Connected on 2012-11-19 09:30:00 from Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
- 8:02am
- Bugscope Team we are starting to make presets
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- Bugscope Team we are ready to roll
- 9:29am
- Teacher Hi! We are logging on.
- Student Hi
- Bugscope Team hi!
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Student thats amazing
- Bugscope Team Welcome back, Mrs. V!
- Bugscope Team this is a super tiny caterpillar, so small you can hardly see it
- Teacher Wow! I am amazed at all of the awesome presets! Thanks!
Bugscope Team nice samples
- Student woah
- Student hi there
- Teacher I am so excited to be back. I look forward to this all year.....and collect samples like a maniac. :-)
- Student what are we looking at currently?
Bugscope Team these are crochets on the hind legs of a caterpillar
- Student hello
- Bugscope Team the hooks help the caterpillar stay on whatever plant it is holding onto
- Student wow
- Student what is that?
- Teacher Please transfer driver to M.Romon, II
- Student That is really cool
- Student these are amazing
- Bugscope Team we are looking at the hooks, called crochets, on a tiny caterpillar's prolegs
- Student move around m
- Student what is that
- Student Are those it's legs?
Bugscope Team those are prolegs, which are in addition to the six normal legs the caterpillar has
- Student that is really cook
- 9:34am
- Student r those dots pimples?????
Bugscope Team no those are most likely microsetae, or tiny hairs that help sense something like touch
- Student that is so awesome
- Student Cate do you like your job
Bugscope Team yes. It never gets boring. When I am not chatting with people on Bugscope, I am helping other users image their samples.
- Student what is it
- Student is that the feet
Bugscope Team it is the feet at the back end of the caterpillar; 'prolegs' are kind of like 'proto' legs
- Student woah
- Student what are we looking at
Bugscope Team that was a super tiny caterpillar you sent
- Student o
- Student sj what is ur name
- Student that's amazing!
- Student Is that the mouth
- Student that is so cool
- Student that is really cool
- Student what part of the caterpillar is it?
- Teacher Kids, think about how much more magnified these are than what we looked at in class!
- Student i dont like when it gets blurry
- Student wow are those its eyes and mouth
Bugscope Team the eyes were on either side of the turret thing sticking out. The mouth is a bit further away
- Student very cool
- Student look at the bronkosomes please m
- Student this is fantastic
- Student that looks like a spider
- Student oh i see it now are those legs
- Student WOW!!!
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team the DaddyLonglegs was collected by Nick
- Student can u magnify as muckh as poossible
- Student no its not Jonathan
- Student is that the mouth?
- Student what are those hairs
- Student bout to see a mite
- Student whats thatwhs
- Bugscope Team and this is super cool
- Student hi scot how long have u been doing this job
- Student do the assassin bug
- Student that is sweet
- Teacher Let's take a good look at each "bug" before skipping to another, please!
- Student are you guys in college?
Bugscope Team we are done with college, but we work at a university
- Teacher Check out that compound eye!
- Student the compound eye!
- Student what is on its eye?
- 9:39am
- Student how old are you scot
- Student zoom in more
- Student it looks like water
- Student it looks like a golf ball
- Bugscope Team you can see that it has probably 1500 ommatidia -- the individual facets of the eye
- Student what big eyes you have
- Student keshav is driver
- Student how do you put the gold on the bugs
Bugscope Team we use a sputter coater machine. It uses a current and argon gas to react with a metal target to create a plasma that basically gently rains metal down onto the sample
- Student magnify more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student its like looking at an egg
- Student whats on the eye?
Bugscope Team there is often a bit of dirt or a film of fine debris
- Teacher Please transfer driver control to Keshav. Good job driving, M!
Bugscope Team Keshav is the Supreme Ruler now
- Student thanks m!!
- Student woah
- Student maybe
- Student wow is the gas toxic
Bugscope Team I don't think so
- Student what is that
- Student oh my gosh!
- Bugscope Team these are a kind of mold spores
- Student that is sooooo cool
- Student Scot you're funny
- Bugscope Team they are right next to the mite
- Student is that mold
- Student what made you want to study bugs scot
- Student its so bumpy
- Student wow
- Student it looks like the mold has pimples
- Student what are the bumps doing on there
- Student hahaha Olivia
- Student this is incredible
- Student that is awesome
- Student what is that
- Student awesome!!!!!!
- Student taking it to the max
- Student wow what are those
- Student more
- Student looks like a part of a bee hive
- Teacher Good question Jafar!
- Student are these like adams
- Student or are we not zoomed in enough?
- Student what is a tenent setae
- Student it kind of looks like a christmas tree
- Student i dont think so
- Student it does Nora
- Bugscope Team on the brochosomes you could not go too high in mag because there is a kind of distortion from the electron beam hitting the sample
- Student what r adams. do u mean atoms
- Teacher Keshav, you are doing a great job driving!
- 9:44am
- Student that looks like a factory
- Student WOW
- Student are those pours>
- Student what does antennal mean??
- Student little holes!!!
- Student this is pretty cool
- Student how do u coat the bugs in gold
- Student that is aawsome
- Teacher What bug is this?
Bugscope Team we are on a moth
Bugscope Team or a silverfish
- Student what are brochosomes
Bugscope Team brochosomes are nanoparticles, usually about 250 to 400 nm in diameter, that are said to be produced solely by leafhoppers. they are thought to help keep eggs from drying out, but leafhoppers also 'anoint' themselves with them.
- Student I can see the eye and mouth
- Teacher This is the silverfish I surprised in my bathroom.
- Bugscope Team the silverfish got kind of beat up
- Student ew
- Student that is discusting
- Student what is this
- Student what is that
- Student it looks like a doctor suess tree
- Student looks like feathers are hanging off of it
- Student its amazing
- Bugscope Team this is the antenna of a small moth or fly you sent, likely a male because it has these ornate features
- Teacher That's art!
- Student how do you switch the presets so fast?
- Student no it looks like a doc sues animal
- Teacher I've never seen anything like that before.
- Student ornate features?
- Student wow
- Student zooom plz
- Student wat r those
- Student that is awesome
- Student i see the compound eyes
- Student it looks like a face!!!
- Student looks like a stingray
- Bugscope Team male moths have lots of chemoreceptors on their antennae
- Teacher There is a lot of dirt ("juju") on this one.
- Student those compound r sweet
- Student what are chemoreceptors
- Student is that a bee hive?
- Bugscope Team two of the heads fell off
- Bugscope Team these are some of the ommatidia
- Student thats cool!!!!!
- Student it has two heads?
- Student it looks like a +
- Teacher Great job driving Keshav! Charlie to drive next please.
- Student what is that symble
- Student right
- Student how many heads are there
- Student they look like they have crosses on them
- Bugscope Team the surface of the ommatidium is dried a bit, and slightly shrunken
- Teacher Ommatidia = facets of compound eye?
Bugscope Team yes that's right
- Student wat r facets
- Student .
- Student sorry
- Student this is cool
- Student wat r those patterns
Bugscope Team sometimes they are hexagonal in shape, which is the best shape to fit the surface of something curved
- 9:50am
- Student oh
- Student hoo is drivin\
- Student interesting
- Student why do they have that x on the eyes
Bugscope Team the thing that looks like an x is a place where some of the bristle-like setae have crossed
- Student that is so cool!!!!!
- Student charlie's driving
- Student It has hairs
- Student huge cheeks
- Student wow
- Student soooooo many
- Student so do they have setae on their eyes
- Teacher We're getting great pictures of the compound eyes!
- Bugscope Team the vestiture is made of microsetae
- Student really good pics
- Bugscope Team it would be better if the person driving would take time to focus a bit here
- Student Why are there dots between the circles
- Student do bugs blink?
Bugscope Team no they don't have eyelids. If they need to clear something off their eyes or antennae, they will use their front legs. You might have seen a fly land and do this
- Student what are the dots in between the big dots
- Student they look like honeycombs
- Student are those circles or hexagons
Bugscope Team they look hexagonal
- Student microsetae?
Bugscope Team microsetae are tiny setae (setae are the things that look like hairs); microsetae do not go through the cuticle to nerves beneath, like setae do
- Teacher Wow! Fabulous images! Go Charlie!
- Student What is in that in the eye
- Student y did it move
- Student are those like fingerprints
Bugscope Team in a way. when the insect is alive, they may not be so prominent
- Student how weird is that
- Student WHAT DOES ANTENNALL MEAN?
Bugscope Team antennal means related to the antenna
- Student its moving!!
- Student Its is moving
- Student is that a paresite
- Student what is that white dot
Bugscope Team that is a seta that is pointed toward us and kind of hard to distinguish
- Student it is MOVING
- Student its alliivve]
- Student why is it moving?
- Student i just saw it mave!!
Bugscope Team yes the electron beam is putting a lot of energy there and making it move
- Student right
- Student so true olivia
- Student why is it moving. Im scared
Bugscope Team the electron beam is strong enough to move it a little
- Student why is the white thing moving?
Bugscope Team because at high mag the electron beam heats up parts of the sample
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- Student no
- Student so its coming back to life???? im confused
Bugscope Team yes it is coming back to life
- Teacher That is so cool. I don't ever think we've seen that happen in one of our sessions before.
- Student its like being jolted wit enrgy
Bugscope Team that is what is happening
- Student oh
- Bugscope Team this is the leafhopper
- Student oh im not confused any more
- Student wow thats cool
- Student Is that does that mean its like frankenstine
Bugscope Team haha Yeah
- Student 4
- Student wat made u guys want to study bugs
Bugscope Team we do this because it is super interesting, and insects/arthropods are almost endlessly fascinating
- Student what does sem stand
Bugscope Team scanning electron microscope
- Student 4?
- Student thanks
- Student its kind of sparkling
- Bugscope Team Jacky I am sitting at the SEM, and I am logged into this computer as SEM
- Student oh
- Bugscope Team the tiny white things we were seeing were brochosomes
- Teacher Charlie, fabulous job driving! Next driver is Nora, please.
- Student wow
- Student its art!!!!!
- Student they look like little brains
- Student It looks like popcorn
- Student looks like coral
- Student looks like the moon or a different planet
- Student it's so lumpy
- Bugscope Team when I sit at the SEM, I can use its controls to fix the focus for us more quickly
- Student cool
- Student SOOOOOOOO much magnification
- Student OMG
- 10:00am
- Student hyper active magnification
- Student MORE magnification
- Student KEEP GOING IN
- Bugscope Team leafhoppers have what is called a 'self-anointing behavior' in which they spread brochosomes on their cuticle
- Student its soooo lumpy
- Student /
- Student whoops
- Teacher When you have a chance, Nora to drive please.
Bugscope Team got it!
- Teacher Thanks!
- Student its a mmmaaaaarrrrtian
- Student nora
- Student are those eyesseds
- Student look at the leafhopper proboscos]\
- Student go to the probiscus
- Student is that his mouth
- Student zoom in all the way\
- Student what does proboscos mean?
- Teacher I think these tubes are where the antenna were??
- Student the antennae look like eyes and the compound eyes look like cheeks!!!!!
- Student Malpigihian tubules?\
Bugscope Team they are tubules inside the body of the insect that help with excretory and osmoregulatory functions
- Student its amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
- Student what type of eye is that
- Bugscope Team this is where the antenna is broken off
- Student is that a mouth
- Student what are those spikes
Bugscope Team the spikes are little bristles that help the fly sense when something is touching it, or wind
- Student its an antennae
Bugscope Team it
- Student r those setae
- Student what are pedicels?
- Bugscope Team it is the base of the antenna, called a pedicel
- Student go to the compound
- Student what does proboscos mean?
- Bugscope Team now we see the fly's whole head
- Student What are the hair for?
- Student speechless
- Student what is the highest magnification power did you use to observe a bug
Bugscope Team we probably don't go much higher than 100,000x on an insect
Bugscope Team we don't usually go above maybe 70,000x because of the distortion we see at super high mags
- Student awesome
- Teacher Thank you so much for including the kids names on the labels!
- Student tthat isss awesommmmeeeeee
- Student it is puffy
- Student What are the hairs
- Bugscope Team or, as Cate said, 100,000x
- Teacher I meant.....cool!
- Teacher No wonder it is difficult to swat a fly; they have so many sensory hairs and giant eyes!
Bugscope Team that's right! And their compound eyes are great for seeing motion. They probably see your hand coming at them and it's moving in slow motion when they see it
- Student thats cool
- 10:05am
- Student its @@@@@@@@@@oooout of this world
- Student why are there so many hairs
Bugscope Team the hairs are called setae, and they help the insect sense its environment
- Student how many setae does an average bug have?
- Student are those sensory hairs
- Bugscope Team some setae are mechanosensory -- touch and wind sensitive
- Teacher Remember...we talked about setae a bit. You also learned about setae when you studied earthworms in lower school.
- Student this is really cool
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team some setae are thermosensory, for hot/cold sensing
- Teacher Now you can ask more specific questions about setae if you want to know more!
- Bugscope Team some setae are chemosensory, for smell
- Student interwesting
- Bugscope Team this is the face of a mondo big boy bumble bee you sent
- Student it looks like there are theeth
- Student there are a ton of hairs
- Student BBBUUUMMMMBBLLLEEEE BBBBEEEEEEEEEEEE
- Student what is strangest bug you have magnified
Bugscope Team there are some hexapods, like springtails, that are not even insects
- Student teeth
- Bugscope Team an insect could have thousands of setae. or even hundreds of thousands
- Teacher Keshav is on fire with asking great questions!
- Student Chose one nora
- Teacher I keep trying to get springtails to send in.....they are sooo tiny!
- Student how do u coat the gold
- Student how many setae does an average bug have
Bugscope Team thousands
- Student Mrs. V who brought this one
- Student sweet
- Bugscope Team see the mandibles on either side of the stipes?
- Student awesome
- Bugscope Team the mandibles open side to side, like a gate
- Student zinc? isnt that a metal
- Student do you get a lot of bugs sent in
Bugscope Team yes we do
- Teacher Hardened with zinc? That sounds like something out of the xmen. What bug has that?
Bugscope Team some ants, for example, will have zinc in the tips of their mandibles
- Student yay
- Student Griffin
- Bugscope Team here we see some mold spores -- oops out of the image now
- Student Griffman!!!
- Teacher Please transfer driver power to Griffin, please. Great job driving, Nora!
Bugscope Team Griffin is the Supreme Ruler now
- 10:10am
- Student zinc is an underwater source, right?
- Teacher Is this the wheelbug we sent in?
- Student go to the wheel bug
- Student what are those holes
Bugscope Team we think they are chemoreceptors -- we think they may be pores that collect smells from the air, such as pheromones, but we are not at all sure
- Bugscope Team you can see the tiny assassin bug's legs now, to the left of the moth
- Student amazing
- Bugscope Team now we see his head, and his proboscis
- Student it really is
- Teacher I would never have known the legs of that bug were THAT spiky without this. Cool and a bit scary.
- Student Œ„´‰ˇÁ¨ˆØ∏ÅÍÎÏ˝ÓÔÒÚÆ
- Bugscope Team it is a spiny little dude
- Student true dat
- Student has there been anything alive while you are looking at it through the microscope
Bugscope Team usually things are dead. It helps to have the insects dead and dried out to look at them because they have to be in a vacuum. We can look at things in a lower vacuum state with some moisture, and scott has. The other thing that is difficult when things are alive in the microscope is they tend to move around so it's hard to image them. They also tend to not like being hit with the electron beam
- Bugscope Team the proboscis is folded down so we cannot quite see the tip
- Student are those germs
Bugscope Team not there, but we can see germs when they are present
- Student do they eat 's?
- Student Griffin can we look at the wheel? please?
- Student yeah plllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaasssssseeeeeeee?
- Student k
- Bugscope Team this fly's head is crushed, a bit
- Student \
- Student
- Student that is the best
- Student
- Student not cool
- Student
- Student john stop
- Bugscope Team you can see that the assassin bug has raptorial forelimbs like a praying mantis
- Student this is serious
- Student its incredible
- 10:15am
- Bugscope Team this assassin bug does not have a wheel on its dorsal side
- Bugscope Team now we see what is likely dried hemolymph
- Student no h in my name except for the one after the tr
- Student that looks weird
- Student poor bug
- Student wht is an assassin bug?
Bugscope Team it is an insect, a hemipteran, that attacks other insects and sucks the juice out of them
- Teacher Do you kids understand what "raptorial forearms" means? (Very cool phrase, btw)
- Student do they eat ?
- Student do u mean a literal wheel?
Bugscope Team a half wheel
- Student whats a Mckayla mouth?
- Student oh thx SEM
- Teacher What is a McKayla mouth?
Bugscope Team its mouth is bent to one side like the gymnast's when she is not happy
- Bugscope Team McKayla Moroney
- Teacher lol, like your comparision
- Student bye
- Bugscope Team this is a kind of flexible tissue we see on insects sometimes
- Student Thanks bye
- Student thanks
- Student thanks
- Teacher Time to go. Please sign out and say bye...not in that order.
- Student thx
- Student i really enjoyed this
Bugscope Team sweet
- Bugscope Team Thank you, Everyone!
- Bugscope Team thanks for all your great questions!
- Bugscope Team We enjoyed working with you, and you sent the most awesome specimens
- Teacher New class will be here soon.
- Teacher New class coming in. PLease switch control of scope to me.
Bugscope Team you are the Supreme Commander
- 10:20am
- Teacher Wooohoo! Love being Supreme COmmander! :-)
- Bugscope Team the new class should be able to log in with new names
- Bugscope Team you can see one of the spiracles, further south on the thorax
- Teacher Am I far south enough?
- Teacher spiracle showing?
Bugscope Team that might be a spiracle
- Bugscope Team let me go back to the SEM and check
- Student WHat are we looking
- Teacher spiracle!!
- Bugscope Team this is a spiracle on the thorax of the assassin bug
- Teacher Kids are here and loggin in!
- 10:25am
- Bugscope Team spiracles are what insects breathe through
- Student Hello
- Bugscope Team they can open and close them to ensure that they get air but also do not get dried out
- Student COOOL
- Student moo
Bugscope Team Hello, Owen
- Student hi people
Bugscope Team Hello JC
- Student hello
- Teacher Appropriate chat, as discussed, please!
- Student s a cool thing
- Student moo moo moo'
Bugscope Team these are invertebrates, you know
- Teacher No more mooing, please. Sigh.
- Student okay i did
- Student yolo
- Student who is nate
- Teacher Nate to drive, please.
- Bugscope Team cows are vertebrates, with endoskeletons; insects are invertebrates and have exoskeletons, which is why they have so many setae covering their cuticle
- Student okay, i thought it was another random guy
- Student wow, that is an assassin bug head
Bugscope Team this, now, is one of its spiracles
- Student wow
- Student looks like coral
- Bugscope Team spiracles lead inside the body, to tubes called tracheae
- Student grass!
- Student Woah it's like maggots poking out.
Bugscope Team haha yeah
- Student thats creepy
- Student grass is on his head
- Student what is that
- Student ????
- Student what are those
Bugscope Team those were part of the filtering apparatus of the spiracle
- Student nvm
- Student it has a mohawk lol!
Bugscope Team that's right!
- Student that is so cool!!!
- Bugscope Team suits of armor are kind of like exoskeletons
- Bugscope Team it's a small moth, like a clothes moth
- Student What are those things poking out of the eyes?
Bugscope Team those are setae, or hairs
- Student what are those hairs?
- Bugscope Team you can see setae, and also scales, which are a form of setae as well
- Student do you like your job
Bugscope Team it is super fun much of the time
- Student looks like a frog on it's eye
- Teacher juju=dust, dirt, debris
- Student wow a eye i think??
Bugscope Team yes you are correct! it is a compound eye
- Student is that a beehive
- 10:30am
- Student no its an assassin bug head still
- Student what is that
Bugscope Team this is the side view of an assassin bug head
- Student what are those lines
- Student Requiesta in pace senior assassin
- Student the eye looks like a dome
- Bugscope Team they have long skinny heads like beaker from muppets
- Student what are those things that look like maggots
- Student they look like maggots
Bugscope Team ewww
- Student ?????
- Student Is that little pod its eye?
Bugscope Team yes
- Student another eye
- Student ??????????????????? for fancyquinn54
- Student wow
- Student creepy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student MOTH MAN!
- Student Woah that's so much setae!
- Student i dont like that thing
- Student what is that
- Student hairs
- Student is that bacteria on the eye
Bugscope Team we can see bacteria but need to be very close to the surface for that -- they are usually about 2 micrometers -- 2 microns -- long
- Student there like little dots
- Student It's like the inside of a Pomegranite!
- Student or bubble rap
- Student wwwooowww
- Student they look like bubbles
- Bugscope Team moths are covered with scales, as are butterflies, silverfish, mosquitoes, and few other insects
- Teacher Extreme close-up.....back up!
- Teacher These look a little dried out/deflated.
Bugscope Team yes they are!
- Student MAGNIFICATION WAS OVER 9000!
- Student what is that?
- Student It's a zombie bug!
- Student oh.
- Student weevil?
Bugscope Team yes they are sometimes called snout beetles
- 10:35am
- Student what is a weavel
Bugscope Team they are insects with snouts like anteaters.
- Student what are those little lines??\
- Student more lines?????
- Teacher What is that part? A mouth?
Bugscope Team it is hard to tell just where we are; I think just outside of the mouth
- Student to close
- Student MOUTH HOLE!
- Student why a snout beetle?
Bugscope Team because they have what appears to be a snout, or long nose
- Student how is that a mouth
- Teacher Thanks for your great driving, Nate!
- Student oh, okay. i thought it was because it kind of looks like a pig.
- Student )
- Bugscope Team this looks like a joint on this part of the head
- Student that is cool
- Student wow!
- Student Shark attack!
- Student that is sickkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student (to Scot
Bugscope Team pigs have snouts, that is fair
- Student thanks
- Student nate are you freezing?
- Student !!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????? what is that
- Student !!!???
- Bugscope Team this is cool because the caterpillar is so small
- Student soooo cool
- Student what is that?
- Student CLaws
- Student wow they look like little ahirs
- Student hairs
- Student creepy
- Student totally
- Student what are the holes
- Student ?
- Student yeah, you're right
- Student ???, im lost
- Student magnified over 9000 time Jacob
- Bugscope Team you can see mold spores to the upper left in an earlier lower mag view of this part of the antenna
- Student wow, i didn't know that
- Student wow
- Student oops it is under
- Student crazy
- Student it looks like bean sports
- Bugscope Team these are tenent setae on the pulvillus of a fly
- Student This is so cool
- Student now over 9000
- Teacher I had to check under the microscope to make sure I was actually sending in a caterpillar and not just some dirt....that's how small the caterpillar is.
Bugscope Team yeah it was super tiny. good eye!
- Bugscope Team when we get too close the electron beam makes them charge up with electrons
- Student i need a thesaurus to find synonyms for "cool"
- Student what was that
- Student cool a mite
- 10:40am
- Student eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team this is a mite -- we have never had anyone send us a lone mite before
- Student i hate mites because they are in people
- Student BOSS
Bugscope Team haha Yeah!
- Student how about sweet, rad ect joey
- Student Ikea BOSS nate
- Student cracks
- Student What is it grabbing on to?
Bugscope Team I put it on the doublestick carbon tape using a fine paintbrush with ethanol on it
- Student cracks
- Student Sweet!
- Student awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team this looks much like the compound eye of a mosquito
- Student coooooooollllll
- Student the EYE!
- Student :)
- Student thats awesomw
- Student e
- Student those r deflated
- Student cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Teacher Woohoo! Another critter I had to doublecheck uder the scope (the mite). We tried to find tiny things to send in. :-)
Bugscope Team there is a trail of tiny things on the stub that I did not have time to make presets of. but they were mostly very dry and flattened out
- Student They look like biscuits after being in the oven for too long!
- Student they look like salt cubes
- Teacher Do a lot of compound eyes from different insects look similar close up?
Bugscope Team some are kind of hard, and some have a thin film that as we have seen, dries out a bit
- Student it looks like a face
- Teacher I sent them in kind of late...sorry. But thanks for giving it a shot! I'm really happy that you did as many presets as you did.
- Bugscope Team moth compound eyes have fine features at higher mag
- Student ≠–ººª•¶§∞¢£™¡`œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπ“‘«åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æ
- Student is that a head or a mouth
Bugscope Team the mouth is to the lower left\
- Student what is that?
- Student -_-
- Student oops
- Teacher Mold spores on there?
Bugscope Team yes! good eye!
- Student oh, i see it
- Student I like
- Student these bugs are so cool
- Student do they eat them
- Bugscope Team this is the head/body of the leafhopper
- Student ˆ
- Student how long have u guys 1 been doing 3 this
Bugscope Team it'll be 14 years on March 19
- Teacher No more apples, please. We are getting distracted!!
- Student i like
- Student Apple spam Nooooo! Anyways what do these little things come from?
- Student okay mrs. v
- Student it looks like diomonds
- Bugscope Team welcome to nanoscale
- Teacher Next driver is Jacob DS. Thanks, Jon! Good job!
- Student soo cool
- Student diamonds
- 10:46am
- Bugscope Team they are usually about 250 to 400 nm in diameter; that is the wavelengths of UV to visible light
- Student NANOSCALE IS COOL
- Student what is nanoscale
Bugscope Team the scale of size in which we are working at billionths of a meter
- Student what is that
- Student how many times have WT done this, do you know
Bugscope Team i don't know off the top of my head.
- Student is that mold?
Bugscope Team sorry missed it
- Student looks like scales
- Bugscope Team these are scales
- Student It's like seashells
- Student what are those?
- Student they look like flower pedals
- Student does it have scales
Bugscope Team this silverfish has scales, which help it escape spiderwebs
- Student hi
- Teacher Owen and everyone else, no more random characters!
- Student looks like pedals
- Student do you do a lot of these sessions a year
- Teacher Silverfish are crazy little things. They are silver and when they move, they wiggle like fish...hence the name.
- Student bugs
- Student SILVERFISHY!
- Student Is it the mouth?
- Student how long does it take
- Student to write a responser
- Student the brochosomes things
Bugscope Team brochosomes are produce in the Malpighian tubules of leafhoppers and applied to the cuticle surface for some unknown reason; they may help with thermo- or hydroregulation, if there is such a thing
- Student x the r
- Student sorry
- Student good i spelled it right
Bugscope Team haha
- Student Tomorrow is meh birth day!
- Teacher See the carbon tape in the background.
- Student what is the coolest bug you have ever scope
- Student very cool
- Student yea
- Teacher This silverfish is pretty tiny. Hard to tell on this.
- Student what has been the coolest bug you ever scoped
Bugscope Team I like mites, and I like earwigs because they have mites, and I like collembola -- the springtails
- Student sorry i said it again
- Student Swimmin silver fishy
- Student scot is writing 2 replys at once
Bugscope Team it's the way the software delays, sometimes
- Student w33ow
- Student Fly away Fly!
- 10:51am
- Student big eyes!!!
- Student whats the dome thing?
Bugscope Team this is a fly's compound eye, and you can see it has some kind of juju on it'
- Student joo joo!
- Student wat is that
- Teacher Juju?
Bugscope Team basically particles that don't belong on the insect, like dust or dirt
- Student that a lot 5 of dirt
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student ÔÔ
- Student whoops
- Student happy meh birth day owen
Bugscope Team this is Jody Foster's 50th birthday
- Teacher Good driving Jacob! Owen to drive next, please.
Bugscope Team owen has control!
- Student Happy 50th B-Day Jody Foster
Bugscope Team Dude you are the Supreme Ruler now
- Student ha!
- Student i was looking at the other insects. whats a mckayla mouth?
Bugscope Team her mouth is held sideways like that when she is unhappy
- Student All hail the supreme ruler. Mayonnaise.
- Student okay.
- Student mayonnaise?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
- Bugscope Team this is a daddy long legs spider
- Student so cool
- Student it looks like crab eyes
- Student oh yah
- Student wo33w
- Student why mayonnaise?
- Student very cool
- Bugscope Team it has a kind of turret-like head, and it does look quite like a carb, as Eli said
- Teacher Back up.....too close.
- Student is that the mouth?
Bugscope Team the mouth is down south and hard to make out
- Student yeah, too close. i want to see the mouth
- 10:56am
- Student nanoscale yaaaaayyyyyy
- Student scot is STILL writing a reply
Bugscope Team sorry what was it about
- Student to that mold stuff thingies.
- Student looks like beeds
- Student they look like barnacles
- Student BROCHOSOMES
- Student okay, MRS. V
- Student where was this?
Bugscope Team this is on the head of the leafhopper
- Student cool!!!!!!
- Teacher Eli, good comparison!
- Teacher Remember, kids, you need to be patient both with replies and with microscope.
Bugscope Team sometimes the software seems to hang up; sometimes we need to refresh and the reply will show up
- Student ile ife is a city in Africa that is from about 1000 ad
- Student jacob
- Bugscope Team this is super high mag, and there is too much electron energy in one place right now
- Student that looks like a waterfall
- Student so cool
- Student that looks like the moon
- Student not that assassin bug]
- Student :]
- Teacher Back up!!!!!
Bugscope Team it is helpful that everyone can see that they really are driving a $600,000 scanning electron microscope -- these are not fixed images
- Student One of the claws things is broken! :O
- Student where is it broken?
Bugscope Team near the top
- Student looks like little antennae
- Student how tiny was this tiny caterpillar
Bugscope Team I think it was about a millimeter long
- Student that looks like a crochet hook
- Student top right
- Student oh yeah i see the break
- Student so cool
- Student so cool
- Student tiny!!!!!!!!!
- Teacher Sorry, Scott. There was much grousing here from the peanut gallery. :-)
Bugscope Team haha We are fine here.
- 11:01am
- Bugscope Team this is a proleg, at the back end of the caterpillar. it also has six normal legs\
- Student i think it looks like a keyboard without the letters
- Bugscope Team a proleg is kind of like a 'proto' leg
- Student before the hairs things
- Teacher Owen, thanks for driving! Please give Emma the controls!
Bugscope Team emma has it
- Student ok
- Student It's so... Glowy.
- Student good job OWEN
- Teacher Yes, good job Owen!
- Bugscope Team this is the very large super fuzzy caterpillar now
- Bugscope Team it is covered with mold spores
- Student go 0 emma
- Student good job wen
- Teacher This was the white caterpillar, I think.
Bugscope Team some of those have venomous setae
- Student Cool Eli
- Student awesome!
- Teacher Look at the detail on that setae!
- Bugscope Team it would be better to drive down the center
- Student wat is that
- Student whats that
- Student wow
- Student So FUZZY!
- Bugscope Team things like these setae charge up with electrons readily; it is hard to get a good coat of gold-palladium on fine setae like this
- Teacher Fabulous image!!!
- Student this is so cool
- Teacher What is all over the setae?
Bugscope Team I believe those are the same mold spores we have seen elsewhere today
- 11:06am
- Teacher Wow. Lots of mold here at WT. :-)
- Student Spiffing image my good chap, care for a spot of juju?
- Student thanks
- Student thank u
- Student TANK U
- Student thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student thanks scot and cate!
- Bugscope Team we put as much as 20 nm of gold-palladium on Bugscope samples
- Bugscope Team Thank You, Everyone!
- Student I THINK ITS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!
- Student BYE!
Bugscope Team Bye!\
- Bugscope Team thanks for a great session everyone!
- Teacher Time for the kids to go to lunch. I'll stay and drive the scope until my next class comes in at 12:40 if that's ok
Bugscope Team no problem!
- Teacher Excellent!
- Teacher I am such a bug geek....and proud of it!
Bugscope Team haha
- Bugscope Team you have control of the microscope Mrs. V
- 11:11am
- Teacher Did the kids forget to log out? I'm still seeing their names.
Bugscope Team they may have. we can always kick them off on our end
Bugscope Team last time I took their names off
- Teacher Looks like some did forget. Thanks for logging them out!
- Bugscope Team brb
- Bugscope Team okay I am back. please let us know when you have questions or can use some help from out end
- Bugscope Team our end...
- 11:16am
- Bugscope Team these are the soft portions of the super tiny caterpillar
- Bugscope Team unless we critical point dry specimens like this from ethanol, they will shrivel when they air dry
- Bugscope Team here when you try to focus, if it goes out of focus just go the other direction; it's up and down. if that is not obvious
- Bugscope Team focusing remotely can be tedious
- Teacher This is awesome. soft parts...are they on the belly or the back?
Bugscope Team I think we are on one of the sides of the body
- Bugscope Team the legs are to the right and the top of the body is to the left
- 11:22am
- Bugscope Team the caterpillar has six normal legs, since it is of course an insect; toward the back of the caterpillar is where we find the protolegs
- Teacher These are the legs?
Bugscope Team yes where we are now
- Bugscope Team that's one of the legs
- Bugscope Team the leg is just barely south of where we are now
- Bugscope Team you can see the stemmata now
- Teacher eyes?
- Bugscope Team the eyes
- Bugscope Team many caterpillars also have silk glands in the head
- Teacher Do caterpillars just have simple eyes?
Bugscope Team yes they do -- I don't believe they ever have compound eyes
- Teacher Maybe a dumb question.....but why do they have silk glands on their heads?
Bugscope Team to help them hold onto things, and also of course they may be building cocoons at some point
- Bugscope Team to get ready for the Next Big Thing
- 11:27am
- Teacher Thanks. I never thought about a silk gland on the head...just on the rear end. Very interesting....and again proving nature is weird. :-)
- Bugscope Team recently they have found that some spiders have silk glands elsewhere as well, not just at the tip of the abdomen
- Teacher That's cool! Makes sense since a spider depends on spinnerets for so much.
- 11:32am
- Teacher More mold? Maybe I didn't get these into the freezer soon enough. :-(
Bugscope Team that may be some silk
- Teacher THAT would be cool!
- Teacher If there is one, I mean
- Teacher Which would be the silk gland in this image?
Bugscope Team I was thinking it would be the one to the right, with the spikes coming out, but that also looks like a palp
- Bugscope Team I'll get on the SEM and take a look
- Teacher THanks. That's what I thought you meant. Either way, awesome since this caterpillar is SOOO tiny.
- Teacher My next class will be here in 5 minutes or so.
- Bugscope Team awesome
- Student LAGGGG
- Student whats this
- Teacher Thanks!
Bugscope Team we really do not know unless we see silk coming out; these may all be palps, and chemosensory setae of various types
- 11:37am
- Student thats amazing
Bugscope Team we are on a tiny caterpillar
- Student What are we zoomed in on?
Bugscope Team this is the tip of a seta of some sort on a caterpillar's face
- Teacher regardless, I am amazed at the zooming power!
- Student coool, what is this?
Bugscope Team this is the side view of the caterpillar face
- Bugscope Team the bumps are the simple eyes
- Student wow
- Student now what is it
- Bugscope Team when we use the microscope for research we move the samples much closer to the electron source, to the pole piece, and we get better resolution. for Bugscope we keep a long working distance so we can get a sense of perspective
- Teacher As you can see, we are being invaded again. :-)
Bugscope Team haha Yeah!
- Student whats this
- Student what is that
Bugscope Team this is a bunch of mold spores
- Student eww
- Student from the caterpiller?
- Student Hello everybody!
- Student cool beans
- Student hi
- Student What is this?
- Student Hello!
- Student bug scope
- Student Hey
- Student Is working at bug scope fun
Bugscope Team yes this is a lot of fun for us
- Student okay ian
- Student hi this bug is cool
- Student Type chat text here then hit the return key
- Student hi
Bugscope Team Hi Teo
- Student What are we looking at?
Bugscope Team we are looking at the antenna of a moth
- Student it looks kinda like a jelly fish
- Student a Moth hmmmmmm
- Student what are those fuzzy things
- 11:42am
- Student what is that1111
- Student What is this?
- Student what is that111111
- Student woah cool
- Student hello
- Student what is that!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student It is very fuzzy
- Student hehe fuzzy
- Student How long have you been doing this?
Bugscope Team it will be 14 years in March
- Student people look at the chat there are answers in it
- Student very fuzzy
- Student Wow
- Student wow
- Student woah
- Bugscope Team we are looking at features of the moth antenna right now
- Student That pictues HUGE!
- Student coooool
- Student 30801 times
- Student yuppers
- Student That is very very big MAGNIFICATION!
- Student Does it use those fuzzy things to feel?
Bugscope Team the setae are used to feel, to smell, and to sense hot/cold, as well as to provide thermoregulation in some cases
- Teacher I've LOVED driving....but it's Kayla's turn now.
- Student 30000+ times?
- Student how far does the microscope magnify
- Student ?
- Student How can the microscope do that?
- Student Hello
- Student *gapes*
- Student How high DOES it go?
Bugscope Team we can take useful publishable images at 200,000x if we are lucky and the sample does not get too heated up by the electron beam
- Student *gasp*
- Student woah what is that?
- Student is this a silver fish
- Student wow
- Student what are the scale like things for
- Bugscope Team this is a silverfish -- you can see its scales, which are actually also setae
- Student it looks like a lilipad
- Student cool!
- Student Those things remind me of flower pedals...
- Student are those scales
- Student it is scaley
- Student Wow. This is really cool!
- Student they look like lilypadsd
- Student yeah they do kind of
- Student this is a cool bug\
- Bugscope Team the scales come off easily, like when you rub a butterfly's wings, and that helps save them when they run into a spiderweb
- Student or are they like hairs
- Student What are the lines that are going diagonally?
- Student is there anyway to go fullscreen on this
Bugscope Team you could try to get your browser to go full screen if it isn't already
- Student its so tiny
- 11:47am
- Teacher Kayla to drive, please
Bugscope Team kayla has control
- Student do the lines going down have any signifigance?
- Student IT LOOKS LIKE A FACE
- Student its striped
Bugscope Team the stripes are kind of like the ridges in Ruffles potato chips -- they provide stability
- Student How high do you usually go?
Bugscope Team we go anywhere from 100-100,000x on a normal day. We can go higher or a tiny bit lower if we wanted
- Student woah are those compound eyes?
- Student it look so creepy like from a horror movie
- Student These pictures look happy and cool :)
- Student cool how would a spider see it
Bugscope Team spiders generally do not see that well but sense vibration quite well
- Student This is so weird.....
- Student it looks like it has multiple parts to its body.
Bugscope Team yes! this is a daddy longlegs spider
- Student What is that?\
- Student HAIRY
- Student oh i never knew that
- Student what is the lowest magnification that you can go to?
Bugscope Team about 44x, maybe 37x
- Student IT IS VERY SCRUNCHED UP
- Student No?
- Student is this the daddy longlegs body because it looks a lot mor complex than 1
- Student What is that?
- Student Don't you go as low as 1x
Bugscope Team no
- Student one
- Student I think I'm going to barf
- Student What are the spikes on the body for?
Bugscope Team the large spikes are a kind of protection
Bugscope Team the spikes are setae, or hairs, and they help with sensing what is around it, like sense of touch
- Student Is that a bug?????
Bugscope Team not sure what the round thing is
- Student this is disgusting
Bugscope Team haha Yeah!
- Student STOP SCREAMING
- Student WHAT IS THAT LITTLE THING IN THE MIDDLE.
Bugscope Team we are not sure, but it was covered with some sort of film
- Student lol
- Student Whoa.................
- Student Blech
- Student BIG EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student what are those little spines?
Bugscope Team those are sensory setae, mostly
- Student what are the things on the wings?
- Student What kind of bug is that?
- Student the eyes look like speakers
Bugscope Team haha That's right!
- Student of the head
- Student what are those things on top in the middle?
Bugscope Team those were the bases of the antennae
- Student looks like golfballs
- Student are those compound eyes?
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Student this looks really cool.
- Student how many of those little dots are there?
- Student They look like orbeas
- Student Or are they always like that?
- Student blurry...
- Student Yeah they do...
- Student high def
- 11:53am
- Teacher Thank yoU!
- Student Thnx
- Student thank you
- Student WOW
- Student nicee
- Teacher Lots of wows here!
- Student Thats close up, its blury
Bugscope Team there you go, Matt
- Student what are the little lines on each little eye?
- Student they look like veins
- Student does this microscope have xray
Bugscope Team yes it does
- Student They almost look like mushrooms!
- Student so cool
- Student are those things on the eye parasites?
Bugscope Team mostly just juju
- Student they look like fingerprints.
- Student bouncehouse
- Student That looks really cool
- Student how do you focus it?
Bugscope Team it's easy when you're at the microscope, like I am now
- Student what is juju
- Teacher juju=dust,dirt, debris
- Student What are the spikes between the eyes?
Bugscope Team those are setae, or hairs. Sometimes these hairs help tell the insect the direction of the wind currents
- Teacher That's awesome!
- Student very wrinkly
- Student does it see a different picture out of each one
Bugscope Team a slightly different view of the same thing
- Student What are those zebra like thingys
- Teacher Why are there patterns on the ommantidia?
- Student What is that straw-like thing
- Student ?
- Student are those lines on the eyes like your thumb finger prints, each one different?
- Student it looks like a brain in the back
- Student Are those lines on the eyes veins?
Bugscope Team no those are just some wrinkles from when the eye dried a little after the insect died
Bugscope Team no we are way beyond veins, and insects do not generally have veins
- Bugscope Team the image distorts when we go too high because the electron beam heats up the sample
- Student this is so cool and kind of disgusting
- Student awesome
- Student what is an eye fasat?
- Student they are like fingerprints
- Student how many schools contact you normally in a day?
- Student What is that?!
- Student looks like a claw
- Student it looks like it has spikes
- Student oh
- Student awesome
- Student How many eye fasats are there
Bugscope Team there are likely a few thousand, on some moths and some wasps there can be as many as 17,000 ommatidia per compound eye
- Student sweeeeeet
- Student is there any way to identify a certain bug
Bugscope Team sure!
- Student It looks like a dog with its mouth open
Bugscope Team haha
- 11:58am
- Student zoom on the eye like thing
- Student is that the eye?
- Bugscope Team this is a very small assassin bug
- Student That sort of golf ball?
- Teacher The long thing on the right (out of view currently) is it's mouth
- Student Are those little things on the bug parasites?
- Student it looks like it has worms
- Student its a compound eye
- Student mini worms!
- Student what are the worm-like thingys?
- Student it looks like a bunch of little things are crawling on it.
- Student are they hairs
- Bugscope Team someone in the class before said they looked like maggots
- Student they are so cool
- Student i mean like a certain type not all bugs of course you can tell one bug from another
Bugscope Team entomologists write keys that you can follow to figure out just what species you are looking at
- Student awesome
- Teacher How small was this assassin bug?
Bugscope Team it was less than a cm in length
- Student +
- Student theres hairs on it!
- Student Are those little things on the bug parasites?
- Student are the super mini maggots skin
- Student what are the maggot thigs
- Student What is that little bump in the middle?
- Student :{
- Bugscope Team they are just setae I believe, or hairs
- Student what are those little things that look like magots?
- Student :{
- Student :}
- Student :{
- Student how many schools contact you normally in a day?
- Student how many unique images this size would it take to cover this whole bug?
Bugscope Team A few hundred?
- Teacher Enough mustaches.
- Student moustache man :{
- Student that looks really cool
- Student What is that bump to the right?
Bugscope Team that is the base of a seta that is broken off
- Student tis really bright at the bump
- Student how big is the bug\
- Student Aha
- Student looks like a tornado
- Student i maent to say its but tis works
- Student meant
- Student This is great focus for something this big
- Bugscope Team remember that insects are invertebrates and have exoskeletons, which is kind of like if you were wearing armor
- Student or magnified
- Student it looks like that thing is an antennae.
- Student whats that its so bright
- Bugscope Team the exoskeleton is made of chitin, like a shrimp shell\
- Student how strong is the exoskeliton
- Student What is that?
- Student this is soo cool
- Student looks like an island with the top of the palm tree cut off
- Student shrimp is delicious :D
- 12:03pm
- Student what would happen if an insect did not have an exoskeleton?
Bugscope Team it would be super soft and not well protected against being eaten
- Student does the magnification penetrate the bugs exoskeleton
Bugscope Team the electron beam does penetrate, to some extent
- Student is that a proboskis
- Student cool can i have a picture of that
- Teacher proboscis=mouthpart
- Student thats amazing.
- Student What is that large hair-like thing?
Bugscope Team right now we are looking at the stylet of the leafhopper -- the piercing part of the piercing mouthparts
- Student it looks like mold
- Student is that pollen on the straw
- Student what are the things on it?
- Student like thing'
- Student how long has bug scope been around?
- Bugscope Team the tiny white things on the shaft are brochosomes
- Student What are those white bumps on it??
Bugscope Team brochosomes
- Student soooooo cool
- Student they look like riandrops
- Student its like a forest
- Student Woah what are those things??
- Student aliens of the future!
- Student or flowers
- Student of glowing bulbs
- Student the whole thing looks a little bit like a cristmas tree
- Student is a forest of glowing bulbs
- Student What is that?
Bugscope Team this is part of the pulvillus of the fly -- it's a pad that has lots of what are called tenent setae on it that help the fly cling to surfaces
- Student woahhhhhp
- Student JELLYfish
- Student Is that a nose
- Student looks like the frownie brownie
- Student What are those things???
Bugscope Team those were tenent setae that help the insect walk on ceilings, for example
- Student he needs to take a shower
- Student amazing
- Student !
- Student is that pollen
- Student What are the bumps on the eyes?
- Student That looks like a whole seprate face
- Student i love kings
- Student what are those things on the eye??
- Student where you get frownie brownies
- Student can you look at the mold
- Student Kings
- Student Are those spikes or hairs?
- Student you dont have kings.
- Student what is this
- Student What are those hairs?
Bugscope Team they help tell the fly how to navigate the air currents
- Student I want one of their castles.
- Student awesome
- Teacher Good job, Liam!
- Student can u look at the mold
- Student the frownie brownie is a logo which is a brownie frowning Scot
Bugscope Team um Thank You
- Student its a copy off eatin parks smiley cookies
- Student it is a bronie that has a frosting frown
- 12:08pm
- Student creepy coolo
- Student brownie
- Student not bronie
- Student hhhhhairy
- Student can we not talk about brownies
- Student why are we talking about frownie brownies which i have never heard of before?
- Teacher We have "Frownie Brownies" here at a local restaurant chain. They are that restaurants answer to another chains "Smiley Cookie".
- Student BrOwNiEs
- Student woa what are those spot things
- Student Mmmm...Brownies...
- Teacher Back to bugs.....:-)
- Student thank you mrs v
- Student BUUUGGGGGSSSS
- Student awesome
- Student cool hairs.
- Student focas
- Student im starving..... Lets Eat Bugs
- Student Are those setae?
- Student TEO!!
- Student teo, i don't eat bugs
- Student can you please stick to bugs
- Student Scot can you focus that please?
Bugscope Team looks like you got it
Bugscope Team nicely
- Student what isana
- Bugscope Team it seems to have some dried goo on it
- Student are you looking forward to thanksgiving
Bugscope Team yes in a way
- Student Mmm...Turkey...
- Student kian really?
- Student let us stick to bugs por favor
- Student Don't make me hungry
- Student -_-
- Student Pat
- Student Are those hairs setae?
Bugscope Team yes, and some of them are for proprioception, which is self-sensing
- Student no faces
- Student coool
- Student Patrick most of the things you are saying are MMMMM
- Student oops
- Bugscope Team you can see the mandibles at the top, arched
- Bugscope Team and you can see four palps
- Student But they make me RAVENOUS
- Student What are mandibles?
- Student mandiblesss
- Student kian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student nice :)
- Teacher Awesome job, Isaac!
- Bugscope Team and you can see one antenna as well as some mechanosensory setae
- Student cool
- Student mandibles for eating turkey
- Student zoom zoom
- Student cool bug
- Student zoom in
- Student What are the hairs? are they also setae?
- Student what are those hairs on the mandiblesss?
- Student tge mandibles have little hairs
- Student the
- Student kian stop
- Student Are beetle mouths usually dirty
- Teacher Huh...there's one thing we sent in that doesn't have mold on it. Hooray!
- 12:13pm
- Student cool hairs
- Student no mold
- Student mechanosensory? what is that
Bugscope Team it means they can sense touch and wind, like cat or rat whiskers
- Student It looks like a bull
- Student What are those two hairs in the middle?
- Student +++
- Student I see dust I think
- Student they look like bull horns
- Student What are those bull horn things
Bugscope Team those are more sensory setae
- Student yeah
- Bugscope Team some setae are thermosensory, for hot/cold
- Student who is driving isaac?
- Bugscope Team some setae are chemosensory, for scents, chemical smells, pheromones
- Student whta does that even meen
- Student It looks like a rock
- Student ah
- Teacher juju=dust, dirt, debris
- Student ooooo
- Student explosion!
- Student crystals!/
- Student looks like a mushroom cl
- Student juju means dust or something of the sort
Bugscope Team yes
- Student cloud
- Student it look like a rock....huh ....................
- Student YES! got it right
- Bugscope Team this is pretty cool
- Student holly
- Student i mean cool
- Student Huh. That must be really small!
- Student zoom zoom
- Student It looks cool and hairy
- Student who is up next
- Bugscope Team these guys also seem to produce webs; we have found them on the undersides of leaves
- Student cool
- Student Whose the next driver?
- Student I just said that
- Teacher This sucker was so small that i had to double check with a microscope to make sure that I actually had it in the packaging (and not a piece of dust or something)
- Student amazing!!!!1
- Student What's that white hair?
- Bugscope Team i'm surprised you could see a single mite at all
- Student it is small
- Student wow great observation jonah
- 12:18pm
- Student thanks teo
- Student woah coolio mite mustve been hard to catch
- Teacher I made it a challenge on our collecting field trip to catch tiny things. I think M may have caught this mite.
- Bugscope Team we had to pick it up with a fine brush, wetted with ethanol
- Student you are welcome
- Student What is that white thing??
Bugscope Team it is some sort of sensory seta.\
- Student can i have a little help focusing?
- Student \/
- Student it is the sun....
- Student YAY
- Teacher Good job driving Isaac! Our next driver is.................DREW!
Bugscope Team drew is up!
- Student Can i drive at home
- Student Be Happy Drew!
- Student isaac is done driving
- Student Go DREW
- Student '
- Student fly head
- Student oops
- Student whoops
- Student drew step on the gas driver
- Student wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
- Student ccrrepy
- Student its hairy
- Bugscope Team amd now a mondo bigboy caterpillar
- Student no spaming
- Student That is MOLDY!!
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student Isaac
- Student Woah has some intese facial parts
- Student no its juju
- Student he needs to take a shower too
- Student what do you want ian]
- Bugscope Team stemmata are what caterpillar eyes are called
- Student stop spamming
- Student What are those moldy stuffs
Bugscope Team they are mold spores
- Student little maggots is what they look like
- Student LOT of mold
- Student or peas
- Student It is dirty
- Student JUJU
- Student wow great view
- Teacher Stemmata.....what a good extra credit question that would be....hmmmm
Bugscope Team haha
- Student no please no!
- Student air bubbles....................
- Teacher mold spores
- Student yum sprinkles
- Student juju
- Student what a closer look?
- Student looks like tiny air bubbles
- Student please do give us another question; just to make jonah mad
- Student you should eat one then
- Student no isaac
- Student is the bug molding because it is dead
Bugscope Team yes it is
- 12:23pm
- Teacher Drew, could you please check out the mayfly head after you've looked at this? I don't think anyone has looked at it yet
- Student i have said a lot
- Student not really
- Student of course
- Student yes
- Student i don't have that much homework right now
- Student they look like mittens
Bugscope Team or boxing gloves
- Student eeew theres mold on the mold
- Student look at my questions scroll down
- Student well ten more questions would.
- Teacher Yes, I left that particular caterpillar in a container on my back porch after it died and forgot to put it in the refrig.
- Student no
- Student No problem
- Student looks like spider legs
- Student lag
- Student well it says mayfly head
- Bugscope Team this is the head of what looks like a mayfly, a female since it has ovipositors
- Student can you zoom in on the mouth
- Student This that a stick sticking out of it on the right of it's head?
- Student ahh mayflies are so awesome they are really ugly bugs
- Student no
- Student Dunno...
- Student where is liam
- Student teo liam ran away.
- Bugscope Team scott said it looked like a mayfly and I said the head looked like a cricket head. We weren't totally sure either way so I went with Scott's guess
- Bugscope Team Cate already said it looked like a cricket, and it does. But it was long and yellow green, slender
- Student I just stopped paying attention, to avoid getting sick
- Student whoah what are those spikes
- Student hairy legs
- Student it does a bit...
- Student i think it is a cricket
- Student how ould you get sick its ona computer screen
- Student dont not pay atention its facinating stuff
- Student looks like a cricket?
- Student Wish I could stay on this longer...
- Student looks like spikes
- Student not really
- Teacher That thing confused the heck out of me. We tried all sorts of things to identify and tree cricket looked closest in our books and websites.
Bugscope Team its head is what makes it look for sure like a cricket, and also its ovipositors
- Student is that an attenae
- Student thanks for your time
- Student Thank you!
- Student Thanks for your time!!
- Student we gots to gos
- Student Thank you, goodbye and what not
- Student Thank you, Peace out!!
- Student peace out bra
- Student It was a great expirience
- Student duces
- Student SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!!!
- Student Peace Out
- Student thanks u guys r awesome
- Bugscope Team thanks everyone!
- Teacher Can I control the scope for the 2 minutes we have left?
Bugscope Team you have control
- Bugscope Team Thank You Everyone!
- Student Happy turkey day and PEACE
Bugscope Team Thank you Kian
- Bugscope Team this is the leafhopper stylet
- 12:28pm
- Bugscope Team the rest of the proboscis is above, but this is the part that goes into leaves
- Bugscope Team you can see now that the stylet has two halves
- Teacher Are those brochosomes that are everywhere on this?
Bugscope Team yes all the white dots are
- Bugscope Team now we can see the ovipositors
- Teacher I hopped off the tree cricket before I saw your comment. Darn.
Bugscope Team they were kind of hard to see with all of the legs and wings and stuff
- 12:34pm
- Teacher So this is the top of the probscis
Bugscope Team yes the blunt part; the stylet is normally inside it, or much of it is
- Bugscope Team thanks for a good session
- Teacher Sorry, I know it's time for you all to go. Thanks so much for the wonderful session! I could do this all day. I really appreciate your patience with the students and with me.
Bugscope Team this is really fun for us. we have worked with far wilder kids; that is no big deal at all. they were really nice. some smart ones
- Bugscope Team Thank you, also, for all of the cool insects/arthropods.
- Teacher Thanks! Have a great Thanksgiving! :-)
- Bugscope Team You Too!
- Bugscope Team Bye!
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- Guest hi marcus
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