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At Congaree National Park in South Carolina, visitors who won a lottery ticket gather on the Firefly Trail, lit by strands of the dimmest Christmas lights, to watch the lightning bugs’ display. Photo by Stephen Cook.

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"Six Seconds of Dark"

The proper habitat for synchronous fireflies can be found in pockets across the eastern United States, but they are sensitive to light — even a full moon can disrupt their ability to flash in unison. Large swaths of untouched, dark forest in national parks provide prime habitat. Every year, between 30,000 and 40,000 people enter a lottery for just shy of 1,000 passes to see the lightning bugs over eight nights at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A record-breaking 17,593 people entered a similar lottery in 2023 in hopes of being among the 1,300 chosen to see the Photuris frontalis species at Congaree National Park in South Carolina.

From a story by Jessica Bradley for The Bitter Southerner. Photos by Stephen Cook.

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Honey Creek Woodlands Natural Burial Site, Conyers, Georgia. Photo by Stephen Cook.

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The view from Hopkins Cabin overlooks surrounding mountains in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia. Photo by Stephen Cook.

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Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. Photo by Stephen Cook.

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Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. Photo by Stephen Cook.

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Photinus carolinus blankets the forest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where synchronous lightning bug behavior was confirmed for the first time in the United States. Photo by Stephen Cook.

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Numbers by Stephen Cook

"Numbers" by Stephen Cook

At the bottom of a remote lake in the Sierra, a skeleton rocks with the current, ankles and neck chained to the decaying hulk of a snowmobile. Close by, covered with muck, lie a rusty ax and a pistol. The corpse wore, for a while, the expression of a man both surprised and betrayed. A .22 caliber hole in the bony forehead above the eye sockets creates a triangular pattern. It is night, ice…

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