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- 8:48 am
- Bugscope TeamCataku
- Bugscope Teamthats me
- Bugscope Team:)
- Bugscope Teamstill unreachable
- 8:55 am
- Bugscope Teamfailure to deliver
- 9:01 am
- Bugscope TeamOk, lets see if things are back up
- Bugscope TeamI just took the mysql server down and brought it back up. It seemed like it might have gotten stuck on something
- Bugscope Teamah, ok yeah rxl still "unreachable"
- Bugscope Teamlemme check those next
- 9:12 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is a leafhopper
- 9:19 am
- 9:24 am
- Bugscope Teamhi IG, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamwe are still making some presets for you and your class
- TeacherHi guys we are really excited to do this today
- Bugscope Teamawesome
- Teacheralex, i'm ready fro a trial run
- Bugscope TeamCan you see the images, and can you see the presets, to the right?
- Teacheryes
- Bugscope Teamokay, i've just unlocked the session
- Bugscope Teamyou should see some controls on the right side now
- Teacheryes
- Bugscope TeamGreat you can now drive if you would like.
- Bugscope Teamcool
- Bugscope Teamyour network test was great, so you should be able to use "click to drive" no problem
- Bugscope Teamthat is one way to move around
- Bugscope Teamjust remember with click to drive, you click once to start driving and click again to stop
- Bugscope Teamthe thing about click to drive is remembering to click to stop as well
- Bugscope Teamanother is using "click to center" that gives much more control over *where* you move
- Teacherin drive it doesn
- Teachert seem to move anything
- Bugscope Teamok hold let me try
- Bugscope Teamyou want to have your cursor on the screen, and click
- Bugscope Teammine is working, can you try again?
- TeacherI got it now I was holding
- Bugscope Teamthat must be you IG, looks like you got it?
- Bugscope Teamah yes, click once to start moving, then click again to stop
- 9:29 am
- Bugscope Teamthe position of the cursor on the screen determines which direction it goes
- Bugscope TeamYou may want to go to a low mag when you do this as well.
- Bugscope Teamantenna
- Bugscope Teamso you can change mag (Magnify), Click to Drive or Click to Center, Focus, and Adjust Contrast/Brightness
- Bugscope Teamhey IG, try changing the mag too, that can give you a very different look at the insect
- Teacherif you guys have the super cool parts to look at you can go ahead and put them on that while we look
- Bugscope Teamyou can also choose one of the presets and the 'scope will drive you there
- Teacherfabulous!
- Bugscope Teamyou like the fly head, huh? yeah, check out those HUGE compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamthis must be a male fly
- Teacherthe kids will go crazy
- Teachermale? how tell?
- Bugscope Teamthats what we like
- Bugscope Teamon many flies the male fly eyes are close together, whereas with females the eyes are separated.
- 9:35 am
- TeacherIG is short for Information Goddess which is what the kids call me, that's why I ask the questions
- Bugscope TeamCool!
- TeacherThen I can impress them when I know the answers
- TeacherYeah, I try to break all Librarain stereotypes
- Bugscope Teamsounds good to me...
- Bugscope Teami like librarians, the ones i've met anyone
- Bugscope TeamIG what time are the kids coming in? Do you want us to make a few more presets?
- TeacherWhat else will we have besides a fly
Bugscope Teamcheck out the presets in the lower right side, we've got a fly, fruit fly, spider, pill bug and leafhopper
- Teacherthey will be here at 11 our time. Sure
- Bugscope Teamspider, pill bug, leafhopper, another true bug...
- Bugscope Teamduh yeah a fruit fly as well'
- Bugscope Teamthere may be more stuff on here -- only the Otaku knows
- Bugscope TeamCate is the Otaku -- our IG
- 9:41 am
- Bugscope TeamAlright Cate is driving again...
- Bugscope Teamokay, i locked the session temporarily, cate is going to make some preset, then i'll unlock again
- Bugscope Teamfly proboscis
- Bugscope Teamwhile locked, your controls may go away for a bit, but they'll come back when we unlock again
- Bugscope Teampits in the antenna
- Bugscope TeamAWACS turret
- Bugscope Teamthat is pretty wild -- it really does look like DaddyLongLegs eyes
- Bugscope TeamI think this is extruded wax
- Bugscope Teamthis is the leafhopper dude again
- 9:46 am
- Bugscope Teamit really does look like it was squeezed out of a serrated-edge tube
- Bugscope Teamone more preset to get and then control is back to you information goddess!
- Bugscope Teampresets are done, session is unlocked
- TeacherI just had to fix a computer issue and now I have no picture I may need to go out and come back in
- Teacherok got it back
- 9:51 am
- Bugscope Teamah, that can happen sometimes, hit refresh (F5)
- Bugscope TeamAlright IG you are the Supreme Ruler.
- Bugscope TeamHi Kate!
- TeacherCool finally all the power if only for an hour!
- TeacherVery good to see as the kids get them often
- Bugscope Teampower in an hour at the end you get a flower
- Bugscope Teamthat's right; it's a Cinderella Story
- TeacherHey as long as your not a stepsister its OK
- Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag down here and see where you are on the bodyt
- Bugscope Teamyeah we are not evil stepsisters
- 9:56 am
- Bugscope Teamspiders are softbodied and do not airdry well
- Teacherand the beast worked out just fine
- Teachera little pruney
- Bugscope Teamwhen we mount them on the stub we have to choose between imaging the eight eyes and imaging the fangs
- Bugscope Teamyeah exactly
- Bugscope Teamnot sure if you can see the spinnerets
- Bugscope Teamdown here at the end of the abdomen
- Bugscope Teamit's hard to see the spinnerets because the abdomen is usually deflated
- Teacherahh what made Charlotte so famous!
- Bugscope Teamnice click to center, you are a pro!
- Bugscope Teamif you go to the abdomen and bring the mag up you may be able to see the spinnerets
- Bugscope Teamd'oh!
- Bugscope Teamyou can bring the mag up and drive down there as well
- Bugscope Teamthe images are all black and white because we are using electrons rather than light to observe the critters
- Bugscope Teamnow a little more?
- Bugscope Teamcool
- Bugscope Teamthis is where they would be...
- Bugscope Teamusually there are four, it seems
- Bugscope Teamnice
- 10:01 am
- Bugscope Teamthat is one on the bottom
- Bugscope Teamyou can center it by using click to center, and then focus
- Bugscope Teamsome of the silk is sticky and some is not
- Bugscope Teamif a spider gets caught in its own web it can eat its way out
- Teacherwhat is a haltere?
- Bugscope Teamthis is the haltere on the fruit fly, and you can see a spiracle to its right
- Teacherwhat is a haltere?
- Bugscope Teama haltere functions like a gyroscope, in a way, to balance the motion of the wings -- it beats opposite of the motion of the wings
- Bugscope Teamon the 'neck' of the haltere you can see these cool hypertrophied mechanosensors
- Teacherkids will be here in about 5 minutes
- Bugscope Teamhalteres can be thought of as modified forewings
- Bugscope Teamcool!
- Bugscope TeamAlex was worried about them.
- Bugscope Teamon the head you can see the antennae, in between the compound eyes
- TeacherHey its elementary school,we have to be really flexible
- 10:06 am
- Bugscope Teamgot it
- Bugscope Teambut y'know Alex was concerned
- Bugscope Teamsavages
- Bugscope Teamdo they all have cell phones?
- Teachersome do but mostly the 5th graders
- Bugscope Teamwow
- Teacherthe second graders that will be here are still fairly innocent
- Bugscope Teamwhen they write essays do they use emoticons?
- TeacherI got to stay on top of the emoticons and text lingo for when they write their rough drafts
- Teacherotherwise I don't know what they are writing
- Bugscope TeamCate has to translate for us.
- TeacherOMG LOL
- Bugscope Teamnice
- Bugscope Teami just make up my own text lingo, for example, airchtcgotp (alex is really cool he's the coolest guy on the planet)
- Bugscope Teamyeah kid you can now write for the NYTimes
- Bugscope Teamhardly, nobody has said anything to us in text lingo that has been hard to decipher, even for you scott, so far in bugscope
- Teachergee alex haven't heard from you for awhile did it take you that long to come up with that?
- Bugscope Teamthat's how one of our programmers makes up passwords -- from song lyrics
- Bugscope Teamhah
- Bugscope Team;)
- Bugscope Teamhe was sweatin' it out
- Bugscope Teamactually he is our sysadmin and was prob'ly multitasking -- answering email
- 10:12 am
- Bugscope Teamand fighting with Cate
- TeacherOK I hear the little feet approaching, time to be professional
- Bugscope Teamgot it
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope whitfield elementary!
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of those flies that hang around bananas
- Teacherhang on we are getting settled
- Bugscope TeamDaniel, before he got married, used to raise them in his kitchen.
- Bugscope Teamokay information goddess, just let us know when you are ready
- TeacherHi guys we are ready
- Bugscope Teamcool!
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamthis is an image of a fruit fly
- Teacherwhat's a fruit fly?
- Bugscope Teamthe image is from an electron microscope, that means tiny little electrons are used to "gather" the image
- Bugscope Teamyou are using a scanning electron microscope
- Bugscope Teama fruit fly is a tiny fly that you often find around fruit
- Teacherwhat fruit does a fruit fly eat
- Bugscope Teamthey often have red eyes
- Bugscope Teamthey like to eat fungi on it
- Bugscope Teamthey eat the fungus that grows on the outside of fruit
- 10:17 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is the thorax, and to the right is the eyer
- Bugscope Teameye
- Bugscope Teamthat is
- Bugscope Teamnotice the really big compound eye to the top right
- Bugscope Teama compound eye, with many facets that are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamso if you want to get some fruit flies, let your fruit rot and you should see some of them buzzing around soon
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the eye now to the left
- Bugscope Teama compound eye is made up of hundred of individual eye facets, each one has a lens in it and can see by itself
- Bugscope Teamit has lots of tiny spikes coming out of it
- Bugscope Teamnow, to the right, is the antenna, one of them
- Bugscope Teamboth antennae
- Bugscope Teamthis is silver paint and carbon tape
- Bugscope TeamCate mounts the samples in droplets of silver paint atop doublestick carbon tape
- TeacherWhat colors are fruit flies
Bugscope Teamthe ones i have seen are black, but they might come in different colors than that
- Bugscope Teamyes, the setae (or hairs) are really cool, they help the bug sense its environment, kind of like cat whiskers
- Bugscope Teamand she coats the samples with gold-palladium
- Bugscope Teamfruit flies are often sort of shiny brown
- Bugscope Teamand their eyes may be yellow or red or white
- Bugscope Teamsometimes the eyes are bright red
- Bugscope Teamhere is a cool color picture of a fruit fly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Drosophila_melanogaster_-_side_(aka).jpg
- Teacherdo they flap their wings as fast as honey bees do
- Teacherdo they sleep?
- Bugscope Teamwe have read conflicting reports of how fast their wings flap
- Bugscope Teammaybe 200 beats per second
- Bugscope Teamothers have said more
- 10:22 am
- Bugscope TeamI think they do sleep -- at least they rest -- but they have no eyelids so cannot close their eyes
Bugscope Teamthey don't sleep like us. They have a state where they rest called torpor
- Bugscope Teamthe halteres beat opposite the way the wings beat and help balance that motion
- Bugscope Teamscott was right about the wing beats, wikipedia says 220 beats per second! wow!
- Teacherwhat is that thing?
- Bugscope Teamthis thing that looks like a boxer's punching bag is a haltere
- Teacherdo they have prditors
- Teacherpreditors
- Bugscope Teamif you go and look at its 'neck' you can see ridges that are hypertrophied mechanosensors that help them gauge how fast to beat
- Bugscope TeamI think they are eaten by other insects, sometimes, and by birds and bats
- Bugscope Team(predators)]
- Bugscope Teamd'oh
- Bugscope TeamI can
- Bugscope Teamnot type
- Bugscope Teamthis is the business end of the spider
- Bugscope Teamalso human beings use the fruit fly for studies and research; it is one of the most common model organisms
- Bugscope Teamthere you could see a couple of eyes on the spider's head
- Bugscope TeamI think some of us have a state called torpor as well
Bugscope Teamits just a state where physical activity is pretty much lessened or stopped
- 10:27 am
- Bugscope Teamif you move slightly to the NE, see if you can see the eyes -- there they are
- Bugscope Teamthere are eight eyes and we can see a few of them
- Bugscope Teamspiders are found all over the world, some even live in the artic
- Bugscope Teamthey use the eye color helps to identify genetic changes in the fly, some will have white eyes instead of red
- Teacherwhat kind of spider is this
- Bugscope Teamwe don't know exactly
- Bugscope Teamin 1973, skylab 3 took two spiders into space to test their web making ability in fee-fall
- Teacherhow many spiders are there in the world
Bugscope Teamit is hard to say, but there are thousands of species of spiders in the world, and millions if not billions of each species, so that's a lot of spiders!
- Bugscope Teammy mom saved it for us, and it was sort of dried up when we got it
- Bugscope Teamfree-fall that is
- Bugscope Teamthere are thousands of species of spiders in the world
- Bugscope Teamspider silk is pretty tough, i think we are learning how to put that kind of strength into armor of some sort
- Bugscope Teamspeaking of the world -- that was the edge there
- Teachercould they spin in space?
Bugscope Teamthe results of the spider/space experiment were that webs were finer and variations in the design were noted
Bugscope Teamhere is a website explaining the results of the spiders in space experiment: http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa020303b.htm
- Bugscope Teamspiders recycle their web by eating it
- Bugscope Teamand they can eat their way out of web if they get caught in it
- Teacherhow many eggs can a spider lay
- Bugscope Teamspider silk's tensile strength to density ratio is roughly five times higher than that of steel (i.e. it is five times as strong as steel of the same density — as strong as Aramid filaments, such as Twaron or Kevlar.
- Bugscope TeamThe biggest spider in the world is the Goliath Spider, Theraphosa leblondi
- Bugscope Teamit lives in northern south america
- 10:32 am
- Bugscope TeamYay! Annie!
- Bugscope TeamHello all!
- Bugscope Teampretty much anything that has the word goliath in front of its name is big
- Bugscope TeamInformation Goddess we are lucky today to have Annie, our entomologist, online.
- Bugscope TeamIt is huge 3.5inch body with 11inch legs
- Bugscope Teamand here is a noninsect
- Bugscope TeamFor a few minutes...I have to go to the University of California, Riverside to pick up research materials
- Bugscope Teamthis is a tick
- Bugscope Teamthe biting part is right in the middle
- Bugscope Teamguinness book of animal records is were I found it.
- Bugscope TeamTicks are arachnids, like spiders, mites, and scorpions
- Bugscope TeamI did not find how many eggs spiders can lay
- Teacherwhere are the eyes
- Bugscope Teamto the top is the head, to the right
- Bugscope TeamSome larger spiders lay more than two thousand eggs, but many tiny spiders lay as few as one or two, or as many as a dozen eggs. Spiders of average size probably lay around one hundred eggs.
- Bugscope Teamthey have eyespots but not real eyes, and I don't think we can see them here
- Bugscope Teamthey have depressions in the head with pits in them that look like eyes
- Bugscope TeamThe number of eggs spiders can lay is variable. It depends on the species, environmental factors (like temperature), and whether the spider is well-nourishesd. An under-fed spider can't lay as many eggs as a well-fed spider
- Bugscope TeamCool face!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a hemipteran, and I think it is a leafhopper
- Bugscope TeamLooks like a leafhopper (or something closely related) to me too
- 10:37 am
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its piercing mouthparts
- Bugscope Teamthere is one of the eyes
- Bugscope Teamoh neat! see the eye is cracked a bit
- Bugscope Teamwitih the hexagonal facets
- Bugscope Teamcalled ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamsometimes the bugs dry out a bit, and then the cracks form, just like when mud dries up and cracks
- Bugscope Teamwiht
- Bugscope Teamwith
- Teacherdo they bite
Bugscope TeamLeafhoppers use their long mouths to pierce plant stems and suck juices. They do not bite humans.
Bugscope Teamthey bite plants
- Bugscope Teamanother eye
- Bugscope Teamthey suck sap out of plants for food
- Bugscope Teamthey pierce the stems of plants to get the sap out of them
- Bugscope Teamthey are pests
- Bugscope Teambut do not pick on people
- Bugscope TeamThey are pests because they can transmit plant diseases
- Teacherwe like that o biting
- Teachern o biting
- Bugscope Teamyeah I'm also a fan of the stingless bee
- Bugscope Teamthis is a delicate little claw
- Bugscope Teamon the fruit fly
- Bugscope Teamstingless bee???
- Bugscope Teamsome bees tickle
- Bugscope TeamGood bye everyone...sorry to run so soon!
- 10:42 am
- Bugscope Teamyeah you can find stingless bees in more tropical places such as Australia, Africa, Southeast Asia, and parts of Mexico and Brazil
- Bugscope Teamwhen I lived in Okinawa we had big old tickle bees
- Teacherwe like the idea of stingless bees
- Bugscope Teamthey were solitary bees you could catch and they would tickle your hand trying to get out
- Bugscope Teambig fat slow bees
- Teacherkinda of like the bumble bees we have around here
- Bugscope Teamwow, look at that huge compound eye
- TeacherAhhhh what's this they ask
- Bugscope Teamand there is dirt and stuff on the right side of it
- Bugscope Teamthey are almost too big to put in the electron microscope
- Bugscope Teamwell, the eye is the thing with the bumps on it
- Bugscope Teamthat is a compound eye
- Bugscope Teamnow you can see where we were
- Teacherit looks like EPCOT
Bugscope Team:P
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of a fly with a bump on its head
- Bugscope Teamyeah it does!
- Bugscope Teamor more even, YES like epcot center!
- Bugscope Teameach little bump has a lens in it, and gets an image that is sent to the bug brain
- Teacherwhat are those tubes
- Bugscope Teamthe tubes are the antennae
- Teacherwhu is one shorter
- Bugscope Teamthose are antenna, broken off i'm afraid...
- Bugscope Teamthey are both broken
- Teacherso they are hollow
- Bugscope Teamthe holes are where the additional segments should be
- Bugscope Teamyes that is true it shows us that they are hollow
- Bugscope Teamthis is the abdomen
- Bugscope Teami am not sure if that ball is an egg or something else
- Bugscope Teamand it looks like an egg there but like Cate says we are not sure
- 10:47 am
- Bugscope Teamit is made of lots of tiny round things like bubbles
- Bugscope Teamif you see it up close
- Teacherkids say let's say it an egg cause that would be way cool
- Bugscope Teamtake the mag up to check it out
- Bugscope Teamnice...
- Bugscope Teambetter
- Teacherits like a dunkin munchkin
- Teachergotta love kids
- Bugscope Teamuh yeah...
- Bugscope Teamnow can you focus a little?
- Bugscope Teamif it gets worse go the other way
- Bugscope Teamor we can try
- Bugscope Teamthere, closer...
- Bugscope Teamyay!
- Bugscope Teambetter
- Bugscope Teamnow you can see that it is made of lots of tiny bubbles
- Teacherlooks like coral
- Bugscope Teamyou can magnify if further if you want
- Bugscope Teamyes it does
- Bugscope Teamthe coral stomach?
- Bugscope TeamSmiley this is the surface of the egg that is on the abdomen of the fly
- Teacherwow is that all hair
- Bugscope Teamyou can see lots of setae, which us what we call the hair
- 10:52 am
- Bugscope Teamsee-tee
- Bugscope Teamyes, those hairs are called setae (see-tee)
- Bugscope Teamhah
- Bugscope Teama lot of setae are sensory
- Bugscope Teamsome sense movement, or when they are disturbed
- Teacherlots of eyes, is that why it is hard to catch them or hit them
Bugscope TeamYES, exactly, fly's have very good sight
- Bugscope Teamand some setae are chemosensory
- Bugscope Teaminsects normally have a hard exoskeleton surface, so in order for them to feel anything, those hairs (setae) stick through the exoskeleton, and are attached to nerves underneath
- Bugscope Teamyes and they can also be hard to hit/catch because they will have little sensory setae inbetween their ommatidia that sense movement in the air
- Bugscope Teamyes and the eyes wrap around the head, giving them better peripheral vision
- Teacherwhat is that stuff on their eyes
- Bugscope Teamso when that flyswatter or hand comes at them, they will feel the change in the air and fly away
- Bugscope Teamthe stuff on their eyes is dirt/dust
- Teacherso is it the air and not that they can see
Bugscope Teamit is also with what they see. Their huge eyespan gives them almost a 360 degree view of whats around them
- Teacherallergy eyes, we have them big time right now
- Bugscope Teamthe fly was probably not that dirty when it was alive
- Bugscope Teamha yeah
- Bugscope Teamyou'd need one big jar of clear eyes for this fly
- Teacherbut flieas are kind always dirty since they land on gross stuff
- Teacherdo flies throw up everytime they land
- Bugscope Teamyeah but you always see them cleaning themselves
- Bugscope Teamwhen they land on food that is a fair bet
- Teacherwhy do they do that
Bugscope Teamit is kind of how saliva works in our mouths. It helps break down the foods to make into a juicy substance that they can suck up
- 10:58 am
- Bugscope Teamthey do that to soften up their food so they can suck it up as a liquid
- Teacherspeaking of food our time is up we must go to lunch
- Bugscope Teamit helps with digestion...
- Bugscope Teamwhen spiders eat it is like drinking a milkshake
- Teacherits french toast sticks for us thanks goodness
- Bugscope Teamyum
- TeacherThaks for all of your help we had a really great time
- Bugscope Teamthanks for joining us!
- Bugscope Teamthey inject venom that dissolves the insides of their prey
- Bugscope Teamyou did a great job!
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- Bugscope Teamno mess no spill for spiders
- Bugscope TeamYesh that was fun, for us.
- TeacherKids are gone, thanks guys it was really great
- Bugscope Teamall the images and chat are saved on your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-027
- TeacherI'm sure we will do it again once the word gets around
- Bugscope Teamaigggsfbhh
- TeacherThanks for lettin us get buggy with it
- Bugscope Teamlol
- Bugscope Team(alex is gonna go get some food because he's hungry)
- Bugscope TeamYay! Thank YOU.
- Bugscope Teamhave a great day
- Bugscope Teamget buggy with, eh, right on, eh, yow!!!
- Bugscope Teamwe have fun doing bugscope, so i hope you come back again for another session
- Bugscope TeamDeb and Fred let us know if you have questions...
- Bugscope Teamlet us know if you would like to control the scope too
- Teacherbye guys
- Bugscope TeamTTFN
- Bugscope TeamBye!
- Bugscope Teambye bye, nice to meet you
- 11:03 am
- Bugscope Teamlike tigger
- Bugscope TeamThank you again.
- Bugscope Teamsee ya IG
- Bugscope Teamyup
- GuestThanks for the opportunity to "bug in" on your session...I must search the site!
- Bugscope Teamokay deb, you want to control the scope?
- Bugscope Teamwe've got a few minutes...
- Bugscope TeamDeb let us know if you would like to drive.
- GuestI can control the scope?
- Bugscope Teamtry a preset to the lower right
- Bugscope Teammagnify will change the magnification of the image. click to drive will move you around, so will click to center. focus is, well focus, and adjust is for brightness and contrast
- Bugscope Teamgive it a try deb, you can't hurt anything, no worries
- GuestAre things under the microscope all dead or can you do living
Bugscope TeamWhen we do try live insects in "wet mode", they have to be very small because that way the volume to surface area ratio is in their favor and they can survive the partial vacuum
- Bugscope Teamit is an environmental scope, so things can be living, but all these bugs are dead
- Bugscope Teamit is possible, but live things are hard to image because they will be moving around
- Bugscope Teamwe coat the bugs with gold-palladium before they go into the scope vacuum, that pretty much kills em if they were not dead already
- Bugscope Teamyes true, you don't want things to move around. but you can have living tissue in the scope and things like that
- 11:08 am
- Bugscope Teamnice, now we are moving a bit
- Bugscope Teamyeah, so it's click once to start moving, then click again to stop
- Bugscope Teamthat's for "click to drive"
- Bugscope Teamnice driving deb, you are getting the hang of it!
- Bugscope Teamtry changing the magnification too, if you lower the mag it'll give you a better look at the whole bug
- Guestvery cool!
- Bugscope Teamthe magnification range of the scope is about 30x to 600,000x, but for insects the max resolution to get good images is about 30-40K
- Bugscope Teamare you a teacher deb?
- GuestWill the site tell me how I can access this for my afterschool proram?
Bugscope TeamYep, lots of info about how to get started under "sign up to participate!", background information on bugs and microscopy, etc. You can always email us with questions too
- Bugscope Teambugscope is free
- GuestI have an afterschool program called Nature Nuts
- Bugscope Teamand we encourage teachers and students anywhere in the world to join
- Bugscope Teamnature nuts, what a great title!
- Bugscope Teamthats great
- 11:13 am
- GuestI learned about your bugscope through the IPM curriculum that CT puts out!
Bugscope TeamCan you tell us more about this? We're always interested in hearing about how we can better reach out to teachers
- Bugscope Teamyou can send us bugs yourself too
- Bugscope Teamor we can put our own bugs into the scope
- Bugscope Teamall the information on how the process works is on the website
- Bugscope Teamor just email us with questions at: bugscope@itg.uiuc.edu
- Bugscope Teamwe do prefer dead bugs, but if you send living ones, we can freeze them
- GuestKids love Nature Nuts. I have about 25% of the students in it. It speaks to how much we need "hands on" education in school!
- Bugscope Teamthat's awesome Deb. Good to hear about kids excited about learning
- Bugscope TeamIPM, CT?
- GuestMaine Ag in the Classroom introduced it to me. Its a curriculum put out by the University of Conneticut called IPM (Integrated Pest Management).
- GuestIn the teachers guide and resources, your site was listed.
- Bugscope TeamOh got it, Cool.
- Bugscope Teami'm gonna control the scope a bit, play around
- Bugscope TeamWe have been doing this for 9 years now.
- Bugscope TeamNeat, thanks.
- GuestI have been looking for a way for kids to get up close and personal to the bugs we are looking at..microscope, handlens, I think this is wicked cool!
- 11:18 am
- GuestWoW!
- GuestWhat's that?
- Bugscope TeamI think it is a mold spore
- Bugscope Teamon the eye
- Bugscope Teamsimilar to pollen, but pollen is usually spikier
- Bugscope Teamjuju
- GuestIt is said how germy flies are, can you see that here?
- Bugscope TeamYou know we rarely see bacteria on insects
- Bugscope Teamunless they have been dead for awhile
- Bugscope Teamit is easy to image bacteria but they have to be there to see
- Bugscope Teamthis is where we would normally look
- GuestWhats that?
- Bugscope Teamnot sure what this is
- Bugscope Teamnot sure, a ball of something with some juju behind it
- Bugscope Teamah, juju is our slang for dirt, crud, junk
- 11:23 am
- Bugscope TeamIt's a all purpose word for things we don't recognize
- GuestGotcha..It will be a new word for us too!;-)
- Bugscope Teamokay, i'm done messing around, you want to control again deb?
- Bugscope Teami need to go to lunch soon though, hungry
- Bugscope Teamthis is the tip of the piercing mouthparts on a true bug
- GuestNO! I'm leaning alot watching you!!!
- Bugscope TeamAlex you can cruise and we can shut down for you later.
- Bugscope Teamokay, i'm outta here, nice to met you deb
- GuestDo you sit at this all day waiting for people like me to come along (Just kidding).
- GuestThanks Alex!
- Bugscope TeamYou can see where this was once mounted on a pin,.
- Bugscope Teamthat pin hole should be able to give you some perspective of how small the piercing mouth part was
- GuestAhh Im out of time...gotta get the car to the mechanic. Thank you so much. You can be sure I will be back!
- GuestThanks for letting me try the controls!
- Bugscope TeamThanks Deb!
- Bugscope TeamSee you online.
- Bugscope Teamthanks hope to see you back on bugscope soon
- GuestThanks! Bye!
