Connected on 2009-01-21 08:00:00
from , PA, US
- 7:13 am
- Bugscope Teamhello monagacci!
- Bugscope Teamhello, welcome to bugscope!
- Studenthello
- Studentare we ready to go
- Bugscope Teamwe are still setting up for today's session at 8AM central time
- Bugscope Teamyes, 9AM your time (east coast)
- Studentyup cool
- 7:33 am
- Studentbug
- Bugscope Teamsample in scope, starting vacuum
- Bugscope Teamstarting presets as soon as vac hits 1.2
- Bugscope Teamthis is the inside of the scope, picture taken from a CCD camera
- Bugscope Teamonce all the air is out of the chamber, then we can turn on the electron gun and gather images using electrons
- Bugscope TeamHUGELY magnified :)
- 7:40 am
- Bugscope Teamvac ok, SE on, starting presets
- Bugscope Teamhi ritter, welcome to bugscope, we are making presets right now
- 7:45 am
- Teacherhi how do I get the kids on
Bugscope Teameach student should be able to login as "student"
- Bugscope Teamif you have LOTS of students, try doubling them up on a computer
- Teachergo to go thanks
- Teacherwe have 58 kids on but I ll control the Qs
- Bugscope Teamok, that's more kids than we've ever had!
- Teacherya tell me about it!! ha ha
- Bugscope Teamritter, there are too many students logged in, causing lots of lag on the server. is it possible to have the students double up on a computer?
- Teacherwe are a wilderness eduction program and kids have been studing insects for a month
- StudentWhat are those spiky balls
- Bugscope Teampollen
- Bugscope Teamthose spikey things are pollen
- 7:50 am
- StudentThats so cool
- Studentthats cool
- Studentcool
- Studentthat is cool
- Studentsweeet
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentwhat is the spike?
- Bugscope Teamwasp ovipositor
- Bugscope Teamritter, is it possible to have 2 students per computer? we have too many logins right now, causing the server to slow
- Teacherya hold on give me a min
- Bugscope Teamok
- Bugscope Teamthanks for doing that -- sorry it was slowing us way down
- Bugscope Teamcool! the server is starting to behave again!
- Bugscope Teamyeah sorry, we've never seen a school have that many computer before
- Teacherok how is that
- Bugscope Teamwe'll probably redo the software to cap a limit on the logins, and inform the teachers before hand
- Teacherok
- 7:55 am
- Teacherwill this do for today
Bugscope TeamYES, thanks! this is good
- Bugscope Teamok, we are still making a couple more presets, and then we'll be ready
- Bugscope Teamthe server is now able to catch up
- Bugscope Teamand you'll see, once the students start asking questions, it'll still get crazy active...
- Studentwat do stink bugs eat
Bugscope Teamthey eat plants
- StudentDo they feed with those big pinchers
- Teacherill control the amount of questions, they have to go through me first to ask
- Studentalex could we c 1 one the compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamwe've got to make a couple more preset for ya, an assassin bug
- Bugscope Teamonce we are done with presets, we'll give control of the scope to mr. ritter, and then we'll be able to answer questions
- 8:01 am
- Bugscope Teamok, one more preset and then we are ready!
- Bugscope Teamsorry for the late start
- Teacherno problem
- Bugscope Teamok, session unlocked, ritter you should now see controls for the scope on your right
- Bugscope Teamat any time you can click on a preset to move to that insect
- Bugscope Teamyou can also use magnify, navigation, focus and adjust
- Bugscope Teamwe can also give control to the students, if you wish, but only one person can control the scope at one time
- Bugscope Teamdo you all know what this is? we did not recognize it
- Bugscope Teamit has dreadlocks for antennae
- Bugscope Teamclick to stop...
- Bugscope Teamyou click once to start moving, then click again to stop moving
- Teacherno i don't hope you would know
- Bugscope Teamthere ya go! nice job mr. ritter
- Bugscope Teamour entomologist is not on yet this morning
- Bugscope Teamthis is a moth head, with the large compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamthis is the moth head
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its curled up proboscis
- Bugscope Teama compound eye is made up of hundreds of individual facets, called ommatidia, each one has a lens in it
- 8:06 am
- Bugscope Teamwhen it wants to unfurl it, it fills it with hemolymph, like a New Years' party favor
- Bugscope Teamhere we can see some scales, and the compound eye OOF
- Bugscope Teamfocus can be touchy, try going the other way if one way doesn't work
- Bugscope TeamOOF = out of focus
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the scalebar on the lower left corner of the viewing screen
- Bugscope Teamwe've made the controls here as much the same as the real scope as possible, to make the experience realistic
- Bugscope Teamthe u is a Greek letter mu
- Bugscope Teamsee the antennae?
- Bugscope Teamum = one micron = one millionth of a meter
- Bugscope Teamthe things on either side of the proboscis are palps
- Studenthey scott, how much weight can a praying Mantis carry. Is there an item in comparison to the weight he could carry
- Bugscope TeamBrian I don't know if anyone has tested praying mantises specifically for carrying weight proportional to their own mass
- Bugscope TeamYeah I have not found any info on it yet...
- Studentokay thanx. I remember the ant could carry 20x it's size!
- Teacherscott what is the tube in the middle of the screen
- Bugscope Teamthis is the shield bug -- a stink bug
- 8:11 am
- Bugscope Teamthat is the shaft of the proboscisi
- Bugscope Teamproboscis
- Studentwhy does a female mantis feed on a male after they mate
- Bugscope TeamI think it's because they are so aggressive and hungry
- Bugscope Teamif they're like mosquitos they want to have a meal in order to ensure that they can lay their eggs successfully
- Studentalex can u put the dobsonfly on the scope
Bugscope Teamyeah, we've got, it's preset number 7
- Bugscope Teamspeaking of laying eggs, that was the ovipositor
- Teacherwe might need help getting on again
- Bugscope Teammr. ritter can you try clicking in the image to stop the motion?
- Bugscope Teammosquito saliva has anticoagulants in it, and your skin reacts to them
- Bugscope Teamor click on a preset
- Bugscope Teamok, cool, now try clicking on a preset
- 8:16 am
- Bugscope Teamscott clicked on a preset
- Bugscope Teamcool, this is a cicada antenna
- Bugscope Teamto the north
- Bugscope Teamthis is the edge of the antenna of the cicada
- Bugscope Teama tiny portion of the cicada's body
- Studentwat r those things in the little holes
- Bugscope Teamthose little holes are places in which there are chemoreceptors on the antenna
- Bugscope Teamthey are sensory pits for chemicals in the air
- Studentwhy do the wings of a cicada make the clicking noise
Bugscope Teamcicadas have loud noisemakers called "timbals" on the sides of the abdominal base, that's what makes the noise
- Student what are the rib like things in preset 7
Bugscope Teamsorry chippy, i'm not sure!
- Studentwhat exactly is a chemoreceptor?
- Studentok thanks thats interesting
- Bugscope Teama chemoreceptor senses chemical odors in the air -- smells
- 8:21 am
- Studentokay thanks. thats pretty cool.
- Bugscope TeamChippy I don't see the rib like things
- Studentwhy does the assasin bug have?
- Student*why does it have the spikes on its back
- Bugscope TeamBrian what was the question?
- Bugscope TeamOh the wheel?
- Bugscope TeamSome assassin bugs don't have it
- Studentyea sry my partner thought I was done and pressed go
- Bugscope Teamhey we are cool Brian np
- Bugscope Teamthis is the proboscis on a stink bug
- Bugscope Teamhere you can barely see the tip of the proboscis
- Bugscope Teamit is very sharp
- Bugscope Teamanyone guess what the largest proboscis is in the world???
- StudentWhat are we looking at right now
Bugscope Teamproboscis on a stink bug
- Bugscope Teamlower middle of the image
- Bugscope Teamthis is the ventral side of the stinkbug -- the underside
- Studentwhats a proboscis
Bugscope Teama proboscis is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal
- Bugscope Teamwhere the tip of the proboscis is
- Bugscope Teamproboscis is what we call the extended mouthpart
- StudentO ok thanx
- Studentis the largest proboscis of the goliath beetle?
- Student Scot do you know about how long the feeding tube is when it is completely straight out of the bugs face?
- Studentwhy are some insects attracted to artificial light and why do they swarm by light
- Bugscope Teamthe largest proboscis in the world is on an elephant! it's the elephant trunk!
- Studentis it possible to cut open one of the insects and see whats inside???
Bugscope Teamoh yeah, entomologists do that all the time
- Studentahaha oh, we were off :]
Bugscope Teamnice guess though, it's kinda a tricky question
- Studentok thanks
- 8:26 am
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that it comes out to be nearly a centimeter if it is extended forward
- Studentcould you guys cut one open for us?
Bugscope Teamwell, it's not possible to interact with the insects once they are inside the scope. the scope is an electron microscope, able to magnify up to 800,000x. all the prep work (cuts, etc.) must be made before you put the sample into the scope
- Bugscope TeamDylan the microscope has a vacuum in it, and it would take awhile to do all of this and then recoat the sample with gold-palladium
- StudentWhat are some popular insects in our state that we probably dont have here?
- Studentwhy are insects attracted to artificial light
Bugscope Teamwell, one theory about moths being attracted to light is that they use a technique of celestial navigation called transverse orientation. this is essentially using the sun/moon as a guide to help direction when flying
- Bugscope Teamthe best we can do if you want to see the inside of an insect is to go to the Dobson fly
- Student"your state"
- Bugscope Teamwe have a lot of the same insects
- Student Alex, what is the most dominent species of insects?
Bugscope Teamhmm, i have no idea! i've never been asked that. bees can be very aggressive, but all insects are trying to survive. i guess the most dominant is the species that wipes out others?
- Studento ok thanks
- Studentok than thanks anyway
- Studentconsole, why are insects attracted to artifical light
- Bugscope Teamladybugs, wheelbugs, other beetles, flies
- StudentHey Scot what is your favorite insect
- 8:32 am
- Bugscope Teamwhen an insect is exposed to very bright light it is believed that is causes the wings to beat more quickly on the opposite side of the eye most affected, and the insect flies in a spiral pattern toward the lightsource
- Bugscope TeamRicky&Dom I like earwigs
- Bugscope TeamBut I like them mostly because they have, often, mites on them
- Bugscope Teamants may be the most dominant species on earth
- Bugscope Teammany insects have defenses specifically against ants
- Bugscope TeamI think you could argue many ways about which species is most dominant
- Bugscope Teamif we drive to the south here we can see inside the exoskeleton of the dobsonfly
- Bugscope Team(me driving)
- Bugscope Teamthis is the underside of the huge head
- Studentkids are on break Im showing teachers
- Bugscope Teamok, no problem
- 8:37 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is part of the inside of the head of the dobsonfly
- Bugscope Teamthis is a tube -- a tracheal tube of some sort
- Bugscope Teamtry driving yourself
- Bugscope Teamthe deal about driving is that if you use click to drive you need to click to stop as well
- Bugscope Teamand you have to be sparing in your commands or the system can get overloaded
- Bugscope TeamI got here using click to center since I am not at the 'scope but using a computer at my desk
- Bugscope Teamclick to stop
- 8:43 am
- Bugscope Teampollen!
- Bugscope Teamadjust the contrast/brightness
- Bugscope Teamthis is the eye
- Bugscope Teamof the fly
- Teacherkids are on break
- Bugscope Teamthis is a collapsed fly eye
- Bugscope Teamwith someone else's scale on it
- 8:48 am
- Bugscope Teamhey ritter, when do the kids come back?
- TeacherWould we be able to log out and then log back in in a few minutes with another faster computer?
- Bugscope Teamsure if you would like
- Bugscope Teampart of the deal is your connection speed
- Bugscope Teambut it should be too bad. you are welcome to switch though, no prob, just make sure to logout first, then log back in with the same (or different) name
- Bugscope Teamshouldn't be too bad i meant
- 8:53 am
- Bugscope Teamwelcome back ritter!
- TeacherHi. This should be better. The other laptop was very slow.
- Bugscope Teamwe are welcoming you back with a Japanese fan
- Bugscope Teamokay, sounds cool.
- Bugscope Teamtry driving!
- Bugscope Teamwhen controlling the scope, there still may be some lag, that's because you are controlling the scope live over the internet, and the scope is sending images to your browser (and every students browser as well). the more students logged in, the more images are sent, and that slows things down.
- TeacherThe students will be back in 20 minutes. Are there any guests logged in that can try out the scope in the mean time?
- 8:58 am
- Bugscope Teamoh it's okay, we can just chill until you are ready
- Bugscope TeamGreg try driving -- get some practice moving around, focusing, etc.
- TeacherGreat. Go grab some coffee.
- Teacheroh ya 100 times better on this computer
- Bugscope Teamcoolness
- 9:04 am
- Teacherthis was realy cool i know how to guild it, our next vist with you will go so much easyer
- Teacherwe have to go. thanks so much great program
- Bugscope Teamno problem, glad you liked it!
- Bugscope Teamthat's it?
- Bugscope Teamwe'll see you again for another session in the future
- Bugscope Teamfeel free to fill out another application on the bugscope website: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/apply
- Bugscope Teamedge of the world
- 9:09 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is close to the limits of the stage
- 9:15 am
- Bugscope TeamHi ldob!
- Bugscope Teamldob would you like to drive? today's participants are done
- Bugscope Teamyou can choose from among the presets along the right side of the chat screen as well as using the controls
- 9:20 am
- Bugscope Teamldob we are bailing out
- Bugscope Teamunless we hear from you -- if you want to drive or ask questions we are glad to hang around
- Bugscope TeamRicky!
- Bugscope TeamDo you want to drive?
- Bugscope TeamThis session was supposed to run 'til 10 our time, so we can let you control the 'scope if you'd like
- Bugscope Teamokay ldob we are peeling off
