Escuela Secundaria Agraria de Azul
Session 2012-092

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Transcript

Connected on 2013-04-24 08:00:00 from Azul, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• 7:28 am
• Teacherhi!
• Bugscope TeamHi Juan!
• Bugscope TeamWe'll have the sample in the 'scope in just a few minutes and then make a few presets.
• TeacherOk scot, i'm testing the netbooks before the session
• Bugscope TeamI'm running back and forth between the lab and the microscope...
• Bugscope Teamsuper cool
• Teacherdon't worry! i'll wait
• 7:33 am
• Bugscope Teamyou'll see me in a few seconds
• Teacherwhen you have some time, please tell me wich specimens are on the plate
• Bugscope Teammosquito, beetles, houseflies, crane fly, stinkbug body, ants, Monarch wing, parasitoid wasp, pollen
• Bugscope Teamwe don't know what will look good until we see it up close; that is, not everything will look good
• Bugscope Teamthe ants are so small that they cannot be placed easily, so they're often mashed or in odd configurations -- or they charge up with electrons and look tres terrible
• 7:39 am
• Bugscope Teamnow we're waiting for the vacuum to get to the right level
• Teacherok scott
• Bugscope Teamsorry to be running a bit late
• Bugscope Teamyou should be able to check the netbooks
• Teacherdon't worry scott
• Teacheri'm testing the nets rigth now
• Bugscope Teamyou'll see the sample stage move
• Bugscope Teamif you click on the screen
• Bugscope Teamvacuum is at 1.7 x 10-4 mbar; we're going for 1.3
• Bugscope Team1.6
• Bugscope Team1.5
• Bugscope Teamonce it gets down I'll turn the beam on, make a couple of small adjustments, and capture some presets
• 7:46 am
• Bugscope Team1.4
• Bugscope Teamlike waiting for water to boil
• Teacherscot, i will log off a few seconds
• Bugscope Teamdon't need to from our perspective

• 7:51 am

• 7:57 am

• Teacherhi scot, i'm back
• Teacherthe kids will login in a few seconds

• Bugscope Teamsuper cool
• Bugscope Teamtip of 'squito proboscis

• 8:02 am

• Bugscope TeamHello Everyone! Welcome to Bugscope!

• StudentHELLO
• Studenthello
• Bugscope TeamHello Franco y Leo!
• StudentHello Scot!
• Studenthello
• Studenthello!
• Studenthello scot
• StudentHello Scot
• Bugscope TeamHello Mailen! I'm sorry I don't have accents on this keyboard.
• Studenthello scot
• Studenthello
• StudentHELLO SCOT
• 8:07 am

• Studentgood morning
• Bugscope TeamI'm sorry I cannot type fast enough to say hello to everyone individually
• Studenthow are you?
• Teacherok scott, are you ready?

• StudentCAN WE LOOK AT PLASE
• Bugscope Teamyeah as soon as the weevil comes in
• Bugscope Teamthere it is!
• Bugscope Teamready to roll!
• Bugscope TeamJuan you have control of the microscope, presently.
• Bugscope TeamColo y Melli what did you want to see?

• Bugscope TeamI think weevils are cool looking

• StudentHi!

• Bugscope TeamHi Silvia, and Hello Paz!
• Bugscope TeamHello Ale y Nathan!
• Studentthe head of the ant
• Bugscope TeamHello Acta, and hello Juan

• Bugscope TeamColo and Melli we will have to look for one of the ants.
• 8:12 am
• Bugscope TeamIn the meantime you have found a wild-looking beetle.
• Teacherscott, please give control to valen y guada
• Bugscope TeamValen and Guada are the supreme rulers
• Bugscope Teamone of this beetle's antennae is missing

• Bugscope Teamit has super spikey mandibles
• Bugscope Teamits eyes are on the sides of its head, streamlined into the shape of the head

• Studentcan we look eyes plase

• Bugscope Teamask Valen and Guada to move to the edge of the head, if they can
• Studentscot please can we see the eyes of the bee
• Bugscope Teamby clicking on the image, whoever is driving can center the 'scope on that particular place

• Bugscope TeamFran and Melli your classmates are driving right now...
• Bugscope TeamBut Joe or I can help when someone needs help.
• Bugscope Teamfancy setae at the mouth
• Bugscope Teamnow you can see the compound eye on the beetle's head
• Bugscope Teamyeah it is an awesome looking beetle
• 8:17 am
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the individual facets of the compound eye
• Teacherscot can you take a picture of this image ?

• Bugscope Teameach of those hexagons are a unit called ommatidium, they each have a lens
• Bugscope Teamyou are collecting images as we work
• Bugscope Teamthese work together to create a complete picture for the insect
• Teacherthanks scott
• Teacherscot, please give control to mailen
• Bugscope Teamthis page http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2012-092 is updating constantly and has the chat and images on it
• Bugscope Teamwhat they end up with is a mosaic of sorts, similar to a pixellated picture
• Bugscope TeamMailen is the supreme ruler now

• StudentCan you focus on the wings of the bee
• StudentHow many degrees can the eye see

• Bugscope TeamMailen it depends but likely 240 degrees or so around the head
• 8:22 am
• Studenthow many parts does the ant´s mouth have?
• Bugscope Teammany flying insects also have simple eyes on the back of the head
• Bugscope Teamsome insects like the dragonfly can see nearly 360 degrees around
• Bugscope TeamAye and Jose it has two mandibles, four palps, a clypeus and a frons, but there are other parts I am not sure about
• Teacherscot, can you load the wasp ?
• Bugscope Teamthis beetle has a mouth in some ways similar to an ant

• Teacherscot, please give control to colo and melli
• Bugscope Teamhere we can see, on the right (a la derecha?) a dome that is one of the ocelli
• Bugscope Teamyou can see one of those simple eyes scot talked about
• Bugscope Teambehind the compound eye
• Bugscope Teamthe weird bump there
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the antennae and also the palps
• Bugscope TeamJoseph is an entomologist.
• Teacherscot, please give control to colo and melli
• Studentthere is a beetle? for near the sting
• Bugscope Teamalright Colo and Melli you are the jefes of the 'scope

• Bugscope Teamthe large beetle has something that looks like a stinger, likely an ovipositor, Franco & Leo

• 8:28 am

• Bugscope Teamyou can see now that there are loose scales from another insect on the compound eye and also the pedicel of the antenna
• Bugscope Teamnow you have one of the ocelli centered

• Bugscope Teamyou can see two ocelli now
• Bugscope Teamif you want to see the wings they will be further south of here
• Bugscope Teamthe wrinkly crater in the background is a bubble in the doublestick tape
• Bugscope Teamants, bees, and wasps are related
• Teacherscot, please give control to ale y nathan
• Studentthanks
• Bugscope Teamsuoer cool -- Ale and Nathan are now the supreme rulers
• Bugscope Teamuh super cool..
• Studenthow many eyes are there in the composite eyes
• Studentdoes the ant have hair on its thorax?
• Bugscope TeamAle and Nathan there are a few thousand; a large hornet can have as many as 17,000 per eye
• Bugscope Teamthat depends on the species, some will have very little, maybe seven or so, and others can have 10s of thousands

• Bugscope Teamyes ants have hair (often called setae) on their thoraces

• Student scot please can we see the mouth of a mosquito?
• Bugscope Teaminsects have lots of setae because they use them to sense their environment
• Bugscope TeamFran y Melli ask Ale and Nathan to click on the mosquito...

• 8:33 am

• Bugscope Teaminsects do not have skin like we do -- instead they have a shell, called an exoskeleton
• Bugscope Teamthis is the beetle

• Bugscope Teamthe insects have an exoskeleton, it's as if they're constanly wearing armor

• Studentplease how many parts does the mosquito mouth have ?

• Bugscope Teambecause insects do not have skin, they have tiny hairs called setae that stick through the shell and let them sense what is around them

• Bugscope Teamthey have the same number of parts as the other insects

• Bugscope TeamOcta y Juan if we were able to see the fascicle, it usually has four sharp stylets, a siphon tube through which the blood flows, and another component that seems to wrap around the other parts
• Studentcan focus on a scourge of the mosquito
• Bugscope Teamthe fascicle is inside the tube we see now at the bottom of the screen
• Bugscope Teamonly here they have been modified, so that they are in a different form, allowing them to suck blood

• Bugscope Teamabove is the antenna, and we can tell it is a female antenna

• Studenthow many parts does the bee leg have?
• Teacherscot, please give control to franco y lea
• Bugscope Teamthey have control
• 8:39 am

• Bugscope Teamthe bee will have a claw, I think five tarsi, a basitarsus, a tibia, a femur, a trochanter, and a coxa
• StudentHow can tell it is a female antennae?

• Studenthow cam telle it is a femela antennae

• Bugscope TeamMailen and Fran y Melli we can tell because it is not ornate like a male's antenna

• Bugscope Teammale mosquitoes have frilly antennae, as do some moths

• Bugscope Teamwhen we see the specimen glow like this it is because it is charging up with the electrons we are using to collect the images

• Bugscope Teamthese are the scales that rub off when you touch a butterfly or moths wings

• Bugscope Teamwe use a sputter coater to put a thin layer of gold-palladium alloy on the specimens, and sometimes that is not enough to make them fully conductive

• Studentcan focus on the mesothorax
• Studentbecause the butterflay wuing has holes

• Bugscope Teamsome of these are coloured by pigments, the grooves and microstructures you see can also contribute to its colours
• Bugscope Teamwe also use silver paint to help ground the specimens
• Studentplease

• Bugscope Teamscales can give color to the moth or butterfly. they also help the insect to escape from spider webs when the insect can shake the scales loose
• Studentcan we see the pedicel of the wasp?
• Bugscope TeamAye and Jose now have control!
• Teacherhi cate, thanks for your help
• 8:44 am
• Bugscope Teamit's the reason some insects are iridescent
• Bugscope TeamValen ask Aye and Jose to click on the wasp preset
• Studentthanks for giving us was incredible control

• Student can we seethe polen sacks
• Bugscope Teamsometimes male and female butterfly wings look very similar to us, but to the butterflies males and females look quite different because the scales produce colors in the ultraviolet wavelengths that we cannot see
• Bugscope TeamHey no problem, Thank you, Franco y Leo!
• Bugscope Teambecause we do not have a bee in the microscope we are not able to show you the pollen baskets
• Studenthow long can housefly head live?
• Teacherscot, please give control to alejo y santiagp
• Teachersantiago
• Bugscope TeamI think they live, generally, about 6 weeks
• Bugscope TeamAlejo and Santiago have control now.

• 8:49 am

• Studenthow long a butterfly live?

• Bugscope Teamthat depends. Most live for a few months
• Bugscope Teamthere are some migrating monarchs that can live for around a year though
• Bugscope Teamhmm, yea about a month or two usually
• Bugscope Teamthis is the fly's mouth
• Teacherscot, please give control to agus y tomi
• Bugscope Teamit has sponging mouthparts

• Bugscope TeamAgus y Tomi have control now.

• Bugscope Teamthis is a pair of claws on a large beetle
• Bugscope Teamone of the claws looks like it is bent outward

• Bugscope Teamsuper cool Franco y Leo

• StudentThanks scot.
• Teacherscot, please give control to octa y juan
• Bugscope TeamOcta y Juan are now the bosses.
• Studentcan show the palps
• 8:54 am
• Bugscope Teamask Octa and Juan to click on the beetle head...
• Studentwhy do the wings of insects have lines?
• Bugscope Teamfrom the presets...
• Bugscope Teamthe wings have tiny setae on them called microsetae, usually, and they also have veins in them that follow a kind of branching pattern

• Studenthow many legs does the beetle

• Studenthow many eyes are in the compound eye of the bee
• Bugscope Teamthey have 6 legs
• Studenthow long ar the legs of a beethe

• Bugscope Teamthe beetle has 6 legs, as do all insects
• Bugscope Teamthe veins can be pumped up with hemolymph, for example as the insect is metamophosing into an adult

• Bugscope Teamthe length of the legs depend on the species

• Studenthow clong are legs of a beetle

• Bugscope Teamsome like the harlequin beetle will have extremely long forelegs
• Bugscope TeamColo y Melli it just depends on the beetle

• Studentwhere the beetle eats

• Bugscope Teamthat also depends

• Studentfew parts have the legs of the wasp?

• Studentthat depends
• Studenthow many eyes are in the compound eye of the bee
• Bugscope Teamothers like a dung beetle are detritovores

• 8:59 am
• Bugscope Teamwasp legs have tarsi, a tibia, a femur, a trochanter, and a coxa; I am not sure if they have a basitarsus as well
• Bugscope Teamthe feed on decaying organic matter
• Bugscope Teamthese ommatidia are shrunken
• Bugscope Teamit makes them look like little stars

• Studentok ok
• Studentscot please because the wasp elojo hexagonal shaped ?
• Bugscope Teamhexagon is the best shape to fit as many of the facets as possible in the curvature of the eye.
• Bugscope TeamOcta y Juan the facets of the eye, called ommatidia, are often hexagonal because that happens to be the best shape for stacking what are essentially round objects into a dome shape. Um as Cate said...
• StudentBreathe where ormigas
• Studentthanks for answering my question scot
• StudentSCOT, we are in an interview with a channel here! :)
• Studentscot, which is focused on the microscope, it is?
• Bugscope TeamOrmigas breathe through spiracles, like other insects.
• 9:04 am
• Bugscope TeamAgus y Tomi this is the cranefly's eye, up close.
• Bugscope Teamnow you can see where we are!
• Studenthexagon is the best shape to fit as many of the facets as possible in the curvature of the eye.
• Bugscope Teamthis is the head of the crane fly, which looks like a giant mosquito

• Bugscope Teamyup like a soccer ball
• Bugscope TeamOcta y Juan that is correct -- thank you!

• Bugscope Teamexcept without the pentagons

• Bugscope Team*football
• Bugscope Teamplease say Hello to the interview people!
• Studentthis meeting has been super computer had a really good time thanks till then a hug from both
• Bugscope Teamyou are famous!
• Studentall insects have compound eyes
• Bugscope TeamAww Thank You, Franco y Leo!
• Teacherguys, thank you very much
• StudentThank you very much.
• StudentThank you very much!!!!
• Bugscope Teamthank you!
• Bugscope TeamAle and Nathan some insects have simple eyes only, and some do not have eyes at all.
• Bugscope Teamglad you had a good time
• Bugscope TeamThank you, Everyone!
• Studentthank you very much
• StudentBye, thank you very much.1
• Bugscope Teamthanks!
• StudentBye, we hope this experience will be repeated, thank you very much!
• Teacherclass, say thanks to scot, joseph and cate
• Studentscot thanks, bye
• Bugscope Teamthis is the first time we have officially connected with Argentina -- so it is very exciting for us!
• Studentthank you very much
• Studentthank you very much¡¡¡¡¡
• Teacherthe american embassy in argentina is deligthed with the project
• Bugscope TeamBye Everyone! Bye Priscila, y Mailen, y Silvia y Paz...
• Bugscope Teamhave a good day!
• Bugscope Teambye!
• 9:09 am
• Teacherthanks guys! it was a wonderful experience
• Bugscope Teamsweet.
• Studentthank you very much
• Bugscope Teamhttp://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2012-092
• StudentBye!!! tank you very mucht!
• Studentthank you very much scot,cate y joseph for your teaching.Hope to hear from you soon
• Bugscope TeamThank you, Octa y Juan!
• Studentwe are very happy to have communicated with you..!!
• Bugscope TeamSee you next year!
• Bugscope TeamThank you, Silvia y Paz -- so much fun for us!
• Bugscope TeamGracias Fran y Melli!
• Bugscope TeamGood Bye everyone!
• 10:58 pm
• Bugscope TeamSuper Cool!
• StudentVery soon we will be communicated
• Studentthank you is the first time we connect with another country