Connected on 2012-12-19 13:00:00
from Marathon, Wisconsin, United States
- 12:06 pm
- Bugscope Teamsample is pumping down!
- Bugscope Teamwe can see it in the CCD view of the inside of the vacuum chamber
- 12:17 pm
- 12:23 pm
- 12:28 pm
- Bugscope Teamnow we're making today's presets
- 12:34 pm
- 12:40 pm
- 12:45 pm
- Bugscope Teamwe are ready to roll
- 12:57 pm
- Bugscope TeamHello!
- Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope TeamMrs Sinz you have control of the mciroscope.
- Bugscope Teamplease be sure to let us know when you have questions
- Bugscope Teamthis is a small parasitic wasp
- Bugscope TeamHello Rakel!
- Bugscope TeamHi Owen!
- Bugscope TeamJaidyn and Jenny, Hello!
- Bugscope TeamHi Rebecca!
- Bugscope TeamHello Collin!
- Bugscope Teamhi Carolynn!
- Bugscope Teamhi everyone!
- Bugscope Teamthis is the yellowjacket's stinger; you can see a scale from a moth or butterfly on the left
- TeacherHello Scott!
Bugscope TeamHello Mrs Sinz!
- Bugscope Teamthe actual stinger is to the right, or in the center, and it is bent at the tip
- TeacherThank you for being with us today!
- TeacherVery neat! We are just getting settled...we will have questions from you very soon!
Bugscope Teamsuper cool
- 1:02 pm
- Bugscope TeamHi Kalvin!
- Bugscope Teamand Hello to Mrs Hamman's Class!
- Studenthow much does this weigh?
Bugscope Teamprobably around a gram -- you mean the yellowjacket?
- StudentHOW HARD CAN A YELLOWJACKET STING?
Bugscope Teamit can sting repeatedly but does not have a large stinger; probably not as bad as a honeybee
- GuestHow many bugs do you know?
Bugscope Teamwe haven't seen every species but we have seen most of the general types of insects, like a lot of different types of wasps, beetles, bees, true bugs, flies, etc. We are pretty good at identifyng them
- GuestO.K.
- Guestwhats the most interesting animal you ever magnihged
Bugscope TeamI think weevils are really cool, and also these tiny insects -- the collembola -- called hexapods
- Bugscope TeamCollembola are springtails
- GuestWhat kind of bugs have you seen?
Bugscope Teamlots of different kinds, and we prefer the smaller ones
- Studentyes scott
Bugscope Teamyeah I think about 1 gram; we can look it up, maybe...
Bugscope Teambumblebees weight around half a gram, so this might be less
Bugscope TeamI bet you are right; a gram would be a hefty little yellowjacket
- 1:07 pm
- Studentwhat do you eat.
Bugscope Teama lot of salads and a lot of fish
- StudentHi scott
Bugscope TeamKalvin!
- Bugscope Teamthis is the cricket
- GuestHave you ever seen a lizerd.
Bugscope Teamyes we have put a small dried lizard in the microscope before. I don't think it looked very good. We have also images gecko toes
- Studenthave you ever seen a frog
Bugscope Teamnot this way, not in the scanning electron microscope, except a long time ago as an embryo
- Studentwhat do you eat
- GuestWOW that looks cool!
- Studentit looks kind of creepy and cool.
Bugscope Teamit has some dried fluids on its face -- kind of oily. you can see one of its compound eyes to the left
- GuestWhat do crickets eat?
- Studentyes we have seen a frog kelvin.
- Bugscope Teamwe like to image insects because their exoskeleton keeps the same shape, mostly, when the insect is dried
- Guestwhat tools have you used
Bugscope Teamwe work with all kinds of microscopes down here -- it's our job to teach students to use microscopes to perform their research
- Studentwhere are the eyes on this cricket
Bugscope Teamyou can see one round part to the left of the image
- Studenthow big is a bugs claw
- Studenthave you ever taken a bug apart.
- StudentDOES A CRICKET HAVE ANY BOSE? WHERE?
Bugscope Teama nose? insects do not really have noses; they use some of the chemosensory setae, and especially those on the antennae, to smell
- 1:12 pm
- Studentwhat is the biggist cricket you ever saw
Bugscope Teamit was probably a jerusalem cricket.
- Studentis the cricet alive or dead.
Bugscope Teamthey are all dead in the microscope chamber
- Studentdo crickets have teeth
Bugscope Teamnot really; they do have hardened mouthparts, but they're made of chitin that may have zinc or another mineral in it that makes it stronger
- GuestDo crickets have any teeth?
Bugscope Teamno but they do have little mandibles (jaws) that open up like a gate
- Studentis a CRIKET harmful?
Bugscope Teamusually not at all
- Studentwhat is your favorite bug\
Bugscope TeamI like weevils, and also leafhoppers, and earwigs because they often have mites
- Studenthow far can a cricket jump
Bugscope Teamreally it depends, but some can jump several feet no problem
- Studenthave you duscoverd a dinasor bone
Bugscope Teamno we havent
- Studentcool.
- StudentWhat is the bugs name?
Bugscope Teamthis one is an ambush bug, and it is a leaf mimic
- Studentdoes it have teeth?
- Studentwhy is it called a ambush bug claw
- Studenthow sharp is the claw
Bugscope Teamwe can see that it looks pretty sharp, but it is so small it cannot cut into your skin
- Studentwhere is the face
- Student where is its face
- Studenthow sharp is it.
- Studentwhy is the claw curved like that?
- GuestWhy does it have horns?
Bugscope Teamthe horns are the actual claws; they open and close; claws on insects are used much like the way we use our hands
- StudentWhat are those horn looking things?
Bugscope Teamthose are claws. You can find them at the end of all insect legs
- Student COOL!
- GuestHow many bones does the a ambush have
Bugscope Teamthey have what is called an 'exoskeleton,' which is like a shell, like a shrimp shell, for example
- Studentare those antlers?
Bugscope Teamno these claws are more like insect hands
- StudentSWEET
- StudentDoes it have ears?
Bugscope Teampraying mantises have a single ear in the center of the thorax, but most insects do not have what we think of as ears
- Studentsweet//
- Studentare those prickles?
- Studentwhat is a ambush bug
- Studentsweety
- StudentCOOL
- StudentHow big is the bug
- Studenthow many spikes are there
- Student1
- StudentWhere does it live?
- 1:17 pm
- Studentsweet1
- Studentsweet.
- GuestHow many inches is a gnats claw?
Bugscope Teamit would be measured in microns, which are thousandths of millimeters, and probably 50 to 60 of those
- Studenthow big is their bones
Bugscope Teaminsects don't have bones. They have a shell that covers the outside of their body called an exoskeleton
- Studentwhat is the biggest bug you seen\
Bugscope Teamwalking sticks, and also some stuffed beetles that are almost as big as a child's fist
- GuestWhat does an ambush bug eat ?
Bugscope Teamit hides and stalks other insects
- GuestWhat are thoses spikey things on him?
Bugscope Teamthose are setae, or insect hairs. They help the insect sense what is going on around it- like sense of touch
- StudentWhere does the bug live?
Bugscope Teamin bushes, trees, grass
- Studentwhere does it lay eggs
Bugscope Teamnot sure; perhaps on a branch or rock, in a safe place
- StudentWhere are the eyes
- Studentare those eggs?
Bugscope Teamno- though they do look like eggs. These are pollen grains
- Studentis that a gearm
- StudentWhat does eat?
Bugscope Teamthe ambush bug sucks the hemolymph out of its prey; hemolymph is like blood
- StudentIs that really pollen
- Studentis the polin in water
- Studentwhat is a willy pollin
Bugscope Teamit's from a lily -- the flower
- StudentWhy does it make people sneeze?
- Guestwhat does the lily pollen do?
- Studentwhy does it like cantelope
- Bugscope Teamambush bugs can also bite humans. It can hurt like a sting
- Studenthow big are they?
- StudentWher dos
- GuestWhat are thoses holes?
Bugscope Teamthose are indentations; they make the pollen grain more sturdy and also more likely to stick to things
- Studenthow many cells do they have?
- Guest Were do lilly pollen come from?
Bugscope Teamwhen someone gets flowers we ask if we can have the anthers
- Studentare they siting on a leaf.
- Studenthow big are they?
- Studentis that a crack
Bugscope Teamthe crack in the background? They are sitting on carbon tape, and it does look like there is a crack in it
- Studentwhere do they get there pollen?
- Guesthow small are the lily pollens!
Bugscope Teamyou can see the scale bar is around 100 microns, which is about as big as they are
- Bugscope Teammicrons are micrometers
- 1:23 pm
- GuestWhy is it cracked?
Bugscope Teamthey all have a slit in them like that
- Studentare they siting on a leaf?
Bugscope Teamthey are on doublestick carbon tape; Cate made the sample today, and everything is on that same sticky tape
- Studentdoes it live
Bugscope Teampollen fertilizes flowers, and that is how you get fruit, seeds, and more plants
- Studentwhat kind of spider fang is that
Bugscope Teamit was a reddish spider we found in the lab
- GuestAre they big or small?
Bugscope Teamthese are very small still.
- Studentwas it from the ocean
Bugscope Teamnot really sure
- Guest how does it surive in winter
- GuestWhat is it lifecycle?
- Studentwhat is that bug?
Bugscope Teamthis is an aphid, which is a plant pest
- StudentIs it a bee and does it have a stinger?
- StudentHow many eggs does it lay?
- Studentis that a sort of beetle
- Guestwhat does it eat?
Bugscope Teamthey stick their probosces (the pointy part of the mouth) into stems and leaves and drink that
- Studentdoes it have a stinger?
- GuestIs the flying aphid harry?
Bugscope Teamnot too hairy, but it has lots of setae (which look like hair) that help it sense its environment
- Studenthow is it born
- Studentdoes it suck blood
Bugscope Teamin a way, it sucks plant blood
- Guestdoes it drink pollen?
- Studentis it abee?
- StudentHow many eggs does it lay a year?
- StudentIs it a cosin to the bee?
Bugscope Teamvery distant not really related
- Studentwhats the life cycle
- Studentis that a fly
- Bugscope Teambees, wasps, and ants are related
- 1:28 pm
- Studentwhats the life cycle
- Guest How is it born?
- StudentWhat it is it`s life cycle?
Bugscope Teamfirst there are eggs, which are female. Then the eggs hatch and the females from them give birth to live nymphs, which are usually females, unless the temperatures are right. If there is no more room in the colony, then the female will give birth to winged females so that the winged females can colonate somewhere else
- Studenthow does the flying aphid change in its life cyle
- Studentwhat hapens 2 in his lifecyle
- Studentit goes throw birth,growth,adaption and death.
- Guestwhat part of its body gets uased the most?
Bugscope Teamperhaps the mouth, or the legs that it uses to get around; they likely don't fly much
- Studentit grows
- Studenthow does it change during it's lifecycle
- StudentCan they survive the winter?
- GuestWhere does it live?
- Studentdoes it go in camoflouge
- StudentWhat did it look like as a baby
Bugscope Teamsome aphids look just like this when they are born -- some come from eggs and some are live births
- Studentdoes it lay eggs
Bugscope Teamsome do. the temperature has to be right
- GuestWhat do flying aphids eat ?
Bugscope Teamany type of plant pretty much
- GuestWHAT EATS AN FLYING APHID
Bugscope Teamalmost anything, like a bat or bird or other insect like a dragonfly
- GuestWhat is its lifecycle?
- Studentdoes it lay eggs?
- Studentwhat is its life cycle
- Studentgood one
- Bugscope Teamthe aphids are really good examples of adapting, which is why they are such formidable plant pests
- Studentwhat do you like about a life cycle
Bugscope Teamthe aphid one is interesting because they can come from eggs or be live births, and also, when they feel stress, the next generation may have wings
- Studentwhere is its mouth
- Studentwhat is its home
Bugscope Teamthey live on plants all over the world
- Studentwhat is that thing? it looks like a plant and like a rose.
- StudentIs that an intena?
- Teacherwhat is a haltere?
Bugscope Teamthey beat opposite the wings to make the fly balance when in flight
- GuestIs it a plant?
- GuestDoes it start from a seed?
Bugscope TeamI guess an egg is kind of like a seed
- Studentdoes it feed on pollen?
Bugscope Teamno they drink sap
- GuestWhat kind of plant is it?
- Studentit looks mean
- GuestWHATS A LIFECYCLE OF A HALERRE
Bugscope Teamthe haltere is part of a dipteran, a fly
- Studentis it a plant
- Studentwhy is that so furry
- Studentis it a animal? what is its habitat?
- 1:33 pm
- Guest what is its habitat?
- Studentis it sort of a plant?
- StudentHow many wings does it have?
Bugscope Teamflies have 2 wings- one pair of wings
- Studentwhat kind of animal is it?
- Bugscope Teama haltere is a modified hindwing that serves to keep a fly balanced in the air, when it flies
- Studentneet!
- Studentwhat is a haltere
- Guestis the haltere a mamle?
- Teacheris this on all flying insects?
Bugscope Teamonly on two-winged insects -- only on flies
- Bugscope Teamso flies are from the Diptera family; diptera means (di ptera) two wings
- StudentCOO
- Studentwhat does it eat
- GuestWHATS A LIFECYCLE OF A HALERRE
- GuestI did not know that it is not a plant!
- Bugscope TeamI'm sorry -- to be correct, Diptera is an order
- Guestis it a femaie or a male or both?
- Studentwhat is it made of?
- StudentHave you seen it in real life?
- StudentHow long do they live?
- TeacherHow do other flying insects balance in flight?
Bugscope Teamapparently they have other mechanisms for maintaing balance; that is a good question
- Bugscope Teammaintaining...
- Studenthow much does a fly wheigh
- Studenti thout the fly had five wings
Bugscope Teamthey have two wings and two halteres, and these things called calypters
- StudentmamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamammamamamamamamamamamamaMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMmamamamamamamamamamma?
- StudentDoes it have a moth?
- Studentmamamamamamamamamamamamm\
- Studentis it a mammal?
Bugscope Teamno. mammals are vertebrates, which means that they have backbones; insects and lots of other 'primitive' animals do not have backbones and are called invertebrates
- Studentwhat dose it eat
- 1:38 pm
- Studenthow does it work?
Bugscope Teamthere is a kind of autosensing mechanism, toward the base of the haltere, that helps it beat opposite the way the wings beat
- Studentwhat is that
- Studentwhat is a stylet?
- GuestWhat is a styelt?
- Guesthow much does a full grown
- Studentwhat is it's lifecycle
- Studentwhere does it live?
- StudentWhat is a stylet
Bugscope Teamit's the part that pierces the plant or insect it eats from.
- StudentWhat are those tentical looking things?
- Guestwhat does it eat?
- Studentwhat is a stylet
Bugscope Teamit is a sharp, needle-like part of the stinger, or sometimes the proboscis, that penetrates another insect, or a mammal, or a plant
- Studentwhere does it live?
- Studentwhat is its adaptashon
- Guestis it a bug?
- Studentwhere is its body and what is it
Bugscope Teamthis is the ambush bug; I can change the mag and show you where we are
- Studentsweet!
- Studentwhat are those things hanging down
- Studentcan it hert you?
Bugscope Teamyes it could. It would sting a bit
- Guesthow does it move?
- StudentWhere does it sleep at night?
- Bugscope Teamnow we see the body of the ambush bug
- StudentDo they live in water?
- GuestIs its lifecycle weard?
- Studentdoes it have claws
Bugscope Teamyes it does
- Guestdoes it give birth?
- Studentwear is that locaded on earth
Bugscope Teamall over except maybe not in Antarctica
- Studentwhere does it have claws
- Guest Where does it live?
- Studentwhy does it have hair?
- StudentWhat is the size of it?
Bugscope Teamthis is an inch or so long and can be still longer
- Studentis that its back?
Bugscope Teamwe are looking at the ventral side, which is the underside of the insect
- Studentwhat is this part of body?
Bugscope Teamthis is the abdomen
- Guesthow does it give birth?
Bugscope Teameggs
- Student+
- Studentwhere does it have claws
Bugscope Teamat the tips of all six legs
- StudentHow big can they get?
Bugscope Teammore than two inches long
- StudentWhat does it eat?
- 1:43 pm
- Studentwhy does it have hair
Bugscope Teamthe hair, which we are supposed to call 'setae,' is sensory -- it helps the insect sense its environment
- Studentis that the belly or its back that he scraching
- Studentwhat is the oldest part on the body
Bugscope Teamwhoa I am not sure; ti is really all about the same age
- Studentwhy is it called that
- GuestHow big is the bugs claw?
- Guest does it fly
Bugscope Teamsome of these do and some do not; when they fly it is not very well or very far
- Studentdoes it effect anything?
- GuestWhat is its speisies?
- Studentis thata arme?
- Studenthow long is it?
- Studentwhy is it called that
- Studentwhat kind of bug is it related to?
Bugscope Teaman aphid is related to the ambush bug or cicada
- Bugscope Teamwhat we are looking at now is the claw of an aphid, and they are related to ambush bugs -- they are both true bugs
- StudentWhat color is it?
- StudentHow long can it live for?
- Guestwhat is a aphid ?
Bugscope Teamit is a tiny insect that is a plant pest and sucks the sap from leaves and stems
- Studenthow many more are there on earth
- GuestHow old can a aphid bug live up to?
- GuestWhere does it sleep?
Bugscope Teamthey don't sleep like we do but go into a phase in which they are still, for awhile
- GuestHowbig is the bug?
Bugscope Teamit's around 100 micrometers big
- StudentWhat is the fist adaption?
Bugscope Teamthat is hard to tell, it may be a sensitivity to light, or to heat
- Studenthow many more are there on earth
Bugscope Teammillions; there are millions of species of insects we have not found yet
- GuestIs it very long?
- StudentOH
- Studentwhat are some plant lifecycles
- StudentIs that a arm?
- Studentwhy does is it so spikey
- Guestwhat is it,s prey?
Bugscope Teamit eats plants
- Studentis he in a branch and is he a catapiler
Bugscope Teamcaterpillars are larval insects -- they are in a life stage that comes before they become adults
- 1:48 pm
- Studentwhat age is it
Bugscope Teamprobably it is a few weeks old
- StudentHow big can it get?
- StudentDOSE IT SLEEP IN THE DAY
Bugscope Teamthey may be sort of dormant but do not really sleep
- Studentdoes it lay eggs?
Bugscope Teamyes but they also have babies through live birth
- Studentwhat are those sharp things poping out
Bugscope Teamthe claws, and also setae or spines that help it feel and smell and taste and sense hot/cold
- Studentcan it servive the winter
- GuestWhy does it have claws?
Bugscope Teamsort of the same reason we have hands; it is helpful to be able to grasp things
- Studentis that a baby?
- Studenthow many more are there on earth
- StudentIs it going to get any bigger?
Bugscope Teamnot really; once they become adults they can get a bit larger around but do not continue to grow
- GuestDoes an aphid have spickes?
- Guestdoes it have a sent of smell?
Bugscope Teamyes they do have a sense of smell; to insects, chemical senses are often very important
- Studentwear do they live?
Bugscope Teamalmost everywhere there are plants
- Studentare those the catapilers fangs
Bugscope Teamno and caterpillars don't have fangs. They have very big mandibles to chew their food
- Studenthow many more are there on earth
Bugscope Teamtrillions upon trillions
- Guestwhere does survive in the summer?
- Studentwhats its favrot food
Bugscope Teamsap
- Guestdoes it live in water
Bugscope Teamthey do not live in water or have an aqueous part to their life cycle as far as I know
- Guestcan it smell are kind of food?
- 1:53 pm
- StudentDo they ever go out of water?
Bugscope Teamthey live on plants and can get wet but cannot live underwater
- Student is it posines?
- StudentWhat are those holes?
- GuestIs an aphid bug harmlus?
Bugscope Teamno they are bad plant pests
- Guestwhat are the little dots?
- Studentwhere does it live
- Teachersensaille- what is that?
Bugscope Teamthey pick up chemical signals from other wasps
Bugscope Teamsensilla is singular, sensillae is plural
- Studentwhere does it live
- StudentWhat does it eat
- Studentwhy IS COLD ISIT COLD ITS NAME
- Studentdoes it have a sent of smell
- Student Do they fly?
- Studenthow many speshies of beetles are there
Bugscope Teampresently there are said to be 400,000 species of beetle
- Guestdo they have a good sense of smell?
Bugscope Teamyes for certain smells/chemicals
- GuestThank you
- Studenthow does it sens danger
- StudentAre those egges?
Bugscope Teamthe things poking out are types of hairs
- Student thank you for your time
- StudentBYE
- TeacherThank you for your time! We need to go to another class at 2:00. We appreciate you answering all of our "diverse" questions. :)
Bugscope TeamThis was a lot of fun for us. Thank you for connecting today!
- Bugscope Teamplease be sure to come back in the spring, or next year
- TeacherHave a great afternoon!
Bugscope TeamYou too!
- Teachersounds great!
- StudentBye
Bugscope TeamBye!
- TeacherBye.
- Bugscope TeamThank you, everyone!