It's the dry season...

Forget the 17-year cicada thing. Here in Belize, every dry season is cicada season, to the point where every night when we sit with our guests in the early evening, the first question is, "What is that noise?" in response to the loud saw-like buzzing that sometimes causes us to raise our voices in order to be heard. The cicadas are big, and there are a lot of them. The photo of the shells on the tree is just a small patch of the tree trunk, and most of the tree is covered with this density of shells.