Connected on 2019-12-10 08:05:00
from Lawrence, Kansas, United States
- 7:41 am
- bee with mite
- 7:46 am
- 7:52 am
- Bugscope TeamHi Nathan
- 7:58 am
- GuestGood morning, our teacher is unable to log in with the provided password. Is it required to wait until our start time before we can log in?
- GuestDid the bugs we sent arrive in time or are these the backup bugs?
- Bugscope TeamThese are backups. I didn’t receive anything yet
- TeacherHi guys!!
- 8:03 am
- GuestOur teacher is now allowed to get in.
- TeacherWe are so excited about this. Did you get both of our packages?
- Welcome, Jessica.
- StudentHello :)
- StudentHello
- Bugscope TeamHi there!
- TeacherHow does this typically work?
- StudentHey
- Bugscope TeamEither you or a student can be given control to go to a preset we have made (which are on the left)
- StudentWhat is this
- Bugscope TeamLet us know if you want control given to a student, but for now you have control Jessica
- TeacherNathan would like control please. We have several kids who are having tech difficulties so we might have to share devices.
- This is part of the adult tick capitulum (head)+
- 8:08 am
- Oh no, I think i booted Nathan off on accident.
- TeacherHi Cate, we sent two packages of bugs last week.
- TeacherHopefully they arrive by Thursday. We have a bevy of sick kids today so we will have a larger group then.
Bugscope TeamFingers crossed then
- Nathan now has control
- StudentWhat is below the tick?
- StudentIs that skin
- This is the whole adult tick
- StudentWhat is underneath th tick
- Nathan, click on the image you want to see and we can fine tune it...
- TeacherSorry - We keep getting disconnected. Nathan got kicked off and is waiting for his page to load
- 8:13 am
- StudentWe keep getting disconnected
Bugscope TeamSorry. A refresh is the best thing to try. Sometimes it can be slow
- TeacherCould you give control to Madi? She is on.
- The stuff behind the tick is just the silver tape
- Madi has control
- Haller's organ is a complex sensory organ possessed by ticks. The organ detects hosts – which the tick, being an obligate parasite, must find in order to survive
- StudentWhat is the stuff below the tick
Bugscope Teamthe insects/arthropods are mounted on double-stick carbon tape, after which they're coated with gold-palladium
- GuestVibrations.
- TeacherHow does the hallers organ work? Is it heat sensing?
It's a chemo sensory organ, we think it senses CO2
- StudentWhat’s the string looking thing
Bugscope Teamthe things that look like string are tears in the surface of the cuticle
Bugscope Teamassuming that is what you asked about
- 8:18 am
- GuestIs it located on their appendages?
Yes, the front legs
- Bugscope Teamnow we can see the double-stick carbon below the tick
- GuestThis is just cracks in the exoskeleton.
- Bugscope Teamwe have the same delay issues on our end
- Bugscope Teamit's frustrating, and we're working on making things better
- StudentWhy is there spike looking things?
- GuestI am Ewan Ipad not working
- StudentWhat are the cracks/bumps
Bugscope Teamin the background, that is where the carbon double-stick is dried and cracked in the vacuum
- Bugscope Teamthe head parts are called, overall, the capitulum
- TeacherI wonder if there are any applications in science for the hallers organ - like with CO2 monitoring. So cool.
Bugscope Teamone of the entomologists we work with studied the Haller's organ
- Bugscope TeamIt is a lot of cool to see things in science that mimic nature. We have students who work with making things hydrophobic (where they repel water) by copying the structure of a wing
- TeacherYou can see the Hallers organ on the young tick!
- Bugscope Teamthe central part of the head, the part that goes into your skin, is called the hypostome
- Studentcrfhdhcfdgngrcfhhgdhjfdgvxkec
- 8:23 am
- Studentsorry
- Bugscope Teamthe palps, on either side of the hypostome, fold down when the tick buries the hypostome in your skin
- Bugscope Teamhairy spider legs
- StudentWhat is the tent looking thing
- StudentWhat’s the thing on the leg
- TeacherKids- the hair or trichobothria is essential for their survival as they help them sense vibrations
- TeacherAre all spider hairs called trichobothria?
Bugscope Teamprobably not
- StudentWhy is there a hole on the spider leg?
- Bugscope Teamit's interesting that we're not supposed to call them hairs because they're not mammals, but the things that look like hairs are often quite different and have many names: trichae, setae, microsetae, microtrichae, etc.
- StudentWhat’s the thing on the hair
- Bugscope Teamsome spiders, like tarantulas, have what are called urticating hairs that they can project at you
- TeacherIt is beautiful. Do yo think it is there accidentally, after feeding... or does it have a function/was saved for use?
- 8:29 am
- Bugscope Teamtarantulas can shoot urticating hairs right into your eyes, like little spears
- Bugscope Teamnow we'
Bugscope Teamre imaging insect scales up close
- TeacherI read an article once thats thesis was that spiders were the first beings to use tools. Very interesting.
- StudentWhat are the holes on it
- Bugscope Teamthe spacing of the latticework can interfere with the wavelengths of visible light and create structural colors
- TeacherCould we have Nathan's backup PC take control?
- Natahan's backup should have control
- Bugscope Teamthere are other wing scales on the stub that have openings in the latticework
- StudentThank you
- Bugscope Teamit's nice to be connecting with Lawrence KS for the first time
- Bugscope Teamwe ran the first version of Bugscope from 1999 to 2015 and never got to work with Lawrence
- StudentAre those teeth
- TeacherWe are happy to connect! Thanks for taking the time to meet us.
- StudentThank you
- 8:34 am
- StudentCan spiders smell? Like through the nose if there is?
- GuestMost bugs can smell. Smell is more important to them than other senses.
- GuestBut not with a nose in the middle of their face. Usually it's a bunch of sensors all over them.
- StudentOkay
- Bugscope TeamMany insects will sense chemicals (for smell) with special setae
- TeacherDo the 'hairs' help them smell somehow? I feel like I read that somewhere in our research.
- StudentSpiders do not have ears correct.
Most insects hear by vibrations, that's what all the "hairs" are for
- GuestThe spiky balls are pollen or maybe brochosomes, stuck to the spider.
- That's pollen on the spider!
- TeacherThey are amazing.
- 8:40 am
- StudentAre there two different types of pollen
- StudentIt just zoomed out on me. Does someone else have control?
- GuestSorry, I can zoom back in.
- GuestThere you go.
- TeacherAlex would like control if possible.
- StudentNo worries.
- There you go Alex!
- StudentThankYou!
- Bugscope TeamThank you
- GuestThe scope's being a bit slow this morning, just a sec...
- StudentWitch one is the bee
- Bugscope TeamThe spiky pollen is what ragweed looks like
- Sorry, the scope is acting funny. We'll try to get you to the mite on bee.
- 8:46 am
- StudentPlease help
- Sorry I’m late
- StudentI cannot do anything
- How do you control the camera
- Guestthat is a problum
- GuestWe lost the mite, but the bee's eye is pretty sharp here.
- StudentCool
- The scope takes pictures along the way, but we can select an image and snap a photo as well.
- Bugscope TeamWe lost it...maybe it crawled away lol
- StudentWhat is the year and holes there?
- StudentIt’s working
- 8:51 am
- Sorry for the technical difficulties. Still trying to get to the mite on bee
- StudentHi
- GuestScales on the bee. They're like fuzz.
- GuestWhoops, we didn't coat this part enough, so it's charging up with electrons and getting bright.
- StudentHello
- StudentI want control ok
- StudentUmm what is this picture?
- Ewan has control...
- StudentCreeper
- StudentThis guy is cute uwu
- Studentbtw what is "this"
- 8:56 am
- TeacherEwan is having a hard time with his device. It is loading.
- GuestHouse fly
- TeacherThe image is very pixelated.
- Studentwait thats a fly?
- Bugscope TeamIt looks like we are on the moth though
- Studentstrange
- The scope just froze completely! Cate, it isn't responding to console knobs, or gui, or remote from the QuantaIF. Scott's out of the building. I fear that we're done here.
- Bugscope TeamThat bit on the scale looks like some juju- something that doesn’t belong to the moth
- Studenthmmm
- StudentHi again
- StudentIt’s disconnecting me 24/7
- StudentSomething is wrong micro scope not working
- This is the thing the bugs are on inside the scope. Foe something to look at while we work on the scope.
- StudentThe controls on Ewan’s IPad are grayed out...
- Bugscope TeamThe housefly is in the upper right corner of the stub
- StudentMiss. ML I’m going to do this in then
- Bugscope TeamThe crosshairs shows us on the moth
- StudentCan u switch the picture
- Studentin the room
- StudentIt not letting me zoom in
- 9:01 am
- Bugscope TeamYes we can’t zoom in on the overhead picture. Sorry
- Sorry guys, the scope took a header. We can't control the scope either. We have some bugs to work out. You see what I did there?
- TeacherHa! Should we try again on Thursday?
- Yes, we will work out the kinks.
- Until then, make sure to check out the images we took in the Bugscope archived session. Seee you Thursday!
- Bugscope TeamHopefully the samples come in before Thursday
- Thank you guys for all of the great questions! Hopefully Thursday will be smoother.
- 9:11 am
- We are going to log off for now, see you Thursday!