Garden Pests and Diseases: Asian Pear Tree problem, 2 by cbnovice

cbnovice wrote:
The leaves on my Asian Pear tree started to turn brown a few weeks ago. It seemed to spread from leaf to leaf. It caused the fruit to shrivel and brown, and the branches are now turning dark brown as well. I can't find any bugs on any part of the tree, and it has almost no leaves left now. This all happened over a few weeks. It started happening just after a huge two-day wind storm, and the tree was wrapped (maybe too tightly) in bird netting at the time. I removed the netting to see if I could save something on the tree. Any ideas?