Newman Catholic Elem
Session 2008-065

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Connected on 2008-07-31 10:00:00 from Mason City, IA, US

• 10:07 am
• Bugscope Teamhi laura!
• Bugscope TeamHi Laura!
• Bugscope TeamWelcome to bugscope!

• Bugscope Teamthis is the face of a small moth
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the compound eye to the left, one of them
• Bugscope Teamand you can see that we were looking closely at a scale
• Bugscope Teamokay, here's the deal
• Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag lower if you would like...
• Bugscope Teamso, we will be good to go in 10 minutes then
• 10:15 am
• Bugscope Teamlaura, whenever you are ready, just let us know
• Bugscope Teamthe number to call for questions is 217-265-8164
• Bugscope Teamthat is the bugscope room
• Bugscope Teambe sure and let us know if you have any questions, any problems
• Bugscope Teamthe number you called me at (217-244-1565) is my office number, i'll be leaving for the bugscope room in about 10 minutes
• 10:20 am

• Teacherhi Alex we are here

• Bugscope TeamAlex may be on his way downstairs just now.

• Bugscope TeamBut we are glad to help you as well.
• Bugscope TeamNow you can see the whole head of the moth.

• Bugscope Teamhi laura and class!
• Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope
• Bugscope Teamit is nearly covered with the tiny scales that make it feel silky when you touch it.

• Bugscope Teamthe bumpy part is the compound eye
• Bugscope Teamlaura, ask any questions you may have, we are here to help
• Bugscope Teamthe lower right has presets to different insects we have in the 'scope right now
• Teacherwhat insect is it
• Bugscope TeamLaura if you would like you can click on any one of the presets, to the left of the chat, and you will be whisked to that place on the stub.
• Bugscope Teamthis is a very small moth, less than a centimeter long.
• Bugscope Teammany insects have compound eyes, which are really neat. a compound eye is made up of hundreds of individual eye facets, called ommatidia
• Bugscope TeamOops I mean to the right of the chat...
• Teacherok

• Bugscope Teamokay, this is a scale, on a moth i believe?
• Bugscope Teamthis is the scale we saw, up close. it is kind of like a feather would be to a bird

• 10:25 am
• Bugscope Teamyes this is a moth scale

• Bugscope Teammoth's are covered with these scales, as you can see
• Bugscope TeamLaura you can scroll through the presets and go to other insects as well.
• Bugscope Teamthe scales also help the moth -- and butterflies have them too -- to slip out of a spider's web
• Bugscope Team4asp stinger, fruit fly, part of a millipede, salt, and some milkweed fluff in the scope
• Bugscope Teamall these images are live images, from an electron microscope. the moth is inside the scope right now, along with some other bugs
• Bugscope Teamthe scales will stick to the web, and they moth will shed those scales and can get away
• Bugscope Teamoops i accidentally cut out the beginning part
• Teacherthese are really cool
• Bugscope Team:)

• Bugscope Teampreset no. 2 is salt from a Wendy's restaurant

• Bugscope Teamwe have in the scope a plant beetle (like a ladybug), an assassin bug, weevil, salt, part of a millipede, milkweed fluff, a small moth, a wasp stinger, and a fruit fly

• Teacherhow do I get to the ladybug

• Bugscope Teamas soon as you would like

• 10:30 am
• Bugscope Teamit is to the south, southeast of where we are

• Bugscope TeamLaura this is a plant beetle, which is next to the ladybug. The ladybug didn't look so good today but we can still drive there if you would like.
• Bugscope Teamit has a hole in it because it was stuck with a pin
• Bugscope Teamyou can see that this was in someone's collection, as Cate said
• Bugscope TeamAs Pepper said...

• Bugscope Teamthe ladybug is to the east and a little north
• Bugscope Teamthe insects are all mounted on doublestick tape, and they have silver paint under them as well to help ground them to the aluminum stub they are on
• Teacherdo you have any butterflies
  Bugscope Teamnot today, we just have the moth
• Bugscope Teamno I am sorry not today -- the moth was as close as we could get
• 10:36 am

• Bugscope Teambutterfly's are a little big for the scope as well. the stage is about an inch and a half, so fitting a whole butterfly on it wouldn't work.

• Bugscope Teamthe ladybug!
• Bugscope Teamsometimes we detach the butterfly wing, and put that wing in the scope
• Bugscope Teamthe ladybug is rotting away
• Teachercool
• Bugscope Teamthis is its face, and most of what we see are the mouthparts
• Bugscope Teamyou can see its palps that look like vacuum nozzles
• Teacherare those the eyes
• Bugscope Teamthe palps help it taste and manipulate food
• Bugscope Teamthe eyes are on either side, and you can barely see the right eye, on the left

• Bugscope Teamah, there is the eye
• Bugscope Teamthe eye is in the middle with the palp taking up the bottom of the screen
• Bugscope Teamsee the hexagons, those are the facets (ommatidia) of the compound eye
• Bugscope Teamin the foreground is the vacuum cleaner nozzle-like palp

• Bugscope Teamif this bug were like 200 times bigger, it could vacuum my house... yay!
• Teacheryeah

• Bugscope Teamthe palps as Pepper said help the ladyug manipulate and also taste it s food

• Bugscope Teamsometimes the insects don't preserve very well
• Teacherdoes it have hair
  Bugscope Teamwell, yes, but it's not real hair, those hair looking things are called "setae" (see-tee), and they help the insect sense its environment

• 10:41 am
• Bugscope Teamthe hairs are the small spikes yoe see in this image
• Bugscope Teamyou*
• Bugscope Teamlots of insects are a lot hairier than you would think
• TeacherKate thinks it looks like it has little hairs
• Bugscope Teamsetae (plural) seta (singular), they are like cat whiskers, the bugs feel their environment with those setae
• TeacherKate thinks that is cool
  Bugscope Teamit is, it's very cool

• Bugscope Teamas alex said, those hairs allow the insect to know whats going on around it
• Bugscope Teamif you were wearing a suit of armor, you wouldnt be able to feel much either, unless you had little holes all over the suit
• Bugscope Teamhumans are lucky, we have skin that has nerves in it, so we can feel our environment to the touch. if we were like bugs, we'd be covered in a exoskeleton, which would be good for playing football and things like that, but not much else
• Teachera skin of armor
• Bugscope Teamyep, exactly
• TeacherJake would like a skin of armor, how long do they live
• 10:46 am
• Bugscope Teamyeah they really have a different kind of life compared to us, but they have to be able to sense their environment, as we do
• Bugscope Teamladybugs can live around a year. Over the winter they hibernate
• Bugscope Teamladybugs will live for months, and sometimes they even last through the winter if they can get inside
• TeacherAlex we have to get ready to leave thanks so much I will definitely use this during the year
• Bugscope Teamor as Pepper said, around 12 months
• Bugscope TeamThank you for connecting today!
• Bugscope Teamthank you laura, great talking with you and your class!
• Bugscope Teamthanks laura and kids. Thank you for your questions and for joining us today
• Bugscope Teamlaura, all this chat and images are saved to your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-065
• Bugscope Teamyou can access your session page and transcript at http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-065/

• Bugscope Teampollen

• Bugscope Teammore pollen in the claw

• Bugscope Teamknuckleballs
• 10:51 am
• Bugscope Teamlike a baseball pitcher

• Bugscope Teamthis is a mite that lives on a very large millipede

• Bugscope Teamhaltere on a fruit fly

• Bugscope Teamand a spiracle
• Bugscope TeamWe are shutting down...
• 10:56 am
• Bugscope TeamBye!