I was putting fruit sox and ziplocs on my apples today. I found leaves that had been eaten so that only the transparent inner fiber was left-no green. OPening up the cottony white threads, I found small black caterpillars in a few locations. they were pretty speedy and tried to escape. Lots of tiny black dots too. I killed them. Call me a murderer. I noticed not very much other damage, although I did find some amazingly creepy yellow striped bugs on my Chinese chestnut tree. Killed them too of course. They tried to escape. Hopefully this means I'm getting them mostly on time. I have seen some telltale bugbite marks on fruit and of course, I choose to thin those. If they were just bitten and inserted with eggs, my assumption is that you would not see them. Of course, when you assume,......
John S
PDX OR
I don't know if we are talking about the same thing.....
but last year and this year some fruit growers have noticed an unusual number of tent leaf caterpillars.
http://www.google.com/search?h.....&site ... B620%3B485
I usually see tent caterpillars at the end of summer, not at the beginning. I have seen yellowjackets/wasps killing tent caterpillars. They actually carried them off, I was pretty amazed by that. The wasps had a hard time getting into the tent but I used a stick to open the tent for them 
I think they were tent caterpillars. Nice job dudes. I have seen a few, but not too many codling moth bites.
I also found a huge green caterpillar trying to destroy my baby arctic kiwi, which I promptly killed (the caterpillar, not the kiwi.)
Glad I was able to get the bags on almost all the apples and Asian pears already. Many fruit sox have fallen off, with or without the fruit. Maybe with all this extreme rain, we'll have a little break so people can get the bags on the apples before the codling moth gets there.
John S
PDX OR
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