Connected on 2014-12-02 12:30:00
from Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
- 10:42 am
- Bugscope Teampumping sample down
- 10:50 am
- Bugscope TeamHi Carrie!
- TeacherI know I am early...just checking. Thanks again for being so helpful! :) "See" you soon!
- 11:28 am
- Bugscope Teamhi ms hill
- 11:34 am
- 11:43 am
- 11:48 am
- Bugscope TeamOk, refresh fixed it.
- 11:54 am
- 11:59 am
- 12:04 pm
- 12:10 pm
- 12:16 pm
- 12:23 pm
- Bugscope Teamhey we are done with the presets
- Bugscope Teamwe are ready to roll!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a small fly
- Bugscope Teamits face
- Teacherlet's do this. :)
- Bugscope Teamwe can see that its eyes cover a large portion of its head
- Bugscope Teamon the top of the head, to the top of the image we see now, are the antennae
- Bugscope TeamMs. Hill you may click on any of the presets, on the left, to get the 'scope to drive to those positions on the stub.
- Bugscope TeamYou may also change the mag, focus, and contrast/brightness using the controls just above the image.
- TeacherI would rather let you drive. :)
- Bugscope Teamthis is probably a boy fly
- Bugscope Teamthe eyes are close together. females have eyes that are farther apart
- Bugscope TeamPlease be sure to let us know if anyone has any questions.
- Bugscope TeamThis is the top of the fly's head, from our point of view.
- Teacherwe are busy oooohing and ahhhhing.
- 12:28 pm
- Bugscope Teamnow we're going to see a mosquito.
- Teacherwow!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a female mosquito -- the ones that bite. males do not bite
- Teacherwe did not know that!
- Bugscope Teamthe tiny round dots are ommatidia -- the individual facets of the compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the eyes cover almost the entire head. the rules for boy or girl are different for mosquitos. male mosquitos have really frilly antennae
- Bugscope Teamfemale mosquitoes have less interesting, more utilitarian antennae
- Bugscope Teamthe thing that resembles a furry doughnut is called a pedicel; it is the base of the antenna
- Bugscope Teamat this level we can also see assemblages of scales, like tiny ridged potato chips
- Bugscope Teamnow we can see some of the scales
- Teachermmmmm...potato chips and donuts.
- Bugscope Teambutterflies, moths, mosquitoes, silverfish, and very few other insects have scales on their bodies and often on their wings as well
- Bugscope Teamscales come off very easily. they're the powdery stuff that comes off of a butterfy's wings if you rub them
- 12:33 pm
- Teacherinteresting!
- Bugscope Teamhaving scales protects insects from getting caught in spiderwebs
- Teacherwhat's this??
- Bugscope Teamthis is the male mosquito's antenna, up close
- Bugscope Teammale mosquitoes and some other flies have features on their antennae that help them sense the wingbeat frequency of females of the same species
- Bugscope Teamthis is completely totally cool
- Teacherwe think so too...what is it?
- Bugscope Teamwe see, now, a mite suspended between the mandibles/accessory mouthparts of a beetle
- Bugscope Teamthis is a mite
- Bugscope Teami think it got tere after the beetle died
- Bugscope Teamit reminds me of the softer-bodied dustmite
- Bugscope Teamthe body of the mite is maybe 250 microns long, or one quarter of a millimeter
- Teacherwow.
- Bugscope TeamI think we can see an eyespot
- 12:38 pm
- Bugscope Teamnow what I thought was an eyespot looks like some kind of juju stuck to the surface of the cuticle, which does indeed look like a fingerprint.
- TeacherThe eyespot is next to the hair/horn thing?
Bugscope TeamI think now that I was mistaken...
- Bugscope Teamthere's also some other tuff here, some stuff isn't native to the insect, like dirt or dust
- TeacherWhat is the potato thing? (I might be hungry...)
Bugscope Teamthat rounder long thing, I am not sure what it is
Bugscope TeamI think it is a long mold spore.
- 12:43 pm
- Bugscope Teamit could be a pirce of setae from the nearby insect
- Bugscope Teamsetae for plural
- Bugscope Teamhere is a cricket
- Bugscope Teamthis is a cricket
- Bugscope Teamoops
- Bugscope Teamit is kind of big so we can't see the head as a whole
- TeacherWe know crickets!
- Bugscope Teamwe can see its mandibles (jaws), and we can see its palps, which are the feelers that help it taste and also manipulate its food
- Bugscope Teamalso, to the upper right, we see one of its compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamthe mandibles open left and right like a gate, not like our mandibles which open up and down
- Bugscope Teamthis is like a hinge
- Bugscope Teamwe often see lots of dirt and stuff like that
- Bugscope Teamnow we are going to look at a moth eye, up close
- Teacherneat!
- Bugscope Teamth emoth eye has little pillars on it that we think are similar to the rods/cones in our eyes
- Bugscope Teamthe smallest dots we see, on the ommatidia (facets of the compound eye, to the right), are on the nanoscale
- 12:48 pm
- TeacherErik wants to know if it has dust on its eye...
Bugscope Teamit has some dried goop on it. not sure what the little balls are that are underneath the goop
- Bugscope Teamthe larger dots, to the left, may be brochosomes, from a leafhopper, covered in a thin film of liquid
- TeacherThat is amazing.
- Bugscope Teamwe can see bacteria easily with the scanning electron microscope
- Bugscope Teamthese are different kinds of rod-shaped bacteria, called bacilli
- Bugscope Teambetter than what it really is
- TeacherAlyssa thinks it looks like rice crispie treats...we are all about the food here. :)
Bugscope Teamhaha Yeah!
- Bugscope Teamhope you guys dont lose your appetite working with us today!
- Bugscope Teamhere are some "teeth" for chewing
- TeacherThat was a guess here! We kind of rock!
- Bugscope Teamthe plier ant, which is related to the trapjaw ant has jaws with these little biting parts
- Bugscope Teamthese are the jaws of a tiny ant that eats springtails
- Bugscope Teamthe ant is called a 'plier ant' because its mandibles are like pliers
- Bugscope Teamthe tiny round things are mold spores
- Teacherholy cow!
- Bugscope Teamnow we see one of the fork-tong or tooth-like elements of the mandibles with mold spores on it
- TeacherErik thinks they look like human brains.
Bugscope Teamhaha!
- 12:54 pm
- Bugscope Teamhere we see something that looks kind of like what we just saw, but this is on a spider
- Bugscope Teamwe are looking at spider claws
- Teacheroooooooooh.
- Bugscope Teamthey are slightly hidden beneath what are called 'plumose' setae
- Bugscope Teamplumose means that their form is like that of a pine tree -- they have projections like branches all the way around them
- Bugscope Teamthere are little square crystals, like in the lower left
- Bugscope Teamnow we see four spider eyes, looking toward us
- Teachercreepy a little...
- Bugscope Teamthe reason we see lots of setae (the things that resemble hairs) is because spiders need them to help sense wind and touch and especially vibration
- Bugscope Teamthis is kind of bad, but the spider lost its chelicerae, which have the fangs at their tips
- TeacherA student wants to know what the "hole" is...
- 12:59 pm
- Bugscope Teamthere is just that open space there -- the 'hole'
- Bugscope Teamnow we moved again, back to the mite, where we can see a few bacteria
- Bugscope Teamand again -- these little tubes are what the spider uses to extrude its web
- Bugscope Teamthat is, these are the spinnerettes
- Bugscope Teamit is good that Spiderman does not have spinnerettes
- Bugscope Teamthis is a yellowjacket -- a kind of wasp
- Bugscope Teami put this on since you were interested in looking at a bee
- Teacherooh!
- Bugscope Teamwe see the mandibles, crossed over each other, and below them we see some palps
- Bugscope Teamthe tip of the palp looks like a potato
- Teacheroh wow, yes it does!
- 1:04 pm
- Bugscope Teamthe 'eyes' of the potato are chemosensors that help the yellowjacket taste what could be its food
- Bugscope Teamhaha more relation to potato chips
- Bugscope Teamchemosensors can taste (like tastebuds on your tongue) by touch, and some can taste by smelling the air
- Teacherwe're getting hungry in here ;)
Bugscope Teamhaha
- Bugscope Teamremember when we saw the tiny scales on the mosquito head?
- Bugscope Teamthis is a closeup of a single scale on a moth
- Bugscope Teamthe spacing of the ridges we see going diagonally across the screen, roughly up and down, produces colors -- just from the spacing
- Bugscope Teamthe colors are called 'structural colors'
- Teacheris this on the wing?
Bugscope Teamlet's take the mag down and see where we are
- Bugscope Teamhere is a "potato chip" scale up close
- 1:09 pm
- Teacherwow!!!!
- Bugscope Teamwhoa now I am not sure -- I think we are on the outside of one of the moth's wings
- Bugscope Teamthis is the moth's head
- Bugscope Teamit is kind of smashed
- Bugscope Teamin the center we see a compound eye
- Teacheris it a little squished?
Bugscope Teamvery. like a pancake
- Bugscope Teamto the right we see the moth's proboscis, or 'tongue,' all coiled up
- Bugscope Teamsorry for the other food reference :)
- Bugscope Teamthe proboscis is like a straw that can be opened up
- Teacherhaha!
- Bugscope Teamthe outside of the proboscis, which the moth sticks into flowers so it can suck up their nectar, has tiny spines on it
- 1:15 pm
- Bugscope Teamnow we're looking at one of two very small beetles that Daniel brought into the lab for us
- Bugscope Teamthe beetle is much larger than the mite but still very small
- Teacherone of our students says that he needs to shave! :)
Bugscope Teamdefinitely!
- Bugscope Teamthis is wild-looking antenna -- it resembles one of the limbs, almost
- Bugscope Teamantennae help insects smell and taste the air, as well as things that actually touch them
- Bugscope Teamno we dont often find them where we live
- Teacherdo you have any scorpions?
Bugscope Teamnot today!
- Bugscope Teamwe only get to look at them when someone sends them to us
- 1:20 pm
- TeacherOk, well maybe we should try to send one to you! :)
- Bugscope Teamcool!
- Bugscope Teamsmaller ones are better
- Bugscope Teamthey have lots of eyes, in different places, and they actually chew their food
- Teacherthe next time my cat kills one for us, i'll save it :)
Bugscope Teamawesome!
- Bugscope Teamremember the plier ant? this is one of its claws
- Teacherwow!
- Bugscope Teamants are insects, of course, so they have a head, a thorax, six legs, an abdomen (in ants it is called a 'gaster'), and two antennae
- Teacheri want to thank you for taking the time to show us these amazing images!
Bugscope Teamyay! It is super fun for us.
- TeacherOur class is getting ready to head to lunch. THANK YOU!!!! Have a great day!
Bugscope Teamwe made them hungry!
- Bugscope Teamthank you and enjoy your lunch!
- Bugscope TeamThank you!
- Teacheryes indeed! me too!!
- Bugscope TeamBye Everyone!
