Get ready for sex-crazed zombie cicadas known as ‘flying salt shakers of death’

First there were murder hornets — now get ready for sex-crazed zombie cicadas dubbed “flying salt shakers of death.”

A psychedelic fungus that eats away the genitals of cicadas turns them sex-mad to help spread it further — and the zombie insects are reportedly expected among Brood X that is emerging in New York. The fungus, Massospora cicadina — which has chemicals similar to hallucinogenic mushrooms — infect the insects during the 13 to 17 years they spend underground, scientists at West Virginia University have said.