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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congaree National Park is the largest intact stretch of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the country, Manchester said, with 11,000 acres of forest that escaped the logging boom of the late ...

Now that tripods are banned on the firefly trails at Congaree National Park, it’s nearly impossible to capture these twinkling beauties through the lens of a camera.

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.

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 ...