Dean Road Elementary
Session 2010-068

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Connected on 2010-11-05 08:45:00 from Auburn, AL, US

• 8:03 am
• Bugscope Teamwe are setting up today's presets

• Bugscope Teamgood morning, Rocket!

• 8:08 am

• Bugscope Teambe right back...
• 8:23 am

• Bugscope Teamgood morning, BB
• Bugscope Teamwelcome to Bugscope!

• 8:28 am

• TeacherHi, we're here.
• Bugscope Teamcool
• Bugscope Teamit's set up now, and bass class has control of the microscope
• TeacherWhat are we looking at?
• 8:34 am
• Bugscope Teamthese are wing scales of the butterfly
• Bugscope Teamthis is the 'powder' you loosen from the wings when you touch them
• Teachercool
• TeacherIs the lump a big clump of powder?

• Bugscope Teamwing scales confer color to the wings with both normal pigments and the structural colors that derive from the ridges
• Bugscope Teamit's not really powder -- it;'
• Bugscope Teamoops
• Bugscope Teamit's a whole bunch of these scales, which are kind of like feathers on a bird's wing
• Bugscope Teamthe presets, if you click on the left arrow, are places you can click on the drive the 'scope to that place

• Bugscope Teamyou can also change the magnification, the focus, the brightness and contrast...
• Bugscope Teamand you can center a feature by clicking within the image on the screen
• Bugscope Teamonly Bass Class has control of the 'scope right now

• Bugscope Teambut let us know if someone else should have control
• Bugscope Teamso if you clicked the minus at the top of the screen now, the magnification would lower
• Teacherwe wanted to try it out as a class before we let anyone else try it
• Bugscope Teamyou're at 2408x right now

• Bugscope Teamhey no problem
• 8:39 am

• Teacherthe kids want to know why it is in black and white
• Bugscope Teamthe images come to us as signal
• Bugscope Teamsorry I had a phone call...
• Bugscope Teamand I am back now
• Bugscope Teamwhen we use the electron microscope to collect images, we are beaming electrons at the samples, and the electrons that hit the samples knock what are then called 'secondary electrons' out of the surface of the samples

• Bugscope Teamthe secondary electrons come back to us as signal; if there are a lot of them we get a bright area and if there are few we get darkness
• Bugscope Teamthis is cool
• Teacherwow!
• Bugscope Teamthis is a pollen grain on the 'click' mechanism of a click beetle

• 8:44 am
• Bugscope Teamthis is now about 9000x magnified

• Bugscope Teammuch higher than you can see using a light microscope

• Teacherwhat are the hair-like things
• Bugscope Teamelectrons are smaller than the wavelengths of visible light -- much smaller -- so we cannot see color
• Bugscope Teamthe hair like things are setae
• Bugscope Teamsetae are sensory structures
• TeacherJordan says "sweet"!
• Bugscope Teamthey let the insect feel touch, sense hot/cold, and also, to reflect what Jordan says, they can be used to taste

• Bugscope Teaminsects do not have an internal skeleton like we do -- they have an external skeleton, called an exoskeleton. Or you could just say they have a shell, like a shrimp shell, for example.

• Bugscope Teamso it's kind of like if you had a suit of armor. if you were wearing armor you would not be able to feel things touching your skin.

• Teacherahhh!
• Bugscope Teambut if you had hairs sticking out through the armor you could use them to sense what is touching you
• 8:49 am
• Bugscope Teamspiders, like this, have lots and lots of very sensitive hairs (setae) that help them feel vibration
• Bugscope Teameven though they (mostly) have eight eyes, often they cannot see very well and depend on the setae to help them sense their environment
• Teacherwhat kind of spider is this and how big is it ?
• Bugscope Teamyou can see two eyes now, at the top of the head, and in the front are two palps, or pedipalps, that the spider uses as accessory arms
• Bugscope TeamI am sorry we do not know what kind of spider this is, and it is less than a centimeter in diameter now
• Teachervery cool
• Bugscope Teamspiders have soft bodies and shrivel up quite a bit when they die
• Bugscope Teamsome spiders have what are called 'urticating hairs' that they release if you get too close
• Bugscope Teamthe urticating hairs are annoying and make you want to get away
• Teacherwe have a few kids at computers now
  Bugscope Teamcool! they are welcome to ask questions, and if you would like us to let anyone drive the 'scope, one at a time, let me know
• Bugscope Teamspiders also have this kind of cool thing they can do if they sense a venom coming into one of their legs -- they can just let that leg fall off!
• Teacherokay, addison can drive first
• 8:54 am
• Teachervery cool!
• Teacherarmondo wants to know what is a spider's weakest point?
  Bugscope TeamI think the weakest point is that they are soft and delicate. So they can be hurt easily.
• Guestwhat is the thing above the spider's head?
  Bugscope Teamthat is one of the legs arching around the head
• Teacherarmondo says "that is very cool"
• Guesthow many years does the spider live for
  Bugscope Teamthey can live for about a year or even more if they overwinter in our homes
• Bugscope Teamaddison you can drive if you would like -- you now have control
• Guesthow many hairs does the spider have?
• Guesthow many legs does it have
  Bugscope Teamspiders always have eight legs, unless they decide to let any go

• Bugscope Teamthese are crystals of salt from a Wendy's restaurant
• Bugscope Teamthey have those cool incised features you do not see on normal salt
• 8:59 am
• GuestWhat are the holes in the salt-crystals?
  Bugscope TeamLauren we think it is due to the addition of some sort of anti-caking agent -- some other chemical that keeps the salt from clumping
• Teacherthe kids want to know what you mean by incised features
  Bugscope Teamwe think the salt looks like Aztecs carved patterns into it
• GuestWouldn't they be clear or transparent?
  Bugscope Teamthe sem wouldn't be able to see through something. The electrons scan across the surface of structures. They might look transparent in a light microscope because light can pass through
• Bugscope Teamnormal table salt is smooth; it does not have those cool features
• Teacherthey just studied Aztecs so they are loving that you said that
• Bugscope TeamAwesome!
• Teachercan we give lauren control?
  Bugscope Teamlauren has control!

• Teacherwe may have to leave in just a minute for our group yearbook pic. sorry, it was a reschedule b/c of rain the other dya
• Teacheroops...day
• Bugscope Teamask them to come in an photograph you running Bugscope! ;)
• GuestHow did the spider get mold on it`s joint?
• 9:05 am
• GuestDid you put the mold on it?
• Guestwhat is this
  Bugscope Teamthis is a place where the spider's leg joint broke open, almost certainly after it died, and mold started to form there
• Guesthow did the mold form on the spider
  Bugscope Teamif they are kept enclosed with some water mold can form. This was probably sent by another school in a baggy. And the baggy had a little moisture in it
• Bugscope Teamit's an example of how mold and bacteria start to decompose things soon after they die; it's like recycling
• Guestthats neat
• Guesthow much mold covers the spider
  Bugscope Teamwe noticed it in a few areas like this, where the leg joints were broken open
• Teacherthey are calling us...we will be back in a few minutes I think we have some parents on with us, they can join in while we are gone :)
• Bugscope Teamoften we do not see the sort of film we see on the mold now
• Bugscope Teamsounds good!
• Guestwhat is the magnification level?
  Bugscope Teamthis is 134x right now
• Bugscope TeamNo! It is 2713x! I just checked at the microscope itself
• Bugscope Teamour software is not reading properly
• Guestcould we see the click beetle face up close and personal?
• Bugscope Teamso this is about twice what you can see with a light microscope

• Bugscope TeamAli I just gave you control.
• Guestcool
• Bugscope Teamthis is a small click beetle
• 9:10 am

• Bugscope Teamwe are looking right at its face, right at the mouth
• Bugscope Teamyou can see that the mandibles open left and right, like a gate
• Bugscope Teamand you can see the palps that help the beetle manipulate its food, and taste it
• Guestare those tiny hairs sensory in nature?
  Bugscope Teamnot all of them are
• Bugscope Teamsome are mechanosensory, some are chemosensory, and some are thermosensory
• Guesthow many eyes does a beetle have?
• Bugscope TeamI don'
• Bugscope Teamoops
• Bugscope TeamThey have two compound eyes, usually, with a variable number of facets, called ommatidia
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the eyes to the left or right if you drive slightly over in either direction
• Bugscope Teamsome beetles have four eyes or split eyes, for example if they swim and need eyes for above and below the water

• Bugscope Teamsome flies, and wasps and bees, will have five eyes: two compound eyes like these and three simple eyes called ocelli, on top of the head
• 9:15 am
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the individual facets of the compound eye here

• Bugscope Teamand now you can see the nanocomponents of the butterfly eye
• Bugscope Teamfeatures that are submicron in diameter
• Bugscope Teamplease let us know if someone else would like to drive the 'scope
• Bugscope Teamsome insects, like some moths and butterflies, can see UV light, which we cannot
• Bugscope Teamnow you can see the dome-like shape of the butterfly eye
• 9:20 am
• Bugscope Teamif you had compound eyes you would have very good peripheral vision
• Teacherwe're back but we are changing classes now a new class will be here in a minute
• Bugscope Teamalso, with all of those individual lenses, you would be able to register motion, like someone trying to smack you with a fly swatter, very quickly
• Bugscope Teamone of the drawbacks of having compound eyes is that people would likely be afraid of you, and you would not be able to find sunglasses that fit
• Bugscope Teamok sounds good
• Bugscope TeamBass Class has control of the 'scope now
• 9:26 am

• Bugscope Teamthis is a male mosquito
• Bugscope Teammales do not suck blood
• Bugscope Teamand they have cool-looking antennae
• Teacherwe're back! the kids want to know why they don't suck blood
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the compound eyes, which are so close they touch each other, and you can see the antennae, and you can also see the base of the proboscis
• Bugscope Teammales do not need the extra protein from blood to lay eggs like females do
• Bugscope Teamthe males might live on nectar -- on the sugar from flowers. or they might not eat at all
• 9:31 am
• Bugscope Teamthere is a species of mosquito in which the female does not need blood
• Teacherso they still have a proboscis

• Bugscope Teamyes they do

• Bugscope TeamI am not sure if the proboscis has a fascicle in it - the part with the cutting and sucking components
• Teacherthe kids say this is so cool
• Bugscope TeamYay!
• Teachercole : how big are the claws?
  Bugscope Teamthey are maybe 0.4 mm -- four tenths of a millimeter -- long
• Teachercharles: what do they use them for?
  Bugscope Teamthey are used to grab onto things like other insects or food
• 9:37 am
• Teachercharles says COOL
• Bugscope Teammany insects also have features between or slightly down the leg/arm from the claw that help them hold onto surfaces
• Teachermax : butterflies taste with their feet, so do they have a mouth on their feet?
  Bugscope Teamno they just have special hairs that can taste when they land on their food
• Guestare buterflies mouths on there feet
  Bugscope Teamtheir mouths are at the end of the long, coiled proboscis we usually see on the head -- they drink their food
• Teacheryou can give Harmon control
  Bugscope Teamharmon has control

• Guestwhy do lady bugs have dots on them
  Bugscope Teamthey dots and the fact that they are red/orange make them a warning to other insects. They eat other small insects like aphids and they taste/smell bad

• Bugscope Teamso when people say that Monarch butterflies taste with their feet, it is because when they land on a leaf or flower they can scrape it with one of the bristles, and the scent that is released is picked up by one of the special chemosensory setae (hairs) Cate mentioned.
• 9:42 am

• GuestIs it possible to see the claw of a butterfly without a microscope
  Bugscope TeamI think you can barely see them. We can see mites that may be a few hundred microns in diameter, which is close to the size of small claws.

• GuestHey! why do some bugs have tiny little hiars.
  Bugscope Teamsome of the tiny hairs are sensory, since insects do not have skin and need to be able to use those hairs to feel and taste their environment

• GuestAbout how many hairs are there on 1 mosquito antenae
  Bugscope Teamtoo many for us to count!
• Teacherconnor: do they have any type of parasites that live in their antenna?
  Bugscope Teamwe have not seen any yet, but there could be. people have tiny mites that live on their eyelashes, for example
• Teachercole: can you feel the hairs if you are holding one
• GuestHow long do each antenna get?
• Guesthow long can the antenna get
  Bugscope TeamI think they can get to be more than a millimeter in some cases.
• Teacherpretty long for such a little insect

• 9:48 am

• Teacherclass: are the hairs really wavy or is it because of how close we are
  Bugscope Teamthe hairs do curl a bit. But sometimes when we get really magnified on something the beam can distort the image a little as well
• GuestWhat are the tiny hairs on the antenae for?
  Bugscope TeamHarmon that is a good question with regard to the mosquito antennae; they have something called a Johnston's Organ on the antennae that helps them amplify the sound of other mosquitoes so they can locate mates, for example.'
• GuestWhat are those little things on the compound eye
  Bugscope Teamthose are little dust or dirt particles most likely

• Teacherkyra: what is on the eye? the hair like thing
  Bugscope Teamthere are little hairs found in between the ommatidia (individual lenses) of the eye

• Teacherlora: are those plates on the eye and how many are there?
  Bugscope Teamthose are called ommatidia, and they are individual lenses
• Teacherjackson r can have control
  Bugscope Teamjackson r has control

• Teacherlora: how many lenses
• GuestWhy do they have so many little plates on the eye
  Bugscope Teamthe more ommatidia there are usually means the eyes are bigger, and if the eyes are bigger than they can see more area around them. Flies have such huge eyes that they can see close to 360 degrees around them!

• Teachercreepy!

• Teacherclass: what is behind it?
• Bugscope Teamthere can be as many as 5000 facets in the eye of a wasp, and there can be eight or twelve in an ant eye
• Bugscope Teamsome ants do not have eyes at all
• Bugscope Teamthey use their antennae to get the information they need, and it is mostly relayed as chemical messages
• Teacherroly oops
• 9:53 am
• Teacherhow many legs are on the rolly poly?
  Bugscope Teama roly poly has 7 pairs of legs
• Teacherjackson d can have control
  Bugscope Teamjackson di has control

• Guestwhat are the little things?
• Guestwhy are these on their abdomen
  Bugscope Teammaybe they help catch pollen for pollination purposes. I'm not sure
• Teacherlora can have control
• 9:58 am

• Bugscope Teamthese areas on the abdomen also reflect light differently and may aid in identification of species; I think Cate's idea re pollination is also good
• Teacheraaahhhh!
• Bugscope Teamha
• Teacherclass: what is this?
  Bugscope Teamlooks like a june bug maybe
• Bugscope Teamthis was busy when it was alive
• Teacherwhat are the claw like things?
• Guestwhy is the head have so much stuff
  Bugscope Teamthere seems to be scales belonging to another insect- maybe a butterfly or moth- all over the face
• GuestWhat is the bug eating?
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the lobed antennae -- those are the clawlike things

• Bugscope Teamand you can see the palps, two different sets
• Bugscope Teamthere are also a lot of mouthparts sticking up- those are the palps- there are 2 pairs of them

• Guestwhat are those things coming out of its head?
  Bugscope Teamthose are the palps, which the beetle uses to help manipulate and taste its food
• Teacherdirk: what are palps
  Bugscope Teamthey help the insect move or taste food

• Bugscope Teamkind of like tastebuds

• Bugscope Teamthere's little special hairs on the ends of the palps for tasting
  Bugscope Teamkind of like tastebuds

• Teachercharles: what do junebugs eat?
  Bugscope Teamthey are said to eat the foliage of trees, which means they likely eat baby leaves and buds
• Teachercool
• 10:04 am
• GuestWhat are the plate things on his nose?
• Teacherbree: what are the little dots?
  Bugscope Teamthose are the ommatidia, or facets, of the compound eyes on the male mosquito
• Bugscope Teamas adults they eat foliage, and as larvae they eat roots; they are kind of bad plant pests
• Teacherwill s can have control
  Bugscope Teamhe's got control
• Teachergrace: what is the long thing?
  Bugscope Teamthe long thing in the middle that goes up out of our view is the proboscis -- the tube-like mouthpart of the mosquito
• GuestWhat are the plate things on its nose?
  Bugscope Teamthose are scales.
• Guestwat r those hairs?
  Bugscope Teamthose are hairs, or setae (see-tee) coming off the antennae
• Teacherryan: how are mosquitos born?
  Bugscope Teamthe female mosquito, after her blood meal, lays her eggs in the water, and they hatch in the water and become predatory larvae underwater

• Bugscope Teamthese are kind of primitive tenent setae on the arm of the ladybug larva
• Teacherryan: so cool
• Bugscope Teamthey are the sticky little hairs -- another purpose of hairs, or 'setae' -- that help the insect cling to surffaces

• Bugscope Team'surfaces,' sorry
• GuestWhat are thoes tentecals?
  Bugscope Teamthose are the setae that help the larva stick to things and not fall off
• 10:09 am
• Guestso wat r those little things sticking on the tenticles?
• Teacherkyra: can adult mosquitos breathe under water?
  Bugscope Teamthey can't breathe the water like fish. What some insects do is they trap a little bubble of air on their ventral side and they breathe that
• Teacherclass: what is this?
  Bugscope Teamif you take the mag down slightly you will see that this is at the tip of one of the six legs of the ladybug larva

• Teacherconnor: why does a mosquito bite itch?
  Bugscope Teamwhen they bite you they also inject an anticoagulant into the area so your blood won't clot so easily. That is the itchy part

• GuestWhat are those dots?
• Bugscope Teamthis shows that same antennae we had seen earlier, and you can see that it has tiny sensory 'buttons' on it that may be chemosensors or may sense motion
• Teachercole can have control
  Bugscope Teamcole has control

• Guestwhat are those scratches
  Bugscope Teamthe things that looked like scratches were the scale-like surface of the antennal shaft -- part of the exoskeleton
• Guestwhy is one sticking out
• Guestcool
• GuestWhat is a proboscis.
  Bugscope Teamit's a tube that some insects have like mosquitos and butterflies. It's a mouthpart that they drink liquid though
• GuestWhy are there holes
  Bugscope Teamwe are not sure whether they are chemosensory -- whether they sense chemicals in the air; or whether they might be pressure sensory
• Bugscope Teamthrough*
• Teacheransley: it looks a lot like a cactus
  Bugscope Teamyes it does!
• 10:15 am

• GuestIt looks like a mushroom.
• Bugscope Teamif you have scales that come off easily, like butterflies and moths and silverfish and some beetles and weevils, and mosquitoes --- those scales can help you get away when you get caught in a spider's web
• GuestIt looks like a mushroom
• GuestWhy do they get thinner and longer on the way up
  Bugscope Teamthat is a good observation; it may be that it is helpful to have them that way for flying
• Guestwi does that look like a mushroom
  Bugscope Teamit has different segments (like a ball and socket joint) so that it can move around. If it didn't have any segments then it would be stiff and not able to move because the exoskeleton is too tough
• Teacherdirk can have control
  Bugscope Teamhe has control!

• Bugscope Teamif we only had one long bone in our leg we wouldn't be able to bend it to walk around
• Bugscope Teamit's the same principle

• Guestwhat is that brown thing :)
• GuestOkaaaayyyyy that looks weird

• Teacherlora: are some of the hairs missing?
  Bugscope Teamif you see little holes, which are the pores for the hairs, then that is where hair would be missing.
• GuestWhat is that?
• Bugscope Teamlooks like there is a patch of gunk on this spider

• 10:20 am
• Guestwhat is the white
  Bugscope Teamthings that look really white in the electron microscope may be poorly grounded and thus charging up with electrons

• Guestit looks like blocks :)
  Bugscope Teamthey are little salt crystals
• Bugscope Teamso like Cate says; if that is a patch of gunk it may be poorly grounded and attracting electrons that cannot get away

• Bugscope Teamthis is something we don't see very often
• Bugscope Teamyou can see one of the ball and socket joints Cate had mentioned earlier on the beetle
• GuestWhy is the face cracked?
• Guestis that a anntenna
  Bugscope Teamyes we can see the base of the antenna too
• GuestWhy is the face crushed?
  Bugscope Teamwhen insects die they dry out making themselves very brittle. They can break easily (limbs can fall of when picked up). The face probably got crushed just as easily, maybe even when I picked it up
• Teacheransley can have control
  Bugscope Teamgot it!
• Guestwhat is the crack
  Bugscope Teamum Cate smashed it

• Bugscope Teamhere we can see where those little furry places are on the abdomen
• Teacherthe kids are cracking up at that
• Bugscope Teamthey do reflect light differently
• Guestit looks like it has hair at the top
• Guestwhy is the abdomen scaled
• Bugscope Teamshe is usually so careful, too
• 10:25 am

• GuestWht does the stinger have so many layers on it?
  Bugscope Teamthis isn't the stinger. It's the abdomen. It has segments as well so it bend it's abdomen and sting more easily

• GuestThats really cool
• Bugscope Teamwe can barely see the stinger, at the tip of the abdomen

• Bugscope Teamto the lower right
• Guestis the abdomen fuzzy or hard
  Bugscope Teamit's hard for the most part
• GuestThe tip is at the bottom, SJ
  Bugscope Teamyes, sorry ;)
• Bugscope Teamthe abdomen is part of the exoskeleton, so it is kind of like a shell
• GuestI wasn't trying to be mean! ;)
  Bugscope Teamno problem!
• GuestThats really cool
• Teachergrace can have control
  Bugscope Teamgrace is now the supreme ruler

• Bugscope Teamthe abdomen is flexible; if you ever try to pick up and earwig you can see it maneuver its abdomen around so it can pinch you with its cercopods
  Bugscope Teamthat's because of the segments it has
  Bugscope Teamit's much like armor that way
• 10:31 am
• GuestI always though I was the supreme ruler
• Teachertake it easy Grace, don't let it go to your head
• Bugscope Teamawesome, like Queen for a Day!

• Bugscope Teamthis shows, barely, the hamuli that connect the two halves of the wing
• Teacherclass: what are we looking at?
• Bugscope Teamoops gone now

• Bugscope Teamwhen wasps and bees fly they connect the fore- and hindwing on each side together using those clips, called hamuli
• Guestcool
• Guestcool
• GuestThomya :why dose it have tiny needles ?
  Bugscope Teamsometimes the setae look just like tiny needles, and they are often sensory, like cat or rat whiskers
• Teacherlora: why is it moldy?
  Bugscope Teamthis is a place where the spider leg broke, at a joint, and mold from the air landed on the fluid and started to grow. there must have been nutrients in the fluid that fed the mold
• 10:36 am
• Guesthow does the spider get mold on the face
  Bugscope Teamsometimes it is because they throw up when they die, and that fluid there attracts mold
• Teacherlora: cool but gross
  Bugscope Teama good description for Bugscope
• Guestdo beetles and wasps have the same sort of wings?
  Bugscope Teamno. Wasps, bees, and ants (when they have wings) have 2 pairs of wings that they can link together with little hooks called hamuli so that the wings act as one pair instead of 2.
• GuestHow did the spider get moldy?
  Bugscope Teameverything that dies will eventually decay, and mold and bacteria help make that happen. it's like recycling
• GuestMy bad
• Teachercharles can have control
  Bugscope TeamCharles is now the Overlord
• Guesthaha

• Guestwhere is the spider moldy
  Bugscope Teampresently just at some of the leg joints and at the mouth
• Guestgotta go
• Guestnext class coming
• GuestWhat type of spider is this??
  Bugscope Teamwe aren't sure. We aren't very good at identifying spiders
• Bugscope Teamspiders, when we get them, are often already a little shriveled. they have soft bodies like aphids
• Guestsee ya got to switch classes
  Bugscope TeamThank You!
• 10:41 am
• Teacherwe're back!
• Bugscope TeamYay!
• Bugscope TeamYou can see only two of the spider's eyes.
• Bugscope Teamand those long limbs we see now are palps, like extra legs
• Bugscope Teamyou can see that the spider has lots of hairs, called setae, on her legs
• Bugscope Teamthe setae help her sense vibration, such as when something lands in her web
• Teacherlora can have control
• Teacheroops, emily
• Bugscope Teamspiders feed by using their fangs to inject venom into their prey. the venom dissolves the inner organs of the prey, and the spider sucks all of that up like a milkshake
• Teacherclass: eeewww
• Teacheremily can have control
  Bugscope Teamok Emily is the boss now
• 10:47 am
• TeacherMr. Clausell, are you pirating our session?
• Teachernew class so some of the same questions
  Bugscope Teamim sure teachers experience that way more than we do :)
• Bugscope Teamspiders are not immune to all venoms, though, and if they sense venom coursing into one of their legs they can do this thing called autotomy and just leg that leg fall off
• GuestHello all
  Bugscope TeamHello!
• GuestMrs. Bass we are pirating your session
  Bugscope TeamBut Mrs Bass decides who drives...
• Teacherthat is okay george, come on in
• GuestThanks and I have Mrs. Tyson's Tigers with me viewing everything
• Teacherzarion: why do they have all of that hair?
  Bugscope TeamI know that this is a spider, but it falls in the same category kind of. Insects are very hairy and they need that hair to feel what's going on around them. Like we do through our skin. The hairs on this spider can do that as well as sense vibrations or cause itching to predators that come near them
• Teacherwe will be sure to not talk about yout hen
• Teacher*then
• GuestThanks :O)
• Bugscope Teamspiders are very fragile and can be hurt easily, so they have various defenses against being touched
• Bugscope Teamincluding those urticating hairs Cate mentioned

• Bugscope Teamyou can see the faint rectangles where the microscope has been before, earlier today

• GuestQuestion from Karley Stewart: What are the little specs on the eyes?
  Bugscope Teamthe big pieces are dirt or dust particles
• 10:52 am
• Bugscope TeamI am sitting at the 'scope now -- this is Scot -- so I could tweak the focus a bit.

• Bugscope Teamif there were bacteria here we could see them

• Guestwhat is that things
• Bugscope Teamthat little particle is a little shorter than a bacillus
• Teacheryes scot
• Guestwhy does it have stuff sicking out
• GuestOh!!!!!
• Bugscope Teamwe don't know what all of the stuff is, and if we don't know we call it juju
• GuestQuestion from Olivia Flaherty: Would any type of spiders have different types of eyes?
  Bugscope Teamsome spiders can see very well but many cannot, so some will have better eyes
• Guestwhat are these lines on it
  Bugscope Teamthat is the surface of the eye -- we think it has a kind of thin membrane on it -- at least this one does
• GuestMrs. Bass you got an e-mail you need to check
• TeacherNO, Mr. C. I'm good with paper now.
• Guest How many types of bugs are there
  Bugscope Teamthere are hundreds of thousands of species of insects, maybe 900,000 from what I have read
• 10:57 am
• TeacherMrs. B: that makes my skin crawl
• Guestwhat is this strange looking thing.
  Bugscope Teamwe aren't sure but it's most likely some sort of dust or dirt
• Guestwhat is the pattern on it?
  Bugscope Teamwe think the pattern reflects the underlying shape of the crystal beneath, if there is a crystalline lens. sometimes there is, apparently
• Guestis this an rock on this thing .

• Guestwhat is the smallest bug ever
• GuestEww that looks NASTY!
• Guesthow long is the average fly's lifespan?
  Bugscope Teamusually, in the wild, 2 to 4 weeks
• Guestwhat is the biggest bug ever
  Bugscope Teamthere's a giant walking stick from Malaysia
  Bugscope Teamabout 21 inches long
• Bugscope Teamthere is a rock on this spiracle
• Teacherclausepillillar can have control
  Bugscope Teamgot it!
• TeacherMr. C just look at the top of the image to magnify more or less or click the arrow to the left to choose a different insect

• Guestim with clausellipillar it looks nasty .
• Guestwhat is this
• Bugscope Teamnow we are looking at the abdomen of the wasp
• Bugscope Teamit is right at the edge of the world
• Guestwhat is this thing?
  Bugscope Teamthis is a spiracle, which is a breathing hole for insects (like our nostrils). It's connected to a long tube that runs through the body
• Bugscope Teamit has setae that help filter things like tiny rocks out

• 11:03 am
• GuestQuestion from Addy: What is that at the end of the abdomen?

• Guesthow many bug are on the earth now
  Bugscope Teamtrillions

• Bugscope Teamnot to be flip about it, but that is a lot of biomass -- all of the insects alive on earth now
• Teacherclass: where is the stinger?
  Bugscope Teamit's located in the bottom right of the image at the tip of the abdomen

• Guestwhy do it have looking patch on it.
  Bugscope Teamthe patches may help move pollen from flower to flower, and they reflect light differently, so they may help wasps recognize each other

• Guesthow long is the average fly's lifespan?
  Bugscope Teamabout 2 to 4 weeks, and longer in a lab.

• GuestWhat is the little knot looking thing at the end?
  Bugscope Teamthat was the kind of stubby tip of the stinger; it had fluid on it and did not look good for a closeup
• Guestwas there more bugs when the dinosaurs lived or now?
  Bugscope TeamI'm not sure if there were more, but they were bigger because the oxygen content was greater
• GuestWhere are his eyes?
  Bugscope Teamthey are on either side of the head under the things sticking out which are the antennae
• Guestsory type

• Guestis there only 1 tipe of fly
  Bugscope Teamthere are thousands of species of fly
• Teacher4th must not have had spelling tests
• Bugscope Teamthese are the mandibles, in the middle
• Guestthats alot

• Bugscope Teambelow you can see palps, which help manipulate and also taste food
• 11:08 am

• GuestWhat type of bug is this????
  Bugscope Teamthis is a beetle, Tessa
• Guestoh.....
• Bugscope TeamIt's the click beetle.
• GuestWhat is the hair- like fuzz used for?
• Bugscope Teamclick beetles sometimes have large false eyes on the dorsum -- on the elytra or wing shell
• GuestOh Thats A Cool Type Of Bug.

• GuestMrs. Bass thanks for the invite and Thanks Scot, Cate, Esem and SJ we have a test to take now how do I give up control?
  Bugscope TeamThank You! We can take care of it.
• Teachersure mr. c
• GuestThat is a cool looking thing.
• GuestI wish I had a pet bug
• Guestoh, cool. It looks like a crab.
  Bugscope TeamTessa good call! It is a crustacean.
• Guestgood bye
• Teacherrotating one last time, back in a minute
• Bugscope Teambye!
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the roly poly's compound eyes now. if his/her antennae were still there they would likely be covered up.
• GuestBilly- you probably have a lot more "pet" bugs than you realize. Check your yard!
  Bugscope Teami know my house as this one spider (among others) that I've left alone for a while now
• 11:14 am
• Teachermy kiddos are all leaving me but some are going to our computer lab for Fantastic Friday so I am giving control to Ms. Glover and I will join her in the lab. Thank you so much Scot, ESEM, Cate, and SJ
• Bugscope Teamok thanks and have a great weekend!
• Guestthis is really neat.
• Bugscope TeamYes Thank You!
• Teacherthey absolutely love this and so do I. they will be on in a minute
• Bugscope TeamLet us know if you would like to drive, Mr Floyd.
• Guestthey are coming in and are really excited about it. \
• Bugscope Teamwe just gave you control
• Bugscope Teamthis is fun for us as well
• Bugscope Teamalthough we are sitting in basement rooms with very few people around

• GuestHere we are in Venture...excited to join the session once again and learn some more about bigs.
• Guestor big bugs.

• Bugscope TeamCool!
• Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope!
• Guesthow Cool!
• Bugscope Teamthis is a pollen grain we found on the click beetle, right about where its body has the joint that makes it click
• GuestThis is 5th Grade Fantastic Friday media group
• Bugscope Teamhey Welcome to Bugscope!
• 11:20 am
• Guestwhat are the holes for?
  Bugscope Teamthey may help it stuck to wet surfaces, and they likely confer strength to the pollen grain, making it less crushable
• GuestWhat is that?
• GuestHello
• Guesthello
• Guestwhat is this???
• Bugscope Teamstargazer lily pollen has similar pores but is much larger
• Guesthello
• GuestWho has the control
• GuestWhat are the little hairs
  Bugscope Teamthe hairs are setae that help the beetle sense its surroundings
• Guestits a pollen grain on a click beetle
• Guesthey this is willg.
• GuestAaaahhhh! Giant sponge!
• GuestWhy it is has lot of holes
• Guestoh...ok
• Guesthello
• Guesthi yall
• Guesthello
• Guestso where was this at?
• Guestwere did that hole come from
• Bugscope Teaminsects have exoskeletons, like if you were wearing a suit of armor, and the setae that stick through the exoskeleton help the insect feel, smell, and measure the temperature or their environment
• Guestwhat is this of
• Guesthay everyone whats this
• GuestI think those are hairs
• Guestwhat are those holes on 9thing0
• Bugscope Teamwho wants to drive?
• Guestclick on the spider face....its coool
• Guestsorry i had a typing error
• GuestCan we do the salt from Wendy's?
• GuestWhy is there a dent on this?
• Guestit looks like its on grass

• GuestThe spiber MOLD is cool!

• Guestscot whos in control

• GuestIt is look like a rock
• Guestwhat is this

• Guestyou mean spider...Kyra
• TeacherMs. Glover can have control
  Bugscope TeamMs Glover is now the Supreme Ruler

• GuestWhat kind of insect hairs?
  Bugscope Teammost likely the kind that help them feel what's going on around it. Sense of touch, like we do through our skin. The hairs are connected to nerves underneath their hard exoskeleton.
• GuestMrs.Glover are you on?
• Guestthats so cool:)
• Guestis those a tree
• Guestthis looks like grass on a tree
• 11:25 am
• GuestWhat's this
• GuestWich one is that
• Guestis that a pickle?
• GuestThat so cool!!!!!!!!
• Guestwhat are we looking at?
• Guestthey might be spikey
• GuestHow many bugs hach every year?
  Bugscope Teamtrillions all over the world
• Guesta lot
• Guestwhat is that in the middle
• Guestare the hairs spikey? so do the hairs just jiggle around??
  Bugscope Teamsome are more rigid than others, and some have chemosensory pores at their tips; some are sticky

• Guestis that a close up spider
• Guestwhy are there hairs poking out?
  Bugscope Teamthe hairs are connected to nerves underneath the exoskeleton so that the insects can feel what is going on around it

• GuestWhat section of the beetle are we looking at
• Guestwow... whats this?
• Guestwhat is giong on

• Guestwhat am i looking at
• Bugscope TeamI'm going to the 'scope to tweak the focus...
• GuestHow many types of bugs are there?
• Guestoh my bad
• Guestwhats that
• Guestin what part of the body is this located?
• Guestso what is this?
• GuestLady bug
• Guestwhat is that fluffy stuff?
• Guestis that a bug or a bug colony?
• Guestis that a bug
• Bugscope Teamthese are special hairs that act as taste buds on a palp
• Guestinteristing
• Guestwhat is that thing sticking out?
• Bugscope Teampalps are mouthparts that help move or taste food
• Guestnice zoom in scott
• Guestwhat is that long roundend thing
• GuestWhy is poke up
• GuestWhat are the spikes on the sides?
• Teacherremember to read the other questions so that you don't ask the same thing over and over
• Bugscope Teamthat is the tip of the palp on a larval ladybug
• Guestclick on the "cracked wasp head" thats cool but weird at the same time!!!
• Guestwhat is that whole thing in the picture?
• Guestwhat is the stuff on top of its head
• Guestwhat are the short tentacle-like things?
• Guestwhat does ESEM stand for
• Bugscope Teampalps are accessory mouthparts that help insects pre-taste and manipulate their food into their mouths
• Guestwhat are the giant circles
• GuestWhat is that ?
• Guestare those white things that are sticking out larva
  Bugscope Teamthose are like tastebuds on your tongue
• Guestit look like a Wasp
• Guestwhat are the "pokey" things
  Bugscope Teamthe pokey things coming from the palp are chemosensory setae that help the insect taste. the other hairs are for the sense of touch
• 11:30 am
• Bugscope Teamha here you go
• Guestwhats that hole with the thing sticking out

• Guestwhat is that!!??
• GuestWhat is that
• Guestwhat is that
• Guestwhat are the hairy things in it
• Bugscope Teamenvironmental scanning electron microscope
• Gueston it
• Guestdaaaaaaaaaaa laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa {]
• Bugscope Teamthis is a ladybug larva
• GuestWhat is that ?
• Bugscope Teamyou can see a stray salt crystal to the left of its head
• Bugscope Teamladybug larvae arent nearly as cute as their adult counterparts
• Guestsorry another typing error
• Guestcan it bite?
• GuestCan it bite?????
  Bugscope Teamit can- it does have a pair of jaws. it might hurt about as much as an adult. I'm not sure
• Guestwoowww that is amazing,tell me some facts
• GuestHow many arms does it have?
• GuestWhere did u find these thing?
• Guestwhat is in the background
• Bugscope Teamit has six legs
• Guestwhat are the circle parts on it
  Bugscope Teamthe circles are the double stick carbon tape the insects are lying on.
• GuestCan you show us a molded spider

• Bugscope Teamthis is the inside of the microscope -- the vacuum chamber
• Guestwhat is that
• Guestwhat is that thingy!!!?
• Guestwhat is that

• GuestWHAT IS THAT??????
• Bugscope Teamokay who wants to drive?
• Guestme
• Guestthis is awesome
• Guestcan you show us the butter fly claw
• Guestwhat is in the middle
• GuestWhat is this??
  Bugscope Teamthis is the head of the ladybug larva
• Guestwe do
  Bugscope Teamyou now have control

• Guestweird clausellipillar
• Guestwow
• Guestweird and gross
• GuestWhat is the spickes on it?????????????
  Bugscope Teamsensory setae so it can feel its environment as well as smell it
• Guest in some countries they eat bugs , would this be one that is edible?
  Bugscope Teamno ladybugs in general aren't edible. They smell/taste bad. You might notice it if you vacuum a bunch of them

• 11:35 am

• Guestwell if you could eat bugs...would all bugs be healthy?
• Guesthow can a spider get mold on its joint??
• Bugscope Teamif it goes out of focus go the other way
• GuestMold on spider
• GuestOH!!!!
• Guestbroken leg with mold cool:)
• Guestwhy
• GuestIf this is mold on a spider leg, where is the leg?
• GuestHow does the mold get on to the spider leg
• GuestWhat type of spider did this come from

• GuestMr. c you are the sience teacher so shouldn't you know this stuff
• Guestis this pic. zoomed in really close
• Guesti want to have control:(
• Bugscope Team2532x
• GuestThanks for showing me the moldy spider!!!
• Guestdo spiders shed their skin
• GuestThese are students on here Andrew but thanks for checking :O)
• Guestwhy does it look like that?
• Bugscope Teamnow you can see where we were
• Guestawesome
• GuestIs thise like leg
• Bugscope Teamthe spider!
• Guestesem where was this taken
• Guestis that dirt or mold
• Guestso is that the spider's joint?
• GuestIt a spider
• GuestIs this a spider leg?
  Bugscope Teamyes it is!
• Guestthis is so cool
• GuestIs that crusty stuff dirt
• Guestwhat does the hairs help them do?
• Guesthow did it get so moldy
  Bugscope Teamit was probably kept in a moist place. Sometimes when schools send us insects they send them in baggies, and when the insect dry out in them, the moisture sticks around in the bag creating a nice place for mold to form
• GuestWhat kind of spider is that
• GuestHow many leg the spider
• GuestI like this website
• GuestMe too
• GuestWhat type of spider is this
  Bugscope Teamsorry we are not good at recognizing spider species
• GuestWhy does it have so many legs???????
• Guestthis is a great website
• Guestwhat is juj?
• Guestwhat are the stringy thingies?
• GuestI don't like a spider
• GuestIs stanley on
• GuestYAY SJ's on
• Guestwhats juju is it mold
  Bugscope Teamjuju is what we call things like dried fluid when we don't know just what they are
• GuestWas the spider dead when you took the picture of it?
  Bugscope Teamyes all the things you may see today are dead
• GuestBye!
• Guesti know that there are a lot of spiders on the earth and people in other contries eat them but are there spiders that are extinct???
• Guestwhat is the weak point in a spider?
  Bugscope Teamthe thing that makes spiders most vulnerable is that they are so fragile
  Bugscope Teami'd say the legs. They can pop off very easily
• 11:40 am
• Guestadios
• GuestWhere did you find the spider?
• Bugscope Teamthis is live imaging
• GuestWhat part of the spider is this?
  Bugscope Teamthis is the ventral side (looking from underneath the spider). We can see the legs and the head and part of the abdomen
• GuestDaddy long legs are not spiders, right.
  Bugscope TeamI think they are arachnids but not spiders
• Guestcool
• GuestDo you have a black widows picture? If you do can you show it??
  Bugscope Teamthese are live images from an electron microscope. so we have only what is in the 'scope now, sorry

• Guestd
• Guestbut do daddy long legs spin webs
  Bugscope TeamI don't think they do. They prey on other spiders and insects
• GuestWhen was this picture taken?
  Bugscope Teamnow.
• GuestThats so cool!!!!!
• Guestwhy does it have hairs on its face
• GuestIt's okay you don't have to say sorry.
• Bugscope TeamLora you are controlling, from your classroom, a scanning electron microscope, so the images that are coming to you are live images.
• Guestwhat is this thing
• GuestWhat is this thing. Is it a head of some sort?
  Bugscope Teamthis is a click beetle head
• Bugscope Teamsee the compound eyes on either side of the head?
• Guesthow old is it
• GuestWhy are some things cracked? did someone crack it???
  Bugscope Teammaybe me. They can be easy to break once they've been dry for a while
• GuestDady long legs are grouped with scorpions I think
• Bugscope Teamand the mandibles, and palps, and the bases of the antennae?
• 11:45 am
• Bugscope Teamwe have to go!
• Bugscope TeamThank You for connecting with us today!
• Bugscope Teamwe share this microscope with other researchers and have to let them use it.
• Bugscope TeamGood Bye!