拉斯维加斯被成群的蝗虫入侵

拉斯维加斯被成群的蝗虫入侵

Sin City is under siege by a plague of grasshoppers.

罪恶之城被一群蝗虫围困。

Swarms of insects have descended on Las Vegas this week. Attracted by bright lights, the bugs have stormed the strip in numbers of biblical proportion.

本周，成群的昆虫降临拉斯维加斯。在明亮灯光的吸引下，这些虫子以圣经中描述的比例席卷了整个街区。

“When I see them, it’s like being in a movie. Never seen nothing like this ever!” Lyft driver Jessica Palmore told CNN. “I know they are harmless, but they make me super itchy seeing them.”

“当我看到他们时，就像在看电影一样。从来没有见过这样的东西!”Lyft的司机杰西卡·帕莫尔告诉CNN。“我知道它们是无害的，但我看到它们时非常痒。”

Though they have unsettled locals and may even seem like divine punishment, the grasshoppers are in fact the result of unique weather conditions.

尽管当地人不安，甚至可能看起来像是神圣的惩罚，但蝗虫实际上是独特天气条件的结果。

“It appears through history that when we have a wet winter or spring, these things build up often down below Laughlin and even into Arizona,” Jeff Knight, a local entomologist explained to CNN. “We’ll have flights about this time of the year, migrations, and they’ll move northward.”

当地昆虫学家杰夫·奈特在接受CNN采访时表示:“从历史上看，当冬季或春季出现潮湿时，这些东西就会在劳克林下方积聚起来，甚至进入亚利桑那州。”“我们将在每年的这个时候进行飞行、迁徙，它们将向北移动。”

Knight added that he could recall about four or five other grasshopper invasions over the last 30 years.

奈特补充说，在过去30年里，他还记得大约四到五次蝗虫入侵。

The bugs are so pervasive they are believed to also be interfering with the state’s meteorological data, showing up as rain on Las Vegas Doppler radar.

这种病毒非常普遍，人们认为它们也在干扰该州的气象数据，在拉斯维加斯的多普勒雷达上显示为降雨。