[shedmeister]

While having a short break from normal toils we noticed a small black wasp shaped insect carting a leg-less spider carcase up a branch of a small cooking apple tree.
On further investigation we have noticed spider web like enclosures that contain what can only be described as cylindrical cocoons inside them.
Any ideas???

[BabbyAnn]

I imagine the wasp has been collecting live food on which she will have laid an egg and the larvae will eat the prey.  You must have found a nest.  These will hatch out and later infest the fruits when they start to ripen.