Solved ID of caterpillars please.

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    Saw these at a garden. The whole of the tree was covered in very fine spiderweb type film. I was wondering what they were. Not sure whether these pictures will download as they weren't on my camera. I've pulled them off an email.

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    I had this a couple of times on a 60ft long hawthorn hedge it was covered in webs, if I am remembering rightly it was ermine moth caterpillars and they didn't cause any damage to the hedge.
     
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        Had this in a spindle tree last year.
        I've sprayed them this year.
         
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        A few years ago all leaves on Euonymus were stripped in one valley.
        I have never been back to see if they survived. ERMINE MOTH ON EUONYMUS EUROPAEUS 06-06-2020 11-27-31.JPG
         
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          I left them last year and the tree was badly affected so at first sight this year I sprayed them, gone now.
           
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          Thanks for the info. :dbgrtmb:
           
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