Critters on my Pluot tree

 Everything was fine yesterday but today one branch of my multi-specie Pluot was
all but stripped of leaves (the others had nothing)

Critters are just over an inch with stripes from front to back, over all they
are greenish/grayish.

Plucked them and sprayed with a orange based organic soap.

Hope I got them all, but are they likely to attack my cherry tree? And what
might they be and what's the best way to deal with them

If it helps I'm zone 9 or 10 and the weather is finally changing

 Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:

Any chance of a photograph?  So far it isn't clear if you have grubs,
beetles, grasshoppers or any other leaf eater.

D

 

I don't have a digital camera, but they were caterpillars

 atlas-bugged@invalid.invalid says...



Were there 'tents' on the tree?

If so, look up tent caterpillar.

In numbers, they can strip trees bare.

We usually knock the tents apart before they get too far along.

 wrote:


no tents, no "fur" and slightly different coloring



If I had noticed them, I would have done that

thanks