Connected on 2011-12-02 08:20:00
from Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
- 7:16 am
- Bugscope Teamgetting ready to start...
- 7:26 am
- 7:32 am
- 7:38 am
- 7:43 am
- 7:49 am
- Bugscope Teamnow making presets
- 7:55 am
- Bugscope Teamgood morning, Gloss!
- 8:00 am
- GuestGood morning!
- Bugscope Teamwe're making presets for today's Bugscope session, which starts in 30 minutes
- Bugscope Teamcan you watch things for a few minutes while I run upstairs?
- Bugscope TeamI gave you control of the 'scope, Gloss
- Bugscope Teambe right back
- 8:06 am
- Bugscope TeamK I am back. Please keep driving if you'd like, for a minute or so.
- GuestI'm at work and lurking to see what my son's class is up to, so I'll be back and forth. This is a fantastic opportunity for the kids!
- Bugscope Teamcool so you are with W/T
- GuestYes.
- 8:12 am
- Bugscope TeamI'm Scott, at the SEM right now. Have a few more presets to gather for the session.
- Bugscope TeamMrs V!
- Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamor Welcome Back!
- TeacherGlad to be back! :-)
- TeacherHi Scott. The kids will be here soon. Logging on around 9:20.
Bugscope TeamCool. I had to run upstairs and get some food. I left Gloss in control.
- Bugscope TeamI just mashed down my breakfast and will be making a few more presets before everyone logs on.
- TeacherSweet! I'm so glad a parent is checking this out. Bugscope is a hidden jewel! Getting less hidden every day, I hope!
- TeacherHello, Gloss!
- GuestGood morning Mrs. V!
- TeacherGloss, so glad you can check this out with us. It's one of my favorite experiences of the year!
- 8:17 am
- TeacherI'm going to switch computers so I can see all of the kids. Be right back.
- TeacherI'm back.
- StudentHey Mrs.V
- StudentHi this is really cool!
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that this cricket has a mite on its face
- 8:22 am
- Studentthis is cool
- Studentewww...
- StudentCool the mite rocks
- Studentwoah that is one big mite
- StudentI know it is sooo big
- Studentis this a fly?
- StudentYea
- Studentlook at that bug
- Studenti think
- Studentwait its a cricket?
Bugscope Teamyes it is
- Studentwhat is that bug?
- StudentWhat is that
- Bugscope Teamthis is its ovipositor, so now we know it's a female
- Studentcool!
- Studentscott
- Studentscott,whats a lacewing?
- TeacherThat was a cricket that we caught at our North campus, I think. I found it in a jar on my counter and sent it in just for the heck of it. Very cool, that mite.
- Studentit looks gooey
- Studentwhat kind of bug is it
- Studentwhat are all the blobs?
- Studentoh ok
- TeacherScott, can Lexi please drive.
Bugscope Teamnot quite ready yet, just a sec...
- StudentCoool look at the ant
- TeacherOK. We can be patient. :-)
- Studentpretty cool bug
- Bugscope Teamalright Lexi is the Supreme Ruler
- StudentWhat is that hairy thing?
- Studentis that furry thing the compound eye
- Studentwhere is the university you work at
- Studentwhat is the fuzzy thing
- Studentwhat is all the blobby stuff in the backround?
Bugscope Teamit's double-stick carbon tape
- Studentoh..
- Studentcool
- Studentwat is the fuzzy thing next to the ant
- Studentcmon, lexi
- Studentthat is so cool
- Student:)
- 8:27 am
- Studentthanks
- Studentcool!
- StudentWhat is the hairy thing
- Studentcool...
- Studentyeah! awesome!
- Studentcool a fly
- StudentHURRY LEXI
- Studenttoni, patience
- Studentwoa what is that!
- StudentWhat is THAT?!
- Bugscope Teamthese are one of my favorite critters
- Studentcome on lexi. give us somethin cool :)
- Student:0 cool bug
- StudentHey
- Student:p awsome
- Studentthat looks like a small elaphant...
- Studentthat looks very strange
- Student>:(
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its eyes are streamlines into its head on the left and right
- Studentwhy are they your favorite bug?
Bugscope Teamjust 'cause they look so radical
- Studentis that the head
- StudentI tried to click on something and it said it is pending
- StudentELEPHANT ROCKS
- StudentThat looks so weird!
- Studentlooks like there are eyes!
- Studenti love elephants
- Studentkeep it there
- Studenti wonder how caught that
- Studentkeep it there!
- Studentthat is my favorite
- StudentHow do I zoom in?
Bugscope TeamGianmarco when you get to drive you can click the plus sign.
- Studentwhat is that!
- Studentyou dont marc lexi does
- Studentwhat is that thing
- Studentwhat is that?
Bugscope Teamthis is a spiracle on the fly we saw earlier
- Studentcome on lexi. do the louse mouth
Bugscope TeamLexi is doing a good job, you know.
- Studentwhat is that?it looks weird.
- Studentthis louse, did we catch that?
- Studenthead lice, maybe
- Studentoh
- Studenti see...
- Studentewww...
- TeacherLexi is is getting a message that says "Ignored request because another microscope control command is pending."
Bugscope Teamthat's because everyone is trying to make her hurry and she's clicking too fast
- Studentit looks like a turtle
- Studentwoah!
- Studentim glad it's dead
- Studentawkwardly creepy
- StudentLet's see the Silverfish maybe?
- Studentwhat is that!
Bugscope Teamit's a human head louse, but it does have a human head
Bugscope TeamI mean it doesn't seem to have a human head, so I'm disappointed
- Studentcool!!
- Studentcool
- StudentWhat are the spikes?
- Bugscope Teamthis is what the tip of a fly's tongue looks like
- Studentweird
- Studentewwwwww
- StudentCREEEPPPPYYYYY
- Studentweird
- Student:P
- Studenttongue? awesome!
- Studentyea
- Studentoooooooooooooooooooooooh
- Studentwow i did not know that flies had tongues
- 8:32 am
- StudentWhat's this?
Bugscope Teamthese are the sponging mouthparts of a fly. they are dried quite a bit from what they'd look like in life
- Studentwhy do they have spikes on their toungs?
- StudentCOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL FLY TONGUE
- StudentThese are really creepy
- Studentcreepy
- Studentashanti, i hadthe same responce
- StudentLooks like a vnus flytrap almost...
Bugscope Teamyeah they do!
- Studentthat fly mouth looked like a venus fly trap
- Studentew this is really creepy
- Studentflies have toungs?
- Studentsssssswwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttt
- StudentKINDA CREEPY
- Studenttotally
- Studentwhat is the white thing near the mouth
- Bugscope Teamsliverfish, butterflies, moths, and mosquitoes, along with very few other insects, have scales like this
- Studentidk
- Studentis this the silver fish?
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- Studentcool!
- StudentHow come it keeps changing?
- TeacherScott, looks like you put a LOT of bugs on our stub and tons of presets. Thanks!
Bugscope Teamyeah it was kind of fun
- Studentcool!
- Studentsometimes it's blurry
- StudentIt looks almost like a mumified snail
- Studentthis is so cool! It almost looks like a frog...
Bugscope Teamthey do look like frogs, in a way. it's kind of a nerdy looking insect
- Studentwasp head?
- Studentewwwwww!
- Studentwow
- Studentis that a silver fish? it keeps swithching
Bugscope Teamyo dude this is a wasp
- Student:)
- Studentthat is so cool
- Student ew
- StudentI got stung by a wasp...
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that its mandibles open from side to side like a gate
- StudentI don't know why it hurts so much
- Studentouch
- Student>:0 blech
- Studenthis head looks like a bird with a beak
- StudentIs it's eye coming out or is that normal?
Bugscope Teamthat is an antenna, on the right, and the left one is missing
- Student>.
- Student>.
- Studentooh ok
- Studentmy thing hasnt changed :(
Bugscope Teamrefresh your browser
- StudentIt looks like a bird skull.
- Studentsorry about that
- Studentkindof...
- Studentit also looks like a skull!!
Bugscope Teamthey have exoskeletons, so in a way you are looking at the skull
- StudentTHIS IS SOOO COOL AND I AM ALERGIC TO THEM
- Studentwhat is that!
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentwat is that
- Studentmine hasnt changed
Bugscope Teamrefresh your browser if it doesn't change soon
- Studentwhoa that is cool
- Studentwow that is cool
- TeacherScott, are you all alone today?
Bugscope Teamyes sorry but I will do my best
- StudentIs that an anteanna over its eye?
Bugscope Teamyes it was
- StudentIt looks like a space ship
- Studentthats a tick?
- Studentits a claw
- StudentIT DOES
- Studentticks have CLAWS?
Bugscope Teamyeah eight of them when they are adults
- StudentThat is kind of sharp-looking...
- Studentwhat is that poky thing in the backround
- Studenti don't know how to say it
- 8:37 am
- Studentyeah
- Studentwhy are you under three diffrent names? Sj, Sjay, and Sem
Bugscope TeamI'm on three computers, and also I can't use my name because the software thinks its in use, a glitch
- Studenteight claws!
- Studentwat is that
- Studentwwwwwwwoooooooooooowwwwwwwwww
- Studentcool glitch
- Studentwhat is that????????????????????
- Studentcool
- TeacherStudents, Scott is answering all of our questions by himself so please be patient!
- StudentWhat is this?
Bugscope Teamthis is a cricket, also, that you sent
- StudentAnd to think with eight claws, instead of tearing prey to shreds, it suck blood!
- StudentAlmost like a deformed hand!
Bugscope Teamyeah it does have that weird cramped shape
- StudentThanks!
- Studentcool
- TeacherGood driving, Lexi! Toni to control the microscope, please.
Bugscope TeamToni is now the Boss
- Studentthanks Lexi
- StudentIt looks like it is camera shy
- Studentgo toni!
- StudentWhat part of the silverfish is that?
Bugscope TeamIsel this is now a cricket you had sent, and it's the head
- Studentwho likes my name?
Bugscope TeamI do
- StudentThis is so cool!
- StudentI like it to
- Studentwoah!
- StudentSo that's a close up of what tries to eat my sandwiches!
- Studentcool!
- StudentI can see each lens
- Studentnice eye
- Studentjacob, that is gross
- Studentthere are bumps on the eye
- Studentwoa
- StudentScott this is awesome how does this work
Bugscope Teamthe samples are in a vacuum chamber, coated with a fine layer of gold-palladium, like 20 nanometers, and we are beaming electrons at their surface, whatever we see is from the secondary electrons coming back
- Studentthats weird
- StudentLenses are awsome
- Student!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studentsome of his bumps are missing
- StudentScott did you invent this?
Bugscope Teamno but I was on the team that started Bugscope about 13 years ago
- StudentThose are the lenses
Bugscope Teamyes they are
- StudentThat is preeety cool how it works
- Studentcool!
- TeacherJuju (dirt) on the lenses.
Bugscope Teamha Yeah that is right!
- StudentIs that an ant?
- StudentOoooh Creepy
- Studentcoole eye of a small fly!
- Studentwasps are parasites?
- StudentOh okay did you help devolop it a lot?
- TeacherToni, you are doing a great job!
- Studentis the eye missing
- Studentwhy was there dirt on it
Bugscope Teamsometimes they get dirty, and it's not their fault once they're dead, of course
- Studentwhat is this thing
- Studentthanks
- StudentHow old are you Scoot
- Studentscot
- Studentyou can see the hairs cool
- 8:42 am
- TeacherI meant the parasitic wasp.
- StudentWasps are parasites?
Bugscope Teammany of the tiny ones are -- they lay eggs in insects that become hosts; and there is a parasitic wasp for nearly every insect and every stage of insect
- Studentyou like it?
- TeacherWas this a tiny one we sent in?
Bugscope Teamyes it is
- Studenthi people
- StudentAshanti what is this
- StudentI am pretty sure his name is Scott not Scoot.....Spencer
- StudentOh.
- Student>:(
- Teachersetae=hairs
- StudentTHIS ROCKS
- StudentTHIS ROCKS
- StudentAre the hairs called cillia with bugs too?
Bugscope Teamthey usually call them setae, spines, bristles, trichae...
- Studenti don't know
- Studentoh
- StudentGloss whos parent are you
- Studentthis is cool
- Studentthis is cool
- StudentTHIS IS AAAAWWWWEEEEESSSSSOOOMMMMMEEEEE
- StudentWe get it lexi.
- Studentwhat is that fly?
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentWait is that a smaller bug on the fruitflies compund eye?
- StudentWhos parent is gloss
- StudentIt's magnificent
- Studentjacob and ian. there is no oxygen in the room the bugs are in
- StudentWhy does it not have legs?
- TeacherLegs often break off when insect dries out.
- Studentwhere are das legs
- Studenti ate the legs
- Studentright scott??
- Studentwhos parentis gloss
- StudentIt's almost like an evil tower of bug doom
- StudentNathaniel. "Magnificant"? Really?
- Teachertrichae--that's a new one for me. Are they significantly different from setae?
Bugscope TeamI think they call them whatever they want and then resort to calling them hairs as well.
- Studentdont cover for me mrs valenty
- StudentAsher keep it appropriate
- StudentNate "Really?" Magnificent
- StudentEEEEWWWW
- Studentcool
- GuestSorry, I'm at work and checking in periodically to see what this is like. I'm Nathaniel's mom.
- StudentCOOL!!!
- Studentwhere did we find the louse
- Studentwhat kind of tick is that
- Studentwow that is cool
- StudentNathaniel, you have declared chat warfare.
- StudentI like lice
- Bugscope Teamthis is the hypostome, which sticks into your skin
- Studentwoah!!!! tick!
- Studentlice ew
- Studentew
- StudentAsher, your up.
- StudentWoah that's disgusting
- StudentI am i total control
- StudentIs that its mouth?
Bugscope Teamit's the lower surface of the mouthparts
- 8:48 am
- Studentthanks toni
- TeacherToni, great driving! Asher to drive, please.
- StudentCOOL!!!
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentthat sucks my blood?
Bugscope Teamthe other side does
- Studentisnt this so cool?!
- StudentLooks like a scince fiction movie
- Studentgood jod toni
- StudentYes Eddie...it does
- Studentjob
- StudentYes Eddie...it does
- Bugscope Teamwho was supposed to be driving now?
- Studentnice job toni
- Studentasher is the driver
- StudentASHER IS DRIVING
- Studento
- TeacherAsher
- Teacherhypostome is on end of abdomen?
Bugscope Teamother end entirely
- StudentAsher, Asher!
- Studentwhat are all those holes
- Studentwow what are we looking at now
- Studentyou are doing a great job mr.scot
Bugscope TeamThank you
- StudentI can see the fly? again
- Studentahhhhhh i like control
- Studentis that a leg
- StudentIs that its antena?
- Studentyuckkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
- StudentLike a secret mountain lazer cannon
- Studentwow
- TeacherWe are drawing names to drive.
- StudentLooks like the moon
- StudentI cant see anything
- Studentwhat is going on
- Studentwhat are you doing asher
- Studentis this a grasshopper
- Studentwhats that
- StudentScot, my dad's name is also Scott, but he has 2 t's.
- Studenti cant see if you are offended sorry
- Studentwhats unid.?
- StudentAHH BLACK NESS
- Studentstop changing it so quickly!
- StudentWhat is asher doing?
- StudentWoah what is happening?
- Studentwow it is cool it looks like it is all curled up
- TeacherPlease be patient with our driver.
- Studentwhat is that?
- TeacherGianmarco, you are asking great questions!
- StudentWhere are its eyes?
- Studentprobably because it is dead
- TeacherKids, that was to you....please be patient with our driver!
- Bugscope TeamI'm sorrry you all I am going to have to drive, looks like
- StudentWhat are the stubs that look like eyes?
- Studentashanti are you there
- Studentwhat is this?
- StudentQUIT SINGING I AM GOING TO EXPLODE PLZ
- StudentNO
- 8:53 am
- StudentI DONT KNOW
- StudentMicroscope?
- Studentwhat is unid.?
Bugscope Teamunidentified
- Studentoh.
- Studentwoah...
- StudentThe microscope
- StudentThat is so cool looking at the microscope
- Studentcool
- Studentcool inside of microscope!
- Studentis that a bug
- Studentinside of a microscope? nice
- Studentwhat is this
- Bugscope Teamcan you guys wait a few minutes? I am going to vent the chamber
- Studentits the inside of the microscope
- Studented where are you
- TeacherWe are looking at the inside of the microscope, I think. Kids, please be patient and remember that Scott is by himself!
- StudentThat is fine Mr. Scott
- Studentyeah
- Studentwow that is so cool
- Studenti am seein a microscope what the heck is happenig
- Studenteveryone, give Scot time.
- StudentSo... we are seeing the microscope from the microscope?
- Studented where are you
- Bugscope TeamI'm sorry -- I can hear the stage locking up, and I think if I open the chamber and reset it manually I can fix it. You'll be seeing me, or my hands at least, in a minute
- Studentthat is cool!
- TeacherRemember that to use the SEM they have to create a vacuum--take all the air out.
- Studentcool!
- Studentcccccooooolllll
- Studentyay!
- Studentwoah!
- Studentwhats going rong we see microscope but it thiks we are near the fruit fly head
- StudentHAND!
- StudentI CAN SEE YOUR HAND
- StudentWOAH
- StudentHi Scott!
- Studentyou must be handy
- Studenti can see you...!
- StudentHAND HAND HAND
- Studentthat was my joke
- Bugscope TeamHello!
- TeacherOnly the inside chamber of the microscope has the air evacuated. The rest of the room has plenty of air.
- StudentHi
- Studentasher stole my joke
- TeacherHi, Scott!
- StudentI CAN SEE YOU
- Studentyou can see his face
- Studenthi Scot!!!
- Studentthere was scott!
- StudentGlovey!
- StudentSCOT COME BACK
- Bugscope Teamwhat I just did is ask the stage to reset itself
- StudentMine seems to have frozen
- TeacherThanks for peering into the scope. The kids thought that was pretty cool.
- Studentwave at us again
- StudentThere we go!
- Studentgood jokes are not made by kids thats why we have lenno
- TeacherGianmarco, refresh your browser.
- Studentpeek into the scope again
- StudentGianmarco just refresh
- StudentScot cme back
- 8:58 am
- StudentEddie, c'mon
- Studenti see you again scot
- StudentI can still see
- Bugscope Teamyou just got to see what we normally wouldn't show you
- Studentmine isnt working
- Studentwait now it is
- Bugscope Teamit's going to take a few minutes for the vacuum to recover
- Studentsorry
- Bugscope Teamthe chamber is pumping down again
- Studentthat is still cool
- StudentYey
- Bugscope Teamit has to reach a good high vacuum so I can start the electron beam up again
- TeacherChamber pumping down=air coming out
- StudentEd wghere are you
- StudentThis is really fun!
- Studenti wont do silly stuff anymore
- Studentwow that is a really cool microscope
- Bugscope Teamthe presets should, I hope, have stayed where I had made them earlier
- Studentcool
- Studentwhat is all that stuff
Bugscope Teamyou can see the sample in the middle
- Studentspencer im in the library
- Bugscope Teamthat plate in the lower middle of the CCD camera view is the insects
- StudentThis is so cool!!\
- Bugscope Teamto the top is the pole piece, which is where the electrons come from
- Studentthis is cool
- Studentcool
- Studentthis was really cool
- Bugscope Teamto the top right, in the corner, you can sometimes see a kind of glow where the secondary electron detector is
- Studentcool
- Bugscope Teamwhat will happen is, soon, I will be able to turn the beam on again
- StudentYay!!
- Studentcool
- Studentmrs valenty can you guys see bugs or are you seeeing the microscope
- StudentOkay
- Studentok
- Bugscope Teamalmost to the good vacuum...
- TeacherIt's very light but I think we can see the glow of the secondary electron detector is.
Bugscope Teamit has a 300-volt bias on it when it is on, which will be soon
- Studenthave you fixed the bad vacuum?
- 9:03 am
- Studentyay!
- Studentyyaaaaaaaaay\
- Studentyeah!!!!
- StudentThe bugs are back
- Studentnow i see bugs
- Student
- StudentIt's almost like a potato
- StudentThats an ant, right?
- Student:-0
- TeacherCan we drive or will you be doing that?
- Studentcool
- Student:-)
- Student:-)
- Student
- StudentHey mom
- Studentwow >:)
- GuestVery cool
- Student
- Student
- Student:-P
- Studenthi spencers mom
- Student:P
- StudentHey mom
- StudentWho is joyt?
- StudentHi Spencer's mom!
- GuestWhat bug are we viewing
- Studentspencers mom
- StudentSay hi every one to my mom
- Studenti do
- Studenthi spencers mom 
- StudentWhat are the stub-like things?
- Studenthi spencers mom!
- GuestHi guys!
- StudentElephant
- Bugscope Teamugh looks like I am going to be driving
- Studenthi
- Bugscope Teamcould be fun, though!
- Student hi
- StudentOk
- Studentit is ok
- Student
- StudentWhat are the stub-like things?
- Student=
- StudentLAUREN
- StudentAre it's legs missing?
- StudentWhat is that?
- StudentScott are you driving?
Bugscope Teamyes now I am the only one who can drive
- Studentoh ok
- GuestI agree Mrs. V
- Studentlegs!\
- TeacherAppropriate chat, students!
- Student
- Studentdo you do chats everyday mr. scot
Bugscope Teamtwo times a week, usually
- StudentMom always agree with the teacher
- Studentbye
- Studentcan you do the mechathingy?
- Studentthank you
- Studentbye thank you scott
- Studentwit, nevermind
- StudentTHANK YOU
- Studentwait*
- Studentbye thank you!
- Studentthank you very much
- Studentthanks, bye
- Studentthat was awesome
- GuestThank You Mrs V for this opportunity
- StudentThank you Scott!!!!!!!!!
Bugscope TeamThank you, Everyone!
- GuestYes, I did more bug watching than working this last hour...
- 9:08 am
- StudentThank you Scot!
- Studentwait vare we done
- StudentThanks alot Scot! Oh that rhymed
- TeacherI am so glad that you could join us, Gloss and JoyT!
- StudentBye!
- TeacherOne class is leaving. We have break now but a few students may be in to look at bugscope.
Bugscope Teamgood.
Bugscope TeamMrs V I can make new presets if I have a few minutes -- I'll start now
- GuestThank You Scott this was amazing
Bugscope TeamThank You!
- TeacherAntenna or setae or something else?
Bugscope Teamantenna with setae and also mold spores
- Studenthello
Bugscope TeamHi Jacob!
- Studentcan I drive
Bugscope TeamDude I am sorry -- there are only two presets now so it would not be much fun. Just a sec.
- Studentawesome
- 9:13 am
- StudentI'll come back later BYE
- TeacherThis is cool! I see a leg, and is that a mouthpart sticking down beside it?
Bugscope Teamthat is what that was -- the leafhopper, which is a hemipteran, has piercing mouthparts
- TeacherAre you redoing the presets? If so, I'll leave you alone for a dew minutes so you can work.
Bugscope TeamI'll make a few and let you have the 'scope again soon'
- TeacherThanks.
- 9:18 am
- Bugscope TeamMrs V is this a good time to let you have the 'scope back?
- 9:24 am
- TeacherYes! Micah to drive, please.
- StudentI want to drive
Bugscope Teamyou are the Supreme Ruler, Micah
- Bugscope Teamthis is the tick's head, to the right now. it's called a capitulum
- Bugscope Teamthe 'capit' part means 'head', like in capital and decapitate
- Bugscope Teamit sticks into your skin
- Bugscope TeamI think it must mean 'under mouth,' in a way
- StudentIt kind of looks like a pinnaple
Bugscope Teamthe backward spines are why it is hard to get the tick's head out of your skin
- Studentoh interesting
- Bugscope Teamthe other side, which we cannot see, has similar but smoother features that rasp your skin and make the blood flow
- StudentThis is very cool
- Bugscope Teamticks are dirty, covered with bacteria sometimes
- Bugscope Teamwhen there cuticle breaks open they can seal it again
- Bugscope Teamyou can tell that this is an adult tick because it has eight arms/legs
- Bugscope Teamyou can also see that it is capable of expanding
- 9:29 am
- Teacher"baby" ticks don't have 8 legs?
Bugscope Teamthey have 6 and go through a number of molts before becoming adults
- Bugscope TeamMicah you can also choose from among the presets on the left
- Teacher6 legs, but not an insect. Oh, nature can be so confusing!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a moth, a small one
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its bulbous compound eyes
- Bugscope Teamand lots of scales -- they are covered with scales, which are actually modified setae
- Bugscope Teamscales help insects that have them escape from spider webs
- Studentcool
- Bugscope Teamthe scales come off so easily -- that is what you feel when you stroke a butterfly's wings
- Bugscope Teamthey seem like powder to us because they are so small
- Studenti like the pixels on the eyes
Bugscope Teamyes they are pixels -- I'd never thought of it that way
- Studentis that a fly?
Bugscope Teamit's a moth
- Bugscope TeamMicah is it stuck on this preset?
- TeacherI didn't know that silverfish have scales! Cool!
Bugscope Teamsaves them from spiders, sometimes, I'm sure
- 9:34 am
- StudentUp close it looks like chicken feathers
Bugscope Teamthey are analogous to feathers in many ways
- Studenthi
- TeacherIs the proboscis curled up? It's not obvious like I thought it would be (or like it is on butterfly)
Bugscope Teamit's a short proboscis, and off to the side, split open
- Bugscope Teamsweet!
- Bugscope Teamtake the mag down so you get an idea how small this really is, if you want
- StudentThe shape of this bug makes it look sort of like a stinkbug.
- Bugscope Teamthis is on the face of the field cricket you sent
- Studentis that a mite?
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- Studentthat is a lot of magnification
- StudentHow big is the mite really?
- TeacherGood driving, Micah.
- StudentI agree Ria
- StudentI agree David. It does look like a stink bug from this view
Bugscope Teamit is so very small compared to a stinkbug, but it does have that shield shape
- StudentThat mite looks a lot like a stink bug
- Bugscope Teamawesome
- Studentcool!
- StudentIs that its head?
- Bugscope Teamthis is a small cricker
- TeacherReally cool!
- Bugscope Teamoops cricket
- StudentOh wow it is REALLY small
- Studentits so tiny!
- Studentyou can hardly see it
- Bugscope Teamthe mite is about 100 micrometers wide
- TeacherThis is a field cricket we collected at WTN.
- StudentIs that a cricket?
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- StudentThe cricket looks GIANT!
- StudentThat's so small! The cricket has acne!
Bugscope Teamacne yes exactly
- StudentCOOL
- StudentWow! that's cool!
- Studentwhat is that
- Bugscope Teamthis is a bunch of dirt and other juju on the face
- 9:39 am
- TeacherHow funny. I just told the kids that if you talked about "juju" it meant dirt (etc) :-)
- StudentIs the thing on the lower left its mouth?
- Studentwhat part is this?
- Studentmite on the mandle
- StudentWhy do they have dirt and dust on their body????
Bugscope Teamit's not entirely their fault -- they cannot clean themselves when they're dead
- StudentAhhh! That's kind of scary!!!
- StudentIs it fun working at bugscope
- StudentIs that a broken mouthpart ?
Bugscope Teamit's one of the palps, and it is broken -- you're right
- StudentAre those hairs setae?
- StudentAre those hairs setae?
- StudentI am awesome at driving
- TeacherWow. You can see a lot of the mouthparts. Remember, kids, how many mouthparts the grasshopper we dissected had.
- TeacherGreat driving, Micah! Ashley to drive, please.
- StudentThose eyes look HUGE!!!!
- Studentwhat's a palp?
Bugscope Teamit's like a limb that helps insects taste and manipulate their food
- StudentIs that a mite on the face near the middle
- StudentI can't believe how small these things are and you guys make it look huge
- Studentwhere is it's simple eye?
Bugscope Teamwe don't see it -- if is has simple eyes they are further back on top of the head
- Studentit looks like an alien!
- StudentWhat is that????????
- StudentIt's claw looks like a scorpion dagger
- StudentYeah!
- Studentwhy does it have a claw
- Studentwhere are the simpler eyes
Bugscope Teamthe preset called 'fly head and ocellus' shows one of the simple eyes
- Studentwhat are the bowl looking things on the sides
- Student?
- 9:44 am
- Studentare the hairs on the legs setae?
Bugscope Teamyes -- often if they are larger the entomologists call them bristles
- StudentAre those spikes setae??
Bugscope Teamyes they are!
- TeacherDo our bugs have freezer burn? I may have left them in too long. Some of them look really "deflated"
- Studentashley, what's this?
- Studenthiis that the mouth
- Studentwhats that?
- Studentis that a mouth
- Studentdo you know how many pixels there are on a compound eye
Bugscope Teamthere can be, in a large wasp for example, as many as 17,000 ommatidia (pixels)
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentAre you able to see the spiracles?
Bugscope Teamyes on one of the flies they are easy to see
- Studentwhat is this
- Studentthey do
- StudentThat looks really cool, but really weird too
- StudentWow what is this?
Bugscope Teamthis is the mouth of the louse, but it has a thin film of dried liquid on it
- Studenthow long has this been in the freezer?????
- Studentis that the head?
- StudentIs the exoskeleton broken up, because it looks like that.
- StudentThose hairs look really creepy up close.
Bugscope Teamthat is how insects and comparable arthropods sense their surroundings
- StudentThat looks like elephant skin!!
- StudentIt almost looks squished!
- StudentWhat is the Beam Spotsize?
Bugscope Teamthat is the diameter of the electron beam that is impinging on the sample; right now it is about 2.1 nanometers
- StudentThe skin looks leatheryish
- StudentIt looks like a thorn bush
- Studentwhere are the eyes
Bugscope TeamNorma I am not sure they have eyes -- but they may be on the other side of the head where we cannot see them
- StudentOh yeah, Emma!
- Studentoh
- Studentyeah
- StudentThat looks like a claw
- StudentHow big is the SEM?
Bugscope Teamit's kind of like a large teacher's desk with a 6-foot tall column on one end
- Studentis is the singular of lice marisa
- TeacherGood job on zooming on the claw. No wonder those things can hang on to someone's head so easily.
- Studentwhat is that on the claw
- Studentone louse, many lice
- StudentOh thanks Harrison!
- StudentWhat is a louse?
Bugscope Teamit's a bloodsucking arthropod that lives on people, sometimes, and on animals
- Studentis that the claw?
Bugscope Teamyes it is one of the claws
- 9:49 am
- Studentthey lay their eggs in you hair
- StudentWow! That's sort of weird!
- Bugscope Teamhey that looked like a spiracle
- StudentIs the head near the upper right?
- Studentis that the mouth
- Studentwhat is this
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the palps
- Studentis that the antenna???
- StudentThose Bristles look like they could poke an eye out! (Up close!)
- StudentI hope i get to drive
- Studentcool
- StudentTHIS IS SOOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!
- StudentThey look dangerous!!!!
- StudentOh sorry I didn't mean to enter that, that many times. Oops!
- Studentthank u
- TeacherAshley, fabulous driving! Hanna to drive, please.
Bugscope TeamHanna is the Supreme Commander
- StudentDo the silverfish
- Student
- StudentCool! Mrs. V
- Studentwhat is that little bump in the "crater" on the top of the antenna?
Bugscope Teamthat is one of the chemosensory setae
- Studentwhat's that?
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of the lacewing you sent
- Studentdo the leaf hopper
- StudentThose eyes are huge for his head!
- Studentlets see some more aliens (bugs)!!!!
Bugscope Teamthey really are like aliens that live among us
- StudentIs this an insect or arachnid
- Studentlook at the 2 big eyes!!!
- StudentRia, it's a really cool bug with green wings and lots of colors!
- Studentlots of dirt
- StudentWhats that
- Studentwhat is that??
- Studentwhat is the lacewing
Bugscope Teamit's a flying insect with fragile-looking wings, and they are predatory
- Studentwhat are we looking at?
- Studentdo the leaf hopper
- 9:54 am
- Studentwhat is their prey?
- Studentwe are using s
- StudentIt looks really strange
- Studentif they are predatory, what is their prey?
Bugscope Teamthey eat aphids and small insects like that as well as feeding on nectar
- TeacherNice view of the compound eye!
- Studentinteresting
- StudentIt looks damaged!
Bugscope Teamit was broken in half, and this is just the top half
- TeacherGood job, Hanna!
- StudentThe eye looks like a giant GOLF BALL!
- Studentwhat is the hairy thing???
- StudentWould it be uncomfertable with that dirt on its eye
Bugscope Teamit could wipe it away; they often have a few setae on their eyes that help them sense if something is touching them
- StudentSorry the Compound eye
- Studentit's currently dead
Bugscope Teamyes it is, and not likely to change
- Studentfische hen hao, han na!!!
- TeacherThis bug looks pretty mangled.
Bugscope Teamthe head looks good, though, I think
- StudentAre the wingc cracked?
- Studentwow the wing looks rly cool
- Studentcool wing!
- StudentReally? Its not going to change?
Bugscope Teamheh not unless it is a zombie or a vampire lacewing
- Studentnice wings
- StudentCool Wing it looks sort of like a leaf.
- Studentlook at the cetae
Bugscope Teamthere are fine sensort setae on those wing veins as well
- Studentlooks like a leaf
- Studentvalenty laoshi=Mrs. Valenty (in chinese)
- Studentlooks like a leaf with a hole in it
- StudentWhy is there a hole in the wing?
- TeacherThe lacewing head looks great. I think I need to be a bit more careful when I package them up, though.
Bugscope Teamyou really did a great job. the thorax and abdomen were dried and very loose
- StudentFYI, this is Gordon, but my computer crashed, so im on another one
Bugscope Teamcool
- Studentit has been wounded
- TeacherWhat's on the edge of the wing? It looks hairy.
Bugscope Teamthose are setae we often see on the edges of wings
- StudentThe wing looks almost like a leaf
- TeacherThe hole in the wing is probably my fault. I think I dropped this bug out of the container while I was trying to package.
- 10:00 am
- StudentIDK Ria
- Studentits damaged!
- TeacherSeriously, I can't believe how much I learn every time I do this! I didn't know the wings could have setae!
- StudentYeah it does look damaged!
- Studentis their any possible way to tell how it has been wounded?
Bugscope Teamsomething poked through it -- it could have been me using fine forceps and being clumsy trying to pick it up
- Studentthats so cool
- Studentmarisa's turn to drive
- Studentoh
- StudentWhat are the tire print things on the wing for??
Bugscope Teamthat is where the wing is covered with silver paint, and those fine setae are showing up through the paint
- TeacherFantastic job driving, Hanna! Marisa to drive, please.
- StudentOhhh
- Bugscope Teamthat is the tick's abdomen, to the upper left
- StudentWhy can you only see the silver paint there?
Bugscope Teamif we were to look we could see it elsewhere as well; we're just not focusing on where I put it
- StudentWhy is it covered with silver paint
Bugscope TeamI used the silver paint to help stick the wing down and also help make it conductive so the electrons would not charge it up
- StudentWhat is all of that?
- Studentoh cool
- Studentare those the spiracles?
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentWhats that?
- Studentsilverfish
- Studentewwwwww
- Studenteww
- Studentewww
- StudentAre the bubbles around the bug glue
Bugscope Teamit's doublestick tape and places where the paint did indeed bubble
- Studentewwww
- Student\
- StudentAre those the spiracles????????????
- Studenthead..ohh
- Bugscope Teamsilverfish are very odd looking
- 10:05 am
- Studentthey are
- TeacherThat's why I was so excited when I found one to send in. Such weird bugs.
- Studentthey are odd
- Studenttype chat here then hit return key
- Bugscope Teamthis one has been rolled a bit and lost some of its features
- Studentcool
- Studentare those the mouthparts???
Bugscope Teamthose were some of the mouthparts, yes.
- Studentcool!
- Studentthis is the head
- Studenti believ
- Studentthats not cool thats gross
- StudentMrs. V, when are you going to draw another name???
- Studentthat is so cool!
- Studentwhere are the eyes
- Studentwhat are they
- StudentEWWWWWWWWWWWW
- Studentsilverfish have no true metamophisis!
- Studentwhy is everything black & white?
Bugscope Teamwhen we use electrons to image, we get electrons back and they come to us as signal -- we're not using light
- Bugscope TeamGordon I am sorry that was not a very good explanation
- Studentahh
- StudentIt looks like it has feathers
Bugscope Teamthose are the scales, which are quite like feathers
- Studenti understood that
- Studentsilverfish have no true metamorphisis!
- Bugscope Teamthe samples are all in a vacuum chamber
- Studentwhere are we???
- Bugscope Teamand they are coated with a thin (about 20 nm) layer of gold-palladium, which makes them look silver anyway
- Studentwhat part of the face is this?
Bugscope Teamthat is the top of the head
- Studentwhere is the sem?
- Bugscope Teamthe antennae are busted off and those holes are where there would normally be lots more scales
- StudentIs there any pattern in the placement of the setae?
Bugscope Teamthey seem to be symmetrical and usually evenly cover the surface of the chitin
- 10:10 am
- Studentyes, that is what I meant... i think
- TeacherMarisa, I do think that the broken bits are where the antenna were.
Bugscope Teamthe two 'horns' are where the antennae were
- StudentI wonder if thats a broken off antennae!
Bugscope Teamyou got it
- TeacherMarisa, excellent driving! Norma to drive, please.
- Studentinteresting!
- StudentThanks Mrs. V
- TeacherThanks, Scott. Your description of where the antenna were was MUCH more helpful than mine.
- Studentthat is ugly!!
- Bugscope Teamthis is the leafhopper
- Studentthey look like gills
- Studentewww
- StudentIts head looks like an elephant!
- Bugscope Teamsee how its head has those ridges in the center?
- Bugscope Teamcicadas look much like that as well
- StudentIts so so so so so so so so so so... COOL!
- StudentThose look like ribs
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentwhat are those stringS
- Bugscope Teamthe ridges I think are flexible and serve inside as a kind of pump mechanism to help the insect suck fluids out of plants
- Studentwhat ius that???
- StudentWhat is that???
- StudentIs that an eye???
Bugscope Teamthat is the base of one of the antennae
- Studentit looks like a weird laser gun
- StudentOh!
- Studentwhy do you like the leafhoppers?
- Studentwhat are those holes
Bugscope TeamEmma I am not sure -- they may be openings that collect scent from the air
- Studentis it an antennae/
- Studentwhy are there three short stub-type-things?
- Studentwhat are those things that look like spines on pufferfishes?
- Bugscope Teamwhen we get a poor image like that, with those horizontal lines, the sample is charging up with electrons
- StudentCool the Eye!!!!
- TeacherHere's the compound eye, part of it anyway.
- Studentthose look like basketball prints
- Studenthow do you afford all the gold???
Bugscope Teamwe use only nanometers of it at a time
- Studenthi Mom!
- Studenthi
- StudentHi Harrison's mom!
- TeacherHi H Mom!
- Studenthi harrison's mom
- Studentthis is cool!
- 10:15 am
- Studenthi Harrison's mom
- Studenthi Harrisons mom!
- Studentwhy do you coat the insects in gold???
Bugscope Teamwe want the surface to have a conductive coat on it so the electrons do not go into the surface and make it glow, giving us a poor image
- Studenthi Harrison's mom
- Studenthi Harrison's mom
- StudentIt looks like a parrot mixed with a Gorilla
Bugscope Teamhaha!
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its claws now
- Bugscope Teamthere is one
- Bugscope Teamoops not now
- Studentwhat is a proboscis
- StudentCool!!
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of the limbs
- StudentMom you can chat you know
- Studentcool
- StudentBye!!!!!!
- StudentThank you!!!
- Studentbye
- StudentBye people and thank you!!!
- Studentbye thankyou!
- Studentgood bye thanks scott
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- StudentBye! Thank you so much!
- Bugscope Teamthis is really fun for us as well
- Studentthanks a lot!!
- Studenttransfer control to mrs. v
Bugscope TeamThank you, Norma - done!
- GuestHi, guys! I was catching up! Very cool...
- Studentbye scott
Bugscope TeamBye Ria!
- Bugscope Teamphone ringing brb
- TeacherNew class coming in. Take your time
- GuestThanks for including me. Enjoy this opportunity...I won't look at a bug the same again :)
- Bugscope TeamI will take a super short break Mrs V, and you are the Supreme Ruler. brb
- 10:20 am
- Bugscope TeamI am back
- Bugscope Teamyou can see silver paint to the left of the silverfish
- TeacherH Mom, glad you could join us.
- StudentMrs. V, change the driver
- StudentPlease
- Bugscope Teamthis sort of thin film around each scale is what we see when the insect is starting to rot
- Bugscope Teamfrom within
- StudentSome of them look like they are jeans under a microscope
- Studentrotting bugs LOL
- Studentthats so cool
- StudentIs anyone here yet?
Bugscope Teamyes we are here!
- Studentyep
- 10:25 am
- StudentI don't think they're rotting.
Bugscope TeamJulia I think they're rotting from within. When we coat them with gold-palladium and then leave them out in the air, they decay more rapidly
- TeacherIsana to drive, please.
Bugscope Teamgot it!
- Studentsee
- Studentokay, that clarifies
- StudentEmily is Emily Pollack and Emmy B is Emily Bassett just incase you were confused
- StudentWow! That's so cool!
Bugscope Teamit's something we see and that is how we interpret it
- Studentspeaking of gold palladium, can we keep the bugs once your done?
Bugscope Teamthey wouldn't be much to look at and they would really dry up -- they'd start to fall off of the stub
- Studentawsome
- Studentwhat is that
- StudentThe mouth parts are really cool
- Student The beetle is in a funny position!
- TeacherAwesome. Great view of the head.
- Studentthat is too bad
- Studentwhat is the stuff around the mouth?
- Studentthis is kind of creepy...:)
- StudentCool..... how big would this thing be usually?
Bugscope Teamit is super tiny, just 7 or 8 mm long
- Studentit looks like a beard
- StudentI think it's amazing!
- Studentits furry
- TeacherI sent in the smallest bugs we had.
Bugscope Teamperfect for us
- Studentwow thats weird
- Studentugly
- Studentohh thats kind of cool... but a bit scary....... and ewww..... :)
- StudentWow, ok that is kinda creepy
- Studentno it isn't
- StudentAre those its mouth parts?
- Studentwaht does this eat\
- Studentyep
- Studentewwwwwwww that looks really scaryyyyy
- Studentthis is cool its very fuzzy!!
- Studenticky.....
- Bugscope Teamso we are looking at the mandibles, at the top, and the palps, mandibular and maxillary, and also the antennae
- Studentewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Student AWESOME! Cool compound eyes.
- Studentewwwwww
- StudentAre thoose fangs??
- Studentthe small hairs, what are there purposes
- Studentwhat part of the bug is that?
Bugscope Teamthis is the mouth, Giovanna. they are often confusing to look at
- StudentThis looks really weird up close
- Studentthay look like fangs
- Student So complex.
- Studentare the hairs called cilia...or is that just on humans???
Bugscope Teamthe super small ones are often called microsetae, or microtrichae
- Studenti thing this is so cool
- Studentthis is amazing
- Studentlooks like some peach fuzz, 5:00 shadow
- Studentit looks spikey like a cactus
- Studentomg it has a shield with spikes.... ahhhhh
- StudentThis is really weird...
- Teacher5:00 shadow magnified 600 times :-)
- StudentTHIS IS A MOUTH??????
- 10:30 am
- Student wow
- Studenthow much magnification can thisgo to
- Studentare those hairs
Bugscope Team yes -- we are supposed to call them setae because insects are not mammals and thus don't have hair. but even entomologists will call them hair.
- StudentNO
- Studenthave you eaten bugs
Bugscope Teamnot on purpose
- Studenthave u ever eaten A BUG TACO!??????????:)
- Studentare those cactuse legs sapposed to protect him... they are only protecting him from being pretty
- StudentHave you ever eaten bugS SEM
Bugscope Teamonly by accident
- Studenthahaha
- Studentthis is kind of disgusting..... =D
Bugscope Teamthat's what makes it so cool
- Studentelliot and I want to make deep fried butterfly wings
- Studenti agree
- TeacherWe are going to have a bug eating day here at school.
- Studentby accident?
- Studentare they called cactus
- Studentwhat are the spikey things called??
Bugscope Teamsetae, or when they're small, microsetae
- StudentReally?
- Student do we have to!!
- StudentIt looks funny......lol
- Studentthey should be called cactus
- Studentin the middle of the right there is a wierd thingy
- TeacherGiovanna, everyone eats bugs or bug parts accidentally.
- StudentHow can you eat bugs on accident??
Bugscope Teamlike, riding your bike with your mouth open
- Studentit looks like a cactus
- Studentewwwwwwwwww
- Studentthe tube on the side, what is it
- Studentthats soooooo grosss
- TeacherSometimes they fall into food as it is being processed, etc.
- StudentEWWWWWWWWWWWW
- Studentwat im never eating again
- StudentOH WOW
- Studentwhat is past the crack
- Studentyep yep
- StudentThis. Is. Really. Kind of. Gross.
- Studenthow is this a beetle!!!
- Studentim really grossed out rite now
- StudentThe mouths are so complex. why?
Bugscope Teamprobably because they have to be broken into a lot of parts compared to our mouths, which are flexible, with muscles controlling the movement in flexible skin and tissue
- Student Yuck, 50 spiders?
- StudentGROSSSSSSSSS!! :(
- Studentyea
- StudentThis is a bit creepy and scary and
- Studentspookyy
- Studentum what are the hairy things
- Studenta bit try a lot
- Studentyup
- Bugscope Teamthe thing to the left is one of the palps, and the things inside are like tastebuds
- Studentsetae
- StudentWarning I've have prickles.....!!!!!
- Studentcool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- TeacherGreat driving, Isana. Emmy B to drive, please.
- Studentohhhhh
- Studentwhat is this??
- Studentsem, how big is the bug
Bugscope Teamit's about a cm long
- Studentdisguisting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- StudentYa what is this??????
- Studentwhat is that???????????????????????????????????????????
- Studentewwwwwwwwwwwwww
- StudentThis is creepy!!!!!!!
- StudentEWWWWW cricket.........icky
- Studentand a radioactive dungbeetle?
Bugscope Teamthey're not likely to bite you
- StudentA CRICKET!!!!! EWWWWW
- StudentSCARY!!!!!!!!
- Student crazy! awesome eye
- Bugscope Teamsee the compound eye?
- Studentkind of .....um...creppy and weird a bit?
- StudentThanks to me!
- Studentcricket is it like jimany cricket6
- Student*creepy
- Studenticky...
- 10:36 am
- StudentAmazing
- StudentEWWWWW OMG LOVE MICAYLA
- StudentMy friend and I saw a huuuuugeeee cricket that was like 7 inches long.... what type would that be??
- Studentwhat is that huge lump?
Bugscope Teamyo Dude that is one of the compound eyes
- Studenta lamp
- Studentcan you make us a grasshoper burrito
- Studentcan u mak a giant golden taco and burrito plz
- Studentplease!!!!!!!!!
- Studentthat is awsome
- StudentAre the mouth parts below it?
- TeacherScott, when you have a chance, could Emmy B drive, please?
- Studentno grossssss
- Studentwhy did u say yo dude? mr sem??
- Studentdont keep the bugs
- GuestWhat a cool close up of the eye!
- Studentcan we keep the bugs?????
Bugscope TeamElliot it's not worth sending them. They would decay rapidly.
- StudentHey Mrs. Klein
- Studenthi mes. klein
- Studenthi mrs.klein
- Student:)
- StudentHi Mrs. Klein!!!!
- Studenthi mrs. klein
- Studenthi mrs.klein!
- Studenthi mrs.klein
- Studenthey mrs. Klein
- GuestHi Elliot and everyone! This is really cool.
- StudentHi mrs. Klein.... are you enjoying this??
- Studentawwwwwwww. : (
- Studentawesome
- StudentHello Mrs. Klein!
- Studentweird....
- StudentAre these the mouth parts?
- Studentwhat about giovanna?
- Studentewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- StudentGo Emily!!
- Student:(
- Studentit looks like a persons inside
- StudentWow...... What is the part we are looking at???? Im mean what part of the cricket..
- StudentWow!!! What's that?
- Studentemily zoom in more
- Studentplease
- Studentfish?
- Studentwhat
- Studentwe zoomed in to much now
- Studentwhat are hte weild cracks in the plate?
Bugscope Teamthose are cracks in the doublestick carbon tape we use to put the samples on the stub
- Studentit does
- StudentWhat is that????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
- Studentew like a patatoe chip
- Studentpotato chip[!!!!!
- Studentit looks like a feather or potato chip
- Studentit looks like feathers at the bottom
Bugscope Teamyes those are scales and they are anaologous to feathers in many ways
- StudentI was thinking the same thing!
- StudentEwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww potato chip......... ickkkk
- Student...What is that?
- Studentit looks like a potatoe chip when it's up close
- Studentcool
- Studentis that eyes?
- Studentwhat is that
- Studenticky...
- Studentknow were on my lice
- StudentScoorpiooooonnnnnn........ahhhhhhhhhhhh
- Student the thing on the bottom-cool scales! looks like a flower and the other thing looks like a potato chip and that stickbug head is cool!
- Studentew spikes
- Studentits hairy
- StudentCreeeeeeppyyyy!
- Studentwoahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- StudentThis is a stick bug?
- Studentwowwwwwwww
- StudentITS REALLY WEIRDDDDD
- Student oooh... aahh
- Studentstink BUG!!!! i think
- Studentwoahhhhhhhhh!!!!!
- TeacherThe thing in the middle is the long proboscis (mouth part). Like the plant bug we looked at on our microscopes.
- Studentwhy is it so bumpy?
- StudentLOOKYYY A TREE
- GuestWhat is that part that looks like a leaf?
Bugscope Teamthat is one of the scales
Bugscope Teambutterflies, moths, silverfish (I don't know where the fish came from), and mosquitoes have tiny scales that give them color and also protect them from spiders -- they stick to the spider web and the insect itself can slip away, sometimes.
- Studentlooks like warts
- StudentThat's amazing!
- Studentwhat is that?
- Studentno it does not form micayla
- 10:41 am
- Studentwoops from
- Studentcan you magnifie it on the dimple emily
- Student why is microns in quotes
- Studentwhy is it so bumpy?
- Studentahmazing
- Studentwhen was bugscope created?
- Bugscope Teama micron is the same thing as a micrometer, which is one millionth of a meter
- Studentwhat are those bumps?
- Studentamazing!!!
- Studenteww it looks like it has worts
- Student that is bumpy
- Studentfocus please
- Studentstinkbug??? AHHH!!!
- Student'
- StudentWhat kind of bug is this???????????
- TeacherI think this is one of the bugs I could not identify. Scott, did you manage to figure out what it is?
Bugscope TeamI thought it was a walking stick, or stickbug; but now I think it is related to assassin bugs, really not sure
- StudentBUBBLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studentis this a stink bug
Bugscope Teamno a stick bug
- Studentassasin bags shoot acid right?
- Studentare those legs
- Studentwhat do the circle things do?????
- StudentOHHHHHHHHHHH
- StudentITS A STICK BUG
- Studentspikes
- Student I like the name another cricket
- Studentprobocis is it's mouth, right?
- StudentSTINKY STICK BUG
- Studentis that its joint?
- Studentoooooooooo its stick bug
- Studentassasin bugs!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student AWESOME!!!COOL!!!
- GuestWow! Are those hairs?
Bugscope Teamyes they are setae, and they are sensory -- mechanosensory, chemosensory, and/or thermosensory
- Studentwat would happen if you got poked by those spikes
- Studenthaha
- Studentouch
- Studentwould you get hurt
- Studentwhat are the hairs called
Bugscope Teamsetae, usually
- Studentwhen wass bugscope created???
- Studentits another cactus!!!
- Studenti wish we had a wheelbug
- StudentThey are magnified Rachel, probably nothing:)
- Studentoooooooooooo
- TeacherIt was a really cool bug. I have photos of it from when we first got it. I'm going to send the photos to an entomologist to an entomologist at the museum here in Pgh to see if they can help point me in the right direction.
- Studentsry
- Studentis that a joint
- Student What is a leafhopper?
Bugscope Teamit's a true bug that sucks sap and other juices out of leaves and plant stems
- StudentWhat is this contraption???
- Studenttheres noo such thing
- Studentis that its mouth??
- Studentas a whell bug
- Student what is a wheelbug?
Bugscope Teamit's an assassin bug as well. they can hurt you when they bite, but not permanently
- Studentme and macayla made that up
- Studentwhat are we looking at?
- Studentthere r bumps on the backround\
- Studentmicayla!!!
- StudentHeyyyyy grasss
- 10:46 am
- Student cool... the thing in the backround looks like a sweater
- Studentthis is scaryyyyyyyyyy
- StudentSPAGETTI
- Studentwhen was bugscope created?????
Bugscope TeamMar 1999 was the first session, so we are older than wikipedia, older than facebook
- Studentwow.
- Student awesome!!!!!!!!!
- Studenti dont want to bump into that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studenthe has long hair
- StudentI see little scale-like things!
- Studentgrossness
- Studentor a claw
- Studentcactus
- Studentis that the exosceleton in the background??
Bugscope Teamthe cuticle -- what the setae are sticking out of, is the exoskeleton. it's comparable to a shrimp shell
- StudentHow long have you been workin on bugscope?
- StudentWow, what is that???
- Studentewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- StudentThe right part of it looks like fish scales............. heyyyy turtle
- Studentooooohhhhh!
- Studentmmmmm. shrimp.
- StudentI love this photo
- Student that a gross brain????????????????????????
- Studentthat LOOKS LIKE A TURTLE
- Studentthat doesnt look like a tick....
- StudentWhat is that??
- Studentcactussssssssssssssss
- StudentEWWWWWWWW :D :(
- Studentdragon!!!!
- Studentdragon!!!
- Studentwhat is that?
- Studentdragonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns
- Studentwow, like a dragon
- Studentor chicken!!!!!!!!
- TeacherCheck out the barbs on this! No wonder they are difficult to get out of your skin!
- Student amazing amazing amazing amazing!
- Studentew how would u know what a tick looks like??????
- StudentTURKEY!
- Studentbut scary mountans
- StudentIt looks almost like the bud of a flower!
- Studentwhat is that thing?
- Studentspikey
- Studentspikes
- StudentEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
- Studentscary :S
- StudentHEYYYY ITS A DRAGONNN
- StudentCACTI
- Studentcacti r every were
- StudentI see.
- Studentkinda like a dinosaur.....
- StudentCACTI RULE!!!!
- Studentscaryyyyyyyyyy
- Studentroar
- Studentthats kind of nasty...but cool at the same time kind of =/
- StudentNahhhh a dragonnn
- Studentwhy are you using three computers SEM??
- Studentwhy are you using 3 computers
- Studentrooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
- Studentwhat are the scales?
- Studenthow do you get a SEM
- Studentit looks upsidown
- StudentThank you thank you very much now i must hand my power over to elliot
- Studentwhat are those leaf things?
Bugscope Teamthose are recurved spines that hold it into your skin
- Studentit cuts into your blood does it hurt?
- Studentwhat are those scales?
- StudentHow big is this contraption???
Bugscope Teamit's like a large desk with a 6-foot column on one end
- Studentwhat part of the tick is that
- StudentWhat are we seeing in the top left corner?
- 10:51 am
- Student Are ticks like fleas?
- Studentwhat are thoae leaf things that kind of look like a flower\
- StudentTICK?
- Studentcan you give control to elliot hare
- Studentna
- StudentWHAT IS THIS???? ITS KIND OF COOL AND IT HAS SCALES
Bugscope Teamthat is the part of the tick -- the hypostome -- that sticks into your skin
- Studentthey dont look like flowers
- StudentIt looks like a pattern you would see on a marble!
- TeacherIsibeal, ticks are arachnids, remember. But, yes, they are icky.
- Studentrly?
- Student]
- Studentbleh
- Studentit looks like mr. chloes skin
- Studentwhoa
- Studentwhat are thiose scales in the background??
Bugscope Teamthose are bubbles/craters in the carbon tape
- StudentWhat's that?
- Studentwhere do you purchace a SEM, Ebay?
Bugscope Teamit's a $600,000 item; I guess you could buy one there
- Studentit lookes like sea shells on the sea shore to me
- Studentwhat is that acorn like thing
- Studentew it looks like a stink bug
- StudentOh, arachnid. Then I never want to encounter that arachnid...
- Studentis the microscope hard to use SEM? :?
Bugscope Teamit is pretty easy, really, compared to some of the other microscopes
- Student What is the shield thing there?
- Studentand dust
- Studentwhat are the rock things
- Studentlooks like mold
- StudentI meant skin
- Studentwhats that dirt
- Studentcoolio
- Studenteww is that skim around it????
Bugscope Teamits cuticle, or chitin -- the exoskeleton, which is like what our fingernails are made of
- Studentwhat are the dirt, rocky things????
- Studentit looks like a compound eye
- Studentickkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
- StudentAre those compund eyes?
- Studentfunny face
- Studentit looks like a clown
- StudentI mean compound...
- Studentwhat kind of bug is it
- StudentThis looks not even real
Bugscope Teamyeah sometimes it looks totally unreal
- StudentIt has a nose that looks like elmos nose
- Studentfunny nose...
- Studentit looks really cool!!!!
- Studentthats cool it looks like a clown why?
- Studentit looks like a clown
- Studentface
- Studentwith chubby checks
- GuestWhere did we get the mite? Did we send it?
Bugscope Teamit was on the field cricket that you sent -- this now is the field cricket
- StudentThat nose looks like elmo's nose
- Student So is the shield thing a mite? We were zoomed in that close? Amazing!
- Studentwhat are the circle things in the back
- StudentWhat are the polka dots in the backround?
- Studentyup
- Studentim afraid of clowns....
- StudentI looks a little like elmo
- Student the cheeks are compound eyes!
- StudentEmily is Emily Pollack and Emmy B is Emily Bassett get it through your head
- Studentwhat is that???\
- 10:56 am
- Studentwat is this part
- StudentIs that a mite?
- Studentthe cricket has a cool texture'
- Studentwat is this
- StudentEmily is Emily P Emmy is Emily B
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentwer is this
- Studentwhat is on the mites back?
- Student is that a spot on the mite?
Bugscope Teamit's some kind of juju
- Studentharry donut
- Studentneat picture
- Bugscope Teamthis is a mold spore
- Studentwhat are all those things???
- Studentthey look like rock slabs
- Studentwats that spikey ball
- StudentMold? Spore? Gross!!!
- Studentsorry we got logged off
- Studentjuju means dirt dust, or other
- Studentthats cool!!!
- Studentahhh i get it......... It looks like a snake with moles
- StudentJUjU
- Studentwhat is that spikey thing?
Bugscope Teamthat is a mold spore, a little desiccated
- Studentlooks like a astroid
- Studentastroid and an alien
- Studentis that a boulder?
- Studentewww..who wants mold on your face?
- StudentElliot? Could you please get closer to the thing shaped like a donout?
- StudentHOW MAY SCHOOLS HAVE U HAD THIS YEAR?
- Studentwhere is the mold?
Bugscope Teamthat is the spikey thing
- Studenti cant believe its zoomed in 9527 times
- StudenthOW MANY SESSIONS DO U HAVE IN A YEAR THIS IS REALLY COOLIO
Bugscope Teamabout 2 per week
- Studentwhoa cool spikes
- Studentnow 19054 times
- Teacher19,000 times magnification! Amazing!
- TeacherWe have lunch next and some of the kids want to stay to drive and look around if you ahve the time.
Bugscope Teamyeah that is fine; I will grab a sandwich
- Student I meant where is the mold on the face?
- Studenti am first in lunch
- StudentMagnified 19,054 times???Wow.
- StudentThanks, Elliot!
- StudentWhat is that spike thing?!?!
- StudentHUGE spikes!!
- Studentcan it magnify any more?
- Student76216
- 11:01 am
- Studentewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww mold
- Studentsem, can the mold hurt the bug???
Bugscope Teamyes it will rot it eventually; happens to everything or we would be buried in corpses miles thick
- StudentWOW MY BROTHER LOVES CHERRIOS I BET HE WOULD JUMP RIGHT INTO THAT SCREEN AND EAT IT
- Studentso cool... how big is the mold?
- Studentemmy b. I agree with your bro
- TeacherScott, we don't want to take up your time if you are busy.
Bugscope TeamI can go for another hour.
Bugscope TeamIt's Friday!
- TeacherScott, when you have a chance, Rachel to drive, please.
- Studentit is now rachels turn
- Studentwe are back!
- Studentbvudfghvuj
- StudentGEEEEEZ yuor right this is a powerful microscope
- Studentyea
- Studentit is
- StudentI WIKE CHEEWIOS TOO
- StudentI meant your
- Studentcan it magnify any more sem?
Bugscope Teamum it can but we have to make some changes to be able to do that well
- TeacherTGIF! Thanks! Students will have to go to other classes but some can stay for a while.
- StudentWhat are "bug peeps"?
- Studentwhat is a lacewing
- Student what julia said
- Studentnice
- Studentits so hairy
- Studentomg its an owlll
- Studentwhoa are those eyes?
- Studentbut some of us students get pretty hungry when its llunch time (giovanna)
- Studentit's a bird, it's a plane, it's a bug!
- Studentoops
- Studentand nice scales
- Studentand me micayla!!!
- Studentit looks really cool!!!
- Studentpine coney things
- Studentwowahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- Studentheyyy its hay
- Studentit looks like an owl
Bugscope Teamyes it does, and it sees in the dark like an owl too
- Studentlook at the eyes!!
- StudentIt looks like it has golf balls for eyes!
- Studentcompound eyes
- Studentzoom more
- Studentoh god!!!
- Studentwoahhh compound eyessss
- Studentthe proboscous is in the center rold up
- Studentooooohhhh the eyes are AMAZING!
- Studentlook at that eye!!!!!!!!!!!
- Studentyea it is a compound eye
- Student85659545253652147895632510148465142310054654897602145647524525012450570154705414045/8245728245058454704695016450256108594205322+46752890612315+658876078364578967542/913264789276
- Student9+7
- Studentomg golf ball
- TeacherFantastic view of the compound eye!!
- Studentits really cool
- StudentWhat is the feather things?
- Studentemmy. good math
- StudentTHATS COOLIO
- Studentits sooooooooo cool that you can see into the eye
- Studentthe eye looks like a bee hive
- Studentzooom into the eye even more
- Studentit looks like a pine cone
- Studentis this a butterfly???
- Studenti didnt meen to
- TeacherSave the math for later, please, kids.
- 11:06 am
- Studentits 16!
Bugscope Teamheh
- Studentit looks like a dauster
- Student=16
- Studentits a bird, its a plane, its a butterfly
- Studentsorry duster
- Studenti leaned on the key board and it typed 9+7
- Studentits a moth
Bugscope Teamthanks, Erica
- Studenthahaha
- Studentthat looks so kol
- Studentheh?
- Studentheh
- TeacherI think hunger might be getting to some of them. Sorry, Scott.
- Studentit looks like ginko leaves
- Studentwhat does heh mean???????
Bugscope Teamlike ha ha
- StudentHeyyy it looks like a flower
- StudentIt looks a little like overlapping leaves on a tree.
- Studentihs
- Studentwat r the lines on the inside of them
- Studentwhat is the size range?
- Studentit looks like an acorn!!!!!!!!
- Student412\
- StudentPretty!!
- Studenti looks like a flower pretty
- Studentpotato chip
- Student412?
- Studentcan I have the scope, it is lunch
- StudentI have already called dibs
- StudentTHANK U!!!!'
- StudentThank you!
- Studentthnx
- Bugscope Teamscales provide the colors we see on moth and butterfly wings, and the colors can be both from pigments and structural -- from the width of the ridges on the scales
- Studentthank you. hope to do this again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- GuestThe moth looks beautiful this close.
Bugscope Teamyes it does
- TeacherScott, transfer control to Arthur, please!
Bugscope TeamGot it!
- Bugscope TeamThank You All!
- StudentThank you so much Scott!!! It was sooo awesome!
Bugscope TeamThank you, Emily!
- StudentBye SEM!
Bugscope TeamBye!
- Studentsorry
- Teacher"Arthur Barelli" hit a button and logged off. Now he is Arthur.
Bugscope Teamgot it
- TeacherThanks, Scott!
- 11:11 am
- Studentlooks like a sweater
- Bugscope TeamArthur you are the boss of the 'scope for a little while...
- Bugscope Teambrb
- TeacherHuh. That is really interesting about the beam affecting the scale!
- StudentWhat are the bumps
- TeacherTick claw. So cool!
- 11:17 am
- Studenti don't know what you mean blows it around
Bugscope Teamthe electron beam is very powerful, and the scale is small and fragile, so the energy from the beam can affect the scale and actually cause it to move
- Studentkind of like a laser gun]
- Studenthow does this work
Bugscope Teamthe samples are coated with gold-palladium using a sputter coater, and for Bugscope we put about 20 nm of gold-palladium on the surface of the samples.
- Bugscope Teamand the samples are put in a vacuum chamber. we pump the air out so that the electrons can fly through the vacuum without bumping into air molecules.
- Studentthis a antenea, right?
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- Bugscope Teamyou can see the compound eye below, to the right
- Studentyeah, were zooming to that
- Bugscope Teamthen we beam electrons at the sample
- 11:22 am
- TeacherThis antenna is really thin! Is it just part of it?
Bugscope Teamthe aristate portion of the antennae -- the branched portion that is so thin -- is part of it, and part is the base portion, which I forget the name of. Leafhoppers do have very thin antennae.
- Bugscope Teamwe beam a very fine stream of electrons at the sample - the beam is 2.1 nm in diameter, much smaller than the wavelengths of light, for example
- StudentI am going to get lunch, be back in 10
- Bugscope Teamthat fine electron beam rasters across the sample like a typewriter, line by line
- TeacherI can't believe that the leafhopper antenna didn't break off in transit.
Bugscope TeamI am thrilled that your class collected it.
- TeacherScott, Arthur is going to eat. He likes this so much that he will be back in 10.
Bugscope TeamI gave you control, Mrs V.
- TeacherI know there are some other bugs on the stub. Is there any chance we could look at some of those? Or are there things on the presets you would reccommend?
- TeacherOooh, I finally get to drive! :-)
- Bugscope Teamthere are more flies, like fruitflies, and wasps, and the tiny white jumping thing, which is hardly recognizable but might've been a springtail (Collembola).
- 11:27 am
- Bugscope TeamI can find anything you wish to see that is not a preset.
- TeacherI am going freewheeling to look for some while Arthur's at lunch.
Bugscope Teamtotally cool
- Bugscope Teamthis has been really fun, and I appreciate everyone's patience when the stage messed up.
- TeacherSorry, I got sick tracked.
- TeacherOops. I meant side-tracked. By the cool features on the leg.
- Bugscope Teamlook now
- Bugscope Teampollen and a mold spore
- TeacherWe totally appreciate the experience! I can't believe how fast you fixed the computer.
- TeacherDo you know what those pointy things at the joints are?
Bugscope Teamsome of those are for proprioception
- TeacherThe pollen is the spiky thing, right!
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- TeacherBeautiful!
- TeacherSO COOL!
- Bugscope Teamand you found it
- TeacherI mean, I know it's small but I thought they woudl be smaller.
- TeacherIs that pretty big for a pollen grain?
Bugscope TeamI think it is probably in the normal range.
- Bugscope Teamit's about 18 microns in diameter...
- Bugscope Teamlike 9 bacteria in a row wide
- TeacherCan I look at the fruit fly if you can find it?
Bugscope Teamsure I can find one now
- 11:33 am
- TeacherHoly cow! This rocks!
Bugscope Teamyay!
- TeacherGreat! If you can find a fruit fly (or anything else you might happen upon), I'm cool with it.
- Studentokay, i am back
- TeacherSweet.
- Student nice fruit fly
- Studentdefinetly a photo shot
- Bugscope Teamyou can see some of the ocelli
- Studentgreat scientific purpous
- TeacherThese have been buzzing around my room annoying me.
Bugscope Teamwhat I like about Bugscope is that we can be the predators and catch things that bother us; and they go to a good purpose, I think
- Studentlovely
- Bugscope Teamdeus ex machina
- Studentto me, oh yes
- TeacherDoes this look focused?
Bugscope Teamhere you go
- Studentwhat are the small hairs
Bugscope Teamthey;re tiny bristles that are said to give the fruit fly info about wind speed and direction. actually I am not sure about that.
- TeacherThis is so amazing! I can believe I am looking at the facets of a fruit fly's eye. Maybe I don't mind them so much.
Bugscope Teamhaha
- 11:38 am
- TeacherDo you know why the facets of the eye have bumps?
Bugscope Teamthey probably make the eye more sturdy, and they give it more surface area
- Studentyou should of made this a land mark, it is so cool
Bugscope TeamI did, earlier, but we crashed the 'scope earlier and lost the presets
- TeacherIs there a limit to magnification with good focus? Or am I just not focusing well?
Bugscope Teamthere is a limit because we are at a long working distance
- Teacheroops. Went the wrong way with amg.
- Teachermag, I mean.
- TeacherMakes sense, thanks.
- TeacherArthur wants to drive, pretty please.
- Studentcan I drive
- Bugscope Teamwhen we use this for research, we go to a much shorter working distance that gives us better resolution and thus the ability to kick the mag up
- Bugscope Teamif we tried to work at a short working distance for Bugscope, the differences in heights of the insects from the base of the stub would be a potential problem. also, we would lose our ability to see a whole insect at low mag -- low mag would not be as low. So we would lose some of the impact of scale for the kids
- TeacherGotcha. That's how you can take pics of bacteria?
Bugscope Teamyes it is
- Studentwhat is the long pole
- Teachermouthparts?
Bugscope Teamsorry I was not watching to see where we are now
- 11:43 am
- Teacherno prob. This is bonus time for us.
- Bugscope Teamokay this is near the fruitfly's mouthparts, which are sponging mouthparts
- Bugscope Teamthose spines let it know when it is close to something
- Bugscope Teamdo you want to see the haltere?
- Bugscope Teamthat's one way we know it's a fly (Diptera)
- Studentthat is sweet, hey arthur how long is all this in real life
Bugscope Teamthose little dudes are about 5 or 6 mm long
- TeacherThe answer is always yes when you ask if we want to see something. :-)
Bugscope Teamcool
- TeacherALthough I don't remember what a haltere is.
Bugscope Teamhalteres are modified hindwings that balance the motion of the two wings flies use to fly
- Studentyeah, you can give it to eddie anytime soon
- Bugscope Teamthis is actually the proboscis, here
- Bugscope Teamit folds open for cleaning
- TeacherEddie to drive, please.
- 11:48 am
- TeacherAbout 10 more minutes for you, Scott?
Bugscope TeamI can go 'til like 1:15 your time, but how about you Mrs V? did you get to eat
- TeacherI'm good. I'll eat when we are done. Honestly, I'd rather do this. :-)
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that it has tiny setae that likely help it sense when something is touching it
- TeacherEddie zoomed in for me so I could see the setae. Thanks, Eddie!
- Studentthe juju at the top looks like a asteriod
Bugscope Teamyeah that is a mystery
- 11:53 am
- Teacherleafhopper proboscis in sight.
- Bugscope Teamwhat is surprising about the leafhopper is that it is not covered with brochosomes, like they often are
- TeacherThey don't seem to have too many of the setae compared to some of the other critters.
Bugscope Teamthey are likely highly evolved, comparable to roaches; very streamlined
- Studentwhat was at the top left corner
Bugscope Teamnot sure -- the tick is right nextdoor
- Teachertip of the proboscis.
- TeacherWe caught quite a few leafhoppers on our field trip. I only saved one. Might the others have looked significantly different?
Bugscope Teamthey would be comparable. leafhoppers produce nanoparticles called brochosomes that they spread on their cuticle in a self-anointing behavior
- TeacherEddie, well done!
- Bugscope TeamI saw one or two brochosomes earlier but not the masses I'd expected
- TeacherScott, Arthur would like to drive, please.
Bugscope Teamgot it
- TeacherLeafhoppers are much more complex than I thought.
- Bugscope Teamyeah Mrs V I love leafhoppers so please save some for me in the future if it's easy
- Bugscope Teamis it alright if I go looking for brochosomes?
- StudentI am fine, actualluy, please do
- Bugscope Teamthey are formed in the Malpighian tubules.
- TeacherHeck, I will start a leafhopper collection for you.
- 11:58 am
- StudentAnd i'll put in all I founf
- Bugscope Teammold spores...
- Studenteww, yet fun
- Teachertwisty patterns on the setae?
- Studentis that mold
- Studentwhat is the small heart like object
- Studentwhoa, that was quick
- Studentjuju?
- Teacherjust looked up brochosomes online. way cool. Site I looked at says that there hasn't been a lot of research done on them. True?
- TeacherThose twisty things are pretty!
- Bugscope Teamyeah if you them up in google images you should find some from Bugscope
- Bugscope Teamthey are about 300-400 nm in diameter
- StudentScott, if you could choose a few photos, what would they be, if they were put on a T-shirt
- Student?
- 12:04 pm
- Bugscope TeamI will send you a link.
- Studentme tooo
- Bugscope Teamplease drive while I do that.
- TeacherExcellent!
- Bugscope Teamhttp://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/~sjrobin/MaggiesFarm/
- Bugscope Teamhttp://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/~sjrobin/Bugscope Images/
- Bugscope TeamI'd just wanted you all to see the brochs, but that's fine.
- Studentsorry, holes
- TeacherYou can look for the brochosomes. We are just talking here about putting some images on t-shirts to wear to school.
- TeacherLinks don't seem to be working.
Bugscope Teamthe first one looks like it's incomplete; you have to add that Images/
- Bugscope TeamIf you check out some of the images I sent you should fine some you like
Bugscope Teamoops typo
- Studenti am going to the link, please take over
- TeacherOK! We are going to use some of ours for art projects, maybe.
- Studentwhat are the dots?
Bugscope Teamthose are places where setae broke off, pretty sure
- Bugscope Teamif I was going to spend the money on t-shirts I would use the better images
- Studentis this a eardrum
- Bugscope Teamno I think it is the base of a seta
- Studentsotty, didn't see the answer
- 12:09 pm
- TeacherAre we still looking at the leafhopper or another insect?
- TeacherSorry, didn't know I was driving.
- TeacherScott, do you want to look for brochosomes.
Bugscope Teamno I want to,let you drive; otherwise I'm spending a bunch of your time
- TeacherWe are on bonus time (lunch). I don't mind.
- Bugscope Teamthose places were where the scales on the head had broken off
- Bugscope Teamthe deal about the brochs is that they are clearly not in great numbers, and if I found some I would want to change the working distance to give you a better image
- Bugscope Teamlet's look at the fly pupae
- TeacherOk, up to you. If you want to look at brochs we are ok with if. If not, I'll have other fun.
- Studenthol moley
- Bugscope Teamfly
- Teacherok, just saw you mentioned the fly pupae. Can you take us there?
- Studentso this a pre fly
Bugscope Teamum I can drive to those, got sidetracked
- 12:14 pm
- Bugscope Teamhaha let me know when you want me to do that
- Studenthow do you get the bugs off the plate
Bugscope Teamwith a razor blade, right into the trash ; )
- TeacherYou can go to fly pupa any time you want.
- Bugscope Teamokay I'm driving now...
- Studenthow can you drive faster
- Studentnice, polen
- TeacherSee the pupa.
- Studentso that is the pupa
- Bugscope Teamnasty little beastie
- TeacherWhat are those little spikes?
- Studentthis is like a crysalis
- TeacherYeah, definitely nasty.
- Bugscope Teamooh yeah it has a trap door
- Student can you stay longer?
- TeacherI was just going to ask that.
- Studenttrap door, so the pupa isn't their
- TeacherAbout the trap door and the fly getting out.
- 12:19 pm
- Bugscope Teaminsect gang signs
- TeacherScott, I know you have to go soon. Please let us know when you need to pull the plug or we would be tempted to stay all day.
- TeacherCool claw.
- TeacherInsect gang signs---haha!
- Studentwhy can you drive faster, because you go from the pupa to the pollen in 2 seconds
Bugscope TeamI'm using the microscope, not the Bugscope software interface.
- Studentwhat is this
- TeacherWhat are we looking at?
Bugscope Teamthis is one of the wasp's limbs. I'm going to check out another wasp I didn't look at earlier.
- TeacherI think the insect here is making a W (for WT--our school)
- Studentexplained
- Studentmrs. valenty has to do NO teaching today, and is SO happy
- TeacherMaking me look bad, Arthur. grrr
- StudentGrrr?
- TeacherWill the images you are showing us now be on our "transcript" so we can access them? I don't see them below.
- Bugscope Teamhttp://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-126
- 12:24 pm
- Bugscope Teamyeah it looks like we're good for that - the images on the transcript
- TeacherTHanks, Scott. Will the ones from when you were driving the scope be on there?
- Studentbye scott i have to go
Bugscope TeamBye! Thank You, Eddie!
- TeacherTHanks. You are too quick for me....you answered before I could ask.
- Bugscope TeamI think it's time for me to shut down.
- StudentBye scott, we have a reading period, and mrs. green has some really comfy chairs
Bugscope Teamhaha Thank You, Arthur!
- Studentcontact you
- TeacherScott, studyhall is just about over so we need to go, too. Thank you SO much for all of the extra time. As always, it was a fantastic experience!
- Studenthope that I can get another time with you, how can I contact
Bugscope Teamwatch the Bugscope page
- Bugscope Teamsjrobin@illinois.edu
- StudentI will, see ya
Bugscope Teamsee ya!
- Bugscope Teamalright see you, Mrs V!
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- TeacherI think we might have a few web mentions. I'll make sure to forward to you! HAve a great weekend!
- TeacherBye!
- Bugscope TeamBye!
- Bugscope TeamYou too!
