In this Chicago Sun Times article, David Horvath from Davey's Lake Bluff office talks about if trees can be damaged by cicadas.
“We’re going to start to be able to see them,” said David Horvath, a certified arborist with The Davey Tree Expert Company. “Right now, squirrels and raccoons and possums are running around, having a field day chowing down on cicadas.” 
Which is also why there are so many — they’re flooding the zone.
“Their whole survival strategy is predator satiation,” Horvath said. “They’re going to overwhelm the predators; it’s impossible for squirrels to consume them all.”
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