Anyone who has visited a Shropshire retail park in recent days will have seen the incredible spectacle of a hedge almost entirely covered in what appears, at first glance, to be a mass of sinister-looking spider webs.

But it's actually the work of thousands of busy caterpillars, who have returned to the same spot where they captivated residents in Shrewsbury back in 2021.

Visitors to the Meole Brace retail park have been stopping to take pictures and videos of the ghostly silken webbing to post on social media.

Speaking in 2021, John Hughes, development manager at Shropshire Wildlife Trust, said the occurrence is not as uncommon as people may assume.