Connected on 2008-02-26 16:30:00
from Milwaukee, WI, US
- 4:21 pm
- Bugscope Teamblood clot
- Bugscope Teamsession unlocked
- Bugscope TeamAnnie go to preset 7
- 4:27 pm
- Bugscope TeamI bet you have never seen a haltere on a beetle
- Bugscope Teamhypertrophied mechanoreceptors
- Bugscope Teamdo you think it is actually part of the beetle?
- Bugscope Teamit didn't fall off of something else?
- Bugscope Teamno we were just joking around
- Bugscope Teamhaha
- Bugscope Teamok
- Bugscope Teamcertainly it fell off of something else
- Bugscope Teamstranger things have been found...probably
- Bugscope Teamfrankenbeetle
- Bugscope Teamthis beetle is so goofy looking, like a gary larson cartoon
- Bugscope Teamthat was pretty cool getting Sydney on the 'scope Saturday
- 4:32 pm
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope TeamMichele!
- Bugscope Teamyay!
- Teacherhi - we wil start soon!!
- Bugscope Teamgreat!
- Bugscope Teami wonder what a smurf looks like in the ESEM?
- Bugscope Teamyeah you can't see if it is really blue though
- Bugscope Teamit'd be a gray-scale smurf
- Bugscope Teamsmurfs are too big for the scope...aren't they three apples high?
- Bugscope Teamthey'd crash into the detector
- 4:37 pm
- Bugscope Teamhmm, i wonder if i could fit one in my mouth... probably not
- Bugscope Teamthat was all Alex
- Bugscope Teami can't fit 3 apples in there so....
- Bugscope Teami can remove the joking around if you prefer? i was just being funny, it's been a long day
- Bugscope Teamhousefly tongue
- Bugscope Teamartificially
- Bugscope Teamthe antennae are busted off
- Bugscope Teamthis is a female fly
- TeacherHOw do we know it is a female?
- Bugscope Teamthe males have their eyes close together, almost touching, like Mikhail
- Bugscope TeamBaryshnikov
- Bugscope TeamI'm sure not all fly species are like that
- 4:42 pm
- Bugscope TeamMost of the more 'evolutionarily advanced' flies are like that, I believe
- Bugscope Teamwith insects almost anything is true of one species or another
- Bugscope Teamabdomen
- Bugscope Teama lot of insects have internal genitalia so you can't always tell what sex they are
- Bugscope Teamlike lizards, sort of
- Bugscope Teamthe wings have microsetae on them
- Bugscope TeamI think they help catch the air
- Bugscope Teamprobably helps keep them from sticking together when they get wet
- TeacherWe have some students driving and asking questions now - be nice :)
- Bugscope TeamMichele are you going to, like, graduate or something?
- Bugscope Teamwe don't see any students yet, but we will be sweet as buttons
- Bugscope TeamWe are nice, usually, aren't we?
- 4:47 pm
- TeacherWhere did this blood clot come from?
- Bugscope TeamOne of the grad students here cut herself last week and I asked her to let it drip onto a slide
- Bugscope Teamwhen it dried I put it on this stub.
- TeacherFor real?
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the RBCs but they are not well defined.
- Bugscope TeamThis is far grosser than any bugs!
- Bugscope TeamShe cut herself trimming a sample block for TEM.
- Bugscope TeamI don't think it was a bad cut.
- Teacheri hate when that happens!
- Bugscope TeamLest you become part of bugscope!!!
- Bugscope Teamwe tried to make the best of it
- Teacherwhats with the dots on the body?
- Teacheri mean the holes
- Bugscope Teamsome of them could be sensilla
- Bugscope Teamsome of them create patterns that other beetles can recognize
- Teacherwhat is sensilla?
- Bugscope Teamsometimes having indentations like that makes the chitin stronger
- Bugscope Teamthey're sensory surface modifications -- we see them on roaches
- Teacherwhats the difference between beatles and lady bugs
Bugscope TeamLady bugs are a type of beetle. All lady bugs are beetles but not all beetles are ladybugs
- Teacherjk beetles
- 4:52 pm
- Bugscope Teamladybugs are beetles
- Bugscope TeamAnnie is our ultimate reference, so if I tell you lobsters are the largest insects she can correct me.
- TeacherWe mean asian beetles versus ladybugs?
Bugscope TeamMulticolored asian lady beetles are also lady beetles...in the family Coccinellidae. They are just a different species
- Bugscope Teamreally it's king crabs
- Bugscope TeamI imagine they are sister species
Bugscope TeamThey aren't really sister species. The native ladybugs are not in the same genus as the multicolored Asian type.
- Bugscope TeamLobsters are crustaceans!!!
- Bugscope Teamthe Asian ladybeetles bite people sometimes.
- Bugscope Teamyeah see I got her going
- Bugscope Teamlobsters really are insects
- Bugscope Teamjust don't say they are bugs....
- Bugscope TeamYay I was right!
- Bugscope TeamOh okay....
- Bugscope TeamOh well.
- Bugscope TeamBut I am right about the lobsters I know.
- Bugscope Team:P
- Bugscope Teamthis dude was eating dust right at the end
- 4:57 pm
- Teacherwhy are there so many lenses
- Bugscope Teamsometimes we see compound eyes that are broken, and we can see that they have an apparent crystalline structure.
- Bugscope Teamsome insects can see in UV, which we cannot
- Teacherwhat is the raisin looking chunk?
- Bugscope Teamjust some dirt, probably
- Teacherok
- Bugscope Teamyou should be able to focus on it if you want
- Bugscope Teambusted antenna
- Bugscope TeamBeetle antennae are often clubbed at the ends.
- Bugscope TeamEspecially in scarab beetles
- Bugscope Teamcheck out the spider
- Bugscope Teamand sap beetles, and actually lots of other beetles.
- Teacherhi.
- Bugscope Teamlast week we had a female spider, we think, and it had a glob of web between the chelicerae to keep it from biting the male.
- Teacherwe're meeting alex's ex
- Bugscope Teamsee four of the eyes there?
- 5:03 pm
- Bugscope Teamah, this pic brings back so many memories
- Bugscope Teamif we were further onto the head we would see four more eyes
- Teachernot going there
- Bugscope Teamthe big things below them are the parts that separate when the fangs come out
- Teacherwhich part?
- Bugscope Teamspiders eat their food like people eat milkshakes -- they suck the juice out of their prey
- Teacheri love milkshakes!!!!!
- Bugscope Teamthose two big things below the eyes
- Bugscope Teamyeah, but would you love a milkshake made out of bug insides?
- Teacheryummyyyy
- Bugscope Teamwe don't often get to see the fangs, and that is the case now
- Bugscope Teami would not
- Bugscope Teamthe spinnerettes are to the south, sort of.
- Teacherwhat are the spinnerettes?
- Bugscope Teamthey produce the web
- Bugscope Teamdifferent kinds of web, some of which are not sticky
- Teacherwhere are they?
- Bugscope Teamif a spider gets caught in the web, he/she can eat his way out.
- Bugscope Teamthey eat their web anyway, recycle it
- 5:08 pm
- Bugscope Teamnow drive a little south...
- Bugscope Teamto the abdomen...
- Bugscope Teamnow you can see them
- Bugscope Teamusually there are four, sometimes it seems five
- Bugscope Teamto the bottom of the image now
- Bugscope Teamyou can use click to center to get to them
- Bugscope Teamnice
- Bugscope Teamthe setae are really cool looking as well
- Bugscope Teamvery beautiful like evergreen trees
- Bugscope Teamnow can you bring the mag up?
- Bugscope Teamgone daddy gone
- Bugscope Teamthis is a pollen grain on or near the mouth of this beetle
- Bugscope Teamit has a lot of juju on it
- Bugscope Teamtons of pollen to the NW
- Bugscope Teamyou can see there was lots of pollen on this dude's face
- Bugscope TeamI am not sure that this is really a beetle though.
- Bugscope TeamI believe this is a beetle
- 5:13 pm
- Bugscope Teamat first these look like yellow jackets -- they have yellow and dark striped abdomens
- Bugscope TeamAnnie is the supreme ruler, except about lobsters
- TeacherThisi is cool - sorry we are not asking alot of questions -
- Bugscope TeamEntomologists have a sort of block when it comes to lobsters
- Bugscope Team:P
- Bugscope Teamwell we are entertaining ourselves
- Bugscope Teamthey have too many legs and too many antennae
- Bugscope Teamrock lobster...
- Bugscope TeamI think they have about six legs
- Teacherwhats a haltere????
- Bugscope Teamhalteres are the modified hindwing found in Diptera
- Bugscope Teamlobster have legs on all their segments
- Bugscope Teamonce way back in time the haltere was probably a wing
- Teacherwhat diptera???
- Bugscope Teamflies
- Bugscope Teamhaltere's help the insect to stablilize during flight
- Bugscope Teamtwo-winged
- Bugscope Teamdi ptera
- Bugscope Teamthis is a loose haltere from a fruit fly, perhaps, on this beetle
- Teacherthank you :)
- Teacherdo you have colored images?
Bugscope Teamwell, no, because the scope uses electrons to gather the image, and electrons are much smaller than the frequency of visible light, the image is inheritenly black/white. but we can color the images after the fact, using elemental analysis.
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the shaft of the haltere has hypertrophied mechanosensors on it
- Bugscope Teamwe don't like colored images
- Teacherha
- 5:18 pm
- Bugscope Teamsometimes people make them but there is no color in electron microscopy
- Bugscope Teamrecently we were asked for permission to put an image in a documentary that is coming out about how color is formed
- Bugscope Teaman image of a butterfly scale, from a Monarch
- TeacherOK - Michele here again. My students are saturated with images. We are going to sign off early :) thanks again! This was fun. We enjoyed the new names on the presets!!
- Bugscope TeamOhhhh.....
- Bugscope Teamthank you for joining us!
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- TeacherBetter luck with relationships in the future - don't date bugs :)
- Bugscope Teamit's always a pleasure to have you michelle
- Bugscope TeamThere's where I have been going wrong!
- Bugscope Teamuhhh, it's hard not to date bugs when you are a bug yourself... crickle crackle...
- Bugscope Teamhaha
- Bugscope TeamThanks Michele!
- 5:28 pm
- Bugscope Teamwe done here?
- Bugscope Teamack
- Bugscope TeamI guess so
- Bugscope Teambye all!
- Bugscope Teamover and out bye!
