By spring 1870, Ormerod's work on insects damaging hops and fruit trees earned her the Royal Horticultural Society's Flora Medal.
By May 1870, Eleanor Anne Ormerod's early entomological investigations had earned significant recognition. She was awarded the Flora Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society in acknowledgment of her detailed studies on insects injurious to hops and fruit trees — two crops of substantial economic importance to Victorian British agriculture.
This award represented one of the first formal institutional recognitions of Ormerod's scientific contributions, arriving only a couple of years after she had begun her work assisting the Society. For a woman operating entirely outside the conventional channels of scientific training and employment, receiving a named medal from a respected horticultural institution was a significant validation of her expertise and a rare public acknowledgment of a woman's scientific labor in this period.
The medal helped establish Ormerod's growing reputation as a knowledgeable and reliable source on economic entomology, paving the way for her subsequent, more extensive publications and her eventual influence over national agricultural policy regarding pest control. It exemplified how, despite systemic barriers to women's participation in formal science, Ormerod's rigorous, practical approach to entomology earned genuine respect from established scientific bodies.