THIS NATURAL phenomenon has been causing a stir in Bromsgrove and Alcester.

The Standard was contacted by Bob Hill from Hanbury Road. near Shaw Lane in Stoke Prior, whose tree in his garden and nearby hedges opposite St Michael and All Angels Church had been covered in the webs of spindle ermine moth caterpillars.

Such has been the visual impact that drivers have been stopping their cars to get out and take photographs of the ghostly white sight.