Connected on 2011-06-01 20:15:00
from Orange, California, United States
- 7:03 pm
- Bugscope Teamsample is pumping down...
- Bugscope Teamit's 7:04 p.m. here
- Bugscope Teamthis is the CCD camera view of the inside of the chamber
- Bugscope Teamuntil the vacuum gets good enough to let us turn on the electron beam
- 7:09 pm
- Bugscope Teamalmost there
- 7:15 pm
- Bugscope Teamnow making this evening's presets
- 7:23 pm
- 7:28 pm
- 7:35 pm
- 7:41 pm
- 7:48 pm
- 7:53 pm
- 7:59 pm
- 8:04 pm
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to Bugscope, Papke!
- TeacherHey thanks
- TeacherI'm just turning on all the classroom computers and getting everything set to the right page
- Bugscope Teamtotally cool
- Bugscope Teamalmost done w presets
- TeacherWe're not set to start until 6:30 so it's looking good
- Bugscope Teamyou can drive around once you get set up
- Bugscope Teamif you want
- Guestjust testing one of the kids computers ....
- Bugscope Teamhello test guest 1
- Bugscope Teamworkin'!
- 8:10 pm
- 8:20 pm
- Bugscope TeamI am just driving around looking for diatoms on the caddisfly larva -- it's like diving on a shipwreck
- Bugscope Teamnow the leafhopper
- 8:27 pm
- Bugscope Teamnanoparticles
- Bugscope Teamself-assembled
- Bugscope Teamproduced only by leafhoppers
- 8:35 pm
- Bugscope Teamthey're about 300 nm in diameter; thinner than the wavelengths of visible light
- Bugscope TeamHello Nate, Ilrath, N8!
- Bugscope TeamHello Naomi!
- Bugscope TeamNate has control of the microscope now.
- Bugscope Teamhello everyone! I can't keep up with all of the names
- TeacherHi, the class is here and we are getting started. Thanks
- Bugscope TeamNate you can take the magnification down to see where you are if you want.
- Bugscope Teamthis is 59,210x!
- Bugscope Teamlike, super high mag for Bugscope
- Bugscope Teamplease let us know when you have questions
- Bugscope Teamand let me know when someone else would like to drive
- TeacherI don't see the zoom in and out buttons like I did earlier
Bugscope Teamthat's 'cause Nate has control. just a sec.
- Bugscope Teamnow you are the Supreme Ruler
- Teacherthanks
- Bugscope Teamfemale housefly
- 8:40 pm
- Bugscope Teamthe antennae are in the middle here
- Bugscope Teamand the compound eye
- Bugscope Teamthousands of facets -- ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamthe eye is a little bit collapsed
- Studentwhere is it's mouth?
- Studenthow well does this bug see
Bugscope Teampretty well -- it has very good peripheral vision and can also see changes in the visual field very quickly, which makes it hard to smack it
- Guestthe eyes look like bubbles
- Guesthow long does the fly live
Bugscope Teamusually a few weeks to a month or so
- Studentwhy are his eyes hexagonal
Bugscope Teamit turns out to be about the best way to close pack things that are essentially round, and also three dimensional
- Guesthow fast does this female housefly
- Studentk
- Guestdo flys really start out as worms
Bugscope Teamas maggots, sort of like worms
- Studentwhy do they like to fly on poop
Bugscope Teamnot sure but the smell may attract them
- Studentdo flies really throw up and poop on your food when they land?
- Studentdo flies mate every week
- Guestwhy do they come out more during summer
Bugscope Teamthey don't do s o well in the cold weather, which is good for us
- Guesthow long do they live
Bugscope Teamusually a few weeks to a month or so
- Bugscope Teamthe ambush bug is disguised, sort of, as a leaf
- Bugscope Teamhey there is a pollen grain!
- Studentwhere do they live?
- Studentwhy is it called an ambush bug?
Bugscope Teambecause it attacks other bugs when they get too close, not having seen it
- StudentWhere do they live?
- 8:45 pm
- Studentk
- Studentk
- Guesthow does the ambush bug catch its prey?
Bugscope Teamit pounces on it and catches it in its forelimbs, then pierces it with its mouthparts
- StudentWhat other insect/bug is the ambush bug closely related to?
Bugscope Teamassassin bugs, other true bugs
- Studentwhere do they live?
- Studentis it a prey or predator
Bugscope Teamthe latter -- a predator!
- Guestis it true that flies have alot of bacteria?
Bugscope Teamwe don't see them as much as we see them on ticks
- Guestadrian I think its both
Bugscope Teamprobably something eats it as well
- Studentwhere r u celia
- Studentwhat does it usually eat?
Bugscope Teamother insects; I'm not sure how picky it is
- Studentdoes it belong to special type of spieces
Bugscope Teamthere are probably a number of species of ambush bugs; I am not sure
- Studentcool
- Guestwhere are you adrian
- Guestwhy is the eye so bigger then the head
Bugscope Teamit's helpful, especially if you fly, to be able to see very well
- Studentidk
- Studentthank you and where is its stinger?
Bugscope Teamyou cannot see the stinger, I'm sorry -- I checked earlier
- Guestis it true once it stings u it dies
Bugscope Teamthat is only for some bees, and only when they sting mammals, with their relatively thick skin
- Guestdoes a wasp sting hurt more than a bee sting
Bugscope Teamit depends on the wasp; probably certain wasps are more painful than bees in general
- Studentwat up n8
- 8:50 pm
- Guestwhat are the dimensions of a wasp's eye?
Bugscope Teamit just depends on the size of the head, but easily a few mm in some cases
- Guestto eat!
- Guestand kill
- Guest:)
- Studentkill what?
- Guest(:
- Studentboth
- Studentidk
- Guestwhich one is more dangerous? wasp or bee?
Bugscope TeamI am not really sure. I think it depends how many stings and if you are allergic
- Guestscot is the guy at the university
- Guesthi
- Guestwhat are the bumps on it
- GuestTHANK YOU CELIAA(:
- Studenthorrible
- Guesthi
- StudentWhat bug is this?
- Studenthay
- Studentwhat is it
- Studenthow is it that you feel a sting when you are awake but when you are asleep you cant feel anything
Bugscope Teamif a wasp stings you when you are asleep you will feel it and likely wake up. I was stung when I was sleeping once.
- Guestdoes the lace bug bite
- StudentWhere do they live?
- Guest scot,what is a wooly bear head and where can i find it??????
Bugscope Teamit's a super furry caterpillar
- Guestwhat do they eat?
- Studenttomahawk
- Guestis it in the same family as the jellyfish?
Bugscope Teamno but both are invertebrates, you could say
- Guesthow long is the animals wings
- Guesthow much does the wooly bear grow
- Studentlike 3 inches i guess
- Studentso you don"y feel a mosquito bite just a wasp?
- Guesthow many years does a wooly bear live
Bugscope Teamprobably no more than a month before it starts to metamorphose
- StudentWhat does it need to survive?
- Student3 years
- Guestooo haha k thanks! i know where to find one ha
- StudentWhat is a palp?
- Studentwhat is a palp?
- Guesti think a wasp bite hurts more than a mosqutio..i cant really feel mosquisto bites..well only sometimes
- Studentmouskito has a longer snout
- Student What is a palp?
- 8:55 pm
- Studentyes.
- Guestdo wooly bears have any wings
Bugscope Teamwhen they metamorphose they turn into tiger moths
- Guestfro an insect
- Guest:D
- Studentyup
- Guest:p
- Guestisnt a plap like a straw?
Bugscope Teamthey are more like feelers that help the insect taste and manipulate its food
- Guest(C
- StudentBY
- Guest(x
- Guesthow come you never feel a mosquito on you while it pokes/stings you
Bugscope Teamthe stylets are very thin and sharp, so often you do not feel them
- StudentSEE YAAAA
- GuestXD
- Guestthank u so much for ur time.
- StudentLATERRRRRRRRR
- Guestbye
- Guestlike sensors/anteannes?
Bugscope Teamsort of, yes; in a way they are like built-in eating utensils that can also help you taste your food before you eat it
- Studentthank youuuuuuu every much for everything
- StudentTHANKS
Bugscope TeamThank you!
- Studentdoes this bug suck your blood if it does what does it do with the blood?
Bugscope Teammosquitoes -- the females -- need blood in order to be able to successfully lay their eggs
- Guestbye scot thanks alot
Bugscope TeamThank You, Gera!
- Guestbuy scot
Bugscope TeamBye!
- Guestwhats the difference between mosquito n wasp
Bugscope Teama mosquito is a kind of fly, and a wasp is not; wasps are related to ants, and also to bees
- 9:01 pm
- Bugscope Teamon the left we see one of the ladybug's palps -- the ones that look like vacuum cleaner nozzles
- Teacherthat group left and the next one will be here in 5 minutes ... thanks for answering a million questions
Bugscope Teamhey no problem I get as many answers as I can
- Bugscope Teamthe students asked what lacewings eat -- I think as adults they feed only on nectar
- Bugscope Teamsome eat other insects as adults
- Bugscope Teamsee the two pits on the lacewing's face?
- Bugscope Teamthey're indentations where the exoskeleton folds into the inside of the head to support jaw muscles, etc.
- 9:06 pm
- Bugscope Teamso that pit does not go anywhere, in a way
- Bugscope Teamhello!
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a female housefly
- Bugscope Teamyou can tell it's a girl because the compound eyes are far apart
- Bugscope Teamthe eyes of a male are close together in flies, often, compared to those of females
- Bugscope Teamin the middle of the head we see the antennae, with a kind of pad and also a branched part called the artistate antenna
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the mouthparts, too!
- Bugscope Teamthis fly spits up on its food and then sucks up what dissolves
- Bugscope Teamkind of a messy way of eating
- Bugscope Teamthe fly also has three more small eyes on the top of its head; those are called ocelli
- Studentwhat is this animal ?
Bugscope Teamit is a housefly
- 9:11 pm
- Bugscope Teama female housefly
- Bugscope Teamthese are crochets on the prolegs of the wooly bear caterpillar, which will grow into a tiger moth
- Bugscope Teamcrochets are the little claw-like hooks
- Bugscope Teamall of the hairs on the body of the wooly bear help protect it
- Studentwhat is a crochets on groleg, wooly bear
Bugscope Teamcrochets are the little hooks
- Bugscope Teamprolegs are like fake legs, sort of
- Guestwhat is this crotchet
Bugscope Teama crochet is a hook
- Bugscope Teamthis is an insect scale stuck to the ladybug palp
- Studentis a ladybug a type of beetle?
- Bugscope Teama palp is an accessory mouthpart that helps an insect taste and manipulate its food
- Teacherwhat is a ladybug palp
Bugscope Teamthere are four palps -- two mandibular and two maxillary, and they are limbs that help the insect feed
- Guestwhat is a famale house fly
Bugscope Teama girl fly
- Studentwhat is caddisfly larva?
Bugscope Teamit is the lifestage of an insect that lives in the water until it becomes a fly
- Studentwhere are the eyes
- 9:16 pm
- Bugscope Teamthe caddisfly larva lives in streams and eats insects and other things that fall into the water
- Studentwhat is a backswimmer
Bugscope Teaman insect that swims on the surface of the water, and I think it can dive as well
- Guestwhat is a leaf hopper
Bugscope Teaman insect you often find on plants; it may live on sap, for example, that it sucks out of leaves and stems
- Studentwhat is a aphid cornicle??
Bugscope Teamthere are two cornicles, kind of like exhaust pipes, on the back of an aphid; some produce nectar that ants like to eat
- Guestwhat is a unid
Bugscope Teamunid means unidentified
- GuestIs that the real head of a ladybug
Bugscope Teamnow we are looking at a horribly dried up mosquito head
- Studentwhat is aphid cornicle
Bugscope Teamit is a tube that comes out of the the aphid, on either side, and sometimes it produces nectar that ants like, so the ants 'farm' the aphids and also protect them
- 9:21 pm
- Guestwhat is a tenant setae
Bugscope Team'tenent' means that it has a holding capability, so the setae, which are like tiny hairs, help the fly or other insect stick to a wall, or a ceiling, or a tree...
- Bugscope Teamthis is a tear in the wing
- Studentwhat is a lacewing ing
Bugscope Teamthe wing of an insect called a 'lacewing'
- Studentis that the real head of a ladybug
Bugscope Teamyes it is
- Studentwhat are
- Bugscope Teamsweet!
- Guestwhat is a stemmata???
Bugscope Teamstemmata are the primitive eyes of the caterpillar
- Studentwhat exsactly is a ladybug palp
Bugscope Teama palp is a feeding mouthpart; it can taste and also manipulate food toward the mouth
- Bugscope Teamthere are usually four palps: two mandibular and two maxillary palps
- Studentwhat is tenent setae
Bugscope Teamtenent means that it can hold onto something; and a seta is a hair
- Studentdoes a moth have a head
Bugscope Teamyes it does!
- Guestwhat is the ommatidia w setae in between????
Bugscope Teamommatidia are the facets of the eye -- the individual lenses of the eye, and the setae in between are what the fruitfly uses to gauge the speed of the wind going by the head
- 9:27 pm
- Studentwhat is the halter???
- Studentr u the ones working with the micorscope
- Studentwhat is a retention plan??
Bugscope Teamit is a joke -- it is how the dragonfly grabs and holds its prey so it can bite it -- so it is part of the arm
- Bugscope Teamgood job driving!
- Studentwhat is the haltere???
Bugscope Teama haltere is a modified hindwing that beats with a motion opposite that of the wings and helps balance a fly in the air
- Studentare this about the width of your arm hair
Bugscope Teammaybe -- about 75 micrometers or so -- less than a tenth of a millimeter
- Studentwhat is the butterfly powder made of
Bugscope Teamthose scales we saw are so small they seem like powder to us
- StudentWHAT IS A LADY BUG PULP
Bugscope Teama mouthpart that helps the ladybug taste the air, and its prospective food
- Bugscope Teamsee where we are now -- those spines on the arm are very sharp
- Studentthanx 4 everything!!!!
- Studentwhat and where does the ambush bug come from
Bugscope Teamit hides on branches and leaves and attacks insects when they land or walk there; it then sucks the juice out of them
- Studentabout how long have you been working at this job?
Bugscope Team12 years plus
- 9:32 pm
- StudentThanks for all the info
Bugscope TeamYou bet!
- TeacherThanks!! All the kids really liked this
- Bugscope Teamtotally cool!
- TeacherThe parents thought it was neat too
- Bugscope Teamawesome
- TeacherI learned a lot too
- TeacherYou guys rock!!!!
- Bugscope Teamthis is all archived on line
- Teachereveryone just left to go out to the raffle .... so we are all done. thanks sooooo much
- Bugscope Teamhttp://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-057
- Bugscope Teamtotally cool
- Bugscope TeamThank You for connecting with us this evening!
- Bugscope Teamsee you next year!
- Teacherhopefully we will get to do this again next year at science night
- TeacherSee ya!
- Bugscope Teamsweet!
- Bugscope TeamSee ya!