A U.K. photographer was surprised when he discovered a hedge completely covered in caterpillar webs. Mick Hickman was walking along a road near Bawtry in the English region of South Yorkshire on June ...

Ermine moths, also known as Yponomeutidae, are a family of small-to-medium sized moths who typically range from 0.3–1.2 inches (8 to 31 mm) in wingspan. They are usually white, pale grey or drab in ...

Residents have been left stunned after bushes on their road transformed into a mass of silken webbing. The strange phenomenon in Mill Court in Ashford is caused by hundreds of hungry caterpillars who ...

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A stunned mother was shocked to find giant cobwebs had covered the trees and bushes in her local park, making her think Halloween had come early this year. Sarah Longfellow, 34, initially thought the ...

Thousands of moths descended on a Liverpool street spinning a giant web that blanketed bushes and walls. The tiny ermine moths, also known as yponomeuta padella, descended on a section of Hastie Close ...

Dr Phil Sterling, from the Butterfly Conservation charity, said the web was an "impressive infestation" A huge blanket of caterpillar webs covering almost 100ft (30m) of a hedgerow has been caught on ...

The Norfolk Wildlife Trust said they were likely to be a type of Ermine moth caterpillar, of which there are 20 species in the county An amateur photographer has described a stretch of hedgerow ...

Anyone who has visited the Meole Brace Retail Park in Shrewsbury in recent days will have seen the incredible spectacle of a roundabout almost entirely covered in what appears – at first glance – to ...

Thousands of moths descended on a Liverpool street spinning a giant web that blanketed bushes and walls. The tiny ermine moths, also known as yponomeuta padella, descended on a section of Hastie Close ...

Photographer Mick Hickman said the webs, near Bawtry, South Yorkshire, were only the second time he had seen the phenomenon. Small ermine moth caterpillars are thought to have formed the large ...