Connected on 2008-04-01 16:00:00
from Milwaukee, WI, US
- 3:08 pm
- Bugscope Teamsession enabled, rxl started, vac ok, starting presets
- 3:14 pm
- 3:22 pm
- 3:30 pm
- Bugscope Teamhi wpl, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamwe are setting up for a session starting at 4PM, milwaukee museum
- Bugscope Teampresets are done
- 3:48 pm
- Bugscope Teamyeah, it's free on my calendar
- 3:56 pm
- Bugscope Teamhi chickscope rocks, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamwe've got another session starting in about 5 minutes.
- Guesthi its one of me's students from the other day
- Bugscope Teamoh cool, welcome back
- Guestme is a great teacher
- Bugscope Teamduring a session we need to focus on the participating school, but you are welcome to come before and after a session to try it out
- Bugscope Teamwhere are you from?
- Guestok
- Guestkansas
- Guestwhat is tj\his?
- Guestbug
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fruit fly
- Guestwhat is this
- Bugscope Teamoh no, sorry this is a wasp!
- Bugscope Teamwasp
- Guestcool
- Bugscope Teamhi laura, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Teamhi lady bug and milwaukee museum, welcome to bugscope!
- Guestwasps are cool
- Bugscope Teamwelcome lady bug
- Bugscope Teamlady bug, i've just unlocked the session, it's all yours
- Bugscope TeamHello there
- Bugscope Teamand as always, let us know when you have any questions
- Bugscope Teamthis is a wasp, notice the two sets of wings, and the large antennae on its head
- 4:01 pm
- TeacherHi all my girls just arrived I will give them an overview and then we can start...
- Bugscope Teamok cool
- Bugscope Teamokay, no problemo, just ask away whenever you are ready
- Guestim a tomahawk kid
- Guesti got to go
- Guestbye
- Bugscope Teamokay, bye bye chickscoperocks
- Bugscope TeamBye..
- Guesthi its me again remember me
- Bugscope Teamhi me, we are starting a session with milwaukee museum any minute now.
- Guestok
- Bugscope Teama better time to visit is before and after a session, then we'd be happy to answer any questions
- Bugscope Teamor you can always email us at bugscope@itg.uiuc.edu
- GuestWill I hear as well as see the session?
Bugscope TeamNo hearing...just chat and enjoy the view!
- Bugscope Teamwe would love to have you sign up for your own session
- Guestwas chickscoperocks one of my students?
Bugscope Teamyes, they said they were
- Guestwhat is this?
Bugscope Teama wasp
- Bugscope Teamthis is a wasp, notice the two sets of wings and cool head antennae
- Guestyes that is cool
- 4:07 pm
- Guestwell id better go. byr
- Guestbye
- Bugscope Teamokay, bye me, looking forward to seeing your application!
- Bugscope Teambye me
- Bugscope TeamBye me
- Guestim back
- Bugscope TeamI think this is a braconid...but I am not super sure
- Guestwas me on?
- Bugscope Teamhi annie
- Bugscope Teamello...I made it home
- Guestthe wasp looks hudge now
- Bugscope Teamnotice the compound eye of the wasp
- Bugscope Teamthe compound eye is made up of smaller facets, called ommatidia, each one having its own lens to see with
- Teacherwhy is the eye so big
Bugscope Teamwell, each lens can only look in one direction, the lens can't move like our eyes can, so the insect developed many individual lenses that point in a wide angle, which gives the insect a better view of its environment
- Bugscope Teamflying insects rely on their sight a lot, a lot more than insects that live in the ground
- Teacherare we seeing the stinger
Bugscope Teamno right now, we are seeing the lower part of the "face" and part of the legs. Decrease the magnification to see the entire face.
- 4:12 pm
- Bugscope Teamthis is a wasp that really depends on its sight for survival, so they are really big-- covering most of the head, and they are streamlined
- Bugscope Teamthe stinger is on the lower part of this wasp's body
- Guesthhhhhiiiiiiiiii
- Guestwhat part are we looking at?
- Guestof the wasp?
- Bugscope Teamthis is part of the head and the body
- Bugscope Teamthis is a joint between the body and leg of the wasp
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the jaws on the upper part of the screen
- Teacherwhat is the hair line stuctures called and what do they do
- Guestare we looking at the thorax?
Bugscope Teamwe are looking at the base of the first pair of legs...the parts we can see are the coxa, trochanter, and part of the femur.
- Guestok
- Teacheris this hair and what does it do
- Bugscope Teamah yes, the hairs are called "setae" (sea-tea) and they are how the insect senses its enironment
- Guesthi
- Bugscope TeamThe legs are attached to the thorax though
- 4:17 pm
- Bugscope Teameach seta is connected to nerves underneath the exoskeleton, so when the seta is vibrated or senses some chemical, it transmits that information to the nerve, and the nerve to the brain, and then BING! the insect is smart!
- GuestH2O
- Guestoops sorry
- Guestwhat are we looking at now
- Guest?
- Guestwhat part of the wasp is this
- Bugscope Teamthis is the abdomen, i think
- Bugscope Teamthe abdomen on the wasp is a bit deflated here
- Guestok well i HAVE to go bye
- Teacherdo they pee
- Bugscope Teamwell, that question made us laugh
- Bugscope Teamannie, do you know?
- Bugscope Teami'm sure the excrete something...
- Bugscope Teamyes
- Bugscope TeamWater is too valuable to most insects for them to "pee." They excrete solid nitrogenous waste, sort of like birds do.
- 4:23 pm
- Bugscope TeamOf course, there are exceptions to every rule. Insects that live in water excrete pure ammonia because they are not water limited, and some insects take in so much water that they have a special adaptation to funnel water from their stomach to their, um, rectum....
- Teacherwhere does they get the name from
Bugscope Teamwhich name?
- Teacherhow old do they get
Bugscope TeamMost insects live for one year. There are exceptions, of course, some termite and bee queens live several years.
- Teacherwasp
Bugscope TeamI think is come from the latin name Vespa...I think wasp is a corruption of vesp. But I am not sure.
- Bugscope Teamthese are juju-covered setae
- Teacherhow can you tell if it a boy or girl
Bugscope TeamFemale insects are generally larger and in the case of the wasp, they have stingers. The males are smaller, have thinner abdomens and no stingers.
- Bugscope Teamannie, that is right, we were just looking that up on wikipedia
- 4:28 pm
- Bugscope Teamwe just thought this cuticle formation looked cool
- Bugscope Teamwe thought this image was very interesting. this is a springtale eye
- Bugscope Teamthe round objects are simple eyes
- Bugscope Teamthe paters are unusual
- Bugscope Teamspringtail
- Bugscope Teamthese guys like to hop
- Bugscope Teamanother critter that is not a butterfly, moth, skipper, or skeeter (or silverfish) that has scales
- Teacherwhat does the tail do for them
- Bugscope Teamthey can get out of trouble quickly by bounding away like a flea
- Bugscope TeamThey catch the tail in a little pocket between their legs, release it, and it allows them to spring in the air
- Bugscope TeamI never knew that springtails had scales
- Bugscope Teamnow you do :) another insect to add to the list
- 4:33 pm
- Teacherwhy is the hair darker then the other hair
- Bugscope Teamwell, it could have just been shadows, we are not sure what hairs you mean?
- Teacherwhy does this insect have so many legs
Bugscope Teamit's called a millipede, which means "thousands of legs", but it doesn't really have thousands, more like hundreds
- Teacheris this the mouth
- 4:39 pm
- Bugscope TeamA millipede is not an insect at all...
- Bugscope Teamthere are two pairs of leg for each segment of the millipedeof legs is a se
- Bugscope Teammillipedes and centipedes dont belong in the class of insects
- Bugscope TeamDoes this critter have one or many pairs of legs on each segmen?
- Guesthi m back again
- Teacherare they crustaens
Bugscope TeamNope they are in their own class!
- Guestwhat are we looking at?
- Guestcool
- Bugscope Teamoh wait, this must be a centipede, right annie?
- Bugscope Teamwow, it's cracked, interesting
- Bugscope TeamLooks centipede-y to me
- Guestwhat part of it is this?
- Bugscope TeamIt is hard to tell sometimes
- Teacherno wonder why iits dead!!
- Bugscope Teamyes, i'm sorry i think it's a centipede too, my mistake
- Teacherwhat type of class is it in
- Bugscope Teamif its a millipede its diplopoda
- Bugscope TeamCentipedes are in class chilopoda
- Bugscope Teamcentipede's class is chilopoda
- Bugscope Teampod meaning foot
- Guestwhat is the crack looking thing in it?
- 4:44 pm
- Teacherwhy does the skin look rubber under neath
Bugscope Teamthere are layers of muscles and nerves and organs and such, maybe that's what was looking like rubber?
- Bugscope Teamthe crack was created on my behalf on accident while handling the specimen
- Guestoh ok
- Guestthats cool
- Guestwhat is that spongey looking thing?
Bugscope TeamThe spongy stuff inside the crack is dried tissue...muscles and organs
- Guestits in the crack
- Teacherhow big does it get and how long does it live
- GuestWOW
- Bugscope Teamthe largest centipede is 12 inches in length!
- Teacherwhy do they need so many legs
Bugscope TeamI don't know why...I don't think anyone knows why. It helps them to move quickly
- Bugscope Teambut many centipedes are smaller than that
- Bugscope Teama centipede has a pretty nasty bite to humans, kind of like a wasp
- 4:49 pm
- Bugscope Teamah, this is cool, this is called a haltere
- Bugscope Teambut snakes move quickly too without any legs at all
- Bugscope TeamThe first pair of legs in centipedes is modified into poisonous fangs that the centipede uses to catch its prey
- Bugscope Teama haltere is found on some flying insects, it helps stabilize the flight of the insect.
- Guestok
- Bugscope Teamflies used to have 2 pairs of wings like wasps, but a pair of them evolved into a haltere
- Bugscope Teamhaltere acts like a gyroscope to help steady the fly
- Teacherdo they only eat fruit
Bugscope TeamThey feed on fungus that grows on fermenting fruit
- Bugscope Teamyou can see this flying insect has huge eyes as well
- Guestthats a fly isnt it?
Bugscope Teamyes
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fruit fly
- Guestcool
- Bugscope Teamthose things pointing up are the palps
- Teacherdo they have teeth
Bugscope TeamFlies have sponging mouthparts...like a sponge attached to a straw
- Bugscope Teamand the tongue is sticking straight out to the bottom right
- Guestwhy do they have a tounge?
- Guestwhy do they have tongues?
- Bugscope Teamwell as annie says it really is called a sponging mouth part, i was just simplifying it
- Guestoh ok
- Bugscope TeamThey press the fleshy part against the fruit and suck up the fungus-y juice through a hole in the center of the sponge into their "throat" and then into their stomach
- 4:55 pm
- Bugscope Teami think we lost the connection with milwaukee
- Bugscope Teamoh wait, you are back, yay!
- Guestare flies insects?
Bugscope Teamyes they are
- TeacherMilwaukee is back...
- Guestok i forgot
- Bugscope Teamwelcome back milwaukee
- Bugscope Teamthis is a compound eye, with many setae inbetween the ommatidia
- Guestis this a fruit fly syill?
- Gueststill?
- Bugscope Teamyup
- Teacherwhy are they there
- Bugscope Teamthe setae here are believe to help the fly sense wind movement
- Bugscope TeamBye guys...see you soon
- 5:00 pm
- TeacherThank You for your time goodbye!!!!!
- Bugscope Teamyou know how a fly seems to be able to change direction in mid-air to avoid your hand or a swatter? that's thought to be a result of these eye setae that help to sense air movement
- Bugscope Teamthank you milwaukee museum, you were great!
- Bugscope Teamthanks for 'scoping with us, i hope you girls had fun
- Bugscope TeamThank you all
- Bugscope Teamokay, going to shutdown the scope unless someone objects?
- TeacherThe girls loved it! Thank you....
- Bugscope Teamthank you lady bug, very nice having sessions with you. i do have a quick question
- 5:05 pm
- Bugscope Teamdid chickscoperules bother you in any way?
- Teacherok...shoot
- TeacherNo...not at all...
- Bugscope Teamwe allow guests to join in on session, but we don't like to intrude on the persons real session.
- Bugscope Teamah, ok, that's good it wasn't a bother to you.
- TeacherThese girls are inner city and so the additional questions help keep things moving....which is needed with a group like this.
- Bugscope Teami felt like they were asking too many question, i was worried you might have felt crouded
- Bugscope Teamah, cool, did they enjoy it much?
- TeacherNo...I will always let you know.
- Bugscope Teamcool.
- TeacherHopefully Bernie will be back soon since this is not my class usually...Gaye-Lynn
- TeacherGood night all...
- Bugscope Teamgood night gaye-lynn, nice to chat with you again
- 5:11 pm
- Bugscope Teamokay, shutting down the vac, rxl and disabling the session now
- Bugscope Teamfred, gotta boot you
- Bugscope Teamchas, anything more? or can i boot you?