poff elementary
Session 2009-001

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Connected on 2009-02-12 10:00:00 from , PA, US

• 9:31 am
• Bugscope TeamGood morning!
• Bugscope TeamI am working on presets for today's session.
• GuestGood Morning!

• 9:37 am

• Bugscope TeamPlease let me know if you have questions. I will watch for them.
• 9:43 am

• GuestThanks. We are a class of Gifted Children. Wanting to see if it is something that interests them. So far they all seem excited and in awe!
• TeacherGood Morning
• Bugscope TeamGood morning, Mrs Prosser!

• Bugscope TeamMrs Prosser are we working with you at 11 your time?
• GuestThank you for letting use watch "over your shoulder"!
• TeacherAt first I thought it was 12:00 my time so I arranged everything for that time
• Teacherbut, if we cannot do that then I will gather my students for the 11:00 time
• Bugscope TeamHowever you would like. Noon your time is fine.
• Teachergreat, that would be better for us
• Bugscope TeamI am getting started a little early.

• TeacherI will see you at 11:50 with my students
• Bugscope TeamGreat! Thank You!
• TeacherPearl River, Where are you located
• 9:48 am
• TeacherPoff School- Hampton Township- Allinson Park
• GuestWe are located in Pearl River County, McNeill, Mississippi. Where are you located?
• TeacherPennsylvania

• GuestWhat grade are you teaching?
• GuestI teach 4th and 5th grade Intellectually GIfted children.

• 9:54 am

• 10:00 am

• 10:07 am
• Teacherwhen we log on att 12:00 are you going to describe to our students what they are seeing
• Bugscope TeamYes and I will have some help as well.
• Bugscope TeamWill the students be logged onto their own computers, or sharing computers?
• Bugscope TeamMrs Prosser I would like to invite Pearl River to drive a bit if it is alright with you, before your session.
• Bugscope TeamI have the presets done, at least for now.
• Bugscope TeamPearl River Central I have given you control of the microscope if you would like to test drive for 10-15 minutes.
• 10:20 am

• Bugscope Teambee right back
• Bugscope Teamhaha bee funny :p

• GuestWe BEE appreciative!

• Bugscope Teamthis is the edge of the sample stub. to the right you can see a screw for the stage in the microscope

• 10:25 am
• Bugscope Teamsorry I missed your starting up
• GuestThis takes a minute to get used to moving it..lol

• Bugscope Teamlet us know if/when you have questions about driving, or about the critters
• Bugscope Teamthese are almost all from someone's collection, so they have pinholes in the thoraces
• Bugscope Teamwe've been avoiding the ones that are glued to tabs
• GuestAH. I was wondering what that was...

• Bugscope Teamthis is a small parasitic wasp, of which there are prob'ly hundreds of species

• Bugscope Teamthey lay their eggs in caterpillars

• Bugscope Teamif you click to drive it is important to click to stop

• GuestIt wasnt moving..must be something with my computer
• Bugscope Teamor else you go off the edge of the world

• Bugscope Teamyou can use click to center

• Bugscope Teamyou may click on a preset to have the microscope drive itself to that position

• 10:30 am
• Guestnow it moved...must be alot of traffic on my end.

• Bugscope TeamPRC you are the only person driving; no one else has the ability to control except Cate and me.
• Bugscope Teamyou should be able to scroll through the presets and find something interesting
• Bugscope Teamyou can see a smooshed ant to the NW

• Bugscope Teamanyway let us know if you have any trouble, any questions
• GuestThanks

• Bugscope Teamthis is a click beetle
• GuestThis is soo NEAT
• Bugscope Teamwe are glad you like it
• Bugscope Teamone of those black beetles that can snap its whole body to wake you up if you happen to be sitting on it, as happened to me once
• Bugscope Teamcool antenna
• Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag down to see where you are
• Bugscope Teamif you want

• Bugscope Teamyay
• GuestWOW

• Bugscope Teamnow you can see the jointed body, where the click is
• Bugscope Teamthe clicker
• 10:35 am

• Bugscope Teamgood thing they snap instead of biting

• GuestWOW that hole is cool. That is so wild how you can SEE everything.

• Bugscope Teamabdomen, now
• Bugscope Teamwith lots of tiny setae on it
• GuestI was wondering what u call those.

• Bugscope Teamthey're hairs but we can't call them that since they're not, you know, mammals
• GuestThat is TOO neat
• Bugscope Teamthey can also be spines, trichae, microtrichae, microsetae
• Bugscope Teamyup setae are basically just hairs on insects that lets them know whats going on around them
• Bugscope Teamdepending on the size and where they are
• Bugscope Teamlike for touch, taste/smell
• Bugscope Teamyes as Cate says...
• GuestI am glad humans do smell or taste everything they touch! EEW
• 10:40 am
• Bugscope Teamif you were an insect you might be able to smell with your fingers
• Bugscope Teamand think if you had compound eyes
• Bugscope Teamsome insects can see in the UV as well

• Bugscope Teamscott always jokes about how he is happy that spiderman isnt really like a spider

• Bugscope TeamYeah. Imagine if he had spinnerets. He would be unlikely get dates with appendages like that.

• Bugscope Teamunlikely to get dates...
• Bugscope Teamthis is cool
• Bugscope Teamthese are sensilla on an antenna
• GuestHey you need a shave...your hands!

• Bugscope Teamantennae are super important to sensing the Outer World, as in detecting pheromones.

• Bugscope Teamnow you see the eye, as well

• 10:45 am
• GuestScience ROCKS!

• Bugscope Teamoops head fell off this morning
• Teacherwe will all be here in 5 minutes
• GuestI hate it when my head falls off

• Bugscope TeamOkay Mrs Prosser we will let you have control.

• GuestThanks for the reigns! It was FUN! My kids are LOVING IT!
• Bugscope Teamthanks for joining us today and trying it out
• Bugscope TeamPearl River Thank You!
• GuestNow that I have gotten the ahng of it. I will DEF fill in the application to do this. Thank YOU
• Bugscope TeamGreat! We look forward to seeing you again. If you have time you can collect some bugs and send them, to look at.
• 10:51 am
• GuestThat sounds GREAT!
• Bugscope Teamsmall bugs are best, since the stage is only 50 mm in diameter, and earwigs are one of my favorites. 'Cause they often have mites.
• GuestI would love to examine a one of those BIG red ants with the blck stripes
• Bugscope Teamsounds great
• GuestTHoase are some mighty small mites
• Bugscope Teamcatch a few, freeze them for 3 to 4 days, or more; then let them air dry for several days before mailing in a crushproof container
• Bugscope TeamI think there is a mite on the first preset today but it is hard to make out its orientation
• Bugscope Teamwith ants tho sometimes they will wake back up so dont assume they are dead
• Bugscope Teamyeah they just wake up and start walking around after they've been frozen, sometimes

• 10:56 am
• Bugscope Teamme driving
• Bugscope Teamthis I am not sure about
• GuestWhat is this?
• Bugscope Teammay be a tiny scale bug
• Bugscope TeamMrs Prosser you have control now.
• Bugscope Teamon the edge of the wing of a much larger insect

• Bugscope TeamYou can select from among the presets, or drive outright.
• Bugscope Teamyou should see controls on the upper right (might need to refresh your browser to see )
• Bugscope Teamwe suggest clicking first on a preset to jump to an insect, and form there you can drive around and explore that insect if you want
• Bugscope Teamand you should see the presets to the right of this chat box
• Bugscope Teamif the students have computers you can log them in as well
• 11:01 am

• Bugscope Teamonly one person can drive at a time, and presently that is you, Mrs Prosser.
• Teacherthanks
• Teachersame with adjust
• Teacherokay, what are we viewing
  Bugscope Teamthis is a claw at the end of a leg of some unknown insect
• Bugscope Teamunless you know what the insect is scott?
• Bugscope Teamhere we see how insects often walk; they do not always use the ends of their legs
• Bugscope TeamI am not sure what this is.
• Bugscope Teamyou can drive to the head and see
• Bugscope Teamthe head is to the NW
• Bugscope Teamand you can drive using click to center if you would like
• Bugscope Teamthey use their claws to grab onto things
• Bugscope Teamsometimes it is easier than click to drive
• Bugscope Teamand sometimes they have little pads by the claws that have special setae (AKA insect hairs) that allows them to walk on walls
• Bugscope Teamor -- just click on one of the presets

• 11:06 am
• Bugscope Teamthis is a place on the back of a tiny ant upon which we can see little crystals
• Bugscope Teamif you decrease the magnification you can see just where we are

• Bugscope Teamnow you can see the eye

• Bugscope Teamand the antennae, and the whole head
• Bugscope Teamthis ant got moldy after it died
• Bugscope Teamyou can see that focus is up or down
• Teacherwhat kind of crystal is on the ant's head

• Bugscope TeamWe are not sure; later we might be able to do elemental analysis, but it is so small we might not get enough of an x-ray signal
• Bugscope Teamit looks like calcium carbonate crystals
• 11:12 am

• Bugscope Teamthis is a cute little dude
• Bugscope Teamhe/she has a head like a borer
• Teacheris the beattle on something
• Bugscope Teamit's on carbon tape
• Bugscope Teamsee all of the tiny setae -- the things that resemble hairs?
• Teacheris this the head of the beattle
• Bugscope Teaminsects are pretty hairy
• Bugscope Teamyes, the head is kind of like a tank turret
• Teacherwe are unsure of what we are viewing
  Bugscope Teamthis is the head, the antennae are the long stalks coming out and down the body
• Bugscope Teamyou can see that it can swivel

• Bugscope Teamdoes that help you get oriented?
• Bugscope Teamnow we see that its thoracic legs -- its first set of legs, are both broken off
• Bugscope Teambut it does have four more...
• Bugscope Teamthe two little "feelers" coming out from the head are palps and they are part of the beetle's mouth parts. palps help the insect manipulate or taste its food

• Bugscope Teamas you can see by looking at the scalebar, this is a small beetle

• Bugscope Teama few millimeters big

• 11:17 am
• Teacherwhat are the holes
• Teachercracks
• Bugscope Teamwe can see the seams in the 'armor' the beetle is wearing
• Bugscope Teaminsects have their skeleton on the outside
• Bugscope Teamthe 'exoskeleton'
• Teachera student wants to know why is the picture black and grey
  Bugscope Teamwe are using electrons rather than light to collect the images we see

• Bugscope Teamthis is a nice view of the mouthparts

• Bugscope Teamyou can see there is a hinged jaw that chews stuff up near the upper part of the screen

• Bugscope Teamelectrons come to us as signal, and not as color
• Teacherwhat is the natural color of the insect
• Bugscope Teamwe beam electrons at the sample and get what are called 'secondary electrons' back
• Teacherwhere is scot located
• Bugscope Teamthis beetle was brown
• 11:22 am
• Teacherare you using an electron microscope

• Bugscope TeamI am in the basement of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois.

• Bugscope TeamI am using a computer next to the electron microscope

• Bugscope Teamyou are controlling the electron microscope from your classroom

• Bugscope Teamit's like you are driving a $600,000 car

• Bugscope Teamand you are driving very well

• Teacherwow
• Teacherthank you
• Bugscope Teamsee the eyes? d'oh Cate beat me
• Teachercompund eyes
• Bugscope Teamyes

• Bugscope Teamthis insect has two compound eyes, which are made up of many different individual facets we call ommatidia that each collect an image and send it back to the brain

• Bugscope Teamyou can also see the antennae, and the tiny jaws

• Bugscope Teamthe little ommatidia usually look like hexagons so a lot of kids are reminded of the epcot center

• Bugscope Teamthis is the beautiful structure of a scale (nice job scott)

• Bugscope Teamthe scales are what make a butterfly feel silky when you touch it
• 11:27 am
• Bugscope Teamthey come off very easily
• Teacherwhat kind of butterfly is this
• Bugscope Teamif you were a butterfly and you flew into someone's (like a spider's) web, the scales would stick and fall off and you might be able to get away
• Bugscope Teamthis was from a big yellow and black butterfly -- I'm sorry I don't know what it was. All we had at this time was the wing.
• Bugscope Teambutterflies, moths, mosquitos, and silverfish have scales, along with a few other insects, sometimes
• Bugscope Teamwe had an iridescent green weevil the other day with scales

• Bugscope Teami think usually yellow butterflies are some type of sulphur butterfly (called sulphur because of the color)
• Bugscope Teamthis is the edge of a palp, and you can see the little slits that we think let chemical smells (odors) in so the insect can taste-test its food

• Bugscope Teamthe tiny spines are probably mechanosensory setae
• Bugscope Teamwhen we say mechanosensory we mean that they can sense touch, like a cat or rat's whiskers
• 11:35 am

• Bugscope Teamoh the preset moved a little

• Bugscope Teamthat was me driving
• Teacherwhat part of the fly is this?
• Bugscope TeamI wanted you to be able to see the little brochosomes; they are on one of its claws

• Bugscope Teamas you are -- now you can see that this is a claw we are on

• Bugscope Teamif you decrease the mag --yay!

• Bugscope Teamyou can see the whole claw
• Bugscope Teamand if you want you can drive north to see the tarsi, which is what the forearm segments are called

• Bugscope Teamthat is cool
• Bugscope Teaminsects often have little pincher like claws, like these

• Bugscope Teamnow we see part of the wing on the left

• Bugscope Teamand the abdomen

• Bugscope Teamto the right
• Bugscope Teamthe samples we are looking at are inside a vacuum chamber

• Bugscope Teamthis is the click beetle!
• Bugscope Teamyou found it!
• 11:40 am

• Bugscope Teamthere is a little mite

• Bugscope Teammites usually die with their host
• Teacherwhat type of mite is it
• Bugscope Teami have no idea, this one is new to me. there arent too many people that research mites

• Bugscope Teamthe clicking part of the beetle is near the middle of its body. we can see part of it in the lower part of the screen
• Teacherwhat side of the beetle are we viewing
  Bugscope Teamwe are looking at the underside. the head is near the top of the screen. you can see its mouthparts and its long antennae
• 11:45 am

• Teacherthank you very much for our session
• Teacherwe loved it
• TeacherI will schedule another time very soon
• Bugscope Teamthank you for all your great questions
• Bugscope Teamand you did an awesome job driving
• Bugscope TeamThank You!
• Bugscope Teamwe look forward to seeing you again
• Bugscope TeamI had to do a quick tour for the last few minutes...
• Bugscope Teamif you go back to your member page you can look over the images and chat from today
• Bugscope Teamat http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/members/2009-001/
• Bugscope Teamnow we have someone getting ready to use the 'scope for her research...
• Bugscope TeamThank You aagin!
• Bugscope Teamagain