Connected on 2010-09-16 11:00:00
from Roswell, GA, US
- 9:49 am
- Bugscope Teamsample is pumping down
- Bugscope Teamwe have two mosquitoes, two houseflies, one large green-eyed fly, a ladybug, some salt from Wendy's, a fruit fly, an earwig, a bee, and a wasp
- 9:56 am
- Bugscope Teamalmost ready to start the gun...
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- 10:48 am
- Bugscope TeamGood Morning!
- Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope TeamI will be back in a minute. You are free to drive if you would like. Swift has control of the 'scope right now.
- TeacherThank you. We are so excited.
- 10:53 am
- Bugscope Teamplease let me know if you would like to drive, Chat1
- TeacherJozefov would like to drive.
- Bugscope Teamthis is the surface of the ocellus -- a simple eye -- of a honeybee. and it has these tiny spheres called brochosomes on it, from a leafhopper
- TeacherCool
- Bugscope Teameach is a few hundred nanometers in diameter, so you are imaging at the nanoscale
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the two mosquitoes on the stub
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that the image is vignetted today -- an aperture inside of the 'scope needs to be moved. And we cannot do that ourselves, the service engineer has to do that.
- Teacherwe are seeing a blue background on our screen, is that normal?
Bugscope Teamhit Refresh, or F5
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the proboscis
- Bugscope Teamno
- TeacherThanks
- Bugscope Teamdid that help?
- Teacheryes it did
- 10:58 am
- Bugscope Teamgood deal
- Bugscope Teamplease let us know when you have any questions, and we will try to answer them
- Teacherwhat are exactly are we looking at on the mosquito?
- Bugscope Teamhere you can see the frilly antennae, and the eyes, with all of their facets, and the bases of the antennae, which are like donut/pillows
- Bugscope Teamthe thing with the two lobes near the bottom of the screen is the compound eyes
- Teachercan we see the stinger on this
- Bugscope Teamarched toward us, and cleft, and a little out of focus in the upper left of the screen is the tip of the proboscis
- Bugscope Teammales do not bite, but they still have a proboscis
- Bugscope TeamI am at the microscope, and I just moved to it
- Teacherwhat are we looking at right now
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that the proboscis has lots of tiny scales on it, like feathers
- Teacherthanks,
- Teacherwhy do males not bite you
Bugscope Teammales do not need a bloodmeal, like females do to lay their eggs
- Bugscope Teamthe part that bites you would be inside; it is called the fascicle, and it is black, with six pieces that work togther
- Teacherwhy don't males bite
- 11:03 am
- Bugscope Teammales sometimes do not eat, and sometimes they drink nectar like some other insects
- Bugscope Teamsalt crystals!
- Teacherafter mosquitoes bite, do they die
Bugscope Teamwell after they lay their eggs they do
- Teacherwhat is this?
Bugscope Teamthose are salt crystals from a Wendy's restaurant, except the one on top right
- Teacherwhy are the salt crystals cubes
Bugscope Teamthe sodium and chloride that make up salt form cubic crystals. sugar, for example, does not form cubic crystals.
- Teacherwhat purpose do mosquitoes serve in the world?
- Teacherwhat is the object on the top right?
Bugscope Teamthat is also a salt crystal, but it is more normal one; it does not have those cool incised features like the Wendy's salt
- Bugscope Teami'm not sure what mosquitos do for the world
- Bugscope Teamthey are the most dangerous creature
- Bugscope Teammosquitoes are a food source for other insects, bats, birds, and animals that may be more understandably beneficial to us
- 11:09 am
- Bugscope Teamsometimes we wonder how and why certain insects/bacteria/animals exist, and we do not see right away that they are part of a web of nature that functions as a whole
- Teacherthank you great answer
- Bugscope Teamif you think about bees, for example -- if there were no bees, many of the plants and fruits we eat might not be pollinated and thus would not produce
- Teacherwhat is this?
Bugscope Teamthis is the face of a ladybug
- Bugscope Teamladybugs like this are especially fond of aphids, which are plant pests
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the compound eyes on either side of the head, and you can see at least one antenna, to the lower left, and you can see the jaws and the mandibular and maxillary palps
- TeacherBottom left bump- what is it
- Teacherhow long do ladybugs live?
Bugscope Teamthey can live for around a year if they hibernate over winter
- Bugscope Teampalps are like little limbs that serve as helped mouthparts
- Teacherwhat do the spots mean?
Bugscope Teamthe spots may help them recognize each other, and they also serve to highlight the red color, which is a warning that they are not good to eat
- Teacherwhat is the thing on the bottom left of it's face
Bugscope Teamthe antenna
- Teacherwhy do some ladybugs have red coverings and some have orange?
Bugscope Teamit probably has to do with what they eat, and also their genetic makeup; many of the critters we think of an ladybugs are Asian beetles, which are quite similar and likely another related species
- 11:15 am
- Teacherwhy does it have hair? What purpose does it serve?
Bugscope Teamthey are used to help the insect feel what's around it. It can feel with some, smell/taste with others
- Bugscope Teaminsects have exoskeletons; they don't have skin with nerve endings in it like we do. it would be like if you wore a suit of armor and could not feel what was touching the surface of your armor
- Teacherwhat is that
Bugscope Teamthe big round thing is a fly compound eye
- Bugscope Teamso the tiny hairs, which are called setae ('see-tee'), help the insect sense its environment, as Cate says.
- Bugscope Teamthe part on top is the antennae
- Teacherwhat is the pointy thing at the top of the eye
- Bugscope Teamthis is a big long fly we did not recognize
- Bugscope Teamits head is almost all eyes
- Bugscope Teameven to the left there are three little bumps that are simple eyes
- Teacherwhat is a compound eye
- Bugscope Teamcompound eyes give insects very good peripheral vision -- they can see all around their head without turning to look at something
- Teacherwhat are the little bumps directly on the eye?
- 11:20 am
- Bugscope Teamthey are called compound eyes because they are composed of, in this case, thousands in individual facets, or lenses, called ommatidia
- Teachervery interesting!
- Bugscope Teamnow, I bumped the mag up, you can see 60 or so ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamyou can see dirt too, and also a few setae sticking up at the corners of the ommatidia, or eye facets
- Teacherreally cool!
- Bugscope Teamif you had compound eyes you would also be able to register changes in your visual field very quickly, and thus it would be hard to catch you
- Bugscope Teambe sure to click on other presets if you would like
- Bugscope TeamJozefov has control now, so let us know if someone else would like to drive
- Bugscope Teamyes the little ones, called ocelli, are 'simple' eyes
- Bugscope Teami mean the 3 on top of the head do
- Bugscope Teamthis is a housefly's claw, at the end of one of its six legs
- TeacherWhy does the housefly claw have spikes all over the claw?
Bugscope Teamthey help it to feel when things are around it
- 11:25 am
- Bugscope Teamit can open and close like a tiny hand, and it has little sticky pads on it to help it hold onto vertical surfaces
- Bugscope Teamsome insects, like Monarch butterflies, have little spines on their claws that they can use to smell what they have landed on
- TeacherWhat are the two wing-looking things?
Bugscope Teamthose are the pulvilli. They are filled with tenent setae which are sticky hairs used to allow the fly to walk on walls
- Teacherhow long is the lifespan of a fly?
Bugscope Teamit is said to be, generally, 2 weeks to a month; they can live longer in a lab setting
- Bugscope Teamthis centipede is so big that I could not make a preset of the whole head
- 11:30 am
- Bugscope Teambut we are looking at the fangs right now, and the one we see on the right has a poison duct in it.
- Teacherdoes a fly have a nest? where do they lay their eggs?
Bugscope Teamthey often lay their eggs in their food. Fruit flies lay their eggs in rotting fruit for instance
- TeacherDoes the poison come out of the fang from the fang duct?
- TeacherWhy does the fang look lighter at the top?
- Teacherwhat is the thing at the bottom right?
- TeacherWhat is the big circle that surrounds the fang?
Bugscope TeamI think it is the base of the chelicer -- which is the muscular part that drives the fang.
- Bugscope Teamso it is part of the jaw, or mandible
- TeacherWhat are we looking at?
- Teacherwhat is the tiny worm looking thing to the left of the fang with the duct?
- Bugscope Teamnow you can see it better, although it is vignetted by an aperture in the microscope
- Bugscope Teamoh!
- 11:36 am
- Teacherdo you have a spider on the disk?
Bugscope Teamno this is actually as close as we get to spiders today -- they have very similar fangs
- Bugscope Teamthat is likely a plant fiber, and/or it could be some fungal hyphae
- Teacherdo they run out of venum?
Bugscope TeamI think if they are lucky enough to keep eating, they can keep generating it.
- Bugscope Teamit's really cool we can see this pore today. we don't often get to see them because they are hidden by something or gunked up
- TeacherWhat is a mite?
Bugscope Teammites are related to spiders, and there are lots of different types of them. these are blind and live on the exoskeleton of their host.
- StudentWe might need explanation of words hyphae
- Teacherwe are ready to send controls to swift. thank you - our class enjoyed this
- Bugscope Teamhyphae are the thread-like components of fungus
- 11:41 am
- Bugscope Teama number of hyphae make up a mass called the mycelium
- TeacherThank you so much for your wealth of information
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- Studentwe are having trouble with Swift - please switch control to student 1
- Bugscope Teamstudent 1 has control!
- Studentwhat is this showing?
- StudentWhat are we look ing at
- Bugscope Teamthis is a mite that we found on the exoskeleton - on the body -- of a fly
- Studentwhat is the bug on
Bugscope Teamit was on a housefly
- Studentwhat is this picture showing
- Studentit riminds me of somthing
- Studentare those bugs we are looking at?????
- Studentwhat is a beeve aculis
Bugscope Teamthe bee ocellus is one of the three simple eyes on the top of the head of the bee
- Bugscope Teamthose are brochosomes, which are tiny submicron particles produced by leafhoppers
- Studentwhwhat is this
Bugscope Teamwe are seeing some individual scales
- Studentwhat is in the backround
Bugscope Teamthe background we see now is the surface of the cuticle of a mosquito
- Studentwhat are those leaf things
- Studentwhat kind of bugs are they
Bugscope Teamthese are from a mosquito
- Studentwhat are those
- Bugscope Teamthey kind of look like ruffled potato chips right?
- Bugscope Teamthose are scales, which are kind of like feathers
- Studentwhat is tis
- Studenti like bees
Bugscope Teamthere is a bee on the stub today
- 11:47 am
- Studentwhy are they so ugly?!?!:I
- StudentWhat are the things in the back round/
Bugscope Teamthose are microsetae -- super tiny hairs
- Studentwhy is it in black and white
Bugscope Teamwhen we use electrons instead of light to collect images, we get the images as signal, in grey scale, rather than as wavelengths of light, so we do not see color
- Studentwhat is this now
- Studentwhat color are they in real life
Bugscope Teambrown or tan
- Studentis this a bug
Bugscope Teamwe are zoomed in on part of a mosquito
- Studentwhat is that
Bugscope Teamthis is the tongue of a fly -- the sponging mouthparts
- StudentWhat is this
- Studentwhat in the world is this
- Studentis that a mouth
Bugscope Teamyes it is
- Studentwe have students 2-6 ready for you to pass controls when ready
Bugscope Teamstudent 2 now has control of the'scope
- StudentWhat is that
- Studenthow do you swich control
Bugscope Teamwe can do it from here; it's easy for us
- Bugscope Teamnow you can see the head, and you can see that the fly is lying on its back
- StudentWhat in the world is that
- StudentIs this a head of an ant?
Bugscope Teamat first I thought it was a wasp, which are related to ants, but then I found that it has halteres, which only flies have
- 11:52 am
- Bugscope Teamthe bubbles are part of the carbon tape
- Studentwhat is that
Bugscope Teamthis is a male mosquito
- StudentWhat is that
- Studentwhat the bumbs
Bugscope Teamat the bottom of the image, those are the facets of the compound eye
- StudentAre those feathers
Bugscope Teamthey look like feathers but they are just frilly parts of the antennae
- StudentIs that thing that is sticking out near his mouth the sucker
Bugscope Teamyou can see it curving over the head to the left there
- StudentThat looks cool!
- Bugscope Teamwe are sorry that we cannot go to low mag without seeing those shadows around the view; it is not normally like that
- Studentit looks like a pinappple
Bugscope Teamyes!
- Studentwhere do they mostly live
Bugscope Teamanywhere there is fresh water, and it is not too cold
- StudentWhat are the little eye things
Bugscope Teamthe things that are large and rounded are the compound eyes; those furry donut-like things were the pedicels -- the bases of the antennae
- Studentwhat are the things behind the eyes
- StudentWhat the heck is that
Bugscope Teamheh it is a compound eye of a fly whose head is almost all eyes
- Studentwhy do they have bumbs on the eye
- Studentis that real
- StudentIs that real
Bugscope Teamyes it is real -- it is a kind of fly that lives around here but we did not recognize
- StudentOh my gosh
Bugscope Teamthe facets of the eye are individual lenses called ommatidia
- 11:57 am
- StudentThat is really cool
- StudentHow many compact things are on the eye?
Bugscope TeamI think there are a few thousand per compound eye
- Studentplease pass to student 3
- StudentWhat is on that eye
Bugscope Teamthere is some dirt, and there are also a few tiny setae sticking through
- Bugscope Teamthis is cool
- Bugscope Teamthis is another mosquito
- Studentcool
- Studentwhy does it look like it is smiling
Bugscope Teamit just looks that way, but it could have been happy
- StudentWhat is on that
- StudentIs it a male or female mosquito
Bugscope Teammales have the frilly antennae
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the compound eyes at the bottom, the pedicels on top, and the base of the proboscis in the upper middle
- Studentare those ticks
Bugscope Teamthey are mites; they function kind of like ticks on insects
- StudentIt looks like an allein up close
Bugscope Teamyeah!
- Bugscope Teamface huggers
- Studentwhat are they on?
Bugscope Teamthis is the body of an earwig -- of a female earwig
- Bugscope Teamthe mites -- these mites -- do not have eyes
- 12:03 pm
- Studenthow big are they ?
Bugscope Teamyou can barely see them with just your eyes -- less than a millimeter long
- StudentAre those claws
Bugscope Teamyes! just below where we are now
- Studentis that a moth ?
Bugscope Teamthose are sticky pads on a fly claw called a pulvillus. They allow flies to walk on walls
- Studentare those thorns
Bugscope Teamthey are bendy bristles that let the fly know when it is touching something
- StudentIs that a fly
Bugscope Teamit is one of the claws of a housefly; we do not have any horseflies today
- Studentis that a horsefly
- Studentare those things their eyes or ears
Bugscope Teamthose are just part of one of the claws
- Studentcan you put student 4 in charge
Bugscope Teamgot ti
- Bugscope Teamgot it, sorry
- Studentare those claws
Bugscope Teamthe claws are just below, just out of view right now
- Bugscope Teamthis is a housefly
- Studentis that the mouth of a fly?
Bugscope Teamyes!
- Bugscope Teamfrom the bottom of the head
- StudentIs that a mouth of a ant or fly?
- Studentis that a house fly
Bugscope Teamyes it is. generally, with flies, if the eyes are separated like this, it is a female
- Studentare those teeth
Bugscope Teamthis fly spits up on its food and sucks up what the saliva has digested
- Studentwhat is that
- 12:08 pm
- Studentwhere do they live ?????
Bugscope Teamalmost everywhere it is not cold
- Bugscope Teamso it does not have teeth, but no insect has real teeth
- Studentis that a mouth
Bugscope Teamthis is a spiracle which is a breathing hole
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentIs this a mouth of a fly?
- Bugscope Teamspiracles are kind of like noses; they lead to tracheae, which are tubes that feed air into the insect
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fruit fly
- Studentis that a head
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- StudentIs that a fruit fly
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- Bugscope Teamto the right is its tongue
- Student is that the tongue
Bugscope Teamyes, to the right, it is kind of like a tongue
- Studentdoes it live around here
Bugscope Teamyes they live all around us, everywhere there are people unless it is super cold
- Studentwhere does it live
- Studentwhat are the things above the eyes??
- Studentis that a ladybug head
Bugscope Teamyes it is -- you can see the compound eyes on either side
- Studentit that a lady bug head?
Bugscope Teamyes it is
- 12:13 pm
- Studentcan you pass to student 5
Bugscope Teamdone!
- Bugscope Teamthis is the tip of the proboscis of a male mosquito
- Studentis that a tong
Bugscope Teamit was sort of like a sheath/tongue; inside would be the fascicle, which is the biting part
- Studentis that the head
- Studentis that what stings us and takes our blood
Bugscope Teamyes but only females bite and take blood meals, which they need in order to be able to lay their eggs successfully
- Studentare those things on a bug
Bugscope Teamno this is salt from a Wendy's restaurant.
- Studentis that a cube
- Studentwhat type of salt
Bugscope Teamsodium chloride -- normal table salt
- Studentwhats the 4m mean
Bugscope Teamthat is the micron bar; right now it reads 1 mm, or 1 millimeter, but often it reads something like 4 um. The 'u' like character is a Greek 'mu,' and it means 'micro,' which means 1 millionth.
- Studentwhere did it come from
- 12:18 pm
- Bugscope Teamso a micrometer is a millionth of a meter
- Bugscope Teamsee how the micron bar now reads 11 um?
- StudentHow do you transport the stuff with out breaking it
Bugscope Teamthe insects, you mean? we are careful, and we use forceps
- Bugscope Teambacteria -- the rod-shaped ones -- are 2 micrometers, or 2 microns, long
- Studentis that a tounge
Bugscope Teamthose are the tenent setae on the sticky pad -- the pulvillus -- that helps the insect stick to vertical surfaces
- Studentcan you switch controls to student 6?
Bugscope Teamgot it
- Studentis it a foot
- Studentwhat is a forceps
Bugscope Teamforceps are grasping tools, and in this case they are tweezers
- 12:24 pm
- Bugscope Teamsorry I could have just called them tweezers, but now you know a new word...
- Studentwhat is this
- Bugscope Teamspeaking of forceps -- these are the pinching parts of the earwig
- Studentwhat is a earwig
Bugscope Teaman earwig is an insect with a pincer tail that is a plant pest
- Studentare thes the earwigs mouth pinchers
Bugscope Teamthe mouth is at the other end
- Studentwhat is the backgrond
Bugscope Teamcarbon doublestick tape
- StudentHow do you put large things under the micro scope
- Studentwhat are thoes round thing behind the pinchers
- StudentWhat is the round thing in the back round
Bugscope Teamthose are little craters in the tape
- StudentWhat is the background
- 12:29 pm
- Studentplease pass controls to stahl
Bugscope Teamgot it
- Teacherwhat is the bee's ocellus?
- Bugscope Teamthat is a simple eye, of which there are three
- Bugscope Teamthe ocelli are simple eyes that help flying insects with direction
- Bugscope Teamthese are particles that come from leafhoppers that are said to help keep eggs from drying out
- Teacherkind of like a navigator?
Bugscope Teamthey help the insect triangulate with the sun so they know where they're going
- Bugscope Teamso the bee must have bumped its head into a leafhopper
- 12:34 pm
- Bugscope Teamthe ocellus is the dome we can hardly see now because it is the background
- Teacherwhat are the small round things
Bugscope Teamthose are only a few hundred nanometers across
Bugscope Teamthose are brochosomes that only leafhoppers make
- Bugscope Teamso you are in the nano scale right now
- Teacherwhere are the scales on a mosquito
Bugscope Teamthe mosquito has scales all over its body, but these are on the thorax -- the chest area
- Teacherwhat are the little hairs we see
Bugscope Teamthose are microsetae, super tiny hairs
- Bugscope Teamsome hairs also tell the insect about the environment's temperature
- 12:39 pm
- Bugscope Teamnow you can see where we were
- Teacherare those the eyeballs at the top
Bugscope Teamyes they are!
- Teacherhow do the hairs tell the temperature
Bugscope Teamsome of the hairs are what is called 'thermosensory,' so they can sense hot/cold
- Teacherbetween the eyeballs, is that what sucks the blood
Bugscope Teamthat is the base of the proboscis, yes
- Bugscope Teamsome of the hairs are chemosensory -- they can smell chemicals
- Teacherhow many eyes does a mosquito have
Bugscope Teamthey have 2 compound eyes, but as to how many ommatidia they have, i'm not sure hundreds
- Teacherhow does a mosquito know where to find blood
Bugscope Teamthey can find you when you breathe CO2, and some can find you because you are warm
- Teacherwhat is an ommatidia
Bugscope Teamthey are the small round components of the eye. they kind of look like bean bags
- 12:44 pm
- Bugscope Teamthis is the proboscis
- Teacherhow exactly do they suck the blood
Bugscope Teamwhat they do, is, inside this sheath is a fascicle, and it is smoother, and muscular. the fascicle has four cutting components, and a siphon tube, and another part I don't know the purpose of. the fascicle sticks into your skin, and the saliva helps thin your blood to make it flow, and the blood enters the mosquito through the siphon tube.
- Teacherdo mosquitos come out in the winter
Bugscope Teamno. they come from eggs laid in little pockets of water, so in the winter they are frozen
- Teacherwhat are the dots on the eye?
Bugscope Teamthose are the individual facets of the eye, called ommatidia
- 12:49 pm
- Bugscope Teameach ommatidium is a lens, so each is kind of like an individual eye
- Teacherwhat kind of fly is this?
Bugscope Teamwe don't know what kind of fly this is, I am sorry. they are common here but I have not been able to catch an entomologist to ask
- Bugscope Teamif you had compound eyes it would be difficult to buy sunglasses, but you would have very good peripheral vision
- Teacherwhat is at the top of the screen?
Bugscope Teamthat is the antenna, or antennae, one on top of the other
- Bugscope Teamthe antennae have lots of chemoreceptors in them, so the insect can pick up scents from the air
- Bugscope Teamawesome
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the branchlike part of the antenna, called the arista, and the basal portion with all of the chemoreceptors in it
- Teacherwhat is the white dot on the antenna?
Bugscope Teamthe white dot is just dirt, I think
- Teacherwhat is the snake looking thing towards the bottom of the screen?
Bugscope Teamthat looks like a piece of lint or maybe even some fungus
- 12:56 pm
- Teacherwhat is the straw thing connected to the antenna? or is that the antenna?
Bugscope Teamthat is the arista -- another part of the antenna
- Bugscope Teamthis is the sponging mouthpart of the fruit fly
- Bugscope Teamfruit flies eat fungus associated with fruit
- Teacherare the hair on the fruit fly similar to the fly hair?
Bugscope Teamyes quite similar; but fruit fly eyes are full of tiny bristles, between the ommatidia, that help them sense air currents and windspeed
- Bugscope Teamlike many other flies with sponging mouthparts, they spit up on their food and then suck up the dissolved food
- 1:01 pm
- Teacherhow big is the fruit fly's eye?
Bugscope Teamlet's do look and see if we can measure it
- Bugscope Teamit looks like it is about 300 microns in diameter -- about 0.3 millimeters
- Bugscope Teamsee the bristles on the eye?
- Bugscope Teammany of the bristles are broken off
- Teacherwhat colors can fruit fly eyes be?
Bugscope Teamwell they can be red, and white, and black that I have seen, but I bet there are other colors
- Teacherwhy are the bristles broken off?
Bugscope Teamjust because we were clumsy, or the head rolled onto a flat surface after the fruit fly died
- Teacherhow small are fruit flies and how do you catch them?
- Teacherplease pass controls to swift!
Bugscope Teamlooks like Swift is greyed out, so we cannot do it just now
- 1:06 pm
- Bugscope Teamthe bristles are stiff and especially when an insect dies the insect dries out, making it easy for those hairs to break
- Bugscope Teamalso limbs easily fall off
- Teacherone last question...how far can fruit flies see?
Bugscope Teamyou know we are not sure, I'm sorry. Cate may be able to tell us...
- StudentHow long is it?
Bugscope Teamhow long is the micron bar?
- Teacherplease pass the controls to any students 1-7
Bugscope Teamstudent 1 has control!
- StudentWhat is it?
- Studentwhat is this
Bugscope Teamthese are scales from a mosquito, on the thorax
- Bugscope Teamthe brochosomes we are looking at are from a leafhopper
- Bugscope Teammosquitos have poor sight and can see you up to 30 ft away, and so i can only guess fruit flies would be much better
- 1:11 pm
- Bugscope Teamspeaking of mosquitoes...
- Studentwhat is a female mosquito
- Bugscope Teamthis is a big fly head
- StudentHow high does the leafhopper jump?
Bugscope TeamI think they can jump two or three feet.
- Bugscope Teamthat is what I remember -- you often find them in bushes
- Studenthow many eyes are there
Bugscope Teamwe think a few thousand per compound eye, in that fly
- Studentwhat is this
- Bugscope Teamthis is really cool
- Bugscope Teamhigh mag on the mite
- Studentare this legs
Bugscope Teamyes those are the legs -- they have little kind of suction cups on the ends
- Bugscope Teamthe little part is what we think is the head
- Studentwhat r those bubbles
Bugscope Teamthe bubble-like things at the top? those are indentations in the carapace -- in the back
- StudentWhat is this???
- Studentwhat is this
- Studentwhat is the thing that misquitos drink blood
Bugscope Teamthis is the sheath that the fascicle is inside -- the biting part
- 1:16 pm
- Studentis that a cattail
- Studentis that a lage
- StudentWhat is this????
- Studentwhat does it do
- Bugscope Teamso this is the proboscis
- Studentis this a spider
Bugscope Teamthis is a fruit fly!
- Studentis that a head?
Bugscope Teamthis is the head of the fruit fly
- Studentwhat is this
- StudentAre they mean?
Bugscope Teamthey are sweet, but they can be annoying
- Studentis that a i
- Studentis that it's tougue
Bugscope Teamyes! to the right, there
- Bugscope Teamto the right is the proboscis, and to the left is the compound eye
- Studentdo you think this is ugly
Bugscope Teamafter awhile you start to like them
- Studentplease pass contols to sudent 2
- Studentoh
- StudentHow annoying are they?
Bugscope Teamthey can be annoying to get rid of once you have them
- Studentwhat is that?
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly's claw
- Studentthats cool have you magnified a cucaracha
Bugscope Teamyes. they are streamlined, very smoooth
- Studentwhat is this
- Bugscope Teamall insects have six legs
- Studentwhat part is this
- Studentthat's cool
- Studentare those pinchers
Bugscope Teamthat was a claw, like a little hand
- StudentIs that the teeth?
Bugscope Teaminsects do not have teeth, but they do have hardened mouthparts sometimes
- Bugscope Teamopens and closes
- Studenthave you ever looked at anything else than bugs
Bugscope Teamoh yeah -- lots of things. we teach people to use the microscopes to do their research, so it is not usually bugs
- 1:22 pm
- StudentOK!
- Bugscope Teamyes we have had people want us to image fossils and computer chips
- Studenthow many bugs are on the slied
- Studentcan a horsefly like horses
Bugscope Teamhorseflies have slashing mouthparts that cut into the skin, so they like horses but horses do not like them
- Studentyou are cool
- Studentdo you every get grost out
Bugscope Teamyes sometimes, when we get the insects and they are alive or smooshed and smelly
- StudentWhat do they eat?
- Studentis that grass?
- Studentwhat do they look like
- Studentwhat is there favorite furit
- Studentgross
- Studentdo you every get grossed out
Bugscope Teamonce I opened a package with a large centipede in it, and it freaked me out. I dropped it on the floor, made Cate laugh.
- Bugscope Teamsome things can look really boring in the microscope, that's part of why we look at insects. They also don't lose their shape too much when they dry for the vacuum
- Studentplease pass to student 9
- Studentcool
- Studentyea
- Student the things that you look at are cool sj
Bugscope Teamthanks -- we are lucky to be doing this -- it is really fun
- Studentpass to 5
- StudentWhat are those things?
Bugscope Teamto the right is the head of a fruit fly, and to the left is a bubble in the carbon tape
- StudentI have never seen enething like this
- Studentdo sentepeds love biteing people
Bugscope Teamsome of the big ones don't mind, but the smaller ones are said to be harmless to people
- Studentis that a wall on the left?
- Studentwitch is better color or black and white
- Studentwhat about the left?
- 1:27 pm
- Studenthow meny anteys are thare
- Studentthats hairy
- Studentsj you are cool
Bugscope Teamhey Thank You!
- Studentwhat is your favorite bug you seen under the micrscope
- StudentIs that hair?
- Studentyou guys have a cool job
- Bugscope Teami like to look at ants. sometimes they have cool mouthparts and sometimes even stingers
- Studentwhat is that staff
- Studentdo worms breath throw a mouth or not
Bugscope TeamI think most worms breathe through their skin
- Studentmy favorite is the lady bug
- StudentIs it a fly??
Bugscope Teamthis is an earwig's mouth, up close
- Studenthave you ever looked at a queen ant cate
- Studentdo they bite?
Bugscope Teamthese guys will pinch you with their cercopods
- Studenthow close are we
Bugscope Teamoops sorry probably 240x
- Studentesem you tell me a lot your cool
- Studentouch
- Studentwho is the coolest
- Studentwhat is this
- Studentwhat is your favorite thing we have look at sj
- StudentIs this poisonous?
- Studentok
- Studentcan you show us a spirdes had
Bugscope Teamwe don't have any spiders in the 'scope today, sorry...
- 1:32 pm
- StudentWhat is this bug???
Bugscope Teamthat is one of the six claws of a fly
- Studentthats a lot
- Studentdo bugs have a cell
Bugscope Teamyes they are made of cells
- StudentPlease pass control to 4
- Studenthow many cells
Bugscope Teamhundreds of thousands of cells, maybe millions,
- Studentyou guys are so cool
- StudentDo you every get tied of this?
Bugscope Teamwe really enjoy this -- we look forward to good sessions like today's
Bugscope Teamthere are so many different kinds of insects out there it's hard to get tired
- StudentIs this poisonous?
- Studentdo bugs fight
Bugscope Teamyes they do
- Studentdo you have a scary bug
Bugscope Teamthe scariest bug in the 'scope today is not an insect -- it's a centipede
- StudentWhat is its name?
- Studentwhat is this
Bugscope Teamthis is a mosquito head
- Studentare bugs dangous
Bugscope Teamsome are dangerous, like mosquitoes and tsetse flies, also bot flies
- Bugscope Teamthis is how insects breathe
- Bugscope Teamthrough these little pores called spiracles
- Studentdo bugs have lots of hair
- Studentwhich one is the centipede
Bugscope Teampresets no. 4, 5, 6
- Studenthow meny eyes are tharer
- StudentWhat is this?
- Studentwhat is this
- 1:37 pm
- Studentwhat does this does
- Studentdo you have a black wido
Bugscope Teamno we had one once but it was mashed
- Studenthow long is the fangs?
Bugscope TeamI think a few millimeters, probably less, depends on the size of the centipede
- Bugscope Teamthose are the biting mouthparts of the centipede
- Studentdo you do this for a job
Bugscope Teamyes this is part of our job!
- Bugscope Teamblack widows are hard to come by. even if we lived in a region with them, they like to hide
- Studentwhat are the bubbles
- Studentcool is a spitball smaller than a fly
- StudentWhat is this?
Bugscope Teamthose are tenent setae -- the tiny sticky hairs that help flies and other insects walk on vertical surfaces.
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that this preset moved after we set it up
- Bugscope Teamthe carbon tape that is used to help hold down the bugs looks bubbly
- Studenthow many eyes are there
Bugscope Teamdepends on the insect. some bees may have 4 to 5000 ommatidia per eye
- Studentplease pass to student 8
- Studentwhat is this
Bugscope Teamthis is a close-up of the claw of a fly. now we are looking at the mouth of another fly
- Studentis that skin?
Bugscope Teaminsects do not really have skin -- they have a flexible and not-so-flexible shell called an 'exoskeleton.'
- Studenti think you should try to invent colors
Bugscope Teamyeah some people add color to this kind of image
- Studentcool sj
- Studentwhat is this
- 1:42 pm
- StudentIs this a cool bug?
- Guestwhat cand of skalten dose this bug have?
Bugscope Teamit's on the outside!
- Studentdo you think your job is cool
Bugscope Teamthis part I really like. there are tough parts too, but we are lucky to be able to do this.
- Studentwhat is that
Bugscope Teamthis, now, is a mite
- Bugscope Teambugs are cool in different ways unless they are super streamlined like roaches
- Guestwhat kind of blood do they have
Bugscope Teamthe blood of an insect is called hemolymph, and it is clear, although when you smash one it may look yellowy.
- Studentthere is two
Bugscope Teamyes! you found the other one!
- Studentmites
- Studentcan you see the cells from the microscope
Bugscope Teamwe have seen blood cells that are fixed for imaging in the sem
- Studentwhat does a mite do sj
Bugscope Teamwe are not sure what the mite does. it manages to feed there on the surface of the cuticle of the insect, but we don't know what it eats
- StudentWhy isn't it in color?
Bugscope Teamwe are using electrons instead of light, to do this. and the images come to us a shades of dark and light, as levels of signal
- Studentplease pass to student 7
- StudentDo you like these bugs?
Bugscope Teamthis was a good set today
- Studentwhat is the bug can swim
Bugscope Teamwhirligig beetles and waterboatmen are two of them
- Studentwhat is this
- 1:47 pm
- Guesthow long did you have to study for this
Bugscope TeamCate got a degree in physics, and I got a degree in English and biology. Then we had to learn to run the 'scopes. But it is fun, not that hard.
- Studentwhat is this?????
Bugscope Teamwe are near one of the mites, so we are on the exoskeleton of the fly or the earwig
- Studento.k sj
- Studentcool
- Studenttime is getting short - could we pass to #5?
- Studentthat was short
Bugscope Teamsorry...
- Guestit sounds like fun
- StudentHow did you catch these bugs?
Bugscope Teamthese, many of them, were caught using a jar, by hand, and then freezing, and then thawing in air for a few days
- StudentOk
- Guestwould you have bugs if we did not get eny
Bugscope Teamyes we have a a small supply
- Studentcan bugs shape shift
Bugscope Teamthey can bend quite a bit, some of them, but they don't shape shift quickly. You know going from a caterpillar to a butterfly is quite a trick
- Studentwhat r thse sj
Bugscope Teamthose are salt crystals from a Wendy's restaurant
- 1:52 pm
- Studentdo you show the bugs we sent
Bugscope TeamI put some of our bugs in today because -- I am sorry -- I didn't know where yours were. Usually I am spoiled and Cate does that part.
- Guestare you shoing the bugs we gave you sj
- Studentplease pass to controls to our last student # 6
- StudentWhat is this sj?
Bugscope Teamthis is one of the scales on the thorax of a mosquito.
- Studentby sj u r cool
- Studentis butterfly 5 times bigger than a catapiler
Bugscope Teamthey can be much bigger but sometimes there are some big caterpillars as well.
- Guestto bad we had some cool bugs
- Studentyou founed some great bugs for us
- StudentBye sj Thank you! Goodbye!!! Your cool!
- Bugscope Teamscales are good to have if you are a butterfly or moth or mosquito or silverfish and want to escape from a spider's web. you just leave the scales stuck to the web and slip out. if you are also a little lucky
- Guestbut this are cool to
- Studentyou are cool esem
- Studentgood bye!
- Studentbye
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- Studentby sj esnm and scot
- Studentthank u sj u r cool
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- Studentthank u for ever thing
- Bugscope TeamThank You for working with us today!
- 1:57 pm
- StudentOUr carpool time is approaching quickly. Thank you for all of your great information today! our Intermediate division has enjoyed this session!
- Bugscope Teamthank you for using bugscope today!
- Bugscope Teamhope you all had fun
- Bugscope TeamCate can you shut down? I lost control...
- Bugscope Teamyou can go to your member page to see images and chat from today
- Bugscope TeamHello Schlanger. I'm sorry we are closing down...
- Bugscope Teamhttp://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-071/
