Giant spiders' web covers Greek beach

Spiders' mating season leaves plants at Aitoliko Lagoon covered in 300-metre cobwebs

A Greek beach has been turned into an arachnophobe's worst nightmare, as spiders have covered it in a web some 300 metres long.

A video, posted to YouTube by Giannis Giannakopoulos, shows the beach at the town of Aitoliko in western Greece under siege from the dense web.