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- 6:40 am
- Bugscope Teampumping down; we have a yellowjacket that might outgas, may take awhile
- Bugscope Team8.2
- 6:49 am
- Bugscope Team3.0
- Bugscope Team2.5
- 6:55 am
- Bugscope Team2.0
- Bugscope Teammagic number is 1.3
- Bugscope Team1.8
- 7:04 am
- Bugscope Team~
- Bugscope Team1.6 x 10-4
- Bugscope Teamgood morning, Grasshopper
- Bugscope Teamvacuum is hovering now, looks like a solid 1.5
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope TeamGood morning!
- Bugscope Teambugs are beautiful, indeed!
- TeacherGood Morning! We are busy getting ready for our session!! Great feedback from the last session!! What an amazing opportunity for students!
- Bugscope TeamGood morning
- Bugscope Team:)
- 7:09 am
- Bugscope Teamwe have a juicy yellowjacket in the 'scope, and it is taking a little while for the 'scope to pump down
- Bugscope Teamonce we have the scope pumped down, we'll make presets. we'll be ready for your session at 8AM, no problemo.
- Bugscope Teamvacuum is 1.5 x 10-4 mBar, and we are going for 1.3...
- 7:17 am
- Bugscope Teamvac okay!
- Bugscope Teamstarting presets now
- 7:24 am
- 7:29 am
- Bugscope Team:-X
- 7:36 am
- StudentWe have signed in some students as guests however some computers enter them as students. Does it matter?
- Bugscope Teamit doesn't matter so much, they will function the same
- Bugscope Teamwe do prefer that students log in as students, but if they are already on as guest, it's no biggie
- Studentcool
- 7:42 am
- 7:47 am
- Studenthello
- Bugscope Teamhello cicada!
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope
- Studenthi tommy!
- Bugscope Teamwe are still setting up the presets for today's session
- Bugscope Teamwe start in 13 minutes, yes?
- Studentew this is gross
- Studenti am dayna
- Bugscope Teamgross, but cool
- Studenthi
- Bugscope Teamwell, the yellowjack let out some gas, and that has temporarily disturbed the vacuum, we are getting it back now
- Bugscope Teamso now you have a lovely view of the inside of the vacuum chamber while we wait for the vacuum to recover
- Bugscope Team1.4
- 7:52 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is the sample we have been working on this morning
- Bugscope Teamyou can see at the top where the electrons come from
- Bugscope Teamthe secondary electron detector is to the right, top
- Bugscope Teamthe insects are all on the stub in the low middle of the view here
- Bugscope Teamwe are looking toward the stage door
- Bugscope Teamcool, the vacuum is back, and scott just turned on the secondary electron detector
- Bugscope Teamyay, we've got high mag back!
- TeacherCool! We will begin in about 5 to 10 minutes!!
- 7:57 am
- Studentv
- Bugscope Teamok, we will be ready
- Bugscope Teamok, presets are done, i just unlocked the session, we are ready anytime
- Bugscope Teamyou should see controls on the right side: magnify, navigation, focus, adjust, and the presets below that
- Bugscope Teamif your image ever goes black, try refreshing your browser: F5
- Studentt
- Bugscope TeamYou have control now...
- Bugscope Teamthere is a beetle to the right that we did not make a preset of, have not looked at
- Bugscope Teamthis wasp must have got mooshed
- 8:03 am
- Bugscope Teamthere it is -- I just moved to it
- Bugscope Teamthe true bug
- TeacherAre there presets for an ant, cricket, and fly?
- Bugscope TeamI am sorry we do not have those today. We have a grasshopper, a wasp (related to ants), and fruit flies, which are diptera (flies)
- Bugscope TeamI would have put an ant on if I had one
- TeacherWe had the ant, cricket and fly at our last session is there any way to show any of those
- Studentno
- Bugscope Teamno there is not I am sorry--this is live imaging
- Bugscope Teamsometimes we run out of ants, and flies, particularly
- 8:08 am
- Bugscope Teambut there are plenty of other REALLY cool things to look at on this sample
- Bugscope TeamAnd a Fruit fly is similar to a House fly
- Bugscope Teamand a yellow-jacket kinda looks like an ant head in some ways
- Bugscope Teamhey!
- Studenthi
- Bugscope Teamclick once to start moving, then click again to stop
- Bugscope Teamthere IS a fly!
- Guesthi
- Guestant;yo men
- Student Hi
- Bugscope Teamjust
- Bugscope Teamhi chrysalis and june bug, welcome to bugscope! hi hornet
- Guestyo
- Guesthey junebug
- Guestwe rock
- Studenti likemountain dew
- Bugscope Teamand or roll!
- Guesthow do lady bugs have spots
- Guestwhy do thhey have spots
Bugscope Teami'm not sure exactly, but it might help with recognizing other ladybugs, or other species would recognize the ladybug, like cats don't like the taste of them so cats might learn not to eat something that was red with black spots
- Studenthi
- Studentthats cool
- Guestyo yoyo yo yo dude abbeyrox yo
- 8:13 am
- StudentElise likes Barski
- Guestyo
- Guesthey
- Guestwhy do they like eachother
- Guestwhat are those pointie things
Bugscope Teamsetea...little hairs to help fly navigate
- Bugscope Teamthose pointy things are called setae (see-tee)
- Guestdilan is in love with bri
- Bugscope TeamBugs Are Beautiful did you see that you had found a fly on the stub?
- Bugscope Teamsetae help insects to sense their environment, kinda like cat whiskers
- GuestYO
Bugscope Teamyeah?
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of the yellowjacket
- GuestHow do dragonflys comunicate?
- Studentwhats up!
- Guestit looks like a big fat head
- Studenthow big is a stinger
Bugscope Teamwell, it's very small, there is a scale bar in the lower left of the image
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that its eye wraps around that patch of 'hair'
- Bugscope Teamthese are its mouthparts
- Studentwhy do redants bite
- Guestis that hair in the mouth
- Studentwheres the tounge?
- Studentwhat is it
- Bugscope Teamit is hard to tell what is what -- the mouthparts are soft and shrivel when they dry
- Bugscope Teamthis is a claw
- Guestding dong
- Bugscope Teaminsects have claws to help them manipulate their environment
- Bugscope Teamthis is the claw of one of the true bugs (hemiptera) we have in the 'scope today
- Guestow many legs do lady bugs have 6 4 how many spots do lady bbugs have why do they have them are they inportant why
Bugscope Teamthey have six legs, and the number and pattern of spots varies -- the spots are programmed into the genetic code
- Bugscope Teamhere this is cool
- Bugscope Teamsee the two big compound eyes on either side of the head?
- Guesthow many eyes does it have
Bugscope Teamthis has two large compound eyes, although some insects have simple eyes in addition to two compound eyes
- Student1000
- Guestwhy do ladybugs flyy
- Studenthow are redants deffrent then black ants
Bugscope Teammostly, I think, the color, and the species -- there are thousands of species of ant
- Studentare all of the little squares eyes
Bugscope Teamyep, they are the individual facets of the compound eye, called ommatidia
- Bugscope Teameach compound eye is made up of hundreds of individual facets, those bump things
- Guestwhat is a carnica
- Guestwhat is the cornicle.
- Guestwhats a cornacal
- 8:19 am
- Guestwhats a cornicle
- Guestit sounds like corn
- GuestHI BRYCE
- Guesta part of the bug
- Bugscope Teamthe cornicle are like pores
- TeacherWhat is a cornacle
Bugscope Teamcornicles also exude droplets of a quick-hardening defensive fluid called cornicle wax
- Bugscope Teamthe cornicle is an organ on the back of the aphid that produces dew, although not always
- Bugscope Teamcornicles are found on ahips
- Student1
- Studentwhat is it
- Guesthow many spouts does a ladybug have
Bugscope Teamit varies
- Guest2
- Studentwhy are red ants small
Bugscope Teamsome red ants are small and some are not; ants of the same colony can vary widely in size depending on what they do
- GuestHow much times can yellow jackets sting before they die?
Bugscope Teamit depends, often they can sting more than once, but sometimes the stinger can get stuck
- Guestbye
- Guestwhat
- Guesthow do they eat yoy yoy yoy ooy oy
Bugscope Teamthey have a little pointy proboscis that they can stick into leaves -- so they can drink the sap
- Guestding dong
- Bugscope Teamso sometimes they feed ants that way, and sometimes they stop ants dead using that organ
- Studentbye
- Bugscope TeamBugs Are Beautiful let's go find the fly and make it into a preset
- TeacherWe are just switching groups - give us a minute. Thanks!
- TeacherOK-ready!
- Bugscope Teamok!
- 8:24 am
- Bugscope Teamcool, here is the fly, we are making a preset
- Bugscope Teamok, we are good, we've got a fly head preset!
- Bugscope Teamfly head is preset #22
- Guestdgf
- Bugscope Teamfly's have great vision, with their two huge compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamthe fly compound eye is made up of thousands of individual facets, called ommatidia, each one has a lens in it
- 8:29 am
- Bugscope Teamto the left is the fly proboscis
- Guestgraet
- Bugscope Teamnow you are getting a close-up of the exoskeleton near the proboscis
- Bugscope Teamthe mouthparts are to the left
- Guestwhat are we looking at
- Guestcool
- Bugscope TeamThis is the face of a fly, up close
- Bugscope Teamnot too much to see right here
- Bugscope Teamthis fly has sponging mouthparts
- Guestwhats this?
- TeacherCan you tell us a little about a wasp wing?
- Bugscope Teamit spits digestive juices on its food and then sucks the dissolved food up
- Bugscope Teamthe wasp wing is on the bottom, here, and you could see those little hooks, called hamuli
- Bugscope Teamyou can see them now
- Bugscope Teamwell, those tiny little hairs on the wing are though to help balance the wing in flight by creating more surface that is exposed to air
- Bugscope Teamwasps and bees have four wings, but when they fly it is much more efficient to have only two wings
- Teacherthanks! Now-dragonfly head
- Guestwhats this
- Bugscope Teamso the wasp hooks its fore-and hindwings together using those little hooks we saw
- Bugscope Teamthe dragonfly head is what we are looking at now
- Bugscope Teamthis is the underside of the head of a small dragonfly
- Guesthats this
- Studentwow what is that
- GuestWHAT IS THIS
- Bugscope Teamdragonflies have four wings as well, but they use them withouth hooking them together
- Bugscope TeamDRAGONFLY HEA
- StudentWhat are we looking at?
- Bugscope TeamHEAD
- Bugscope Teamnow this is a compound eye
- Guestwow
- Guestwhat is that
- Guestthis is coooooool
- 8:35 am
- Bugscope Teamcompound eye, with setae inbetween
- Bugscope Teamthe dragonfly has huge eyes
- Bugscope Teamthis is a yellowjacket tongue
- GuestOK
- Guestso cool
- Guestwow
- Studentholy cow
- Guestbye
- Guestso
- Guestcool
- Bugscope Teamgood bye
- Guestthanks
- Bugscope Teammouthparts are often confusing to us
- TeacherHi we're switching groups again
- Bugscope Teamok, no problemo
- Bugscope Teamit is hard for us to realize how they work; they don't relate to the way our mouths work
- TeacherOur next group is here.
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamthis is the mouth of a yellowjackets
- Bugscope Teamthis is a tongue of a yellow-jacket
- Bugscope Teamjacket, sorry
- Bugscope Teamq pr
- Guestyo
- Guestslim shady in
- Bugscope Teamyo Ant
- Guesthey brother
- Bugscope Teamthis is just below the jaw of the yellowjacket
- Bugscope Teamit's kind of like a tongue
- 8:40 am
- Bugscope Teamvery much like the tongue of a bee
- Guestyo man you like bills
- Bugscope Teambills?
- Bugscope Teamthe fly!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly head
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its antennae at the top of its head
- Bugscope Teamthe proboscis is in the middle of the head
- Studentsoot
- Bugscope Teamthe mouthparts here are kind of shriveled -- they are soft and don'
- Bugscope Teamt dry well
- Bugscope Teamthis is the compound eye of a fruit fly
- Bugscope Teamthis is a compound eye
- Studentdo you like baseball
Bugscope Teamsteroid boys
- Guestyo
- Bugscope Teamif you take the mag down here you can see the rest of the head
- GuestWhat are those sticks
Bugscope Teamsetea...help fly sense its environment
- Bugscope Teamthose are setae
- Bugscope Teamnow we see more of the head, more of the eye
- Bugscope Teamah!
- Guestwhat i dont get it
- Studentdo the discco
- Guestwhy are there bumps
- Bugscope TeamEarwig what?
- Guestno
- Guesteww
- Bugscope Teamthe bumps on the back of the head, to the right, are ocelli
- Bugscope Teamthese are live images from an electron microscope, your teacher is controlling the scope over the internet
- Bugscope Teamocelli are simple eyes
- Bugscope Teamthis is a claw
- Guestdiscusting
- Bugscope Teamthis is a claw from a true bug (hemiptera)
- Bugscope Teamlots of insects have claws: to help them shove food into their mouths, to help them move around, etc.
- Guest?
- 8:45 am
- GuestWhat is it for
- Guest why is there hair
Bugscope Teamto help insects sense their environment
- Bugscope Teamwell, it's gross, but it's cool. i'll bet you anything insects think HUMANS are gross
- Bugscope Teaminsects all have six legs, and most of the them have claws, sort of for the same reason we have hands
- Guestwhat are the sticks coming out of the head yo man
Bugscope Teamthe sticks on the fruit fly head were little bristles that help the fly gauge windspeed, wind direction
- Bugscope Teamthose hairs are called setae (see-tee)
- Guestdo the claws help them climb?
Bugscope Teamtotally!
- Guestwerid
- Studentwhy do they have claws
Bugscope Teamto help them climb, put food in their mouths, for defense, etc.
- Guestcool!
- GuestWhat bug is that
Bugscope Teamthis is a true bug; true bugs have piercing mouthparts
- Guestthat is a werid bug pie man dog yo
- Guestwhy do bugs have dots on their eyes?
Bugscope Teamthe dots are individual lenses called ommatidia
- Gueststrange!
- Guesthow big is it?
Bugscope Teamcheck out the scale bar in the lower right of the image
- Guest500 feet
- Studentwhy do they only have 1 antenna
- Guestwhy is there hair on the legs
- Guestwhat"s the little hairs
Bugscope Teamthe little hairs are often called 'setae,' and they help the insect feel, and taste, and sense heat/cold
- Bugscope Teamhaving rounded eyes with many facets allows the insect to have better peripheral vision
- Bugscope Teamone um = one micron
- Guestwhat are all those hairs for?
Bugscope Teamhairs are called setae (see-tee), they help sense the environment
- Bugscope Teamone micron one millionth of a meter
- Guestbecause there is chrysalis
- Guesti like grasshoppers
- Guestey hop on me
- Studentcool
- Guestwhy is there one eye and not another
Bugscope Teamonly one eye is showing
- Guesteddie do you think that is cool
- Bugscope Teamthe other eye is on the other side of the head
- Guesti hate centipedes
- Guesteww!
- Studenthow big is a normal head
Bugscope Teamthis head is about half a millimeter
- Guestwhat is that!!!
- Bugscope Teamyeah this is a nasty dude
- Guestyou own turkey
- Bugscope Teamit is a centipede
- Guestis the grasshopper dead?
- Guesteww how gross!
- Bugscope Teamit has big fangs
- Guestno
- Bugscope Teamyes, all the insects in the scope are dead
- Bugscope Teamall critters you are looking at are dead
- GuestWhat is the little hole?
- 8:50 am
- Guestare all the pictures of dead insects?
Bugscope Teamthese are LIVE images, your teacher is controlling the scope. and yes, the insects are dead
- Guestbecause thay do!
- Guest whats the big round circle
- Guesteww
- Studenthow long is a grasshoppers life span
- Guestcan bugs taste thingy ma boberz?
- Guestyo that was my bro
- Guestewwwwwwwwwwwww
- Guestit's like a furry as a dog
- Bugscope Teamthis is a closeup of the yellowjacket antenna
- Guestwhat is THAT?i
- Bugscope Teamthis is a closeup of a yellow-jacket antenna
- Guestfly its not groos its cool
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that it has numerous sensory setae and placoid sensilla
- Guestwhat is that?
- Bugscope Teamclose up of antenna on yellowjacket
- Bugscope Teamif you zoom out you can see more of the antenna
- Studentwhat are the things sticking outt?
Bugscope Teamthose are called placoid sensilla
- Studenthow do bugs talk
Bugscope Teamsometimes they make noises, and sometimes they speak using pheromones; sometimes they use visual cues to communicate
- Bugscope Teampeople obviously do not have antennae, so it is hard for us to comprehend how important they are to insects
- Guestwut r the littyo man yo pie eat cow dog pie
- Guestbye
- Guestgoodbye!
- Guestit looks like a corn feild
- Studentgoodbye
- Bugscope Teamgood bye,hope you had fun and learned something!
- Bugscope TeamBye...
- Bugscope TeamBye!
- Bugscope TeamBye everybody...
- 8:57 am
- Bugscope Teamlol
- Bugscope Teamthis is a compound eye
- Bugscope Teamwith setae inbetween
- Bugscope Teamthose setae (see-tee), help the fly to sense wind speed and direction
- Bugscope Teamthose setae are mechanreceptors
- Bugscope Teamthey, as Alex said, move with respect to the wind, and that movement allows the fly to sense wind speed/direction
- Studentwhat are the hairs?
- Bugscope Teamsome of the setae are busted off
- Bugscope Teamthose are setae
- Guestwhat are the hair like items on the compound eyes?
Bugscope Teamsetae (small mechanoreceptors) they help the fly sense the wind/airflow and help it navigate
- GuestHow do the bumps in the eye help them see?
- Studentwhy are there so much eyes
Bugscope Teamthe eye is curved so it can see all around. the lens's in insect eyes can't move like humans can, so they need more facets and they need those facets to be looking in different directions, thus the curved compound eye
- Guesthow long are the setae?
Bugscope Teamsorry if we were there again we would be able to tell by looking at the scalebar
- Studenthow many eyes do flys have
Bugscope Teamthey have two eyes (compound eyes) and each eye is composited of many omatidia
- GuestHow long do insects live?
- Guestwhy do there eyes look like a bee hive
Bugscope Teamthey are that shape because it is the most efficient shape for close-packing
- Studentwhat are the little hairs
- Guesthow many eyes are there?
Bugscope Teamtwo large compound eyes, some insects also have simple eyes
- Guestwhat are all the hairs for?
Bugscope Teamto sense the environment
Bugscope Teamto sense the environment, either mechanical or chemosensory stimuli
- Bugscope Teamthey also have three additional eyes on the top of their head
- Guestare the claws sharp?
- Guesthow many eyes are there
- GuestAre there setae all over an insects' body?
- Guestis that the stinger?
- Studentwhy do they look like claws
Bugscope Teamthey have claws to grasp things
- 9:02 am
- Bugscope Teamthe hairs are part of the sensory system -- the exoskeleton is like a suit of armor, and insects need to be able to sense their environment through that. So they have those hairs, which are sensory setae
- GuestHow long does an insect live?
- Guestwhat do they use claws for?
- Guestdo the eyes see far
Bugscope Teamit depends on the insect -- they see far enough to be able to avoid predators, and to do their own predation, if that is what they do
- Studentdo they use there claws for digging?
Bugscope Teamsure!
- Guestdo the eyes see far away
- GuestAre all bug faces different shapes?
Bugscope Teamsome are similar, like those of ants and wasps, which are related
- GuestIt helps with sences.
- Studentwhy do the eyes look like sponges?
- GuestWhat are the dots on the fly?
- Studentdo bugs have different faces?
- Studenthow do they breathe
Bugscope Teamthey have holes in the sides of their bodies, called spiracles, air goes into those spiracles
- GuestIt breaths out its legs.
- Guesthow does a grass hopper breath?
Bugscope Teamit breathes through spiraclces
- GuestHow long are the average antenna
Bugscope Teamhm, they vary a LOT, so that's hard to say
- Bugscope Teamspiracles, sorry
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of the centipede
- Bugscope Teamthe antennae are missing but you can see the fangs and the eyes
- Studenthow big is a yellowjacket hive?
- GuestHow many legs does a centipede have?
Bugscope TeamThey may have as little as 30 or as many as 200
- Studentwhy do eyes look wered?
Bugscope Teamthey have multiple facets (ommatidia) that help them see better peripherally as well as sensing movement very quickly -- the multiple facets give them quick updates
- Guestwhat are the claws used for?
Bugscope Teamscoop food, grab things, defense, etc.
- Guesthow many spiriclces are there?
- Guestwhat do flys eat?
Bugscope Teamthey eat different things depending on what kind of fly they are; some drink blood and have slashing mouthparts
- Guestbye!!
- GuestWhy do bugs' mandables opens horizantally and not the other way
Bugscope Teamprobably has to do with their size and the relatively lesser complexity of their structure
- 9:07 am
- TeacherWould you happen to have a preset showing a spiracle?
Bugscope Teamnumber 13
- Bugscope Teampreset #13 has a spiracle on it!
- Bugscope Teamif their mouths opened vertically they might not be able to see over them, for example
- Bugscope Teamha, good point scott
- Bugscope TeamI think it would be much more complex structure were the mouth to open vertically
- Bugscope Teamthere is a spiracle in preset no. 13; let us know if that does not work for some reason
- Bugscope Teamthe spiracle is next to the haltere on the fruit fly body
- Bugscope Teamhere's the spiracle, in the upper right
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fruit fly haltere, and to the right, as Alex says...
- Bugscope Teamin the middle is the haltere, found on all fly's
- 9:12 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is the base of the haltere, and the rest is to the south
- Bugscope Teamthis is the wing
- Bugscope Teamthe edge of the wing
- Bugscope Teamnotice how many setae insects have, tons of them!
- Bugscope Teamwith the thorax in the background to the right
- Bugscope Teamthat is a good thing for insects because they use setae to sense their environment
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly head
- Bugscope Teamthe microsetae we see probably help the insect catch air -- they give it more surface area
- Bugscope Teamlook at the cute little antennae!
- Bugscope Team oops now we are on the fruit fly compound eye
- Bugscope Teamyou can see where lots of the setae snapped off
- Bugscope Teamthose bumps are called ommatidia, each one has a lens in it
- Bugscope Teama fly has great vision
- Bugscope Teamthat's why it can fly away from you as you try to swat it
- Bugscope Teamthey have a sort of hexagonal shape because it is one of the best shapes for closepacking
- Bugscope Teamit also can feel wind coming at it via its setae
- Bugscope Teamyay!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a wasp head
- Bugscope Teamthis is cool -- the head of a wasp, with antennae intact
- Guestthis is awesome
- Studentyo peps
- Bugscope Teamthis is the mouth
- Bugscope Teamyo walkingstick
- 9:17 am
- Studentdylan is that you
- Bugscope Teamthis is the compound eye, but there is some kind of film on it that won't let us see very well here
- Guesthello peeps
- Bugscope Teamokay this is the fruit fly eye again
- Bugscope Teamyou can see microsetae in the background
- Guestthat is hairy
Bugscope Teamyep, insects have lots of hairs (setae), to help them sense their environment
- Studenthay this is riley this si awesome
- Bugscope Teamthese are live images from an electron microscope, your teacher is controlling the scope over the internet
- Studentthis is gross
- Studentno
- Guestspider is me, dylan
- Bugscope Teamthe microsetae are part of the vestiture -- the clothing of the head
- Studenthi delaney
- Studenthi
- Studentare you butterfly
- Studenteye
- Studentalex is that you
- GuestWhy do they need so many bumps on there eyes
Bugscope Teamthe bumps are individual facets of the eye, and it is helpful to have so many to register motion very quickly
- Studentyes
- Bugscope Teamif you think of an insect, with its exoskelton, as wearing armor all of the time -- it needs to be able to feel its environment through that armor
- Studentdelaneytell alex i said hi
- Guestdoesevery bug have hair on thier eyes?
Bugscope Teamno not all of them; most don't
- Bugscope Teamso it has lots of setae, which are sensory
- Guesthow many eyes do the flys have
Bugscope Teamthey have, usually, two compound eyes, and three ocelli -- simple eyes
- Studentyo yo
- Guestthats weerd
- Studentwhere is the head
- Studentno they dont spencer
- Guestcan a bug live without c.t.
- Studentyo
- Guestawesome
- Studenthow many eyes does a wasp have?
Bugscope Teamtwo big compound eyes are least, and maybe some smaller eyes on top of its head too?
- Studentyo alex dog its riley
- Guesthi i
- Student2 eyes Brandon!
- Studenthow do they pickup stuff?
Bugscope Teamwith claws, or their proboscis, or their jaws, whatever works
- StudentWhy are wasp claws pointed?
Bugscope Teamthey are curved and pointed so they can grasp things
- Studentyes
- StudentYYYYYYOOOOOOOOoyo
- Studentdo insects have a toungh
Bugscope Teamyes sometimes they do
- 9:22 am
- Guestsweet
- Studentwhat are the things that look like big cheeks?
Bugscope Teamthose are compound eyes!!!!
- Bugscope Teamthis is the underside of the head of a dragonfly
- Guesthow big iis a bees eye?!?!
- Guesthow easy can an exoskeliton break
Bugscope Teamnot easily for another bug to break it, but you could smash it easily
- Studenteyes
- Studentdo bugs have big eye
- StudentWWhy are insect toungs pointed?
- Studentyou should
- Guestbye
- Studentbye bye
- Studentkyhugb ygfcdvihvb 89yv8
- Studentsup
- StudentINSECTS are pretty/butiful
Bugscope Teamtotally!
- Bugscope Teamgood bye!
- Studentsup dog'
- Bugscope TeamBye Ladybug
- Bugscope TeamBye!
- Bugscope TeamBye Butterfluly
- Guestyo dog
- GuestW
- GuestU
- GuestZZ
- GuestUP
- 9:27 am
- GuestO0KLU
- Bugscope TeamThanks, Spider
- Studenthih
- GuestUR WELCOME
- GuestOK
- GuestSTOP
- Studenthi
- Bugscope TeamSpider let us know if you have questions about the sample, about the 'scope, etc.
- Guest;]
- Bugscope TeamHi June Bug, the sequel
- Bugscope Teamthis is the compound eye of a fruit fly, up close
- Studentno
- GuestZ
- GuestC00L
- Bugscope Teamwe can see from the scale bar that the setae are about 20 microns long
- Bugscope Teamthe microsetae in the background may not be sensory
- GuestHow dothey breath?
Bugscope Teamthey use their spiracles, which are pores that feed into the tracheae
- Bugscope Teambacteria -- the rodshaped ones called bacilli -- are often about 2 microns long
- GuestWhat are the spikes?
Bugscope Teamthe spikes are mechanosensory setae that allow the fruit fly to sense wind speed, wind direction
- 9:33 am
- Guestthank you
- GuestHow do you get the bugs?
Bugscope Teampeople save bugs for us and send them; these are part of a collection, mostly
- Guestthey use computerized drawings
- Bugscope Teamthis is the base of the haltere, with a spiracle to the right
- TeacherWhere is the spiracle in this preset?
Bugscope TeamI just moved us to it
- Guest:]
- Bugscope Teamit is like a furry cace
- Bugscope Teamcave
- TeacherThanks!!
- Bugscope Teamthe setae around the opening help filter out dust
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the thoracic spiracles
- Bugscope Teamthere will be two per segment, on either side
- Guestno
- Studenthi
- Studentwirdo
- Studentbe quiet richard
- Studentweirdo
- Guesthaha
- StudentI'll kill you
- 9:38 am
- Guesthi
- Bugscope Teamsee the haltere?
- Studenthi
- Guesthi
- Bugscope Teamthis is a modified hindwing
- Guesthi
- Studenthi
- Guestwhat is ur name
- Guestemily
- Guestcool i am AERIN!!!
- Guesthi
- Guesthi
- Guesthi
- Guesthi
- StudentHI MR.DENAKER
- Guestwhats ur name
- Guest?
- Guesthaha
- Bugscope Teamthe halter balances the motion of the wing
- Guesthey
- Guestnm
- Guestbey
- Guestcool
- StudentSpider, be quiet.
- Guesty
- Studentreally
- Guestno
- TeacherCould you show the spiracle on this slide again
Bugscope Teamthis is live imaging, you know -- this is a real insect
- GuestY should i
- Guesthi people
- Guestno tommy
- Guestcool
- Guestsorry JAsmine from Veronica
- Guestwow
- Guestawe
- Guestawesome!!!
- Guestawesome
- Studentawesome
- Guesteyes
- Guesthi
- 9:43 am
- Bugscope Teamyep, big compound eyes
- Guestawesome
- GuestBIG eyes
- Guestbooo
- Studentwow
- Guestthose are big eyes
- Guestcan thay see well?
- Bugscope Teamyep, they see great
- Bugscope Teamflying insects have great vision
- Guestwhat do ants eat?
- Guestcool
- Guesthow big are the eyes?
- Bugscope Teamother walking insects like ants can't see very well, but they more than make up for it with their excellent smelling
- Guesthow fast do the flys fly
- Studentits gross
- Guestwhy are there eyes spiky
- Guestdo the spikes hurt when they blink?
Bugscope Teamwell, they don't blink, but funny question!
- Studentwhat do they eat
- Studenthair
- Studentwhy are they in black and white?
- Guestare these bugs alive?
Bugscope Teamnope they are dead
- GuestWhat are the spikes coming out of the eyes?
- Studentdo
- Studentdo the eyes have hair also
Bugscope Teamyes, they have setae which help sense wind, and also maybe keep the eye clean
- Studentwhy do incsect have compund eyes
Bugscope Teamso they can see things, sensing the environment is critical to any lifeform
- Guestoh they dont why?
Bugscope Teamthey use their forearms to clean the lenses -- they don't have skin and do not have eyelids
- Guesthow small are ants?
Bugscope Teamthey can be just a few mm long, and they can be 2 inches long
- Guesteww
- StudentWhy do they have mandibals?
- Guestwhere are you?
Bugscope Teamin urbana, illinois, USA
- Studentawesome
- Guestwhat do antseat?
- Guesty do flying bugs see well
Bugscope Teamoften they do see very well
Bugscope Teamtotally
- Studenthow small are they
Bugscope Teamoh, bugs are small, but they vary in size greatly
- Studentwhat is that??????!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Teamthat is the claw of a true bug
- Guestcool
- Studentnasty
- GuestWhy dont bugs blink
Bugscope Teamthey don't have eyelids -- they don't even have skin
- Studentlooks like a falcon
- Guestdo bug have tungs
Bugscope Teamyes some bugs have tongues
- Guesthow BIG are flys eyes ??????????????
- Guestwhat do incects eat?
Bugscope Teamthey eat other bugs, they eat plants, they eat old human food, some insects feed on your blood!!!
- StudentEWWWWW
- GuestCOOLLLL
- GuestWhy do yellow jackets have tongues?
- Studentwhy are the pictures black and white?
- Guestdo there eyes water ever plz answer!!!???
Bugscope Teamno they do not water -- they do not have tear ducts
Bugscope Teamum, not that i know of, no, they don't cry like human eyes do
- Studenthi geerett
- Guestdo you like studying bugs
Bugscope Teamyes this is fun
- Guesti do
- GuestWhy do bugs use their claws?
Bugscope Teamthey use their claws like we use our hands, to grip things
Bugscope Teamto eat, to climb, to fight other bugs, etc.
- Guestwhy are yellow jackets so mean
- GuestIt loked like bugs have two claws, do they?
- 9:48 am
- Guestwhat are tear ducts
Bugscope Teamthat's where water comes from when you cry
- GuestWhats the smallest bug in the world?
- Studenttooth pics
- GuestWhy don't bugs have tear ducts
Bugscope Teamthey don't need them -- they use their forelimbs, often, to clean their eyes
- Guesty do they not have eye lids
- StudentWhat does a fly eat
- Student????????
- GuestANSERWR ME
Bugscope Teamokay what was the question we missed
Bugscope Teamstate your questions, sir
- Guestoh nvm
- GuestHow big do dragonflies get?
- GuestOMG
- Studenthow do bugs poop and do they pruduce bile?
Bugscope Teamall life forms excrete waste. so do insects
- StudentEARWAX!
- Guestwhat does dragon fly larva look like
- Studentyo spencer
- Studenthelo???
Bugscope Teamhi
- Guestdo bugs produce feces?
Bugscope Teamyes
- Guestwell what was the smallst bug in the world?
- Guestdo ants eat other bugs?
Bugscope Teamsure thing, anything is a meal to some ants
- StudentHOWDO BUGS POOP?
- Studentcan y answer plaese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Teamhat do you want?
- GuestHow big do grasshoppers get
- GuestOMG
- GuestWhat mainly do ants eat?
- Guestcan flys eat hair????? plz answer me
- Studentanswer!!!!!!!:(:(:(
Bugscope Teamgrasshopper what was the question?
- StudentYAY!
- Guesthello hi bye bye
- Guestwhy do girl soiders rip off the dads head?
- Studentdo bugs pruduce spit
- Studentwhat is the point of compound eyes
Bugscope Teamso it can see its environment
- GuestHURRY AND ANSWER
- Guestspiders?
- Guestwhyt are we looking at
Bugscope Teamthis is a fly head
- Student:)
- Guesthi
- Guestbye this was fun thx
- Studentdia''''''''''''''''''''
- Guestanswer
- Guestdo flys spit?
Bugscope Teamyes
- Bugscope Teamgood bye
- Guestbye!!
- Bugscope Teamsome flies spit up on their food
- Guestpeace out
- Bugscope TeamPeace Out Earwig
- Bugscope Teamand then suck up the food with their proboscis
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the halteres on the fruit fly
- GuesthI ANT
- 9:54 am
- Bugscope Teamyou can see those ribbed things, which are mechanoreceptors
- GuestExoskeloten
- Bugscope Teamthey sense the motion of the haltere with respect to the wing
- TeacherCan you show me the spiracle again:)
- GuestHi, Austin
- Guesthi
- Bugscope TeamHey Spider
- Studenthello
Bugscope TeamHello!
- Guesthi
- Studenthi emma!
- GuestStop talking!
- StudentGRACE!!!!
- Studenthi ladybug!!!!! :)
- Bugscope Teamthis is the housefly head
- Guesteyes
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the antennae, on top of the head
- Studentkwl
- Bugscope Teamthe eyes are to the left and right
- Guesthi my name is maddi
- Studentwow
- Bugscope TeamHi Maddi
- Studenthi
- GuestWere not supposed to no that
- Guestyou better stop
- Guestwhy i this eye so big
- GuestWhat are are all those little hairs?
- Studentits thomas
- StudentThis is sooo kool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Bugscope Teamit looks big because it is magnified
- Guestwhat is your favorite bug?
Bugscope TeamAt the moment I like ant lions a lot
- Studentbutterfly
- Bugscope Teamthe little hairs are setae that help the fruit fly sense windspeed
- GuestHow many bugs r there in total?????? hi
Bugscope Teamthere are about 20
- GuestOh
- 9:59 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of a yellowjacket
- Studentwhy are there so many bugs in the world? :)
Bugscope Teamthey all have jobs to do
Bugscope Teamwell, good question, i think life finds a way, and life as far as insects are concerned, is very very successful
- Bugscope Teamthis is a yellowjacket
- Guestcan we go on this at home
Bugscope Teamyes when we are running you can log on as a guest
- Studenthow many eyes are in a compound eye
Bugscope Teamit depends; sometimes there are thousands per eye
- GuestWhat tipe of animal is that? J K
- GuestReally can we go on this at home??
Bugscope Teamsure, anyone can login as guest
- GuestWhat is a stinger made of?
Bugscope Teamthe stinger is made of cuticle, or chtin, sort of like what our fingernails are made of
- StudentI personaly dont like bugs but this is pretty interesting!!!!!
- GuestCAn we go on this at hom???
Bugscope Teamyep, as guerst
- Studentwhats that?
- Studentyellow jackets have tonges
- Guest home
- Guestwhat kind of animal is that? J K
Bugscope Teamthis is one of the claws of a true bug
- Guestis that really?
- Bugscope Teamguest i mean
- Bugscope Teamthis is a claw, on a true bug
- Guestwoah
- GuestWalkingstick is grace
- Studentohhh
- GuestCan we go on this at home??
Bugscope Teamyes you can when it is up; it is not always up
- StudentHow was that possibly a tounge!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guestbug have claws?
Bugscope Teamtotally
- Guestaustin is fly
- GuestHow do bugs talk?
Bugscope Teamthey make noises, they use pheromones, they use visual signals, they dance...
- Studentthis is cool!!!
- Studentyes i think
- Guestcan we goon this at home??
- Studentare there any bugs with one eye
Bugscope Teamhmm, not sure, some insects don't have any eyes though
- GuestCan bugs talk?
Bugscope Teamthey can't talk, but they do communicate
- Studentthat is a cool claw to have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is it made of?
Bugscope Teamchitin
- GuestHow do they get this stuff
- Guesthow many claws are there on a bug
Bugscope Teamtwo per limb usually, and six limbs
- Guestcan we go on this at home????
Bugscope TeamYES, when a session is active
- Guestwhat is the wings made of
Bugscope Teamthe wing is also made of chitin, but thinner
- StudentI wish i was a bug it would be so kool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- GuestHow many claws are on a bug?
Bugscope Teamsometimes six, sometimes less
- Guestdo bugs have teeth
- GuestAre there bug legs in chocolate?
- Studenthow many spieces of bugs are theyre?
Bugscope Teamthere are millions of different species of insects
- Guesthow can bugs think wheen they have such a tiny brain/head?
Bugscope Teamthe rest of their bodies are small too, so less information to process means don't need a big brain
- Studenthow many claws are there?
Bugscope Teamtwo claws per leg
- Studentdo yuo know about spiders?
Bugscope Teamyes a little
Bugscope Teamyep
- Studentwhy do animals have a thorax?????????????
- Guestsome1 answer me
Bugscope Teamno bugs do not have teeth
- GuestHI what are you doing
- Studentyou
- GuestHi everyone
- Guesteewwwwwww
- Guestwhat do bugs eat
Bugscope Teamthey eat all sorts of things
- Guestewwwwwwww
- Guestthats a fly head?
- GuestDO THEY HAVE TEETH ahhhh
Bugscope Teamno; they do have hardened jaws, some times
- Guesti like pie
- Studenta fly looks wierd up close!!!!!!!
- Guestwow
- Guestdo bumble bees bit or sting
Bugscope Teambumblebees sting
- Guestsome 1 answer me!
Bugscope Teamthey eat lots of things, depends on what bug
- 10:04 am
- Studentg2g
- Guesthi im jackson
Bugscope TeamHI Jackson!
- Bugscope Teamwe are looking, now, at a fruit fly spiracle
- Bugscope Teamthis is a breathing hole on a fruit fly
- Bugscope Teamto the left and down is one of the halteres
- Studentoo
- Bugscope Teama haltere is a little winglet that looks like a punching bag
- Bugscope Teamhi, welcome to bugscope
- Studentoo
- Bugscope Teamit beats with a motion opposite that of the wing, and thus it balances the motion of the wing
- Guestqaaa
- Studenthi
- Bugscope Teamhi
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope
- Guestsup
Bugscope Teamnot much just now
- Bugscope Teamthese are live images from an electron microscope
- Guesthi
Bugscope TeamHi Earwig
- Bugscope Teamyour teacher is controlling the scope over the internet
- Studenthi
Bugscope Teamhi Giant Grasshopper
- GuestHI Im ben
- Bugscope Teamhi again, GG
- Bugscope Teamhi ben
- Bugscope TeamYour teacher is driving a $600,000 microscope
- Studenthi been
- 10:10 am
- Studentben
- Bugscope Teamthis is a spiracle, this is how insects breath
- Bugscope Teamop, now we are looking at a fly head
- Bugscope Teamthose two things on the side of its head are compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamthe thing in the middle is the proboscis
- Guesthi
- Bugscope Teamthat's what it uses to suck up food that it vomited on... gross, but whatever gets food in your belly...
- Guestsws
- Bugscope Teamthis is a compound eye
- Bugscope Teamthis is the compound eye of a fruit fly
- Bugscope Teamthose bumps are the individual facets of the compound eye
- Bugscope Teamyou can see lots of tiny setae sticking out of it
- Studentwhat is this thing
Bugscope Teamcompound eye
- Bugscope Teamthe bumps are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamthis is a compound eye
- Bugscope Teamthe setae are not common to all insects with compound eyes
- Studentdo all bugs have hair?
Bugscope Teamyep, those hairs help insects sense their environment
- Studenthi
- Studentwow
- Guestwow
- Guestthere heirs
- Guestthis is weird
- Studenthi
- Studentcool
- Guestalex why do criickets make noises
Bugscope Teamto communicate
- Bugscope Teamthe hairs are called setae (see-tee)
- GuestWhy do some insects have simple eyes and some have compound eyes?
Bugscope Teamsome have both
- Bugscope Teamflying insects usually have large compound eyes
- Guestthats cool
- StudentHow was the first insect created?
- Bugscope Teamspiders have simple eyes
- Guestdo they have 4 eyes
- Guestwhat is that
- Guestwhat is an erwig
Bugscope Teaman earwig is one of those insects (dermaptera) that have little pincher tails.
- Studentyes
- Guestcool
- Guestalex but when we get near them they stop
Bugscope Teamnear what? what stops?
- Guestthats werid
- Studentugly
- Bugscope Teamthis is a wasp
- StudentWhat is a spider?
Bugscope Teamit is an organism on the planet earth
- Bugscope Teamscott is who?
- Guestis this a bee's head
Bugscope Teamthat was a wasp's head
- Studentme
- Guestdo wasps bit or sting
Bugscope Teamsting
- Guestwho is scott
- Studentwho is alex
Bugscope Teamalex who?
- Studentbens yujungle
- Guestalex when we get crickets they stop making noises
Bugscope Teamah, they sense you are close and you are dangerous, so they be quiet. you'd do the same if you were a grasshopper
- Bugscope Teamspiders are arachnids
- Studentwhat a
- Studentre the
- GuestThis is REALLY weird
Bugscope Teambut cool also...
- Guestcool
- Studenti am a
- 10:15 am
- Studenti am a
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of a centipede
- Guestohhh
- Studenti am a giant cricker
- Guestwoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Studentwhat is a sentapede
- Bugscope Team:)
- Studenta bug
- Guestis coool dont you think
- Guestalex we would
Bugscope Teami would too! :)
- StudentWhy do bugs have so many eyes?
- Bugscope TeamAlex rocks!
- Guestwhere is the exoskeliton
Bugscope Teamthe exoskeleton is the outer surface of the insect or athropod
- Guestalex we would bee quiet
Bugscope Teamyep, me too, sometimes i do that now when i'm near someone i don't want to be near ;)
- Studentdo all bugs have teeth?
- Guestthat will be coll
- GuestHow do crickets make there sound?
- StudentDo bees eat grass?
- GuestYellowjackets have tongues?!?!
Bugscope Teamyes
Bugscope Teamyes, kind of, they have very complex mouth parts
- Bugscope Teamlike a shrimp shell
- Guestyes
- Studentwhat is a yellow jacket
- Guestwhat does it eat
- Studentit looks like they have hair on there tongues
Bugscope Teamyep!
- Guestweird
- Bugscope Teaminsects are VERY hairy
- Guestyea what do bees eat
- Guestalex why do yellow jackets toung lookso gross
Bugscope Teamwell, that's subjective, i think it looks cool
- StudentThe yellow jackets are the most aggresive kinds of bees
Bugscope TeamI think the American Killerbee (hybrid between the Honeybee and an African bee) is more aggressive
- Guestwoooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
- StudentWhat is that?
Bugscope TeamThat is a dragonfly
- Studentwhat are the bumps on the wing?
- StudentBugs are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Teamand gross too!
- Guestscot are wasps agggresive and why
Bugscope Teamthey are aggressive because it gives them an advantage in protecting their nests, and their territory
- Guestdo the compond eyes explode
Bugscope Teamno no, but that would be coooool, wouldn't it
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentwere entering is eye...
- Studentwho is alex?
Bugscope Teamalex is the coolest dude on the planet, other than you of course...
- Guestthis is wrieed
- StudentWho are you Alex?
Bugscope Teami'm a systems administrator with ITG, beckman institute, part of the university of illinois
- 10:20 am
- StudentYou are mean
Bugscope Teamwhat? no, i meant you are way cool
- Guestiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggg
- Guestwhat are the bumps on the eyes
- Studentwhat your name?
- Studentwhy does the eye have bumps onit
- Studentbye bye
- Bugscope Teamgood bye!
- Bugscope Teamthanks for all the good questions
- Bugscope TeamBye!
- Bugscope TeamBye guys
- TeacherHey there - another class could you focus on the spiracle again
- Guestbye
- Bugscope Teamgoing to spiracle now
- GuestHi
- Bugscope Teamhi spider
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope
- 10:26 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly head
- Bugscope Teamthe big bumps on the sides are its compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamsee the antennae?
- Bugscope Teamthe antennae are like little rabbit ears on top of the head
- Bugscope Teamyeah, the antennae are cool, on top of the head
- Bugscope Teamthis is a yellowjacket head
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of a yellowjacket, which is a kind of wasp
- Studentwhat is the tonguelike thing under the wasp's mouth?
Bugscope Teamthat was the tongue; it looks much like the tongue of some bees
- Bugscope Teamthis is the end of the tarsus of a true bug, showing the claws
- Guestwhats the claw for
Bugscope Teammost insects have claws; they use them like we use our hands
- 10:31 am
- Guestwhat do they eat?
Bugscope Teamyellowjackets like sweet stuff, like sap, nectar, Coke
- GuestWhy do insects mouths open upsideways?
- Guestwhy would bugs need to dig?
Bugscope Teamsometimes they burrow, but only some of them
- Studenthow many different little circles/sections are in 1 compound eye???
Bugscope Teamit depends on the insect; some have very few and some have thousands per eye
- Guestwhat are the cracks for
- Guestwhat are the cracks again?
- Studentwhat do bugs eat?
Bugscope Teamthey eat lots of stuff, living or dead, rotten or fresh, depends on which bug
- Guestwhy are they called earwig?
Bugscope Teamearwigs were once thought to enter your ear and burrow into your brain
- Bugscope Teamcompound eyes are made up of hundreds of individual facets, called ommatidia
- GuestWhat does compoud mean
Bugscope Teamcompound in this case means that it is composed of multiple facets
- GuestWhy is there a hard shell on the outside of the insects body?
Bugscope Teambecause they have no bones, they need the exoskeleton to hold their bodies in shape, to keep the guts in so to say
- Bugscope Teameach ommatidium has a lens in it
- Guestwhats the thing in the middle of the 2 eyes
Bugscope Teamthat is the proboscis, which is a little shriveled compared to what it looks like in life
- Guestdo earwigs buro in your ear
- GuestCan they see color?
Bugscope Teamsome insects see color; some see in the ultraviolet wavelengths well, which we do not
- Guestbye
Bugscope TeamBye Ladybug
- Guesthi
- Studentpie
- Studenthi pi6t1feq4
- Studenttg
- TeacherAnother class coming - spiracle again please!! You are the best!! The kids are really fascinated by this!!
- 10:36 am
- Bugscope Teamok
- GuestI don't like bugs
- Guestme to
- Guestthey are weird
- Studenthow are bugs cool
Bugscope Teamthey are interesting because they are a different life form from us; we get to see how they do the same things that we do, but also how they can do things we cannot; we get too see how they are adapted to the same environment we live in, but in quite a different manner
- Guestands i love them
- Bugscope Teambugs are cool, and gross
- Guestyup
- Guestyay
- Guesthiya
- Guestwho are you
- GuestIs this grasshopper dead?
Bugscope Teamyep, all of the insects are toast
- Guestyes
- 10:42 am
- Guesteeeeewwwwww
- Bugscope Teamthey need to be dead so they don't move around under the scope
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly head
- GuestThat deas not look like a fly at all!
- Studentfly head
- GuestHow many eyes do flys have?
Bugscope Teamthey have two compound eyes, with may facets, and they have three simple eyes, called ocelli
- GuestLadybug:Whats up
- Bugscope Teaminsects have constraints on their size, because of the way their bodies work; if they were too big they could not breathe efficiently, for example
- Guesthello
- GuestI am spaghetti(amanda)
- GuestWhats going on
Bugscope Teamthese are live images from an electron microscope that your teacher is controlling
- Bugscope Teamthis is a compound eye, those bumps are facets, each one has a lens in it
- Bugscope Teammany facets
- Studenthey
- Guestdoes the hair hurt them on there eyes?
Bugscope Teamnope, it helps to keep the eye clean, and also senses wind
Bugscope Teamno it is part of their sensory system
- GuestWho has hair
Bugscope Teaminsects have setae (see-tee) which are like sensing hairs
- GuestWho us earwig?
- GuestWhat bug has hair
Bugscope Teamalmost all insects/arthropods have hairs, but we call the hair setae, or trichae, or bristles, etc.
- GuestAmanda B. is dragonfly
- Guestwhat isthat tube
Bugscope Teamthe tube like things are the antennas
- Studentno
- Guestwhat is that tube
Bugscope Teamthe tube is an antenna
- Guestwhat is that?
- Studentidont konow
- GuestDragon fly is also Sheila
- GuestI think it might be a breathing hole
- Guestdragonfly is also sheila
- Bugscope Teamthis is the claw of a true bug
- Studentnope
- Bugscope Teamlike a stinkbug
- GuestWhat bug is that?
- Studentmabee
- Bugscope Teamthis is a true bug claw
- Bugscope Teamtrue bugs have piercing mouthparts
- 10:47 am
- Studentwhooooooooooooooo
- Bugscope Teaminsects have claws, to grasp things: food, other bugs, walls, etc.
- Guestthrere should be evil bees to sting people
Bugscope Teamthere are
- Studentare you here
Bugscope Teamyeppers
- Guesth spider!
- GuestDo you think that is a grasshopper
Bugscope Teamthere is a grasshopper on the stub as well
- Guesthi spider!
- Studentyes
- Studentwhat
- Guesthow many compound eyes are there
Bugscope Teamtwo
- GuestWho is butterfly?
- Studenti dont know
- Guestyou!
- Studentyoes
- Guestwhat are thoses cracks?
- Guest200 compound eye
- Bugscope Teamgrasshoppers are very smooth, for the most part
- Guesthuh?
- Guestblablablabla
- Bugscope Teamthe compound eye is to the east ehre
- Bugscope Teamhere
- Student huh
- GuestWas that a wall
- GuestGROSS!
- Studentwahat
- Guesteeeeeeewwwwwwwww
- Guestlooks yummy
- Bugscope Teamthose cracks are likely in some film that is on the surface of the head
- GuestGROSS!
- Studenteeeeeeeeew
- Guestwhat is that
- Bugscope Teamgross, but cool
- GuestIs something on the tough
Bugscope Teamit is kind of folded around; we see the front and back at the same time; it has little brush-like features on it
- Studentyea
- Bugscope Teamthis is a tongue of a yellowjacket
- Studentok
- Bugscope Teaminsects have a place in the ecosystem; for example if there were no bees, many crops would not get fertilized
- GuestThere is a bunch of compund eyes
- StudentWhat is the stuff on the yellowjakets tounge??
- Guesti wont to eat that tongue looks yummy
- Guestwhats on a yellow jackets toung?
- Guest sheila/spaghetti: Who are we talking to?
- GuestSheila/Spaghetti: who are we talking to?
- Guestvary yummy
- TeacherHow do bugs see through compound eyes?
Bugscope Teameach bump (ommatidia) has a lens in it, so the insect processes many hundreds of individual images into one thing that it sees
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly head
- Studentme
- Guesthi
- GuestSPAGHETTI ROCKS!!!!
- Student hi
- Studentok
- GuestSPAGHETTI ROCKS!
- Studenthow many bones is in a grasshopers body
Bugscope Teamno bones, instead they have a hard outer shell: exoskeleton
- Studentthank yo u thechaer
- 10:52 am
- Studentnoit doenst spagettie
- Guestcoockrooches are tasty
- GuestThere is a bunch
- Bugscope Teamthe brains of flying insects are often mostly taken up by visual processing
- GuestThanks
- TeacherAnother session - spiracle please:)
- Bugscope Teaminsects are invertebrates, meaning that they have no backbone, but they have no bones at all
- Bugscope Teamto the left we see the base of one of the halteres
- Bugscope Teamfruit flies and flies (Diptera) have two wings, and they also have halteres to balance the motion of those wings
- 10:57 am
- Bugscope Teambees and wasps have four wings, as do dragonflies
- Bugscope Teamwhen bees and wasps fly, they clip the fore- and hindwings together
- TeacherCan you pull up the spiracle again
- Bugscope Teamso essentially they are using two wings
- Bugscope Teamthis is the spiracle, right on it
- Bugscope Teamcan you see it?
- Bugscope Teamif your image is black, try refresh (F5)
- Bugscope Teamhit refresh if you are not getting an image
- TeacherIt is not the same image as we have been looking at
- Bugscope Teamwhat do you see?
- Bugscope Teamtry refresh, F5
- Bugscope Teamwe are seeing the spiracle
- Bugscope Teamthe haltere is to the left and the spiracle is in the center
- Bugscope Teammaybe your browser just needs a refresh
- TeacherWe are set
- Bugscope Teamthis is the fruit fly compound eye
- 11:02 am
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the individual facets of the eye here
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of a waps
- Bugscope Teamwasp
- Bugscope Teamthis is a claw of a true bug
- Bugscope Teamthis is a claw...
- Studentwhat kind of bug is this from/
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly head
- Bugscope Teamthe two large compound eyes on either side
- Bugscope Teamantennae on top of the head
- Bugscope Teamthe middle part is the proboscis
- Bugscope Teamlaxgirl that was a true bug, which are distinguished in part by having piercing mouthparts
- Bugscope Teamthere is a really cool true bug on the stub today
- TeacherThanks for the tip about the refresh - it worked. We have another class - spiracle again:)
- Bugscope Teamthis is the antenna of the yellowjacket
- Bugscope Teamwho is driving?
- Bugscope Teami was trying to go to the spricale
- 11:07 am
- Bugscope Teambut i'm not driving anymore
- Bugscope Teamwe are having trouble getting to the spiracle
- Bugscope Teamthis is the assassin bug!
- TeacherThey are not here yet so we have a couple of minutes
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope
- Guestwhat's that hole
- Bugscope Teamcool, a spiracle!
- 11:12 am
- Bugscope TeamAditi where have you been?
- Guestbusy
Bugscope TeamI'd wish I was busy...atm I have not much to do...boring...
- Bugscope Teamwe started like 4+ hours ago ;)
- GuestI know
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the thoracic spiracles on the exoskeleton of the small dragonfly
- Guestfunny claudia
- Bugscope TeamAditi the school will be on shortly
- Guestoh
- Bugscope Teamthey have been running fairly quick little sessions
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly!
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the antennae on the top of the head
- Guesti see it
- Bugscope Teamthe tongue is in the middle of the head, and it is a little shriveled since it dried
- 11:17 am
- Guestwierd
- Guesteye
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the compound eyes of a fruit fly, one of the fruit flies on today's stuv
- Bugscope Teamstub
- Guestgot it
- Bugscope Teamon fruit flies, unlike most other flies, there are setae in between the facets of the eye
- Bugscope Teamthe facets are called ommatidia, and each is like a small lens
- Bugscope Teamthis is a wasp--see its compound eyes?
- Bugscope Teamthey are like wraparoudn sunglasses
- Guest"ommatidia"
- Bugscope Teamwraparound
- Bugscope Teamright, and singular is ommatidium
- Guestcool!
- Guestclaw?
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the claws of a true bug, which is, for example, what a stinkbug is
- Bugscope Teamclaws are used to scoop food, grab onto things, defense, etc.
- Bugscope Teamyou can tell from looking that it is not likely this bug could crawl on the ceiling
- Guestwhat do bugs use the hair for
Bugscope Teamthe hairs are called setae (see-tee), the sense the environment around the bug. some setae are mechanosensory others are chemosensory
- Guestlooks like it scot
- Bugscope Teambut it may still have a sticky pad on its tarsi that helps it cling to surfaces
- Guestwhats this
- Bugscope Teamthis is the tongue apparatus on a yellowjacket, which is a kind of wasp
- 11:22 am
- Guest"mechanosensory"
- Bugscope Teamactually the tongue here resembles the pulvillus on an insect that can stick to the ceiling
- Guest"chemosensory"
- Bugscope Teamthe pulvillus is a pad with tiny tenent setae on it
- Guestdo any ants spin a chrysalis?
- Guestwhat do those words mean
- Bugscope Teamoops did i speel something wrong again?
- Guesthow many kinds of bugs are there
- Bugscope Teamah, i did! spell i mean
- Student is the tounge inside or outside?
Bugscope Teamit is outside of the mouth
- Guestinside
- Guesthmmm....
- Bugscope Teamit is a proboscis; insect mouths are quite different from our mouths
- Guesthow big do they et
Bugscope Teamthe proboscis?
- TeacherAnother session - spiracle again:)
- Bugscope Teamthink of what it would be like if you walked around all day in a suit of armor
- GuesttHE WHOLE BODY
- Bugscope Teamah, let's go to another spiracle, this is a new one, a better look inside too!
- Bugscope Teamif you had a suit of armor you would not be able to feel things touch you
- Bugscope Teamthis is a spiracle, a breathing hole on an insect, in this case a dragonfly
- GuestOpI had the caps lock on-sorry
- Bugscope Teambut if you had little hairs (setae) sticking through your armor, then when they moved or were touched you could feel it
- GuestI am spelling things wrong
- Guestwhy am I doing that
- 11:28 am
- Bugscope Teamsetae can be mechanosensory (touch-sensing), chemosensory (smell or scent-sensing), and/or thermosensory (hot/cold sensing)
- Guestthink I got it,scot
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the breathing pores (spiracles) in the thorax of a dragonfly -- so this is how the dragonfly breathes
- Bugscope TeamAditi we have a group of students watching who have not seen this before, and if you want to help it is good if you know this stuff as well.
- GuestWhat is the world's largest insect?
- Guestwhat is that picture
Bugscope Teamthis is a live image of a spiracle, a brething hole on the body of a dragonfly
- GuestI'll try Scot
- Bugscope TeamOften people say it is the goliath beetle, which is a about the size of your fist
- Bugscope Teaminsects breathe using spiracles, of which there are two per body segment
- GuestWHAT IS THAT?????
- Bugscope Teamthe spiracles lead inside the exoskeleton to tracheae
- Guestwhat is this.
- Guestwhat is that thing in the middle ya'll
Bugscope Teamthat is the proboscis
- Bugscope Teamthis is a fly head
- GuestWhat is that?
- Bugscope Teamthe compound eyes are on the side, the antennae on top, and in the middle is the proboscis (that's what it uses to suck up food)
- Studentwhat is eyes called yall
Bugscope Teamthese eyes are called compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamunfortunately the proboscis is shriveled
- Guesthow many types of flies are there
- Guestidk
- 11:33 am
- Bugscope Teamsome eyes are compound eyes, like this, and some are simple eyes, called ocelli
- Bugscope Teamsingular of ocelli is ocellu
- GuestO MY GOD WHAT IS THAT YALL
Bugscope Teamthat is one of the compound eyes of a fruit fly
- Guesta house fly right.
Bugscope Teamthis is a fruit fly, now
- GuestWhich insect has the most hair?
Bugscope TeamI am not sure if anyone knows.
- Bugscope Teamif you take the mag down lower you can see where we are
- Studenthow many lenses do flys have per eye
Bugscope Teamone lens per omatidia
- Studenthow many eyes are in the fly eye?
- Guestis that hair?
Bugscope Teamit is not really hair; they are called setae, or trichae, or bristles
- GuestWHAT IS THAT
- Guesthow many bugs are there??
- Guestwhat is this
- StudentHOW MANY EYES DO FLYS HAVE@??
Bugscope Teamfive eyes: two compound and three ocelli
- Guestidk
- Student how many lenses are ina
Bugscope Teameach facet (ommatidia) has one lens in it
- StudentThats creppy
- GuestWhat does lice look like?
Bugscope Teamlice look like small beetles, kind of; they have claws that help them cling to your hair
- Guestu dont no wat earwig?
- GuestIS THAT A CLAW
- Guestis that a claw?
- Guestthis is a claw
- Guestyes
- Studenthow many lenses are in a omatidia
Bugscope Teamit depends on what insect it is; there can be six or twelve, and there can be thousands
- Guestwhy do flies take off backwards
- Guestit is a claw
- GuestBYE
- Studentwhat do fly,s eat
- Guesthhhhhhhiiiiiiiiii
- Guest=-()
- Guestnectar from flowers
- GuestBYE HOME DOGS
- Student BY IROCK
- Guestwhat?/??
- Guestthanks everone
- Guestbgdfs
- StudentKJHG
- Bugscope Teamthank you!
- GuestWOW WOW WUBZY
- Bugscope Teamactually one lens is one ommatidium, sorry I did not answer that correctly
- Guestcya =-
- StudentIOFHSGSHXZG
- GuestHow many times does a dragonfly's wings flap in a second?
Bugscope Team20 to 30 beats per second
- Bugscope TeamSee ya!
- Guest=-()
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- 11:38 am
- StudentH
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- Guestyo!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Bugscope Teamsome insect wings beat much more quickly
- GuestHow many hairs are on one insect
- Guesti'll be back in a while
- Bugscope Teamfruit flies are move their wings at 200 beats/second
- Bugscope Teamand mosquitos 400 beats/second
- Bugscope Teamfruit flies are *said to* move their wings at 200 beats/second
- 11:43 am
- Bugscope TeamI would like to see if the wasp has a visible stinger
- Bugscope Teamoh well
- Bugscope Teamit looks like a rabbit
- Bugscope Teamthe 'ears' are its antennae
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its eyes, on either side of the head
- Bugscope Teamthe compound eyes are composed of thousands of ommatidia -- the facets of the eye
- Bugscope Teamand here we see a fruit fly's compound eye, up close so we see only a few ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamthe fruit fly eye is different; it has little setae that help it gauge windspeed/wind direction
- Bugscope Teamand that was a wasp
- Bugscope Teamthis is the claw of a true bug
- 11:49 am
- Bugscope Teamif we take the mag down here we can see what the bug looks like
- Bugscope Teamthe claw closes and opens when the insect uses a tendon inside the forearm (tarsus) called an unguitractor.
- Bugscope Teamit's like one of those claws you can buy to extend your reach
- Bugscope Teamthis is the tongue of a yellowjacket
- Bugscope Teamthis is the mouth of a yellowjacket, and you can see sticky pads on the tongue
- Bugscope Teamthe tongue is folded back onto itself, so it looks curvy
- Bugscope Teamthose tiny hairs are what it uses to drink your Coke if you spill it at a picnice
- Bugscope Teampicnic
- Bugscope Teamthis is the whole head, or more of it
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of that yellowjacket
- Bugscope Teamthe large compound eyes can be seen too
- Studentdo bugs have teeth?
Bugscope Teamno they don't have teeth but some of them have hardened mouthparts
- Bugscope Teaminsect mouths open sideways compared to ours
- Bugscope Teaminsects have lots of setae (hairs) on them, that helps them to feel their way around
- Guestwhy are there hairs on grasshoppers
Bugscope Teamthose hairs are called setae, and they are on all insects. they help insects to sense their environment
- Guesthow many eyes are on a fly?
Bugscope Teama fly has at least two large compound eyes, and some might have other simple eyes
- Studenthi
- 11:54 am
- Bugscope Teamgrasshoppers are said to have calcium deposits in the cutting surfaces of their jaws to make them work better, and longer
- Studentwhy do bugs have spiracles?
- Guestwhat do praying mantis eyes look like
- Guestwhy are dragonflies eyes so wide
- Studenthow do bugs chew if theydon't have teeth?
Bugscope Teamwell, some don't even chew, they just slurp. the fly for example, slurps up it's dinner into its proboscis, like using a straw
- GuestWhy do some insects have to have hairs on them?
Bugscope Teamso they can feel their environment
- Studentdo texture help atenaes?
- Guesthow fast do bee's wing pump up and down?
- Guestis that skin or fur
- Guesthello I am back
- GuestWhy do bugs have to have fur?
Bugscope Teamwell they need to use those tiny setae to help them sense their environs
- Studentdo dragonflies have claws andeyes
- Bugscope Teamseeing things more rapidly is good in the insect world
- Guestwhere do you come from
Bugscope Teamwe are in urbana, illinois
- Guestwhat do flys eat
- Guesthowlong do spiders live
- Studentwhy dont bugs have teeth?
- Studenthow fast does the fly eye move?
Bugscope Teamthe eye does not move, it self, but it can register movement very rapidly because it has so many 'windows' on what is going on
- GuestBugscope is sooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope Teamthanks!
- Students have
- Studentya this is cool
- Guestdo you ever name insects
- Guestwhy is the tounge so weird???????
Bugscope Teamwell, this one is kinda dried out, and curvy. our tongues would look strange real close-up too
- Studentdoes a yellow-jackets tongue have hairs?
Bugscope Teamyes it does, tiny setae like tenent setae on a fly
- Studentdo catch insects and keep them?
Bugscope Teamwe don't keep insects for long
- Studentwhat is the most dangorus bug??
Bugscope Teami think it's the mosquito, because of the disease that it can carry from human to human
- Studentwhy are yellow jackets tounge so twisty
Bugscope Teamit is a little shriveled and may be more even in real life
- Guesthow do flys communicate with each other or mate!
Bugscope Teamthey use visual signs, noise, pheromones...
- Guestthank you
- GuestWhy do bugs have to have hair on them????????
Bugscope Teamso they can feel their environment
- Studentbye
- Bugscope Teamthose hairs (setae) are sensory.
- Bugscope Teamthank you!
- 12:00 pm
- Bugscope Teamyes I think Alex is right -- the mosquito may be the most dangerous insect
- Bugscope Teamheh, yeah, and dangerous to whom? to humans, it's probably the mosquito. but to other life forms, predators vary...
- Bugscope Teamit is time for us to give the microscope up to people who are doing research
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- Bugscope Teamtime for us to go!
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- Studenthi
- Bugscope Teamthis is your member page:http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-047/
- Studentcheese
- Studenthi i love bugs
Bugscope TeamI do too...especially looking at them under bugscope
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- 12:06 pm
- Bugscope Teamover and out!
- Bugscope TeamBugs are Beautiful, remember that your chat and images from this session are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-047
- TeacherWe have our last class is there any way to see presets
- Guestnhjhbhbhjbhjhbjhhjhhabcdefghijklmnop
- Bugscope Teamno, sorry, we've got to give control of the scope to a researcher, we scheduled until noon
- Guestcool
