Brown named the fly after Nanak Nihal Weiss, a thirteen-year-old interested in insects who frequents the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County with his father.
She left Canada in 2002 to become Vice President of Public Programs and Director of Content Development at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
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Fosberg worked as a plant researcher at the Los Angeles County Museum, specializing in plants from islands on the coast of California and of the desert Southwest.
Some of the world's prominent museums have gotten items from them, including the National World War II Museum, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and West Point Museum.
The exhibition was organized by critic Jules Langsner for the Los Angeles County Museum (which evolved into the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and also appeared at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).