Molecular geneticist and physiologist Joanna Chiu, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology--and internationally recognized for her research on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate circadian and seasonal biology and on invasive species genomics--will be celebrated as a newly selected Fellow at the Entomological Society of America (ESA) plenary session on Sunday, Nov. 9.

The 58 students in a fall quarter UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology class, ENT 010, not only learned “The Natural History of Insects” but they learned how to produce  “infomercials,” spotlighting such insects as honey bees,  stingless bees, fungus-growing ants, jewel wasps and blow flies.

The infomercials also include insect migration, insect sociality, and entomophagy (consumption of insects). They range in duration from two-to-five-minutes.