New bench grafted pear leaves stripped

I have 7 custom bench grafted pears I planted this spring (all from 39th parallel)

I was walking around checking them this weekend and all of them appeared fine except for this one. All the leaves have been eaten. Anything I can do at this point, or am I just SOL?

They all have tree pro tree protectors on them with a mesh top. enough to keep the deer off but not bugs. guessing maybe the same beetles that have been eating my persimmon leaves did this, but not 100% sure.

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Give it a little time and it might recover but it probably will be slow this year.

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