Most people would rather study them. It's kind of like an eclipse or a Halley's Comet. The cicadas will be the stars of her presentation. Naturalist Mike Greene said some people will be turned off by the huge numbers of cicadas and the abandoned shells that litter the ground. And then there's the noise by males doing their mating routine.
Females are silent.
I know it doesn't sound comforting, but they are not going to sting you. They are not going to bite you. They don't care about you. They mean something to the female. Debra Shankland remembers the huge numbers of cicadas in 1982, when she saw the insects on trips home from school.