Looking at the cicada bottom, spetendecim has large orange stripes, cassini is all black, and septendecula has thin orange stripes.
Magicicada septendecim
Magicicada cassini
Magicicada septendecula

To see movies of the Brood X event, select from the menu below. You will need QuickTime player to view the movies and patience if you are using a modem.

Lawn emergence (704 kb)
Lawn close-up 1 (1.2 MB)
Lawn close-up 2 (284 kb)
Climbing trees (328 kb)
Garden time-lapse 1 (2 MB)
Garden time-lapse 2 (680 kb)
Eclosing cicada 1 (600 kb)
Eclosing cicada 2 (1.2 MB)
Garden aftermath (1.1 MB)

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