Mountain Ridge Middle School
Session 2010-091

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Connected on 2011-04-29 09:00:00 from Highlands Ranch, CO, US

• 8:15 am
• Bugscope Teamventing the 'scope; sample in soon
• 8:26 am
• Bugscope Teamsample is in the 'scope and pumping down
• Bugscope Teamsoon we will start making presets for today's session
• 8:32 am

• 8:38 am

• 8:44 am

• 8:50 am
• TeacherGood Morning!! Kids are gettting set up
• Bugscope Teamgood morning!

• StudentWhy do bugs have hair on their eyes
  Bugscope Teamthis one doesn't but some do to help them feel when things are near to their eyes or to help them feel the changes in air currents
• 8:55 am

• Studentwhat kind of bugs are these??
  Bugscope Teamthis one is a grasshopper
• StudentWhat is the maximum magnification of the microsope?
• Studentis it possible for a bug to go down the throat when a person is sleeping?
• StudentIS THEIR BIG EYES AN ADAPTATION
• Studenthow do you know what kind of bugs
• Studentwhy do the bugs have haer
  Bugscope Teamthey use the hairs to help them feel what is going on around it. They can also taste/smell with some or feel changes in temperature

• Studentdo theses bugs have certain qualities that make them very unique and unlike any other bugs
• Studentwhat are the things on either side?

• Studentwhat is the different things on the bugs?
  Bugscope Teamthere are many different features that they use to live, like we do, but we don't always recognize them

• StudentWhere did you get a degree from?
• Studentwhere r u right now?
• StudentWhat made you want to be a bug specialist???
• Studentwhat are some adaptations that this bug has
• Studentwhere did you go to school to learn about science?

• StudentWhy are the buggs covered in hair?
  Bugscope Teamthe hair (setae) is often sensory -- it helps the insect sense its environment since it does not have skin with nerve endings, or a nose...

• Studentwhat kind of bugs are we looking at

• Studentwhy does bugs has teeth

• Studentwhy do they have hair on their head?
  Bugscope Teamthe hair helps them sense the wind, and smell, and sense hot/cold

• Studentwhy does the fly have a netted eyes
  Bugscope Teamit looks like that because it has individual facets

• Studentwhat are the circley things on their eyes?
  Bugscope Teamthose are the individual facets of the calls, we call them ommatidia. They each can grab an image and then it
  Bugscope Teamit
  Bugscope Teamit's sent to the brain and reassembled there.

• Studentwhat kind of bugs is that
  Bugscope Teamthis is a silverfish
• Studentwhy is it called a silverfish if it isnt a fish?

• 9:00 am

• Studentwhat do the scaly things do on the hairy fly's eye
  Bugscope Teamthose are scales from a moth or butterfly. Insects are sometimes collected in traps and when that happens moths and butterflies tend to get scales on the other insects
• Studentwhat adaptation does the silverfish head have?
• Studenthow can bugs get you
• StudentDoes ommatidia help them see better? Can they see in color
  Bugscope Teamthey can often see color depending on the insect, and the ommatidia also give them better peripheral vision as well as the ability to sense motion quickly

• Studentwhy is there so many hand like things by there mouth
  Bugscope Teamthose are like built-in knives and forks that also help taste the food
• Studenthow many deadly species of bugs are there?
  Bugscope Teamthe deadliest is the mosquito. Bees can be pretty deadly if you are allergic to them
• Studentcan you see the bugscope in color

• Studenthow do bugs get in your house

• Studentwhy does the silverfish has hair on its head

• StudentWhat do those pointy things coming out the top do??
  Bugscope Teamthey are either palps or antennae. Palps are mouthparts that help the insect taste or move food around in it's mouth
• StudentWhy wont you answer our questions?
• Studenthow many arms does this have?

• Studenthow can i get one of these microscopes?

• Studentwhat type of microscopes r these? how much money are they?
  Bugscope TeamYou are using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and this one cost $600,000 almost 13 years ago

• Studenthow much do these microscopes cost?

• Studentcan you get one of these microscopes for your home?
  Bugscope Teamit would be super expensive and take a lot of money to keep running

• Studentwhat is the highest magnification can this microscope go

• Studenthow much dose an electronic microscope cost?
  Bugscope Teamthis one cost about $600,000

• Studentwhat is the smallest thing you can look at under the microscope...

• Studentcan you see rhino virus with this
  Bugscope Teamwe would use the transmission electron microscope instead, to look at a virus
• Studenthow long does it take to prepare for scoping a bug?

• StudentWhy is their a bumpy pattern on their skin?

• Studentwhere do the silverfish breathe out of

• Studentwhy are there layers of skin?
  Bugscope Teamthose are layers or segments of the chitin, which is more like a protein shell, like a fingernail
• Studentwhat are the bumps for?
  Bugscope Teamthose are microsetae, or very small hairs. They are mostly to help the insect feel when it bumps into things or when it comes near things

• Bugscope Teamthe layers or segments help make the chitin the exoskeleton is made of flexible
• Studentwhat are the holes near the long antenna thing

• Studentis the hair on a bug thinner then the hair on humans

• Studentwhat does bugs eat

• Studentdo you enjoy your job? What are some of the concepts you have to do daily?

• Studentwhy are there holes?
  Bugscope Teamthose are pores. They are where the hairs come out. Underneath they are attached to nerves.
• 9:05 am

• Studenthow do you use the microscope
  Bugscope Teamwe train people to use to to do their own research, in materials, or biology, or biomaterials

• Studentwhere do you go to school
  Bugscope TeamI went to school at the University of Illinois, where the microscope you are controlling is now
• Studentare bugs more sensitive than humans?
  Bugscope Teamin some ways, perhaps

• StudentAre these spikey things hair?
  Bugscope Teamyes they are

• Studentwhat does microsetae?
  Bugscope Teammicrosetae are the tiny hairs that do not pass through the exoskeleton

• Studentwhy are there spikes, what are they?
  Bugscope Teamthey are hair. If they didn't have any they wouldn't be able to feel what was going on around it. They dont have sensitive skin like we do, so they have all those hairs to help make up for it
• Studenthow long does it take to prepare all this?
  Bugscope Teamit takes maybe a half hour to mount the samples and then sputter coat them with gold-palladium

• Studentare their hairs or spikes sensetive
  Bugscope Teamyes
• StudentHow old are these flies?
  Bugscope Teamhard to tell but probably a few weeks at least

• TeacherCan you please give control to dynamite?
  Bugscope Teamgot it!
• Studentdo u like your job. And is it fun?
  Bugscope Teamyes it is fun. We don't just look at insects all day. We get to help students prepare and image their projects, which sometimes can be very exciting

• Studentwhat did they evolve rom?
• StudentWhat are some of the concepts you go over in your daily job?
• Studentdo the bugs have good eye sight
  Bugscope Teamsome have very good eyesight, and some depend more on their antennae and/or those sensitive hairs (setae) to get information about what is around them
• Studentdose this have a mouth
• Studenthow many sencor hairs does an average bug have??
• Studentin collage did you have to work extrodinarily hard to get this job
• Studentwhy do they have different sizes?

• Studenthow do you kill these insects without hurting the body so much?
  Bugscope Teamif they are still alive when we capture or receive them, we put them in a regular freezer and that allows them to sleep and then die without them feeling anything

• Studentwhat is the best sense that this bug has>
  Bugscope Teamoften it seems like the one most used is smell -- they often have a great sense of smell and can read numerous chemical signals
• StudentWhat is pollen made of?

• Studentwhat does it take to be in this kind of buisness?

• Studenthow many hours do you guys work?
  Bugscope Team45 to 50 hours/week
• Studentwhat are the creases in them for?
  Bugscope Teamthose probably help them get stuck on bug hairs and maybe some other stuff
• Studentwhat is the hardest part of your job?
• Studentwhy do they have have gums
• StudentWhat is the crease in the middle for?
• Studentwhen did they first appear on the earth

• Studentis pollen living or non living
  Bugscope Teamit is living, or has the potential to become something that is going to grow into a new plant

• Studentare these foamy feeling or hard?
  Bugscope Teamthey would probably feel hard to an insect. They would be similar to a seed, but to use they feel powdery
• 9:10 am

• Studentdo you think viruses are living or non living, on the bugs?
• Studentis the hair on a bug thinner on a humans arm?
  Bugscope Teamin some ways it is thicker, per unit of area, I think

• Studentwhat are the bumps on the lily o for
  Bugscope Teamthey probably help keep it from collapsing
• Studentis their any way of protection for their eyes? Any eyelids?
• Studentwhat are the hairs used for?
• Studentis the parasitic wasp eat dead skin
• Studenthow many sencor hairs does an average bug have???
  Bugscope TeamI would say hundreds to thousands, depending on the bug
• Studentcan they see bacteria on themselves
• Studenthow sharp are there teeth
• Studentwhy is theres hairs on there mouth?
• Studentdo you think viruses are living
  Bugscope Teamin a way yes and in a way no
• StudentAre you able to see the bacteria on the insects??
• Studentwhy do they lived in the ground
• Student Can u see bacteria on them?
  Bugscope Teamwhen there are bacteria we can see them
• Studenthow cold is the tepterture of the freezer you use.
  Bugscope Teamthe ideal freezer temperature is 0 degrees F or lower
• Studenthow are they living and non living
• Studentcan we feel any of there hair
  Bugscope Teamnot typically, unless they are big, like tarantulas

• StudentAre you able to see the tinniest part of these bugs?
  Bugscope Teamwe cannot see atoms with this microscope, but we do pretty well
• Studentwhat is the tinniest thing you can see on a bug?
• Studenthow many more microns can you get closer to the bug?
• StudentWhy do they have bumps on their eyes?
  Bugscope Teamthose are the individual facets of their compound eyes. One of them is like one of our eyeballs
• Studentwhy is their dry skin?
• Studentwhy are the wasps mouth like that?
  Bugscope Teamit opens from side to side like a gate, and that seems to be the way many similar insects have their mouths
• Studentwhat do you comminly find on bugs?
• Studentdo they have teeth?
  Bugscope Teamno but they have a pair of hinged jaws, mandibles. They open like a gate
• TeacherCan you show the students a shot of the microscope?
• Studenthow big do their mouths open up...they dont seem to go very far
• Studenthow many microscopes do you have?
• Studentare there any medicines that came from wasps?
  Bugscope TeamI am not sure about wasps, but some people use bee venom as a medicine

• Studentwhat are their role in the ecosystem?
• StudentDoes it take a lot of training to operate this microscope?
  Bugscope Teami can train a student to use it in around an hour, but it usually takes them at least another hour using it on their own to get comfortable with it
• Studentso how do the parasitic wasp eat?
• Studentare there multiple parts of a wasp stinger?
• Studenthow close are microns
  Bugscope Teamright now the scale bar says 50 microns which is the width of a human hair
• Studentwhat are the hairs?
• Studentwhere does the poison come out
• Studentdo they have to drink water to survive
• Studentdoes it have to be dark to use it
• Bugscope Teamthis is the inside of the microscope -- the specimen chamber, which is under vacuum
• 9:15 am
• StudentHow do these bugs interact with the environment if that enviornment is changed?
• StudentDo they have protection for their eyes? Any eyelids?
  Bugscope Teamno they don't protect them really. They can clean them. You might have seen a fly, when it has landed, clean it's head with it's forelegs. It's really focusing on the antennae and eyes
• Bugscope Teamthe platter toward the bottom of the image is where all of the bugs are mounted
• Studentdoes the vaccum help keep the bugs frozen
• Bugscope Teamat the top is a cone that the electrons come from
• Studenthow do you power the microscope?
• StudentWHOA! ..... whats that thing pointing down that looks like a tornado or something?
• Bugscope Teamthe vacuum keeps electrons from bumping into air molecules
• Studentcan you see atoms with these scopes
• Bugscope TeamPasta that is the pole piece, from which the electrons hit the sample
• StudentWhen you get stung by a wasp, why does it sting?
  Bugscope Teamhe main component of the venom responsible for pain is the toxin melittin; histamine and other biogenic amines may also contribute to pain and itching. Histamine is what people are allergic to when they say they are allergic to bees
• Bugscope TeamAsiansRock! we cannot see atoms with this microscope.
• Studentdoes a stinger come off when the wasp stings someone?
  Bugscope Teamnot usually. That is usually true only with the honey bee. They have special barbed stingers that get caught in our skin
• TeacherCan you please give Indiana Jones control of the scope?
  Bugscope Teamthey have control
• Studentwhy are there hairs on the stinger
• Studentonce the bee is dead... if you step on the stinger could it still sting you?
  Bugscope Teamit is possible that for a certain time that could happen
• Studentare there multiple parts of the stinger?
• Studenthow much venom does a wasp produce in there life time
• Studenthow long ago did these appear on earth

• Studentpoisen sorry
• Studentwhat is the amount of venom in a wasp stinger
  Bugscope Teamprobably just a few microliters, and it becomes depleted if the wasp stings repeatedly

• Studenthow do you kill the bugs?
• StudentIf these bugs got something in their eye and it cant be cleaned off, what will happen?
  Bugscope Teamfortunately there is more space on the eyes for them to see out of
• Studenthow many eyes do the green lacewing head have???
  Bugscope Teamthey have 2 compound eyes
• Studentwhat are those hairs that are sticking out?

• Studentwhat is the long thing going down there back!?
• Studentwhere are the leafhoppers eyes?

• Studentdo bugs sleep?
  Bugscope Teamthey don't really sleep but they have a time during which they slow down quite a bit
• Studentwhere are the eyes
• Studentwhen you get allergy shots does it put the histamine in it
• Studentis the center of that the mouth?
• StudentScot, but what if the entire eye gets covered?
• StudentIs the mouth in the center?
• Studentwhy does the stinger come off whenever a honey bee stings you?
  Bugscope Teamthey have barbs on their stinger. They only get stuck in mammals. When they try to pull away, the stinger and a muscle that pumps the venom into you come out, and the bee essentially dies
• Studentis that the mouth in the center
• Studentdo you have to research about the bugs in order to present them?
• 9:20 am
• Studentwhere are the eyes?
• StudentDo they have a hard outer shell like skin?
• Studentwhere is its eyes?
• Studentwhere is the research center
• Studentare turantulas deadly
• Studentis it hard to operate the microscope??
  Bugscope Teamnot really. You students are controlling it right now

• Studentwhy is the tarantula so fuzzy?

• Studentdid that foot get cut off?

• Studentdo these bugs provide any type of human help besides pollon?
  Bugscope Teamsome insects help with pests. Ladybugs help eat aphids which are garden pests. Parasitic wasps can lay their eggs in insects that are garden pests as well like caterpillars, which help control their populations

• Studentwhy are the hairs so important

• Studentare insects fragil when you take them out of the freezer or is it hard

• Studentwhat are the lines on it?
• Studentwhy does it look like words are on the wing?
• Studenthow can you tell if its a male or female?
  Bugscope Teamit depends on the insect. All things with stingers are females. The stingers are also ovipositors, which is where the eggs come out. With other insects you can sometimes tel with how big the eyes are or how big they are, and others you can't tell at all unless you open them up
• Studentwhy do the wings have layers
• Studentare wasps parasites?
  Bugscope Teammany wasps parasitize other insects; in that way they are beneficial to us because they keep pest populations under control
• Studentwhy are their little holes/
• Studentwhat are the lines
• Studentwhats the niche of the leafhopper?
  Bugscope Teamleafhoppers are a type of true bug, which mostly means it has a long trunk of a mouth part which they use to drink liquids. The leafhopper is an herbivore, so they are almost at the very bottom of the food chain

• Studentdo monarch wings have air holes in them to help them fly?
• Studentwhy do we need insects in our ecosystem
• Studentwhere do you get the bugs? to do research about them...
  Bugscope Teamsome schools will send us bugs, other people may give them to us at the university, and other times we find them outselves
• Studentwhat do monarchs do for the ecosystem?
  Bugscope Teamthey are part of the whole web of life, and sometimes it is hard to see how they fit until they are lost; then you realize that they had a value such as keeping other populations down or fertilizing certain plants, etc.
• TeacherCan abbymack please have control of the scope?
  Bugscope Teamthey have control
• Studentwhy are there holes in the cubes?
• Studentare the salt in a square shape?
  Bugscope Teamyes they are cubic crystals
• Studentcate, does the monarch have certain particles that other bugs dont?
• 9:25 am
• Studentdo you have a microscope that can see a virus
• Studenthow do they only get shapped as a cube? why not circles and stuff?
• Studentcan we see viruses
• Studentbutterflies have scales on their wings?
  Bugscope Teamthey have lots of scales on their wings. The scales are the same powder that comes off when you rub their wings
• Studentwhy can salt burn through ice?
  Bugscope Teamthe salt reacts with the ice; both the salt and the ice dissolve into each other
• Studentcould a bug pass a virus to you from it?
  Bugscope Teamnot likely unless it was a mosquito, and those viruses they carry don;t affect them
• Studentwhere does the salt come from?
  Bugscope TeamWendy's restaurant
• Studentwhy cant they fly as well when their wings are wet?
  Bugscope Teamthe water weighs down their wings, making it very difficult for them
• Studentwhat is the smallest thing you can see with the microscope?
  Bugscope Teamwe can see particles that are a few nanometers in diameter
• Studentare magots parasites
• Studentwhy are mosqitos the most deadly?
• StudentHow do the wings get their color?
  Bugscope Teamthey get colors either from structures on the wings or from pigment granules usually
• Studentwhy is the salt clear?
• TeacherCat, abbymack say they don't have the controls yet?
• StudentIs it true that when you touch a butterfly wing the butterfly can no longer fly.
  Bugscope Teamit's possible because they have delicate wings. So you could end up bending or scratching their wings
• TeacherScot your funny
  Bugscope Teamthat particular salt, with that cool incised pattern, we get from Wendy's; we think it has an anticaking agent in it that gives it that pattern
• StudentWhat do magots do far the ecosystem? Are they a decomposer?
• Studentso salt are crystals? so when we put salt on our food we are eating crystals
• Studentcan you see a virus with the scope?
  Bugscope Teamnot likely with this microscope. You would need to use a transmission electron microscope (TEM) to see them. A TEM was in the first spiderman movie when they were in the spider lab near the beginning. It was the big machine in the middle of the room
• Studentwhy do the salt have cracks in them?
  Bugscope Teamit has that pattern because we think it has small amounts of another chemical like sodium azide, that makes the crystals form that way
• TeacherAbbymack froze up :(, can Kaynky have control instead?
  Bugscope Teamgot it!

• Studentwhich insect is the most deadliest
  Bugscope Teamprobably the deadliest overall are mosquitoes; at one time it might have been the fleas that carried the plague virus

• Studentwhy are misquitos the deadliest?
  Bugscope Teamthey can carry a lot of deadly diseases, like west nile virus
• Studenthow many bugs are there in the world?
  Bugscope Teambillions!
• StudentIf the salt is barely touched, is it crushed or what happens
• Studentis salt layered? Does all the salt come in a cube form?

• Studentdo you have a transmission electron microscope?
  Bugscope Teamyes but you can't control it from your classroom unfortunately
• Studentwhy is it a layer of cubes
• StudentWhy are the salt crystals made of squares?
• Studenthow does salt form?

• StudentHow does the salt get its shape?
  Bugscope Teamit's the way the sodium and the chloride join that makes that cool cubic shape
• 9:30 am

• StudentFrom here it looks like the salt grain is hollow or has a crevice in it, is that true?
  Bugscope Teamonly this kind of salt looks like that; most normal table salt is smooth
• Studentare there any organisms that live on salt?

• Studenthowcome its square?
  Bugscope Teamit's the way the elements sodium and chlorine fit together

• Studentis it ture that magots can get in your eyes and feet
  Bugscope Teamyes but it depends on where you live
• Studentare these bugs ammune
• Studentis the salt naturally squared?
• Studentare these bugs ammune to bugspray?
• Studentwhy are all the pictures grey?
  Bugscope Teamwe are using electrons to image, not light. When we gather electrons in the detector coming back from the sample, it reads their signal and there is no color in signal, but we can later false color the images if we wanted
• Studentbut they still are all square shaped, right
  Bugscope Teamyes it is interesting that it retains that cubic shape
• Studentare all the differnt scales on the wasp eye what they see out of individually?
• Studentis it true that if you cut off a bugs head its body still moves. And why?
• StudentWhat is the bugs vision like?
• Studentwhy is there hexagons?

• Studentis this one grain of salt and if it is how many do u think would b on a wendys fry
  Bugscope Teamone little cube is a grain, There could be around a hundred grains or more on a fry. I never counted really. I guess it depends on how salty you like them

• Studenthow can bugs see straight if they have all of those eyes. how can they focus on one thing?
  Bugscope Teamgreat question; I think people are still studying that; it is likely they focus where they see movement and/or specific colors

• StudentWhy is their lines on the wasps eye?
• Studenthow long do you have to wait for the insects to defrost for the microscope to clearly see the insect
• Studentare you usually on here or only here at certain times?

• Studenthow much venom does a wasp produce in there life time
  Bugscope Teamit is probably no more than 10 or so microliters, about the size of a small drop of water to us
• Studentwhat is that slit
• Studentwhat is the opening?
• Studentwhat is that slit?
• Studentwhats that little opening in the wasp??
• Studentwhy do bug eyes have haexagons that make up thier shape?
  Bugscope Teamthe hexagon is the best shape to fit the curvature of the eye. So if an insect has big eyes that cover up the whole side of their head, they usually have hexagon shapes. If they have smaller eyes that don't really need to curve around their head, they sometimes just have round ommatidia
• Studentcan the bugs feel the dirt and hairs on there eyes
  Bugscope Teamthey can, and they can brush it off; the hairs help them sense it
• Studenthave you graduated college yet?
  Bugscope Teamyes scot and I both have

• Studentis that bacteria in the hairs or is it a part of their skin

• Studentwhat is the average year of bugs living
• StudentScot, is the opening right there the wasps eye?
• Studentwhat is that?
  Bugscope Teamthat is a spiracle, which is an opening through which insects breathe; there are a number of them on the exoskeleton
• Studentwhat are the leaf like triangles on their hair?
• Studenthow long have you been studying bugs?
• Studenthow long are bugs lifespans normally

• StudentWhat are some adaptations of the dragonfly wing
• Studentwhat are the lines for?
• 9:35 am
• Studentwhat are the lines that divide up the wing?
• Studentwhen did scientist first start using the electron microscope?
• Studentwhat are the different lines on the dragonfly wing?
• Studenthow do bugs hear things?
  Bugscope Teamsometimes they have a membrane that is called a tympanum that vibrates with sound.

• TeacherAlso, can Abbymack have control again, they were finally able to get back on?
  Bugscope Teamthey should have control now
• StudentDo you have to reasearch all the bugs and find out what they are before you can display them?
• Studentwho invented this microscope
• Studenthow do bugs hear?

• Studentwhat are the spikes on the wing?
  Bugscope Teamdragonflies are predators and sometimes they get in fights. I think they use the spikes to help them fight

• Studentmicroscope

• TeacherWhat are some advantages of using the electron microscope? Are there things scientists have discovered using the scope?
  Bugscope Teamthe scanning electron microscope has very good depth of focus and allows us to see small 3D things; the transmission electron microscope allows us to see even smaller things; we get an idea of how parts of the cell work, the shapes of viruses, on and on

• StudentIs the hole its mouth or nose?
• Studenthow do bugs die?
• Studenthow do bugs smell, it seems as if they dont have a nose
  Bugscope Teamthey have special hairs, often by their mouths, that can help them taste/smell food, and they often act like tastebuds
• Studentwhy does it look like the bugs have cuts all through them?
• Studentwhat are those things on their eyes?
• Studenthow do you afford this????
  Bugscope Teamto pay for the microscope we received a grant

• Studentis it ture that grasshoppers have ears on their knees\
  Bugscope Teamthey have a part of the leg that resonates and amplifies sound, but I am not sure it functions like an ear. praying mantises are said to have a single 'ear' centrally located on the thorax

• Studentdo you work with microscopes daily?
  Bugscope Teamyes and not just electron microscopes
• Studentsince spiders spin webs all the time, how come they dont run out of web?
• StudentWhat is the flowerish stuff near the top right?
• StudentWhat are the different kinds of microscopes you work with?
• Studentcan bugs get sunburned?
  Bugscope Teamno they dont have skin, but they can get really hot so they like to stay in shady moist areas, like under rocks
• Studentwhat are the type of microscopes you use?
• Studentwhat are some adaptations that the hairy fly have?
  Bugscope Teamthe tiny setae on the eye help it sense wind speed and direction; the shape and flexibility of the sponging mouthparts help it sop up food
• Studentfrom what collage do you get the grant from? or do get it from the public?
• Studentdo you have insurance on the microscopes...in case they break.....they are very expensive so if they broke they would be lot to repay< right?

• Studentwhat other types of microscopes do you use?
  Bugscope Teamwe have the SEM, TEM, and we have various light microscopes like the fluorescent microscope, and we also have an atomic force microscope. We also have a few micro ct machines and a nano ct machine

• TeacherStudents, we have about 5 more minutes before our next class. Just an FYI
• 9:40 am
• Studentwhy does it have legs on its mouth. are those legs?

• Studentcan bugs store food in there cheeks? if they have cheeks
• Studentwhat do all the microscopes do?
  Bugscope Teamthey allow researchers to see where specific proteins are, for example, and get an idea of how they interact and when they are activated; really there are so many things it is hard to enumerate them
• StudentAre really big eys that bugs have made up of smaller eyes?
• Studentwhere did you get your degree?
  Bugscope Teami received my degree from this university- the university of illinois

• Studentis it true that if u get several of magots in your body it will eat your insides and you can die?
• Studenthow big are these flies

• TeacherCan Selle have final control over the scope for this session?
  Bugscope Teamselle has control

• Studentdo bugs need to drink water
  Bugscope Teamsome do, but mostly they get their liquids from what they eat

• Studentis it ture that you can tell if it is a male or female in a plant

• Studentwhy are the pores so much thicker than the hair
• Studentwhats the lifespan of the green lacewing?
  Bugscope Teamaround 2 months when they are adults

• StudentIs all the hair on bugs for traction or to look bigger? Or something else?

• Studentwhat is the smallest bug that we can see under the electron microscope
  Bugscope Teamwe can see mites, and if we had one we would be able to see fairyflies, which are said to be the smallest true insects

• Studentdo insects have a heart?
  Bugscope Teamyes they have a heart, but not like ours

• Studentare the pores of bugs the same size as humans?
  Bugscope Teamno, they are much much smaller
• Studenthow long do bugs live in your skin on average
• Studentfun

• Studentwhat colors do they see?
  Bugscope Teamthey can see colors in the ultraviolet wavelengths of light that we cannot see, but sometimes they cannot see colors like red; it really depends on the insect; some ants do not have eyes at all, for example
• Studenthow tiny would you say the bugs pores are?

• Studentwhats the flower thing in the middle?

• Studenthow long can the wasp live for??
  Bugscope Teamthey can live for around a year if they overwinter somewhere, like your house

• Studentcan you cut open an insect and show the heart? or is the insect small?
  Bugscope Teamwe can but they have to be fresh and not too small

• Studentwhat are some adapatations of a tarantula

• Studentwhat is a plumose setae??

• Studenthow long do bugs nurse their young?
  Bugscope Teamsome insect mothers will protect their young. Others don't protect them at all, and just leave them to try to survive on their own

• 9:45 am
• Studentwhy is it in black and white?
  Bugscope Teamwhen we beam electrons at the sample we get electrons back from the conductive coat we have put on it; those electrons come back as signal, a lot or a small amount or in between; so it is the amount of signal we see in a particular spot that all adds up into what we see
• Studentwhat is a plumose setae

• Studenthow do you know how long they have been living for?

• StudentWhat are all the different types of strands for?
• Studenthow do bugs communicate
  Bugscope Teamoften it is via chemical scents that they send or leave or sense; they also have visual communications, like the way fireflies signal to each other

• Studentwhat is the plumose setea do
  Bugscope Teamthe plumose setae are shaped like long pine trees, and they are sensitive to vibtration from all directions
• Studentwhat is the bugs exoskeloeton made of ?
  Bugscope Teamchitin- the same stuff as our fingernails
• TeacherThank you Cate, Scot and SEM for your time and brains. We appreciate all your efforts to make this an amazing experience once again.
• StudentTHANK YOU!!! :)
• Studentthank you!!!
• Studentthank you so much!!!!!!!!!
• StudentThank you!
• StudentThank you
• StudentThank you
• Student=)
• Studentis this the hair on the tarantula????
  Bugscope Teamthe plumose setae was the hair yes. An tarantula hair are often urticating, meaning they can make you itch
• Bugscope Teamthanks
• StudentThanks you guys are so smart! U rock!
• StudentSHANK YOU
• Studentthanks

• StudentSHPANKYOU!:)
  Bugscope Teamhaha
• Bugscope TeamThank You All for working with us this morning.
• Studentyou guys are amazing!!!
• Studentthank you do you still have the wendys?
  Bugscope TeamI am not sure there is one in town anymore
• TeacherThe students have a pod break now, 10 minutes. Then we will be back with one last class. Thank you so much.
  Bugscope TeamThank you, and see you soon.
• 10:05 am
• Bugscope TeamThis is a clip from a piece on the web, on the greenmethods website, about the green lacewing: The eggs hatch into tan-colored, alligator-like larvae, which grow to 8 mm., and are extremely voracious feeders which will go right to work on the aphids — and each other. They can consume 100 aphids or more! The life-span of these predators is roughly 30 days in their immature stages, then less than 2 months as adults. The predacious larval stage lasts roughly 15-20 days.
• Bugscope Teamhttp://greenmethods.com/biocontrols/chrysoperla/
• Bugscope Teambecause someone asked about the lifespan of the green lacewing earlier today:
• StudentHey what is this picture
  Bugscope Teamthis is salt from wendys restaurant
• Studentwhat is this picter
• Studentwhy do we not see color with the salt?
  Bugscope Teamwe don't see color because we are using electrons, which are super tiny, to generate the images; the images come to us only as signal, with different intensities of white and black -- and gray
• TeacherCan MORGIES please have control of the scope?
  Bugscope Teamgot it
• Studenthow does this microscope work?
  Bugscope Teamwe beam electrons at the sample and secondary electrons come off and are collected by a detector where it reads the signal and gives us this image- in a nutshell

• StudentHi what is this picture of?
  Bugscope Teamthose were granules of salt from a Wendy's restaurant

• StudentWhat is the highest power?
  Bugscope Teamwe can go to about 200,000x and still get usable images, with some samples
• 10:10 am
• Studentthis stuff is cool!
• Studentwhy did you choose salt
  Bugscope Teamwe think it is interesting to look at, and it is easy to put on the stub with everything else
• Studenthow big can a baby tarantula be
• Studentwow this is amazing
• Studentthis bug is ugle
• Studenthow often do these bugs come each year?
  Bugscope Teamwe get insects constantly, but more frequently in the summer months
• StudentWhat is the top of the trantula head? it looks like it is cut. We don't know the name for it.
  Bugscope Teamit was a tarantula palp and it was covering the fangs so I snipped it off. You were right
  Bugscope Teama palp is usually responsible for helping to move around food to help it eat or to taste/smell food
• Studentwhy did you chose this career
• StudentHow many eyes does a spider have/
• Student?

• StudentWhen do you get your bugs the most?
  Bugscope Teamin the summer months when we can collect them ourselves

• Studentwhy are bugs so ugly?

• Studentwhere are the eyes on the trantul
  Bugscope Teamthey're on the other side of the head, which we cannot see now
• Studentwhy some insects so deadly like the black widow
  Bugscope Teamthey can pack a lot of venom, enough so that it is harmful to humans.
• StudentHome Dog
• Studentwhere do you get your bugs?
  Bugscope Teamsome people send them to us and other times we will go and collect them
• Studentwhat is the scariest or creepiest bug?
  Bugscope Teamone scary one is the house centipede -- those things that look like running mustaches in your house
• Studenthow does the tarantula get its hair

• StudentHey Sj how long have you been working with bugs
  Bugscope Teamreally just a bit longer than bugscope has been going on. so for more than 12 years
• Studentwhy do you do this?
• Studentoh how do they hold all that venom for something so small
• Studentis there a picture?
• Studentwhat is this???
• Studentwhat is a sliverfish abdomen
• StudentWhat is the most interesting bug you guys have seen?
  Bugscope TeamI like the ones that are more specialized, like ticks, weevils, mites
• Studentwhere do the tarantula's live
  Bugscope Teamthey are found on almost every continent and prefer the warmer places like southern US, South America, Africa, southern Europe, southern Asia, and Australia
• Studentwhere is the silverfish found?
• Studenthow much do they cost micoscopes]
• StudentAre those scales?
  Bugscope Teamthey are scales, which give the silverfish its color and also help it escape if it is caught in a web
• Studentare those gills
  Bugscope Teamthese are scales. They are the same powdery soft stuff that comes off butterfly or moth wings when you touch them
• StudentHow much do these microscopes cost???
  Bugscope Teamabout $600,000 12 years ago
• Studenthow much do these micro scopes cost?
  Bugscope Teamthis one cost $600k

• Studentwow

• Studentis your job hard???
  Bugscope Teamsometimes it is hard keeping every microscope operating
• Studentwhat .... thats a lot$$$
• Studenthow do you get all of these amazing bugs
  Bugscope Teamthis silverfish came from scot's house. Other times an entomologist will give us really nice samples they collected from their traps
• Studentlos espaniles realy realy

• Studentthis is really cool!!!
• 10:15 am
• Studentwo what is that?
• Studentwow*
• Studentwhy
• Studentdo they need them
• Studenthow many microscopes are there?
  Bugscope Teamwe have 15 or 20 fairly sophisticated microscopes
• StudentHow much do these microscopes cost? Do you think we could get one at our school?
  Bugscope Teamnot unless you got a nice grant, which would be nice
• Studentwhat kind of bug is that^^^^
  Bugscope Teamthis is a silverfish you might find in your house
• Studentawsome
• Studentwhy do they need hairs?
  Bugscope Teamthe hairs help them feel what is going on around it. They dont have sensitive skin like us
• TeacherCan Salt and Pepper have control of the scope?
  Bugscope Teamthey have control
• StudentIs this microscope big?
  Bugscope Teamit's decently big. It has a good sized room all to itself
• Studentwhy do you like your job and how small can you see from the microscopes
• StudentWhy are the images in black and white?

• Student Whats the smallest thing you have ever magnified????
• StudentWhere did you graduate from?
  Bugscope TeamI graduated from the University of Kansas with an English/Biology degree, and Cate graduated witih a Physics degree from here, from the University of Illinois
• Student there are no clor y is that?
• TeacherAny chance you could zoom out one last time so the students can see the scope?
• Studentwhy can we only see this stuff in black and whight
• Studentwhy is it's eyes like that
• StudentWhat is the biggest magnifacation of the bugs?
• StudentWhy do the flies need hair?
• Studentcan you see things inside the bug???
  Bugscope Teamonly if we break it open, or if we use a different kind of microscope
• Studenttell me where do you get these bugs and what is your favoret bug so far??
• Studentthis is weird and cool!
• Studenthow far can they see
• Studentis that the kind of fly we see at our houses?
• StudentHow small are the bugs?
• StudentWhy are the flies eyes like clothish?
  Bugscope Teamwhen insects die, they dry out, and don't always stay plump. Often they will deflate some
• Studentwhere do most of your bugs come from
• Studentthat's nasty
• Studentwhy is it in a vacum chamber
• Studentdoes this scope, ahve a magnification light, to help sight the bugs?
• Studenthow did you get to become scientists?
• TeacherThanks, Salt and pepper are ready again :)
• Studentare the bugs alive or dead underneath the microscope?
• StudentWhat is the smallest thing you've looked at so far?
  Bugscope Teamwe can see things a few nm in diameter
• StudentHow big is the microscope?
• StudentWhats the smallest thing you have magnified?
• Studentgood job salt and pepper
• Studenthow big is the microscope?
• TeacherSEM I received it. Thank you. I just showed the kids, they didn't believe that you guys were actually there :)

• Studentwhat bug is that?
• 10:20 am

• StudentWhats the pupose of the microscope
• Studentwhat is the purpose of the microscope

• StudentSEM what is your favoret bug so far or if you have one yet???
  Bugscope Teammites and weevils (I am SEM when I am using the computer at the microscope itself)
• Studentwhy are bugs eyes so big?
• Studentwhat are these used for? what is the purpose?have you faound any scientific breaks?
• Studentwhy are it's eyes so big
  Bugscope Teamsome insects, often flying insects, need to have big eyes to navigate better. They cant move their eyes around like we can, so sometimes their eyes can cover their entire head!
• Studenthow big are these bugs

• StudentWhat scientific advantages have you had from these microscopes?
  Bugscope Teamwe allow people to see what their samples look like, and from that they are able to make better samples and keep experimenting
• Studentdo lace wing ever hurt someone?
• StudentDo bugs have teeth or something else?
• Studentcould a super magnification scope....cost as much as $1 million??
  Bugscope Teamthey now cost as much as $7 million
• Studentwhat does the microscope use for it's source of energy? Is it all plugged in?
  Bugscope Teamyes it's plugged in. It is not a very green machine
• StudentCool! thank you for answering our question!
• Studentwhat do these bugs eat
• Studentis the eye of the hairy fly always look smashed
  Bugscope Teamno it smooshed in a bit and it dried out
• Studentwhat is in their mouth? it looks like a ton of little hairs.

• Studentwhats the smallest thing you have ever magnified?
• StudentWhat, in you opinion, is the bug that "RULES"?
  Bugscope Teamunfortunately the one that totally rules seems to be the cockroach, but we like ticks, weevils, mites....
• Studentdo see the smallest bacteria on the microscope?
• Studenthow do you kill the bugs
  Bugscope Teamwe stick them in the freezer, which usually works
• Studentwhat is the scariest or creepiest bug there is now
  Bugscope Teamcentipedes can be pretty creepy, and tropical ones are venomous
• Studenthow many years of college do you have to go through?
• TeacherMaddydot would like control of the scope please.
  Bugscope Teamthey have control
• Studenthow do you know what bug they are
  Bugscope Teamsometimes we don't and we have to look them up or ask an entomologist
• Studentwhat is that like little flower thing in the middle?

• Studentis it cold in your labratory

• StudentHow big are the microscopes?

• Studentcould you use that for studying other things than bugs or like a leaf?
  Bugscope Teamyes and we have looked at leaves before. We have also looked at circuits and bacteria, and blood cells, and much more
• Studentoh is the mouth always open for the fly
  Bugscope Teamsome flies have sponging mouthparts, some have slashing mouthparts, and some have chewing mouthparts. some of those mouths don't really open, or I guess you could say that they are always open

• 10:25 am
• StudentHwo big are the Microscopes?

• Studentwhy do you freeze them?
  Bugscope Teamthat is the 'humane' way of killing an insect. The temperatures put them to sleep and eventually they die. Though if you thaw them too soon sometimes they just wake up
• Studentwhat is the grossest thing you have ever seen under a microscope?
  Bugscope Teamsometimes the guts of insects are pretty nasty looking
• StudentMy question is that insects that have been frozen or trapped in sap have traces of blood from ancient animals like dinosaurs, have you ever look at an insect/bug that has these traces?
• Studentdo cocroches really live in high nuclar radiasion, sorry cant spell?
• Studenthow fast can these fly
• Studenthow do you collect all the bugs
  Bugscope Teamthe most common way is to pick them up. Entomologists will make traps for them though
• Studentwhy do you look at circuts?
  Bugscope Teamyou can see, sometimes, how they fail -- where the connections wore out or did not get connected properly in the first place

• Studenthow much power does the microscope have?
• Studentwhat is ugliest thing ever looked at

• Studentwhat is the smallest thing you have ever magnified?
  Bugscope Teamprobably a little line of gold nanoparticles, they were around a few nanometers big
• Studentso would a bug survive from the ice age?
  Bugscope Teamsome bacteria would survive, and I suppose it is possible that a flea egg or something similar might survive;
• Studenthow big is a grasshoppers eye?
• StudentIs the only type of animals you look at or study bugs?
• Studentwhat can you use instead of a electron microscope
• Studentdo the bugs like flies and wasps have eyelids because it looks they don't?
  Bugscope Teamnope they dont have anything to protect their eyes. SOmetimes their eyes will get scratched too. They can clean their eyes with their legs, but that's it

• StudentWhy is the skin so textured?

• Studentback to $7 million.. would u think that its a rediculouse price for a scope, or would u think its worth it?
  Bugscope Teamthose 'scopes are used for limited research; most people do not need that power or resolution, so they have to decide if it is worth it, and they have to attract people whose experiments depend on that power

• Studenthave you ever been able to trace anything back to the dinasours

• Studentwhat is that on the eye?

• Studentwhy are the eyes like a funny bubble
  Bugscope Teamthe bubble shape means they can see more area around them without moving their heads
• StudentLos Espanoles

• Studentis this job great or is it just an okay job?
  Bugscope Teamsometimes it is great, like now

• Studentwhay are the bugs eyes smooth?
• StudentWhat is the difference between a normal microscope and this electron microscope?
• StudentIf the hairs on the bug so small, why do they need them at all?

• Studentwhy are bugs so small
  Bugscope Teaminsects can only be as big as their body will support them; fortunately for us they are limited by how they breathe air, and how well it gets to the tissues

• 10:31 am
• Studenthow do insects breathe?

• StudentHow do insects breathe
• Studentbreath*
• StudentHow*

• Studentwhat is the biggest bug in the world
  Bugscope Teamit is a type of tropical stick insect. It can cover your entire back

• StudentAre those scars on its eyes?
  Bugscope TeamI think those were little fiberlike things, but we definitely do see scars on eyes sometimes

• Studentwhy were insects so big at the time of the dino's and how did they survive the wipeout

• StudentGow do insects breathe?
  Bugscope Teamyes they have spiracles, which are holes, along their bodies that are connected by a trachea, like what we have

• Studentcan females bugs ever have babies?
• StudentWhat is the most Disgusting bug in your opinion

• Studenthow do insects collect there food
  Bugscope Teamsome will trap them, and most will grab them
• StudentIf some bugs cant see at all, how do they protect themselves from predators?

• StudentWhat is with all the hair on the bugs?
  Bugscope Teaminsects and similar arthropods have lots of hair (setae) because it can be used to give them information about their environment: like touch, wind, smell, hot/cold
• Studentdo insects have disease like us humans?

• Studentif a gded x

• Studentwhy is the hair there
  Bugscope Teamsome of the hair can detect chemicals in the air, like pheromones, that insects use to signal each other

• StudentWhat does a fly even eat?

• Studentwhat is the oldest bug in the world
• StudentWhat collage did you go to
• Studentwhy do bugs have hair on their legs
• Studentdo bugs have veins?
  Bugscope Teamnot really, not like ours

• Studenthave you ever looked at the tropical stick insect?
  Bugscope Teamnot in this microscope, and i have never seen one in person. It wouldn't fit into the chamber of the microscope at all
• Studentare those thorns on the leaf hoppers back?

• Studenthow do grasshoppers jump
• StudentDoes the leafhopper have claws?
  Bugscope Teamyes it has tiny claws on its legs
• Studenthow long does a fly live

• Studentwhat are those white things
• Studenthow many species of bugs are there

• Bugscope Teamprehistoric insects were bigger because there was a richer oxygen content in the air so their bodies could stand to be bigger. If they were that big now, their bodies would collapse.
• Studentwhat new species of bugs do we have
  Bugscope Teamthere is a guy coming in next week who is describing hundreds of new species of parasitic wasps, and he says there is a parasitic wasp for every other species of insect as well as for each life stage

• Studentwhat is that?
• 10:36 am

• Studentwhat are thse white things? is that bacteria?
  Bugscope Teamno these are smaller. These are nanoparticles that are only made by leafhoppers
• Studentare their human sized spiders?
  Bugscope Teamno they could not support themselves if they were this big, fortunately

• Studenthow many of those white things are on there
  Bugscope Teamthere are thousands just on the exoskeleton of this one tiny insect

• Studentdo leafhoppers have thorns on their backs?
  Bugscope Teamthey might have big spines that maybe will help deter other insects from eating them
• Studentso how often do you have to do this a year is it an all time job?
  Bugscope Teamwe do this twice a week, usually, throughout the year

• TeacherCan chippy please have control of the scope?
  Bugscope Teamgot it!
• Studentwhat is a nanopartacle exactly?
  Bugscope Teama very small particle that is nanometers big. These are around 450 nanometers.

• Studentwhat is the highest magnification on this scope?

• StudentDo the lines on the wing help them fly?

• Studentcan the leafhoppers ever exticnt
  Bugscope Teamthey could go extinct if their environment was destroyed or chemicals they could not survive were everywhere

• StudentIs there any way to kill a cockroach with nuclear power?
• StudentDo all bugs have white things
  Bugscope Teamnope not unless they were hanging out with leafhoppers
• Studentwhat are the shapes of the wings do to help them fly

• StudentWhat are brochosomes?
  Bugscope Teamthey help keep the leafhoppers' eggs moist

• Studentare those spikes on the wings?
  Bugscope Teamyep
• Studentare those whight things eggs
  Bugscope Teamno but they are thought to protect eggs from predation and/or from drying out

• Bugscope Teamthese are pollen grains

• Studentdo you put eggs under microscops?
  Bugscope Teamwe've seen fruit fly eggs and spider eggs

• Studentwhat is in pollen?

• Studentcool:D, if you have one insect of one specieces and another and another going on to like a hundred, but only have one of each kind, would you be able to have a new species of insects if they reproduce keeping the in the container?
  Bugscope Teamit is not likely they would crossbreed, although there is a chance some species could

• Studentwhat did you major in in college?
  Bugscope TeamEnglish and Biology, and Cate: Physics

• StudentWhat's the difference between veins and nerves?

• Studentwhy do they have spikes on their wings?
  Bugscope Teamdragonflies are predators and they often fight in the while flying. I think the spikes help them fight

• StudentWere is the laundery lint
• Studenthow far was the longest flight for a bug without stopping
  Bugscope Teamlikely if we tried to look it up we would find that Monarchs fly 2 to 3000 miles, but I am not sure how often they stop

• 10:41 am
• Studenthow do you get to do a job like this?
• Studenthow do you get to do a job like these

• Studentwhats your faveorite bug to look at under the microscope?
  Bugscope Teamoften it is the earwig because they frequently have colonies of mites on them

• Studentwhat do these scales help them fly
  Bugscope Teamthe scales are like feathers on a bird. They also give the wings color, both structurally and sometimes with pigment granules
• Studentis this like a dream job you dont regret what so ever. something that anyone would enjoy doing?

• StudentIs it possible to see an atom under a kind of microscope?
  Bugscope Teamnot in this one, but in another one yes
• Studenthow do you get to do a job like this?
  Bugscope Teamit just kind of happened. I was hired to set up and run the microscope and also specifically to help get Bugscope going

• StudentHow do these bugs fly if their are holes in it's wing?
  Bugscope Teamif there are holes in the wings, they wouldn't be able to fly very well if not at all
• StudentHOw do the spikes help their legs?
• Studentwhat was the best bug you had ever seen in the microscope

• Studentdo you get board with your job?
  Bugscope Teamno not easily anyway. There are always new or different projects going on that I get to help with or see
• StudentWhat kind of microscope can see an atom?
• StudentIs it fun to reasearch all these different insects?
• Studentwhat is the hamuli of a wasp?
  Bugscope Teamthe hamuli are the little hooks that hold the fore- and hindwing together so that instead of four wings the wasp (and bees too) have only two wings when they fly

• Studentwhy did you choose these species to look at under the scope?
• Studentcan you see cells with the microscope?
  Bugscope Teamyes especially blood cells that have been prepped just for this --they are so cool
• Studentwhat is a hamuli
  Bugscope Teamthey are hooks on insects that are bees, wasps, or ants, if they have wings. The hooks hook the fore- and hindwings together when they fly to make it like 1 pair of wings instead of 2

• Bugscope Teambacteria are cells as well, and it is easy to see them with this 'scope
• StudentCan we see a blood cell?
• Studentwhat is you favorite thing to look at under the microscope?
• StudentHow do some bugs see at night
  Bugscope Teamsome insects see infrared, and others may not rely on their sight and rely on their antennae for information

• StudentWhich microscope can you use to see an atom
  Bugscope Teamscanning tunneling microscopes and super high-end transmission electron microscopes
• Studentis this the most powerful teloscope in the world or are there stronger, how far can the strongest telescope magnify to looking at what certain object

• Studentcan you see a blood cell
  Bugscope Teamwe have seen them, but there arent any in the microscope today
• Studentcan you see the noucles
  Bugscope Teamwe can see the nucleus in some cells because it bulges out near the middle of the cell
• Studentdo the claws of the silverfish hurt or are they to small
  Bugscope Teamthe claws do help them grab onto things like food
• StudentDo you bugs have pores?

• Studentwhat happenes when you magnify a firefly
  Bugscope Teamyou cannot see through it, so the abdomen looks much like other abdomens of beetles

• Studenthow big is a silverfish?

• Studenthow many times magnified do you need to see an atom
  Bugscope Teammaybe 800,000x with a resolution corrected TEM (transmission electron microscope)
• 10:46 am

• Studentis this the most powerful teloscope in the world or are there stronger, how far can the strongest telescope magnify to looking at what certain object?

• Studentwhy are the scales ridged/ pointy?

• StudentIf you put it on extreme magnification, will you be able to see some of the cells, or what is inside of the cells, like the nucleus or the cytoplasm?
• Studentwhat is your favorite thing to look at under the microscope?
  Bugscope TeamI think we like things that have regular patterns but are tiny -- even what is in the 'scope now -- a scale -- can be a big thrill

• Studenthow do fish breathe under water
  Bugscope Teamtheir gills extract oxygen from the water

• Studentwhat is this^^^

• StudentWhat is your favorite type of thing to look at under a microscope

• Studentwhy do they have scales on their eyes?
• Studentwhen a bug gets splatted on the wall is the green stuff blood?
  Bugscope Teamit is insect blood, which is called hemolymph, and the green comes from the intestines breaking as well

• Studentdo the bugs eyes get damaged from water or wind or weather since they don't have eyelids?
• Studentwhere do you all your knowledge?
• Studentwhat is the smallest bug you have seen under a microscope
  Bugscope Teamwe have seen mites, which can be 200 microns long

• Studentis this the most powerful teloscope in the world or are there stronger, how far can the strongest telescope magnify to looking at what certain object?

• StudentIf fishes gills extract oxygen from the water, then why cant the breathe out of water
  Bugscope Teamsome can, but the gills are specialized to have water running through them, so they do not work well when they're dry
• TeacherCan Duckys have control of the scope please?
  Bugscope Teamgot it!
• Studentdo bugs hybernate??
  Bugscope Teamsome do, and some try to but not very well
• StudentWhat kind of microscope can see an atom?
  Bugscope Teaman atomic force microscope (AFM) can see them

• Studentno

• Studentdo bugs have bugs on them?
  Bugscope Teamsome do
• Studentwhere do you get all your knowledge?
  Bugscope Teamwe have been doing bugscope for many years. Some we have learned from entomologists, and some we have learned from books

• Studentso if they don't hibernate do they just drop dead???

• StudentCan bugs get sick??
• StudentDo insects have a heart if so how fast does it beat?
• Studentwhat is a sycnchrotron?
• 10:51 am
• Studentwhat s the most dNGEROUS BUG IN THE WORLD?

• Studentwhat is the most dangerous bug in the world]
• StudentWhy do people eat so much fish but not insects?
• Studentdo insects have a heart if so how fast does it beat

• Studentabout what is the longest life span of an insect/bug?
  Bugscope Team17 year locusts spend that many years as larvae, under the ground; but otherwise, some insects can live several years if they are not eaten or starved
• Studentwhat would be the smallest bug you know of that you have looked at under a microscope

• Studentdo all bees have stingers

• Studenthow much venom does a wasp have?

• Studenthow much venom is in a bumble bee?
• StudentWhy do ticks stay in the fur of dogs??
  Bugscope Teamthey have six legs (as subadults) or eight legs that help them cling to their host; also, of course, their mouthparts can embed and cut into skin
• Studentcan bugs get sick?
• Studentsem do you think we can see a red blood cell on a bug please?

• Studentis it true that bees just die after they sting you??

• Studentwhat is a sycnchrotron?
  Bugscope Teamit is a large track many miles in diameter, often, that physics people use to accelerate particles around
• StudentWhen the wasp or bee stings you or anything else, how does it release the venom?
• Studentaren't daddy longlegs themost venemous spider but they dont have teeth right?
  Bugscope Teamnope they aren't. Daddy long legs which can refer to harvestmen or cellar spiders are not venomous or dangerous to humans. Harvestmen do not have fangs nor do they have venom glands.

• StudentWhat is the biggest spider in the world and how big is it?

• Studenthow many poisonous bugs are there
• Studentcoooooooooooool!!!!!!!!
• Studentwhat is a hamuli
  Bugscope Teamhamuli are the hooks that a wasp or bee uses to connect its fore and hindwings
• StudentIf a bee stings something, does their stinger break or do they get poisoned and die?
  Bugscope Teamhoney bees have barbed stingers which can stick into mammal skin and won't come back out, so that when the bee pulls away, the stinger and the muscle attachment comes out of the bee and the bee bleeds out and dies

• Studentdo you know what the most dangerous or poisenous bug in the world is?

• 10:56 am
• StudentCan I see dust mights?
• Studentdo you find the bugs alive and then kill them? or do you find them dead??????

• TeacherCan Ninjaflapjack have control of the scope?
  Bugscope Teamgot it!
• Studentwhere is this school located and what do you need to go to it
• Studentwhere do you get all of your knowledge?

• Studentwhat is that thing near it's eye????

• Studentdo you get multiple organisms of the same species to compare them?

• Studentpffhjhgjcghv\
• TeacherStudents, we have about 7 minutes left. Choose your questions wisely :)

• Studenthow fast can a bug fly or walk/
  Bugscope Teamthe Desert Locust, which is thought presently to be the fastest flying insect, is said to fly at an average air speed of 33 kilometers per hour
• Studentwhy do birds eat some bugs and not others
  Bugscope Teamsome don't taste good and some have really hairy and make it hard for them to swallow

• StudentCan I see dust mights?
  Bugscope Teamnot today; dustmites are softbodied, so when we see them they are often shriveled up

• Studentdo you get multiple organisms of the same species to compare them?

• Studenthow do you get control of the scope
  Bugscope Teamwe use the controls built into the software -- there is a computer that drives the 'scope; and then there is the Bugscope software we are using now

• Studentcan we get control if the scope

• Studenthow do bugs live in the artic??
  Bugscope Teamthere are some plants in the arctic they feed off of. The water bears are predatory and sometimes they eat bacteria as well
• StudentIf the bee's stinger get stuck in the mammal, could it possibly get permenatly stuck in the mammal? Or will it eventually fall out?
• StudentWhat are the bumps on the eyes??????
  Bugscope Teamthe bumps are the individual lenses of the eyes, called ommatidia

• Studentwhat is ur highest magnification, on ur best scope?

• Studentwhy do flies clean their hands before they eat raw food when they are already so dirty?
  Bugscope Teamthey aren't cleaning their hands so much as their eyes and antennae. If youwatch closely, after rubbing their legs together, maybe to get extra dirt off, they will rub them over their head

• Studentdo bugs sleep?

• Studentdo you get board with your job?

• Studentwhy are the eyes close up look like diamond shape corn
  Bugscope Teama hexagonal shape, kind of like a diamond shape, is the best way to close pack something that is essentially round, and also that is 3D, like the dome shape of an eye like that
• Studentthat's really cool! Thanks!

• 11:01 am

• StudentDo you compare two organism that are the same ever?
  Bugscope Teamsometimes you want to see what the differences might be between a male and a female

• Studenth what do insects eat

• Studentdoes the hair on the bugs eyes help it see better or help be warm?
• StudentCan bugs live in the artic?

• StudentWhy do dustmights shrivel up
  Bugscope Teamthey do not have a hard exoskeleton like most insects; spiders are similar because the cephalothorax is hardened but the abdomen is soft
• TeacherCan Justingbeiberfan have final control of the scope?
  Bugscope Teamgot it!
• Studentwhy does the fly look like it was smashed?
  Bugscope Teamthe one was a little smashed -- good call!
• StudentDepending on the climate that bugs are found in, if bugs get to hot, can they die or get burned to death? Or if they get to cold, will they freeze to death?
• Studentwaht inspired you to do this job?
• Studentdo you ever look at fossils?
• Studentdo you look at foccles
  Bugscope Teamwe have looked at fossils in the past (that is not supposed to be a joke)

• Studentif they have such big eyes why do they have feelers like hairs
• Studenthow do some bugs are in water and can fly

• Studenthow long did it take you guys to learn all of this information?

• Studentare bugs still alive if they get frozen in the ice age if they thaw out quickly?
  Bugscope Teammost likely not, but we have thawed out insects from our freezer that woke back up, so i could be wrong. I think eggs tend to survive better.

• Studentcould bugs shock you if they touck you
  Bugscope Teamthat would be a new one for me!
• Studentwhy does the salt have holes?
• Studenthow many bones do bugs have? do they have bones?
  Bugscope Teamno bones at all -- they have their skeleton on the outside, called an exoskeleton

• StudentHow does the salt have so many cracks but not come apart??

• Studentwhat did you manger in to get this job?
  Bugscope Teamme -- Biology and English; Cate -- Physics

• 11:06 am
• Studentwhat came first the insects or the bugs
  Bugscope Teambugs are a type of insect technically. All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs. Cicadas and leafhoppers are bugs

• TeacherThank you very much for your time and expertise during this session of bugscope. The students are super excited. Thank you.

• StudentThank YOU
• StudentThank you!

• StudentThank you:D
• StudentThanks!
• Studentthaks
• Studentthsnka
• Bugscope Teamoops 'there'
• Studentthancks
• Studentthank you very much for your time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Bugscope TeamThank You!
• StudentThank you very much!!! :)
• Studentbye bye thank you :)
• Bugscope Teamthanks for joining us today!
• StudentTHANK YOU:) and my partner learned more cya\
• Bugscope Teamvery good questions from all of you
• StudentThank You! :D we loved learning more about bugs :)
• StudentUR AWESOME
• StudentWAFFLES
• Studentyou guy rock... thanks for all that you have done for this class!!
• Studentthank you vary much this was fun thanks for your knowle and anwers
• Bugscope Teamand good answer to the cellulite question scot
• Studentbye! thank you!!!
• StudentThank you,you rock
• Bugscope Teamha Thank You, Cate
• StudentThanks Scot Cate Sem, and Sj for your time and for researching and studying this amazing creatures
• Bugscope TeamThank You everyone!
• TeacherThank you again. We had a great time and this was an amazing experience for all my students. They had a wonderful educational experience. You both rock!
• TeacherIs there anything more I need to do as a teacher from here?
• Bugscope TeamThese are exactly the kind of sessions we like, Mrs. N. It's the way Bugscope is supposed to work.
• Bugscope Teamthere is a feedback form you can fill out for us when you get a chance
• 11:11 am
• TeacherI have already hooked the rest of the science teachers in the school and they are ready to sign up for next year.
  Bugscope Teamfantastic.
• TeacherI will do that later today after I am through teaching. Thank you.
  Bugscope Teamsweet -- thank you!
• Bugscope Teamhttp://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-091
• Bugscope Teamyour member page for today...
• Bugscope Teamover and out!