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- Bugscope Teamhello pipkin!
- Bugscope TeamGood morning, Pipkin!
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- Teachergood morning. mr. joy-hogg is out today, so i will be with his students
- Bugscope Teamsounds good, we are ready to go anytime, you should see controls for the scope on your right
- Bugscope Teamyou have control of the microscope if you would like to try driving
- Bugscope Teamif you have any questions please just ask
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- Bugscope TeamPlease let us know if you have any questions about control, setting up, the insects, Alex...
- Bugscope TeamGood morning!
- Bugscope TeamLet us know when you have questions!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a housefly head
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the eyes -- the compound eyes -- and the antennae, in the middle
- 8:03 am
- Bugscope Teamthe mouth is in the right center of where we are looking now
- Bugscope Teamthis is the mouth
- Bugscope Teamthis fly has sponging/sucking mouthparts, and we are looking right at them
- Bugscope Teamdon't be afraid to talk to us and ask us questions about what you are seeing or anything related to insects
- Bugscope TeamCan you all see the screen, the images from the 'scope, and the text?
- Studentwhat body part is this
Bugscope Teami believe we are looking at the fly mouth
- Bugscope Teamthis is the mouth of the fly, Jacob
- Studentwhat type of bug is this?
- Bugscope Teamit sticks out in front of the face and has a sponging sort of function.
- Studenthow is a fly different than other bugs?
Bugscope TeamA fly is different from other insects because it has just two wings. Almost all other insects have four wings.
- Studentwere is the brain?
Bugscope Teamthe brain is inside the head, like with humans
- Studentoh cool do you like bugs
- Studenthow many body parts does this fly have
- StudentWhere fly's live
Bugscope TeamFlies live almost everywhere. There is even a species of fly that lives in Antarctica.
- Studentwhat is the jelly stuff
- Bugscope TeamHello all! Annie the entomologist here
- StudentDo fly have teeth.
- StudentHow big is the brain?
- Studenthow meney dots are in the eye?
- StudentDo flys have a nose?
Bugscope Teamthey do not have a nose. For smelling purposes, they have special setae (insect hairs) that have that purpose. And for breathing, they have little holes on their body called spiracles that are connected to their version of lungs and the holes even have little hairs in them that are similar to nose hairs!
- StudentHow many body parts does this insect have?
Bugscope TeamAll insects have three main body regions, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen
- Bugscope Teamflies have two wings (the family is called Diptera, which means 'two wings')
- StudentWhere do fly lives?
- Studentwhat do flys eat
Bugscope Teamflies eat all kinds of things, by first decomposing it, and then sucking that back into their mouth with their proboscis
- Bugscope TeamFlies do not have noses; most insects do not have a nose, not like we do.
- Studentis it true that every thing flys eat they throw it up?
Bugscope TeamDennis sometimes they spit their own saliva out and them suck it up again along with what has dissolved.
- Studentwhat is the jelly stuff
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- Studentabout how long does this type of fly live
- Studentwhat are the parts to the fly head?
Bugscope TeamThere are lots of different parts...they have two compound eyes, two antennae, they have a brain, they have mouthparts, they have a tube that connects their mouth to the rest of their digestive system
- StudentHow many eyes do fly's have?
Bugscope Teamthey usually have 2 big compound eyes (the big areas full of bumps) and 3 simple eyes on the top of their heads that we probably can't see today, called ocelli which act as a sort of GPS system
- Studentis this a horsefly or something?
Bugscope TeamThis doesn't look like a horsefly to me
- StudentDo flys lay eggs?
Bugscope Teamyes the female flies do lay eggs
- StudentWhat is a placoid sensilla ?
- StudentWhat part are we looking at now?
- StudentWhat do flys eat.
Bugscope Teamlots of different things: plant material, human food, garbage, wastes of all kinds, etc.
- StudentHow many time can a fly suck blood out of people?
Bugscope TeamNot all flies suck blood. A female mosquito will produce three or four rafts of eggs...and each raft will probably take one full belly full of blood.
- Studentwhat part is this?
- Studentwhat bug is this
- Studentwhat bug is this
- Studentwhat's a compound eye?
- Bugscope TeamA horsefly has slashing mouthparts; it cuts your skin when it bites.
- Studentwhat do termites do
- Studentdo a termite have a nose
Bugscope TeamTermites, like all insects, do not have a nose. They smell with their antennae and they breathe through spiracles located all over their bodies
- Studentdoes the termite have a nose
- StudentDo you know how big a fly's brain is ?
Bugscope Teamwell, not like humans do. insects breath through airholes called spiracles, which are on their bodies, not their faces
- StudentWhat is the worm like things?
Bugscope TeamThose are the antennae.
- Studentdo they have antenas
Bugscope TeamAll insects have two antennae
- Studentwhat is that long thing
- StudentWhat are those long things?
- Studentwhere is the mouth
- Studentwhere is the mouth
- StudentWhere is its mouth
Bugscope Teamthe mouth is covered up by the hinged jaw that we see, the jaws are crisscrossing each other in the middle of its head
- Studentwhat are the long things coming off of the head
- StudentWhere is the termites eyes?
- Studentis that the anttenna or something?
Bugscope Teamthe curvy things are the antennae, yes!
- Studentwhere is the eye
Bugscope Teamwe can see one of the eyes a little bit on the right of the head. It is partially covered by the antenna
- Studentthis bug looks evil when you look at it wow thats cool i think its a termite head am i right.
- Studentsome people say that termites live in houses.why?
Bugscope TeamSome termites feed in the structural timbers that make up peoples' houses. They don't discriminate between houses or posts or barns...they just like dead wood
- Studentwhat do they eat
- Studentdo they eat anything else except wood?
- StudentHow big are the teeth?
- Studentdo they have teeth like a regular human
Bugscope Teaminsects do not have teeth like people do. they have a huge variety of mouthparts, some of which cut things, and some of which are hardened, but they don't have teeth
- Studentwhat kind of teeth do they have
- Studentwhy are termites so small
- Studentdo ternmite's have sharp teeh?
- StudentDo they eat anything else other than wood?
Bugscope TeamNope, all termites feed on decomposing wood. They feed on different types of decomposing wood--some feed on dry wood, some feed on moist wood
- Studentwhat is that pokey stuff
- Studenthow long can a termite live
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- StudentDo they have hair?
Bugscope Teamwell, it's not hair like human hair, but yes, they have these hair looking things called setae (see-tee) all over their bodies
- Studentwhat type of teeth does this termite have?
Bugscope Teamyes there are lots of little hairs (that we call setae-- see-tee) covering the head here
- Studenthow do hey eat
- Studentwhy are they so hairy?
Bugscope Teamthe hairs are called, usually, setae, and the setae are sensory -- they help the insect sense its surroundings, including smelling it and telling if things are hot or cold, and feeling the wind, or touch
- Studentwhat do they eat
- StudentHow long can they eat wood?
- StudentHow many eggs do termite lay a year.
- Studentwhy do they eat wood?
Bugscope TeamThe same reason that people eat cheeseburgers. Wood is just what they eat :)
- Studentis the nose wet
- Studentare they going to bite you if you picked one up?
- Bugscope Teamthe hairs are called setae (see-tee), and they are kinda like cat whiskers in that they help the insect to sense its environment
- Studentare those long things that are crossed
- StudentHow big is there head?
- StudentWhat is the hairy stuff?
- Studentwhat gender is this?
- Studentwhat is the hairy stuff?
Bugscope Teamsetae (see-tee), they help the insect feel its way around
- Studentwhat is the ball on his head
- Studentwhere are the eyeballs?
- Studentif the termite eats wood how are they protected from inside dammage
Bugscope TeamTermites have special bacteria in their guts that digest the cellulose--the tough part of the wood
- StudentDo they have fang?
Bugscope TeamNot fangs, they have stout jaws that they use to chew. But no fangs on a termite.
- Studentdo they have eye ballss
- Bugscope Teaminsects are a lot hairier than they seem!
- StudentDo termites let bacteria?
- Studentwhat are the eggs
- Studentis that hair
Bugscope Teamit's not really hair, but it looks like it. it's either very long scales, like those on the rest of the body, or long setae
- Studentis that a eye ball?
- Studenthow many babies can they lay up to a year?
- Bugscope Teamyes we find that insects are often very hairy, and it is a surprise at first
- Bugscope Teamthose egg looking things are the eyes
- StudentWhat are those balls?
- Studentwhy are the eyes so big?
Bugscope Teamwell, the compound eye is made up of hundreds of individual facets, each with a lens in it. the facets are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamthe hairs are scales
- StudentDo termites multiply?
- StudentWhere is it's mouth
- Studentare those eye balls?
Bugscope Teamyes the bright spots are the moth's compound eyes
- Studentwhy are the eyes so big?
Bugscope TeamSince most moths fly at night they need big eyes to gather as much light as possible. Many animals that are active at night have large eyes for the same reason--think of owls
- StudentIs that the eyes?
- StudentDo they have wings?
- Studentwhat are those sharp things going a cross for the termite
- Studentwhy do there eyes look like eggs
- Studentwhat are those white things that are on the side of the head
Bugscope Teamthey are the compound eyes. They look so bright because they are charging up with electrons
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the eyes are really huge!
- Studentwhat is the hair on top of his head
- StudentWhat do don king moth eat.
- StudentDo they have teeth?
Bugscope Teamno they have a proboscis, which is similar to an elephant's trunk. It acts as a straw to drink nectar
- Studentdo they have a brain?
Bugscope Teamyep, they sure do, although not nearly as cool as our brains :)
- StudentAre some moths posinous ?
Bugscope TeamSome people (like me) can have an allergic reaction to moth scales; but other than causing allergies, there are no poisonous moths. Unless you go around eating moths.
- StudentDo they lay eggs?
- Studentis the long thing the tounge
- Studentwould they bite you if you cath them
- Studentwhy does the moth look so furry?scince they look hairy do they feel hairy
Bugscope Teamthey are covered in scales. If you were to touch a moth, it would feel velvety because of the scales, a lot of the scales would also come off the moth
- StudentDo moths have special physical adaptation to survive?
- StudentHow big can they grow up to/
Bugscope TeamThe largest moth I have ever seen was about 8 inches across
- Studentwhat animal kingdom is it in?
Bugscope Teamwell, the kingdom of a moth is: animalia
- Studentdo moths have noses?
Bugscope TeamNo insects have noses.
- Studentwhat do moth eat
- Studenthow do they eat
Bugscope Teamthe proboscis (which is coiled up right now) will unroll like a party favor that you blow into that makes noise. When it is unfurled, it can drink out of it
- Studentis that a beak on the moth
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- Studentis that hair on there body
- Studentwhat is the stick in the middle of the eyes
Bugscope Teamthat is the proboscis, it curls up and out and helps the moth eat food and stuff
- Studentwhere would they most likely sleep @?
Bugscope TeamMoths like to sleep in places where they cannot be seen...on trees, under bark, among leaves.
- Studentwhat do they eat?
- Bugscope Teammoths and butterflies like sweet fluids, such as nectar and sap
- Bugscope Teamsome moths also like salty things to drink
- Studentwhy is it in animalia?
Bugscope Teamwell, animalia is a HUGE group, signifying, well, all animals, including tigers, insects, worms, jellyfish, etc.
Bugscope TeamInsects are animals. they are invertebrates, which means they don't have backbones, and insects don't have bones at all
- Studentdo they fly for a long time
- Studenthow big is tit
- StudentWhere can you find them at?
- Studentis that hair
Bugscope Teamthey are covered in different types of scales
- Studentcan moths eat insects a little bigger than them?
- Studentcan you name the parts of the moth?
- StudentHow manybody parts do they have
- Studentdo moths like light?
- Studentwhat do moths provide for us or anything else in nature
- StudentDoes the moth have feather.
Bugscope Teammoths have scales, which are kind of like tiny feathers. when you touch a moth and it feels super smooth, and powder comes off, the 'powder' is lots of scales
- Studentdoes this thing carry a disease?
Bugscope TeamI have never heard of a disease being carried by a moth
- Studentwhere do they live
- Studentdo they die if they loose ther wings
Bugscope TeamThey don't die right away. However, if they are unable to fly it makes them more likely to be eaten by a predator, like a frog or a big or a mouse
- StudentAre they rare?
- Studentwhat are the lines
- Studentwhere did it get the strips from
- Student Is this a wing?
- Bugscope Teamthe order of the moth is: Lepidoptera
- Studentis this the wing*
- Studentdo they have some disease
Bugscope TeamMoths can get diseases that are specific to moths...but they can't get human diseases
- Studentwhat are those circle things on the eye
Bugscope Teamthe circles are the ommatidia -- the individual facets of the compound eye
- Bugscope Teambutterflies are also Lepidopterans
- Studentwhy are flys so uncatable
- Studentis this a black butter or something
- Studentwhat are the needles
Bugscope Teamthose are setae on the eyes, they help to sense wind speed and direction, help the fly while flying
- Studentwhat are those spiks
- Studentare those sensors?
- StudentWhat are the circle like things on the eye?
Bugscope Teamthose are the individual facets of the compound eye called ommatidia. they are thought to each grab an image and send it to the brain
- Studentdo they get sun burn
Bugscope TeamThey can overheat and essentially cook in the sun. Most insects are very good about staying out of the sun and avoiding cooking themselves
- StudentHow many eyeballs are there?
Bugscope Teamhundreds in a compound eye. sometimes maybe a thousand!
- Studentcan they be blind?
- Studenthow many are their?
- Studentwhy does it have hair on it
Bugscope Teamwell, it's more setae, they help the insect sense things, in this case wind speed and direction
- StudentDo they have cornia's?
Bugscope Teamin a way they have a cornea, and we are looking at it
- Studentif something happens to there eyes what happens
- Studentwhat are the needles on the eyes?
- Studentis this one eye?
Bugscope Teamthis is one of the compound eye, which has lots of light sensors -- smaller eyes or lenses -- that we see now
- Studenthow well can an eye see
Bugscope Teamvery very well, flying insects have great vision
- StudentDo fly's have different eye texters?
- Studentare there small particles
- StudentCan any of the eyes bust open?
- Studentwhat are those balls for
Bugscope Teameach one of those balls is an eye facet, called an ommatidia, and each one has a lens in it
- Studenthow big is there eyes?
- Studentdoes this insect get eaten by anything?
Bugscope TeamThere are many predators of insects. Other insects, spiders, centipedes, birds, snakes, lizards, frogs, mice, skunks, possums...almost anything will eat an insect
- Studentwhy does it have hair on it
Bugscope Teamthose hairs help the insect feel whether something is touching its eye, and sometimes they help the insect judge wind direction
- Studentif you hit one eye ball what happens
- Studenthow can they here you from far distances?
Bugscope Teamthey can sense vibrations in the air, or they can smell with their chemosensory setae
- Studentwhat's a compound eye?
Bugscope TeamThere are simple eyes and compound eyes. Compound eyes are made up of many lens, which are the bumps that we see now
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- StudentCan there eye balls pop out of socket?
- Studentis the eye the strongest part on the flies body
- Studentwhat are those pointy things?
- Studentwhy do fly have so many eyes but yet they can not see a fly swatter
Bugscope TeamThey actually can see the fly swatter--that is why you have to be so fast when you try to smack them. Sometimes we are smarter than the fly and we can smack them before they know what is coming
- Studentcan they see at night
- StudentCan they see in the dark?
- Studentdoes the fly have night vision?
Bugscope TeamSome flies (like mosquitoes) are active at night, so they have some degree of night vision. House flies are not usually active at night so they probably don't have good night vision
- StudentDoes the fly have good eyes at night.
Bugscope TeamI don't think their night vision is very good. that of moths is better.
- Studentdo they have night vision?
- Studentdo flys have good vision
Bugscope Teamyep
- Studentwhat do flyes eat
Bugscope Teamall kinds of stuff, really nasty stuff too, that's why they say don't let a fly land on your food
- StudentAre they realy hary?
Bugscope Teamyep, those hairs help them sense their environment, so they more hairs (setae) the better they know their surroundings
- Studenthow do the lies react to water
- StudentWhat are the pointy things that come out of the flys eyes?
- Studentare those bumps on it ?
Bugscope Teamthe bumps on the eyes are the individual lenses
- Studentwhat is this
- Studentare those bones
Bugscope Teamnope, those are leg segments, tarsi. insects don't have bones, they have an exoskeleton that holds in all the guts and organs and stuff.
- Studentare those legs
- Studentwheres the head
- Studentdo they have a disease]
- Studentdo they have eyes?
- StudentWhere is the mouth
- Studentwhat does this bugg do
- Studenthow do rolly pollys eat and how do they eat
- Studentwhere is the mouth]
- Studentdo they have bones
Bugscope TeamNo, insects and other arthropods like pillbugs have an exoskeleton...the exoskeleton acts like bones on the outside of the body. The muscles are on the inside of the bones
Bugscope Teamnope, insects don't have bones, instead they have a hard outter shell, called an exoskeleton
- Studentdo pillbug eat?
- Studentwhat type of food do they eat?
- Studentwhaat color is it?
- Studentcan they camoflauge?
- Studentwhat are those white things on the legs?
- Studentwhat kind of bug is this?
- StudentWhat do pillbug eat.
Bugscope Teamthey eat decaying matter like rotting wood
- Studentis this a rolly polly
Bugscope Teamyes it is, a pillbug is also known as a rolypoly
- StudentHow many legs does a pill bug have?
Bugscope TeamI think it has 14 legs. we could count them
- Bugscope Teamthis is a pill bug i think?
- Studentwhat is this
- Bugscope Teamthey are actually crustaceans, like crabs and lobsters and shrimp, and they have gills
- Studenthow much do they way?
- Studentwhat part is that
- Bugscope Teamyep, a pill bug is a rolly polly, same thing
- Studentwhat is the gel stuff
- Studentis this a pillbug?
- Studentdoes it have mouth?
- Studentdo they lay eggs?
- Studenthow many legs are there
- Studentwhere are the eyes?
Bugscope TeamThey are found more towards the back of the insect. We are looking at the underside of it right now
- StudentCan they run fast?
- StudentCan the swim?
Bugscope Teamhmm, not well, i woudn't think?
- StudentAre there more than a 1,0000
- Studentcan they swim
- StudentCan they swim?
- Studentwhy do they have a shell
- Studentare they smooth?
- StudentWhy do they roll in a ball.
- Studenthow many body parts does it have
- Studentare they insects?
Bugscope Teamnope, pill bugs are crustaceans, like lobsters!
- Bugscope Teamthey can probably survive in some water for a bit, like in your sink, but they don't really swim well
- Studenthow fast do they move
Bugscope Teamthey are super slow
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- Studentwhat are one of the reflects that a rolly polly has when attacked
Bugscope Teamit curls up into a ball, using it's outer shell as a cover
Bugscope Teamso its first reflex is to roll up into a ball to protect itself
- Bugscope TeamThe ball shape is for protection!
- Studentwhat would happen if we didnt have pillbugs]
Bugscope TeamThere would probably be extra rotting vegetation and fungus laying around. I am not sure if a loss of pillbugs would have any dire environmental effects
- Studenthow wide are they?
- Studentdo they make sound?
- StudentDose it have a lot eyes like the fly?
Bugscope Teamno its eyes are much smaller, and it only has 2 compound eyes, while flies often have 2 compound eyes as well as a set of simple eyes. Its compound eyes are much smaller because they mostly live in dark places where they don't need to use them
- StudentAre pillbugs important?
- Studentwhat will happen if we didnt have any more pill bugs
- StudentDo they grow old & crusty like humans
Bugscope TeamNice, Tyrik. Yeah probably, just not as old.
- Studentdo they bite?
- Studentdo there shells break easily
Bugscope Teamwell, a person could break it easily, but another insect might have a much harder time breaking through it
- Studentcan they kill peop[le
Bugscope TeamNope. They stick to eating rotting things
- StudentWhaqt does it eat?
Bugscope Teamit eats rotting wood, rotting vegetation, stuff like that
- Studenthow many lives do they have
Bugscope Teamevery living thing on this earth has one life...
- Studentwhere did they get there name
- StudentHow big can they grow.
- Studentcould you smoosh it withyour finga?
Bugscope TeamYeah you could but you might get grossed out with the crunching
- StudentDo they have shells?
Bugscope Teamthey don't have shells like snails, but their back has something like armor plating like an armadillo
- Studentdo they have juice in them?
Bugscope Teamthey have fluid that circulates through the inside of the body cavity
Bugscope Teamwell, organs and blood type material, so yeah, they have juice
- Studentis there guts
Bugscope Teamyes the pillbug has a digestive system with a foregut, a midgut, and a hindgut
- StudentHow do they like dirt?
Bugscope TeamThey live in moist places. Dirt is often a nice moist place to live.
- Studentdo they have guts
Bugscope Teamyep, guts and organs, and stuff like that
- Studentdo they have a brain
- Bugscope Teami've never heard of someone getting killed by a pillbug, that would be something!
- Studentdo they have a brain/
Bugscope TeamYes, they have a brain
- Studenthow many legs do they have
Bugscope TeamDennis I think they have 14 legs. It may vary according to species.
- StudentHow many body parts do they have
- Studentdo thry lay eggs?\
- Studentghfhf
- Bugscope TeamRIP scot, killed by a pillbug... heh :)
- Studentha
- Studentif you killed it would it be juicy or crunchy?
Bugscope Teamwell, the shell would be crunchy, the insides would be juicy, so both. like a candy with juicy insides
- Studentdo they kill other things with there claws
- Studenthaaa haaa
- StudentWhat is that gross stuff on the top?
- Studentwhat kind of bacteria?
- Studentwhat bacteria is it
- StudentHow do they get bacteria?
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- Studentwhat is the ricey stuff at the bottom
Bugscope Teamthe stuff that looks like rice grains are the bacilli (bacteria). This type of bacteria has the same shape as e. coli but that doesn't mean that's what type it is
- Studentdo it dieds when bacteria is on there back?
- Bugscope TeamPillbugs have 7 pairs of jointed legs, and they have seven thoracic segments -- the parts that fold like armor
- Studentwhat wing is that?
- Studentcan this kill them?
- Studentis that juice?
- Studenthow many guts are there
Bugscope Teamit has organs, i'm not positive of the makeup (annie would know), but it does have organs, stomach, some kind of heart, etc.
- Studentwhat kind of bacteria
- Studentand organs
- Studenthow do lady buggs get bactiria
- Studentlooks goey?
- Studentwhat color is a ladybugs blood
Bugscope TeamInsect blood is sort of a clear to greenish color.
- Studentis this its eye
- Studentwhat is the hair ?
Bugscope Teamall these hairs are called setae (see-tee)
- StudentWhat is the coler of the bacteria?
- StudentCan they eat a roach?
Bugscope TeamThey could eat parts of a dead roach...especially if it was covered in mold.
- Studentis that glass in there stuff?
- Studentwhat si the neddle
Bugscope Teamthose are setae (hairs) that are more close up than we have seen so far
Bugscope Teamsetae
- Student\what is the gel
- Studentwhat part of the body is this?
- StudentCan it kill other bugs?
- Bugscope Teamor i should say a single seta
- Studentto they kill other insects
- StudentWhat do Ladybugs Eat?
Bugscope TeamLadybugs eat other insects. They really like to eat aphids and scales and other soft bodied insects. However, they will often eat whatever doesn't get away from them.
- Studentwhat are the lines on the body
- Studenthey,can you get sick from a bugg
Bugscope Teamyes bugs can make you sick. they can carry diseases. like mosquitos, for example, can transmit West Nile virus
- Studentis that a tree branch?
- StudentWhat kingdom are ladybugs in?
Bugscope Teamwell, kingdom again is animalia, but the kingdom is WAY TOO broad of a classification. instead, you should ask what is the "family", in the ladybugs case the family is: Coccinellidae
- StudentCan the bateria kill you ?
- Studentw
- StudentHow much fat can they grow on them?
- Studentwhat do they get there color from?
- Studentwhat doe they eat
- StudentCan they take a bath to get the bacteria or do even smaller bugs eat the bacteria.
- Studentdid the bateria kiil the lady bug?
- Student how do they get there pigment
- Studentwhat color are they
Bugscope Teamthey can have a very bright red shell, very cool looking
- StudentWhat makes some bugs green and black?
- Studentdo htey eat there egg shell
Bugscope TeamOften insect larvae eat their egg shells
- Studentcan you get sick from the bacteria
Bugscope Teamyou can if you don't keep clean
- Studentdo they have a brain?
Bugscope TeamYes, all insects have brains
- Studentis that a crab?
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- Studentladybugs seem so harmless is that just a disguiss
Bugscope Teamthey are actually good to have around. They eat other insects that are harmful to plants like aphids.
- Studentwhy does this look like a crab
Bugscope TeamInsects are related to crabs, they are both arthropods
- Studentis that a tooth?
- Studentdo bugs get viruses from other bugs
- Bugscope TeamThe bright color of a ladybug is a warning to predators that it might not taste very good.
- Studenthow many eggs do they lay?
- Studentwhere are the eyes]
Bugscope Teamthe eyes are on either side of the head, and they are sort of streamlined into its rounded shape
- StudentWhere are the eyes?
- StudentDo ladybugs eat wood like termites?
Bugscope TeamNo, most ladybugs are predators. A few ladybugs feed on plants though.
- Studentwhere do they live?
- Studentis that hair?
- Studentwheres the m,outh
- Studenthow many legs are their?
Bugscope TeamAll insects have six legs
- Studentwhat do they use to get food?
- Studentare ladybugs important?
Bugscope TeamYes, they are important predators of insect pests.
- Studentwhat do they eat
Bugscope TeamThey eat other insects, mostly soft bodied insects like aphids
- StudentWere is the mouth on the lady bug.
Bugscope Teamwe are looking at the mouth
- Studentdo they have a nose?
Bugscope Teamno they do not have noses. On their palps (which we can see 2 sets here, 1 set looks like feelers and the other set looks like vacuum nozzles) they have special sensory setae that allow them to taste/smell
- StudentCan they eat something like a bug wih a lot of fat on it's body
- Studentwhat the little horn on the face
- Studentis the underside hard too
- Studentwhat do they eat
Bugscope Teamthey eat other insects, like aphids
- Studentwhat is the little horn on its face
Bugscope Teamthe little horn is one of four palps, which the insect uses to help manipulate and taste its food
- Studentwhat would happen to the food web if we didnt hyave ladybugs
Bugscope TeamThere would probably be an increase in soft bodied insects, the kinds of insects that ladybugs eat...an increase in populations of those soft bodied insects could negative affect crops
- Studentwhere do they live?????
Bugscope Teamthey live on plants and vegetation
- Studentdo they have eyes?
- Studentwhat would happen to our food web if we didn't have any more?
- Studentwhere do they live
- Studentwhat will happen to the food web
- Studenti held a ladybugg in my hand one day and when i opend my hand it way gone i made sure my hands were closed completely.how did that happen
Bugscope Teamyou know it probably crawled out of a tiny crack where your hand wasn't fully closed, and it flew away
Bugscope Teamwell, they can be sneaky little critters can't they? he probably snuck out through a small crack in your fingers
- Studentwhat would happen to the food chain if there was no ladybug?
- Studentdo they go through a life cycle everyday or so?
- Studentwheres there eye balls
Bugscope Teamtheir compound eyes are found on either side of their head. They are a little covered up by their palps and antennae, but you can kind of see the bumpy round areas on either side of the head
- StudentCan they eat wood like termites?
Bugscope Teamno, they do not have the bacteria in their guts that termites have which allows termites to digest wood
- Studentso wheres the nose
- Studentif they dont have bugs, what keeps the body moving?
- Studentwhat does this bug have incomin whith other bugs
- StudentIs it true that when birds eat a ladybug it tases bad?
Bugscope TeamYes they don't taste good, and once a bird has one it would prefer not to have another
- Studentdo they eat jushaedf
- StudentDo lady bugs lick water off leaves.
Bugscope TeamYes, sometimes
- Studentdo the'}
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- Studentdo they eat theree babys
Bugscope TeamNot usually.
- Studentwhat is the bloody stuff
- Studentare ladybugs harm less to us and to peoples plants
Bugscope Teamthey are mostly harmless to us. Sometimes they mistake our skin for food and bite us. They are good to plants because they eat things that are meant to harm the plants
- Studentdo they eat there eggs
Bugscope TeamThat would be a rare occurance
- Studentwhy does it look like they have dirty spots on it?
Bugscope Teamthose spots are places where the exoskeleton is starting to break down, to rot
- Studenthow many leg doe they have??
Bugscope Teamthey are insects so they have 6 legs
- Studentwhat will happen to the foo
- Studentcan they fly
Bugscope Teamthey can fly. first they have to open the hard shells, the elytra, like a convertible with a hard top
- 8:43 am
- Studentdregrhijyr
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Bugscope Teamwizzle wozzle
- Studenthow can they fly?
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- Studentdoes this bug have any thing incomin with other bugs
Bugscope TeamAll insects share many common features, they all have two antennae, six legs, two pairs of wings, a dorsal heart and a ventral nerve cord
- Studenti guess they are but they are funny, one rolled over and couldnt get back up,can it die if it stays on its bak too long
Bugscope Teamif it can't turn over, it can't eat so eventually it will either starve or be eaten by something else if it doesn't turn around
- Bugscope Teamoccurence
Bugscope Teamoccurrence
- Studentwhat is a wizzle wozzle
- StudentWhat part of the body is this?
- Bugscope Teamwhat is a ytrrtr 5tr]gbfg
- Studentwhat do they eatt?
- Bugscope Teamthis is the center of the thorax
- Bugscope Teamof the ladybug
- StudentCan they die if you put one in a car engin or will they craw out of a cack?
Bugscope Teamif the engine was on, the heat would kill the ladybug, but if it were off, and didn't get stuck in any oil or gunck, then it would crawl out for sure
- Studentwhat are the neddles
- Bugscope Teamthis is the part of the body that the legs are attached to
- Studenthow many legs do they have?
- Studentdo they suck your blood
Bugscope TeamLadybugs do not suck human blood
- Bugscope Teamhead, thorax, abdomen, legs, antennae
- Studentwhat do they prey on
- Studentwhat do they doe in life?
- Studentey have blood
- Studentwhat is the big funnel thing
- Bugscope Teamthis is a kind of sad mosquito
- Studentwhy do mesquetioes suck blood
Bugscope TeamThe female mosquito required iron from blood to form her eggs.
Bugscope Teamonly the female mosquito drinks blood and she needs to do that for the extra protein needed to lay eggs. Males don't need to drink blood because they don't lay eggs. They drink nectar
- Studentwhat are the circles
- Studentwhat do you call this?
Bugscope Teamthis is the head of a mosquito, and we are looking at one eye and the base of an antenna that is missing
- Studentwhy does it look hairy
Bugscope Teamthose hairs are setae, they help it to feel its surroundings
- StudentWhy is it fuzzy?
- Studentththwheres there heart
- Studentwhats the hair
- Studentwhy does thithis look like bubble rap?
- Student what is that hairy ball in the middle middle
- Studentif it doesnt get our blood does it die
Bugscope TeamIt won't die, but it won't be able to lay any eggs
- Bugscope Teamrequires
- Studentdo they suck your blood
Bugscope Teamyes
- Studentwhat part sucks blood?
- Studentare those bubbles
Bugscope Teamthose things that look like bubbles are deflated eyeballs
- Studentwhat do these weird insects live on over the winter and fall without blood
Bugscope Teamthere are a few mosquito species that overwinter as adults, essentially by hibernating like a bear.
- Studentare the eyes hary
- Studentwhere is its eyes and mouth
- Studentare those bubbles?
Bugscope TeamThose are facets of the eye
- 8:48 am
- Studentcool
- StudentWhy is it so furry.
Bugscope Teamhairy, those are setae, and they help the insect sense its environment
- Studentare those tentacales
- Studentis it the male or female that sucks peoples blood
Bugscope Teamthe female
- Studentif it dsosent have any blood will it die
Bugscope TeamMosquitos of both sexes can feed on nectar. The females require blood to lay eggs
Bugscope Teamit will not be able to supply the nutrients it needs to the eggs so that they will survive
- Studentis the texture rough our smooth?
- Studenthow do they hibernate if they cant eat much and get FAT
- StudentWhat is that big furry thing?
- Studentwhat prat of the food chane is it.
- Studentso this hairy part is a natural implantation?
- Studentare the male miqitos big/
Bugscope TeamNo, they are the same size as the female
- StudentThe thing in the bottom left corner look like a pineapple.
Bugscope Teamthat the compound eye, with deflated ommatidia
- Studentwhats that big ball
- Studenthaw much blood does this insect carry]
- Studentwhat does the male drink then
Bugscope Teamnectar from flowers
- Studentdothey carry diseases?
Bugscope Teamoh yeah, not all of them, but mosquitos can carry disease, and have done so many times in the past, and will continue to do so in the future
- StudentWhat is it's function?
Bugscope TeamMosquitoes really don't have much of a function. They are important food sources for bats and other small vertebrates, but that is it. If mosquitoes went away, bats could find something else to eat
- Student how much blood does the female need?
- StudentWHat is that fuzzy, round , tube?
- Studenthow many babys can they have
- Studentwhy is it so hairy?
- Studentwhat do they prey on
- Studentcan any part fall off and it will still live?
Bugscope TeamTHey can lose legs and probably an antenna and still live
- Studentwhat are the big misquitos called?
Bugscope TeamJeremy those things that look like really big mosquitos are crane flies, and they don't bite
- Studentdoes it rink juice from plant leaves to
- Studentwhat are those circols on its head
- Studentwhats the fuzzy stuff
- Studenthow doe they commonacate
Bugscope Teamwith mosquitos the noise they make helps them identify themselves
- Studentdo they drink nectar5
Bugscope Teamthrough their long proboscis
- Studentwhats the sandy stuff
- StudentWhat are those bumps?
- Studentwhat are those cups
- Studentare spiders vegetarians?
Bugscope Teamno, they are all carnivores
- Studentcould they kill a umanm
- Studentwhat type of spider is shown
- Studentwhat are the 2 circles on the side of its haed
- Studentdo spiders eat there mates?
Bugscope Teamif they are hungry and if the mate doesn't get away
- Studentis that a femalllle
- Studentwhat the grassey like stuff
- StudentHow many eye does it have.
- Studentare those eye balls that are poking out?
Bugscope Teamyes those are some of the eyes
- StudentHow long do spiders live?
- Studentdo they have 6 eyes or 7?
Bugscope Teamlooks like it has six, but it may have eight
- 8:54 am
- Studentwhat is the poison that makes the spot itch?
- Studentwhat are those bumps?
- Studentdoes only thhe black wido mate than kill
Bugscope Teamthe black widow doesn't always eat her mate...sometimes though
- StudentWhat can of spider is it.
- StudentIs this spider danger?
- Student what are the bumps for?
- Studentits very hairy thingss
- Studenthow many eyes do they have
Bugscope Teamwe only see 6 here, but commonly they have 8 eyes
- Studentwhy do spiders eat other spiders after they mate
Bugscope Teambecause they are hungry
Bugscope Teamthey are very aggressive and just might be hungry; they are not very sentimental
- Studentwere does the food go?
- Studenthow big can a spider get
Bugscope Teamthe largest spiders are turantulas, which can be 10 inches (with legs)
- Studenthow doe they have children
- Studenthow many babys can spiders have at once?
- StudentWhen is the most comen time for mosquiteos to mate?
- Studentwheres the mouth n
Bugscope Teamwe can't see it from this view. We are seeing the spider from it's backside. The underside is the part stuck to the tape which is where we would be able to see the mouth
- Studentwhat is that pointy stuff on the side?
Bugscope Teamthat is one of the legs, close to the head, on the left
- Studentddo any of you think spiders that are deadly can be controlled
Bugscope TeamYou can kill most spiders with insecticides
- Studentwheres the mouth]
- Studenthow many lives do they have?
- Studentdo they have a brain
- StudentDoes this spider have hair?
Bugscope Teamit has fine hair, called setae, often, and the hair is important in its ability to help the spider sense vibrations
- Studentwhat animal kingdom are they in?
- Studentwhats that cut
- Studenthow do you tell the difrance from a boy or a girl
- StudentWhat eats a spider.
Bugscope TeamOther spiders, birds, insects, snakes, small mammals, lizards, frogs
Bugscope Teambirds, humans, raccoons, ferrets, etc. etc.
- Studenthow many different spieces are there?
- Studentis the this a vertebrate or inverbrate
- Studentso does the black widow female eat the male cause they are hungrey but thas thier mate
Bugscope Teamthey just don't develop attachments, like people might, for their mates
- Studenthow many eggs do they lay
- Studentthank you
- Studentthank u annie/cate/alex/scot
- StudentThank You
- Studentdo the spiders kill people
Bugscope TeamSome spiders can kill a human...but it is actually very rare
- Studentthank you for answering as many of my questions you can!
- Bugscope Teamthank you, you all totally dig great!
- StudentThank you for letting us see the bugs?
- Bugscope Teamdid great!
- StudentTHANK YOU!!!!!!!!!$
- Studentthankyou for helping us.
- Studentit was a nice time talking with you
- Bugscope TeamThank you all for your good questions
- StudentThank you for the info.
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- StudentThank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studentthank you for letting us look at the bugs annie,cate,alex ,and scot.
- Bugscope Teamthank you for all your great questions!
- Bugscope Teampipkin: all the chat and images from today's session are saved to your bugscope member page: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-127
- Studentbye!
- Studentbye thank you for every thing i had a good time$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
- Studentthank you for leting us see the buggs!
Bugscope TeamThat was fun, Maya, Thank You.
- StudentThank You!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studentthaank u Annie,Cate,alex,scot$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
- Studentthank you dudes
- Bugscope TeamGood bye Kiln Creek
- Studentbye funny dude
- Studentthsn thank you
- Bugscope Teamthanks my man
- 8:59 am
- TeacherAnnie, Cate, Alex, and Scott......Thank you for your time today.
- Studentbye
- StudentThank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studentthank you for answering as many of my questions as you could
Bugscope TeamShaine you got it -- we could hardly keep up. We appreciate it.
- Studentpeace$$$$$$$$$$$$
- Bugscope Teamremember all the chat and images are available online at: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2008-127
- Bugscope Teamno problem, thanks for filling in for the other teacher and being such an excellent driver
- StudentThank you so much for anserwing my questions$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
- Studentthank you for anserwing my questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$$$$$$$
- StudentTHANK YOU IT WAS FUN!
- Studentpeace$$$$$$$
- Studentyou guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Teampeace out
- Studentyoooooooooooooooo
- Bugscope Teamgood session
- Bugscope Teamlots of questions