Mary Treat

Mary Lua Adelia Treat was an American naturalist, writer, and correspondent of Charles Darwin. Treat's contributions to both botany and entomology were extensive. She discovered five species of plants and animals that were named for her, including an amaryllis called Zephyranthes treatae, an oak gall wasp species called Belonocnema treatae, and three ant species - Aphaenogaster mariae, Aphaenogaster treatae, and Dolichoderus mariae.