I woke up to see this holocaust outside our house. It seems that one of our neighbors who is a member of the home-owners association was complaining about ants coming into her house from the trees, so the solution was to cut them all down.
So now, instead of the beautiful dappled light and green leaves we used to see outside our window, we see this:
If you look closely you can even see the displaced tree mushi trying to find a new home in the bushes.