This year could be one for record books when it comes to bugs, especially Mormon crickets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service says they’re seeing a major increase in the population of creepy critters in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and here in Nevada. In fact, the 3 inch long katydids, who are related to grasshoppers, have taken over in areas to where as many as 70 have been seen concentrated in just one square yard. The bugs can destroy range land and crops, and in 2003, Nevada had to declare a state of emergency because of a Mormon cricket invasion. And they can create road hazards, because they’re squishy when smashed, causing wrecks from the amount of slime they leave behind. Some states are actually sanding their roads, like we do when it snows, to reduce the amount of slime the bugs leave behind.