Grasshoppers try their luck gambling at Slots A Fun in Las Vegas on Sunday, July 28, 2019. (David Guzman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Grasshoppers try their luck gambling at Slots A Fun in Las Vegas on Sunday, July 28, 2019. (David Guzman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Best Western Plus Casino Royale on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, July 28, 2019. (David Guzman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Grasshoppers outside La Comida on Sunday, July 28, 2019 in Las Vegas. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
John Smirk poses with grasshoppers outside the El Cortez on Sunday, July 28, 2019 in Las Vegas. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Grasshoppers outside the El Cortez on Sunday, July 28, 2019 in Las Vegas. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Grasshoppers outside the El Cortez on Sunday, July 28, 2019 in Las Vegas. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Grasshoppers outside the El Cortez on Sunday, July 28, 2019 in Las Vegas. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Dorian Williams, from Houston, checks out the grasshoppers outside the El Cortez on Sunday, July 28, 2019 in Las Vegas. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The grasshopper invasion of the Las Vegas Valley isn’t going away anytime soon. On Saturday, they seemed to bring their relatives to downtown Las Vegas for a late-night family reunion.
The insects made life unpleasant for visitors along Fremont Street and outside the El Cortez. Kids and adults squirmed and shrieked as they waved away the flighty bugs swarming around them.
Because of the invasion, the Best Western Plus Casino Royale on the the Strip has shut off its lights the last two evenings.
The pallid-winged grasshoppers are making a pit stop in the valley over the next few weeks while migrating north from Arizona to central Nevada.
