Connected on 2007-08-30 18:30:00
from Richland, Washington, USA
- 6:02 pm
- Bugscope Teamyup
- Bugscope Teamhey lisa
- Bugscope TeamHey Lisa!
- Bugscope TeamEl Camino Reale the royal road.
- TeacherHello! I think we are good on this end... this may be a first! :)
- Bugscope Teamyay!
- Bugscope TeamWonderful
- Bugscope TeamCate made us a super nice sample today.
- Bugscope Teamno scott, you were just hoarding all the good ones in your office
- Bugscope TeamShe did some critical point drying, even. Like a master chef.
- TeacherThe dialog box is a little different this time. It scrolls up rather than down.
- Bugscope Teampepper bettle is cool Owen says
- Bugscope TeamChas can change that on a dime.
- Bugscope TeamThat's it DaddyO.
- Bugscope Teamwhich dialog box are you referring to?
- Bugscope Teamhe took a picture with his camera
- Bugscope TeamLisa Wheezer is Jon, who works here, at home.
- TeacherThe instant message section
- Bugscope TeamHe gave us the tiny pepper eating beetles.
- Bugscope TeamYeah I guess so...
- Bugscope Teamhave fun guys gtg
- Bugscope TeamLisa you can drive now if you'd like...
- Bugscope TeamThanks Jon!
- Bugscope Teambye jon!
- Bugscope TeamJon is Gon
- Bugscope TeamLisa do you have a big crew today?
- 6:08 pm
- Bugscope TeamCate are you home? Is Will off this evening?
- Bugscope TeamQuestiones.
- Bugscope Teamhe is at class
- Bugscope Teamand yes I am at home
- Bugscope Teamoh man poor guy
- TeacherI am going to get class started momentarily. I will be right back!
- Bugscope Teamwhat is the deal with camino?
- Bugscope TeamCool.
- TeacherWe have about 27 tonight... so big!
- Bugscope Teamgreat!
- Bugscope Teamgreat. will they each get to login individually?
- Bugscope TeamOn how many computers?
- Bugscope Teamjust my macs, so 2
- Bugscope Teamoh not me oops
- Bugscope TeamCate you're running two computers tonight? Are you playing on the other one?
- Bugscope Teamno lol, I'm just using my laptop
- Bugscope Teamaww cute
- 6:13 pm
- Bugscope Teamso I've heard
- Bugscope Teamthese little pepper beetles are super tiny but they can really chew with those serious jaws.
- Bugscope Teamwhich bug are we looking at now? the ant?
- Bugscope Teamthis is the beetle's found with the pepper
- Bugscope Teamthis is the pepper beetle dude, one of 'em
- Bugscope Teamwow looks kind of like an ant from what i see
- Bugscope Teamyou are trippin' girl
- Bugscope Teammust be
- Bugscope Teamit is pf bizarre
- 6:28 pm
- Bugscope Teamwow
- Bugscope Teamhello you guys
- Studenthi
- Studenthi
- Bugscope Teamsee if we crash from 27 connections at once
- Bugscope Teamwelcome!
- Bugscope Teambring it on
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Teamoooh cate
- Bugscope Teamcan you all see the image on the screen?
- Bugscope Teammore fun for chas if it does crash tho
- Bugscope Teamand the chat, I guess?
- Studenthey fuzzylove
- Bugscope Teamthere you go
- Studentare those eyes or cheeks
- Bugscope TeamLisa should be drivin', and we can convey control to whoever would like it, one at a time, with Lisa's permission.
- Bugscope Teameyes
- Bugscope Teambig eyes
- Bugscope Teamcompound eyes
- Bugscope Teamthe background is doublestick carbon
- Bugscope Teamcarbon...
- Studentwhat is ommatidia
- 6:33 pm
- Bugscope Teamthe individual facets of the compound eye are called ommatidia
- Studentthanks!
- Bugscope Teamthis is the tip of the mosquito proboscis
- Studentwhat is a proboscis
Bugscope Teamthe proboscis is the long tube-shaped mouthpart
- Studentwhat is the proboscis?
- Studentare those little hairs
- Student?
- Bugscope Teamthe lancet is inside
- Bugscope Teamproboscis is sort of like a portable mouth, or like a straw.
- Bugscope Teamtiny hairs called setae, and tiny scales
- Studentwhat color is the mosquito lancet
- Studentok, thanks
- Studentnice im learning a lot
- Bugscope Teamyeah that is what they bite with, inside of that tube.
- Bugscope Teamthe proboscis itself does not go into your skin
- Studentso what does go into your skin?
- Studentis the texture hard or soft?
- Studentwhat are the scales for? protection?
- Studentwhat is the part that goes into the skin?
- Bugscope Team"bite" -- they actually just pierce the skin with a needle much like getting your blood drawn
- Studentthis is great
- Bugscope Teamthere's a sharp pointy thing you often do not see unless you smashes the skeeter at the right time
- Bugscope Teamfocus!
- Studentdo they have small teeth
- Bugscope Teamthe sharp thing is serrated on the end like a steak knife
- Bugscope Teamno teeth
- Studentwhat do they eat?
- Bugscope Teamthey feed only on blood
- Studentthey eat people!
- Student?
- Bugscope Teamthey suck blood -- the females need to have a blood meal in order to lay their eggs succcessfully
- Studentthose look like they would hurt
- Bugscope Teamthis is the edge of a wing on another insect.
- 6:38 pm
- Studentit looks like when I haven't shaved for a while
- Studentare these sharp?
Bugscope Teamthe scale bar (at lower left) showed they were about 8 um wide, and came down to a point probably less than a micron, so yes they are very sharp, but they're also so small they probably couldn't pierce your skin, they'd break instead
- Bugscope Teamand those are prob'ly mechanosensory spines
- Bugscope Teamthe insect can sense when they move
- Bugscope Teamthis is cool
- Studentwhat insect was the setae from
- Studentmechanosensory spines
- Bugscope Teamthis is the pulvillus, part of the tarsus, which is the forearm
- Studentit looks sort of like a flower
- Bugscope Teamthese, what we just saw (see now) are called tenent setae
- Studentwhere are the unidentified flying insects found?
- Bugscope Teamthey do look like flowers, sometimes like calla lilies
- Studentthis looks like a sea urchin or anemone
- Bugscope Teamthose were collected locally, not sure
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the micron bar on the left
- Bugscope TeamIf we use the focus tool we should be able to clear up the image and see them better
- Bugscope Teama bacterium is often 2 microns (micrometers) in length
Bugscope Teamand looking at the scale bar, the heads of these little setae were about 1um, so half the length of a bacterium
- Bugscope Teamcould be hard to focus on these because the electron beam sort of blows them around
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the little setae moving ever so slightly from image to image. that's because the electron's we're using to image are building up and the electrostatic force is causing them to repel each other
- Bugscope Teamooh better
- Bugscope Teamooh not so good
- Studentare the unidentified flying insects found everywhere?
Bugscope Teamwell it's just unidentified by us. certainly someone knows what it is, we just didn't have a chance to get an entomologist to ID it for us today
- Bugscope Teamthe bulbs are the sticky parts that in concert allow the insect to stick to walls, or glass, or the ceiling
- 6:44 pm
- Bugscope Teamyou can see there are boatloads of them
- Bugscope Teamin between those claws, we see on either end
- Bugscope Teamthis is a really cool image with the two curved claws arching over the pulvillus pad
- Studentwhat are the horn-like parts?
Bugscope Teamthose were the two claws on the foot
- Bugscope Teamthose were the claws, Nicole.
- Studenti think its a hairy back nicole
- Studentoh
- Bugscope Teamit's a hairy belly
- Studentit has a cactus body
- Bugscope Teamthis is the waist of an ant
- Bugscope TeamMany insects have exoskeletons, meaning instead of soft skin they have a chitinous shell that serves as their support, the way our bones do
- Bugscope Teamthe spines allow it to sense when it is folded against itself
- Bugscope Teamsome of the setae are chemosensory -- the insect can smell with them
- Bugscope TeamThis is a bunch of fungus growing near the mothparts of an ant
- Bugscope Teamsome of the hairs form patterns that permit recognition of species
- Studentyum
- Bugscope Teamhere we see fungus, and a spore head
- Studentwhy would fungus be growing by the mouth
- Bugscope Teamyeah Rae
- Bugscope Teamthe fibers have an interesting twisted pattern, almost akin to DNA
- Studentthey eat too much junk food
- Studentif we were bitten by a black ant what would happen?
- Bugscope Teamsometimes they bite because you just look good too
- 6:49 pm
- Studentwhat is that
- Bugscope Teamif it had big pincers like a soldier ant you would feel it
- Studentgross
- Bugscope Teamthis produces x-rays, but it is a super powered microscope, yeah
- Studentthats great
- Studentxrays
- StudentI was down south one summer and I swear this giant bug was chasing me!
- Bugscope Teamthe samples are in a vacuum chamber and we are beaming electrons at them
- Studenthow does insect repellent "repel" bugs?
Bugscope TeamI just looked up one popular repellant, DEET, which apparently blocks their receptors that sense carbon-dioxide and lactic acid, essentially blinding them to your presence
- StudentI wondered how it kept following me.
- Studentthis is sooo sci-fi!
- Studentyes
- Studentvery sci-fi
- Bugscope TeamRae the flying insects can often see very well, and they can smell you, or your hair, or whatever -- perfume, deodorant...
- Bugscope Teamyeah bugs are a lot weirder when you see them so close
- Bugscope Teamthis is a cool image with brochosomes on it
- Studentthey're a lot cooler too
- Studentwhat are those warty things?
- Studentthat looked like a little leaf
- Studentwhats a brochosome?
- Studentthis is a great tool for introducing a science unit to all grades - talk about getting the students involved!
- Bugscope Teambrochosomes are tiny soccerball-like waxy beads that are produced by leafhoppers
- Bugscope Teamoh cool you found a brochosome
- Studentbye
- Studentwe're gonna log off
- StudentPEACE OUT!
- Studentsee ya later
- Studentthanks guys
- Studentthanks!
- Studentwe're logging off! thanks!!!!
- Studentwe are leaving now, toodles
- Studentbye bye
- Studentthankyou and goodbye :)
- Studentthanks
- Studentthank you!
- Studentbye thank you!!!!
- Bugscope Teamwhat? okay...
- Studenthasta la vista!
- Studentthank you
- Bugscope Teamoh well we hope you had fun
- Studentthanks for the info bye!
- Bugscope TeamThank you. Gracias.
- Studentthanks
- Studentthey are making us leave :(
- TeacherWe are leaving now! Thanks so much for another great session. :)
- Studentcan't wait to visit again!!
- Bugscope TeamIs that it Lisa?
- TeacherYes, thanks!
- Studentwhy when you use bug repellent do some still bite you
Bugscope Teamthe repellant is targetting one type of sensory organ, so if another insect has a different method or a mutation, they may be resistant to it
- 6:54 pm
- Studentwhat did i do?
- Bugscope Teamthey are using their eyes, like Asian ladybugs.
- Bugscope Teamlisa, is that it for today, or is there another session?
- Bugscope TeamWe have a Kendra here too.
- TeacherNo more sessions. We are done with this for the night. Thanks again!
- Bugscope TeamSo nothing bad as far as we know.
- Studentkendra and scott sitting in a tree...
- Bugscope Teamyeah
- Bugscope Teama tree
- Bugscope TeamCya Lisa!
- Bugscope TeamI hope it's a big tree
- Bugscope TeamThanks You All!
- 7:27 pm
- Bugscope Team?
- Bugscope TeamOver already?
- Bugscope Teamdurn
