Fredonia Middle School
Session 2008-135

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Connected on 2009-01-20 10:30:00 from , NY, US

• 9:36 am
• GuestIs the session going on now? What school is participating? I'm a guest from Trickle Creek Books in Pennsylvania.
• Bugscope TeamOh sorry I wasn't watching the screen
• Bugscope TeamWe are starting setup as soon as the vacuum comes down -- we're almost there.
• Bugscope TeamFredonia Middle School in New York state is working with us toda
• Bugscope Teamy at 11:30 your time.
• 9:42 am
• Bugscope Teamjust got vacuum

• GuestMay I ask questions before 11:30 or should I come back for the formal session? Just one question: Who are we seeing?!!
• 9:47 am

• Bugscope TeamThis is a dragonfly. You may ask questions now but we may not respond right away since we're setting up.

• Bugscope TeamWe will likely be set up before 11:30 your time, and before 11:30 might be a good time to ask questions -- before we need to pay attention to the participating class.
• 9:54 am

• GuestThank you. I write and publish books that "teach kids to care for the earth." I'm just finishing a book called Busy with Bugs: 160 Extremely Interesting Things to Do with Bugs. I began the resource page with a reference to Bugscope and just wanted to check it out. What an exciting program for children!

• Bugscope TeamWow, Cool. Today we have the leftovers of someone's collection, and we don't recognize everything she collected, and in some cases mislabeled. So we're hoping our entomologist will log on in a little while.

• GuestAre these little mites on the insect?
• 9:59 am

• Bugscope TeamYes these are on a cuckoo wasp, and we have never seen them quite like this before. With eyes and this rectangular shape.
• Bugscope TeamOften the mites we see do not have eyes.

• Bugscope TeamWe have seen those close-set eyes before.
• 10:06 am

• GuestAre you using an electron microscope?

• 10:12 am
• Bugscope TeamYes this is a scanning electron microscope with a field emission electron gun -- high res.
• Bugscope TeamBrochosomes are found only on leafhoppers, but other insects pick them up.
• GuestI'm going to get lunch and eat in my office, so I can eavesdrop on the children at 11:30. They'll love this!
• Bugscope TeamYeah we hope they do. Every session is a little different. We've been doing this for about 10 years now, around 400 sessions.
• 10:18 am
• Bugscope TeamBug Watcher if you would like to try driving, briefly, let us know.
• 10:23 am
• GuestI'd like to try driving!
• Bugscope Teamyou may go ahead and select a preset, or change mag, or move the sample -- whatever you would like

• Bugscope Teamwe have put the red start next to your login, indicating that have control

• Bugscope Teamred star, that is

• Bugscope Teamhi
• Bugscope TeamBug Watcher can you take us to one of the unidentified insects?

• Bugscope Teamlike preset 4?
• GuestI'm no longer driving--just watching.

• Bugscope TeamCool. Thanks!

• 10:28 am

• Bugscope TeamThis is some sort of hoppery thing
• Bugscope Teamthat's what i was thinking
• Bugscope Teamlike a membracid

• Bugscope Teamyeah we thought it looked like a leafhopper, kind of a cool looking one
• Bugscope Teamjust call it a hopper, i guess
• Bugscope Teamit;s a female
• Bugscope Teamsee her ovipositor?

• Bugscope TeamI think this is a tiger beetle
• Bugscope Teamfemale

• Bugscope Teampretty vicious looking mouth, eh?
• Bugscope TeamSounds good to me.
• Bugscope TeamYeah scary, as befits a tiger.

• 10:33 am

• Bugscope TeamStonefly!!!

• Bugscope Teamscott should have known that one from that one session he studied up on :p
• Bugscope TeamI think
• Bugscope Team95 percent sure
• Bugscope TeamI thought it had a weird mouth

• GuestWas it the mouth that enabled you to identify it as a stonefly?
• Bugscope Teamno it was the general aspect (not helpful at all) and the two terminal cerci
• Bugscope Teamthe cerci gave it away

• Bugscope TeamThere isnt much of a mouth to speak of--most stoneflies don't eat as adults

• Bugscope TeamIs that all the mysteries?
• Bugscope Teami think so
• Bugscope TeamWell you might check out the cuckoo wasp, with the mites
• Bugscope TeamI think there might be two different kinds of mites
• Bugscope TeamI don't know anything about mites
• Bugscope Team:(
• 10:39 am

• Bugscope TeamNo word from the school...

• Bugscope Teamthat's ok annie, thanks for the other identifications though
• Bugscope Teamyup, cuckoo wasp

• Bugscope TeamThat flat excavated area on the abdomen is diagnosic
• Bugscope Teamit lets them roll into a ball when they are threatened

• Bugscope TeamThey also have a distinctive thorax
• Bugscope Teamuh oh
• Bugscope Teammy screen is blank
• 10:44 am
• Bugscope TeamBug Watcher I just called the school and left a message...
• GuestIt's time to listen to the inaugural address. Happy Obama Day! Thanks for letting me hang out.
• Bugscope TeamThank You.
• 10:52 am
• Bugscope TeamAnnie we're gonna bail.
• Bugscope TeamOK--talk to yall later