Ammon News - After lying dormant for nearly two decades, billions of sex-crazed cicadas will be emerging from their subterranean sleep pods hungry for love. However, this year, many will be extra horny thanks to the spread of a creepy, “The Last Of Us”-esque zombie fungus.

“Nature is stranger than any science fiction that’s ever been written,” said John Cooley, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, told the Scientific American while describing the phenomenon.

Trees across the US have already been abuzz with the hornball bugs’ siren-esque chirps after the Brood XIV class surfaced for the first time since 2008, USA Today reported.

The red-eyed insects are the second largest of the periodical cicadas, a version that hunkers down underground for years — 17 in the case of Brood XIC — as nymphs, feeding on tree sap, before surfacing when the ground temp hits the requisite 64 degrees Fahrenheit.

These cyclical critters are expected to break ground in 13 states this year, including New York, according to Gene Kritsky, an entomologist at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The love bugs’ goal is to find a mate and procreate in the four to six weeks they spend above ground before dying off, the Daily Mail reported. After copulating, the female deposits eggs so that her offspring can repeat the cycle when they emerge in the year 2042. NYP