Connected on 2011-02-17 07:30:00
from Cayuga, New York, United States
- 8:39 am
- GuestSEE YA!!!
- Guestbut we are going to the academy
- Guest;0
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- Bugscope TeamSee You!
- Bugscope TeamGood morning, Frank!
- Bugscope TeamFrank we are ready to roll. Our visitors from Scotland just left.
- Guestbye
Bugscope TeamBye!
- Bugscope Teamor most of them. they were very nice
- TeacherWe are here. Trying to get everyone set up.
Bugscope Teamtotally cool
- Bugscope Teamgood morning, and Welcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamplease let me know when you have questions
- 8:45 am
- Studentwhat is it?
Bugscope Teamthis is salt from a Wendy's restaurant
- Bugscope Teamsalt from Wendy's has this cool incised look to it.
- Bugscope Teamnormal salt is smooth, a smooth cube
- StudentHow old is the salt?
- Studentis it old ?
Bugscope Teamnot too old; the pattern would look like this if it was new
- Bugscope Teamwe think it looks like this because there is an anticaking agent added to it, but we do not know for sure
- Studenthow did you make this salt
Bugscope Teamwe didn't make it; we just got it out of packets
- Studenthow did you get it that close ?
- Bugscope Teamwe like it because it looks like it was made by Aztecs
- StudentWhere did you get it from?
- StudentWhat is that?
- Studentwhat is that?
- Bugscope Teamthose are diatoms, on the head of a caddisfly larva
- StudentWHAT IS THIS
- Studentwhat insect is this
- Studentwhy does it look like theres strings
- StudentIs this some sort of larvae ?
- Bugscope Teamdiatoms are silica shelled microscopic creatures that live in the water
- 8:50 am
- Bugscope Teamso they're not insects, but we found them on this insect
- Bugscope Teamthere are millions of them in pondwater, for example
- Studentwhat is the white strings
- Studentwhat is this
- Studentare they around new york state
- Studenthow did you find this creacher?
Bugscope Teamwe looked on the head of the caddisfly larva
- Studentcan you eat these?
- StudentWhere did you get this picture from
- Studentwhat insect is it ?
Bugscope Teamthis is on the head of a caddisfly larva, so the insect is a caddisfly
- Studentcan you show the fly larva?
Bugscope Teamsure!
- Studenthow big is it?
- Studentis this a land creature or a water creature
- StudentWhat is the little white thing
- Bugscope Teamthere...
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentis that a fly
- Studentwhat insect is that
Bugscope Teamthis is the larval stage of a caddisfly. when it is a larva it lives underwater, in streams
- Studentthank you
- Studentis this a fly
- Studentis this a dust mite?
- Studentwhere is this located
Bugscope Teamnow? it is in the scanning electron microscope here
- Studentwhere is the insect
- Studenthow old is this creature?
Bugscope Teamprobably a few weeks, at least
- Studenthow long has that been dead?
Bugscope Teammonths, since the summer
- Studentlooks like a monster from a movie!
Bugscope Teamyes it does!
- Studentis this caddisfly larvae?
- StudentWhat is the insect?
- Bugscope TeamPraying Mantis is that what you meant?
- Studentwhat stage of life is this
Bugscope Teamit is the larval stage
- Studentwhat is the stringy things
- Studentwhat is the insects name
Bugscope Teamcaddisfly
- Student-*
- Studentis this a bettle
- 8:55 am
- Bugscope Team--.--
- Student7yuyu
- Studentwhat is it
- Studentwhat is it
Bugscope Teamthis is the caddisfly larva
- Bugscope Teamit is the larval, aquatic stage of the caddisfly, so eventually it would grow into a flying insect
- Studentyeah what is it
- Studenthow did you get the bugs or how did you find it?
Bugscope Teamsomeone collected these from a stream and sent them to us
- Studentthank you scot
Bugscope TeamSure!
- Studentwhere did it come fromd
- Studenthow long dose it live?
- Studentwhat is the population of this insect?
Bugscope Teamthey live in clean streams all over, but if the stream is polluted they do not survive. so they are indicators of water quality
- TeacherI am trying to confer to another student group and a pop up box asks for username and password. What do I use?
- StudentWhat is inside of the stomach?
Bugscope Teamthose are gills, and they're really on the outside
- Studenthow big do they get
Bugscope Teammaybe a few centimeters
- Studentoh!
- Studentwhere did you get these
- Studentwhen did it die
- Studenthow many teeth do they have.
Bugscope Teaminsects do not have teeth, but some have hardened mandibles
- Studentwhere does it live
Bugscope Teamthey live in temperate regions, in streams
- Studentwhere did i come from\
Bugscope Teamsomeone collected it and sent it
- 9:00 am
- Studentwhat part is it
Bugscope Teamthis now is the tip of the mouthparts of a large fly
- Studentwhat is this creature?
- Studentwhat are the strings on the end ?
- Studentwhat is this
- Studentwhat is mandibles
- Studentwhere is this from
- Studentwhat is that?
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentAre there sensors on the proboscis?
- StudentWhat are the long things?
Bugscope Teamthose are bristles that let the fly sense when it is close to touching something
- Studentis that its tounge?
- Studenthow big do they get?
- Studenthow do you get the bugs under the microscope?
Bugscope TeamI will show you what the vacuum chanber looks like.
- Studentwhat insect is that?
- Studentwhich end is that at front or back
Bugscope Teamthat was the front
- Studentwhat is the problem?
- Studentthis is cool
- Bugscope Teamthis is the inside of the specimen chamber of the microscope
- Bugscope Teamso this is under vacuum, and you can see all of the insects on the stub today
- Studentwhat is on it
Bugscope Teamlots of insects plus some noninsects
- Studenthow do you get these incects
- Studentjxhdcicjdxusdjususususisksuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
- StudentWhat insect is the chamber?
Bugscope Teamthis one, for starters -- a large fly
- Studentcan you show us a compound eye?
- Bugscope Teamalso a moth, a beetle, a fruit fly, a mosquito
- Studentabout how many eye cells do they have
- StudentWhy are the flies eyes so big/
- Studenthow many teeth do they have?
Bugscope Teamno teeth, insects do not have teeth
- Studentso cool
- Studenthow many eye cells do they have
- Studentabout how many lenses are there in their eyes?
Bugscope Teamthis probably has a few thousand lenses, also called ommatidia
- Studentwhat does a caddisfly eat
Bugscope Teamother insects
- Studentwat do they eat
- Studenthow fat do they get
Bugscope Teamthey are usually pretty trim
- 9:05 am
- Studenthow long is there lifespan
- Studentwhat is the thing betwwen both eyes like were nose would be?
Bugscope Teamthere are some sensory bristles, and the proboscis (the mouthparts) in the lower part of the face
- StudentHow many bugs have you got so far
- Studenthow many eyes can it see out of
Bugscope Teamit sees out of all of the eyes, and you can tell that it has very good peripheral vision.
- Studentwhen did you get these insects
- Studentwhat do flies eat
Bugscope Teamsome eat sweet stuff, like nectar from flowers, and some eat blood, like horseflies and deerflies
- Studentwhat is the mouthpart called
- Studenthow many socets are in the compound eyes
- Studenthow long is there lifespan
Bugscope Teaman average would be a few weeks
- Studentdo colage students study the bugs under the microscope
Bugscope Teamsome do; we work with some entomology students
- Studenthow many cells do flies have?
Bugscope Teamat least hundreds of thousands
- Studenthow much did the electron microscope cost?
Bugscope Teamabout $600,000
- Studentwere do they live?
Bugscope Teamin temperate regions like we do
- Studentxwaj
- Studentif they have wings could they lose there wings
Bugscope Teamonly in an accident
- Studenthow long do flies live
Bugscope Teamsome live for a few hours, like mayflies, and some live for a few months
- Studenthow long do they live
- Studenthow much money does this coast
- Studentcan you eat the caddisfly?
Bugscope Teamgood protein but probably not too tasty or filling
- Studenthow big are there wings
- Studenthow big are there wings
- Studentwhere do these insects live
- Studentdo the students at kuga collage study them ?
Bugscope TeamI imagine some do.
- Studenthow big are there wings
- TeacherHow do I confer control to another group? I tried and got asked for username and password.
Bugscope Teamdo you want to give control to students? we can do that
- Studentfly can see out of how many eyes
- StudentHow long are their legs
- 9:10 am
- Studentcan you show us the salt
- Studentis this a large fly
Bugscope Teamthis is a very large fly
- Bugscope Teamusername is 2010-127 is password you should know, frank
- Studenthow big can they get?
- Studentyes scott
- Studentcan we control the microcope?
- TeacherWho is changing the pictures? Are you scot?
Bugscope Teamyou are the only person with control save me and now Cate
- Bugscope TeamButterflys you now have control.
- Studenthow much do they weigh
- Studenthow fast can they fly.
- Studenthow long do flys live?
- Studenthow long can flies fly at one time?
- Studenthow fast can a fly fly
- Studentthey look furry. are they?
- Studentflies are born in eggs right?
- Studentwhere is the tympanum?
- Studenthow are butterflies in control?
- Studentcan some of them be posines
Bugscope Teamsome can be poisonous, like tsetse flies
- Studenthow far can a fly go in one day?
Bugscope TeamI'm not sure. Probably a few miles.
- Studenthow many lenses are in a mosquito eye
- Studentwhy do they look like eggs
- Studentdoes the fly have a pronotum?
Bugscope Teamyes it does. that is what the upper surface -- the dorsal surface -- of the first thoracic segment is called
- Studenthow much do they weigh
Bugscope Teamthey weigh from less than a gram to perhaps to or three grams
- Studentcan the eye cells fall of?
- 9:15 am
- Studentwhat is wrong?
- Studentare these compound
- Studentwhy are the eyes hairy
- Studenthow fast can flys go
Bugscope Teama tabanid fly, related to a horsefly, can fly 90 miles an hour
- Studentare those little hairs on the compound eye?
- Studentcan we see the butterfly wing scale?
- Studentis there any pictures of bugs prono\
Bugscope Teamhere we usually have almost all of the insects on their backs, so you would not see the pronotum
- Studentwhy are they so close?
- Studentcan we control the microscope
- Bugscope Teambeatles we just gave you control
- Studentcan we be the leader
- Studentcan we be in control next please?
- Studentare those there eggs
Bugscope Teamthese are the individual facets, called ommatidia, of the compound eye
- Studentl
- Studentwhat is this?
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentthese are cool
- Studenthow many eggs do flies lay
- Studenthow many egg can a fly have
Bugscope TeamA female fly can lay upto 500 eggs in batches of 75 to 150 eggs over a period of three to four days.
- Studentwhat is a tenent setae?
Bugscope Teamtenent setae are sticky hairs that help insects walk on vertical surfaces
- Studentcan we be in control after the beatles?
- Studenthow fast can flies fly
- Studentcool
- Studentcould you eat a horse fly
Bugscope Teamthey taste kind of yucky
- Studentdo b
- Studenthow many cells are in there eyes
Bugscope Teamthousands and thousands of cells- because there are thousands of ommatidia
- Studenthow much did the electron microscope cost!?
Bugscope Teamabout $600,000
- Studentwhat are those?
Bugscope Teamthese are tenent setae of the ladybug- they allow the ladybug to walk on walls
- 9:21 am
- Studentwhy did they look like strings??
- Studenthow are the beetles in control?
- Studentdo they have joints
- Studenthow long can they live
- Studentcan we see the salt
- Studentthanks scot!!
- Studentfly knees are furry?
Bugscope Teamyes who knew? cool, huh?
- Studentdo bettles have a wepon
Bugscope Teamsometimes they can have some bad looking mouthparts, sometimes they have horns on thier heads
- Studentcan we have control
Bugscope Teamants wanted it next
- Studentdo they eat each outher
- Studentwhy do this look like this
- Bugscope Teamso ants in our pants has control now
- Studentcan we be in control next please?
Bugscope Teamyou are now the supreme rulers
- Studentwhen can we have it
- Bugscope Teamthis is a ball and socket joint, we are looking at where the ball hooks into the socket here
- Studentdo bugs eat ]
Bugscope Teamyes they do
- Studentwhat is this
- StudentDo stag beetles kill each other ???
- Studentccan we be in contral
- Studentdo all bugs eat eachother
- Studentcan we have the contral next
- Studentwhat part of their body is this?
Bugscope Teamthese are the mandibles -- the jaws
- Studentdo bugs eat each outher
Bugscope Teamyes very often- especially when they are hungry they will eat each other
Bugscope Teamthe praying mantis females will eat the males, and sometimes the female spiders will eat the male spiders
- Studentthese are cool
- Studentcan people eat this dead?
Bugscope Teamyou could, but the protein might be all dried out, some people eat chocolate covered ants and they are dead
- Studenthow was bugscope invented?
- Student why do flies land near feces ?
- Studentare flies good to eat
- Studentcan we be in control next? please
- StudentHow big is there scale?
Bugscope Teamscales are maybe a few hundred microns long
- 9:26 am
- Studentthats a butterflies wing
Bugscope Teamyes it is one single scale from a butterfly's wing
- Studentwhat is the pronotum
- Studentwhat is this
- StudentWhat is that
- StudentDo spiders swim
Bugscope TeamI think some of them can.
- Studentcan we be in control next? we need to see the salt.
- Studentplease stop changing it ?
- Studentis that mold
- Studentwhat is in between the antenna
- StudentHow many anteenies can they have?
- Bugscope TeamDragonflies are now the Supreme Rulers of the Microscope
- Studentcan you give the butterflys controle
- Studentare those hairs
Bugscope Teamthose are setae, which are also sometimes called hairs, bristles, trichae
- Studentare those the hair on a dog?
Bugscope Teamno it really is on an insect
- Studentcould you show a mayfly???
Bugscope Teamthese are images of what is in the microscope now, and I am sorry we do not have a mayfly
- Studentwhat are those?
- Studentcan we be incontrol
Bugscope Teamafter locas, I think
- Studenthow big is the moth scale
- Studentdo insects shed
Bugscope Teamthey sometimes molt as adults if they live long enough. But yes insects molt through their different life stages. If they lost a limb and molt, it will be back good as new
- Studentcan you show the male mosquitto?
- StudentCan they go inside ryan vanacores belly
- Studentwhens locas incontrol
- 9:32 am
- Studentdoes flies help the world ,how
- Studentcan you show us a picture of a bugs pronotum
Bugscope Teamthese are live images from the 'scope, and to top it off, unfortunately, we rarely look at the top of the back
- Studentis that a pronotum
Bugscope TeamI am sorry. The pronotum is the top surface of the thorax, and we have all of the insects on their backs.
- Studenthow much hair total is on the body of a flie
- Studentcan u put the beatles in control?
- StudentMay you please show us the salt?
Bugscope Teamyou'll have to ask the person driving to see it
- Bugscope TeamLocas are now in control.
- Studentdo they sleep
- Studentwho is locas?
- Bugscope Teamhere's the salt
- Studenthow do dragonflies lay eggs
Bugscope Teamsome have pointed, sharpened ovipositors and some use the tip of their abdomen
- Studentwhat does a dragonflies wing look like
- Studentdo insects harm people?
- Studenthow much salt is this
- Studenthow big is this salt?
- StudentDoes this salt come from flies?
Bugscope Teamno it comes from Wendy's
- Studenthow much is it magnified
- Studentwhy does the salt look cubed
Bugscope Teamthe way the sodium and chloride fit together makes a cubic shape
- Studenthow big is that salt when its not magnified?
Bugscope Teamless than a millimeter, perhaps half that as an average
- Studentdo flies eat that salt
- Studentdo flies hibernate
Bugscope Teamnot really
- Studenthow long would they live for in the cold
- Studenthow do they sleep
Bugscope TeamI think they don't really sleep but have a senescent period in which they are just kind of chillin'
- StudentHow much does the system cost?
Bugscope Teamthis microscope cost $600,000 11 years ago
- 9:37 am
- Studentwhy do these look like jellyfish stingers?
Bugscope Teamit's a total coincidence, maybe because they are all strands that go in the same direction
- Studentdoes a beetle have over 100 setae?
Bugscope Teamit's very likely- they need those hairs to get feedback on what's going on around it.
- Studentare they ribs?
Bugscope Teamthese are ladybug tenent setae- they allow the insect to walk on vertical surfaces
- Studentwhat color is a butterflys blood
- Studentwhy does salt looked cubed
Bugscope Teamsalt forms that shape naturally. compared to sugar -- sugar does not form natural cubic crystals
- StudentIs this affective to other beatles?
- Studentcan a beetle swim?
- Student do people hurt insects on purpose
Bugscope Teamyes sometimes they do
- Studentdo they grow over a couple of inches
- Studentcan you see what we see
- Studentwhat color are most bugs
- Studentwhat color is a butterflys blood
Bugscope Teamit is usually clear, but when you squish them you see other contents that weren't really in the hemolymph
- Studentwhy are there hairs on this?
- Studentdo insects harm people
- StudentHow much do flies weigh
- Studentdo some insects have vename
- StudentIs this a claw?
Bugscope Teamthis is the proboscis of a mosquito. A proboscis is a tube like mouthpart. Kind of like an elephant's trunk
- Studenthow many scales are on a butterflies wings
- Studentwhy do flies have haires?
Bugscope Teamthis is pretty cool: it's because they do not have skin, they have more like a shell, like armor. so the hairs stick through the shell and let them sense their environment that way, attached to nerves
- Studenthow long Is a proboscis ?
- Studentcan you change who is in control?
- Studentdo mosquitos suck your blood
Bugscope Teamthe females do; they need it to be able to successfully lay their eggs -- they need the protein
- Studentwhy does salt looked cubed
- Studentdoes insects have as many bows as us
- Studenthow big can mosquittos get?
Bugscope Teamnot much larger than the ones we see; maybe half again as large but I think that is it
- Studentwhat is that?\
- Studentwe think this is skin is it
- 9:42 am
- Studentwhy do these look like flippers
- Studenthow long does there hair grow to
Bugscope Teamit's not really hair, and it doesn't grow like hair. the setae, which is what they are usually called, extend to the length they need to be able to sense their environment
- Studentcan beatles be in control
- Studentwhat do bugs eat
- StudentWhat does there skin fell like
- Studentcan some bugs live more than a year
- Studentcan bugs eat humans
Bugscope Teamyes, in a way- mosquitos feed off our blood, bed bugs bite us, but to totally consume a full body it would take a lot of insects.
- Studentdoes a frog swallow all its prey whole?
- Studenthow do they migrate
- Studenthow big is a moth scale
- Studentwhat family are the insects in?
Bugscope Teamthe Simpsons
- Studentwho ever is in charge, can we see tiny grasshopper?
- Studentwhy are the insects in the simpsons family
- Studentstop changing the pictures locas
- StudentWhat are the simpsons
- StudentIs a flies wing as big as its body
- Studenthow many kinds of bugs are there
- Studentwhat is a simsons family is it the one one on tv or a real bug family
- Studentif you weigh them on a scale how much would they weigh
- Studenthow long do queen bees live
- Studentwhat are the simpsons
- Bugscope TeamInsects are in the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Arthropoda, the subphylum Hexapoda, and the class Insecta. After that there are subclasses and then I think families, like The Simpsons.
- Bugscope Teaminsects don't really have ribs. Their bones are on the outside- exoskeleton. They are more like plates
- Studenthow long do grasshoppers live?
- Studenthow big do spiders get?
Bugscope Teamsome spiders will get as big as your hand
- 9:47 am
- Studentdo grasshoppers have compound eyes or simple eyes
Bugscope Teamthey have compound eyes.
- StudentAre there ribs like xylaphones?
Bugscope Teamthey don't really have ribs, since they do not have bones, but the body segments may look like ribs
- Studentwhat is on the bugs pronotum
Bugscope Teamwhoa yeah there is a pronotum for you, to the right!
- Studenthow far does grasshoppers jump
- StudentHow does the Grasshopper jump so far
Bugscope Teamit has powerful muscles in its hindlegs
- Studentdo ladybugs have simple or compound eyes?
Bugscope Teamall adult insects have compound eyes. They might not as larvae.
- Studentthis is cool
Bugscope Teamyay!
- StudentWhen are the bugs born?
Bugscope Teamall of the time, but usually in the warm months
- Studentwhat is that insect it looks cool.\\
Bugscope Teamthis is a very small cute little grasshopper
- Student +
- Studenthow high can grass hoppers hop
Bugscope Teamusually just a few feet, but some also have wings that help extend their jump
- StudentHow long are butterflies in cacoonns?
Bugscope Teama few weeks or more
- Studenthow long are butterflys in there cacoonns
- Studenthave grasshoppers been since the dinosours?
Bugscope TeamI think so.
- Studentwhat kind of envirements do grasshoppers like to live in
- Studentwhat kind of envirements do grasshoppers like to live in
- StudentHow long are butterflies in cacoonns?
Bugscope Teamthey are in a chrysalis for around 2 weeks
- StudentHow big is the grasshopper in this photo?
Bugscope Teamit's like a cm or a little longer, very small
- 9:52 am
- TeacherOkay thanks bugscope team. Off to lunch of chocolate covered grasshoppers and deep fried crickets. Thanks for your time.
- StudentTHANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!:)
- StudentTHANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME SCOT AND ESEM
- StudentThank you Scot and esem for teaching us cool stuff
- StudentThank you bugscope
- Studentthank you!
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- Studentthankyou from the beatles
- Bugscope TeamESEM is Cate.
- Studentthank you!
- StudentThank you Bug scope team!!!!
- StudentIt was awesome!
- StudentThanks for your time!!
- Bugscope TeamThank you John Paul George and Ringo!
- Bugscope TeamThank you Locas
- StudentTHANK U!
- Bugscope TeamThank you ants and mantis and bug bustors
- Bugscope Teamand Awesome!
- Bugscope Teamand Magic Marshmellow!
- Bugscope Teamthank you, we hope you all had fun
- Bugscope Teamenjoy your insect food
