New Caney Sixth Grade Campus
Session 2012-088

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Connected on 2013-02-01 12:30:00 from Montgomery, Texas, United States

• 11:08 am
• Bugscope Teammicroscope is pumping down with today's sample in it
• 11:15 am
• Bugscope Teamwe will be able to start setup soon
• 11:27 am

• 11:33 am

• 11:39 am

• 11:44 am

• 11:50 am

• 11:56 am

• 12:01 pm

• 12:07 pm

• 12:12 pm

• 12:36 pm

• 12:48 pm
• TeacherHello
• Bugscope TeamYay!
• Bugscope TeamWelcome Back!
• TeacherThanks for having us
• Bugscope Teamthese are butterfly scales, up close
• TeacherWhy are archanids like spiders not insects?

• TeacherScott should we be hearing you as well?
• Bugscope Teaminsects have a head, a thorax, an abdomen, six legs, and two antennae
• Bugscope Teamno just on chat, like this
• TeacherCool
• TeacherWhich insects wings are more scaley moths or butterflies?
• Bugscope Teamspiders have eight legs, a cephalothorax (head/thorax combination), an abdomen, no antennae
• Bugscope TeamI think moths are more scaley, but I'm not sure there's a definitive answer to that
• Bugscope Teammosquitos and silverfish also have scales
• Bugscope Teamthere are also moths and butterflies whose wings are not scaly at all!
• 12:54 pm
• Bugscope Teamthat would be like those hairless cats and dogs...
• TeacherWhy are black catepillars more aggressive than original monarchs?
• Bugscope Teamglasswing butterflies and clearwing moths have minimal amount of scales on their wings, and their wings end up transparent
• Bugscope TeamJoe is an entomologist for real, whereas Cate and I are amateurs
• TeacherHow are moths different from butterflies?

• Bugscope Teambutterflies have more simple antennae, with bulbs at the ends. Moths sometimes have more frilly antennae
• Bugscope Teammoths are often nocturnal, for one...
• TeacherHow are catepillars eyes different from monarch eyes?
• Bugscope TeamThey also have different ways of hooking their fore- and hind-wings together for flight.
• TeacherDo different scorpions have different types of venom in their stingers?
• 12:59 pm
• Bugscope TeamCaterpillar eyes are fairly primitive; they're called 'stemmata.' There are five or six of them on a side.
• Bugscope TeamMonarchs have compound eyes with many ommatidia.
• TeacherWhat is the effect of a scorpions sting?
• Bugscope TeamTheir eyes aren't really different (in that caterpillars of monarchs have similar eyes to other types of caterpillars). Caterpillars have different eyes from the adults, stemmata (as The Universe said) whereas adults have compound eyes.
• Bugscope Teamthe components of the venom could be mroe heavily in some toxin than another to target certain animals that live in the environment. Different species will inject a certain amount of toxin

• TeacherIf a scorpion stings another insect who would win?
• Bugscope Teamsorry The Universe just got stuck on the phone and now has to help someone with the TEM...
• TeacherHow many different venoms does a scorpion have?
• Bugscope Teamprobably the scorpion. (assuming the insect's been stung already)
• Bugscope TeamAlso, something that might be counter-intuituive is that usually, the smaller the scorpion, the more poisonous it is.
• TeacherDoes a scorpion have armor skeleton?
• TeacherHow long will an insect stay in its cocoon?
• Bugscope Teamthey have a hard exoskeleton shell
• 1:04 pm
• TeacherWhat would happen if a scorpion lost its stinger in an accident?
• Bugscope Teamthey stay in their cocoons or chrysalis for around 2 weeks
• TeacherHow many different types of stingers does a scorpion have?
• Bugscope TeamThe Universe is busy now...
• Bugscope Teamdepending on their size, they may still be able to eat. Some of the larger scorpions can rely on their claws to maim and kill prey for food, but usually use their stinger to subdue their prey so they can be handled more easily.
• Teacherwhy does a scorpion have hair?
• Bugscope TeamScorpions only have one stinger. but there are cases of two tails due to genetic mutations.
• Bugscope Teami think....
• Bugscope Teamif a scorpion lost its stinger it would have to hunt with just its claws and mouth pincers. I am not sure if they molt
• Bugscope Teamthe hairs, which are called setae, help the scorpion to feel what is going on around it through its tough exoskeleton
• Bugscope Teami might have made that up.
• Bugscope Teamhaha
• TeacherHow long does a scorpion live?
• Bugscope Teama scorpion has a thickened exoskeleton, like the shell of a shrimp
• TeacherIf someone is stung by a scorpion what is the best first aid?
• TeacherDo some scorpions sting when they are threatened?
• Bugscope TeamTheir lifespans are pretty variable.
• TeacherWhat is the size of a normal scorpion?
• Bugscope Teamthey definitely use their stingers as a defense mechanism.
• Bugscope Teamin north america a healthy person will be fine if they are stung. The worst that can happen is numbness in the area they stung for up to a day. If the person is sickly than you could probably get antivenom like you can for snakes
• TeacherWhat is the most venemous scorpion?
• Bugscope Teamscorpions are said to live from 4 to 25 years
• 1:09 pm
• TeacherWhich one is more poisonous a snake or scorpion?
• Bugscope Teamthere are of course many species and different sizes
• Bugscope Teamthe most venomous snakes may be more venomous than the most venomous scorpions
• Bugscope Teamfat-tailed scorpion? that can kill in minutes, but i don't know for sure that it's the most poisonous
• TeacherDo scorpions have fangs?
• TeacherHow big do scorpion stingers get?
• Bugscope Teamthey do not really have fangs, but they chew their food, which is unusual
• Bugscope Teamalso, almost all scorpions have live birth; they do not lay eggs
• Bugscope TeamThe stingers can get pretty large.

• Bugscope Teamthis is the stinger, way up close

• TeacherWhat do scorpions eat?
• Bugscope Teammaybe the size of an adult's fingers? (for scale)
• Bugscope Teamalso, the treatment for a scorpion sting is said to depend on how the person being stung is responding
• Bugscope Teamscorpions mostly eat other insects
• Bugscope Teambut a lot of them will also eat small vertebrates they catch
• Bugscope Teamsome of them also eat lizards and mice
• 1:14 pm
• Bugscope Teamhere you can see the venom pores at the tip of the stinger
• TeacherOn average how many offspring do they have?
• Bugscope TeamI believe they will have somewhat of an immunity to their own toxin.
• Bugscope Teamscot is right they do have immunity
• Bugscope Teamthey can have up to 100 babies
• TeacherWe are about to change classes we will be back in 5 minutes. Thanks so much
• Bugscope Teamthey can have two to a hundred 'scorplings,' but I think the average is eight

• Bugscope Teamto clarify: a scorpion is immune to its own toxin, but it can still kill another member of the same species
• 1:20 pm

• 1:31 pm
• TeacherHello we are back :)
• Bugscope TeamHello!
• Bugscope Teamthis is super cool
• Bugscope Teamyou can see that this is a large beetle you sent

• TeacherSuper Cool

• Bugscope Teama very small ant is riding on one of the beetle's legs
• Bugscope Teamit is only about a millimeter long
• Bugscope Team(which is what's on screen)
• Bugscope Teamthe background is the beetle

• Bugscope Teamthose are some funky legs
• Bugscope Teamare all of the samples you sent from Texas?
• TeacherWhy are there hairs on the beetles legs?
• TeacherYes the samples are from Porter, TX
• Bugscope Teaminsects and other comparable arthropods have exoskeletons
• Bugscope TeamThe hairs are most likely for mechanosensing
• Bugscope Teaman exo- skeleton is on the outside of the body
• Bugscope Teamthe hairs help the beetle to sense what is going on around it. they have a thick shell around their bodies that without the hairs, or setae, they wouldn't be able to know what's going on
• Bugscope Teammammals, for example, have endoskeletons
• 1:36 pm
• Bugscope Teamso an exoskeleton is kind of like if you were wearing armor
• Bugscope Team(in terms of how they are laid out on the legs)
• Bugscope Teamyou would not be able to sense something touching the surface of your armor
• Bugscope Teamuh.. like Cate said
• TeacherIs that the smallest ant their is?
• Bugscope Teamsome hairs (setae) are mechanosensory, for sensing touch and wind currents
• Bugscope Teamyes it is is the smallest ant in the free world
• TeacherWhat is the purpose of the beetle?
• TeacherWhat is the smallest insect in the world that we know of?
• TeacherAlso, what kind of beetle is that?
• Bugscope Teamthe smallest ant species is said to be Oligomyrex, and their workers are supposed to be less than a millimeter long
• Bugscope Teamthis is one is very close to that size
• TeacherCan a wasp sting more than once?
• TeacherWhat is the biggest insect that we know of?
• Bugscope Teamthere is a wasp called a fairyfly that is as small as 0.5 mm, so about half the length of this ant
• 1:41 pm
• Bugscope Teamthe biggest one is debatable, but goliath beetle is usually amongst discussion.
• Bugscope Teamthere are beetles -- the titan beetle and the goliath beetle -- that are as big as your fist
• Teacherwill a sting of a fairfly be as strong as a wasp?
• Bugscope Teamalso, some walking sticks can be 21 inches long
• Bugscope Teamwasps can sting as much as they want
• Bugscope Teamwasps can sting as many times as they want. until you smack them
• Bugscope Team*also not recommended (smacking them that is)
• Bugscope Teamand wasps are much more aggressive than bees, other than africanized honey bees
• Bugscope Teamthe sting of a fairyfly would likely not be too bad. they are parasitoid wasps, which means that they sting other insects and lay their eggs inside their bodies
• Bugscope Teamfairy wasps are parasitoids, of the eggs of other insects, so they probably can't sting us
• Bugscope Teamoops extra comma in there

• TeacherHow many eyes are there in an ant's eye?
• Bugscope Teamso Joe actually corrected The Universe, who left. Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs in other insects' eggs and also in other insects' larvae
• Bugscope TeamThis beetle looks like it might be a scarab or some sort, but i'm not sure
• Teacherwhat is the deadliest spider?
• Bugscope Teamthe ant has 2 compound eyes, but there are probably around 10 facets in each
• Bugscope Teambrown recluse i know is up there
• Bugscope Teamsome ants have many ommatidia -- the individual facets of the eye; and some ants do not have eyes at all
• Bugscope Team but the black widow and funnel web spiders are pretty venomous as well
• Bugscope Team(to humans at least)
• 1:47 pm
• TeacherWhat are the deadliest insects in the United States?
• Bugscope Teamthe Brazilian Wandering Spider is said to be the most venomous, but more people die from Brown Recluse and Black Widow spider bites
• TeacherWhat are the deadliest insects in Texas?
• Bugscope Teamhmm, RIFA?
• Bugscope Teamuh red imported fire ants
• Bugscope Teamboth the Brown Recluse and the Black Widow live in the U.S., but they are not insects...
• Bugscope Teampossibly?
• TeacherHow venemous is a banana spider?
• Bugscope Teamdeadliest insect is the mosquito because of the diseases it can carry
• Bugscope TeamI think Cate is right. Of insects, the deadliest in the world would be the mosquito.
• Bugscope Teamespecially with dengue fever coming to texas (already there?)
• TeacherWhat is dengue fever?
• Bugscope TeamBanana spiders are pretty harmless
• Bugscope TeamBrazilian Wandering Spiders are also sometimes called Banana Spiders.
• Bugscope Teamsounds like a really bad flu
• Bugscope TeamDengue fever is a viral disease spread by Aedes mosquitoes
• TeacherSounds terrible
• Bugscope Teamthe Golden Silk Orbweaver is also called a Banana Spider and is said to be harmless.
• Bugscope Teamyea it's pretty much a bad flu, with joint pains and a rash
• TeacherCan a beetle regenerate its body parts?
• 1:52 pm
• Bugscope TeamBeetles cannot regenerate their body parts, nor can any adult insects.
• Bugscope Teamsome spiders, like tarantulas, can regenerate body parts
• TeacherHow many eggs can a queen bee make at once?
• Bugscope Teamscorpions are arachnids, related to spiders, but I am not sure they can regenerate body parts
• TeacherIs there such thing as the deadliest beetle?
• Bugscope Teamhmm...
• TeacherHow large can a bee get?
• Bugscope Teamhealthy queen bees can lay 2000 eggs per day
• TeacherDo beetles have tongues or teeth?
• Bugscope Teamhave you seen those giant cicada killers? those are pretty big wasps. I don't know about bees. Bumblebees are pretty big
• TeacherHow big is a camel spider?
• Bugscope Teambeetles don't have teeth but they do have a pair of jaws that open out like a gate. They also have palps that help taste their food
• Bugscope TeamBeetles do not have teeth or tongues, they do have mandibles (for chewing) and palps (for handling food and tasting)
• TeacherDo beetles have ears?
• 1:58 pm
• Bugscope TeamThey don't have what we might call ears, but they do have the ability to process sound.
• Bugscope Teamcamel spiders are said to reach as large as 8 inches in diameter
• TeacherWhy does smoke calm down bees?
• Bugscope TeamCO2 (carbondioxide) knocks out a lot of insects
• Bugscope Teamalso, if some of the sensory apparatus of bees do not operate, they can become lethargic
• TeacherHow many bees can live in a hive for once?
• Bugscope Teamsort of the same thing Joe said
• Bugscope Teamthe number of bees in a hive at once depends, of course, but some hives can hold 50,000 to 60,000 bees
• Bugscope Teambees, wasps, and ants are related
• Bugscope Teambees and wasps, unlike flies, have four wings
• Teachercan a scorpion sting through a beetle's exoskeleton?
• Bugscope Teamwhen bees and wasps are not flying they can fold their wings small enough to enter the hive, if they have one, easily
• TeacherHow do wasps communicate with one another?
• TeacherHow much venom can a scorpion hold?
• 2:03 pm
• TeacherThank you we are changing classes again. We shall return in 5 minutes
• Bugscope TeamI would say it depends on the scorpion and the beetle, but in many cases it is likely a scorpion can sting through the exoskeleton
• Bugscope Teamwasps use chemical signals to communicate
• Bugscope Teamlike most insects, and more than we do, insects almost all have well-developed chemical communication (D'Oh!)
• Bugscope Teamit takes me a week to type a short sentence\
• 2:11 pm

• 2:17 pm
• Bugscope Teamto correct or qualify what I had said earlier, there can be over 100,000 adult bees in a naturally built hive, and there can be tens of thousands of larvae
• TeacherHello we are back
• 2:24 pm
• TeacherWhat is the lifespan of a beetle?
• TeacherHow many eggs can a beetle lay?
• TeacherIf wasps are in big groups then why do they have small nests?
• Bugscope Teamthey can live for around a few months or less, unless they overwinter like ladybugs/japanese beetles
• TeacherHas there ever been an insect or an archanid that has eaten a bird?
• Bugscope Teamthey can have around 40-60 eggs
• Teacherwhy do stink bug sting when they die?
• TeacherHow much honey can a bee make in one day?
• Bugscope TeamStink bugs can't sting.
• Bugscope Teamthere is a goliath birdeater spider actually
• TeacherHow strong are spider webs?
• Bugscope Teamstink bugs just get really stinky
• Bugscope Teaminsects have varying lifespans, and beetles, especially, since there are many thousands of species.
• TeacherWhy do stink bug stink?
• Bugscope Teamoften an insect, such as a beetle, will live from 6 weeks to a full season long
• Bugscope TeamBees don't make that much honey individually, maybe a tenth of a ml a day?
• 2:29 pm
• TeacherWhere are the stingers in a wasp? In their claws or stomach?
• Bugscope Teamhoneybees can make around 1-2 teaspoons in their lifetime
• Bugscope Teamsome spiders, and some praying mantises, as well as a few other insects, are capable of eating small birds if they have a chance
• TeacherIs a yellow jacket wasp same as red wasp?
• Bugscope Teamthe wasp's stinger comes out of the tip of its abdomen
• Bugscope Teamthe stingers are at the end of the abdomen. The stingers on wasps are actually ovipositors that have been modified to deliver toxins instead
• Bugscope Teamyellow jackets are not the same as red wasps
• Bugscope Teamovipositor (a egg laying apparatus)
• Bugscope Team*an
• Bugscope Teamstink bugs' stink comes from chemicals they produce. it's a defense mechanism to deter predators.
• Bugscope Teamstink bugs stink to avoid being eaten. many insects have similar defenses, and many insects has chemical defenses against ants, which are fierce predators
• Teacherwhy do bees die after they sting?
• TeacherHow many eggs can a camel spider lay/
• Bugscope Teamhoneybees die after they sting mammals because mammal skin is thick and holds the stinger in when the bee flies away
• TeacherHow many insects are known to man?
• Bugscope Teambees' stinger detach, and have a special 'hook' at the end, unlike wasp stingers, and their guts are pulled out as they try to fly away
• Bugscope Teamhoneybees have barbs on their stingers which gets stuck in mammalian skin
• Bugscope Teamthe honeybee dies because having its stinger torn away exposes its interior; its guts may be pulled away, as Joe says, or the honeybee may just bleed to death
• Bugscope Teamone source says that there are about 900 thousand known species of insects
• Bugscope Teamthe toxin glands are also left behind, so the stinger actually continues to deliver poison even after the bee is gone
• 2:34 pm
• TeacherHow many different species of spiders are there?
• Bugscope TeamI don't know about spiders, but the estimate for insects is around 30 million
• Bugscope Teamyes the bee stinger has an outboard motor that it leaves behind to continue pumping venom into your skin\
• Bugscope Teamit depends on who you talk to.
• Bugscope Teamthat number can range quite a bit
• Bugscope Teamcamel spiders, according to one source, lay perhaps 12 eggs
• TeacherHow many ants are in a colony?
• Bugscope Teamthere are over 40,000 known species of spiders
• Bugscope Teamsome ant colonies are so huge that there can be a few million ants over a large space
• Bugscope Teamthe really large ant colonies are called super colonies
• TeacherIf you released a masdagascar cockroach in your house would it eat up your entire home?
• TeacherWhy do spiders dig holes in the desert?
• Bugscope Teamthey would not eat your refrigerator, dishwasher, or washer and dryer
• 2:39 pm
• Bugscope Teamthey would do a good job cleaning up the food
• Bugscope Teamspiders, insects, and other arthropods are endlessly adaptive, and if there is no cover other than going underground, they will go there
• Bugscope Teamthe number of ants in a colony really depends on the species. Some are very small, in the range of teens to mid thirties (~10-30))
• TeacherWhat is the biggest ant in the world?
• Bugscope Teamafrican driver ants
• Bugscope Teamthe queen of a driver ant colony is said to reach 5 centimeters in length, and the males 3 cm
• TeacherWhat is the best insect that camoflauges?
• TeacherCan a scorpion venom's be used as medicine?
• Bugscope Teamwe have not found the best camouflaged insect yet
• Bugscope Teamhaha
• TeacherCan cockroach still live if you cut it's head off?
• Bugscope Teammoths can be pretty cryptic, there are also other insects that blend really well into their environment, stick insects are really hard to spot, for example
• TeacherCan you die if you are stung by a bee?
• Bugscope Teamthe scorpion venom can be used towards helping with autoimmune disorders
• Bugscope Teambut for a normal person, most likely not.
• Bugscope Teamcockroaches may move around for a while after, but it will eventually die
• Bugscope Teamlike most everything else
• 2:44 pm
• TeacherHow many eggs can a scorpion lay?
• Bugscope Teamvenom of scorpions, other arachnids, and insects is studied to determine which components might be useful to treat various diseases; often a venom has a number of components, and not all of them are useful

• Teacherwhat is the fastest insect?
• Bugscope Teamcockroaches?
• Bugscope Teamdragonflies are pretty fast too.
• Bugscope Teamdepending on what is meant by fast, trapjaw ants are said by some people to perform the fastest biological function when their jaws snap shut; I am not sure that is correct
• TeacherCan a cockroach live even with a nuclear explosion
• Bugscope Teamoh.. i was thinking movement speed
• Bugscope Teamprobably.
• TeacherCan a driller bees sting and if so what happens one student has them in back of his house
• Bugscope Teami think mythbusters did an episode with that.
• Bugscope Teamwhere they tested levels of radiation cockroaches can withstand.
• Bugscope Teamand their conclusion was...
• Bugscope Teamprobably
• TeacherHow many eggs does a termite lay?
• Bugscope Teamoh that would be a fun mythbusters
• Bugscope Teamcarpenter bee can sting, but they're usually nothing to worry about
• 2:49 pm
• TeacherHow many eggs can a cockroach lay?
• Bugscope TeamJoe I'm sure she meant the speed of movement, not the speed at which trapjaws close; the trapjaw thing is interesting to me because I am not sure how much sense it makes anyway
• Bugscope Teamthey're pretty tame, and the ones you see are mostly males whihc don't have stingers

• Bugscope Teamtermites can lay thousands of eggs a day
• TeacherWhat is the longest living insect in the world?
• Bugscope Teamtens of thousands
• Bugscope Teamhmm, 40-50 years?
• TeacherWhat is it that allows a termite to digest wood?
• TeacherWhat is the most deadliest catepillar?
• Bugscope Teamthere have been accounts of longhorned beetles that emerged after a bookcase have been made decades later
• Bugscope Teamqueen termites can live for 15 years and then there's the periodical cicada which is 17 years
• Bugscope Teamthey have endosymbionts that let them digest the cellulose of wood

• Bugscope TeamI believe termites have a version of the enyzme cellulase, or the endosymbionts do
• Teacherwe are going to change classes one last time. Thanks so much. See you in 5 minutes
• Bugscope TeamLonomia caterpillar

• 2:55 pm

• 3:08 pm

• Teacherwe are back :)
• Bugscope Teamhello!
• Bugscope Teamyay!
• Bugscope Teamthis is a rare opportunity to see a fly's eye, busted open

• Teacherlooks cool
• Bugscope Teamsee the ommatidia?
• Bugscope Teamthose are individual facets of the eye, like tiny lenses\
• Bugscope Teaminsects see colors we don't see and sometimes they cannot see colors we see well]
• TeacherWhat is Ommatidia?
• Bugscope Teammost insects can't see the colour red
• Bugscope Teamthose are the individual units of the compound eye
• Bugscope Teamthat is what the tiny facets are called -- ommatidia
• Bugscope Teaman individual facet is an ommatidium
• Bugscope Teaminsects often have two types of eyes
• 3:13 pm
• Bugscope Teamon the tops of their heads, as opposed to the side, they often have three 'simple' eyes, called ocelli

• Bugscope Teamthat is a good question -- I think most of them use their ability to fly away
• Bugscope Teamthey can fly fairly well and have good reactions, so i would guess evasive abilities as defense
• TeacherWhat is the purpose of a house fly?
• Bugscope Teama lot of them also pretend to be things they are not.
• TeacherHow do spiders make webs so fast?
• TeacherWhere do spiders store their webs?
• Bugscope Teamfor example, hover flies mimic wasps, and trick predators like birds and other things into thinking they're dangerous
• Bugscope Teamhouse flies are important in nutrient cycling process
• TeacherHow fast can spiders move?
• Bugscope Teamhouse flies are decomposers, and that is very helpful to all of us. they are also food to more beneficial species; often we do not know how much we would miss a species until it's gone and we find that it had a very useful function we had not considered
• 3:18 pm
• Bugscope Teamspiders eat their webs when they are done with them, or they *can* eat their webs; they are good recyclers
• Bugscope Teamspiders have storage sacs that store unused silk proteins in their bodies

• Bugscope Teammost spiders don't move that fast. I think there is one that can move 10 mph though
• TeacherHow long does a spider live?
• Bugscope Teamwe think spiders are making their webs quickly, but we have to realize also that insects and arachnids have very short lives and move generally more quickly than we do; they don't need to stop and think
• Bugscope TeamSpiders probably live about a year or two. Again lifespans vary quite a bit depending on species.
• TeacherHow big can an ant get?
• Bugscope TeamAnts can get as large as 5 centimeters. We are lucky insects cannot get much larger.
• Bugscope TeamThe african driver ant queens can be about 4cm long.
• Bugscope Team*5cm
• Bugscope Teamone of the thing that keeps insect from getting as large as people is the way they breathe air, compared to us. our bodies are more efficient at processing oxygen
• TeacherHow many eggs can a queen ant lay in it lifetime?
• 3:23 pm
• Bugscope Teamif they lay 2000 eggs a day and can live for 3 or 4 years...
• Bugscope Teammaybe 2.5 million eggs
• Bugscope Teamants get into everything and not much can stop them. Many insects have defenses for ants

• Bugscope Teamthe little tiny rod-shaped things we see now are bacteria on a beetle
• Bugscope Teamsprinkling cinnamon around areas you see ants is a pretty good way to deal with them
• Bugscope Teambacteria like that -- the bacilli -- are usually about 2 microns, or 2 micrometers, long
• Bugscope Teameventually, however, you will develop ants that particularly like cinnamon
• Teacherants don't like cinnamon I thought they liked sugar stuff?
• Bugscope Teamthey like the sugar part but not the cinnamon by itself\
• Bugscope Teami think the cinnamon drives them away. it might irritate them
• TeacherWhat is the most abundant spider species?
• Bugscope Teamcinnamon doesn't have the sugary stuff in it as a spice. the cinnamon is also a powder, and a lot of powders can dehydrate insects
• Bugscope Teamfor example talc
• Bugscope Teamor borax
• Bugscope Teamyup
• Bugscope Teamprobably some kind of grass spider would be most common
• 3:29 pm
• Bugscope Teamjumping spiders are pretty charismatic
• Bugscope Teamyes as Joe says, what might be the best defense against ants and other insects is something that will stick to them and potentially suck the moisture out of them
• Teacherwhat is the rarest insect you have found or studied?
• Bugscope Teamtoo bad they aren't as common
• Bugscope Teambecause we work with entomologists, sometimes, we help them study unidentified species
• Bugscope Teamhmm, i guess the forcep fly?
• Bugscope Teamonce we had one of six known individuals of a certain Israeli fly in the SEM
• Bugscope Teamthey are largely unknown, and no one has seen their larvae
• Bugscope Teamwhen we put insects in the SEM that are super rare, we do not coat them with gold-palladium like we do most other specimens
• Bugscope Teamit's not technically a fly, it's more related to scorpionflies, which is in a different order than flies like house flies and mosquitoes
• Bugscope Teamdoes it have, like, tiny tweezers?
• Teacherwhat is the most aggressive bee?

• Bugscope TeamAfrican honeybees

• Bugscope Teamyea it's got four wings that are about teh same size, and the males have the end of their abdomen like a earwig
• Bugscope Teamfemales are boring, and look normal
• Bugscope Teameven when they breed with European bees they are super aggressive like they have just had six espressos at one time

• 3:34 pm
• Bugscope Teamor they haven't had their morning coffee yet

• Bugscope Teamthis is the cooolest!
• Bugscope Teamwe will have to finish up so we can help someone take images for a Monday talk, but we will save this and try to get a good large image of it
• Bugscope Teamit's a tiny tiny ant on the leg of a scarab beetle
• Bugscope Teambye! thanks!
• 3:40 pm
• Bugscope TeamNew Caney we need to go. See you next year!
• TeacherThank you so much. This was wonderful as always!
• Bugscope TeamThank You!