(9 NEWS) – A migration of millions of Mormon crickets reached the Nevada city of Elko this week, and the little insects are everywhere: on roads, in fields and shrubs, climbing walls.
“They’re just gross,” resident Precious Drake told NBC News. “… Yeah, they poop everywhere. We just stay inside. We don’t go outside.”
The crickets, which are native to the western United States, are in their migratory phase. They have a four- to six-year cycle and then go dormant for a few years. The last dormant period ended in 2019, so now they’re back, NBC News said.
