An army of caterpillars spinned a giant net in Luton, UK, leaving residents fearing a giant spider.
The hungry insects have span a 20ft web over a bush to cocoon their chosen feeding plants and protect it from predators.
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What is this strange moving white web on a bush in a quiet neighborhood in Luton, UK?
The spooky sighting has baffled residents after the enormous web appeared from nowhere in a residential street in Luton.
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Kate Arnold, who spotted it on her way home from work, says: “When I drove past it I had to stop and have a look. Insects don’t really creep me out and I was so intrigued to see this. It’s so surreal, I have never seen anything like it before, when I got out the car I expected a 20ft spider like the one out of Harry Potter to be there. At first I thought it would be spiders, but when I went to have a look I realised that it was caterpillars.
Resident Brian Platon, 40, first spotted the giant web on Monday: “When I saw the webs it did freak me out a bit. When you look up close you realise that it is thousands of caterpillars that are crawling around in the bush.”
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An ecologist identified the caterpillars as fairly common ‘Spindle Ermine’. They aren’t harmful and they will soon turn into moths and populate the district.
Several large-scale infestations have made the news in the past, including a 20ft moth web which was spotted in bushes outside Belmarsh Prison in East London in 2012.