8-14 Annual Report for 1890 of the Consulting Entomoloyist. 
At the present season the grease or sticky banding is the mattei I 
requiring immediate attention, and it should bo borne in mind that ' 
tar, grease with tar, or " black oil," or petroleum residue in it, 01 
similar matters, should not be allowed to touch the bark ; and, even 
with the most harmless forms of cart-grease, it is safer to apply 
them on grease-proof paper (in the manner advised in previously i 
published reports) than to lay them directly on the bark of the tree. > 
Eleanor A. Ormerod. 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1890 OF THE 
CONSULTING ENTOMOLOGIST. 
During the past year (with the exception of orchard caterpillars 
early in the season) no widespread outbreak of any special kind of 
crop insect pest was observed. Some few kinds of attack have been 
more prevalent than is usually the. case, but on the other hand 
many of our commonly troublesome infestations have been little 
reported. 
Frit Fly. 
Amongst the more special of the corn infestations, that of " Frit 
fly," which was very injurious to young oat plants in 1888, was 
hardly noticed. "Wheat bulb fly, on the contrary, and gout fly 
in barley, did a good deal of mischief where present. Both these 
infestations occur now regularly every year, and it would be very 
desirable if these two seriously injurious attacks could be made the 
subject of special observation. 
Hessian Fly. 
Presence of Hessian fly was widely distributed in England, but 
in Scotland it was only reported to a very limited extent, and the 
absence of report of the infestation there over very large districts 
previously attacked, as well as trustworthy reports of non-observation 
of it in other large areas, was very satisfactory. In every case 
reported to me, where estimates or definite returns were forwarded 
(with perhaps one exception), the amount of mischief caused was 
reported as slight. 
Flour Moth. 
I am sorry to say that the flour moth, or " Mediterranean flour 
moth " as it is now named, the Euphestia Kuhniella, the caterpillars 
of which cause serious harm in wheat mills by clogging the apparatus 
and infesting every spot where flour can lie, and also in stores by 
infesting the meal or flour, appears to be steadily establishing itself 
in this country. The difficulty of checking this very serious attack 
