Nevada plagued by massive cricket infestation.

Millions of flightless insects known as Mormon crickets have descended across Nevada, alarming residents, blanketing roadways and buildings, and fueling nightmares. The insects are not biologically crickets but technically large shield-backed katydids that closely resemble grasshoppers. Due to an unusually rainy winter, the hatchlings were delayed, resulting in a large number of insects moving across Nevada. Mormon crickets have been a thorn in the side of farmers in the American west for more than a century, and Western states have spent millions of dollars on suppression.