Pallid-winged grasshoppers are taking a pit stop in Las Vegas over the next several weeks while migrating north from Arizona to central Nevada.

Nevada state entomologist Jeff Knight shows a Pallid-winged Grasshopper at his Las Vegas offices Thursday, July 25, 2019. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto

Nevada state entomologist Jeff Knight shows a Pallid-winged Grasshopper at his Las Vegas offices Thursday, July 25, 2019. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto

A Pallid-winged Grasshopper the Nevada Department of Agriculture Las Vegas offices Thursday, July 25, 2019. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @matluschek

A pallid-winged grasshopper the Nevada Department of Agriculture Las Vegas offices Thursday, July 25, 2019. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @matluschek

A Grasshopper crawls on the ground on Thursday, July 25, 2019 in Las Vegas. There has been a high number of grasshoppers crawling around the city within the pass week. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A Grasshopper crawls on the ground on Thursday, July 25, 2019 in Las Vegas. There has been a high number of grasshoppers crawling around the city within the pass week. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A grasshopper rests on a wall outside California Pizza Kitchen in Downtown Summerlin on Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto

A grasshopper rests on a wall outside California Pizza Kitchen in Downtown Summerlin on Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto

A grasshopper rests on a wall outside California Pizza Kitchen in Downtown Summerlin on Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto

A grasshopper rests on a wall outside California Pizza Kitchen in Downtown Summerlin on Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto

A grasshopper rests on a wall outside California Pizza Kitchen in Downtown Summerlin on Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto

A grasshopper rests on a wall outside California Pizza Kitchen in Downtown Summerlin on Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto

A grasshoppers rests on a bush outside of Main Street Station in downtown Las Vegas on Thursday, July 25, 2019. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto

Grasshoppers, some of them dead, are seen outside of the California Hotel in downtown Las Vegas on Thursday, July 25, 2019. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto

Grasshoppers, some of them dead, are seen outside of the California Hotel in downtown Las Vegas on Thursday, July 25, 2019. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto

Grasshoppers rest on a wall near North Hualapai Way and 215 Beltway in Northwest Las Vegas on Thursday, July 25, 2019. (David Guzman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Grasshoppers are seen near North Hualapai Way and 215 Beltway in Northwest Las Vegas on Thursday, July 25, 2019. (David Guzman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Grasshoppers are seen near North Hualapai Way and 215 Beltway in Northwest Las Vegas on Thursday, July 25, 2019. (David Guzman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

It’s not just your neighbor’s yard that looks like a horror movie. There really are more grasshoppers in the Las Vegas Valley this week.

After an unseasonably wet winter and spring, pallid-winged grasshoppers have infested the valley as they migrate as far north as central Nevada from Laughlin and northern Arizona, the Nevada Department of Agriculture confirmed at a news conference Thursday.

The valley has recorded 4.63 inches of rain this year, said meteorologist Alex Boothe of the National Weather Service. The annual average is 4.19 inches, and this year nearly 4 inches had fallen before the end of May.

This pit stop in a metropolis like Las Vegas during migration puts the grasshoppers a bit out of their usual stomping grounds, but they’ve visited a handful of times in the past 50 years, said Jeff Knight, the state entomologist for the Agriculture Department.

“They don’t carry any diseases. They don’t bite. They’re not even one of the species that we consider a problem,” Knight said. “They probably won’t cause much damage in a yard.”

The grasshoppers are all adults, measuring no more than 1.5 inches, but with wings that help them fly up to 10 feet high and end up 30 feet away, Knight said.

Knight estimates they’ll hop out of town within a few weeks, continuing north. In the meantime, residents can deter them by switching off ultraviolet lights outside, replacing them with a low UV or amber light instead. But Knight said the easiest way to get rid of them is to “just scare them out of the way.”

The grasshoppers likely will mate while they’re in town, but Knight said conditions here “aren’t right” to help the nearly 100 eggs a grasshopper lays to make it to hatching season in fall. Without an ample food supply, and heavy rain, the offspring will die before reaching maturity.

There’s no way to estimate the grasshopper population in Las Vegas, Knight said. But people interested in seeing more of them “can always go out in the desert. It’s a common desert species.”

Contact Sabrina Schnur at sschnur@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0278. Follow @sabrina_schnur on Twitter.