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- 12:13 pm
- Bugscope Teaman isopod
- Bugscope Teamwhat did Annie tell us about how many sets of legs per segment to differentiate millipedes and centipedes.
- 12:18 pm
- Bugscope Teampresets are done, we are ready!
- Bugscope Teamsession unlocked
- Bugscope Teamhey mrs. Y, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamif you have any questions, please just ask.
- Bugscope Teamyou should see an image above, presets to your right, and above that: microscope controls (magnify, navigation, focus and adjust)
- 12:24 pm
- Teacherok
- Teachercool dude
- Bugscope Teampresets are interesting locations that we setup for you. click on a preset to move to it.
- Bugscope Teamor you can control the scope with mag, nav, focus and adjust.
- Teachermy name is logan
- Bugscope Teamhi logan
- Teacher the student
- Bugscope Teamwhat grade are you in logan?
- Bugscope Teammy name is alex
- Teacherlol
- Teacher10th
- Bugscope Teamyou drive yet?
- Teacher not as of yet
- Bugscope Teamwell, when you do, it's really fun man.
- Teacheris this a bee we are looking at ?
Bugscope Teami'm not sure, try taking down the magnification so we can get a better look
- Bugscope Teamthe last place I left the 'scope sitting at was on a cricket
- Teacheri can't go out further
Bugscope Teamyes, the minimum low mag is around 40-50 x, so we are at there now
- Bugscope Teamdrive north
- 12:29 pm
- Teacherthanks for the clarification
- Bugscope Teamwe can look at the head
- Bugscope Teamwe are at the lowest magnification we can attain with this microscope
- Bugscope Teamexcellent job controlling the scope logan
- Bugscope Teamhi all!
- Bugscope TeamYay!
- Bugscope TeamAnnie is our entomologist.
- Bugscope Teamexcellen
- Bugscope TeamShe keeps most of us from saying the wrong things.
- Bugscope Teamt
- Teachersweet
- Bugscope TeamSometimes...but who tells me when I am wrong?!
- Bugscope TeamThat's a big burden you have to bear.
- Teachernot many
- Bugscope TeamWe can go back and edit chat sessions to fix any tiny mistake you might make.
- Bugscope Teami guess someone has to do it
- Bugscope Teamwell I am good at making the big mistakes
- Bugscope Teammrs. y, if you drive off the edge, we'll have to reset the scope. so try to stay close to an insect. if you get lost, you can always click on a preset.
- Bugscope Teamwhen you use click to drive you also need to click to stop
- Teacherthat's nice to know
- Bugscope Teamare we working with Logan or Mrs Y now?
- Bugscope Teamit's not a big deal to "reset" the scope as alex said, so dont worry too much about it
- Teacherlogan
- Bugscope TeamOkay cool.
- 12:34 pm
- Teacherhow many insects are on the slide?
- Bugscope TeamPlease let us know if you cannot do what you want to do. Note also the presets to the right, in which we have highlighted places you might want to explore.
- Bugscope TeamMrs. Y: I hope your students are excited about using Bugscope for their own investigations.
- Bugscope TeamThis is an aluminum stub with doublestick carbon tape on it -- it is a circular 1.75-inch diameter stub.
- Bugscope TeamThe samples are all coated with several nanometers of gold-palladium.
- Teacherswitching students
- Teacherwats up brother, this is jeff
- Bugscope TeamPlease choose one of the presets to start -- we are in Neverland now.
- Bugscope Teamyo jeff
- Bugscope TeamJeff try clicking on a preset.
- Bugscope Teamon the right there
- Bugscope TeamAre students working in groups or one at a time (on the computer)?
- Bugscope Teamfrom a preset you can still drive or do whatever you want
- Bugscope Teamthis is a dried up dustmite on a cricket body
- Teacherone at a time but everyone can see
- Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag up or down or drive around to see where you are
- Bugscope Teamthe cricket is very dusty
- Bugscope TeamWhat do you think would be the difference between an adult cricket and a hatchling cricket?
- Bugscope Teamnotice all the hairs on the bugs. those hairs are called setae, and they help the insect/bug sense it's enviornment.
- 12:39 pm
- Teacheri don't know
- Bugscope Teamthere's the mite again
- Teacherim out peace out dudes
- Bugscope Teamthe mite is softbodied, unlike insects
- Bugscope Teamlater jeff, keep it real
- Bugscope Teamso it shrivels up when it dries
- Teacherthis is nick
- Bugscope Teamhey nick, nice to meet you
- Teacherhey
- Bugscope Teamcompared to insects, which have an exoskeleton that is generally hard and less susceptible to shrinkage when it dries
- Bugscope TeamNick you can go north to see the head.
- Bugscope Teamnotice the compound eyes, they are very interesting parts of insects...
- Bugscope Teamthe bubbles we see in the background are in the carbon tape
- Bugscope Teampart of it
- Bugscope Teamnow a compound eye
- Bugscope Teamcrickets have generalized mouthparts...they will eat almost anything
- Bugscope Teameach compound eye is composed of thousands of ommatidia, those are the octogon shaped things on the eye
- Bugscope Teamif you want to focus it would help, and sometimes it is easier to focus at a lower mag before kicking the mag up
- Teacherjeff says wats up homies
- 12:44 pm
- Bugscope Teamif you focus one way, and it gets worse, try focusing the other way
- Bugscope TeamHey Jeff.
- Bugscope TeamWho is driving?
- Bugscope Teamgo ahead and try a preset if you want
- Teachernick
- Bugscope Teamthere...
- Teacherhey we switched this is spencer
- Bugscope Teamnow try focusing
- Bugscope Teamhi spencer
- Teacherhey whats up?
- Bugscope TeamSpencer there are a lot of places to go on the stub if you want.
- Bugscope TeamYou can choose from the presets on the right if you would like.
- Bugscope Teamyo spence. click on preset #6, it has some cool stuff we want to show you.
- Teacheright
- Bugscope Teamright now you are controlling a $600,000 microscope!
- Bugscope Teamthis is cool
- Teacherwhat is it?
- Bugscope Teamcoolness spence. this is a scale on a ladybug.
- Bugscope Teamthis is a scale that we found sitting on a ladybug
- Bugscope Teamthis is a scale, like a feather, and it doesn't belong to the ladybug
- Teacherwhat kind of scale
- Bugscope Teamladybugs don't have scales, of course
- Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag down to see if you want
- Bugscope Teamnotice all the holes in the scale. the holes make the scale lighter, while still keeping the strength
- Teacherwhat kind of scale is it is it from a another insect
- Bugscope Teambutterflies, moths, skippers, mosquitos, and silverfish have scales
- 12:50 pm
- Teacherwats this
- Bugscope Teamnow we see the built-in comb on an ant's leg
- Bugscope Teamthis is a flying ant, you can tell
- Teacheris this a mouth
Bugscope TeamYes this is the mouth of an ant
- Bugscope Teamyes this is the mouth
- Bugscope Teamants have busy looking mouths like there is a half eaten insect sticking out
- Bugscope Teamgood driving spence
- Bugscope Teamyou are doing a good job at driving
- Bugscope Teamthis is pretty cool -- high mag on one of the mandibles
- Bugscope Teamyou can still focus if you want, in small clicks
- Bugscope Teamwhen it gets worse you know to go the other way
- Bugscope TeamAwesome!
- Bugscope Teamgreat focus job
- Bugscope Teamgood job driving!
- Bugscope Teamwow nice focusing
- Bugscope Teamthis is not so easy to do
- Bugscope Teamjuju
- Bugscope Teamthis looks like a piece of dirt maybe?
- Teacheridk it looks weird
- Bugscope Teamthis is some random dirt on the ant's face
- Bugscope Teamnow you are very close, and we see charging -- the electrons are bulding up in the piece of dirt
- 12:55 pm
- Bugscope Teamyou know you are beaming electrons at the sample
- Bugscope Teamand you are getting secondary electrons back from the sample that give you the image you see
- Teacherim out
- Teacherthis is kendra
- Bugscope Teamthe horizontal lines in the image are 'charging'
- Bugscope Teamcheck out the scale in the lower left of the image, it tells you the size of what you are looking at. um is a micron, one millionth of a meter.
- Teacherjeff says whats up again.
- Teacherbut anywayyys this is the mouth??
Bugscope Teamyes, mouth, and other parts of the head
- Bugscope Teamyeah two microns is the length of a bacillus -- a normal rod-shaped bacterium
- Bugscope Teamyou can see there is something to the east there -- to the right
- Bugscope TeamCool.
- Teacherwhere?
- Bugscope TeamThis is a claw, here, and you can take the mag down to see what it belongs to.
- Bugscope Teamif you want
- Teacheris this still the ant?
- 1:00 pm
- Bugscope Teamthis is a small black fly antenna
- Teacherthats kinda gross.
- Bugscope Teamthis is cool -- these are the antennae of these little badboy black flies
- Bugscope Teamit is kind of gross
- Bugscope Teamit has some curly mustaches it looks like
- Bugscope Teamit looks evil to me
- Teacherhaha that funny.. yea it does.
- Teacherkinda
- Bugscope Teamlike Snidely Whiplash
- Teacherwhos that?
- Bugscope Teamit is some kind of Diptera, meaning it is two-winged
- Bugscope TeamSnidely Whiplash was a TV cartoon character, with Dudlet DoRight.
- Bugscope TeamDudlet
- Bugscope TeamThis king of looks like a mothfly
- Bugscope TeamDudley...
- Bugscope Teammoth fly, two words
- Teacherohh..i see i didnt know that..do you have a honey bee?
Bugscope Teamno bees or wasps today, i'm sorry
- Bugscope Teamhey we were wondering Annie
- Bugscope Teamno bees today
- Bugscope TeamI think
- Bugscope Teamclick on preset # 1, it is a closeup of a fly eye, a compound eye
- Teacheroh..well thanks anyways...what about like lice or something of that matter
Bugscope Teampreset # 3 is a very small object, we think some kind of insect, that is living on a bigger insect
- Bugscope Teamthe moth flies are endemic to Beckman, and they are black in color
- Bugscope TeamThere's a fruit fly on here as well.
- Bugscope Teamand a ladybug
- Teacherwell thats not gross at all...
- Teachera lady bug really??? thats interesting.. well thanks im going to go do my assignment! byee
- 1:05 pm
- Teacherhi this is amanda now and i have no idea what i am doing haha
- Bugscope TeamThis is a moth scale, probably, on the ladybug.
- Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag lower to see where you are
- Bugscope Teamamanda you are doing fine. there ya go, this is an isopod. not an ipod...
- Teacherhaha i see that
- Teacherwhat is an isopod
- Bugscope Teamlike a centipede or a millipede
- Teacheri went to a brad paisley concert last night
- Teachernot that any of you probably care
- Bugscope Teaman isopod is a type of crustacean...
- Bugscope Teambrad paisley is cool man
- Teacheroh alright
- Teacheryes he is
- Teacherthe isopod looked boring
- Bugscope Teamyeah its basically a long wormy guy withlots of legs
- 1:10 pm
- Teacherwhat is this
- Bugscope Teamhmm
- Bugscope Teamwe might be be on the ant
- Bugscope Teamwant to lower the mag?
- Bugscope Teamthis is part of an ant claw
- Bugscope Teamthanx alex
- Bugscope Teamthis is a socket, much like a ball socket...
- Bugscope Teamthe last parts of an insect legs are called tarsi. each one being a tarsomere
- Bugscope Teamtarsi means insect foot
- Teacherwell im gonna leave. you can talk to the other amanda now goodbye!
- Bugscope Teamlater amanda, hi new amanda
- TeacherHello
- TeacherBtw our pet snake Benny says hi
- Bugscope Teamtry preset #3, i think you'll like it
- Bugscope Teamgood, i speak snake
- Bugscope TeamO.o a snake
- Bugscope Teamtell benny i'll call him later
- Bugscope Teamlike harry potter eh
- Bugscope Teamamanda, try clicking on preset #3
- TeacherSorry mouse wasn't doing what it was suppose to be doing
- 1:15 pm
- Bugscope Teamcool. try driving the scope a bit to the right ...
- Bugscope Teamthis image has drifted a bit to the left since we took the preset
- Bugscope Teamokay cool, now go down a bit
- Bugscope Teamif the brightness is a bit high, you can lower it in the "Adjust" control.
- Teacherdid I need to go down further?
- Bugscope Teamhmm
- Bugscope Teamtry lowering the mag, then we'll see it
- Bugscope TeamI'm not sure where we went off to
- Bugscope Teamnow see, it's on the left
- Bugscope Teamis to the left there
- Bugscope Teamtry click to center, that is easier than driving
- Teacherthe round ball part?
- Bugscope Teamno, above that
- Bugscope Teamit looks like a hairy football
- Bugscope Teamnope, the thing that kind of looks like a hedgehog
- Bugscope Teamwe dont know what it is
- Teachercould it be a mite?
Bugscope Teami think it is a mite, yes, but i'm not positive.
- Bugscope Teamthe electron beam is moving that seta (the hair like thing) in the way >.
- 1:21 pm
- Bugscope Teamscott says it isn't a mite, it's probably a broekn limb...
- Bugscope Teampreset 1 is kind of cool too
- Bugscope Teamthat is a fruit fly eye with a bunch of setae all over it
- Teacherthe little rice things?
Bugscope Teamthose are setae that supposedly help the fly detect the changes in the wind
- Bugscope Teamyeah
- Bugscope Teamthose are called setae
- Teacherwhat are they for?
Bugscope Teamnormally setae on the body are used for sensing the enviornment. these setae on the eye's are thought to help it fly.
- Bugscope Teamit is thought that these setae help the insect to sense the wind when flying, and help it to snse wind direction and such
- Teacheroh that's cool
- Bugscope Teamnotice the shape of the individual eye facets (ommatidia), they are octogons
- Bugscope Teamthese guys have to think fast when flying or they will fly into things, or they will feel the wind when a fly swatter or hand is coming towards them and fly away
- Bugscope Teamsorry hexagons!!!
- Bugscope Teamnot octogons
- Bugscope Team6 sided
- TeacherWhat are the longer lines?
Bugscope Teamthose look like broken body setae. this is a messy bug man
Bugscope Teamthey are other pieces of setae it looks like that fell off
- TeacherEew
- 1:26 pm
- Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag down even farther and see how big the eyes are with resepct to the rest of the head
- Bugscope Teamnice job driving, whatever your name is, who is driving now?
- Bugscope Teamthe things on top that look like little ears are the antennae
- Bugscope Teamthe mouth/tongue is the part to the lower right that looks like a pigs nose
- TeacherAmanda K and the bell is about to ring now for the end of this period
- Bugscope Teamnice job amanda
- Bugscope Teamwell, thanks for doing bugscope, you all were prety cool
- TeacherGoing now, next class will be using this in about 10 minutes
- Bugscope Teamokay, we will be here, ready and waiting
- Bugscope Teamok thanks for hanging out with us
- TeacherThanks
- Bugscope Teamsure
- Teacherhi im jeanne from 1st block
- Teacheroops4th
- Bugscope Teamhey jeanne
- TeacherMorgan too!=^w^=
- Teacherhows u2
- Bugscope Teamhey morgan ^.^
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope!
- Teacherthank u
- Bugscope Teamif you want you can drive around or click on a preset to move to another bug
- 1:31 pm
- Teacherwill do!:D
- Teacherhehee i see things lol
- Bugscope Teamyou click once to start moving, clcik again to stop
- Bugscope TeamCLICK AGAIN!!!!
- Bugscope Teamthere ya go, nice
- Bugscope Teamnow, we are lost a bit, try click on a preset, that will take us to a bug
- Bugscope Teampresets are on the lower right
- Teacherclass is starting brb
- Bugscope Teamok
- Teacherhi
- Teachersup
- Bugscope Teamwhat up holmes
- Bugscope Teamhey DaddyO
- Teachernm man whats crackalackin
- 1:37 pm
- Teachermy name is grizwald
- Bugscope Teamhey grizwald
- Teacherare you making fun of my name
- Bugscope Teamwell, no, do you want me to?
- Teacherof course
- Bugscope Team;)
- Teacherkiny
- Teacherkinky*
- Bugscope Teamhas your class started yet?
- Teacherwhat am i looking at
- Bugscope Teamthis is the scale on a ladybug
- Bugscope Teamthis is a scale that was sitting on a ladybug
- Bugscope Teammagnified 11,000 x
- Bugscope Teamthe holes in the scales help to reduce the weight of the scale, making it lighter without reducing the strength too much
- TeacherThis is MRS Y. I aplolgize for Alex's
- Teachercomments
- Bugscope Teamnot a problem mr.s Y.
- Bugscope Teamnot a problem at all
- Bugscope Teami was a kid once too
- Bugscope Teamkinky
- Bugscope Teamnot big deal
- Bugscope Teamwe lost mrs. Y
- Bugscope Teamnot sure what the problem is, will wait around. i will call in a few minutes...
- 1:42 pm
- Studentwe
- Bugscope Teamhi Joe!
- Bugscope Teamokay, i just gave scope control over to you, so now we are good to go!
- Studentacctually this is andrew...what is this
- Bugscope Teamthis is a small black fly
- Bugscope Teamthis is part of its body i believe
- Bugscope Teamyou can pick a preset to the right to jump to something
- Bugscope Teamor you can take the mag down and see the whole fly
- Studentthat's cool....what part of illinois are you guys in
Bugscope Teamwe are at the UofI in Urbana Illinois.
- Studentsweet...i was born in Bloomington...is that near there?
- Bugscope Teamyep, blookington is just 40 minutes away
- Bugscope Teambloomington i mean
- Bugscope Teamme type bad
- Bugscope Teamtry focus here
- Studenthey this is garrett
- Bugscope Teamhi garrett
- Bugscope Teamif focus gets back, then try going the other way
- 1:47 pm
- Studenti don't know which way i want to go to get i back
- Bugscope Teamwell, you could always click on the preset again, that'll take you bnack
- Studentok thanks
- Bugscope Teamdust mte
- Bugscope Teamah cool, this is the underbelly of a mite
- Bugscope Teammite
- Bugscope Teamthis mite is on its back
- Bugscope Teamit's very dried out
- Bugscope Teamthis is a cricket
- Studentdo you ever put live bug under the scope?
- Bugscope Teamno, we coat the bugs with gold-paladium before they go into the scope, which is a vacuum chamber
- Bugscope Teambut they would move around
- Bugscope Teamhowever, some things have survived being in the scope. but that is rare
- Bugscope Teamits very hard to image something thats moving
- Studentare you at a university?
Bugscope Teamyeppers, university of illinois at urbana champaign
- Bugscope Teamif a school sends us bugs and they are still alive, we like to let them go, we don't like killing things, even bugs...
- Studenthahaha are you an enviornmentalist?
- Bugscope Teamisn't everyone?
- Bugscope Teamwe all live in the environement
- Studentno i'm not haha i'm conservative
- Bugscope Teamthats not totally true alex
- Bugscope Teamso we are all environementalists, wether we want to be or not
- Bugscope Teamwe will often freeze the insects
- Bugscope Teamokay okay, so we kill bugs. sue me
- Bugscope Teamwhich is a humane way of killing them, because it's just like they are going to sleep
- Studenti understand i kill bugs in a much less humaine way
- Studentby stepping on them
- Bugscope Teamyou squish them or flush them down the toilet?
- Bugscope Teamlol
- 1:53 pm
- Studenthi im Suhaus
- Bugscope Teamwell we could kill them by pouring ethyl alcohol over them, but that is slightly less humane, they just get a slight chance to get drunk before they go to bug heaven
- Bugscope Teamhey shuhaus
- Bugscope Teamhey sara
- Studenthey
- Studentwhat time is the session over
- Studentso can u put up a trantula
- Bugscope Teamthe session ends at 2
- Bugscope Teamer 3
- Bugscope Teambut we have the scope signed out till 4
- Bugscope Teamfor extra time
- Bugscope Teamin case we need more that is
- Bugscope Teamwe have looked at a tarantula leg in the scope before, but whole, they are pretty big
- Studentdo you think you can bring the bugs back to life?
- Studentthats fine
- StudentThat was Garrett again...-_-'''
- Bugscope Teami'm not sure we can bring anything back to life
- Bugscope Teamhmm i dont know bug cpr so no
- StudentxD
- Bugscope Teamthose hairs are called setae, and the help the insect to sense its environment
- Studentthey needs to shave x3
- Bugscope Teamoh but speaking of bugs coming back to life
- Studentcool
- Bugscope Teamsometimes when we freeze insects, they will hibernate so when we thaw them, they are alive again
- 1:58 pm
- Bugscope Teamwe had a bunch of ants that someone sent us once do that
- Studentawsome!Zombie flies!!!xD
- Bugscope Teamhehe yeah
- Studentya ya ya i took a bug class and when we froze a butterfly and when we brought it back outside it got up and flew away
- Bugscope Teamwow, that's cool
- Studentsweet!
- StudentWhat the heck is that???
- Student@.@
- Bugscope Teamthe dust mite is on a cricket
- Bugscope Teamyeah, there's the whole mite
- StudentGarrett wants to know if dust mites eat people.
Bugscope Teamno but you could inhale a bunch all the time and you wouldnt know it
- Bugscope Teamit's dried out, so that explains the appearance (wrinkly)
- Studentso how many bugs do u hav
- StudentI'm gunna go take a vitamin
- Bugscope Teamin fact, you sleep with mites
- StudentCan bugs get AIDS
Bugscope Teamno, AIDS is a auto-immune disorder of humans only, and can only be passed via blood and such from human to human
- StudentIm sleeping in plastic from now on
Bugscope Teamsleeping on plastic won't work, mites live off human skin, so as dead skin falls onto the plastic, mites would live in that dead skin
- Bugscope Teamyeah really
- Bugscope Teambut sometimes mites are a good thing
- Bugscope Teami know there are good mites on our eyelashes
- Studentthey don't look like it
- Studentcan u put another type of bug on there
Bugscope Teamsorry, we can't, once we create the presets, the bugs are in a vacuum chamber. releasing the vacuum would mean no bugscope for about 20-30 minutes...
- Studentlike an ant
- 2:03 pm
- StudentBug says "HI!"
- Studentwat is this
- Bugscope Teamactually we do have a mosquito in the scope, but we didnt make a preset for it
- Bugscope Teamthis is a ant mouth
- Studentawww.no bloodsuckers....
- Bugscope Teamwe cannot easily switch to samples that are not already on the stub when the 'scope is running -- we would have to shut down the electron beam and vent the vacuum chamber
- Studentwat do ants ear?
- Bugscope Teambut we do have a mosquito today
- Studenteat?
- Bugscope Teamah, yes, we do have a mosquito, but it's not a preset
- Bugscope Teamwe'd have to drive to find it
- Studentthats ok
- Studentwat do ants eat
Bugscope Teamants eat all kinds of food: cake apples, juice, and they also eat DEAD BUGS too!
- Bugscope Teamshall i take control of the scope and find the mosquito?
- StudentYOSH!!!
- Bugscope Teamwe are jumping to the lady bug and will find the mosquito from there
- Studenthow many species of undiscovered bugs are there?
Bugscope Teamno one knows the number for sure, but it is believed that the number of known species is FAR LESS than the number of unknown...
- 2:08 pm
- Bugscope Teamhere is the mosquito
- Bugscope Teamits eyes are kind of smooshed in
- Bugscope Teamcate found the mosquito!
- Studentyeay cate!
- StudentWhat kind of music did you study?
- Bugscope Teamand if we want to include crustaceans, then a king crab!
- Studenthow do you name new species of bugs?
Bugscope Teami'm not positive, but there is a good article about naming species on the wikipedia website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
- Bugscope Teamyes and there are praying mantids that are big enough to eat small birds and reptiles
- StudentCreepy
- StudentDidn't know that
- Bugscope Teammosquitos have lots of those
- Studentis there any bacteria living on this mosquito
Bugscope Teami dont think so, but they are about as big as 2um if you want to keep a look out for them
- 2:13 pm
- StudentOr any in that matter?
- Bugscope Teamtry focus here too...
- StudentThis scope ish kewl
Bugscope Teamhere is a pic of the scope: http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/ms/equipment/microscopes/esem/
- Bugscope Teamwait!
- Bugscope Teamlook at those holes
- Bugscope Teamsee those holes?
- Bugscope Teamthis microscope is $600,000! but dont worry about breaking it, the interface wont let you do anything like that
- Studentyes
- StudentI want one.
- Studentcan u go to the tip of the sucer
- Bugscope Teamthose small holes are called spiracles. that is how insects breath
- Student**sucker
- Studentthat is awsome!
- Studentso whats the weirdist bug out there
Bugscope Teamwell, i think praying mantis are very cool, and weird.
- 2:19 pm
- StudentWe have hundereds
- Bugscope Teamwe often have praying matis for bugscope sessions, but not this one....
- Studenthow many bugs do u hav there w/ u
- Bugscope Teampraying mantis heads are the weirdest
- Bugscope Teamthey are so alien looking
- Bugscope Teamwell, right now in the scope there are about 8 insects. and we keep a stash of about 10-20. it's very easy to get new bugs
- Studenthey my name is Scott
- Bugscope Teamhi scott
- Studentdo you have any tiger beetles
Bugscope Teamwhat does it look like?
- Bugscope Teamit's green right?
- Bugscope Teamwe don't have a tiger beetle today, sorry
- Studentthey are greenish gold with black dots
- Studentya
- Studentthey are endangered
- Studentbut they only live in Lincoln NE ... i think
- Studentthis is garrett again
- Bugscope Teamhi garrett
- Bugscope Teamahh you are driving off the stage
- Bugscope Teamthat is a screw hole
- Bugscope Teamtiger beetles are primarily found in the deserts of africa
- Studentso do you guys evver go out and find bugs yourselves?
- Studento ok
- 2:24 pm
- Bugscope Teamwell for ladybugs, i dont have to look for them, they find me. they are all over my house
- Studentlol
- Bugscope Teamok, i fixed the scope. we are back
- Studentsweet
- Bugscope Teamsometimes we will get earwigs and spiders that we see and freeze them
- Bugscope Teamcheck out the haltere
- Bugscope Teamthat's the balloon looking thing in the center
- Bugscope Teamdoes anyone know what a haltere does?
- Bugscope Teamlike a punching bag
- Studentok it is the salt creek tiger beetle and it was listed as endangered in 2005 there were only 150 of them
- Studentno i do not
- Bugscope Teamcool, joe, thanks for the info on the salt creek tiger beetle, i'd never herad of it before. thanks!
- Studentyour welcome
- Bugscope Teamwell we hope we dont have any endangered things in the scope, though sometimes we put in monarch butterflies, and they were listed as endangered, but i see them everwhere
- Bugscope Teamthe haltere is used by flying insects, it helps to stabalize the insect during flight, by pounding against the body very quickly, it counteracts the motion of the wings, and helps keep the flight stable.
- Studenti c
- StudentWe have 4 minutes left,says Mrs. Y
- Bugscope Teamwhoa, nebraska is where that salt creek beetle is. that's near you all right?
- Bugscope Teamaww ok
- StudentYa we're in Lincoln
- Bugscope Teamwhoa dude that is totalyl cool man.
- Studentits basically in our back yard
- Bugscope Teamyou all live close to a critically endaged beetle
- Bugscope Teami'm looking at a pic of it now on wikipedia. have you ever seen one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Creek_Tiger_Beetle
- Studentyup we do
- Bugscope Teamwow
- Bugscope Teamcoolness
- StudentI feel sad now....I killed one when I was little.....
- 2:29 pm
- Studenti will check it out
- Bugscope Teamaw morgon, it's okay.
- Bugscope Teami shot a bird when i was a kid, and i stil regret it
- Bugscope Teami'm sure that barely made an impact at all on their numbers
- Bugscope Teamwell, the beetles numbers are only in the hundreds, so maybe it did make a difference!
- StudentI shot a bird on accident when I was practicing my shot...
- Studenthey so wat is this
Bugscope Teamthis is double stick carbon tape
- Bugscope Teamwell, this is just the tape we put the bugs on, helps to hold them down
- StudentThank you for your time we have to leave now
- StudentThanks you very much for your time we have to go now
- Bugscope Teamok, we hope you had fun, it was great talking with you, we learned a lot
- Bugscope Teamand we hope you did too
- Bugscope Teamsee you kids, you were awesome
- Bugscope Teamthanks for the tip about the salt creek beetle. it's pretty sad story about them, they are in big trouble....
- Bugscope Teamhey panther
- Bugscope Teami just gave you control of the scope
- Bugscope Teamearth to panther...
- 2:34 pm
- Bugscope Teampanthter, click once to start moving, click AGAIN to stop moving
- Bugscope Teamsorry panther, i removed your control, i've got to fix the scope
- Bugscope Teampanther, i'd be happy to give you control again. where are you from?
- Guestpanther's on the west coast checking out cool websites for his science students
- Bugscope Teamcool
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope
- Guestwashington state.....gig harbor exactly....
- Bugscope Teamwe just ended a session with a school in lincoln nebraska
- Bugscope Teamyou are welcome to drive around some more
- Bugscope Teamyeah bugscope is fun, you can either set up one computer on a projector or have all the kids log in to separate computers and you can control our electron microscope to look at bugs
- Bugscope Teamits kind of a fun way to get kids interested in science
- Guesti dont need control....i actually have a meeting in 5 min...ill be back again sometime soon
- Bugscope Teamjust remember click once to start moving, click again to stop. when you go off the edge of the sample we have to reset the scope
- Bugscope Teamok, we are going offline when you leave though.
- Bugscope Teamwatch our website for upcoming sessions
- Bugscope Teamhttp://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu
- Guestthx for the time....have a great day
- Bugscope Teamyou too, thanks!
- Bugscope Teamok, i'm disabling the session now
- 2:40 pm
- Bugscope Teamsession disabled, rxl stopped.
- Bugscope Teamnice session everyone.
- Bugscope Teamlater
- Bugscope Teamsession locked
- Bugscope Teambye bye world
