PREFACE. 
The season of 1882 was, on the whole, remarkably free from 
wide-spread attacks of insects occurring to any greatly injurious 
extent, with the exception of those of Aphides, which were the 
cause of serious loss, amounting to little less than devastation of 
the Hop crops. 
Reports from many localities, including England, Scotland, 
and the South-west of Ireland, mention that very little harm 
was caused by attack, as, in consequence of the weather being 
generally suitable for plant-growth, the crops held their way 
under moderate injury; and also the amount of rainfall, or of 
showers, was unfavourable to the increase of some kinds of 
insects, and checked the activity by which, in sunshine and 
drought, many of them spread themselves far and wide. For 
this reason, although Turnip Fly, the great cause of loss in 
1881, made its appearance, the increase did not again become a 
general disaster. 
The chief attacks were those of Apple Weevil on the Apple 
blossom in the spring, and some bad cases of local injury from 
Daddy-longlegs grubs; later on the caterpillar of the Winter 
Moth did much harm to leafage; and the circumstance occurred 
(very rarely observed in this country) of attack by Cockchafer 
grubs taking place, to a seriously hurtful extent, on the roots of 
young Pines in plantations extending over a large extent of 
country. 
Wireworm did much harm in a few localities, but not as a 
general pest; and there were also local attacks of Clover, Pea 
and Turnip V/eevils, causing much loss to the respective crops; 
the brunt of the year’s attack, however, fell on the Hops. This 
loss is estimated by Mr. C. Whitehead, of Barming House, near 
Maidstone, as not less to the Hop planters of the United 
