Connected on 2009-05-22 13:00:00 from , TX, US
- 12:24pm
- Teacher Good Afternoon! So excited to be doing BugScope again!
- Bugscope Team welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Team we are setting up presets, we'll be done in a few minutes
- 12:31pm
- Teacher Awesome!
- Teacher I'm Jan, and I'll be running the bugscope while Mrs. Garcie monitors the students. Do you mind if I drive?
- Bugscope Team ok, sounds good
- Bugscope Team but we need to make a few more presets
- Teacher ok, let me know when I can start to play
- Teacher Can you send us a list of the bugs that we're going to be looking at?
Bugscope Team bagworm moth ca-coon, grasshopper nymph, oriental roach, 3 spiders, green stink bug, ant, japanese beetle, mosquito, kissing fly; these are all the bugs you sent us
- 12:38pm
- Bugscope Team and the bug name will be listed near the preset
- Bugscope Team below each preset i mean
- Teacher ok - thanks
- Bugscope Team no problemo
- 12:44pm
- Bugscope Team a couple more presets...
- Teacher ok - just let me know
- 12:49pm
- Bugscope Team OK, ready!
- Bugscope Team i just unlocked the session you should see controls now
- Bugscope Team try driving, and let us know if you have any questions at all
- Bugscope Team clicking on a preset takes you to that preset
- Bugscope Team all right
- Bugscope Team ready whenever you are
- Bugscope Team when using mavigation, click to center is easier, finer control
- Bugscope Team navigation, i mean :)
- Bugscope Team if you use click to drive remember to click to stop -- that's why we recommend click to center
- Bugscope Team edge of the world
- Bugscope Team yeah, we drove off the stub there, make sure to click on the image again to stop, otherwise we'll drive off the edge
- Teacher what controls am I supposed to be seeing? All I see is Click to Focus and Magnify.
- 12:54pm
- Bugscope Team you should see, from top to bottom, magnify, navigation, focus and adjust
- Bugscope Team you may need to expand the size of your browser window
- Bugscope Team and then below adjust are the presets we made
- Bugscope Team or, your screen resolution might be too small, are you at 1024x768 (at least)?
- Bugscope Team you can use the presets to quickly jump to another specimen
- Teacher we are at 1024 x 768
- Teacher I don't see navigation
- Bugscope Team ok, 1024x768 shjould be enough, but now hit F11 to get to full screen size
- Bugscope Team maximize your browser window, navigation control should be below magnify and above focus, is it not there?
- Bugscope Team hey everyone!
- Teacher ok, but I still don't have navigation, unless that's the driving portion
- Bugscope Team do you see the click to drive button?
- Bugscope Team "click to drive" and "click to center" buttons are both part of the navigation tool
- Bugscope Team this is the bagworm moth cocoon
- Bugscope Team it has lots of cool stuff on it. but maybe not right here
- Teacher I don't see either of those buttons - click to drive or click to center.
- Student How does the carpenter ant kill its prey?
- Bugscope Team but you see Focus and Adjust?
- Bugscope Team if you have click to drive already selected they wont show up until you click done
- Bugscope Team it will just say driving
- 12:59pm
- Teacher Our 1st group of kids are going to be asking questions about the grasshopper, ant, and cockroach
- Bugscope Team i just called the school and got the voice mail, do you have a cell i can call?
- Teacher got it - clicked done and it came back
- Bugscope Team yes, when using click to drive, you click to start moving, and then MUST click again to stop
- Bugscope Team whenever they want, they can start to ask us questions
- Bugscope Team and we will answer them to the best of our knowledge
- Teacher Is Cate your entomologist, or do you have one with you today?
- Bugscope Team our entomologist just got her PhD and is leaving us for California
- Student why is the spur-throated grasshopper called this
- Student what does the carpenter ant eat and how many species are there?
Bugscope Team it depends on where it is -- carpentet ants, like most ants, like sweet stuff, but they will eat living and dead insects as well
- Student where are the eyes
Bugscope Team they are usually on the sides of the head, big compound eyes, and then some fly's have simple eyes as well
- Student How does a Carpenter Ant Kill its prey?
- Student Why is the carpenter ant called this?
Bugscope Team it's called a carpenter ant because sometimes it cuts pathways to its nest through wood
- Student Are the mandibles of the Carpenter Ant advanced
- Bugscope Team mrs. G, you must click again in the image to STOP moving
- Student hi, do any of you know the life cycle of an oriental cockroach nymph
Bugscope Team The nymphs of oriental cockroaches takes between 1-2 years of molting before it becomes an adult. Other species only take a few weeks.
- Student thank you
- Bugscope Team if you want easier control, try "click to center"
- 1:04pm
- Student how come carpenter ants don't have a queen?
Bugscope Team they do have a queen
- Student What are we looking at on this photo?
- Student how far can a spur-throated grasshopper jump?
- Bugscope Team this is the dge of the microscope stub. mrs. G can you click on a preset?
- Student What speical adaptations does the spur - throated grasshopper have?
- Bugscope Team ok, we clicked on a preset for you
- Student Do Carpenter ants bite?
Bugscope Team well,yes, they have chompers around their mouths
Bugscope Team yes they can bite
- Bugscope Team this is a claw, of an oriental roach
- Student How long does it take for a spur-throated grasshopper nymph to turn into an adult?
- Student the big bubble on preset #9 what is that?
- Student Where does the Oriental Cockroach Nymph come from?
Bugscope Team They can often be found around decaying organic matter, and in sewers, drains, damp basements, porches, and other damp locations.
- Student What does the carpenter ants nest look like?
- Student how do roaches eat
- Student Where mainly are carpenter ant mounds found?
Bugscope Team there are thousands of species, found all over the world i think
- Student What type of enviroment does the spur-throated grasshopper most likely be found
Bugscope Team They are the most common species of grasshopper in North America, and generally are found in fields and open meadows
- Student Why are there small hairs on the leg of a roach?
Bugscope Team those hairs are called setae (see-tee), they help insects to sense their environment
- Student what are we looking at now
- Bugscope Team I think it would be much better if you watched the images on the microscope rather than asking questions that can be looked up
- Student where did the oriental cockroach come from
- Bugscope Team ah coo, this is the green stink bug head
- Student How many species of cockroaches are there?
Bugscope Team There are about 4000 species of cockroach
- Student What does that head belong to?
- Student what are the things on the side of its head
Bugscope Team those are it's eyes, compound eyes, ask Mrs. G to zoom in on them
- 1:09pm
- Student what is the puropose of the spikes on the grasshopper's legs in Preset 10?
- Student Why are there so many eyes on the picture?
Bugscope Team the compound eye (the entire sphere looking thing, is made up of individual facets, called ommatidia
- Student what are the leg looking things on its face?
- Student what is the common habitat of the oriental cockroach?
- Bugscope Team this is a true bug, and you can see its eyes, its antennae, and in the middle of the head its piercing mouthparts
- Bugscope Team each facet has a lens in it
- Student does the oriental cockroach bite?
- Student What are we looking at on preset #12?
Bugscope Team those are tenent setae, used to help climb walls and stick to things
- Student What are those bubbles around the roach head #19
Bugscope Team the bubbles are carbon doublestick tape that the insects are stuck to
- Bugscope Team this is the head of an ant
- Student How big is the roach because it isent rilly that small in real life i thought..... ( present 19)
- Student how many eyes does a mosquito have
Bugscope Team mosquitos have two big compound eyes
- Student Why do the jaws have ridges on them
Bugscope Team they are serrated for the advantage of better cutting into things like grass
- Student what are we looking at now?
Bugscope Team this is an ANT
- Student On preset 8, Why is mold forming on the moth cacoon?
Bugscope Team mold forms on lots of things, and the cocoon is made in part of chewed-up leaves, which are rotting
- Student what purpose do those hairs on the picture serve?
Bugscope Team those hairs help the insect to sense it's environment: they can sense chemicals and also feel wind and movment
- Student what is picture #12?
Bugscope Team those are special hairs, called tenent setae, found near the claw of the fly we have today
- Student what are we looking at?
Bugscope Team this is grasshopper nymph
- Student Does the oriental coackroch have any pinchers?
Bugscope Team the closest thing they have to pinchers are the claws they have at the end of each of their legs. You will find that the ant, the grasshopper, stink bug, and the fly all have claws at the end of their legs
- Bugscope Team this is a kissing fly
Bugscope Team this is the grasshopper nymph
- Student Why are there lines on the eye?
Bugscope Team those are individual facets, called ommatidia, with lens's in each one
- Student Are any types of Grasshoppers Poisioness
- Student preset#11 why is it called the kissing fly?
Bugscope Team it appears to be kissing
- Student does this bug have a compound eye?
Bugscope Team yep!
- Student what Are those circles on the eyes
Bugscope Team those are ommatidia, each one has an eye lens in it
- Student on number 14, were are the eyes?
Bugscope Team ants have very small eyes, and sometimes no eyes, because they don't rely on them so much as their antennae since they live in the ground. Ant eyes are usually small, round, bumpy areas found on the very sides of the head. So you might be able to see one of them on the left side of the image
- 1:14pm
- Student What part of the bug are we looking at?
- Student What are natural predators of the Spur-throated grasshopper nymph?
- Student Why are their so many hairs on the face of a Cockroach?
- Student What are the furry things on the top of the head?
Bugscope Team some of what we see are the antennae, and some are the well-developed palps
- Student what kind of ecosystem does presets #18
Bugscope Team Oriental roaches are generalized enough to live in many different environments
- Student What do Oriental cockroaches use their claws for?
Bugscope Team grabbing food, defending itself, etc.
- Student why don't the carpenter ants eat wood
- Student Can the oriental roach kill a human?
Bugscope Team heh, i hope not!
- Student what are the hairs for on preset # 13
Bugscope Team insects are very hairy. You wills see this a lot with the insects today. They help them sense things around them and are used to help them do things like in #12, those hairs help the fly to walk on walls
- Bugscope Team this is where the silk comes out of the spider abdomen
- Student How long do oriental cockroaches live?
- Student what do spur throated grasshoper nymphs eat
Bugscope Team Spur-throated grasshoppers usually eat grasses and shrubs.
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student why are oriental cockroaches called that?
Bugscope Team Oriental means 'eastern,' and occidental means 'western.' So it means that when they were first named, someone likely thought they came from Asia
- Bugscope Team Hi all! Sorry I'm running a little late.
- Student What type of climate does a cockroach live in?
Bugscope Team Most cockroaches are tropical! That's why you usually find them inside the house and not outside - they don't like our temperate climate.
- Student what are those stringy things on the front of the head
- Bugscope Team Cockroaches, huh.
- Student What is the pod with holes in it?
Bugscope Team that is a pollen grain
- Student how big do orental cockroaches get
Bugscope Team I have never seen them larger than an inch or so.
- Student What part of the green stinkbug are we looking at (16)?
Bugscope Team the spiracle is on it's body (Abdomen)
- Student what part of the big bug are we looking at?
- Student Thanks for anwsering my questions!
- Student thank you
- Student thank you, have a good day =)
- Student Thank you for your time!
- Student :)
- Student thank you :)
- Student Thank-you for answering our questions :]
- Bugscope Team they don't eat wood, though
- 1:19pm
- Bugscope Team you are welcome!
- Student thanks!! : D
- Student thnk you for answering our questions =)
- Student Thank you very much for everything that you have bothered to do for use and thank you for taking the time to answer all of our difficult questions with time
- Bugscope Team hello, welcome to bugscope!
- Student when a mosquito injects its labella it pulls in its legs.why?
Bugscope Team the labella is a sheath that holds the cutting, sucking, and saliva-producing mouthparts of the mosquito
- Student On what part of the body are the mosquito's diseases found?
Bugscope Team it mostly passes disease by passing human blood from one human to another
- Student On preset 13 what's the hairy thing in the middle?
Bugscope Team that is the mosquito proboscis. It is a sheath that contains the parts that poke cut into you and drink your blood
- Student on preset 13 what is the circle thing
Bugscope Team the donut shaped thing is the place where the antenna comes out of the head.
- Teacher we're now on our 2nd group, and they'll be asking questions about the spider, the moth, and the mosquito
- Bugscope Team i *think*!!!
- Student Is preset 4 the nursery spider or the orbweaver
- Bugscope Team Mosquito-borne diseases can be in the head, blood, fatty tissues - all over the mosquito, really.
- Student how old is the spider
- Bugscope Team thanks rob!
- Student On preset number 19 where are the eyes?
Bugscope Team side of the head
- Student why are mosquito's labella hairy?
Bugscope Team they are covered with scales all over, except for their eyes pretty much. So it's not really hair, but scales, and butterflies and moths are also covered in them. They are analogous to feathers on a birth
- Student gow big is the spider's body
- 1:25pm
- Student why is it called a bag worm moth?
- Student on preset #6 where are the eyes
- Student How long does the life cycle take for the orb weaver spider?
- Student Do butterflies have proboscis?
Bugscope Team yes pretty much all insects that drink their food have one. They are like elephant trunks!
- Student Why do the spiders have hiar on their bodies?
Bugscope Team those are called setae (see-tee), they help insects sense their environment
- Bugscope Team those hairs (setae) can be mechanosensory or chemosensory
- Student what specie's of mosquito is in preset # 13
Bugscope Team that's where the mosquito antenna is coming out. the antenna is in the middle of the donut
- Student In picture 13 what is the circle thing on the top left of his head?
- Student on preset 8 what are the spiky things
Bugscope Team those are the spores standing up off the edge of the cocoon
- Student Which preset is the orbweaver
- Student What are we looking at?
Bugscope Team we are on the bagworm cocoon. We found eggs all over it as well as mold
Bugscope Team Mrs G is controlling the scope, ask her where we are, i'm not sure
- Student why are the orb weavers webs large and round?
- Student how much blood does the mospuito drink a year
- Student on preset #6 is that an eye
- Student About how sharp is the proboscis of a mosquito compared to other objects?
Bugscope Team it is very sharp and actually has four cutting blades that resemble steak knives -- they are serrated
- Student What holds the cacoon together?
- Bugscope Team when the mosquito pulls its legs it in it extending the fascicle into the skin, so it is dipping its head it order to plunge deeply into your skin
- Student are there hairs on the mosquito?
Bugscope Team yes, but they are called setae (see-tee)
- Student what are we lokking at?
Bugscope Team not sure, ask mrs. G
- Student why do all the bugs have hair on them?
- Student Is the chrysalis on a preset?
Bugscope Team presets 5-8 are all of things on the cocoon
- Student What are those cracks?
- Student ion the grasshopper leg why does it look like their are spikes?
- Student what is the fly doing here/
- Student How many eyes do the spiders have
Bugscope Team Spiders usually have between 6 and 8 eyes.
- Student how many legs does a mosquito have
Bugscope Team six
Bugscope Team Six, like all other insects. :)
- Student What are the things on the top of the head?
- Student how are bagworm moths able to stick twigs and leaves together?
Bugscope Team They use silk to build their cases.
- Student how do you know whether the bug is a girl or a boy?
- Student what do mosquitos eat?
Bugscope Team blood, for one
- Student why does it have all those hairs
- Student are those things with dots eyes?
Bugscope Team yes. here is an example of a compound eye that is made of many individual parts call ommatidia. It is similar to the epcot center right?
- Student what are those things on the mosquito's head?
Bugscope Team those are it's eyes: compound eyes
- Student What are the big ball like thing on the top of the head?
Bugscope Team compound eyes
- Student what does this bug eat?
Bugscope Team blood
- Student why are there so many hairs
Bugscope Team they use those hairs to feel things, so the more hairs, the more they feel, and the higher the chance of sruvival
Bugscope Team Since insects are encased in an exoskeleton, they have to use hairs to sense the world around them.
- 1:30pm
- Student how much blood a day?
- Student can you pull up preset 13
- Student what does the mosquito use to navigate
- Student How much can the mosquito's abdomen inflate with blood?
- Student Is that the mouth?
Bugscope Team that is a spiracle, through which insects breathe
- Student DO hairs keep the insect warm?
Bugscope Team hmm, i don't think so, not like animal hair does
- Bugscope Team this is a breathing hole, called a spiracle
- Student what is this?
- Bugscope Team here is the spiracle AKA breathing hole, like our noses
- Student What does the spiricale do?
Bugscope Team Breathing - just like our mouths, but all over the insect's body.
- Student Where is this located on the bug
Bugscope Team on the body or abdomen
- Student why are able to inject their labella without obvious thrusting?
Bugscope Team they don't inject the labella; they inject a sharp fascicle that is inside it
- Bugscope Team insects don't breath through their mouths, they have holes on their bodies, called spiracles, air goes in the hole
- Student What is this used for
Bugscope Team these claws are found at the end of all the legs of an insect. they are used for grabbing onto things like food
- Bugscope Team to grab tuff
- Bugscope Team stuff
- Bugscope Team food, stuff
- Student wats a bag worm moth?
Bugscope Team it's a moth that has clear wings, from what I remember
- Student How many spiecies of spiders are there?
Bugscope Team in north america alone there are around 4000 species
- Student does it hurt to get pinched by this
- Student why is it called an Orb Weaver Spider?
- Student what are we looking at
Bugscope Team this is the claw of the roach
- Bugscope Team Bagworms are caterpillars, but you wouldn't really know it since they hide in a little sack of twigs.
- Student can you die from this
- Bugscope Team The adult female bagworms stay inside their bags; the adult males fly around and find them.
- Student Does the orb weaver spider's bite have toxins?
Bugscope Team Yep! All spiders have toxins - it is how they capture prey.
- Student how many body parts does a mosquito have?
Bugscope Team it has a head, thorax, and abdomen, six legs, wings, antennae...
- Student What plants make the chrysalis?
- Student Where is the carapace groove on a spider
- Student what type of spider is that on #4
- Student on preset 10 why does the grasshopper have spikes on its leg
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student how big can orb weavers get?
Bugscope Team We can get some pretty big ones in the US - you might know garden spiders, which are black and yellow striped and can be almost 3 inches from front to hind legs.
- Student on preset 8 what are the line looking things
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student what is the most common spider?
Bugscope Team Depends on where you are! There are many, many species of orb weavers.
- Bugscope Team this is the spider that had a stripe down its back
- Student How powerful is a Orb weaver's bite?
- 1:35pm
- Student is this spider poisonous
Bugscope Team almost all spiders are poisonous, or they have poisonous venom, because that is how they feed, but some are worse for people than others. most are not a big problem, and I don't think this one is bad -- it would give you an big itchy bump where it bit you
- Student on preset 4 what are those circles
Bugscope Team preset 4 is also what we see now. Each of the bumps are a simple eye of the spider. It should have 8 in all but we can;t see them all from this angle
- Student can this bug see in color
- Student What does the bug look like inside the chrysalis?
- Student what do spiders usally eat?
Bugscope Team All spiders are predators - most of them eat other insects, so they are actually beneficial to have around.
- Student how do the fascicles fit into the labella
- Student what does this spider eat
Bugscope Team most spiders will eat things it can capture, usually things it can catch in its web or things smaller than it. there are some jumping spiders which include nectar and pollen in their diet
- Student on preset 4 why is that spider so hairy
- Student What are those blobs?
- Student Why do spiders have hair on there legs
- Student do both female and and male orb weavers spin webs?
Bugscope Team Most of the time, yes.
- Student is an orb weaver poisonous?
Bugscope Team the bite of Orb-Weaving Spiders is of low risk (not toxic) to humans. They rarely bite
- Student do all bugs have hairs?
- Student what is this spiders defense
- Student Is the surface of the spider's skin soft or hard?\
- Student what are we looking at?
Bugscope Team we are looking at the spider head, mainly the simple eyes it has. It does not have compound eyes
- Student is the bagworm moth chrysalis in the presets?
Bugscope Team yes presets 5-8 are of the bagworm
- Student I meant the straw with circluar things on it preset 13
- Student Do you have a picture of a spiders carapace
- Student how are mosquitos able to lift their fascicles so fast
Bugscope Team the fascicle cuts very well going in and going out
- Student where is the heart located at on the mosquito and how big is it?
- Student what part of the body on a spider does it used to make its webs
- Student How poisonous is the spider?
- Student where is the probiscus
- Student how big can a orb weaver spider get?
Bugscope Team an adult is about 2/3-1 inch in body length
- Student are those eyes
Bugscope Team those are the compound eyes
- Student what is preset 6 suposed to be
- Student How deep does a mosquito's proboscis go when it bites?
Bugscope Team the fascicle can be two or three mm long, perhaps longer
- Student Why does mold groww on moths
Bugscope Team Mold doesn't usually grow on live moths, but like any fungus it will grow on dead ones.
- Student can mosquitos smell
- Student can the orb weavers poison commit fatality?
Bugscope Team no they are considered non toxic to humans
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student what are those circle things
- Student Do mosquitos store there blood when there taking blood
Bugscope Team They digest the blood and take out the protein, which they use to make eggs.
- Student can mosquitos sense heat
Bugscope Team they probably can; they are sometimes said to be able to sense carbon dioxide from your breath
- Student how much blood does a mosquito drink per year
Bugscope Team The amount of Blood Female Mosquito consumes per meal is approximately 0.0000005 Liter for the most common species.
- 1:40pm
- Student which presets are the orb weaver spider
- Student what do spider eat
- Student what do roaches use claws for"?
- Student how small can mosquito be
- Student do mosquito s have eyes
Bugscope Team mosquitos have two compound eyes with many facets called ommatidia
- Student Thank you!
- Student how many species of spiders are there
Bugscope Team Thousands and thousands. Many more than we've actually found.
- Student bye thanks
- Student thank you
- Student thanks for your time you are very intelligent
- Student Thanks for your time bye :)
- Student thaaank yooou
- Student thank you for the awnsers
- Student thank you
- Student Thank you for all your help and time!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student gracias amigo
- Bugscope Team No problem!
- Bugscope Team thanks for all your questions
- Student how do spiders spin webs
Bugscope Team Spiders have special organs called spinnerets that produce silk - it's at the tip of the abdomen.
- Student what is the long stick thing??
Bugscope Team part of the central long stick is the pump for the piercing mouthparts
- Student wat are those round things to the side
Bugscope Team those are the compound eyes of this green stink bug
- Student Can roaches bite?
- Student Is the black lace weaver spider deadly to humans?
- Student on the roach head are the antennae things its eyes?
- Student on preset 3 how do the spinerettes function?
- Student wat happens if a mesquito drinks 2 much blood
Bugscope Team It would explode!
- 1:45pm
- Student what are the hole thingies in the backround?
- Student What are we looking at right now??
- Teacher this is our last group of kids - they will be asking about the cockroach, spider with egg sac, & spider with red thorax
- Student what are those recepticals protruding
- Bugscope Team But they can control how much blood they eat, so mosquitoes aren't popping all the time. :)
- Student why are the eyes so far apart
- Student can the mosqitoe get a disease from someones blood
Bugscope Team In a sense - it will pick up a human disease from one human and then carry it to another human. Sometimes it's not good for the mosquito, so it can be like a disease.
- Student why is the Oriental Cock roach Nymph called Oriental
Bugscope Team Oriental means 'eastern,' and it is likely that the person who named the roach first found them in Asia. Occidental means 'western.'
- Student what are those round things on the side
Bugscope Team those are its compound eyes
- Student do the spiders carry their eggsacs?
- Student how many eggs can a cockroach lay at once
Bugscope Team They can make up to around 5 egg sacks per lifetime, and in each egg sack there will be around 30-40 eggs.
- Student Can we see the nursery web spider egg sack??
- Student why do the nursery web spiders hold their egg sacks in their jaws
- Student Do mosquitos drink any thing other than blood?
Bugscope Team Male mosquitoes don't drink blood at all - they drink nectar from flowers.
- Student Why does the spider w/ eggsac carry it with her?
- Student what does the the spider thread look like
Bugscope Team usually it looks smooth and of a consistent diameter
- Student On the spider head are the eyes the bumps on top of its head?
- Student wat types of diseases do mosquitos carry
Bugscope Team yellow fever, malaria, west nile virus, among others
- Student how many eggs on average are in a egg sack
- Student how do some spiders walk on water
Bugscope Team It's all about the water tension, and keeping oil on the ends of their legs. Not unlike how small sticks float on the water.
- Student on preset 18 why are there spiky looking things on its claw
- Student wat r the hairs on preset 3
- Student Why does it ithch after a mosquito bites you??
Bugscope Team the mosquito's saliva, which keeps your blood from clotting at the wound, may also make you itch
- Student why awhat are those balls on the side of its head
Bugscope Team those are its compound eyes
- Student I read that the nursery spider has 8 equal eyes unlike other bugs why is that?
Bugscope Team The number of eyes on spiders can be variable. Depends on how important it is that they see, rather than smell or feel, their prey.
- Student how many eggs are in a egg sac of the nursery web spider?
- Student About how long does a Nursery Web spinner with egg sac live
- Student How many webs can one of the spiders show on preset 3 in one year?
- Student why are male spider's slimmer than females?
Bugscope Team A lot of the time it's because the female is full of eggs!
- Student what arethe holes on its body?
- Student about how many eggs average are in a spiders egg sac
Bugscope Team Spiders may produce several egg sacs, each containing several hundred eggs. One female may produce as many as 3,000 eggs in a series of several sacs over a period of time.
- Student Is the nursery spider poisonios?
- Teacher i'm trying to pull up the grasshopper nymph and can't
Bugscope Team oops we can't either, just a sec
- 1:50pm
- Student where can you find the oriental cockroach?
Bugscope Team Houses, usually - it's a pest species.
- Student wat other things besides blood do mosqitoes eat
Bugscope Team Mosquitos will drink nectar from flowers. In fact, that's the only thing that male mosquitoes eat.
- Student how large can a nursery spider grow
- Student how many nursery web spiders are in the world
- Student what is the hole
- Student why does the oriental cockroach move slower then other species
Bugscope Team Most cockroaches do move pretty quickly. Oriental roaches may live in places where it's not as necessary to quickly escape from predators.
- Student how many eggs does a nursery web spider lay
- Student what is that hole
- Student why does the spiderslegs grow hair
Bugscope Team the spider has hair all over it which are used to help it know what is around it, and it has specialized hairs used to help feel vibrations better, like when food is caught in its web
- Student wow
- Bugscope Team there's the nymph
- Student is it true only female mosquitos drink blood
Bugscope Team yes the males are said to eat nectar, or sometimes don't eat at all
- Student what are we looking at?
Bugscope Team this is the grasshopper nymph
- Student is that bug dead?
Bugscope Team everything you see today should be dead :) it would be mean to stick them in a vacuum and throw an electron beam at them if they were alive
- Student where is the nursery web spider's egg sac??
- Student why was evidence of plant life found in the eggsac?
- Student whats that big ball?????
Bugscope Team that is one of its compound eyes. we are seeing the profile of the grasshopper head
- Student where are the mandibles on it
- Student like how big is the nymph? can u see it with ur plain eye?
Bugscope Team When the nymph first hatches, it is very small - probably like a grain of rice. But you can still see it.
- Student what does an egg sac look like ?
- Student Where may you find these insects?
- Student what is the stuff around the grasshopper???
Bugscope Team that is carbon tape
- Student wat happens if a mesquito gets 2 hot? does the blood boil
Bugscope Team Not too many places on earth where blood would naturally boil. :) But like all insects, if it gets too hot (say stuck inside a car) it will die.
- Student Are they rare?
- Student in present i were is the spider claw located on the body
Bugscope Team they are found at the end of their legs
- Bugscope Team the carbon tape that the insects are stuck to has little bubbles in it
- Student what dooes and egg sac look like if u were to see 1
Bugscope Team for the spider egg sac it looks like a white fuzzy ball
- Student what are we looking at on preset 3??
Bugscope Team that is one of the spinnerettes, from which the spider produces silk, or web
- 1:55pm
- Student Can the oriental cockroach fly
Bugscope Team Yes, but it's a weak flier.
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student would the roach clwaw hurt if it picnh u??????
- Student what are those protruding claws coming out of it
Bugscope Team insects have a claw at the end of each of their legs, spiders do too
- Student how many body parts does a cockroach have
Bugscope Team Like all insects, you can break it down into a head, thorax, and abdomen.
- Student can we see the leaf hopper egg???
Bugscope Team you are looking at an egg now, and it may be from a leafhopper
- Student can the spider walk on the ceiling?
- Student what is this?
- Bugscope Team this preset moved a little. it was supposed to be focused on the white dots on the egg in the middle of the screen
- Student Is that an egg?
- Student can mesqiutoos get blood from dead people
Bugscope Team Hm. Interesting question! I'd imagine a lot of the blood flow into the mosquito comes from blood pressure in the person - so probably not very well.
- Student are the ppinchers of the orental cockroach sharp
- Student whats that ????
- Student is that an egg???
Bugscope Team we believe those are eggs
- Student do the rioach claws hurt
- Bugscope Team this preset moved most likely
- Bugscope Team it happens
- Student what does a cockroach do when its near a predator
- Bugscope Team the white stuff is what the preset is
- Student is preset 5 the spider's egg sac??
- Student thats pretty crazy
- Student what are the dots on the egg
- Student why do spiders have hair or fur on their heads
Bugscope Team some of the hairs are sensory and allow the spider to feel vibration. some spiders, like tarantulas, also have 'urticating hairs' that they release into the air when they are bothered.
- Student can roaches pinch u ? do they hurt?
- Student what is the outer shell made of
- Student can u see an oriental cockroach nymph with the naked eye
Bugscope Team Definitely, but they are very small, like a rice grain.
- Student what is that crack?
- Student what is that
- Student what is the egg on or around???
- Student wher is the egg sack located on the spider
- Student preset 3 plz?
- Student do adult spiders go through any other changes once full grown
- Student how does a baby cockroach look like
Bugscope Team It looks a lot like a tiny adult cockroach, but without wings.
- Student Why does it look like there is 2 sections to the eggsac
- Student wats all the wierd stuff in the background?
- Student is that an egg sack
- Student y do cocroaches live in dirty places
Bugscope Team Cockroaches are scavengers and can digest all sorts of weird stuff (hair, toenails, etc.), so they enjoy eating things that we consider dirty or filthy.
- Student can a cockroach lay eggs\
- Student how big can is it
- 2:00pm
- Student wheres that at???
Bugscope Team this is in one area, one part, of the bagworm bag
- Student How many bugs are held in one egg sack?
- Student which part of it is the egg sac???
- Student how big can it be
- Student plz put preset 4 puh puh puh please
- Student do all spiders have spinnret
Bugscope Team yes they use spinnerets to manipulate the silk as it comes out of their abdomens
- Student what are those small dots on the egg sack
Bugscope Team the small dots are brochosomes, which come from leafhoppers and have shapes like soccer balls
- Student how many bugs are in one egg sack
- Student where is a cockroach usually found
- Student what are brochosomes?
Bugscope Team they are small round balls that are only produced by leafhoppers, thought to be used to keep their eggs from drying out
- Student this is amazing!!
- Student Thank you for answering my questions. . . have a good day
- Student how many egs does a cockroach lay
Bugscope Team They lay all their eggs in one sac, called an ootheca - usually dozens of eggs.
- Student Thanks for your help
- Student TTTHHHAAANNNKKK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student GRACIAS MI AMIGOS!! U COOL SCIENCE DUDES!
- Student THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!!!!!
- Student thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student THANK U SO MUCH MAN I LEARNED ALOT
- Student TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student BIG THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING ALL OUR QUESTIONS IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE
- Student thx
- Student thx
- Student AWESOME DAY!!!!:P
- Student thx
- Student me and my partener give our thanks for giving us this wonderful apetounaty
- Student THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking your timr to answer our ?'s!!!!!
- Student THANK YOU SO MUCH, FOR ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS AND TEACHING US SO MUCH!! :))))
- Student in school field trip day was pretty cool every1 would u agree?
- Student im going to do observations
- Student thank you for telling us all this information
- Student ya me too
- Student happy birthday to u! happy birthday to u!
- Bugscope Team mrs garcie you can see all the images and chat from today by going to your webpage at any time located at http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-013/
- 2:05pm
- Student this is cool
- Student i like this coolness
- Student its like insane
- Student
- Student y do the brochosomes look like honey combs
- Bugscope Team each of those balls is around 400 nm i think
- Student i like honey combs
- Bugscope Team yeah they are like honeycombs!
- Student there honeylicious
- Bugscope Team here is inside the chamber where we keep the insects
- Student haha thank you
- Student im in 7th period
- Student what is that???
- Student THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH WE LOOOOOOOVED DOING THIS :)!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Team we are looking at different eggs, this is going back to the brochosomes. Scot was trying to get a better image
- Bugscope Team shutting down the session now. Sign up to do this again next year!
