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- Bugscope Teamstarting presets
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- Bugscope Teamhello mrs. mcgehee, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Teamfinally ;)
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- Bugscope Teamgood morning iSurffer
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- Bugscope TeamMrs McGehee!
- TeacherHi!
- Bugscope TeamGood morning!
- Bugscope Teamsession is unlocked and ready to go
- TeacherWe are getting the kids set up on the computer right now. We'll be ready in a bit
- Bugscope Teamglad to see you this morning, network is just fine today :)
- Guesthi - I am a technology teacher in Fort Mill, SC I have sessions in May and wanted to get a live preview.
- Bugscope Teamok, we are ready for you're students anytime
- Bugscope Teamyour students, i mean...
- Bugscope TeamiSurffer we should be going in a few minutes
- Bugscope Teamthis is where we're parked, for now, on the hindlimbs of a Japanese Beetle
- Bugscope Teamhello students, welcome to bugscope
- Studentok
- Bugscope TeamGood morning MariPat, Mina, Alexis, Brooklyn, Ki-Ki!
- Studentgood morning scot
- StudentGood Morning to you Scot!!
- StudentGood morning Admins!
- Studentgood morning awesome people
- Bugscope TeamLet us know, you all, when you have questions about what you're seeing. You can see the claws on the screen now, right?
- StudentHow are you today
- StudentHi Vnnesa
- Bugscope Teamwe are doing pretty cool, we enjoy doing bugscope
- Bugscope Teamwe are good, ready to roll, this is a good sample today, on the stub in the 'scope
- StudentWhat insect is that?
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- Studenthi
- Bugscope Teamthis is a japanese beetle, the claw of it
- Bugscope Teammagnified 93x
- Studenthi scott whats that picture
- Bugscope TeamHi Ty!
- Studenthi
- StudentWhat color is this bug? Where does it live?
Bugscope Teamit's color varies, but it is way more colorful than just black and white. the beetles originated from japan, but they are now found in lots of other countries as well
- Bugscope Teamthese are some of the hindlimbs of a Japanese beetle
- StudentWhat color is it?
- Studentwhat does it eat
- StudentAbout how big is this bug?
- StudentHow big is this bug
- Bugscope Teamwe don't see color in the 'scope, but this is kind of a metallic green-gold in life
- Studenthi scot,scottand alex
- Bugscope Teamit's a little less than a centimeter in length
- StudentWhat dose it eat
- StudentThat is so cool!
- Studentwow! What does it eat?
Bugscope Teamjapanese beetles can be quite a pest,they consume plants and leaves and such, sometimes specific plants that people are trying to grow
- StudentGood morning
- Studenthow old is the bug
- Bugscope TeamMrs M you can drive around if you would like
- Studenthow big is an aphid
Bugscope TeamTia the aphids vary in size, but they are generally small. Some of those in the 'scope today are twice the size of others.
- StudentWhere did you find this bug?
- Studentwhat is that wierd thang
- StudentThats Pretty Cool
- StudentHow big can this type of beetle get to alex
Bugscope Teamwell, i think it can get to 3/4 of an inch maybe, the biggest ones...
- StudentCan you see the claws in real life?
Bugscope Teamyou can see the claws but of course they are small, hard to make out
- Studentwhat kind of bug this is
- Studentthis is hairy
Bugscope Teamit is surprising how hairy insects often turn out to be
- StudentWhere did you find / get this bug?
- StudentWhere did you find this bug?
Bugscope Teampeople send us bugs, save them for us, and we don't always remember where they came from. This might have come from Cate, from around here.
- StudentDoed this bug have any spikes
- Studentoh that is cool
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- Bugscope Teami think these are the bugs that you guys sent us, right scott?
Bugscope Teamnot sure...
- Studentis there other bugs
- StudentHow does the Japenese beetle defend it's self?
- Bugscope Teamnow this is the very edge of the scope stage, try not to go off.
- StudentHow can you tell whether it's a boy ora girl
Bugscope Teamsometimes the female is bigger than the male, and sometimes the patterns are different, and sometimes it is very hard to tell
- StudentDose it hurt when the cawls pinch you
Bugscope Teamwell, it wouldn't hurt a human, but it would hurt another bug, probably
- Studentis this the same bug
- Studentin the picture of the fruit fly head how did you mack the picture so close up
Bugscope Teamyou are looking at live images from an electron microscope, it can magnify up to 800,000x, so we can see TONS of small stuff
- StudentHow big is This bug?
- Studentit's so cool
- Studentdo they eat chiggers
- Studentwhat eats aphids
Bugscope Teamants eat aphids; actually lots of insects eat them
- StudentWhat color is this bug and what does it eat?
Bugscope Teamit comes in many different colors, green, blue, it's really cool looking. it eats plants and stuff, berries, etc.
- Studenthow big is it
- Studentwhat is it on
- Studentwhat is it and what does eat
- StudentWere do they live
- Studentdoes it live on peoples hair
Bugscope Teamthese are probably about the size of lice, but they don't live in your hair. They are found on plants
- Studenthow big is a bettle anteena?
Bugscope Teamcheck out the scale bar in the bottom left of the image, that shows you a bit.
- StudentWhat color is the one you have?
- StudentHow old can these aphid's get?
- Studentdoesn,t it fly around the trash can
- StudentHow big is this bug?
- Bugscope Teamyou can see from the micron bar in the lower left corner how large or long some of the features are
- StudentIs this insect really small?
Bugscope Teamthis is only a few millimeters long, and the aphids we've had lately have been either black or white
- StudentDose it have a hard shell?
Bugscope TeamAlexis that is a good point. Most insects have a harder exoskeleton, but aphids have soft bodies that do not air dry well -- they shrivel up when they die.
- Studentthank you
- StudentHow big is this bug?
- Bugscope Teamcheck out the scale bar in the bottom left of the image. one um is one micron, that is equal to one millionth of a meter
- Studentwhere does it live?
- StudentWow they are pretty small.
- StudentDont ladybugs eat aphids?
Bugscope Teamyes they do! They are natural predators of aphids, which is why ladybugs aren't considered pests
- StudentWhere does he live?
Bugscope Teamyou find them the leaves of plants, or on the stems, and they are usually sucking fluids out of the plants
- StudentCan aphids carry bacteria to other people?
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- StudentDo they have wings?
Bugscope Teamsome aphids do have wings
- StudentWhere does ths bug live/
Bugscope Teamwell, it's going to live in some kind of moist environment, with lots of plants around it
- Studenthow big is it
- StudentWhat do ladybugs eat?
- StudentWhat is there shell pattern?
- StudentWell how do ladybugs see the aphids if they are green like the plant they live on?
Bugscope TeamThey are not always green, but even if they are, they have to move, and the movement will attract predators.
- Studentthis is scary
Bugscope TeamBOOOOOO!!!
- StudentIs the skin ruff or hairy?
Bugscope Teamwell, insects don't have skin like humans, they have an exoskeleton, and those hairs are sensors, they are called setae (see-tee)
- Studentis a ladybug a beetle ?
- Studenthow does it survive
- StudentWhat is the shell pattern of this bug?
- Studentthis is ffreaky looking
- Studentwhere dose an aphid live
- StudentIs this bug an Inverterbrate?
Bugscope Teamyes it is an invertebrate, meaning it does not have a backbone; it doesn't have any bones at all
- Studentis that hair on the bug?
Bugscope Teamthose hairs are called setae (see-tee) and they help the insect to sense its environment, like cat whiskers
- Studenthow many babies can aphids have at once
Bugscope TeamFemales are reported to produce 1.6 to 3.75 nymphs per day over a 15 to 20 day reproductive cycle.
- StudentWhat is the shell pattern?
- Studenthahaha
Bugscope Teamsorry, bad joke, huh? :)
- Student'dose this bug have a shell
Bugscope Teamit has an exoskeleton made of chitin, or cuticle, but that in this case is very soft
- Bugscope TeamEach female can produce about 50 to 200 nymphs during her life span, and these nymphs (which are all females) can begin reproducing in 7 to 10 days.
- StudentThen what does it have in it's body if they dont have bones?
Bugscope Teamwell, it has organs and fluids and guts and stuff like that. the exoskeleton keeps all its insides... inside
- Studentis that its eye
Bugscope Teamthat is the compound eye, and it is a little shrunken from what it would be in life
- Studentcoooooool
- Studentthese fruit fly is really ugly
- Studentthis is worst than the other one
- Studenthow much does it wheigh
- StudentWhy are there eye like that in sections?
- StudentIs that bug big?
- StudentWhere do they live
- Studentwhat is chitin?
Bugscope Teamit is the same stuff your fingernails are made of. It is a pretty tough material
- Studentits ok it was funny
- StudentWhat is the scale pattern on its neck?
- StudentAre insects colored blind?
Bugscope Teaminteresting question, i think they vary from species to species, but some see in two colors, kind of like dogs, so yes, they have limited color sense, i think...
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- Studentare the eyes scaly ?
- Studentdo they eat fruit?
- Studentwhy dose this bug have like hair all over him
Bugscope Team those hairs (setae) help him sense his environments, like cat whiskers
- StudentWhat do they eat?
Bugscope Teamfruit flies eat the enzymes that are produced from rotting fruit. You might notice them if you let fruit get overripe in your kitchen
- Studentthe fruit fly looks hairy
- StudentWhat is the scale pattern on its neck?
- Studentthat is ugly
- Bugscope TeamSome insects can see more colors than we can, as well. Some can see UV light, for example, and we cannot.
- StudentWhere do most bugs like he / she live?
Bugscope Teamfruit flies live all over, and of course they seem to show up wherever there is fruit
- Studentcan fruit flies bite you
- StudentScott:your bug is harocious
- StudentWhat is the scale pattern on its neck?
- Studentdo they have legs
- Studentthat thing looks furosous
- StudentDo fruit flies bite?
- Studentthats a cool head
- StudentDo fruit flies bite?
- Studenthow long do they live
- StudentDo fruit flies eat bugs?
Bugscope Teamfruit flies cannot eat other insects; they have sponging/sucking mouthparts
- StudentHow long is this bug?
- Studentthese are our bugs or not
- StudentDo fruit flies bite?
- Student+do the maggets eat the fruit too?
- StudentWhat is the scale pattern on its neck?
- Studenthow does it eat
Bugscope Teamit has sponging mouthparts. So it first "spits" on its food to liquify it, and then it sponges it back up to eat it
- Studenton its eye is there other eyes
Bugscope TeamTy there are hundreds of ommatidia -- the individual facets of the eye, which are all like tiny lenses and can produce individual images. The fruit fly, like many other flying insects, also have three ocelli (simple eyes) on the top of its head.
- Studentwow this kinda creepy
- Studentwhat is that wrinkley thing on it ?
Bugscope Teamif you are talking about the thing going off to the right, that is one of its wings. Fruit flies have 2 wings
- Studentis it true that they vomit on their food to eat it?
Bugscope Teamyes, totally
- StudentWhat is the scale pattern on its neck?
- StudentDo fruit flies actualy like fruit?
Bugscope Teamwell, yes, the sugars in fruit have lots of nutrients i believe
- Studentthey have long legs?
- Studenthow can u like bugs
- StudentWhat is the scale pattern on its neck?
Bugscope Teami'm not sure what scale patter?
- StudentWhy does it look wrinkley?
Bugscope TeamI believe those are the veins in the wing
- Studenttheir ugly
- Studentdo they stay with there baby when they lay them
Bugscope Teamfruit flies lay eggs, and i'm not sure if they stay with those eggs
- Studentdo they posin the fruit
Bugscope TeamNo they don't poison the fruit, but since it is rotting, you probably wouldnt want to eat it anyway
- Studenthow long do they live ?
- StudentBy its eye?
- Studentwhat are those circles on him near his leg
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- StudentWhat is the circle by the eye?
Bugscope Teami'm not sure, we moved, sorry vanesa
Bugscope Teamone of the circles, on the thorax next to the eye, was the spiracle
- Studentwhere is the bug
- Studentdoes it feel weird touching the bugs
- StudentAre fruit flies as big as the every day flies we see?
Bugscope TeamNo, they are very small, so small that sometimes when I put them on the sample holder, I'll end up decapitating them without realizing it if I'm not careful!
- Studentwhat is that sack by its leg!
Bugscope Teamthat is the haltere
- StudentWhat does it do?
Bugscope Teamwell, it eats for fuel, and reproduces to keep the species alive. other than that it just hangs out and buzzes...
- Studentwhat haltere means
Bugscope Teamthe haltere is a modified hindwing that beats in a motion opposite that of the wing and provides balance to the fly as it flies
- Studentwhat is a haltera
Bugscope Teama haltere is like a punching bag, it helps the fly keep it's balance during flight, it bounces back and forth on the abdomen of the fly
- StudentWhat do the baby flies eat?
- Studentdo the magets have hair
- StudentWhat does the spiracle do?
Bugscope Teamthe spiracle is a breathing hole. insects don't breath like humans, instead they have holes near their abdomens which air goes into and feeds them air
- Studenthow long do they live
- StudentThat is really small!
- Studentwhat are those big circles for near his leg
- Studentwhy do you all like them nasty,ugly,little bugs?
Bugscope Teamwe like them because they are super interesting; they are life forms unlike ours that exist all around us
- Studentdos it feed on people
- StudentWow.
- StudentAre there Spiracles small in real life?
Bugscope Teamoh, yeah, pretty small
- StudentHow many eggs does this particular bug lay in 1 pregnency?\
- Bugscope Teamthat number may change in the wild
- StudentWow, those are alot of eggs!
Bugscope TeamFruit flies have lots of predators so it has to have lots of eggs to ensure that at least one goes on to mate again
- StudentHow big are these real bugs?
- Studentwhy does it eat fruit
Bugscope Teamwell for energy so it can survive
- StudentHow long do fruit flies live?
Bugscope TeamMost fruit flies live less than two months
- Studentwhats the difference between a fruit fly and and a regular fly
Bugscope Teamfirst, fruit flies are generally smaller, and second, they have a more specialized diet compared to houseflies
- Studentthanks
- Studenthow can you find what bug it is?
Bugscope Teamwe often have an entomologist online to help ID the bugs, she isn't on today, sorry :(
- StudentHow big are these bugs>
- StudentWhat would happen if fruit flies were extinct?
- StudentIf all of the fruit flies dided what will happen?
- StudentWhat do baby flies eat?
- Studentwhat would it be like if there were no fruit flies
- Studenti like disecting bug they look so alsome
- StudentHow big are these bugs?
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- Studentare u guys students or old people
Bugscope Teamwe are old people :)
- Studentcan we see another bug
Bugscope Teamsure, ask mrs. M to click on a preset
- StudentDo there family members punch there haltere since you said it's like a punching bag?
- Studentwhat is the difference between a regular fly and a fruit fly\
Bugscope TeamTia one major difference is size; fruit flies are smaller. Houseflies also eat other things; they don't have the same diet as fruit flies.
- StudentHow old are you guys
Bugscope Teami'm 38
- Studenthow old
- StudentWhat would happen if they were extinct?
- StudentWhat would kill all of the fruit flies in the world?
- Studenthow old are you cate
Bugscope Team24
- Studenthow old are the bugs
- Studentu older than the teacher but its alright
- Bugscope Teamhere are pictures of us: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/who_are_we
- StudentWhat would happen if fruit flies were extinct
Bugscope Teami'm not sure, that's a very complex question to answer
- StudentHow old is that bug?
- StudentWhat would kill all od the fruit flies in the world?
- StudentDo they have a predator?
Bugscope Teampretty much everything bigger than it will eat it
- Studentdo they live in water
- Studentis that a bug
Bugscope Teamthis is a water boatman. They live on the water
- Studentan they swim
- Studenthow old is this bug
- StudentWhere does this bug live?
- StudentWhat type of bug is this?
- Studenthow many bugs are in the us
- StudentWhen it moves it's claws does that shell thing lift up?
- Studentwhat dose it eat
- StudentWhat color is it?
- Bugscope Teamthis is a water boatman, it lives in water mostly
- Studentwhat dose this bug eat/
- StudentCan it swim?
- Studentdoes it have eye
- Studentwhat r the prickly hairs
- StudentAbout, how big ig this bug??
- StudentWhat color is it?
- StudentIs this bug color blind?
- StudentAbout how big ig this bug??
- Studentwhere did you find it
- Bugscope Teamin mexico, the water boatman is considered a delicacy, and they harvest and eat them in large quantities
- Studentwhat are those dots on this bug
- StudentWhat clor is this bug?
Bugscope Teamkind of brownish
- Studentdoes the water boatman go in the bathtub or sink to drink water off of it
- Studenthow many legs does it have
Bugscope Teamit has six legs; insects as adults all have six legs
- StudentAere these bugs big?
Bugscope Teamnope, they are longer than wide, the longest being about 13mm or so
- Studentwhere is the mouth
Bugscope Teamit is covered up by its palps (which are used to manipulate or taste food). The palps are the hairy pointy things that make it look like it has a mustache
- Studentdo they live in water
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- StudentIs this bug color blind?
- StudentIs the microscope you are using expensive?
Bugscope Teamtotally. it cost about $750,000 in 1998
- StudentWhat o they eat?
- StudentWhere does this bug live?
- Studenthow many eyes dose it have
Bugscope TeamIt has 2 compound eyes
- StudentDoes it crwal or jump like a grass hopper
- StudentWhat are there predators?
Bugscope Teamsome water boatman are preyed upon by different amphibians including the Rough-skinned Newt
- StudentAre they color blind?
Bugscope TeamVanessa we are not sure. Likely they can see some colors.
- Studentcan they hop like lice
- StudentCan it fly
- StudentWow!!!! thats expensive?
- Studentcate is it blind??
Bugscope TeamNo but it also might not have very good eyesight. If it doesn't have very big eyes it usually means it has poor eyesight
- Studentdose it have a hard shell
Bugscope TeamTia the water boatman has a hard cuticle like many beetles.
- StudentAlex: What does this bug eat and what eat''s it?
Bugscope Teamwater boatman eat amphibian plant material, and they are eaten by other larger amphibians
- StudentWhat do they taste like?
- StudentHow many bugs do you have at your lab to experiment on?
- Studentdo you have a ant
Bugscope Teamwe don't have an ant today, sorry
- StudentCan they see at all?
Bugscope TeamYes if you look at the head you can see that it is rounded on the corners, and those rounded areas are the eyes.
- Studentwhere are you guys
Bugscope Teamwe are at the university of illinois, in the middle of illinois
- Studentdose this bug have pro legs\
- StudentDo you have a ant that we can see please
Bugscope TeamAlexis we do not have any ants today. The closest relative to an ant is the wasp.
- Studentare those claws
- Studentwich are ure favorite bugs
Bugscope Teami like mites, they are bugs that live on bugs
- Studentwhat is this bug
- Studentit looks nasty
- Studentwhat are thoes hair like things
- Studentalllllllllllllllllllllll that is sad
- StudentHey, my dog has ear mites!!!!
Bugscope Teamack! yeah, mites are nasty little dudes
- StudentWhy are some catipillars hairy?
Bugscope Teamit is a defense mechanism mostly. A bird or some other predator won't want to eat it if it has long hairs to bother its throat. Some caterpillars have itchy hairs so that helps them out more
- Studentso thats a caterpillar
- Student what dose it eat
- StudentI got to look at them under the microscopes at the vet, they were nasty
- StudentHow many legs do caterpillars have?
- StudentWhy do some cattipillars are hairy?
Bugscope Teamwell, those hairs help insects to sense their environment, they are called setae (see-tee)
- Studentwhats a proleg
- Studentscott why is it when u hold a catipiller it is sticky on your hand
Bugscope Teamwhat we see, on the prolegs, is one of the reasons caterpillars may seem sticky in your hand
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- Studentdo cattipillars have enimies
- Studentwhere did you find it
- StudentAre those claws on tbug?
- Studenthow did my mosquito fail appart
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentCate:Does any of these bugs bite?
Bugscope Teamif they were able to bite you, you probably wouldnt feel it. The reason you feel a sting or a spider bite is mostly because of the poison they inject into you
- StudentDo all cattipillars have hair?
Bugscope TeamProbably all of them have setae, which are like little sensory hairs.
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head, and you can see that it has five or six little eyes on each side of the head
- StudentCan catepillars hurt trees
- Studentdoes this bug have a soft shell
Bugscope Teamyes they are soft bodied
- Studentdo caterpillars have inteanas
- StudentDo they bite?
- Studentalex does the catipiller have teeth
- StudentHow many legs do caterpillars have?
- Studentwhy does it turn into a butterfly
- StudentCan they put anything in you?
- Studentwhat i meant was can a lot of catepillars hurt trees like a cucoon of them
- Studenthow many legs does it have
Bugscope TeamThe number of legs that caterpillars can have varies with the kind of caterpillar and sometimes with its stage. The caterpillars of some tiny leaf-mining moths may have no legs at all. Most caterpillars of the larger moths and butterflies have 3 pairs of true legs, and most have 5 pairs of prolegs on their abdomen. So the best answer would be that most often they have 16 legs.
- StudentCan alot of catterpillers hurt trees?
Bugscope TeamYes if there are too many caterpillars they can eat the leaves of a tree and damage it that way.
- Student how do u know when a caterpillars r poisonus
- StudentCan they put anything in you?>
- StudentHow old is this bug?
- StudentHow long dose it take for the callapliter to turn into a butterfly?
- StudentIs catterpiller blood really, GREEN???
- StudentCan some cattipillars be poisonuis?
Bugscope Teamthere are a few Stinging caterpillars of various shapes, sizes and colors. Stinging caterpillars possess hollow quill-like hairs, connected to poison sacs, that are used as defensive weapons. When these hairs are touched they break through the skin releasing the poison. Reactions can range from a mild itching to the more severe pain, dermatitis, and even intestinal disturbances.
- Studentu guys dont know that right
- Studentscot are those bumps onthe face the eyes?
Bugscope TeamYes! Cool, I think.
- StudentIs catterpiller blood really, GREEN??
- Studenthow does it eat
- Studentthose are a lot of legs
- Studentdoes the color of the caterpillar depend on the type of butterfly it will be
- StudentIs catterpiller blood really, GREEEN?
Bugscope Teamit can appear green or yellow or clear; when you mash a caterpillar the juices from what it has been eating mix with the hemolymph -- the 'blood' -- which is usually fairly clear
- Studentwhat is that tube on its head
Bugscope Teami think that's some kind of small antenna, or proboscis of some kind?
- StudentWhats the best way to get cattipillars off your tree?
- StudentWhat is the best way to relocate caterpillars?
- Studentwhats the best way to relocate caterpilers fff
- Studentwhy does it molt
- StudentWhats the best way to relocate catipillars/
- Studentoff of trees
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- Bugscope TeamAlex, I think it might be an antenna
- Studentdo caterpillers camoflage
Bugscope Teamoh yes, some are very well adapted to hide on plant leaves and such
- StudentHow do you relocate them?
Bugscope Teamwell, i'm just not sure vanesa, sorry
- StudentWhat is the best way to relocate caterpillars off of trees?
- Studentcan you move them off your tree without hurting them/
Bugscope Teamyou can pick them up and move them but it is not very efficient
- Studentare they simeller to slugs
Bugscope Teamthey are different from slugs, which are more like snails. caterpillars will eventually form a chrysalis and metamorphose into butterlfies
- Studentcate do catipillers have teeth
Bugscope Teamno, but they do have jaws to munch on leaves with
- Studentwhat happens if caterpillers extint
Bugscope Teamif they were to go extinct, then there wouldnt be any moths or butterflies,which is VERY BAD. There would be no pollination from them going on and lot of flowers and plants would probably go extinct too. Just like if the bees went extinct
- Studentthis catepillar is the uglyest thing i'v ever seen
- StudentIS THAT ITS EYES?
- Studentcan i name it
- StudentWhat color is this catpillar?
Bugscope Teamwell, they are often green, which helps them to stay camouflaged in their environment: plants
- Studentwhy is it like that
- StudentIs That its nose
- StudentDo house flies really live in houses?
- StudentIs thats it's mouth/
- Studentthat thing that is open is it his mouth
Bugscope TeamKia that is the mouth; you can see the tongue, which has little hairs sticking out of it. It is good that people do not look like that.
- Studentwhat is that opening on his head
- StudentDo house flies really live in houses?
Bugscope Teamtotally, i'm sure you've seen them in your home at times?
- StudentAre catipillars a big part of pollination?
Bugscope Teamcaterpillars themselves arent, but what they turn into after that stage is (butterflies and moths)
- Studentits tongue looks like a cactus
Bugscope Teamyeah, i agree, neat huh?
- Studentwhat happens if it touches you?
- Studentwhy is this bug hairy/
Bugscope Teamthose hairs are called setae, and they help it to sense its environment. some setae are chemosensory, and others are mechanosensory, meaning they sense chemicals or movement
- StudentAre catipillars a big part of pollinatipn?
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- Studentis that bacteria
- Studentyes if i look like that i am goin to look ugly.
Bugscope Teamwell, looks don't matter as much as other things, right?
- StudentIs it true that flies vomit on everything they land on?
- StudentWhats that stuff on the hairs of its mouth
- StudentWhy is this bug's mouth so hairy?
- Studentwhat are those dots on it mouth
- Studentdoes it have a suction cup
- StudentDo catipillars eat other bugs or anything besides leaves?
- Studentis that food on its hair
- Studentis that bacteria sticking out of his/her tougne
Bugscope TeamKi-Ki bacteria are usually just a few micrometers (microns) long. We can see them, for example in preset 1.
- Studentwhat are the dots on its mouth
- StudentTHIS BUG SHOULD SHAVE
Bugscope Teamhahaha nice! This fly is hairy yes. But the hairs are used so it can taste/smell/feel what is going on around it
Bugscope Teamno, because then it wouldn't be able to sense it's environment!
- Studentis that food left over
- Student ever heard of toothpaste buggy?
- Studentis that the rest of his food on those harry things?
- StudentDo catipillars eat anything besides leaves or even other bugS?
- Studentthat stuff that is on its tougne LOOKS LIKE BUGERS
- StudentThis bug needs to go to : "how to brush your teeth.com
- Studenthow many times does it flap its wings in a min
- Studentcan they fly whithout a wing
- Studentwhat are those dots in his mouth
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentDo they eat bugs or anything else besides leaves?
Bugscope TeamNot that I know of. Caterpillars mostly eat the leaves of flowering plants and trees, using their powerful jaws (mandibles). Caterpillars are very limited in their diet; many species will only eat the leaves of a single type of plant. They usually eat only the plant that their mother carefully chose to lay their egg on.
- StudentDoes this bug eat plants?
- StudentDo flies really vomit on everything they land on?
Bugscope TeamThey often spit saliva on things they want to taste or slurp up. But they don't vomit on everything they land on.
- Studenthow big is it
- StudentCool, this bug looks like an alien?
- Studentif you were a fruit fly where would you live
- StudentCan common houst flies carry bactiria to other people
Bugscope Teamtechnically they could carry bacteria to people and surfaces
- StudentHow do they go to the bathroom
Bugscope Teamwell, they expel waste as well
- Bugscope Teammrs. M, we drove off the edge, so we click on a preset for you, you should have control back now
- StudentWhy do wasps sting?
- 8:44 am
- Studentwere you ever stung by a wasp
- Studentdo wasps attack bees
- Studentif you where did it hurt
- Studentwhats the best way to remove a stinger
Bugscope Teamonly the honeybee will leave the stinger in you after a sting and die. Wasps and bumblebees will not leave the stinger in, allowing them to sting you multiple times!
- Bugscope Teami don't think i was ever stung by a wasp, a bee yes, but not a wasp
- StudentCan wasps be posionus?
- Studenthow many specis of wasp are there
- TeacherI think my computer was messing things up. We're trying to look at the wasp stinger
- StudentDoes this wasp really sting or did they just name it anything/
- Bugscope Teamif one is allergic to stings, then yes it could hurt, make you all swollen and stuff
- Studentthat wasp is skinny
- StudentAre wasps and dragonflys enimies cause at my house they fight and they are dead everywhere!!!!!!!
- StudentDo people study the organs of a fly?
- Studentdoes it have poison in its stinger
- Studentcan wasps be friendly
Bugscope Teamwasps are very aggressive mostly. You want to leave them alone. Bees are usually less aggressive (except for killer bees) and some bees don't have any stingers at all!
- Studentok
- Studentwhat do they eat
- Studentdose the wasp die when it stings you?
Bugscope TeamNo because its stinger did not get left behind. The honeybee dies after stinging you because a part of it's muscle goes away with it allowing it to bleed out and die
- Bugscope Teamthere now look we had to move it a little from when we set it
- StudentDo people study organs of bugs???~~~
Bugscope Teamyes, they are called entomologists, and they study all kinds of things about insects, not just the insides
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that the stinger is serrated, and you can see that this one is in two parts that help it cut into your skin
- StudentIs it true that they bumble bee does not sting? ( That fat yellow and black ones)
- StudentDo dragon flys and wasp go to war .Ithink they do how about you
- Studenthow do you remove a wasps stinger
Bugscope TeamTia the wasp pulls its stinger out. Those of some bees will stay in you, and there is a muscular pump like a little outboard motor that continues to pump venom into your skin. I think the best way to remove those stingers is by brushing them sideways out of your skin, like with something sharp. Of course you are not trying to cut yourself but gently remove the stinger without squeezing out any more venom.
- Studentalex what is a wasp related to?
- Studentdo they attack bees
- Studentwhat do wasps eat ?
Bugscope Teamwell, wasps are generally parasitic as young, so they feed on other insets. but later in their life they can feed on nectar
- TeacherThank you for fixing it!
- StudentWhat color is this bug?
- StudentAre wasps and dragonflies enimies? They fight and are dead all over my back yard!!!!!!
- StudentAt km house!~!!
- Studentdo they eat bees
- Studentif not what do they eat
- StudentAre wasps and dragonflys enimies? They are dead all over my backyard!!!!
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- Studentwhere do wasps live and what do they eat
- Studentpouchs
- StudentAre they?
Bugscope Teamsorry, i just don't know canesa
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentIs it true that bumble bees dont sting?
- Studenti dont have anything to tell u do u
- Student do wasp make honey?
- StudentAre wasps and dragonflys enimies? TThey are dead around my house and backyard!!!!
- Studentdo moths have baby pouches
Bugscope Teamno they lay their eggs on plants
- StudentAre wasps related to honey bees?
Bugscope TeamThey are not closely related. Wasps are related to ants, though.
- Studentanswer my question
- Studentnow please
- StudentDo they only sting you if you bother them?
Bugscope TeamWell...since they are aggressive, if you get too close to their hive/home, they will sting you as well. But say you are at a picnic and you see one, it will only sting you if you go after it usually
- Studentso the wasp pulls its own stinger
Bugscope Teamthat is right, and it can sting again
- StudentDo wasps sting?
Bugscope Teamyep
- StudentDo they sting if you bother them?
Bugscope Teamyep
- Studentcate can a moth hurt u?
- Studenti opoligize i wasn't my manners
Bugscope Teamit's ok keerah, we are trying to answer all questions, but it's hard to keep up sometimes. and we don't know everything. :)
- StudentWhat are the spiky things on this bug???
Bugscope TeamJordan the spikey things are the little spines on the proboscis of the moth that allow it to cling to the inside of a flower as it collects nectar.
- Studentare the spikes hard or soft
- Studentcould u answer our questions please
- StudentDo they sting if you dont bither them?
- Studentwat r the spikes on the moth
- StudentCate- Do bumble bees sting?
- Studentare moth cousins to butterflys
- Studenthave you ever goten stung by one
- Studentudiuoidssgyoifuoduof\
- StudentDo they sting if you dont bother them?
Bugscope Teamwell, yes, wasps can be aggressive, humans should always be careful around wasps
- Studentcan wasps sting multiple times
Bugscope Teamyes they can!
- Studentalex are moths dangerous
Bugscope Teamwell, i don't think so, they are more an annoyance to humans
- Studentcan anythinng eat a wasp
- Studentdo bumble bees sting?
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- Studentpardon je suis francaise
Bugscope Teamoui, un little bit
- StudentWill theWill they sting you if your just sitting there?
- Studentwhats the best way to avoid being stung by a wasp
Bugscope Teamwell, if you see one, then there is probably a nest around, don't go near a wasp nest!
- Studentu talk french
- Studentcan anything eat a wasp
Bugscope Teamwell, no, i don't think an elephant would enjoy a wasp
- StudentWill they sting you if you dont bother them at all?
- Studentbye
- Studentdon't moths have a specail dust to fly
- Studentcan beetles bite you if you touch it
Bugscope Teamyes sometimes they bite you if you are bothering them or if they are confused and think you are food
- StudentGoodbye!!!!!
- StudentThank you for your time
- Student how old can a wasp get
Bugscope Teamthey usually only live through the season
- Bugscope Teamthanks students, you all had some great questions!
- Studentdo bees have a mouth
- Studentbye alex
- StudentGoodbye thanks for your time!!!!!
- StudentThank you for the wonderful bug project, guys!!!!
- Bugscope Teamthanks for your great questions!
- Bugscope TeamThank You!!!
- Studentdo bees have a mouth
- StudentThanks al0t!!
- Bugscope Teammrs. M, all the chat and images are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-126
- Studentthanks for your time!!!!
- Studentgood bye thanks for your time with me
- Bugscope Teamyou are welcome
- StudentTHANK YOU AND GOOD BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studentbye cate and scot
- Studenthow old can a wasp get
- Bugscope TeamThat was fun, you guys. Thank you Abby. Good bye!
- Studentgoodbye!!!!!!thank you
- Studentthanks alot
- Bugscope Teamno problemo
- StudentITWAS NICE MEETING THE ALL OF YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studenthow old can a wasp get
Bugscope TeamUsually, as Cate said, just one season and that's it.
- Studentoh that is cool
- Bugscope TeamThank you Vanessa.
- Bugscope Teamthanks for such great questions
- Bugscope Teambye bye
- StudentThanks sooooo much for the bug projet I really enjoyed it ;)
- Bugscope Teammrs. M, all the chat and images are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-126
- StudentdUCES!
- Studentmrs.mcgehee said bye
- Bugscope Teamare wild!
- TeacherWe need to leave now because we have another class coming in! Thanks for your time!!!
- StudentAUTIUOS
- Bugscope Teamgood bye mrs. mcgehee!
- Bugscope TeamOver and out! Bye!
- Bugscope Teamadios
- Bugscope Teamchowzers
- Studentbye this was really fun
- Bugscope Teamthanks tia
- 9:00 am
- Studentduces!!!1!
- Bugscope Teamare wild!
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