Mary Treat

Mary Lua Adelia Treat (née Davis; September 7, 1830 – April 11, 1923) 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 , an oak gall wasp species called Belonocnema treatae, and three ant species - Aphaenogaster mariae, , and Dolichoderus mariae.