Posts Tagged: Mary Foley Benson
Three Insect-Related Events at Aggie Spirit Week: That's the Spirit!
That's the spirit! What better way to celebrate Aggie Spirit Week, Oct. 10-16, on the UC Davis...
This image shows scientific illustrator Mary Foley Benson at age 21 in 1926 when she was employed by the USDA.
Steve Heydon, senior museum scientist at the Bohart Museum and Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator, confer on a display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Madagascar hissing cockroaches are a popular attraction at the Bohart Museum's live "petting zoo." Visitors can hold, pet and take images of them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A stick insect, aka walking stick, crawls on an arm at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Live insects are part of the museum's petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zeroing in on the Life of Scientific Illustrator Mary Foley Benson
The late Mary Foley Benson would have been proud. Benson, internationally known for her entomology...
Mary Foley (later Mary Foley Benson) at work as a scientific illustrator with the USDA. This image was taken in 1926 when she was 21.
Mary Foley Benson at her home studio in Davis, Calif. (Photo courtesy of the Auburn Journal, Oct. 11, 1981)
UC Davis Art History Graduate Student to Discuss Life of Mary Foley Benson
Srdan Tunic, a UC Davis graduate student studying for his master's degree in art history, will...
Mary Foley as a scientific illustrator for the USDA in 1926 at age 21.
Mary Foley Benson at home in her Davis studio. (Auburn Journal, Oct. 11, 1981)
Bohart Museum of Entomology Sets Special Events for Fall Season
Bohart Museum of Entomology officials have announced their schedule of special weekend...
This is a mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron caementarium. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This work, "Harlequin Bug," is by Mary Foley Benson when she worked as a scientific illustrator for the Smithsonian Institution. It was published in 1952 in "Insects: Yearbook of Agriculture."
This is a flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mary Foley Benson: Master of the Art of Scientific Illustration of Insects and Flowers
(Editor's Note: Forest entomologist Malcolm Furniss of Moscow, Idaho, researched the life of noted...