Connected on 2011-12-02 08:20:00 from Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
- 7:16am
- Bugscope Team getting ready to start...
- 7:26am




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- 7:49am





- Bugscope Team now making presets
- 7:55am





- Bugscope Team good morning, Gloss!
- 8:00am
- Guest Good morning!
- Bugscope Team we're making presets for today's Bugscope session, which starts in 30 minutes

- Bugscope Team can you watch things for a few minutes while I run upstairs?
- Bugscope Team I gave you control of the 'scope, Gloss
- Bugscope Team be right back
- 8:06am











- Bugscope Team K I am back. Please keep driving if you'd like, for a minute or so.
- Guest I'm at work and lurking to see what my son's class is up to, so I'll be back and forth. This is a fantastic opportunity for the kids!
- Bugscope Team cool so you are with W/T
- Guest Yes.
- 8:12am
- Bugscope Team I'm Scott, at the SEM right now. Have a few more presets to gather for the session.

- Bugscope Team Mrs V!
- Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Team or Welcome Back!
- Teacher Glad to be back! :-)
- Teacher Hi Scott. The kids will be here soon. Logging on around 9:20.
Bugscope Team Cool. I had to run upstairs and get some food. I left Gloss in control.
- Bugscope Team I just mashed down my breakfast and will be making a few more presets before everyone logs on.
- Teacher Sweet! I'm so glad a parent is checking this out. Bugscope is a hidden jewel! Getting less hidden every day, I hope!
- Teacher Hello, Gloss!
- Guest Good morning Mrs. V!

- Teacher Gloss, so glad you can check this out with us. It's one of my favorite experiences of the year!
- 8:17am
- Teacher I'm going to switch computers so I can see all of the kids. Be right back.


- Teacher I'm back.

- Student Hey Mrs.V

- Student Hi this is really cool!
- Bugscope Team you can see that this cricket has a mite on its face
- 8:22am
- Student this is cool
- Student ewww...
- Student Cool the mite rocks

- Student woah that is one big mite
- Student I know it is sooo big
- Student is this a fly?
- Student Yea
- Student look at that bug
- Student i think
- Student wait its a cricket?
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student what is that bug?
- Student What is that
- Bugscope Team this is its ovipositor, so now we know it's a female
- Student cool!
- Student scott
- Student scott,whats a lacewing?
- Teacher That was a cricket that we caught at our North campus, I think. I found it in a jar on my counter and sent it in just for the heck of it. Very cool, that mite.
- Student it looks gooey
- Student what kind of bug is it
- Student what are all the blobs?
- Student oh ok
- Teacher Scott, can Lexi please drive.
Bugscope Team not quite ready yet, just a sec...
- Student Coool look at the ant

- Teacher OK. We can be patient. :-)
- Student pretty cool bug
- Bugscope Team alright Lexi is the Supreme Ruler
- Student What is that hairy thing?
- Student is that furry thing the compound eye
- Student where is the university you work at
- Student what is the fuzzy thing
- Student what is all the blobby stuff in the backround?
Bugscope Team it's double-stick carbon tape
- Student oh..
- Student cool

- Student wat is the fuzzy thing next to the ant
- Student cmon, lexi
- Student that is so cool
- Student :)
- 8:27am
- Student thanks
- Student cool!
- Student What is the hairy thing
- Student cool...
- Student yeah! awesome!
- Student cool a fly
- Student HURRY LEXI

- Student toni, patience
- Student woa what is that!
- Student What is THAT?!
- Bugscope Team these are one of my favorite critters
- Student come on lexi. give us somethin cool :)
- Student :0 cool bug
- Student Hey
- Student :p awsome
- Student that looks like a small elaphant...
- Student that looks very strange
- Student >:(
- Bugscope Team you can see its eyes are streamlines into its head on the left and right
- Student why are they your favorite bug?
Bugscope Team just 'cause they look so radical
- Student is that the head
- Student I tried to click on something and it said it is pending
- Student ELEPHANT ROCKS
- Student That looks so weird!

- Student looks like there are eyes!
- Student i love elephants
- Student keep it there
- Student i wonder how caught that
- Student keep it there!
- Student that is my favorite
- Student How do I zoom in?
Bugscope Team Gianmarco when you get to drive you can click the plus sign.
- Student what is that!
- Student you dont marc lexi does
- Student what is that thing

- Student what is that?
Bugscope Team this is a spiracle on the fly we saw earlier
- Student come on lexi. do the louse mouth
Bugscope Team Lexi is doing a good job, you know.

- Student what is that?it looks weird.
- Student this louse, did we catch that?
- Student head lice, maybe

- Student oh
- Student i see...
- Student ewww...
- Teacher Lexi is is getting a message that says "Ignored request because another microscope control command is pending."
Bugscope Team that's because everyone is trying to make her hurry and she's clicking too fast

- Student it looks like a turtle

- Student woah!
- Student im glad it's dead
- Student awkwardly creepy

- Student Let's see the Silverfish maybe?
- Student what is that!
Bugscope Team it's a human head louse, but it does have a human head
Bugscope Team I mean it doesn't seem to have a human head, so I'm disappointed
- Student cool!!
- Student cool
- Student What are the spikes?
- Bugscope Team this is what the tip of a fly's tongue looks like
- Student weird

- Student ewwwwww
- Student CREEEPPPPYYYYY

- Student weird
- Student :P
- Student tongue? awesome!

- Student yea

- Student oooooooooooooooooooooooh
- Student wow i did not know that flies had tongues
- 8:32am
- Student What's this?
Bugscope Team these are the sponging mouthparts of a fly. they are dried quite a bit from what they'd look like in life
- Student why do they have spikes on their toungs?
- Student COOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL FLY TONGUE
- Student These are really creepy

- Student creepy
- Student ashanti, i hadthe same responce

- Student Looks like a vnus flytrap almost...
Bugscope Team yeah they do!
- Student that fly mouth looked like a venus fly trap
- Student ew this is really creepy

- Student flies have toungs?
- Student sssssswwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttt
- Student KINDA CREEPY
- Student totally
- Student what is the white thing near the mouth
- Bugscope Team sliverfish, butterflies, moths, and mosquitoes, along with very few other insects, have scales like this
- Student idk

- Student is this the silver fish?
Bugscope Team yes it is!

- Student cool!
- Student How come it keeps changing?
- Teacher Scott, looks like you put a LOT of bugs on our stub and tons of presets. Thanks!
Bugscope Team yeah it was kind of fun
- Student cool!
- Student sometimes it's blurry
- Student It looks almost like a mumified snail

- Student this is so cool! It almost looks like a frog...
Bugscope Team they do look like frogs, in a way. it's kind of a nerdy looking insect
- Student wasp head?
- Student ewwwwww!
- Student wow
- Student is that a silver fish? it keeps swithching
Bugscope Team yo dude this is a wasp
- Student :)
- Student that is so cool
- Student ew
- Student I got stung by a wasp...

- Bugscope Team you can see that its mandibles open from side to side like a gate
- Student I don't know why it hurts so much
- Student ouch
- Student >:0 blech

- Student his head looks like a bird with a beak
- Student Is it's eye coming out or is that normal?
Bugscope Team that is an antenna, on the right, and the left one is missing

- Student >.
- Student >.
- Student ooh ok
- Student my thing hasnt changed :(
Bugscope Team refresh your browser
- Student It looks like a bird skull.

- Student sorry about that
- Student kindof...
- Student it also looks like a skull!!
Bugscope Team they have exoskeletons, so in a way you are looking at the skull

- Student THIS IS SOOO COOL AND I AM ALERGIC TO THEM
- Student what is that!
- Student what is that
- Student wat is that
- Student mine hasnt changed
Bugscope Team refresh your browser if it doesn't change soon
- Student whoa that is cool
- Student wow that is cool
- Teacher Scott, are you all alone today?
Bugscope Team yes sorry but I will do my best
- Student Is that an anteanna over its eye?
Bugscope Team yes it was
- Student It looks like a space ship

- Student thats a tick?
- Student its a claw
- Student IT DOES
- Student ticks have CLAWS?
Bugscope Team yeah eight of them when they are adults
- Student That is kind of sharp-looking...
- Student what is that poky thing in the backround
- Student i don't know how to say it
- 8:37am

- Student yeah
- Student why are you under three diffrent names? Sj, Sjay, and Sem
Bugscope Team I'm on three computers, and also I can't use my name because the software thinks its in use, a glitch
- Student eight claws!
- Student wat is that
- Student wwwwwwwoooooooooooowwwwwwwwww
- Student cool glitch

- Student what is that????????????????????
- Student cool
- Teacher Students, Scott is answering all of our questions by himself so please be patient!
- Student What is this?
Bugscope Team this is a cricket, also, that you sent
- Student And to think with eight claws, instead of tearing prey to shreds, it suck blood!
- Student Almost like a deformed hand!
Bugscope Team yeah it does have that weird cramped shape
- Student Thanks!
- Student cool
- Teacher Good driving, Lexi! Toni to control the microscope, please.
Bugscope Team Toni is now the Boss
- Student thanks Lexi
- Student It looks like it is camera shy
- Student go toni!
- Student What part of the silverfish is that?
Bugscope Team Isel this is now a cricket you had sent, and it's the head

- Student who likes my name?
Bugscope Team I do
- Student This is so cool!
- Student I like it to
- Student woah!

- Student So that's a close up of what tries to eat my sandwiches!
- Student cool!
- Student I can see each lens

- Student nice eye

- Student jacob, that is gross

- Student there are bumps on the eye
- Student woa
- Student Scott this is awesome how does this work
Bugscope Team the samples are in a vacuum chamber, coated with a fine layer of gold-palladium, like 20 nanometers, and we are beaming electrons at their surface, whatever we see is from the secondary electrons coming back
- Student thats weird
- Student Lenses are awsome
- Student !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student some of his bumps are missing
- Student Scott did you invent this?
Bugscope Team no but I was on the team that started Bugscope about 13 years ago

- Student Those are the lenses
Bugscope Team yes they are
- Student That is preeety cool how it works
- Student cool!
- Teacher Juju (dirt) on the lenses.
Bugscope Team ha Yeah that is right!
- Student Is that an ant?
- Student Ooooh Creepy

- Student coole eye of a small fly!

- Student wasps are parasites?
- Student Oh okay did you help devolop it a lot?
- Teacher Toni, you are doing a great job!
- Student is the eye missing
- Student why was there dirt on it
Bugscope Team sometimes they get dirty, and it's not their fault once they're dead, of course

- Student what is this thing
- Student thanks
- Student How old are you Scoot
- Student scot

- Student you can see the hairs cool
- 8:42am
- Teacher I meant the parasitic wasp.


- Student Wasps are parasites?
Bugscope Team many of the tiny ones are -- they lay eggs in insects that become hosts; and there is a parasitic wasp for nearly every insect and every stage of insect
- Student you like it?
- Teacher Was this a tiny one we sent in?
Bugscope Team yes it is
- Student hi people
- Student Ashanti what is this
- Student I am pretty sure his name is Scott not Scoot.....Spencer
- Student Oh.
- Student >:(
- Teacher setae=hairs
- Student THIS ROCKS
- Student THIS ROCKS
- Student Are the hairs called cillia with bugs too?
Bugscope Team they usually call them setae, spines, bristles, trichae...

- Student i don't know
- Student oh
- Student Gloss whos parent are you
- Student this is cool
- Student this is cool
- Student THIS IS AAAAWWWWEEEEESSSSSOOOMMMMMEEEEE

- Student We get it lexi.
- Student what is that fly?

- Student what is that
- Student what is that

- Student Wait is that a smaller bug on the fruitflies compund eye?
- Student Whos parent is gloss
- Student It's magnificent

- Student jacob and ian. there is no oxygen in the room the bugs are in
- Student Why does it not have legs?
- Teacher Legs often break off when insect dries out.
- Student where are das legs
- Student i ate the legs
- Student right scott??
- Student whos parentis gloss
- Student It's almost like an evil tower of bug doom
- Student Nathaniel. "Magnificant"? Really?

- Teacher trichae--that's a new one for me. Are they significantly different from setae?
Bugscope Team I think they call them whatever they want and then resort to calling them hairs as well.
- Student dont cover for me mrs valenty
- Student Asher keep it appropriate
- Student Nate "Really?" Magnificent
- Student EEEEWWWW
- Student cool
- Guest Sorry, I'm at work and checking in periodically to see what this is like. I'm Nathaniel's mom.
- Student COOL!!!
- Student where did we find the louse
- Student what kind of tick is that
- Student wow that is cool

- Student Nathaniel, you have declared chat warfare.
- Student I like lice
- Bugscope Team this is the hypostome, which sticks into your skin
- Student woah!!!! tick!
- Student lice ew
- Student ew
- Student Asher, your up.
- Student Woah that's disgusting
- Student I am i total control

- Student Is that its mouth?
Bugscope Team it's the lower surface of the mouthparts
- 8:48am
- Student thanks toni

- Teacher Toni, great driving! Asher to drive, please.
- Student COOL!!!
- Student what is that
- Student that sucks my blood?
Bugscope Team the other side does
- Student isnt this so cool?!
- Student Looks like a scince fiction movie
- Student good jod toni
- Student Yes Eddie...it does
- Student job
- Student Yes Eddie...it does
- Bugscope Team who was supposed to be driving now?
- Student nice job toni
- Student asher is the driver
- Student ASHER IS DRIVING
- Student o

- Teacher Asher
- Teacher hypostome is on end of abdomen?
Bugscope Team other end entirely
- Student Asher, Asher!
- Student what are all those holes


- Student wow what are we looking at now

- Student you are doing a great job mr.scot
Bugscope Team Thank you
- Student I can see the fly? again
- Student ahhhhhh i like control

- Student is that a leg
- Student Is that its antena?
- Student yuckkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

- Student Like a secret mountain lazer cannon
- Student wow
- Teacher We are drawing names to drive.

- Student Looks like the moon
- Student I cant see anything
- Student what is going on
- Student what are you doing asher

- Student is this a grasshopper
- Student whats that
- Student Scot, my dad's name is also Scott, but he has 2 t's.
- Student i cant see if you are offended sorry
- Student whats unid.?
- Student AHH BLACK NESS
- Student stop changing it so quickly!
- Student What is asher doing?
- Student Woah what is happening?
- Student wow it is cool it looks like it is all curled up
- Teacher Please be patient with our driver.
- Student what is that?
- Teacher Gianmarco, you are asking great questions!

- Student Where are its eyes?
- Student probably because it is dead
- Teacher Kids, that was to you....please be patient with our driver!
- Bugscope Team I'm sorrry you all I am going to have to drive, looks like
- Student What are the stubs that look like eyes?
- Student ashanti are you there
- Student what is this?

- Student QUIT SINGING I AM GOING TO EXPLODE PLZ
- Student NO
- 8:53am
- Student I DONT KNOW
- Student Microscope?
- Student what is unid.?
Bugscope Team unidentified
- Student oh.

- Student woah...
- Student The microscope
- Student That is so cool looking at the microscope
- Student cool
- Student cool inside of microscope!
- Student is that a bug
- Student inside of a microscope? nice
- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team can you guys wait a few minutes? I am going to vent the chamber
- Student its the inside of the microscope
- Student ed where are you
- Teacher We are looking at the inside of the microscope, I think. Kids, please be patient and remember that Scott is by himself!
- Student That is fine Mr. Scott
- Student yeah
- Student wow that is so cool
- Student i am seein a microscope what the heck is happenig
- Student everyone, give Scot time.
- Student So... we are seeing the microscope from the microscope?
- Student ed where are you
- Bugscope Team I'm sorry -- I can hear the stage locking up, and I think if I open the chamber and reset it manually I can fix it. You'll be seeing me, or my hands at least, in a minute
- Student that is cool!
- Teacher Remember that to use the SEM they have to create a vacuum--take all the air out.
- Student cool!
- Student cccccooooolllll
- Student yay!
- Student woah!
- Student whats going rong we see microscope but it thiks we are near the fruit fly head
- Student HAND!
- Student I CAN SEE YOUR HAND
- Student WOAH
- Student Hi Scott!
- Student you must be handy
- Student i can see you...!
- Student HAND HAND HAND
- Student that was my joke
- Bugscope Team Hello!
- Teacher Only the inside chamber of the microscope has the air evacuated. The rest of the room has plenty of air.
- Student Hi
- Student asher stole my joke
- Teacher Hi, Scott!
- Student I CAN SEE YOU
- Student you can see his face
- Student hi Scot!!!
- Student there was scott!
- Student Glovey!
- Student SCOT COME BACK
- Bugscope Team what I just did is ask the stage to reset itself
- Student Mine seems to have frozen
- Teacher Thanks for peering into the scope. The kids thought that was pretty cool.
- Student wave at us again
- Student There we go!
- Student good jokes are not made by kids thats why we have lenno
- Teacher Gianmarco, refresh your browser.
- Student peek into the scope again
- Student Gianmarco just refresh
- Student Scot cme back
- 8:58am
- Student Eddie, c'mon
- Student i see you again scot
- Student I can still see
- Bugscope Team you just got to see what we normally wouldn't show you
- Student mine isnt working
- Student wait now it is
- Bugscope Team it's going to take a few minutes for the vacuum to recover
- Student sorry
- Bugscope Team the chamber is pumping down again
- Student that is still cool
- Student Yey
- Bugscope Team it has to reach a good high vacuum so I can start the electron beam up again
- Teacher Chamber pumping down=air coming out
- Student Ed wghere are you
- Student This is really fun!
- Student i wont do silly stuff anymore
- Student wow that is a really cool microscope
- Bugscope Team the presets should, I hope, have stayed where I had made them earlier
- Student cool
- Student what is all that stuff
Bugscope Team you can see the sample in the middle
- Student spencer im in the library
- Bugscope Team that plate in the lower middle of the CCD camera view is the insects
- Student This is so cool!!\
- Bugscope Team to the top is the pole piece, which is where the electrons come from
- Student this is cool
- Student cool
- Student this was really cool
- Bugscope Team to the top right, in the corner, you can sometimes see a kind of glow where the secondary electron detector is
- Student cool
- Bugscope Team what will happen is, soon, I will be able to turn the beam on again
- Student Yay!!
- Student cool
- Student mrs valenty can you guys see bugs or are you seeeing the microscope
- Student Okay
- Student ok
- Bugscope Team almost to the good vacuum...
- Teacher It's very light but I think we can see the glow of the secondary electron detector is.
Bugscope Team it has a 300-volt bias on it when it is on, which will be soon
- Student have you fixed the bad vacuum?
- 9:03am
- Student yay!
- Student yyaaaaaaaaay\
- Student yeah!!!!
- Student The bugs are back
- Student now i see bugs
- Student
- Student It's almost like a potato
- Student Thats an ant, right?
- Student :-0
- Teacher Can we drive or will you be doing that?
- Student cool
- Student :-)
- Student :-)
- Student
- Student Hey mom
- Student wow >:)
- Guest Very cool
- Student
- Student
- Student :-P

- Student hi spencers mom
- Student :P
- Student Hey mom
- Student Who is joyt?
- Student Hi Spencer's mom!
- Guest What bug are we viewing
- Student spencers mom
- Student Say hi every one to my mom
- Student i do
- Student hi spencers mom
- Student What are the stub-like things?
- Student hi spencers mom!
- Guest Hi guys!
- Student Elephant
- Bugscope Team ugh looks like I am going to be driving
- Student hi
- Bugscope Team could be fun, though!
- Student hi
- Student Ok
- Student it is ok

- Student
- Student What are the stub-like things?
- Student =
- Student LAUREN
- Student Are it's legs missing?
- Student What is that?
- Student Scott are you driving?
Bugscope Team yes now I am the only one who can drive
- Student oh ok
- Guest I agree Mrs. V
- Student legs!\
- Teacher Appropriate chat, students!
- Student
- Student do you do chats everyday mr. scot
Bugscope Team two times a week, usually
- Student Mom always agree with the teacher
- Student bye
- Student can you do the mechathingy?
- Student thank you
- Student bye thank you scott
- Student wit, nevermind
- Student THANK YOU
- Student wait*
- Student bye thank you!
- Student thank you very much
- Student thanks, bye
- Student that was awesome
- Guest Thank You Mrs V for this opportunity
- Student Thank you Scott!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Team Thank you, Everyone!
- Guest Yes, I did more bug watching than working this last hour...
- 9:08am
- Student Thank you Scot!
- Student wait vare we done
- Student Thanks alot Scot! Oh that rhymed
- Teacher I am so glad that you could join us, Gloss and JoyT!
- Student Bye!
- Teacher One class is leaving. We have break now but a few students may be in to look at bugscope.
Bugscope Team good.
Bugscope Team Mrs V I can make new presets if I have a few minutes -- I'll start now
- Guest Thank You Scott this was amazing
Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Teacher Antenna or setae or something else?
Bugscope Team antenna with setae and also mold spores

- Student hello
Bugscope Team Hi Jacob!

- Student can I drive
Bugscope Team Dude I am sorry -- there are only two presets now so it would not be much fun. Just a sec.
- Student awesome
- 9:13am
- Student I'll come back later BYE
- Teacher This is cool! I see a leg, and is that a mouthpart sticking down beside it?
Bugscope Team that is what that was -- the leafhopper, which is a hemipteran, has piercing mouthparts
- Teacher Are you redoing the presets? If so, I'll leave you alone for a dew minutes so you can work.
Bugscope Team I'll make a few and let you have the 'scope again soon'

- Teacher Thanks.





- 9:18am









- Bugscope Team Mrs V is this a good time to let you have the 'scope back?
- 9:24am
- Teacher Yes! Micah to drive, please.

- Student I want to drive
Bugscope Team you are the Supreme Ruler, Micah
- Bugscope Team this is the tick's head, to the right now. it's called a capitulum



- Bugscope Team the 'capit' part means 'head', like in capital and decapitate


- Bugscope Team it sticks into your skin


- Bugscope Team I think it must mean 'under mouth,' in a way



- Student It kind of looks like a pinnaple
Bugscope Team the backward spines are why it is hard to get the tick's head out of your skin

- Student oh interesting


- Bugscope Team the other side, which we cannot see, has similar but smoother features that rasp your skin and make the blood flow
- Student This is very cool

- Bugscope Team ticks are dirty, covered with bacteria sometimes

- Bugscope Team when there cuticle breaks open they can seal it again


- Bugscope Team you can tell that this is an adult tick because it has eight arms/legs


- Bugscope Team you can also see that it is capable of expanding
- 9:29am

- Teacher "baby" ticks don't have 8 legs?
Bugscope Team they have 6 and go through a number of molts before becoming adults



- Bugscope Team Micah you can also choose from among the presets on the left

- Teacher 6 legs, but not an insect. Oh, nature can be so confusing!
- Bugscope Team this is a moth, a small one
- Bugscope Team you can see its bulbous compound eyes


- Bugscope Team and lots of scales -- they are covered with scales, which are actually modified setae


- Bugscope Team scales help insects that have them escape from spider webs



- Student cool
- Bugscope Team the scales come off so easily -- that is what you feel when you stroke a butterfly's wings
- Bugscope Team they seem like powder to us because they are so small


- Student i like the pixels on the eyes
Bugscope Team yes they are pixels -- I'd never thought of it that way

- Student is that a fly?
Bugscope Team it's a moth




- Bugscope Team Micah is it stuck on this preset?

- Teacher I didn't know that silverfish have scales! Cool!
Bugscope Team saves them from spiders, sometimes, I'm sure

- 9:34am

- Student Up close it looks like chicken feathers
Bugscope Team they are analogous to feathers in many ways


- Student hi
- Teacher Is the proboscis curled up? It's not obvious like I thought it would be (or like it is on butterfly)
Bugscope Team it's a short proboscis, and off to the side, split open

- Bugscope Team sweet!

- Bugscope Team take the mag down so you get an idea how small this really is, if you want

- Student The shape of this bug makes it look sort of like a stinkbug.

- Bugscope Team this is on the face of the field cricket you sent
- Student is that a mite?
Bugscope Team yes it is!



- Student that is a lot of magnification
- Student How big is the mite really?

- Teacher Good driving, Micah.

- Student I agree Ria

- Student I agree David. It does look like a stink bug from this view
Bugscope Team it is so very small compared to a stinkbug, but it does have that shield shape


- Student That mite looks a lot like a stink bug
- Bugscope Team awesome

- Student cool!
- Student Is that its head?
- Bugscope Team this is a small cricker
- Teacher Really cool!
- Bugscope Team oops cricket
- Student Oh wow it is REALLY small
- Student its so tiny!
- Student you can hardly see it
- Bugscope Team the mite is about 100 micrometers wide

- Teacher This is a field cricket we collected at WTN.
- Student Is that a cricket?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Student The cricket looks GIANT!


- Student That's so small! The cricket has acne!
Bugscope Team acne yes exactly




- Student COOL
- Student Wow! that's cool!

- Student what is that

- Bugscope Team this is a bunch of dirt and other juju on the face

- 9:39am



- Teacher How funny. I just told the kids that if you talked about "juju" it meant dirt (etc) :-)
- Student Is the thing on the lower left its mouth?
- Student what part is this?

- Student mite on the mandle
- Student Why do they have dirt and dust on their body????
Bugscope Team it's not entirely their fault -- they cannot clean themselves when they're dead

- Student Ahhh! That's kind of scary!!!

- Student Is it fun working at bugscope
- Student Is that a broken mouthpart ?
Bugscope Team it's one of the palps, and it is broken -- you're right
- Student Are those hairs setae?
- Student Are those hairs setae?
- Student I am awesome at driving

- Teacher Wow. You can see a lot of the mouthparts. Remember, kids, how many mouthparts the grasshopper we dissected had.
- Teacher Great driving, Micah! Ashley to drive, please.
- Student Those eyes look HUGE!!!!
- Student what's a palp?
Bugscope Team it's like a limb that helps insects taste and manipulate their food

- Student Is that a mite on the face near the middle
- Student I can't believe how small these things are and you guys make it look huge
- Student where is it's simple eye?
Bugscope Team we don't see it -- if is has simple eyes they are further back on top of the head

- Student it looks like an alien!






- Student What is that????????

- Student It's claw looks like a scorpion dagger

- Student Yeah!
- Student why does it have a claw
- Student where are the simpler eyes
Bugscope Team the preset called 'fly head and ocellus' shows one of the simple eyes

- Student what are the bowl looking things on the sides

- Student ?

- 9:44am

- Student are the hairs on the legs setae?
Bugscope Team yes -- often if they are larger the entomologists call them bristles

- Student Are those spikes setae??
Bugscope Team yes they are!

- Teacher Do our bugs have freezer burn? I may have left them in too long. Some of them look really "deflated"
- Student ashley, what's this?
- Student hiis that the mouth

- Student whats that?
- Student is that a mouth
- Student do you know how many pixels there are on a compound eye
Bugscope Team there can be, in a large wasp for example, as many as 17,000 ommatidia (pixels)
- Student what is that
- Student Are you able to see the spiracles?
Bugscope Team yes on one of the flies they are easy to see
- Student what is this
- Student they do
- Student That looks really cool, but really weird too



- Student Wow what is this?
Bugscope Team this is the mouth of the louse, but it has a thin film of dried liquid on it

- Student how long has this been in the freezer?????
- Student is that the head?

- Student Is the exoskeleton broken up, because it looks like that.


- Student Those hairs look really creepy up close.
Bugscope Team that is how insects and comparable arthropods sense their surroundings

- Student That looks like elephant skin!!
- Student It almost looks squished!




- Student What is the Beam Spotsize?
Bugscope Team that is the diameter of the electron beam that is impinging on the sample; right now it is about 2.1 nanometers
- Student The skin looks leatheryish
- Student It looks like a thorn bush

- Student where are the eyes
Bugscope Team Norma I am not sure they have eyes -- but they may be on the other side of the head where we cannot see them

- Student Oh yeah, Emma!

- Student oh

- Student yeah
- Student That looks like a claw
- Student How big is the SEM?
Bugscope Team it's kind of like a large teacher's desk with a 6-foot tall column on one end
- Student is is the singular of lice marisa
- Teacher Good job on zooming on the claw. No wonder those things can hang on to someone's head so easily.
- Student what is that on the claw
- Student one louse, many lice
- Student Oh thanks Harrison!
- Student What is a louse?
Bugscope Team it's a bloodsucking arthropod that lives on people, sometimes, and on animals


- Student is that the claw?
Bugscope Team yes it is one of the claws

- 9:49am
- Student they lay their eggs in you hair
- Student Wow! That's sort of weird!

- Bugscope Team hey that looked like a spiracle

- Student Is the head near the upper right?


- Student is that the mouth


- Student what is this
- Bugscope Team this is one of the palps

- Student is that the antenna???
- Student Those Bristles look like they could poke an eye out! (Up close!)
- Student I hope i get to drive
- Student cool

- Student THIS IS SOOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!

- Student They look dangerous!!!!
- Student Oh sorry I didn't mean to enter that, that many times. Oops!
- Student thank u
- Teacher Ashley, fabulous driving! Hanna to drive, please.
Bugscope Team Hanna is the Supreme Commander
- Student Do the silverfish
- Student
- Student Cool! Mrs. V
- Student what is that little bump in the "crater" on the top of the antenna?
Bugscope Team that is one of the chemosensory setae
- Student what's that?

- Bugscope Team this is the head of the lacewing you sent
- Student do the leaf hopper

- Student Those eyes are huge for his head!

- Student lets see some more aliens (bugs)!!!!
Bugscope Team they really are like aliens that live among us
- Student Is this an insect or arachnid

- Student look at the 2 big eyes!!!

- Student Ria, it's a really cool bug with green wings and lots of colors!
- Student lots of dirt
- Student Whats that
- Student what is that??
- Student what is the lacewing
Bugscope Team it's a flying insect with fragile-looking wings, and they are predatory
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student do the leaf hopper
- 9:54am
- Student what is their prey?


- Student we are using s
- Student It looks really strange


- Student if they are predatory, what is their prey?
Bugscope Team they eat aphids and small insects like that as well as feeding on nectar
- Teacher Nice view of the compound eye!

- Student interesting

- Student It looks damaged!
Bugscope Team it was broken in half, and this is just the top half
- Teacher Good job, Hanna!

- Student The eye looks like a giant GOLF BALL!
- Student what is the hairy thing???

- Student Would it be uncomfertable with that dirt on its eye
Bugscope Team it could wipe it away; they often have a few setae on their eyes that help them sense if something is touching them

- Student Sorry the Compound eye
- Student it's currently dead
Bugscope Team yes it is, and not likely to change

- Student fische hen hao, han na!!!

- Teacher This bug looks pretty mangled.
Bugscope Team the head looks good, though, I think

- Student Are the wingc cracked?

- Student wow the wing looks rly cool
- Student cool wing!

- Student Really? Its not going to change?
Bugscope Team heh not unless it is a zombie or a vampire lacewing
- Student nice wings

- Student Cool Wing it looks sort of like a leaf.

- Student look at the cetae
Bugscope Team there are fine sensort setae on those wing veins as well
- Student looks like a leaf



- Student valenty laoshi=Mrs. Valenty (in chinese)

- Student looks like a leaf with a hole in it

- Student Why is there a hole in the wing?

- Teacher The lacewing head looks great. I think I need to be a bit more careful when I package them up, though.
Bugscope Team you really did a great job. the thorax and abdomen were dried and very loose
- Student FYI, this is Gordon, but my computer crashed, so im on another one
Bugscope Team cool
- Student it has been wounded

- Teacher What's on the edge of the wing? It looks hairy.
Bugscope Team those are setae we often see on the edges of wings
- Student The wing looks almost like a leaf
- Teacher The hole in the wing is probably my fault. I think I dropped this bug out of the container while I was trying to package.

- 10:00am
- Student IDK Ria

- Student its damaged!

- Teacher Seriously, I can't believe how much I learn every time I do this! I didn't know the wings could have setae!
- Student Yeah it does look damaged!
- Student is their any possible way to tell how it has been wounded?
Bugscope Team something poked through it -- it could have been me using fine forceps and being clumsy trying to pick it up
- Student thats so cool
- Student marisa's turn to drive

- Student oh

- Student What are the tire print things on the wing for??
Bugscope Team that is where the wing is covered with silver paint, and those fine setae are showing up through the paint
- Teacher Fantastic job driving, Hanna! Marisa to drive, please.

- Student Ohhh

- Bugscope Team that is the tick's abdomen, to the upper left

- Student Why can you only see the silver paint there?
Bugscope Team if we were to look we could see it elsewhere as well; we're just not focusing on where I put it
- Student Why is it covered with silver paint
Bugscope Team I used the silver paint to help stick the wing down and also help make it conductive so the electrons would not charge it up


- Student What is all of that?
- Student oh cool

- Student are those the spiracles?
- Student what is that

- Student Whats that?
- Student silverfish
- Student ewwwwww
- Student eww

- Student ewww
- Student Are the bubbles around the bug glue
Bugscope Team it's doublestick tape and places where the paint did indeed bubble

- Student ewwww

- Student \
- Student Are those the spiracles????????????

- Student head..ohh

- Bugscope Team silverfish are very odd looking

- 10:05am
- Student they are
- Teacher That's why I was so excited when I found one to send in. Such weird bugs.

- Student they are odd
- Student type chat here then hit return key
- Bugscope Team this one has been rolled a bit and lost some of its features


- Student cool
- Student are those the mouthparts???
Bugscope Team those were some of the mouthparts, yes.




- Student cool!

- Student this is the head

- Student i believ
- Student thats not cool thats gross
- Student Mrs. V, when are you going to draw another name???
- Student that is so cool!
- Student where are the eyes

- Student what are they
- Student EWWWWWWWWWWWW
- Student silverfish have no true metamophisis!
- Student why is everything black & white?
Bugscope Team when we use electrons to image, we get electrons back and they come to us as signal -- we're not using light


- Bugscope Team Gordon I am sorry that was not a very good explanation
- Student ahh

- Student It looks like it has feathers
Bugscope Team those are the scales, which are quite like feathers


- Student i understood that
- Student silverfish have no true metamorphisis!

- Bugscope Team the samples are all in a vacuum chamber
- Student where are we???



- Bugscope Team and they are coated with a thin (about 20 nm) layer of gold-palladium, which makes them look silver anyway

- Student what part of the face is this?
Bugscope Team that is the top of the head

- Student where is the sem?
- Bugscope Team the antennae are busted off and those holes are where there would normally be lots more scales





- Student Is there any pattern in the placement of the setae?
Bugscope Team they seem to be symmetrical and usually evenly cover the surface of the chitin
- 10:10am
- Student yes, that is what I meant... i think
- Teacher Marisa, I do think that the broken bits are where the antenna were.
Bugscope Team the two 'horns' are where the antennae were
- Student I wonder if thats a broken off antennae!
Bugscope Team you got it
- Teacher Marisa, excellent driving! Norma to drive, please.
- Student interesting!
- Student Thanks Mrs. V

- Teacher Thanks, Scott. Your description of where the antenna were was MUCH more helpful than mine.
- Student that is ugly!!
- Bugscope Team this is the leafhopper
- Student they look like gills
- Student ewww

- Student Its head looks like an elephant!
- Bugscope Team see how its head has those ridges in the center?

- Bugscope Team cicadas look much like that as well
- Student Its so so so so so so so so so so... COOL!
- Student Those look like ribs
- Student what is that


- Student what are those stringS

- Bugscope Team the ridges I think are flexible and serve inside as a kind of pump mechanism to help the insect suck fluids out of plants

- Student what ius that???
- Student What is that???

- Student Is that an eye???
Bugscope Team that is the base of one of the antennae
- Student it looks like a weird laser gun

- Student Oh!
- Student why do you like the leafhoppers?
- Student what are those holes
Bugscope Team Emma I am not sure -- they may be openings that collect scent from the air

- Student is it an antennae/


- Student why are there three short stub-type-things?

- Student what are those things that look like spines on pufferfishes?

- Bugscope Team when we get a poor image like that, with those horizontal lines, the sample is charging up with electrons
- Student Cool the Eye!!!!
- Teacher Here's the compound eye, part of it anyway.

- Student those look like basketball prints
- Student how do you afford all the gold???
Bugscope Team we use only nanometers of it at a time


- Student hi Mom!
- Student hi
- Student Hi Harrison's mom!
- Teacher Hi H Mom!
- Student hi harrison's mom

- Student this is cool!
- 10:15am
- Student hi Harrison's mom

- Student hi Harrisons mom!
- Student why do you coat the insects in gold???
Bugscope Team we want the surface to have a conductive coat on it so the electrons do not go into the surface and make it glow, giving us a poor image
- Student hi Harrison's mom
- Student hi Harrison's mom

- Student It looks like a parrot mixed with a Gorilla
Bugscope Team haha!

- Bugscope Team you can see its claws now

- Bugscope Team there is one
- Bugscope Team oops not now
- Student what is a proboscis
- Student Cool!!
- Bugscope Team this is one of the limbs
- Student Mom you can chat you know
- Student cool
- Student Bye!!!!!!
- Student Thank you!!!
- Student bye
- Student Bye people and thank you!!!
- Student bye thankyou!
- Student good bye thanks scott
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student Bye! Thank you so much!
- Bugscope Team this is really fun for us as well
- Student thanks a lot!!
- Student transfer control to mrs. v
Bugscope Team Thank you, Norma - done!
- Guest Hi, guys! I was catching up! Very cool...
- Student bye scott
Bugscope Team Bye Ria!

- Bugscope Team phone ringing brb
- Teacher New class coming in. Take your time
- Guest Thanks for including me. Enjoy this opportunity...I won't look at a bug the same again :)
- Bugscope Team I will take a super short break Mrs V, and you are the Supreme Ruler. brb
- 10:20am





- Bugscope Team I am back
- Bugscope Team you can see silver paint to the left of the silverfish
- Teacher H Mom, glad you could join us.










- Student Mrs. V, change the driver
- Student Please
- Bugscope Team this sort of thin film around each scale is what we see when the insect is starting to rot
- Bugscope Team from within
- Student Some of them look like they are jeans under a microscope
- Student rotting bugs LOL
- Student thats so cool
- Student Is anyone here yet?
Bugscope Team yes we are here!
- Student yep
- 10:25am
- Student I don't think they're rotting.
Bugscope Team Julia I think they're rotting from within. When we coat them with gold-palladium and then leave them out in the air, they decay more rapidly
- Teacher Isana to drive, please.
Bugscope Team got it!
- Student see
- Student okay, that clarifies
- Student Emily is Emily Pollack and Emmy B is Emily Bassett just incase you were confused
- Student Wow! That's so cool!
Bugscope Team it's something we see and that is how we interpret it




- Student speaking of gold palladium, can we keep the bugs once your done?
Bugscope Team they wouldn't be much to look at and they would really dry up -- they'd start to fall off of the stub
- Student awsome
- Student what is that
- Student The mouth parts are really cool


- Student The beetle is in a funny position!
- Teacher Awesome. Great view of the head.

- Student that is too bad
- Student what is the stuff around the mouth?

- Student this is kind of creepy...:)
- Student Cool..... how big would this thing be usually?
Bugscope Team it is super tiny, just 7 or 8 mm long
- Student it looks like a beard
- Student I think it's amazing!
- Student its furry

- Teacher I sent in the smallest bugs we had.
Bugscope Team perfect for us
- Student wow thats weird
- Student ugly
- Student ohh thats kind of cool... but a bit scary....... and ewww..... :)
- Student Wow, ok that is kinda creepy
- Student no it isn't
- Student Are those its mouth parts?

- Student waht does this eat\
- Student yep
- Student ewwwwwwww that looks really scaryyyyy
- Student this is cool its very fuzzy!!
- Student icky.....
- Bugscope Team so we are looking at the mandibles, at the top, and the palps, mandibular and maxillary, and also the antennae
- Student ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Student AWESOME! Cool compound eyes.
- Student ewwwwww
- Student Are thoose fangs??

- Student the small hairs, what are there purposes
- Student what part of the bug is that?
Bugscope Team this is the mouth, Giovanna. they are often confusing to look at
- Student This looks really weird up close
- Student thay look like fangs

- Student So complex.

- Student are the hairs called cilia...or is that just on humans???
Bugscope Team the super small ones are often called microsetae, or microtrichae
- Student i thing this is so cool
- Student this is amazing
- Student looks like some peach fuzz, 5:00 shadow
- Student it looks spikey like a cactus
- Student omg it has a shield with spikes.... ahhhhh
- Student This is really weird...
- Teacher 5:00 shadow magnified 600 times :-)
- Student THIS IS A MOUTH??????
- 10:30am

- Student wow

- Student how much magnification can thisgo to
- Student are those hairs
Bugscope Team yes -- we are supposed to call them setae because insects are not mammals and thus don't have hair. but even entomologists will call them hair.
- Student NO

- Student have you eaten bugs
Bugscope Team not on purpose
- Student have u ever eaten A BUG TACO!??????????:)

- Student are those cactuse legs sapposed to protect him... they are only protecting him from being pretty
- Student Have you ever eaten bugS SEM
Bugscope Team only by accident
- Student hahaha
- Student this is kind of disgusting..... =D
Bugscope Team that's what makes it so cool

- Student elliot and I want to make deep fried butterfly wings
- Student i agree
- Teacher We are going to have a bug eating day here at school.
- Student by accident?
- Student are they called cactus
- Student what are the spikey things called??
Bugscope Team setae, or when they're small, microsetae
- Student Really?
- Student do we have to!!
- Student It looks funny......lol
- Student they should be called cactus
- Student in the middle of the right there is a wierd thingy
- Teacher Giovanna, everyone eats bugs or bug parts accidentally.
- Student How can you eat bugs on accident??
Bugscope Team like, riding your bike with your mouth open
- Student it looks like a cactus
- Student ewwwwwwwwww
- Student the tube on the side, what is it
- Student thats soooooo grosss
- Teacher Sometimes they fall into food as it is being processed, etc.

- Student EWWWWWWWWWWWW
- Student wat im never eating again
- Student OH WOW
- Student what is past the crack
- Student yep yep
- Student This. Is. Really. Kind of. Gross.
- Student how is this a beetle!!!
- Student im really grossed out rite now
- Student The mouths are so complex. why?
Bugscope Team probably because they have to be broken into a lot of parts compared to our mouths, which are flexible, with muscles controlling the movement in flexible skin and tissue
- Student Yuck, 50 spiders?
- Student GROSSSSSSSSS!! :(
- Student yea
- Student This is a bit creepy and scary and

- Student spookyy
- Student um what are the hairy things
- Student a bit try a lot

- Student yup
- Bugscope Team the thing to the left is one of the palps, and the things inside are like tastebuds

- Student setae
- Student Warning I've have prickles.....!!!!!
- Student cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


- Teacher Great driving, Isana. Emmy B to drive, please.
- Student ohhhhh
- Student what is this??
- Student sem, how big is the bug
Bugscope Team it's about a cm long

- Student disguisting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student Ya what is this??????
- Student what is that???????????????????????????????????????????
- Student ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Student This is creepy!!!!!!!
- Student EWWWWW cricket.........icky
- Student and a radioactive dungbeetle?
Bugscope Team they're not likely to bite you
- Student A CRICKET!!!!! EWWWWW
- Student SCARY!!!!!!!!
- Student crazy! awesome eye
- Bugscope Team see the compound eye?
- Student kind of .....um...creppy and weird a bit?
- Student Thanks to me!
- Student cricket is it like jimany cricket6
- Student *creepy
- Student icky...
- 10:36am
- Student Amazing
- Student EWWWWW OMG LOVE MICAYLA
- Student My friend and I saw a huuuuugeeee cricket that was like 7 inches long.... what type would that be??
- Student what is that huge lump?
Bugscope Team yo Dude that is one of the compound eyes
- Student a lamp
- Student can you make us a grasshoper burrito
- Student can u mak a giant golden taco and burrito plz
- Student please!!!!!!!!!
- Student that is awsome
- Student Are the mouth parts below it?
- Teacher Scott, when you have a chance, could Emmy B drive, please?
- Student no grossssss
- Student why did u say yo dude? mr sem??

- Student dont keep the bugs
- Guest What a cool close up of the eye!
- Student can we keep the bugs?????
Bugscope Team Elliot it's not worth sending them. They would decay rapidly.

- Student Hey Mrs. Klein
- Student hi mes. klein
- Student hi mrs.klein
- Student :)
- Student Hi Mrs. Klein!!!!
- Student hi mrs. klein

- Student hi mrs.klein!
- Student hi mrs.klein
- Student hey mrs. Klein
- Guest Hi Elliot and everyone! This is really cool.
- Student Hi mrs. Klein.... are you enjoying this??

- Student awwwwwwww. : (
- Student awesome
- Student Hello Mrs. Klein!

- Student weird....

- Student Are these the mouth parts?
- Student what about giovanna?
- Student ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Student Go Emily!!
- Student :(

- Student it looks like a persons inside
- Student Wow...... What is the part we are looking at???? Im mean what part of the cricket..


- Student Wow!!! What's that?
- Student emily zoom in more

- Student please
- Student fish?
- Student what

- Student we zoomed in to much now
- Student what are hte weild cracks in the plate?
Bugscope Team those are cracks in the doublestick carbon tape we use to put the samples on the stub
- Student it does

- Student What is that????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
- Student ew like a patatoe chip
- Student potato chip[!!!!!

- Student it looks like a feather or potato chip
- Student it looks like feathers at the bottom
Bugscope Team yes those are scales and they are anaologous to feathers in many ways
- Student I was thinking the same thing!
- Student Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww potato chip......... ickkkk
- Student ...What is that?
- Student it looks like a potatoe chip when it's up close
- Student cool

- Student is that eyes?
- Student what is that
- Student icky...
- Student know were on my lice

- Student Scoorpiooooonnnnnn........ahhhhhhhhhhhh
- Student the thing on the bottom-cool scales! looks like a flower and the other thing looks like a potato chip and that stickbug head is cool!

- Student ew spikes

- Student its hairy
- Student Creeeeeeppyyyy!

- Student woahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- Student This is a stick bug?

- Student wowwwwwwww
- Student ITS REALLY WEIRDDDDD
- Student oooh... aahh


- Student stink BUG!!!! i think
- Student woahhhhhhhhh!!!!!

- Teacher The thing in the middle is the long proboscis (mouth part). Like the plant bug we looked at on our microscopes.
- Student why is it so bumpy?
- Student LOOKYYY A TREE

- Guest What is that part that looks like a leaf?
Bugscope Team that is one of the scales
Bugscope Team butterflies, moths, silverfish (I don't know where the fish came from), and mosquitoes have tiny scales that give them color and also protect them from spiders -- they stick to the spider web and the insect itself can slip away, sometimes.

- Student looks like warts
- Student That's amazing!
- Student what is that?
- Student no it does not form micayla

- 10:41am

- Student woops from
- Student can you magnifie it on the dimple emily

- Student why is microns in quotes

- Student why is it so bumpy?
- Student ahmazing

- Student when was bugscope created?
- Bugscope Team a micron is the same thing as a micrometer, which is one millionth of a meter
- Student what are those bumps?
- Student amazing!!!
- Student eww it looks like it has worts

- Student that is bumpy

- Student focus please

- Student stinkbug??? AHHH!!!
- Student '
- Student What kind of bug is this???????????
- Teacher I think this is one of the bugs I could not identify. Scott, did you manage to figure out what it is?
Bugscope Team I thought it was a walking stick, or stickbug; but now I think it is related to assassin bugs, really not sure
- Student BUBBLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


- Student is this a stink bug
Bugscope Team no a stick bug
- Student assasin bags shoot acid right?
- Student are those legs

- Student what do the circle things do?????
- Student OHHHHHHHHHHH
- Student ITS A STICK BUG
- Student spikes
- Student I like the name another cricket

- Student probocis is it's mouth, right?
- Student STINKY STICK BUG
- Student is that its joint?

- Student oooooooooo its stick bug
- Student assasin bugs!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student AWESOME!!!COOL!!!
- Guest Wow! Are those hairs?
Bugscope Team yes they are setae, and they are sensory -- mechanosensory, chemosensory, and/or thermosensory
- Student wat would happen if you got poked by those spikes
- Student haha
- Student ouch
- Student would you get hurt
- Student what are the hairs called
Bugscope Team setae, usually
- Student when wass bugscope created???
- Student its another cactus!!!
- Student i wish we had a wheelbug
- Student They are magnified Rachel, probably nothing:)
- Student oooooooooooo
- Teacher It was a really cool bug. I have photos of it from when we first got it. I'm going to send the photos to an entomologist to an entomologist at the museum here in Pgh to see if they can help point me in the right direction.
- Student sry
- Student is that a joint

- Student What is a leafhopper?
Bugscope Team it's a true bug that sucks sap and other juices out of leaves and plant stems

- Student What is this contraption???

- Student theres noo such thing
- Student is that its mouth??
- Student as a whell bug

- Student what is a wheelbug?
Bugscope Team it's an assassin bug as well. they can hurt you when they bite, but not permanently
- Student me and macayla made that up
- Student what are we looking at?
- Student there r bumps on the backround\
- Student micayla!!!
- Student Heyyyyy grasss
- 10:46am
- Student cool... the thing in the backround looks like a sweater

- Student this is scaryyyyyyyyyy
- Student SPAGETTI
- Student when was bugscope created?????
Bugscope Team Mar 1999 was the first session, so we are older than wikipedia, older than facebook
- Student wow.

- Student awesome!!!!!!!!!
- Student i dont want to bump into that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student he has long hair

- Student I see little scale-like things!
- Student grossness
- Student or a claw

- Student cactus
- Student is that the exosceleton in the background??
Bugscope Team the cuticle -- what the setae are sticking out of, is the exoskeleton. it's comparable to a shrimp shell
- Student How long have you been workin on bugscope?

- Student Wow, what is that???
- Student ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Student The right part of it looks like fish scales............. heyyyy turtle
- Student ooooohhhhh!

- Student mmmmm. shrimp.
- Student I love this photo
- Student that a gross brain????????????????????????


- Student that LOOKS LIKE A TURTLE
- Student that doesnt look like a tick....
- Student What is that??
- Student cactussssssssssssssss
- Student EWWWWWWWW :D :(
- Student dragon!!!!
- Student dragon!!!
- Student what is that?
- Student dragonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns
- Student wow, like a dragon
- Student or chicken!!!!!!!!

- Teacher Check out the barbs on this! No wonder they are difficult to get out of your skin!
- Student amazing amazing amazing amazing!
- Student ew how would u know what a tick looks like??????

- Student TURKEY!
- Student but scary mountans
- Student It looks almost like the bud of a flower!

- Student what is that thing?

- Student spikey
- Student spikes
- Student EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
- Student scary :S
- Student HEYYYY ITS A DRAGONNN
- Student CACTI
- Student cacti r every were
- Student I see.
- Student kinda like a dinosaur.....
- Student CACTI RULE!!!!
- Student scaryyyyyyyyyy
- Student roar
- Student thats kind of nasty...but cool at the same time kind of =/
- Student Nahhhh a dragonnn
- Student why are you using three computers SEM??
- Student why are you using 3 computers
- Student rooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
- Student what are the scales?
- Student how do you get a SEM
- Student it looks upsidown
- Student Thank you thank you very much now i must hand my power over to elliot
- Student what are those leaf things?
Bugscope Team those are recurved spines that hold it into your skin

- Student it cuts into your blood does it hurt?
- Student what are those scales?
- Student How big is this contraption???
Bugscope Team it's like a large desk with a 6-foot column on one end
- Student what part of the tick is that
- Student What are we seeing in the top left corner?

- 10:51am
- Student Are ticks like fleas?
- Student what are thoae leaf things that kind of look like a flower\
- Student TICK?

- Student can you give control to elliot hare
- Student na
- Student WHAT IS THIS???? ITS KIND OF COOL AND IT HAS SCALES
Bugscope Team that is the part of the tick -- the hypostome -- that sticks into your skin
- Student they dont look like flowers
- Student It looks like a pattern you would see on a marble!
- Teacher Isibeal, ticks are arachnids, remember. But, yes, they are icky.
- Student rly?
- Student ]
- Student bleh
- Student it looks like mr. chloes skin
- Student whoa
- Student what are thiose scales in the background??
Bugscope Team those are bubbles/craters in the carbon tape

- Student What's that?
- Student where do you purchace a SEM, Ebay?
Bugscope Team it's a $600,000 item; I guess you could buy one there
- Student it lookes like sea shells on the sea shore to me

- Student what is that acorn like thing
- Student ew it looks like a stink bug
- Student Oh, arachnid. Then I never want to encounter that arachnid...

- Student is the microscope hard to use SEM? :?
Bugscope Team it is pretty easy, really, compared to some of the other microscopes
- Student What is the shield thing there?
- Student and dust
- Student what are the rock things
- Student looks like mold
- Student I meant skin
- Student whats that dirt


- Student coolio

- Student eww is that skim around it????
Bugscope Team its cuticle, or chitin -- the exoskeleton, which is like what our fingernails are made of
- Student what are the dirt, rocky things????


- Student it looks like a compound eye
- Student ickkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
- Student Are those compund eyes?
- Student funny face
- Student it looks like a clown
- Student I mean compound...
- Student what kind of bug is it
- Student This looks not even real
Bugscope Team yeah sometimes it looks totally unreal
- Student It has a nose that looks like elmos nose
- Student funny nose...
- Student it looks really cool!!!!
- Student thats cool it looks like a clown why?
- Student it looks like a clown

- Student face
- Student with chubby checks

- Guest Where did we get the mite? Did we send it?
Bugscope Team it was on the field cricket that you sent -- this now is the field cricket
- Student That nose looks like elmo's nose

- Student So is the shield thing a mite? We were zoomed in that close? Amazing!
- Student what are the circle things in the back
- Student What are the polka dots in the backround?

- Student yup
- Student im afraid of clowns....

- Student I looks a little like elmo

- Student the cheeks are compound eyes!

- Student Emily is Emily Pollack and Emmy B is Emily Bassett get it through your head

- Student what is that???\




- 10:56am

- Student wat is this part


- Student Is that a mite?
- Student the cricket has a cool texture'

- Student wat is this

- Student Emily is Emily P Emmy is Emily B
- Student what is that
- Student wer is this

- Student what is on the mites back?

- Student is that a spot on the mite?
Bugscope Team it's some kind of juju
- Student harry donut
- Student neat picture
- Bugscope Team this is a mold spore
- Student what are all those things???
- Student they look like rock slabs
- Student wats that spikey ball
- Student Mold? Spore? Gross!!!
- Student sorry we got logged off
- Student juju means dirt dust, or other
- Student thats cool!!!

- Student ahhh i get it......... It looks like a snake with moles

- Student JUjU
- Student what is that spikey thing?
Bugscope Team that is a mold spore, a little desiccated
- Student looks like a astroid
- Student astroid and an alien



- Student is that a boulder?
- Student ewww..who wants mold on your face?

- Student Elliot? Could you please get closer to the thing shaped like a donout?




- Student HOW MAY SCHOOLS HAVE U HAD THIS YEAR?

- Student where is the mold?
Bugscope Team that is the spikey thing
- Student i cant believe its zoomed in 9527 times

- Student hOW MANY SESSIONS DO U HAVE IN A YEAR THIS IS REALLY COOLIO
Bugscope Team about 2 per week
- Student whoa cool spikes
- Student now 19054 times
- Teacher 19,000 times magnification! Amazing!

- Teacher We have lunch next and some of the kids want to stay to drive and look around if you ahve the time.
Bugscope Team yeah that is fine; I will grab a sandwich
- Student I meant where is the mold on the face?
- Student i am first in lunch
- Student Magnified 19,054 times???Wow.

- Student Thanks, Elliot!

- Student What is that spike thing?!?!


- Student HUGE spikes!!
- Student can it magnify any more?
- Student 76216
- 11:01am

- Student ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww mold
- Student sem, can the mold hurt the bug???
Bugscope Team yes it will rot it eventually; happens to everything or we would be buried in corpses miles thick

- Student WOW MY BROTHER LOVES CHERRIOS I BET HE WOULD JUMP RIGHT INTO THAT SCREEN AND EAT IT


- Student so cool... how big is the mold?
- Student emmy b. I agree with your bro
- Teacher Scott, we don't want to take up your time if you are busy.
Bugscope Team I can go for another hour.
Bugscope Team It's Friday!
- Teacher Scott, when you have a chance, Rachel to drive, please.
- Student it is now rachels turn
- Student we are back!
- Student bvudfghvuj
- Student GEEEEEZ yuor right this is a powerful microscope
- Student yea
- Student it is
- Student I WIKE CHEEWIOS TOO
- Student I meant your
- Student can it magnify any more sem?
Bugscope Team um it can but we have to make some changes to be able to do that well
- Teacher TGIF! Thanks! Students will have to go to other classes but some can stay for a while.

- Student What are "bug peeps"?

- Student what is a lacewing

- Student what julia said
- Student nice
- Student its so hairy
- Student omg its an owlll
- Student whoa are those eyes?
- Student but some of us students get pretty hungry when its llunch time (giovanna)
- Student it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a bug!

- Student oops
- Student and nice scales
- Student and me micayla!!!
- Student it looks really cool!!!
- Student pine coney things
- Student wowahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- Student heyyy its hay
- Student it looks like an owl
Bugscope Team yes it does, and it sees in the dark like an owl too
- Student look at the eyes!!

- Student It looks like it has golf balls for eyes!
- Student compound eyes
- Student zoom more
- Student oh god!!!
- Student woahhh compound eyessss
- Student the proboscous is in the center rold up

- Student ooooohhhh the eyes are AMAZING!
- Student look at that eye!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student yea it is a compound eye
- Student 85659545253652147895632510148465142310054654897602145647524525012450570154705414045/8245728245058454704695016450256108594205322+46752890612315+658876078364578967542/913264789276
- Student 9+7
- Student omg golf ball
- Teacher Fantastic view of the compound eye!!
- Student its really cool
- Student What is the feather things?

- Student emmy. good math
- Student THATS COOLIO

- Student its sooooooooo cool that you can see into the eye

- Student the eye looks like a bee hive
- Student zooom into the eye even more
- Student it looks like a pine cone
- Student is this a butterfly???
- Student i didnt meen to
- Teacher Save the math for later, please, kids.

- 11:06am
- Student its 16!
Bugscope Team heh
- Student it looks like a dauster

- Student =16
- Student its a bird, its a plane, its a butterfly

- Student sorry duster
- Student i leaned on the key board and it typed 9+7
- Student its a moth
Bugscope Team thanks, Erica
- Student hahaha
- Student that looks so kol
- Student heh?
- Student heh
- Teacher I think hunger might be getting to some of them. Sorry, Scott.
- Student it looks like ginko leaves
- Student what does heh mean???????
Bugscope Team like ha ha
- Student Heyyy it looks like a flower
- Student It looks a little like overlapping leaves on a tree.
- Student ihs
- Student wat r the lines on the inside of them
- Student what is the size range?
- Student it looks like an acorn!!!!!!!!
- Student 412\
- Student Pretty!!
- Student i looks like a flower pretty
- Student potato chip
- Student 412?
- Student can I have the scope, it is lunch
- Student I have already called dibs
- Student THANK U!!!!'
- Student Thank you!
- Student thnx
- Bugscope Team scales provide the colors we see on moth and butterfly wings, and the colors can be both from pigments and structural -- from the width of the ridges on the scales
- Student thank you. hope to do this again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest The moth looks beautiful this close.
Bugscope Team yes it does
- Teacher Scott, transfer control to Arthur, please!
Bugscope Team Got it!
- Bugscope Team Thank You All!
- Student Thank you so much Scott!!! It was sooo awesome!
Bugscope Team Thank you, Emily!
- Student Bye SEM!
Bugscope Team Bye!
- Student sorry
- Teacher "Arthur Barelli" hit a button and logged off. Now he is Arthur.
Bugscope Team got it



- Teacher Thanks, Scott!


- 11:11am
- Student looks like a sweater



- Bugscope Team Arthur you are the boss of the 'scope for a little while...
- Bugscope Team brb

- Teacher Huh. That is really interesting about the beam affecting the scale!












- Student What are the bumps







- Teacher Tick claw. So cool!


- 11:17am









- Student i don't know what you mean blows it around
Bugscope Team the electron beam is very powerful, and the scale is small and fragile, so the energy from the beam can affect the scale and actually cause it to move

- Student kind of like a laser gun]


- Student how does this work
Bugscope Team the samples are coated with gold-palladium using a sputter coater, and for Bugscope we put about 20 nm of gold-palladium on the surface of the samples.

- Bugscope Team and the samples are put in a vacuum chamber. we pump the air out so that the electrons can fly through the vacuum without bumping into air molecules.
- Student this a antenea, right?
Bugscope Team yes it is!
- Bugscope Team you can see the compound eye below, to the right

- Student yeah, were zooming to that

- Bugscope Team then we beam electrons at the sample





- 11:22am
- Teacher This antenna is really thin! Is it just part of it?
Bugscope Team the aristate portion of the antennae -- the branched portion that is so thin -- is part of it, and part is the base portion, which I forget the name of. Leafhoppers do have very thin antennae.





- Bugscope Team we beam a very fine stream of electrons at the sample - the beam is 2.1 nm in diameter, much smaller than the wavelengths of light, for example
- Student I am going to get lunch, be back in 10
- Bugscope Team that fine electron beam rasters across the sample like a typewriter, line by line
- Teacher I can't believe that the leafhopper antenna didn't break off in transit.
Bugscope Team I am thrilled that your class collected it.
- Teacher Scott, Arthur is going to eat. He likes this so much that he will be back in 10.
Bugscope Team I gave you control, Mrs V.
- Teacher I know there are some other bugs on the stub. Is there any chance we could look at some of those? Or are there things on the presets you would reccommend?
- Teacher Oooh, I finally get to drive! :-)







- Bugscope Team there are more flies, like fruitflies, and wasps, and the tiny white jumping thing, which is hardly recognizable but might've been a springtail (Collembola).

- 11:27am

- Bugscope Team I can find anything you wish to see that is not a preset.

- Teacher I am going freewheeling to look for some while Arthur's at lunch.
Bugscope Team totally cool




- Bugscope Team this has been really fun, and I appreciate everyone's patience when the stage messed up.
- Teacher Sorry, I got sick tracked.

- Teacher Oops. I meant side-tracked. By the cool features on the leg.
- Bugscope Team look now
- Bugscope Team pollen and a mold spore
- Teacher We totally appreciate the experience! I can't believe how fast you fixed the computer.
- Teacher Do you know what those pointy things at the joints are?
Bugscope Team some of those are for proprioception
- Teacher The pollen is the spiky thing, right!
Bugscope Team yes it is!

- Teacher Beautiful!

- Teacher SO COOL!
- Bugscope Team and you found it
- Teacher I mean, I know it's small but I thought they woudl be smaller.
- Teacher Is that pretty big for a pollen grain?
Bugscope Team I think it is probably in the normal range.

- Bugscope Team it's about 18 microns in diameter...

- Bugscope Team like 9 bacteria in a row wide

- Teacher Can I look at the fruit fly if you can find it?
Bugscope Team sure I can find one now
- 11:33am
- Teacher Holy cow! This rocks!
Bugscope Team yay!
- Teacher Great! If you can find a fruit fly (or anything else you might happen upon), I'm cool with it.
- Student okay, i am back
- Teacher Sweet.
- Student nice fruit fly

- Student definetly a photo shot


- Bugscope Team you can see some of the ocelli

- Student great scientific purpous

- Teacher These have been buzzing around my room annoying me.
Bugscope Team what I like about Bugscope is that we can be the predators and catch things that bother us; and they go to a good purpose, I think

- Student lovely

- Bugscope Team deus ex machina


- Student to me, oh yes
- Teacher Does this look focused?
Bugscope Team here you go



- Student what are the small hairs
Bugscope Team they;re tiny bristles that are said to give the fruit fly info about wind speed and direction. actually I am not sure about that.

- Teacher This is so amazing! I can believe I am looking at the facets of a fruit fly's eye. Maybe I don't mind them so much.
Bugscope Team haha

- 11:38am



- Teacher Do you know why the facets of the eye have bumps?
Bugscope Team they probably make the eye more sturdy, and they give it more surface area


- Student you should of made this a land mark, it is so cool
Bugscope Team I did, earlier, but we crashed the 'scope earlier and lost the presets




- Teacher Is there a limit to magnification with good focus? Or am I just not focusing well?
Bugscope Team there is a limit because we are at a long working distance
- Teacher oops. Went the wrong way with amg.
- Teacher mag, I mean.


- Teacher Makes sense, thanks.


- Teacher Arthur wants to drive, pretty please.
- Student can I drive

- Bugscope Team when we use this for research, we go to a much shorter working distance that gives us better resolution and thus the ability to kick the mag up









- Bugscope Team if we tried to work at a short working distance for Bugscope, the differences in heights of the insects from the base of the stub would be a potential problem. also, we would lose our ability to see a whole insect at low mag -- low mag would not be as low. So we would lose some of the impact of scale for the kids
- Teacher Gotcha. That's how you can take pics of bacteria?
Bugscope Team yes it is

- Student what is the long pole
- Teacher mouthparts?
Bugscope Team sorry I was not watching to see where we are now
- 11:43am
- Teacher no prob. This is bonus time for us.



- Bugscope Team okay this is near the fruitfly's mouthparts, which are sponging mouthparts


- Bugscope Team those spines let it know when it is close to something



- Bugscope Team do you want to see the haltere?
- Bugscope Team that's one way we know it's a fly (Diptera)

- Student that is sweet, hey arthur how long is all this in real life
Bugscope Team those little dudes are about 5 or 6 mm long
- Teacher The answer is always yes when you ask if we want to see something. :-)
Bugscope Team cool



- Teacher ALthough I don't remember what a haltere is.
Bugscope Team halteres are modified hindwings that balance the motion of the two wings flies use to fly

- Student yeah, you can give it to eddie anytime soon






- Bugscope Team this is actually the proboscis, here

- Bugscope Team it folds open for cleaning

- Teacher Eddie to drive, please.



- 11:48am


- Teacher About 10 more minutes for you, Scott?
Bugscope Team I can go 'til like 1:15 your time, but how about you Mrs V? did you get to eat



- Teacher I'm good. I'll eat when we are done. Honestly, I'd rather do this. :-)





- Bugscope Team you can see that it has tiny setae that likely help it sense when something is touching it
- Teacher Eddie zoomed in for me so I could see the setae. Thanks, Eddie!

- Student the juju at the top looks like a asteriod
Bugscope Team yeah that is a mystery

- 11:53am
- Teacher leafhopper proboscis in sight.

- Bugscope Team what is surprising about the leafhopper is that it is not covered with brochosomes, like they often are

- Teacher They don't seem to have too many of the setae compared to some of the other critters.
Bugscope Team they are likely highly evolved, comparable to roaches; very streamlined
- Student what was at the top left corner
Bugscope Team not sure -- the tick is right nextdoor



- Teacher tip of the proboscis.
- Teacher We caught quite a few leafhoppers on our field trip. I only saved one. Might the others have looked significantly different?
Bugscope Team they would be comparable. leafhoppers produce nanoparticles called brochosomes that they spread on their cuticle in a self-anointing behavior
- Teacher Eddie, well done!
- Bugscope Team I saw one or two brochosomes earlier but not the masses I'd expected
- Teacher Scott, Arthur would like to drive, please.
Bugscope Team got it

- Teacher Leafhoppers are much more complex than I thought.

- Bugscope Team yeah Mrs V I love leafhoppers so please save some for me in the future if it's easy




- Bugscope Team is it alright if I go looking for brochosomes?


- Student I am fine, actualluy, please do
- Bugscope Team they are formed in the Malpighian tubules.
- Teacher Heck, I will start a leafhopper collection for you.
- 11:58am
- Student And i'll put in all I founf
- Bugscope Team mold spores...
- Student eww, yet fun
- Teacher twisty patterns on the setae?

- Student is that mold
- Student what is the small heart like object
- Student whoa, that was quick
- Student juju?
- Teacher just looked up brochosomes online. way cool. Site I looked at says that there hasn't been a lot of research done on them. True?
- Teacher Those twisty things are pretty!
- Bugscope Team yeah if you them up in google images you should find some from Bugscope
- Bugscope Team they are about 300-400 nm in diameter
- Student Scott, if you could choose a few photos, what would they be, if they were put on a T-shirt
- Student ?
- 12:04pm
- Bugscope Team I will send you a link.
- Student me tooo
- Bugscope Team please drive while I do that.
- Teacher Excellent!

- Bugscope Team http://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/~sjrobin/MaggiesFarm/
- Bugscope Team http://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/~sjrobin/Bugscope Images/


- Bugscope Team I'd just wanted you all to see the brochs, but that's fine.


- Student sorry, holes


- Teacher You can look for the brochosomes. We are just talking here about putting some images on t-shirts to wear to school.

- Teacher Links don't seem to be working.
Bugscope Team the first one looks like it's incomplete; you have to add that Images/



- Bugscope Team If you check out some of the images I sent you should fine some you like
Bugscope Team oops typo

- Student i am going to the link, please take over
- Teacher OK! We are going to use some of ours for art projects, maybe.
- Student what are the dots?
Bugscope Team those are places where setae broke off, pretty sure
- Bugscope Team if I was going to spend the money on t-shirts I would use the better images
- Student is this a eardrum
- Bugscope Team no I think it is the base of a seta
- Student sotty, didn't see the answer
- 12:09pm
- Teacher Are we still looking at the leafhopper or another insect?
- Teacher Sorry, didn't know I was driving.



- Teacher Scott, do you want to look for brochosomes.
Bugscope Team no I want to,let you drive; otherwise I'm spending a bunch of your time

- Teacher We are on bonus time (lunch). I don't mind.
- Bugscope Team those places were where the scales on the head had broken off






- Bugscope Team the deal about the brochs is that they are clearly not in great numbers, and if I found some I would want to change the working distance to give you a better image


- Bugscope Team let's look at the fly pupae
- Teacher Ok, up to you. If you want to look at brochs we are ok with if. If not, I'll have other fun.


- Student hol moley

- Bugscope Team fly
- Teacher ok, just saw you mentioned the fly pupae. Can you take us there?

- Student so this a pre fly
Bugscope Team um I can drive to those, got sidetracked


- 12:14pm

- Bugscope Team haha let me know when you want me to do that


- Student how do you get the bugs off the plate
Bugscope Team with a razor blade, right into the trash ; )
- Teacher You can go to fly pupa any time you want.


- Bugscope Team okay I'm driving now...


- Student how can you drive faster
- Student nice, polen
- Teacher See the pupa.
- Student so that is the pupa
- Bugscope Team nasty little beastie
- Teacher What are those little spikes?
- Student this is like a crysalis
- Teacher Yeah, definitely nasty.
- Bugscope Team ooh yeah it has a trap door
- Student can you stay longer?
- Teacher I was just going to ask that.
- Student trap door, so the pupa isn't their
- Teacher About the trap door and the fly getting out.
- 12:19pm
- Bugscope Team insect gang signs
- Teacher Scott, I know you have to go soon. Please let us know when you need to pull the plug or we would be tempted to stay all day.
- Teacher Cool claw.
- Teacher Insect gang signs---haha!
- Student why can you drive faster, because you go from the pupa to the pollen in 2 seconds
Bugscope Team I'm using the microscope, not the Bugscope software interface.
- Student what is this
- Teacher What are we looking at?
Bugscope Team this is one of the wasp's limbs. I'm going to check out another wasp I didn't look at earlier.
- Teacher I think the insect here is making a W (for WT--our school)
- Student explained
- Student mrs. valenty has to do NO teaching today, and is SO happy
- Teacher Making me look bad, Arthur. grrr
- Student Grrr?
- Teacher Will the images you are showing us now be on our "transcript" so we can access them? I don't see them below.
- Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-126
- 12:24pm
- Bugscope Team yeah it looks like we're good for that - the images on the transcript
- Teacher THanks, Scott. Will the ones from when you were driving the scope be on there?
- Student bye scott i have to go
Bugscope Team Bye! Thank You, Eddie!
- Teacher THanks. You are too quick for me....you answered before I could ask.
- Bugscope Team I think it's time for me to shut down.
- Student Bye scott, we have a reading period, and mrs. green has some really comfy chairs
Bugscope Team haha Thank You, Arthur!
- Student contact you
- Teacher Scott, studyhall is just about over so we need to go, too. Thank you SO much for all of the extra time. As always, it was a fantastic experience!
- Student hope that I can get another time with you, how can I contact
Bugscope Team watch the Bugscope page
- Bugscope Team sjrobin@illinois.edu
- Student I will, see ya
Bugscope Team see ya!
- Bugscope Team alright see you, Mrs V!
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Teacher I think we might have a few web mentions. I'll make sure to forward to you! HAve a great weekend!
- Teacher Bye!
- Bugscope Team Bye!
- Bugscope Team You too!