what does a bee do for a liveing
- Guest is this bug poisonis
Bugscope Team no none of the insects in here are poisonous. The bee is venomous, which means they inject you with venom when they sting you. When something is poisonous, like a poison dart frog, that usually means that you would have to eat them or lick them to get sick
- Guest Are bees poisonous after they sting
Bugscope Team no they are not
- Guest V
- Guest byebyebyebyebyebyebyebye
- Guest the stuff in its mouth are the things that they help them eat with
- Guest how long is a water beetles life span
Bugscope Team maybe around a month
- Guest how long is a flies lifespan
Bugscope Team maybe 2 to 6 weeks
- Guest bye
- Guest How many species are their
- Guest how many ant species are there
- Guest bye guys
- Guest what kind of bug is that?
Bugscope Team millipede
- Guest can a bee sting other mammals than humans
Bugscope Team yes. Bees can also sting other creatures, and even insects.
- Bugscope Team bye guys!
- Guest thanks
- Guest bye
- Guest bye scot and cate
Bugscope Team Bye Doro.L
- Guest Drake sing a SONG/RAPP!
- Guest GOOD BYE
- Guest jerw8gjerup9ghaP
- Guest how much bugs are i the world
Bugscope Team trillions
- Guest Bye Guysss !!1
- Guest thanks for talking with us
- Guest by
- Guest bye
- Guest GOOOOODBBBYYYEEE
- Guest bye drake
- Guest lATEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
- Guest THANKS FOR ANWSERING OUR QUESTINS
- Guest ook i think they get it bye
- Guest bye
- Bugscope Team Thank You, Everyone!
- Guest bye scot
Bugscope Team Bye MayMay!
- Guest my really name is mariam
- Guest bye
Bugscope Team Bye Mariam
- 10:04am
- 10:09am
- Bugscope Team Hello Mrs Krebs!
- 10:14am
- Bugscope Team Welcome back to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team we had a school from Toronto log on this morning while we were setting up.
- 10:20am
- Bugscope Team we are ready to roll when you are
- Bugscope Team is everything all right on your end?
- Bugscope Team please let us know when you have questions
- 10:26am
- Teacher Hello, Scot! Thank you. It is good to be here.
- 10:31am
- Teacher Can we look at the stinger more closely?
Bugscope Team you can click on the preset and the 'scope will drive to that place
- Bugscope Team let us know if you have trouble driving
- Bugscope Team we are on a leafhopper head right now, which is a type of true bug like the cicada is
- Bugscope Team here is the wasp stinger
- Bugscope Team it's set up right now so that you (Mrs Krebs) have the ability to drive.
- Bugscope Team sweet
- Bugscope Team you can see that the stinger is serrated like a steak knife
- Bugscope Team it has little steak knife cutting edges on the stinger
- Teacher I'm not driving very well, though, am I?
Bugscope Team it is tricky to drive
- Bugscope Team you're doing great!
- Bugscope Team I am sitting at the microscope, so I can help...
- Bugscope Team stingers and ovipositors are the same things
- Student OK, Sierra is driving now.
- Teacher can we look at the wing scales?
- Bugscope Team we just gave Sierra control.
- Teacher How do I move it?
Bugscope Team click on the image where you want to move to
- Bugscope Team it is difficult, remotely, to get feedback when you try to drive
- 10:36am
- Teacher Thanks. She's giving it a try now.
- Student what insect are these wings from?
Bugscope Team monarch butterfly
- Bugscope Team so the way you move the 'scope now is to click on a place on the screen, and the 'scope moves to that place.
- Bugscope Team that's a piece of dirt or something
- Bugscope Team the ridges and the latticework we see refract light and give us what are called 'structural colors'
- Bugscope Team we were about 72,000x magnification when we were zoomed in!
- Bugscope Team this microscope can resolve things as small as 2 nanometers under perfect condictions
Bugscope Team conditions
- Teacher Wow!
- Bugscope Team you can see the scale bar right now is about as big as a single bacterium
- Bugscope Team scales give the wings color, but they also protect butterflies and moths when they fly into spiderwebs by sticking to the web and letting the insect leave them there and slip out
- Student I'm impressed
- Bugscope Team scales also function like feathers do on a bird's wings
- Teacher Can John have control now, please?
- 10:42am
- Bugscope Team they seemed to have disappeared from the list
- Teacher OK, thanks! Can David take control? The others are coming back in.
Bugscope Team david has control!
- Bugscope Team when we use the microscope for research we have the ability to get much closer to the specimens and get better resolution
- Student Can I see the moth head
- Bugscope Team these are scales, which are modified setae, on the moth head
- Bugscope Team the hole here is where something broke off, mabe a seta (bug hair)
- Bugscope Team now you can see the compound eye, with all of its facets, called ommatidia
- 10:47am
- Bugscope Team the antenna on the moth is kind of slicked back down its back to the left of the screen
- Student on the right of the eye, the thing hat points up, is that their nose or mouth
Bugscope Team kind of. It's a palp, which helps for tasting or moving around food
- Student oh thank you
- Bugscope Team the moth is covered with scales
- Bugscope Team palps are mouth parts. Its main mouthpart is the proboscis, which we can't see
- Bugscope Team we don't see the mouth here; often moths have a coiled proboscis
- Bugscope Team moths and butterflies have some pretty compound eyes
- Student why do they have so many ommatidia?
Bugscope Team the ommatidia help the moth see all around it without moving its head; they give the moth better peripheral vision
- Student How many scales are there on the moth?
Bugscope Team thousands. And they help with giving the moth color or they can shed some to help get out of a sticky situation- like a spider web
- Bugscope Team also, having a compound eye is helpful to insects because they get much better updates when the visual field changes
- Student how many ommitidia do they have?
Bugscope Team they probably have a few thousand per compound eye. Some wasps can have up to 17000 ommatidia
- Bugscope Team this is cool
- Bugscope Team you can see the tiny features on the surface of one ommatidium
- Student Thank you
- Student that's alot
- Bugscope Team many moths can see ultraviolet wavelengths of light, and they can also see better in the dark
- 10:52am
- Student What is in the middle?
Bugscope Team that is a seta, a single seta, like a hair, that is mechanosensory -- it senses touch and wind
- Student Thank you
- Student Why do they have so many eyes
Bugscope Team they help the insect have very good peripheral vision, and they also update very quickly so the moth can register super fast motion
- Teacher Do all the ommatidium have seta in the corners?
Bugscope Team no not all. They are kind of spread out. There are some insects, like fruit flies and some bees, which have them between all the ommatidia.
- Student Oh Thankyou
- Bugscope Team if you had eyes that were big and bulbous like that you could see much more without turning your head
- Student what is on the eye
- Bugscope Team this is totally cool
- Bugscope Team those are brochosomes, which are super small particles produced by leafhoppers
- Bugscope Team the image is distorting a little bit now at this magnification on this part of the insect
- Student can i have control, and can we look at the yellow jacket tounge
Bugscope Team got it Dude
- 10:58am
- Bugscope Team when we see those tiny features we are imaging at the nanoscale
- Bugscope Team these help with lapping up liquids
- Student this tounge looks funny, can you explain what part they are?
- Student what is a nanoscale
Bugscope Team we can see things that are millimeter sized, but we cannot see things on the microscale, like micrometers, and the nanoscale is even smaller
- Student oh thanks
- Teacher Here's a link to a video I should have shown you before today, Sierra. We'll watch it later. http://ed.ted.com/on/1F1B2LsH
- Student Why is it shreded?
Bugscope Team it helps suck up liquids along the parts, kind of like a mop
- Student Thank you
- Bugscope Team bacteria are often 2 micrometers long; that is 2000 nanometers and 0.002 millmeters
- Student Sweet!
- Bugscope Team oops 'millimeters'
- Student I never knew a tiny bug had so many parts
- Student Awesome!
- 11:03am
- Bugscope Team the wavelengths of visible light run from about 400 to 700 nanometers; with this electron microscope we can see features that are smaller than the wavelengths of visible light
- Student what are the little pointy things?
- Student is this the inside of the tongue?
Bugscope Team we were on the bottom of the mandible, which is the jaw
- Bugscope Team brochosomes are usually 250 to 400 nanometers in diameter, so they are nano scale
- Student thanks
- Teacher Scot, what did you mean by "oops millimeters" I liked your description of nanoscale. It's right, isn't it?
- Bugscope Team oh because I spelled millimeters wrong
- Bugscope Team millimeters, micrometers (microns), nanometers...
- Student what are the little pointy things?
- Student what are the little pointy things?
Bugscope Team those are microsetae, so small that they do not connect to nerves under the cuticle
- Bugscope Team insects have hairs all over their bodies. They help with sensations like touch or taste, depending on what kind of hairs they are
- Student thank you
- Student sweet, thanks
- Student Can I have control and can we look at the water bettle
Bugscope Team you are now the Supreme Ruler
- 11:08am
- Bugscope Team it is possible if you look at the fine filterlike setae you will find diatoms
- Student what body part is this
Bugscope Team that is the face of the water beetle
- Bugscope Team you can see its antennae and its compound eyes
- Bugscope Team also you can see its mouthparts
- Student is this the arm
- Bugscope Team its mandibles, and the clypeus, which is the part on top, and also its palps, which are accessory mouthparts that help it taste and also manipulate its food
- Student What body part is this?
Bugscope Team this is one of the forelegs, so we are somewhere on the thorax
- Student Thank you
- 11:13am
- Student Is this a joint
- Teacher What has MaKenna zoomed into now?
Bugscope Team this is one of the joints, as David noted, and there is a bunch of debris here, but we don't see any diatoms, yet
- Bugscope Team that is a ball and socket joint that has different segments to it
- Bugscope Team you could compare it to the ant antenna ball and socket joint
- Teacher Scot, we are getting our lunches and we'll be right back for a few more minutes if that's OK.
Bugscope Team great!
- Teacher This is fascinating. We always have to go back and re-read the transcript though to see what we've learned.
- 11:19am
- Teacher Now, some of us are back with food. Do you think you can control and show us some more?
- Bugscope Team oh this is an ant
- Bugscope Team ants are closely related to wasps and bees
- Bugscope Team you can tell an ant from a wasp because it has a long straight portion on its antennae close to the head -- I've been trying to remember what it's called
- Student is it the head
Bugscope Team yes we are seeing the front of the head. You can barely see the eyes on the side of the head and one of the antenna is coming to the front
Bugscope Team we are mostly seeing the mouthparts
- Bugscope Team almost all ants are females
- Bugscope Team if you see an ant with wings, it is a male
- Bugscope Team except the queen ant may also have wings when she is young
- Bugscope Team now I moved us to the yellowjacket head
- Bugscope Team it has some scales on the head maybe from a mosquito or a moth
- Bugscope Team the yellowjacket has large compound eyes, and you can see the bases of its antennae here
- Student is that hair?
Bugscope Team lots and lots of hair, called setae
- 11:24am
- Bugscope Team the long setae (hairs) on the top of the head are likely also sensory, letting the wasp feel wind and thus calculate windspeed
- Student those lines on the face, what are they
Bugscope Team they are joints for the mandibles
- Bugscope Team there are lots of tiny scales from a moth or butterfly on the wasp's head
- Bugscope Team the mandibles -- the jaws -- open side to side, unlike our mandibles
- Bugscope Team the mandibles have serrated edges like a spork, kind of
- Student what is the ridged thing pointing to the left
- Bugscope Team like a combination spoon/fork
- Bugscope Team so this right here is one of the mandibles, and to the left of it is the hinge of the other mandible, which is folded under
- Student what is the burlap looking thing
Bugscope Team the wasp tongue is what that is
- Student is that like the tongue we looked at earlier?
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Bugscope Team the tongue of a bee is called a glossa, and I think it is also called a glossa in a wasp
- 11:30am
- Bugscope Team this is a lcloseup of one of the scales we found on the wasp's mandible
- Student are these wings?
Bugscope Team these are scales on the wing
- Bugscope Team this you can tell is not an insect because it has more than six legs
- Student what is this?
Bugscope Team it is a millipede
- Student ok thank you guys we have to go now
- Student Thank you bye!
Bugscope Team OH NO!
- Teacher Scot and Cate, thank you so much for the session. We are going to have to go now.
- Student thanks for helping us bye!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team Thanks, have a great day
- Bugscope Team See you next year!
- Student Bye
- Student Bye thank you
- Student Bye thank a lots
- Student Thanks so much! we appreciate it!
