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Fireflies at Norton Creek 2025

  • December 9, 2024
  • Will Kuhn
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Tickets available on January 2, 2025!
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DNA barcoding confirms firefly species in the park

  • February 15, 2024
  • Jaimie Matzko
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Discoveries, Science
Read it in the “Word from the Smokies” in the Asheville Citizen Times! Anyone who watches murder mystery TV shows or listens to true-crime podcasts has probably heard of the use of DNA analysis in forensic science to exonerate or implicate a suspect. But what if DNA analysis could also […]
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Blue ghosts: spirits of the forest

  • August 22, 2019
  • Gus Elmore
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Blue ghosts magical and mysterious fireflies that create eerie blue trails of light on southern Appalachian nights.
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