Vox Humana wrote:

All the trees in my area are dropping small branches and cluster of leaves
because of the cicadas.

Thank you for your answer.

It does not look as if we have lots of cicadas around here. I would know
since they are usually noisy. Their singing is easily recognizable. We
have many squirrels though. On the other hand, it is the first year it
happens like this in over 25 years and we always had squirrels. Also, it
is the only maple around here that seems to lose small branches. I would
say that they are more like clusters of leaves than branches.

Françoise.