Synchronous fireflies, known as Photuris frontalis, blink in the woods near the Congaree River on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. Congaree National Park holds an annual event for ...

Synchronous fireflies. Congaree National Park has for years hosted the fireflies event, in which visitors can witness an amazing display of thousands of the insects flash in synchronization in ...

Park guests participated in a lottery for the opportunity to view synchronized fireflies at Congaree National Park in Hopkins. Some attendees walked the trails before dark on May 27, 2022.

In Congaree National Park, South Carolina, fireflies have a seemingly magical talent: Lighting up in a synchronized display, pulsating in near-unison in the dark forest during a brief window in ...

Synchronous fireflies, known as Photuris frontalis, blink in the woods near the Congaree River on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. Congaree National Park holds an annual event for ...

A crowd gathers along the Fireflies Trail inside Congaree National Park to watch synchronous fireflies Sunday May 20, 2018, in Columbia, SC. The rare phenomenon of synchronization lasts been two ...

Every year, Congaree National Park hosts synchronous fireflies for approximately two weeks between mid-May and mid-June. Skip to content NOWCAST WYFF News 4 at 5 ...

Congaree National Park is one of the few easily accessible places in the country where people can see fireflies light up all at one time, rather than blink sporadically.

For a few weeks in late spring, thousands of fireflies emerge at the Congaree National Park in South Carolina to blink in synchrony. Scientists are trying to learn their secrets and to protect them.