NOTES OF OBSERVATIONS 
OF 
INJURIOUS INSECTS 
AND 
COMMON CROP PESTS 
During 1884. 
APPLE. 
Winter Moth. Cheimatobia brwnata, Stepli. 
Cheimatobia brumata. 
Winter Moth. Male, winged; female, with abortive wings. 
In the winter of 1888-84 experiment on a large scale was set on 
foot by Mr. W. Charman (gardener to J. G. Straclian, Esq., of Farm 
Hill Park, Stroud, Glos.), relatively to protection of fruit trees from 
the attacks of the very destructive caterpillars of the Winter Moth. 
One of the common kinds of these so-called Winter Moths is 
figured above ; but the one special point in which several of the kinds 
resemble each other, and by acting on which their attack may certainly 
and almost entirely be prevented, is the fact of the female moth 
having the wings so abortive that they are useless to fly with. Con¬ 
sequently (excepting from accidental circumstances) the females have 
to make their way to the branches or twigs, on which they lay their 
eggs, by crawling up the trunks of the trees. 
