"Malcom "Mal" Reynolds" wrote in message
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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

Do a Google search for "fall army worm" . I've had them in my blueberries.
They can strip a branch in hours.