Connected on 2009-12-07 10:00:00
from Emporia, KS, US
- 9:18 am
- TeacherJust checking to make suer it works on my computer with a projector
- Bugscope Teamhello missfitz, welcome to buscope!
- Bugscope Teamwe are setting up your presets at the moment, you are welcome to hang out, ask any questions
- Bugscope Teamwhen we are done with presets we will give you control of the scope
- TeacherIll be logging out shortly to get the kids computers set up for testing.
- Bugscope Teamok, no problemo, we'll be here
- 9:23 am
- Bugscope TeamHi hi all
- 9:29 am
- Bugscope Teamhi lane
- Bugscope Teamwhere are you from?
- TeacherWere you asking me where I am from?
- TeacherEmporia, KS
- Bugscope Teamah, were you logged in as lane?
- Bugscope Teamwe had a guest login as lane
- Bugscope Teambut they logged off as soon as i said hi... that happens sometimes
- TeacherNo that was a student not following directions ; )
- Bugscope Teamheh, okay
- 9:35 am
- Teacheroops
- Bugscope Teamit's fine, no problem
- TeacherHoep that did not muck anything up.
- Bugscope Teamyeah no problem here at all
- 9:41 am
- Bugscope Teamokay, we are done with presets
- Bugscope Teami just unlocked the session, you should now see controls on the right side
- Bugscope TeamMagnify, Navigation, Focus and Adjust
- Bugscope Teamwhen using Navigation, "click to center" is much easier to control than "click to drive"
- Bugscope Teamyou are welcome to give it a try anytime
- TeacherOK, thanks.
- TeacherWe will be on shortly
- Bugscope Teamokay, we are ready anytime
- 9:49 am
- Bugscope Teamhi Lane!
- Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a lacewing
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its head, its compound eyes, one antenna, and its mouthparts, plus one leg
- Bugscope Teamhi students, welcome to bugscope!
- Guestis this a ant
- Guesthey guys
Bugscope Teamhi standard
- Bugscope TeamIt's a flying insect called a lacewing
- Guesthi i'm in
- Bugscope Teamthis is a lacewing
- Guesthi
- Bugscope TeamI have a MacBook
- Guestmacs are cool
- Guestme too
- Bugscope TeamOops sorry Annie.
Bugscope TeamWell, I could be using anything..I am far away
- Bugscope TeamI'm odd person out.
- Guestlol
- 9:54 am
- Bugscope TeamAnnie is our entomologist, and she is in California. The rest of us are in Illinois.
- Guestcan we take pics
Bugscope TeamAll of the images you see now are being saved to your database.
- Guestwhat part is that
Bugscope Teamthat is part of the exoskeleton of the caterpillar
- GuestHow many times is it magnified?
Bugscope TeamYou should be able to see the 55x in the upper right corner of the window
- Guestis this microscope with bugscope?
Bugscope Teamthis is a scanning electron microscope, the one we use for bugscope
- Teacherdid it get attacked or something?
Bugscope TeamCaterpillars are squishy, and when they die, they sort of deflate--like bagpipes.
- Guestor is it a arm
Bugscope Teamone, yeah, busted off, sorry
- Guestwhat is the farthest we can zoom in
- Guesthow much magnification can you go in
Bugscope Teamthe max we could go would be 200,000x with a lot of samples. When looking at insects, there usually isn't anything interesting beyond 20,000-50,000x
- Bugscope Teamafter your session, all the chat and images are on your member page: http:bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-121
- Guestis that inside the ant?
Bugscope Teamthis is the caterpillar
- Guesthow do the spikes help
Bugscope Teamthey could help keep from getting eaten, and also perhaps keep wasps away, for awhile
- Guestwhat is this
- TeacherGuests are not able to see any magnification or to control from their computers
Bugscope Teamthey should be able to see the micron bar, on the screen itself. they cannot control unless you specify who is to control
- Guestwhat is this part of it?
Bugscope Teamwe are looking at the underside of a caterpillar
- Bugscope Teamparasitic wasps often choose caterpillars to inject their eggs into
- Guestso how did bugsccope get started??
- Guestwhat is a sculptor ring
Bugscope Teamnot sure
- Guestwhat is a cutical?
Bugscope Teamcuticle is what the chitin is called -- the exoskeleton
- TeacherOh
- Bugscope Teamthis is live control of an electron microscope, only one person can control at a time, just let us know if you want us to give control to any student
- Guestwhat is a cuticle
Bugscope Teamcuticle is what we call the shell of the insect. it is made of chitin, kind of like what our fingernails are made of.
- Bugscope TeamOh, sculpturing
- Guestso how did bugsccope get started??
Bugscope Teamwe started almost 11 years ago, now, to try and create a sustainable outreach project, following on the chickscope project, which was not really sustainable.
- 9:59 am
- TeacherCAn we give each studetns control for about 3 minutes starting at the top of the guest list?
- Bugscope Teamlike bumps--just features of the cuticle that might just be for looks.
- Guestwhy does it look like part of it is broken?
Bugscope Teamit very well could be. When insects die, they dry out and become brittle, making it easy for limbs to break off
- Bugscope Teamok, rodeiguez, you have control now
- Bugscope TeamSculpturing is just bumps on the exoskeleton
- GuestWhat is chitin?
Bugscope Teamchitin is what the shell of a shrimp is, for example
- Guestis there like tissue in there?
- Bugscope Teamrodeiguez, click on a preset to move to that image
- Guestwhat is the water stuff?
- GuestOh ok
- Bugscope Teamokay, so you drove off the edge of the scope there, so we clicked on a preset for you, this is a compound eye
- Guestwhat is this
Bugscope Teamthis is a super close view of an insect eye
- Guestwhat are the things stiking out of the side
- Guestwhat are the spikes on the eye?
Bugscope Teamthose are setae that are likely touch or wind sensors
- GuestWhat is that???
Bugscope Teamwe're up so close it is hard to tell, probably some of the mouthparts
- Bugscope Teamyou notice lots of things that look like hair on insects, and we call them setae, usually
- GuestAre those hairs?
Bugscope Teamwell, not hairs really. they are called setae (pronounced see-tee) and they help insects to sense their environment
- GuestWhat part is that, it look likes on arm?
Bugscope TeamI think it is one of the palps -- one of the accessory mouthparts
- GuestIs that hair on the lace wing compound eye?
Bugscope Teamyes, it is a sensory hair often called a seta, plural setae
- 10:04 am
- Guestwhy do they have huge eyes?/
Bugscope TeamLacewings are predators, they have to have big eyes to see and catch their prey
- Guestwhy do they have such big eyes
Bugscope Teamit's really helpful to have big compound eyes; you can register motion more quickly and have better peripheral vision as well
- Bugscope Teampalps are used to help move around or taste food.
- GuestWhat do lacewings eat?
Bugscope TeamThey really like things like aphids and mealybugs---little small soft bugs that suck plant juices.
- Guestwhat is thier prey?
- GuestDo we ahve any other bugs to look at?
Bugscope Teamyes you can choose from among the presets: alingh has control now
- Bugscope Teamalingh now has control
- GuestWhat do lacewings eat?
Bugscope Teamas Annie had said below -- aphids and mealybugs, which are small and softbodied and live on plant juices
- Guestwhat is that
- GuestWhat are the dots?
Bugscope Teamthose are mold spores
- GuestHow did the Assassin bug get mold on it?
Bugscope Teamif you leave anything alone for a while, it will get mold on it most of the time.
- Guestthat is cool
- Bugscope Teamonce insects die they are often taken over fairly quickly by mold, and sometimes bacteria, which cause them to rot
- GuestIs that a rib cag?
Bugscope Teamnot sure. it wouldn't really be a rib cage because insects don't have bones. they have an exoskeleton, which means they have a hard shell like a suit of armor
- Gueste sorry
- 10:09 am
- GuestHow did the assassin bug get it's name?
Bugscope TeamAssassin bugs are predators, they sneak up and capture anything smaller than them and suck out all their body juices!!
- GuestWhat are the little white dits?
- Guestwhy are the cotton ball moving
- Guestwhy are the balls moveing
Bugscope Teamthe electron beam is causing them to move a lttle bit. they are also chargin up with electrons, that's why they look bright
- Guestdot
- GuestAre those hairs?
Bugscope Teamsome of those are hairs, or setae, and some are fungal hyphae
- Guestare we going to switch soon
- Bugscope Teamthose are little balls of mold spores, almost like dandelions of mold
- Bugscope TeamMohn is now the Supreme Ruler.
- Bugscope Teamcool mohn, take us for a drive in the microscope!
- Bugscope TeamYou can go to a preset, or a lower mag, if you are lost -- happens to us as well....
- Bugscope Teamif you get lost just click on a preset
- TeacherWhat are fungal hyphae?
Bugscope Teamthe hyphae are the strands, like branches or tendrils, of mold
- Bugscope Teammohn, you need to click to drive again
- Bugscope Teamwe are stuck moving
- Guestwhere is the head?
- 10:14 am
- Guestwhat is the spiracle?
Bugscope Teama spiracle is a breathing pore
- TeacherI think our internet is crapping out...
- Bugscope Teammohn, you MUST click in your screen to stop moving
- GuestAll i see is black
Bugscope Teamsame for us; just a minute
- Bugscope Teamwe are trying to fix, hold on
- Guestwhat is that?
- Bugscope Teamok, we are fixed now
- Bugscope Teamsorry about that, we seemed to have fixed the problem.
- Bugscope Teammohn, you have control
- TeacherNo worries!
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the spiracle, which insects use to regulate their air intake, or breathe
- Bugscope Teamspiracles, sorry
- GuestWhat is a spriacle?
Bugscope Teamit is a breathing hole for insects, like a nostril
- Bugscope TeamA spiracle is like a nostril. Insects use it to breathe.
- 10:20 am
- Guestwhat is the round tube things on the side
- Bugscope TeamLane I just gave you control. If you use click to drive, click once to drive, once to stop
- TeacherWhy do insects need spriracles instead of lungs?
Bugscope Teamthey solved the problem of breathing a different way, long before people were around, or likely even mammals
- GuestSo what are those stuff around it?
- GuestWhat is a Beetle palp for?
Bugscope Teamit's used to move around and taste food
- GuestHow is a spiriacle different then lungs what is the difference?
Bugscope Teamwell, a lunch can force air in and out of your body. but a spiracle is just a hole in the abdomen of an insect. the air just kinda goes into the spiracle on its own
- Guestwhat is that stuff in there?
Bugscope Teamlooked like there was dirt and some small amounts of mold
- GuestWhat is the things that look like rocks inside of the little hole
- GuestWhat is the tube?
- GuestWhy do they have a Beetle Palp instead of a mouth?
Bugscope Teamthe palp helps them move the food into the mouth, and also taste it
- GuestWhy do bugs have mold do thye have to have mold to live??
- Guesthow do the 2 tubes conect in the body like the arm i think that is what it is?
Bugscope Teamyou know they are so much like arms, but they only help with feeding and tasting
- GuestOh ok
- GuestWhy do bugs have mold do they have to have mold to live??
Bugscope Teamwell, i don't think they require mold, although some might feed off of it. mold naturally grows on anything and everything that is damp and kept in a closed environment. we often find mold on dead insects
- GuestAre those arms?
Bugscope Teamthey're palps, which are like tiny arms that help the insect feed
- Bugscope TeamInsect blood doesn't carry oxygen, so there is no need for complicated system like lungs. Each cell in an insect body gets its own supply of oxygen from a branching system of tubes connected to the spiracles.
- Guestwhat are the little tiny tube looking things
Bugscope Teamthose are the tips of the palps, and they have chemosensors inside them to help smell food
- GuestDoes this bug have vains?
Bugscope TeamInsects have what is called an open circulatory system, they have blood that flows freely in their body.
- GuestWhy do bugs have mold do they have to have mold to live??
Bugscope Teamsome insects, such as fruit flies, eat particular kinds of fruit mold
- Guestwhat is the mold like stuff around the bug
- Bugscope TeamSo they don't have veins
- Guestwhat are chemosensors
Bugscope Teamthey're like taste buds for chemicals in the air
- 10:25 am
- Guestis there any way to point out specific objects like a needle or somehting?
Bugscope Teamsure, you could ask whoever is driving to magnify close up to the spot you want to look at
- GuestSo there bloods just flows all by it's self?
Bugscope Teamit doesn't really flow; it just fills the inside of the body cavity
- Bugscope Teamthe scope can magnify many thousands of times, so you can focus in on just about anything you are seeing in the images
- Bugscope Teamstandard, i just switched control over to you, have fun!
- GuestWhy does it have all the stringy stuff all over it?
Bugscope Teamstringy stuff is often mold -- fungal hyphae
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the spider spinnerets; it moved a tiny bit since we made the preset
- Guestare u guys saving thee pictures and the chat or just the pics
Bugscope Teamsaving everything, pretty much
- Guestwhat are those claws?
- Bugscope Teamthis is where spider web comes out of
- GuestAre those things sensors?
Bugscope Teamthe maing things we see are the silk extruders -- the things that produce the web
- Bugscope Teamall the chat and images are being saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-121
- Bugscope Teamthere is going to be a chat transcript you can access from your member page that has images going along with it
- Bugscope Teamyou can also see plumose setae, which are long pine-tree-like setae
- Guestwhat are the spikes and hairs
- Guestwhy are they some smooth and furry looking?
Bugscope Teamthe furry looking things are hairs on the spider
- 10:30 am
- Bugscope Teamthe furry ones are the plumose setae
- Bugscope Teamspiders can make sticky and nonsticky web; they can also recycle web by eating it
- Bugscope TeamOOF
- Bugscope Teamtry focus here
- Bugscope Teamthat looks pretty good
- GuestWhere does there web come out of?
Bugscope Teamout of the pointy things with the wider bases
- Guestare those the legs
Bugscope Teamno we are at a much higher mag, just looking at some of the setae - the 'hairs'
Bugscope Teamno, we are looking at the spinneret, smaller than the legs
- Bugscope Teamtheir silk is made of protein. If they get really hungry, they eat their web
- Bugscope Teamif you take the mag down, there you go, you can see where we are
- GuestWhy is some of the spider smooth and some of it have hairs all over?
Bugscope Teamsome places will lose those hairs; they'll rub off
- Bugscope Teamthis is the spider's abdomen
- Guestwhat are the tiny little hairs
Bugscope Teamalmost all of those hairs are setae (see-tee), they help the spider to sense its environment
- Guestwhat are the spiky things?/
Bugscope Teametae
Bugscope Teamsetae
- Guestwhat kind of a spider are we looking at?
- GuestDo all spiders have the exact same thing as this one
Bugscope Teamno, there are lots of differences among spider species
- Guesthow does the web come ot?
- Guestwhat those the adomen do
Bugscope Teamthe abdomen is the round part at the back; it is like a belly, but it has the web-producing glands as well as the reproductive system inside it
- Bugscope Teamsome spiders, like tarantulas, have irritating hairs that they release when you come near them
- Bugscope TeamUg, I am not very good at identifying spiders, sorry
- 10:35 am
- Guestwhat are the holes
Bugscope Teammost of these holes are where the setae broke off and the hole is where the seta stuck through the exoskeleton
- GuestHow big is this spider in real life?
Bugscope Teamless than a centimeter across
- Guestwhat is that?
Bugscope Teamthe hooks are called crochets
- Bugscope Teamswitching control over to rawlings
- Bugscope TeamThese are called prolegs because they don't exist in the adult butterfly
- Guestwhy do they need them (what are the crochets)?
Bugscope TeamThe prolegs, with crochets, help the caterpillar to hang on to leaves and branches
- Guestwhere are the eyes?
Bugscope Teamthey are the bumps you can just see at the top of the head
- Guestwhat are the humps
Bugscope Teamthose are called chelicerae, they kind of look like buck teeth on spiders, but have fangs attached at the ends
- 10:40 am
- GuestDo all spiders eat insects
Bugscope TeamThey are generalists. They will pretty much eat anything smaller than them. Some large spiders can eat baby birds or lizards.
- Guestwhat are the little yarn things?
Bugscope Teamthose are longer setae that almost cover the fangs
- GuestDo all of these insects have mold on them?
Bugscope Teamno, not all, but it is not uncommon
- Bugscope Teammost of what we see here are the chelicers, or chelicerae, as Cate said while I was struggling to type
- Guestwhat are the strings in between the to humps
Bugscope Teamthose are long setae that seem to have a kind of filter function
- Bugscope Teamthere is a jumping spider, called Bagheera kiplingi, that eats mostly plant material
- Bugscope Teamthe Bagheera kiplingi is the only known mostly herbivore diet spider in the world
- Bugscope Teamyou can see one of the fangs, lower right
- Guestdo they have 2 different spiricals or just one or more?
Bugscope TeamSpiders have a different type of respiratory system--they have something called book lungs.
- Bugscope Teamyeah right a vegetarian spider, like a vampire that doesn't bite people -- a PC vampire
- Guestwhat is a filter funtion?
Bugscope Teamoften when we see something like that -- a fringe -- it has the function of filtering dust, keeping it away from the mouthparts, for example
- Guestwhat is the things on top of the vans
- GuestDo they have palps too or do they have something else?
Bugscope TeamThey have palps as well.
- GuestCan you tell how old a spider is by the size of it 's fangs
Bugscope TeamI don't think so. I am not sure if there is a reliable way to tell how old a spider is.
- GuestHow many palps do they have just 1 or 2?
Bugscope Teamthey have two big palps that look like legs, on either side of the chelicerae
- Guestdo the fangs grow?
Bugscope Teamthey might grow if the spider grows. They have a chance to grow with each molt they have. When they molt, they can also grow back legs they might have lost previously
- Guest what is a filter funtion
Bugscope TeamI meant the capability of filtering dust, for example
- 10:46 am
- Guestcan they breathe out of all the holes at once or just one at a time
Bugscope Teamwell, they don't breath like we do with forcing air in and out. air just goes into the spiracle holes, and organs inside the insects absorb the air
- Bugscope Teamspiders have the ability to jettison legs that they sense have been bitten and have venom entering them
- GuestDoes this spider use there fangs a lot?
Bugscope Teamthat is how they eat -- the fangs inject venom that dissolves the insides of what they are eating, and then they use the fangs again to suck all of the juice out like a milkshake
- Bugscope Teamso yeah, air goes into all spiracles at the same time, unless it's covered up by some kind of spiracle pillow
- Bugscope Teamit is called autotomy
- Guestwhat kind of spider is this
Bugscope Teamsorry, but i don't think we know the exact species
- Guestcan we go somewhere else?
Bugscope Teamask clopton to click on a preset
- TeacherCan clopton control?
- Bugscope Teamclopton, you have control now
- Bugscope Teamclopton, try clicking on a preset
- Bugscope TeamI clicked on something to see if there was a holdup
- Bugscope Teamand there is...
- Bugscope Teamokay, sorry about that, it's fixed again
- Bugscope TeamAlex just fixed it, sorry clopton.
- Guestthat is soo cool
- GuestDoes that thing have eylashes?
- Bugscope Teamtry again clopton, if the scope is unresponsive, just let us know
- 10:51 am
- Bugscope TeamI mean Clopton...
- Bugscope TeamNice!
- Bugscope Teamwe don't normally see it crash so much, sorry about that
- TeacherAre those eyes?
Bugscope Teamthose are chemosensory palps, we think. there are eyespots on them other side
- Bugscope Teamthis is the capitulum -- the head of the tick
- Guestwhat is the fang looking thing
- TeacherWaht is the "w" shaped apparatus?
Bugscope Teamthe w's are the recurved spines that help the tick head stay in your skin
- GuestWhere do they bite?
Bugscope TeamThey dig the pointy part of their head into your skin
- GuestWhat are the spikes on the bottom right now?
- Guestwhat are the spikes facing each other
- GuestWhy do tick suck?
Bugscope TeamThey need to have blood to complete their development. Both male and female ticks suck blood
- Gueston the top
Bugscope Teamthose are setae, hairs that help insects sense their environment
- Guestwhat is the fang looking thing
- Bugscope Teamwhen they bite the side parts we see now fold away
- Guestto live
- Bugscope Teamand the part behind it...
- GuestWhere do they out all the blood in them?
Bugscope Teamin their stomachs
- GuestEvery where?
- Guestwhat is the fang looking thing\
Bugscope Teamthat is one of the eight claws
- Bugscope Teamor, it is one of eight sets of claws at the end of the eight legs
- 10:56 am
- GuestWhat do they use the claws for?
Bugscope Teamall kinds of things: grabbing food and stuffing it towards their mouths, holding onto other bugs for defense, grasping plants as they try to climb them, etc.
- Bugscope Teamclick once to stop
- Bugscope Teamtake the mag down if you want to get a better view
- Bugscope Teamthis is carbon tape that the critters are stuck onto
- Bugscope Teamthey use their claws kind of like we use our hands
- TeacherWe are about to start another session
Bugscope Teamokay, sounds good
- TeacherGuion and Smith did not get to control and they be first in for 2 minutes
- Bugscope Teamwhat they do, actually, is hook one or the other of the built-in hooks on the top of the thorax, on the ventral side, over a leaf of grass, and then they can extend all eight arms to grab you as you go by
- Bugscope Teamhi students, welcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamyou can see one of the eyes to the left
- Bugscope Teamthis is a rolypoly
- Bugscope Teamthese are live images from an electron microscope, right now your teacher has control of that scope
- Bugscope TeamGuion we gave you control of the microscope.
- 11:01 am
- Bugscope Teamcool, guion, you have control
- Bugscope Teamthis is the underside of the head of the rolypoly, near the mouth
- Bugscope Teamwhen using navigation, "click to center" is much easier to control than click to drive
- Bugscope Teamclick once to drive, and once to stop
- Bugscope Teamokay, click again to stop, there ya go! nice
- Bugscope Teamgood work guion!
- Bugscope Teamthis is the wing of the lacewing
- Bugscope Teamyou can see little scratches on it
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the wingveins, which have little spines on them, and as Cate said, you can see lots of scratches.
- Bugscope Team birds and other animals that eat insects often just spit the wings out
- Bugscope Teamthe head is to the north
- Bugscope Teamsee the compound eye? ooops not now
- GuestWhere's is eye
Bugscope Teamto the left -- there!
- Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag lower to see better
- Guestit almost looks kind of furry
- Bugscope Teamthat is the rolypoly compound eye
- GuestWhy is the eye bubbly?
Bugscope Teamthose bubble are the individual facets of the compound eye, each one has a lens in it!
- Bugscope Teamrolypolies are not insects -- they are crustaceans
- Guestwhat is a compound eye?
Bugscope Teama compound eye has many individual facets, called ommatidia, that serve as lenses
- TeacherSmith needs to control
Bugscope Teamsmith has control now
- 11:07 am
- Bugscope Teamthere are rolypolies that live in the sea that get as big as poodles!
- GuestWhat is that?
Bugscope Teamthis is one of the claws of the termite
- Guestwhat are the spikes?
Bugscope Teammost of those spikes are setae (pronounced see-tee), they help insects to sense their environment, kinda like cat whiskers
- TeacherLike a sea cucumber?
- TeacherThe rolypolies?
Bugscope Teamthey are called giant isopod. They get to around 4 lbs in weight
- GuestWhy are the pictures only black and white?
Bugscope Teamwhen we get images from the microscope, we get them as signal from 2ndary electrons, not as light, where you would see color
- GuestWhere do these termites live?
- GuestWhat happens to the shell of a rolly polly when it's eat'en by its predator.
Bugscope Teamlikely it is not digested, like if you were to eat the shell of s shrimo
- Guest what is that?
- Bugscope Teamno, it's moving i think?
- Bugscope Teamcan you click on a preset?
- GuestWhy is it furry? Or is it dry skin or something?
- Bugscope Teamsmith, click on a preset see what happens?
- Bugscope Teamlooks to be locked again. sorry fixing now
- Guestwhat are the circle things?
- GuestWhat are the little hill like features?
- GuestWhat is that?
- Bugscope Teamsmith, you should have control again.
- TeacherCan arndt control?
- Bugscope Teamthis is a spiracle on an assassin bug
- GuestHow big is the microscope?
Bugscope Teamit's the size of a desk, with all the different parts
- Bugscope Teamokay, arndt, you have control
- Guestwhat are the things that look like branches
Bugscope Teamthose are setae, and inside we see what we think function as filters to keep dust out of the spiracle
- Guestwhats the spiracle
Bugscope Teama spiracle is a hole in the abdomen of an insects, air goes into the hole and the insect gets nutrients from the air that way. it's how bugs breathe
- GuestWhere does this assassin bug live?
- 11:12 am
- Guestwhat is that?
- GuestWhat is that?
- Guestwhat is that
- Bugscope Teamthis is a spiracle, a breathing hole on an insect
- GuestWhat Are these?
- GuestWhy does the insect look dusty?
Bugscope Teamwell, bugs get dirty too, just like humans can
- Guestwhat are the things that look like dirt?
Bugscope Teamthere really is dirt there
- Bugscope Teamthese hairs are called setae (pronounced see-tee)
- Guestis that dirt in the setae?
Bugscope Teamyes!
- Bugscope Teamsetae are hair like structures that stick out from the exoskeleton on insects, they help insects sense their environment
- GuestWhat is the hair for on the bug.
Bugscope Teaminsects do not have nerves on their skin, because they don't have skin -- they have an exoskeleton, which is like wearing a suit of armor would be for us. So the setae stick through that armor and let the insect feel its surroundings.
- Bugscope Teamit's not always the fault of the insect if it is dirty after it died
- GuestWhat is a setae?
Bugscope Teamthey are basically just hairs found on insects
- GuestWhats the little crevisis
- GuestHow big is this assassin bug in real life?
- TeacherDingman controls please
- Bugscope Teamtry not to drive off the edge of the scope
- Guestwhat is that?
- GuestI know that cats lick their kittens and there selves, but how do bugs clean there selfs?
- 11:17 am
- Bugscope Teamokay, we drove so far off the edge of the scope that time, it took more to fix it...
- GuestWhat is that?
- Bugscope Teamwe are getting back to normal, hold on a sec
- Bugscope Teamtry using "click to center" instead of click to drive
- Bugscope Teamscott is now controlling the scope
- Bugscope Teamthis is the body of the assassin bug
- Bugscope Teamthis is rotting plant material the assassin bug was eating
- TeacherDO assasin bugs jsut eat plants?
Bugscope Teamno no, they eat tons of bugs!
- Bugscope Teamthis is fungus on one of the claws
- Bugscope Teamand these are mold spores
- GuestWhat are the balls at the end of the string things?
Bugscope Teamthose are the actual spores
Bugscope Teamthose are parts of the mold spores
- TeacherWhat is it doing eating a palnt?
Bugscope Teamwell, i think it ate it accidentally, then spit it out?
Bugscope Teamthat was some stuff one of its prey spit up
- Guestwhat are the string things?
Bugscope Teamthose are mold spores, pretty cool huh?
- GuestAre they poisonous.
Bugscope Teamsometimes they are said to have venom, and if they bite you it could hurt
- GuestWhy is it moldy?
Bugscope Teamwell, insects get moldy when they don't clean themselves, kinda like humans do
- Guestwhy does the tubes look so flat
- GuestWhat are those ball looking things
Bugscope Teamthose are mold spores
Bugscope Teamthose are parts of the mold spore
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the claws on the assassin bug
- Bugscope Teamit's very dirty...
- Bugscope Teamnow we are moving towards the assassin bug head
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head!
- GuestWhat kind of bug is this?
Bugscope Teamthis is an assassin bug
- Bugscope Teamand eye
- TeacherWhy are soem pwarts really light and some parts really dark?
Bugscope Teamwell, that's the contrast from the scope
- Guestis that it's face?
- GuestWhat type of asassin bug is this?
Bugscope Teamnot sure, some of them are called wheel bugs because they have what looks like a half gear, or wheel, sticking out of the back
- GuestCan bugs get so dirty they die?
Bugscope Teamhmmm, well, yeah, but dirt is on living bugs too
- 11:22 am
- Bugscope Teamif we had more time, we could make sure the contrast was better
- GuestWhat is that stick looking thing?
Bugscope Teami think that's the proboscis
- GuestWhat is the big bump?
Bugscope Teamthat is the compound eye
- Bugscope Teamthe proboscis sticks into other insects, and the assassin bug sucks out the insides of its prey
- GuestWhat doess a probiscis do?
Bugscope Teamthis proboscis is used for feeding, like a straw
- Guestis that more mold?
Bugscope Teamyeppers
- Guestwhat are those little balls?
Bugscope Teamthose were mold spores
- GuestAre those ball things more mold spores?
Bugscope Teamyep
- Guestwhat is the giant sac for.
- GuestIs that the hed?
- Bugscope Teamthis is now a spider
- Guestwhat part of the body is this?
- Bugscope Teamthis is now the spider
- Bugscope Teamyes, this is the head area
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the simple eyes
- Bugscope Teamthey are pointed north-west
- Bugscope Teamthere's 3 eyes
- Bugscope Teamnow 4
- GuestWhy does some of it look like shattered glass?
Bugscope Teamthat was the background tape we stick the bugs to
- Guestwhat is that thing that looks like a rock?
- Bugscope Teamthese are the fangs
- GuestHow many eyes do they have?
- Guestwhat are those strings that are all together?
Bugscope Teamthose are setae
- Bugscope Teamthe big things in the middle are the chelicerae, which are like huge powerful sideways jaws
- GuestWhy do the spider eyes semm so big?
Bugscope Teamwell, we are magnified pretty high
- TeacherWhy do spiders ahve two types of eye?
Bugscope Teamthey usually have just those eight simple eyes. some spiders see well, but many do not
- Guestwhy do the eyes have things sticking out of it?
Bugscope Teamsome compound eyes have setae sticking out of them, to help the eye to keep dirt off it. but these simple eyes are clean i think?
- Guestwhy are the eyes so weird shaped?
- Guestis the hairy looking at the end there teeth
Bugscope Teamthat is a setae packet, helps to keep the fangs clean i think?
- Bugscope Teamnow we are going close-up to the fang
- 11:28 am
- Bugscope Teamhere is a fang tip
- GuestHow many eyes do they have?
Bugscope Team8 eyes on spiders
- GuestIs that the fang.
Bugscope Teamyep
- Guestwhat is that thing that the strings are on?
- Guestwhy is there hair on most bugs
Bugscope Teamthose hairs are VITAL, they are how bugs feel things in their environment
- Guestis there hair on all bugs?
Bugscope Teamyes, even ones that seem like they dont have any hair like roaches will still have hairs
- TeacherThat looks like fan coral.
- GuestWhy does it look kind of scaly?
- Bugscope Teamsince bugs have an exoskeleton, and since that exoskeleton can't feel anything, they have these setae stick through the exoskeleton to nerves underneath, that's how they feel things
- Bugscope Teamthis is a scale
- Guestwhy does it have wholes?
Bugscope Teamwe think those scale holes allow the entire scale to be lighter
- Bugscope Teamthat is a scale from a butterfly or moth
- GuestWhy does these things look like strings?
- Guestwhat makes the computers load slow?
- TeacherDisregard that question from root
- Bugscope Teamso this spider, probably ate the moth, and the setae helped keep the scales out of the spider, so the spider could feast on the body of the moth
- GuestWhat is this stuff?
- Bugscope Teamheh, computers need good processors and memory and disk to work fast
- Guestwhy are there spikes?
- Bugscope Teamthese are more scales
- Guestdoes every bug or insect have mold on it?
Bugscope Teamno
Bugscope Teamwell, unless a bug lived in a vacuum or was doused in alcohol
- TeacherCan we have a look at the wheel bug?
Bugscope Teamunless we have been calling it an assassin bug when it's really a wheel bug, we have no wheel bug on here
- Bugscope Teamthis is kind of cool -- we have found what the frilly setae on the spider's face do
- GuestSo the setae is kinda like the trigger hairs on a Venus Flytrap?
Bugscope Teamhey, good analogy! yes, kinda like that. although setae can have multi functions: some setae sense chemicals, other setae sense movement, so bugs can use setae to feel, taste, smell, sense wind direction, etc.
- Guestis the line in between thebig and long ones like rien forcements
- TeacherTHANK YOU for taking control, by the way.
- GuestIs that the spider zoomed out?
- 11:33 am
- TeacherCOO:L!
- Bugscope Teamno problemo missfitz, we just want to show you everything so we took control
- Bugscope Teamhere's a tick!
- Bugscope Teamsee those hooks on either side of the head?
- GuestIs that all that the setea does?
Bugscope Teamis that all??? what else can they do, cook you dinner?
- Bugscope Teamthe hooks are below the head
- TeacherMaybe zoom in a bit
- Bugscope Teamthose hooks allow the tick to hold onto things, all the while using its legs to try and grab onto something else
- Bugscope Teamthe head is called a capitulum, with palps on either side
- GuestSo ticks are arachnids?
- TeacherSo which part are they biting you with?
Bugscope Teamsee the center of the head, that's the part that digs into your skin. the sides fold down first
- GuestCan the setae be used as a defencee from other bugs and insects?
- Bugscope Teamso those palps fold down, and then the tick can bite into you
- Bugscope Teamthey are arachnids, yes
- GuestWhere is the mouth?
- Bugscope Teamthe central part, the hypostome, is what sticks into you
- GuestWhat is the thing in between the eyes?
Bugscope Teamthe things that look like eyes are sensory structures that smell, we think
- Bugscope Teamthe mouth is right down the center, sort of at the top of the head
- GuestWhy is the setea connected to the bottom part of the mouth.
Bugscope Teamthose setae are probably chemosensory setae, so they sense chemicals, in this case the setae sense taste or smell
- Bugscope Teamthere are eyespots on the other side of the head
- Bugscope Teamok, now we are moving towards the mouth, down the center of the tick head
- Bugscope Teamthis is the mouth
- GuestAre those small teeth?
Bugscope Teamno, not teeth
- Bugscope Teamthe things that look like w's are recurved spines that help the hypostome stick into your skin
- 11:38 am
- Guestwhat are the little scaly things?
Bugscope Teamthe smaller things are rasping surfaces that cut your skin and make the blood flow
- GuestWhat are the scale for on the tic.
- TeacherWhy do insects have complex mouths?
Bugscope Teamwell, i'm not sure why really, but they do. at least the inside part of the mouth area. like the ladybug, she's got a crazy looking mouth area, often looks like another bug is inside its mouth
- Bugscope Teamwell, this is't really an insect, but still, the mouth looks complex
- Guestwhat is a good way to get a tick off of your skin?
Bugscope Teamuse forceps and grab it as low as you can, nearest the head, and gently work it out
- GuestIf you slap mosquitos doesn't it just go into your skin?
Bugscope Teamit could but usually doesn't that easily
- GuestWhy do they stick whenever they are on us?
Bugscope Teamwell, they stick on you so they can start to feed on you. it's all about survival: feeding and breeding
- Guestif those things are not teeth then what are they?
Bugscope Teamthey're barbs like on a honeybee stinger
- Guestwhy do the eyes have hairs on them?
Bugscope Teamwell, some compound eyes have setae on them to help sense wind direction. but these aren't compound eyes.
- GuestIf the head of the tick is still in your skin, how do you get it out?
Bugscope Teamfine forceps, maybe have a doctor help
- Guestwhat are barbs then?
- Bugscope Teamthis looks like a claw of some kind?
- Guestand what do the barbs do?
Bugscope Teamthink about an arrowhead
- Guestwhy do ticks dig in to your skin and why are there more then one color?
- Bugscope Teamit's like the wing parts of an arrowhead, but a lot of them
- TeacherWhy does the barb have a leaf shaped attachment?
Bugscope Teamthis, now, is one of the claws
- Teacherto the SW
- GuestWhat are the web like things on the side?
- Bugscope Teamwe are thinking, some of these questions are challenging for us
- 11:43 am
- GuestAre the claws backward or is that what it's post two look like.
- GuestHow many claws does a tick have on each hand?
Bugscope Teamtwo claws. adults have eight arms. juvenile ticks have only six arms
Bugscope Teamusually a single claw pair on each hand
- Bugscope Teamthe leaflike thing is probably a pulvillus, which is a sticky pad
- Guestwhat is the tube thing right by the claw?
Bugscope Teamto the right is actually a piece of plant fibetr
- Guestwhat do the claws really do?
Bugscope Teamthey grip, much like we use our hands
- Bugscope Teamfiber
- Bugscope Teamwe are driving somewhere else now
- Guestcan ticks drink turtle blood?
Bugscope Teamsure, why not?
- GuestWhat are the dots?
Bugscope Teamthose are bubbles in the tape we stick the bugs to
- Bugscope Teamthis is a roly poly, or pillbug, it is an isopod. meaning all its feet are the same
- GuestHow do bugs clean them selves?
Bugscope Teamsome bugs have combs, and they use those combs to help keep themselves clean
- GuestTicks suck blood, but do they also eat other insects?
Bugscope Teamthey do not mess with insects, as far as we know; they want blood
- Guestwhat is that hole in the back?
- GuestWhy are the legs folded up like that?
Bugscope Teammaybe when it died it curled up?
- GuestWhat is the bubbly thing?
Bugscope Teamthat is the compound eye
- Guestwhat are mites?
Bugscope Teammites are tiny little insects
- Bugscope Teamthe compound eye is made up of individual facets, each one has a lens in it
- Bugscope Teaminteresting, tiny little crystals on the eye
- Guestwhat do mites do?
Bugscope Teamthere are different kinds of mites, and some live on insects
- Bugscope Teamthese are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamon a roly poly, this is not a mite
- GuestCan bugs catch deseases from other bugs?
Bugscope Teamwell, yeah, i think so
- 11:48 am
- Guestwhy does it have crystals on it's eye?
Bugscope Teamwe don't know! kind of interesting
- TeacherWhy are there crystals on the ee?
- Guestis it posible that bugs can die from having to much dirt or mold on them?
Bugscope Teamwell, if a bug was completely encased in dirt, then yes, i would think it would be in trouble... too much of any one thing is usually bad for anything
- GuestDo compound eyes have any advantages for bugs?
Bugscope Teamyes, very much so. compound eyes provide excellent vision for flying insects, that's why flys are so good at evading your hand swats
- GuestWhat are mites?
Bugscope Teammites are tiny athropods that live on and among insects and other arthropods
- TeacherDisregard my question
- Guesthow did this bug die? did you kill it?
- Bugscope Teamsome pure chemicals formed into salts like that
- GuestCan you tell how a bug died?
Bugscope Teamnot usually, sometimes we know that one froze, or that it was gassed
- GuestHow many eyes does a tick have?
Bugscope Teami think just two compound eyes
- GuestWhat are the crackes on the eye.
- Guestcan people get mites on them?
Bugscope Teampeople are said to have mites that live on their eyelashes
- Bugscope Teambut this is a roly poly, not a tick
- TeacherHow do insects keep their eyes clean without lids?
Bugscope Teamthey wipe them with their arms, and sometimes they have built-in combs for their antennae
- GuestWhat do you mean "gassed"?
Bugscope Teamlike if someone uses CO2 to kill the insects
- Bugscope Teambee's often have combs to brush dirt off themselves
- Bugscope Teamok, now we are going to the head of the lacewing
- Bugscope Teambut first, let's check out the wing vein
- Guestwhat is the lacewing?
Bugscope Teamit's a flying insect that eats other soft bugs
- Bugscope Teamok, so this is a lacewing wing, close up, these are the veins
- GuestWhy do the bugs look kind of sectioned?
Bugscope Teamjust the way it happened i guess
- Guestwhats the hairs sticking out of the vien
Bugscope Teamthose are setae too. setae are everywhere on bugs!
- GuestareAre the things sticking out mold?
- Guestwhat are those things that look like skicks?
Bugscope Teamthose are probably mechanosensory setae, to help feel the wind
- 11:54 am
- GuestWhat does a lacewing do?
Bugscope Teamfeed and breed. like all organism. they like to feed on other small soft bugs
- Guestdo tickes only live off of blood
Bugscope Teamyes they do
- Bugscope Teamthis is silver paint
- Guestwhat is the mechanosensory setae?
Bugscope Teamit is a seta that senses movement or wind, as opposed to a chemosensory seta that can sense chemicals
- GuestAren't there many tiny eyes on bug eyes
Bugscope Teamwell, yeah, but they are individual facets of the whole compound eye
- GuestSo they have 2 compound eyes too?
- Guestis the mechanosensory setae a type of setae?
Bugscope Teamyes it is
- Guestdid it chip it's eye?
- GuestHow many mouth parts do bugs have
Bugscope Teamlots of mouth parts: jaws, clypeus, palps, other things we don't know the names of but somebody does...
- Guestis that the eye
- Guestit that the eye? it looks like a golf ball
- TeacherAre some of the mouth parts broken?
Bugscope Teamyes some of them are broken
- GuestAre these compound eyes or they just really big?
Bugscope Teamthese are compound eyes yes
- Guestwhat are those things right next to the eye?
Bugscope Teampalps
- Bugscope Teamor, this IS a single compound eye, rather
- GuestWhat is the part that looks like a tube on the top right corner?
Bugscope Teamthat looks like a palp
- Guestwhat are palps?
- Bugscope Teamwe are now going to center in on the palp
- Bugscope Teampalps are mouth parts that help insects to feed and taste their food
- Guesthow did the palp break?
Bugscope Teamoh, how does anything break, something broke it
- 11:59 am
- TeacherWhy does the palp have cracks?
Bugscope Teamhowever it broke was from some kind of stress, and we see the resultant fracture
- Guestare palps just like mouths?
Bugscope Teamno, they are like tongues outside of the mouths
- GuestWhat is the gooey looking thing at the end of the palp?
Bugscope Teammight be some goo, like hemolymph, which is what insects have instead of blood
- Guestwhat is this? a leg?
Bugscope Teamthis is the one antennae that was not busted off
- GuestCan setea break?
Bugscope Teamyes they can
- Guestdid the other antenea break off?
Bugscope Teamyes
- TeacherWell, tha is pretty much our time limit
Bugscope TeamThank You!
- Guestwhat part of the lacewing is this?
- Bugscope TeamAlex had to go help someone with a computer.
- Bugscope Teamthis is the antenna tip
- TeacherThank you so much!!
- Guestthank you!
- Guestthank you
- Guestthank you
- Guestthank you !!!!
- GuestThank You!
- GuestThank You!
- GuestThank you!
- GuestTHANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was GREAT!!!!!
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- GuestThanks for answering the question.
- Guestthank you!
- Bugscope TeamSee you next time!
- TeacherYOU ALL ARE AWESOME!
- Guestthank you!:)
- GuestThank You!!! I hope we can do it again!
- TeacherYou bet!
- 12:04 pm
- Guestthank you
- Bugscope Teamthis is the inside of the microscope, and we see the caterpillar
- GuestThank You
- Bugscope Teamwe're venting it, and you may be able to see my hands when I wakt the sample out
