Cheimatobia brumata. Winter moth. This is the parent of that scourge of fruit trees, the greenlooper caterpillar. It appears in November. One female will lay 200 eggs, depositing them on the bends and bark of the upper branches of the apple and other fruit trees. The caterpillars appear with the bursting of the buds, on the tips of the leaves, petals, and calyxes of which they feed. They form a small web within the blossom, and glue and gnaw its petals so as to destroy it. When the fruit is formed, that becomes their favourite food. They descend and bury themselves in the earth, to assume the chrysalis form about the end of May. Frosts in November, ants and birds, are their natural enemies. As the females have no wings, a thick coating of gas-lime sprinkled a foot broad over the surface, round the stems of fruit trees at the end of October, and renewed once or twice in November and December, would prevent their ascent; or a broad band of bird lime might be smeared round the stems themselves. An advantage of espalier and dwarf fruit trees is, that their buds are easily examined for these caterpillars and other marauders.