Burning Man is being invaded by something more grotesque than techie billionaires.

One woman who is already on the scene has reported that one of the insects even flew into her mouth and stuck itself between her teeth.

Wild said these bugs may be gone relatively soon as they tend to keep roaming on the hunt for water.

Burning Man, the week-long Silicon Valley desert festival, is infested with bugs. “They’re everywhere”, he wrote. It feels like those bugs are biting you, but they’re not biting, they’re just penetrating you. In you? Yikes. Blogger John Curley continues, “They’ve blown up inches deep against the sides of the Commissary tent”.

The current theories as to what’s behind the infestation are 1) that the tiny burners typically lay dormant during the summer months, but were hatched by an unusually wet rainy season, 2) that they hitched a ride in on a shipment of wood, 3) that they are seed bugs feeding on invasive mustard plants. Last year heavy rain ahead of attendee arrivals caused them to cancel the opening day.

Images also have circulated of bats, which officials from the Department of Wildlife said would not be surprising since bats would likely be attracted to the large number of insects and bugs at the location. Swarms of smelly, revolting bugs of different shapes and sizes are filling up Burning Man and fans are snapping pictures before bolting.

‘Cammy and Stinger needed some help from the medical team to deal with the infestation; Stinger’s back was covered with nasty red welts from the bites’.

“It’s not a localized occurrence, it’s everywhere”.

Note to all those very respectable people still seeking the fiery comfort of an artistic effigy: If you start seeing diseased livestock and thunderstorms of hail and fire, know that the apocalypse is upon us. “We don’t know how the little critters survive in the heat and the Sunday”.

This year’s Burning Man festival could prove to be the itchiest of them all.