This is the creepy moment people wake up to find that spiders have woven a giant web across a road overnight.

The creepy canopy was discovered stretching across trees and power lines in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 16th May.

Baffled locals spotted the thick gossamer threads spanning a main highway calling police and emergency services for help.

One video of the giant web shows at least a dozen spiders sitting in it waiting to feast on their prey of bugs and flies.

Experts said the spiders were most likely Parawixia bistriata, a species known for building massive community webs to increase their hunt catches.

Creepily when they are done with a web they spin a parachute of silk strands and float to the ground in huge numbers.

Although the species is venomous their bite is not understood to be fatal to anything larger than a medium-sized dog.

They work together overnight to form massive webs to snare their flying prey in huge numbers and colonies can contain thousands of individual spiders.

Environment species experts told local media they would not attempt to destroy the web.

A spokesperson for City Hall said: "These webs often disappear naturally with weather changes."

(MJ Leidig/newsX)