[missmoneypenny]

I have a newly planted ( March) 2 year old tree. I have spotted small ( 1cm) caterpillars on the trunk. Googling coddling moth, it doesn’t look like that. Sorry no pic, I have squished all the blighters. Does anyone know what they are?

[Glosterboy]

Many birds, especially tits, feed their chicks with large numbers of winter moth caterpillars during the spring.

Possibly, these are what the caterpillars were? No caterpillars! - No birds!

[missmoneypenny]

I take your point, but they weren’t winter moth caterpillars, which google images tells me are bright green, there were though signs that something ( maybe a bird) has been biting chunks out of the mini apples.