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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 04:51:37 JST Flipboard Science Desk

It's firefly season at Congaree National Park in South Carolina, and a lucky few won the park lottery this year — an opportunity to see thousands of fireflies, blinking in synchrony, for a few short weeks this spring.
NPR reports: "According to the National Park Service, there are just three types of fireflies in North America that are synchronous, meaning they coordinate their belly lanterns to flash at exactly the same time."
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1. Witnessing the spectacle of synchronous fireflies is ‘like magic’
  
  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.

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