International School of Beijing
Session 2011-132

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Connected on 2012-02-13 19:30:00 from , Beijing, China

• 5:58 pm
• Bugscope Teamventing the chamber
• Bugscope Teamsample is in and pumping dow
• Bugscope Teamn
• 6:07 pm
• Bugscope Teamalmost pumped down
• 6:18 pm

• 6:24 pm

• Bugscope Teamnow making presets for today's session

• 6:31 pm

• 6:36 pm

• 6:41 pm

• 6:47 pm

• 6:52 pm

• 7:00 pm

• Bugscope Teamwe are ready to roll
• 7:05 pm

• 7:10 pm

• 7:16 pm
• Bugscope TeamMook! Welcome to Bugscope!
• Bugscope TeamYou have control of the microscope.
• Bugscope Teamthis is one of your lovely critters
• Bugscope Teamyou can select other areas -- presets -- from the screen to the left just by clicking on one

• Bugscope Teamlooking right into the mouth

• Bugscope Teamyou can see the palps, the antennae, the compound eyes
• Bugscope Teamalso of course the forelimbd
• Bugscope Teamforelimbs...
• Bugscope Teamplease let me know when you have questions -- that's what we're here for.
• Bugscope Teamthere are a lot of diatoms on this nymph
• Bugscope TeamHi Mook!
• 7:26 pm

• 7:31 pm

• Bugscope Teamthis is one of the caddisfly larvae

• Bugscope Teamthis is the second set of limbs
• Bugscope Teamplease let me know if you can read this
• 7:40 pm

• Bugscope Teamso do you not have the ability to type in this same space, I guess?
• Bugscope Teamthat is bizarre. I've never seen that happen before.
• Bugscope Teamplease feel free to drive, of course, so you can see everything
• Bugscope Teamlooks like that is working well
• TeacherWe are now on a different browser.
• Bugscope Teamha!
• Bugscope Teamtotally cool
• Bugscope Teamyay!
• Bugscope Teamplease let me know when you have questions
• 7:45 pm
• Bugscope TeamI am all three people on our end right now: Scot, sj, and ESEM
• TeacherWhich part of the caddisfly are we seeing here?
  Bugscope Teamthis is the top portion: the two topmost sets of legs, and the head to the left
• Bugscope Teamit's a pointy head
• Bugscope Teamthe mandible is in the center, the one mandible we can see
• Bugscope Teamactually you can see the other mandible, with a shadow on it
• Bugscope Teamso this is now the head
• Teacherwhat is below the mandibles?
• Bugscope Teamthe caddisfly larvae are super clean, like they are impervious to becoming encrusted with diatoms and bacteria
• Bugscope Teamthe mandibles are in the middle, so there is something like a clypeus to the left and palps to the right, which reach out into the water
• Bugscope Teamwe are looking at the head in profile, and it is hard to make out that it's even a head

• 7:51 pm
• Bugscope Teamthis is the other one, maybe a different species?
• Bugscope Teamthis one has some bluegreen algae or something like that caught in its mouth
• Teachercould this be the head of a midge?
• Bugscope TeamI can show you those.

• Guestthese are beautiful
  Bugscope Teamthanks, Segan. although we just moved to a completely monstrous looking blackfly head
• Bugscope TeamMook let me know if you want to go somewhere else. Of course you may drive, yourself.
• 7:58 pm
• Bugscope Teamthis is a stonefly nymph, and it is unbelievably small
• Bugscope Teamwell maybe not unbelievable
• Bugscope Teamthe bedbug it's next to is pretty small itself
• Teacherwe are trying to get to the caddisfly terminus
• Bugscope Teamokay

• Bugscope Teamthis one has a huge long body, all to the left and curved around to these tailhooks
• Bugscope TeamMook please let me know whenever I can help.
• 8:03 pm
• Bugscope Teamit's all lying on doublestick carbon tape, and to the left you see silver paint that Cate laid down to help make the caddisfly larva conductive
• Bugscope Teamdiatom on the tailhook
• Teachermayfly nymph tail should be coming up

• Bugscope Teamyou can see the tailhooks and the soft portion of the cuticle
• Bugscope Teamthis is the soft portion of the cuticle
• Bugscope Teameven if we critical point dry it, it shrivels
• Bugscope TeamI thought the specimens you sent us were very interesting
• 8:08 pm
• Bugscope Teamonly the parts of the body close to and including the head are that thicker chitin, plus the tailhooks
• Teachercan you take us to the Mayfly Tail please?

• Teachercan we see gills on the abdomen?

• Bugscope TeamI think they are off to the sides; they look better on another specimen
• 8:17 pm
• Teacherwhich part of the stonefly is this?
  Bugscope Teamthis is the abdomen, with these flaps coming off of it
• Bugscope Teamthere's a better view, and you can see that the stonefly on the left is busted open -- you can see what look like tracheae
• Bugscope TeamI was thinking the flaps were gills
• Bugscope Teamsometimes gills are more like thick fat noodles
• Teacheris this a mayfly - three tails and gills?
  Bugscope Teammaybe it is. at a macro level we could not see the three tails so clearly
• Bugscope Teamthis is what we thought was a mayfly
• Bugscope TeamThat was my fault it broke sorry
  Bugscope Teamit worked nicely, though

• Teachercan we see the caterpillar spines please
  Bugscope Teamhere you go!
• 8:22 pm
• Bugscope Teamthis might be how the venom gets out -- through those fine pores
• Bugscope TeamHappy Valentine's Day in Beijing!
• Bugscope Teamsome Cupid's arrows here
• Teachercould we see the diaton last please.

• Bugscope Teamthis is a nice one
• Bugscope Teamthere are a few we had found, including those Iron Maiden ones
• Bugscope Teamyou can see some kind of crystal lying on it
• TeacherIron Maiden???

• Bugscope Teamsee how it looks like an Iron Maiden?

• 8:27 pm
• Bugscope TeamI think most diatoms look like capsized oats
• Bugscope Teamboats
• Teacherthis is great - now to the stonefly nymph please
• Bugscope Teama lot of them look like canoes or boats

• Teacherthanks for the session - we have to leave now. See you again I hope.
• Bugscope TeamThanks for joining us "tonight"
• Bugscope TeamThank You!
• Bugscope TeamSee you next year!