Skiles Test Elementary
Session 2011-113

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Connected on 2012-01-24 14:00:00 from Marion, Indiana, United States

• 1:05 pm
• Bugscope Teamsample is pumping down
• 1:18 pm

• 1:23 pm

• 1:30 pm

• 1:36 pm

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• 1:48 pm

• Bugscope Teamwe are ready!
• 2:08 pm
• GuestHI there- just here for a bit to capture some screen shots :) Michele
• Bugscope TeamHi Michele!
• Bugscope Teamwe gave you control in case you wanted to go to a specific preset
• Bugscope TeamWe are ready for our classroom but becoming rather less confident that they remembered us.
• GuestCool! I am in a meeting now so will be quick and discrete ;)
• Bugscope Teamsome people don't check their email every 4 or 5 waking minutes like we do
• Bugscope Teamthis is a totally cool wasp that Cate critical point dried
• GuestREALLY nice sample!
• Bugscope Teamyou can see its tongue, and you can see the pores below the antennae, called anterior tentorial pits

• Bugscope Teamthey're like natural sprues for a sculpture -- they don
• Bugscope Teamd'oh
• Bugscope Teamthey don't lead anywhere

• Bugscope Teamit is possible Pam L. will log on today as well
• Guestlove the texture

• Bugscope Teamshe's the science coordinator for a session next week
• Bugscope Teamsweet

• 2:14 pm

• Bugscope Teamit laps up liquid I believe
• Guestso does this tongue do anything?
• Bugscope Teamyeah I think they live on nectar
• GuestThis is an incredible preset
• Bugscope Teamthese are sensillae on the wasp's antenna
• GuestSO the tongue on the wasp is structured to lap up liquids it seems
• Bugscope Teamthe wide setae are like spatulas, allowing the nectar to be scooped up
• Bugscope Teamthese are presumably chemoreceptors
• Guestthis is good material for sci fi movie outfits!

• 2:19 pm
• Bugscope TeamI was just writing another teacher and inviting her to try logging in now.
• Guestcool...

• GuestCould you all "drive" to a super cool spot that you would like to see on a screen shot for the Australia talk?
  Bugscope TeamCate is doin' it.

• Bugscope Teamhere's some bacteria on a biofilm
• Bugscope Teame. coli looks like this
• Guestwhat sort of biofilm?
• Bugscope Teammany bacteria exude a film -- a polysaccharide film, so its kind of made of sugar, like in a fairy tale -- that they swim around in
• Bugscope Teamit's...
• Bugscope Teammore like slime
• Bugscope Teamthe biofilm right now looks like the webbing
• Bugscope Teamthe biofilm protects the bacteria from drying out, and also from being washed away when you clean your vegetables
• Bugscope Teamwhen it was critical point dried it broke up a bit
• GuestI see!
• Guestthe biofilm is on the ESEM stage?
  Bugscope Teamin this case it is on a filter; Cate cut a piece of the filter. some classes want to see bacteria specifically, and we aren't always able to find them on ordinary samples
• Guestgreat idea!
• 2:25 pm
• Bugscope Teamwhen grad students want to prepare a bacteria sample for something else, like actual research, sometimes we appropriate their samples when they're done
• Guestvery good use to the scope!
• GuestThese things are good to know for the presentation.

• GuestTell me about this trap door.
• Bugscope Teamif the biofilm was intact, as in life, the bacteria would look like bumps under a blanket
• Bugscope Teamthis is a Mexican jumping bean

• Bugscope Teamso beneath the trap door is where the larva jumps around.
• Bugscope Teamthey have moth larvae in them, which is why they jump when you heat them up
• Bugscope Teamwhen the larva turns into a moth and decides to make its way into the world, it crawls out of the trapdoor
• Bugscope Teamapparently it's quite a struggle getting out, and there are scales everywhere
• GuestHow long do they take to "incubate" and get out? You see these in stores.
  Bugscope Teamlike in grocery stores where you live? that is pretty progressive
• Bugscope Teamthey can enter a period of dormancy if the conditions aren't right
• GuestI have seen them in novelty stores in the Midwest and here.
• 2:30 pm

• Bugscope Teamthey can live in it for months
• GuestSo I wonder if they ever "hatch" when people buy them and hold them to make them jump.
• Bugscope Teamyeah they have varying 'gestation times'
• Bugscope Teamthe moths, when they hatch, are said to llive only for a few days
• GuestIt would be a great class project to have some of them and then view this on Bugscope.
• Bugscope Teamyeah that would be a fun project
• Bugscope Teamyou can keep your jumping beans in the fridge
• GuestI will keep my eyes open for them here.
• Bugscope Teamwe could also, perhaps, put them into the microCT while they are still inside

• Bugscope Teamyou know we got owl pellets from a class once, and we put those into the microCT
• Bugscope Teamwe got 3D x-ray images of the mouse and vole and mole bones inside the pellets
• Bugscope Teamthey would have to be still for microCT
• Bugscope Teamthis is an aphid cornicle
• Bugscope Teamit's like a dual exhaust for aphids
• GuestOoohh...owl pellet stuff would be fun. I would love to see a list of projects that teachers have done with Bugscope as a tool to investigate. Do you have anything like that?
• Bugscope Teamsometimes they produce, from the cornicle, the nectar that ants like
• 2:35 pm
• Bugscope Teamwe don't have a list, just some projects that stick out more than others
• Bugscope Teambut some aphids don't produce nectar via the cornicles; instead they produce this stuff like hot-melt glue that immobilizes the ant
• GuestIf you have a chance, Cate, can you list off some education applications?
• GuestLooks like an anteater snout.
  Bugscope Teamin some cases it is much like that...
• Bugscope Teamthere was this one fun csi project once where they sent in some pollen and some shoe laces and they had to see which suspect's shoe lace was at the scene of the crime the pollen was at
• Bugscope Teamscot wasn't in that day
• GuestSo Bugscope has gone beyond Bugs at times....

• Bugscope Teamwhen we do those 'forensic' analysis things for classrooms, we also suggest that they send different fabrics. the weave and the size of the threads is almost always different with different fabrics.
• Bugscope Teamsometimes we put sugar and salt in as well, and as Cate mentioned, pollen from a variety of flowers
• GuestI love these ideas. It is good for inquiry learning and using a remote tool for scientific information - it engages kids!
• Bugscope Teamclasses have sent in various life stages of darkling beetles and same for painted lady butterflies
• Bugscope Teamsalt (sodium chloride) makes cubic crystals, and sugar makes other more complex crystals shapes
• GuestAnother excellent application!

• 2:40 pm
• Bugscope Teambut we never venture too far from insects/arthropods; they're just the most interesting

• Bugscope Teamthis is a pretty grumpy-looking aphid
• GuestI would love to do a joint session with Amy Stewart soon - the author of Wicked Bugs
• GuestThe aphid is grumpy looking.
  Bugscope Teamthey're softbodied, like dustmites, so when they air dry -- no telling what they'll look like

• Bugscope Teamwhen we critical point dry aphids they look much better
• Guestgorgeous shot!
• GuestI will send my next batch of bugs in alcohol.
• Bugscope Teamthis one was in a conga line just before Cate critical point dried it

• GuestIt looks to be ready to dance

• Bugscope Teamthere...
• Bugscope Teamhope you send some exciting ones
• 2:46 pm
• Bugscope Teamwe got a good set of super tiny critters from a Collembola guy yesterday -- springtails and some other insects
• GuestI have some bed bugs somewhere...in a vial of alcohol....
  Bugscope Teamgood place for them
• Guestan exterminator friend gave them to me.
• Bugscope Teamhow sweet
• Bugscope Teamlike William Burroughs?

• Bugscope TeamI think he had a job doing that once

• GuestI don't know William Burroughs

• Bugscope Teamyou can Google him

• GuestI will :)
• Bugscope Teamhe was actually in commercials, on TV, in the 90's
• Bugscope Teamhe wrote Naked Lunch
• GuestI have to log off soon to present something at my meeting :) If you see any other cool screen shots, send them my way. I will send my presentation to you soon.
• Bugscope TeamCool. Thank You! You were it today!
• GuestI am glad I logged on. I could be on here for hours :) Sorry the school bailed on you.
• Bugscope Teamtwo for two
• 2:51 pm
• GuestOK - see you again. I may log in on Monday as well for that session :)
• Bugscope Teamsee you!