We've pulled a dozen or more of these eastern tent caterpillars off our fruit trees. They're around every year mainly in the spring and they're easy to spot once you know the kind of damage they do to the leaves. They seem to prefer the apple trees, but I did find a few on peaches and plums as well.
I'm hoping they won't be too big of an issue once the trees get larger and we plant more of them, for now hand-picking them is no problem. We're just squishing them and leaving them for the birds, but when we get poultry again we'll turn them into eggs.
