Connected on 2012-12-19 13:00:00 from Marathon, Wisconsin, United States
- 12:06pm
- Bugscope Team sample is pumping down!
- Bugscope Team we can see it in the CCD view of the inside of the vacuum chamber
- 12:17pm
- 12:23pm
- 12:28pm
- Bugscope Team now we're making today's presets
- 12:34pm
- 12:40pm
- 12:45pm
- Bugscope Team we are ready to roll
- 12:57pm
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team Mrs Sinz you have control of the mciroscope.
- Bugscope Team please be sure to let us know when you have questions
- Bugscope Team this is a small parasitic wasp
- Bugscope Team Hello Rakel!
- Bugscope Team Hi Owen!
- Bugscope Team Jaidyn and Jenny, Hello!
- Bugscope Team Hi Rebecca!
- Bugscope Team Hello Collin!
- Bugscope Team hi Carolynn!
- Bugscope Team hi everyone!
- Bugscope Team this is the yellowjacket's stinger; you can see a scale from a moth or butterfly on the left
- Teacher Hello Scott!
Bugscope Team Hello Mrs Sinz!
- Bugscope Team the actual stinger is to the right, or in the center, and it is bent at the tip
- Teacher Thank you for being with us today!
- Teacher Very neat! We are just getting settled...we will have questions from you very soon!
Bugscope Team super cool
- 1:02pm
- Bugscope Team Hi Kalvin!
- Bugscope Team and Hello to Mrs Hamman's Class!
- Student how much does this weigh?
Bugscope Team probably around a gram -- you mean the yellowjacket?
- Student HOW HARD CAN A YELLOWJACKET STING?
Bugscope Team it can sting repeatedly but does not have a large stinger; probably not as bad as a honeybee
- Guest How many bugs do you know?
Bugscope Team we haven't seen every species but we have seen most of the general types of insects, like a lot of different types of wasps, beetles, bees, true bugs, flies, etc. We are pretty good at identifyng them
- Guest O.K.
- Guest whats the most interesting animal you ever magnihged
Bugscope Team I think weevils are really cool, and also these tiny insects -- the collembola -- called hexapods
- Bugscope Team Collembola are springtails
- Guest What kind of bugs have you seen?
Bugscope Team lots of different kinds, and we prefer the smaller ones
- Student yes scott
Bugscope Team yeah I think about 1 gram; we can look it up, maybe...
Bugscope Team bumblebees weight around half a gram, so this might be less
Bugscope Team I bet you are right; a gram would be a hefty little yellowjacket
- 1:07pm
- Student what do you eat.
Bugscope Team a lot of salads and a lot of fish
- Student Hi scott
Bugscope Team Kalvin!
- Bugscope Team this is the cricket
- Guest Have you ever seen a lizerd.
Bugscope Team yes we have put a small dried lizard in the microscope before. I don't think it looked very good. We have also images gecko toes
- Student have you ever seen a frog
Bugscope Team not this way, not in the scanning electron microscope, except a long time ago as an embryo
- Student what do you eat
- Guest WOW that looks cool!
- Student it looks kind of creepy and cool.
Bugscope Team it has some dried fluids on its face -- kind of oily. you can see one of its compound eyes to the left
- Guest What do crickets eat?
- Student yes we have seen a frog kelvin.
- Bugscope Team we like to image insects because their exoskeleton keeps the same shape, mostly, when the insect is dried
- Guest what tools have you used
Bugscope Team we work with all kinds of microscopes down here -- it's our job to teach students to use microscopes to perform their research
- Student where are the eyes on this cricket
Bugscope Team you can see one round part to the left of the image
- Student how big is a bugs claw
- Student have you ever taken a bug apart.
- Student DOES A CRICKET HAVE ANY BOSE? WHERE?
Bugscope Team a nose? insects do not really have noses; they use some of the chemosensory setae, and especially those on the antennae, to smell
- 1:12pm
- Student what is the biggist cricket you ever saw
Bugscope Team it was probably a jerusalem cricket.
- Student is the cricet alive or dead.
Bugscope Team they are all dead in the microscope chamber
- Student do crickets have teeth
Bugscope Team not really; they do have hardened mouthparts, but they're made of chitin that may have zinc or another mineral in it that makes it stronger
- Guest Do crickets have any teeth?
Bugscope Team no but they do have little mandibles (jaws) that open up like a gate
- Student is a CRIKET harmful?
Bugscope Team usually not at all
- Student what is your favorite bug\
Bugscope Team I like weevils, and also leafhoppers, and earwigs because they often have mites
- Student how far can a cricket jump
Bugscope Team really it depends, but some can jump several feet no problem
- Student have you duscoverd a dinasor bone
Bugscope Team no we havent
- Student cool.
- Student What is the bugs name?
Bugscope Team this one is an ambush bug, and it is a leaf mimic
- Student does it have teeth?
- Student why is it called a ambush bug claw
- Student how sharp is the claw
Bugscope Team we can see that it looks pretty sharp, but it is so small it cannot cut into your skin
- Student where is the face
- Student where is its face
- Student how sharp is it.
- Student why is the claw curved like that?
- Guest Why does it have horns?
Bugscope Team the horns are the actual claws; they open and close; claws on insects are used much like the way we use our hands
- Student What are those horn looking things?
Bugscope Team those are claws. You can find them at the end of all insect legs
- Student COOL!
- Guest How many bones does the a ambush have
Bugscope Team they have what is called an 'exoskeleton,' which is like a shell, like a shrimp shell, for example
- Student are those antlers?
Bugscope Team no these claws are more like insect hands
- Student SWEET
- Student Does it have ears?
Bugscope Team praying mantises have a single ear in the center of the thorax, but most insects do not have what we think of as ears
- Student sweet//
- Student are those prickles?
- Student what is a ambush bug
- Student sweety
- Student COOL
- Student How big is the bug
- Student how many spikes are there
- Student 1
- Student Where does it live?
- 1:17pm
- Student sweet1
- Student sweet.
- Guest How many inches is a gnats claw?
Bugscope Team it would be measured in microns, which are thousandths of millimeters, and probably 50 to 60 of those
- Student how big is their bones
Bugscope Team insects don't have bones. They have a shell that covers the outside of their body called an exoskeleton
- Student what is the biggest bug you seen\
Bugscope Team walking sticks, and also some stuffed beetles that are almost as big as a child's fist
- Guest What does an ambush bug eat ?
Bugscope Team it hides and stalks other insects
- Guest What are thoses spikey things on him?
Bugscope Team those are setae, or insect hairs. They help the insect sense what is going on around it- like sense of touch
- Student Where does the bug live?
Bugscope Team in bushes, trees, grass
- Student where does it lay eggs
Bugscope Team not sure; perhaps on a branch or rock, in a safe place
- Student Where are the eyes
- Student are those eggs?
Bugscope Team no- though they do look like eggs. These are pollen grains
- Student is that a gearm
- Student What does eat?
Bugscope Team the ambush bug sucks the hemolymph out of its prey; hemolymph is like blood
- Student Is that really pollen
- Student is the polin in water
- Student what is a willy pollin
Bugscope Team it's from a lily -- the flower
- Student Why does it make people sneeze?
- Guest what does the lily pollen do?
- Student why does it like cantelope
- Bugscope Team ambush bugs can also bite humans. It can hurt like a sting
- Student how big are they?
- Student Wher dos
- Guest What are thoses holes?
Bugscope Team those are indentations; they make the pollen grain more sturdy and also more likely to stick to things
- Student how many cells do they have?
- Guest Were do lilly pollen come from?
Bugscope Team when someone gets flowers we ask if we can have the anthers
- Student are they siting on a leaf.
- Student how big are they?
- Student is that a crack
Bugscope Team the crack in the background? They are sitting on carbon tape, and it does look like there is a crack in it
- Student where do they get there pollen?
- Guest how small are the lily pollens!
Bugscope Team you can see the scale bar is around 100 microns, which is about as big as they are
- Bugscope Team microns are micrometers
- 1:23pm
- Guest Why is it cracked?
Bugscope Team they all have a slit in them like that
- Student are they siting on a leaf?
Bugscope Team they are on doublestick carbon tape; Cate made the sample today, and everything is on that same sticky tape
- Student does it live
Bugscope Team pollen fertilizes flowers, and that is how you get fruit, seeds, and more plants
- Student what kind of spider fang is that
Bugscope Team it was a reddish spider we found in the lab
- Guest Are they big or small?
Bugscope Team these are very small still.
- Student was it from the ocean
Bugscope Team not really sure
- Guest how does it surive in winter
- Guest What is it lifecycle?
- Student what is that bug?
Bugscope Team this is an aphid, which is a plant pest
- Student Is it a bee and does it have a stinger?
- Student How many eggs does it lay?
- Student is that a sort of beetle
- Guest what does it eat?
Bugscope Team they stick their probosces (the pointy part of the mouth) into stems and leaves and drink that
- Student does it have a stinger?
- Guest Is the flying aphid harry?
Bugscope Team not too hairy, but it has lots of setae (which look like hair) that help it sense its environment
- Student how is it born
- Student does it suck blood
Bugscope Team in a way, it sucks plant blood
- Guest does it drink pollen?
- Student is it abee?
- Student How many eggs does it lay a year?
- Student Is it a cosin to the bee?
Bugscope Team very distant not really related
- Student whats the life cycle
- Student is that a fly
- Bugscope Team bees, wasps, and ants are related
- 1:28pm
- Student whats the life cycle
- Guest How is it born?
- Student What it is it`s life cycle?
Bugscope Team first there are eggs, which are female. Then the eggs hatch and the females from them give birth to live nymphs, which are usually females, unless the temperatures are right. If there is no more room in the colony, then the female will give birth to winged females so that the winged females can colonate somewhere else
- Student how does the flying aphid change in its life cyle
- Student what hapens 2 in his lifecyle
- Student it goes throw birth,growth,adaption and death.
- Guest what part of its body gets uased the most?
Bugscope Team perhaps the mouth, or the legs that it uses to get around; they likely don't fly much
- Student it grows
- Student how does it change during it's lifecycle
- Student Can they survive the winter?
- Guest Where does it live?
- Student does it go in camoflouge
- Student What did it look like as a baby
Bugscope Team some aphids look just like this when they are born -- some come from eggs and some are live births
- Student does it lay eggs
Bugscope Team some do. the temperature has to be right
- Guest What do flying aphids eat ?
Bugscope Team any type of plant pretty much
- Guest WHAT EATS AN FLYING APHID
Bugscope Team almost anything, like a bat or bird or other insect like a dragonfly
- Guest What is its lifecycle?
- Student does it lay eggs?
- Student what is its life cycle
- Student good one
- Bugscope Team the aphids are really good examples of adapting, which is why they are such formidable plant pests
- Student what do you like about a life cycle
Bugscope Team the aphid one is interesting because they can come from eggs or be live births, and also, when they feel stress, the next generation may have wings
- Student where is its mouth
- Student what is its home
Bugscope Team they live on plants all over the world
- Student what is that thing? it looks like a plant and like a rose.
- Student Is that an intena?
- Teacher what is a haltere?
Bugscope Team they beat opposite the wings to make the fly balance when in flight
- Guest Is it a plant?
- Guest Does it start from a seed?
Bugscope Team I guess an egg is kind of like a seed
- Student does it feed on pollen?
Bugscope Team no they drink sap
- Guest What kind of plant is it?
- Student it looks mean
- Guest WHATS A LIFECYCLE OF A HALERRE
Bugscope Team the haltere is part of a dipteran, a fly
- Student is it a plant
- Student why is that so furry
- Student is it a animal? what is its habitat?
- 1:33pm
- Guest what is its habitat?
- Student is it sort of a plant?
- Student How many wings does it have?
Bugscope Team flies have 2 wings- one pair of wings
- Student what kind of animal is it?
- Bugscope Team a haltere is a modified hindwing that serves to keep a fly balanced in the air, when it flies
- Student neet!
- Student what is a haltere
- Guest is the haltere a mamle?
- Teacher is this on all flying insects?
Bugscope Team only on two-winged insects -- only on flies
- Bugscope Team so flies are from the Diptera family; diptera means (di ptera) two wings
- Student COO
- Student what does it eat
- Guest WHATS A LIFECYCLE OF A HALERRE
- Guest I did not know that it is not a plant!
- Bugscope Team I'm sorry -- to be correct, Diptera is an order
- Guest is it a femaie or a male or both?
- Student what is it made of?
- Student Have you seen it in real life?
- Student How long do they live?
- Teacher How do other flying insects balance in flight?
Bugscope Team apparently they have other mechanisms for maintaing balance; that is a good question
- Bugscope Team maintaining...
- Student how much does a fly wheigh
- Student i thout the fly had five wings
Bugscope Team they have two wings and two halteres, and these things called calypters
- Student mamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamammamamamamamamamamamamaMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMmamamamamamamamamamma?
- Student Does it have a moth?
- Student mamamamamamamamamamamamm\
- Student is it a mammal?
Bugscope Team no. mammals are vertebrates, which means that they have backbones; insects and lots of other 'primitive' animals do not have backbones and are called invertebrates
- Student what dose it eat
- 1:38pm
- Student how does it work?
Bugscope Team there is a kind of autosensing mechanism, toward the base of the haltere, that helps it beat opposite the way the wings beat
- Student what is that
- Student what is a stylet?
- Guest What is a styelt?
- Guest how much does a full grown
- Student what is it's lifecycle
- Student where does it live?
- Student What is a stylet
Bugscope Team it's the part that pierces the plant or insect it eats from.
- Student What are those tentical looking things?
- Guest what does it eat?
- Student what is a stylet
Bugscope Team it is a sharp, needle-like part of the stinger, or sometimes the proboscis, that penetrates another insect, or a mammal, or a plant
- Student where does it live?
- Student what is its adaptashon
- Guest is it a bug?
- Student where is its body and what is it
Bugscope Team this is the ambush bug; I can change the mag and show you where we are
- Student sweet!
- Student what are those things hanging down
- Student can it hert you?
Bugscope Team yes it could. It would sting a bit
- Guest how does it move?
- Student Where does it sleep at night?
- Bugscope Team now we see the body of the ambush bug
- Student Do they live in water?
- Guest Is its lifecycle weard?
- Student does it have claws
Bugscope Team yes it does
- Guest does it give birth?
- Student wear is that locaded on earth
Bugscope Team all over except maybe not in Antarctica
- Student where does it have claws
- Guest Where does it live?
- Student why does it have hair?
- Student What is the size of it?
Bugscope Team this is an inch or so long and can be still longer
- Student is that its back?
Bugscope Team we are looking at the ventral side, which is the underside of the insect
- Student what is this part of body?
Bugscope Team this is the abdomen
- Guest how does it give birth?
Bugscope Team eggs
- Student +
- Student where does it have claws
Bugscope Team at the tips of all six legs
- Student How big can they get?
Bugscope Team more than two inches long
- Student What does it eat?
- 1:43pm
- Student why does it have hair
Bugscope Team the hair, which we are supposed to call 'setae,' is sensory -- it helps the insect sense its environment
- Student is that the belly or its back that he scraching
- Student what is the oldest part on the body
Bugscope Team whoa I am not sure; ti is really all about the same age
- Student why is it called that
- Guest How big is the bugs claw?
- Guest does it fly
Bugscope Team some of these do and some do not; when they fly it is not very well or very far
- Student does it effect anything?
- Guest What is its speisies?
- Student is thata arme?
- Student how long is it?
- Student why is it called that
- Student what kind of bug is it related to?
Bugscope Team an aphid is related to the ambush bug or cicada
- Bugscope Team what we are looking at now is the claw of an aphid, and they are related to ambush bugs -- they are both true bugs
- Student What color is it?
- Student How long can it live for?
- Guest what is a aphid ?
Bugscope Team it is a tiny insect that is a plant pest and sucks the sap from leaves and stems
- Student how many more are there on earth
- Guest How old can a aphid bug live up to?
- Guest Where does it sleep?
Bugscope Team they don't sleep like we do but go into a phase in which they are still, for awhile
- Guest Howbig is the bug?
Bugscope Team it's around 100 micrometers big
- Student What is the fist adaption?
Bugscope Team that is hard to tell, it may be a sensitivity to light, or to heat
- Student how many more are there on earth
Bugscope Team millions; there are millions of species of insects we have not found yet
- Guest Is it very long?
- Student OH
- Student what are some plant lifecycles
- Student Is that a arm?
- Student why does is it so spikey
- Guest what is it,s prey?
Bugscope Team it eats plants
- Student is he in a branch and is he a catapiler
Bugscope Team caterpillars are larval insects -- they are in a life stage that comes before they become adults
- 1:48pm
- Student what age is it
Bugscope Team probably it is a few weeks old
- Student How big can it get?
- Student DOSE IT SLEEP IN THE DAY
Bugscope Team they may be sort of dormant but do not really sleep
- Student does it lay eggs?
Bugscope Team yes but they also have babies through live birth
- Student what are those sharp things poping out
Bugscope Team the claws, and also setae or spines that help it feel and smell and taste and sense hot/cold
- Student can it servive the winter
- Guest Why does it have claws?
Bugscope Team sort of the same reason we have hands; it is helpful to be able to grasp things
- Student is that a baby?
- Student how many more are there on earth
- Student Is it going to get any bigger?
Bugscope Team not really; once they become adults they can get a bit larger around but do not continue to grow
- Guest Does an aphid have spickes?
- Guest does it have a sent of smell?
Bugscope Team yes they do have a sense of smell; to insects, chemical senses are often very important
- Student wear do they live?
Bugscope Team almost everywhere there are plants
- Student are those the catapilers fangs
Bugscope Team no and caterpillars don't have fangs. They have very big mandibles to chew their food
- Student how many more are there on earth
Bugscope Team trillions upon trillions
- Guest where does survive in the summer?
- Student whats its favrot food
Bugscope Team sap
- Guest does it live in water
Bugscope Team they do not live in water or have an aqueous part to their life cycle as far as I know
- Guest can it smell are kind of food?
- 1:53pm
- Student Do they ever go out of water?
Bugscope Team they live on plants and can get wet but cannot live underwater
- Student is it posines?
- Student What are those holes?
- Guest Is an aphid bug harmlus?
Bugscope Team no they are bad plant pests
- Guest what are the little dots?
- Student where does it live
- Teacher sensaille- what is that?
Bugscope Team they pick up chemical signals from other wasps
Bugscope Team sensilla is singular, sensillae is plural
- Student where does it live
- Student What does it eat
- Student why IS COLD ISIT COLD ITS NAME
- Student does it have a sent of smell
- Student Do they fly?
- Student how many speshies of beetles are there
Bugscope Team presently there are said to be 400,000 species of beetle
- Guest do they have a good sense of smell?
Bugscope Team yes for certain smells/chemicals
- Guest Thank you
- Student how does it sens danger
- Student Are those egges?
Bugscope Team the things poking out are types of hairs
- Student thank you for your time
- Student BYE
- Teacher Thank you for your time! We need to go to another class at 2:00. We appreciate you answering all of our "diverse" questions. :)
Bugscope Team This was a lot of fun for us. Thank you for connecting today!
- Bugscope Team please be sure to come back in the spring, or next year
- Teacher Have a great afternoon!
Bugscope Team You too!
- Teacher sounds great!
- Student Bye
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Teacher Bye.
- Bugscope Team Thank you, everyone!
