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A listener finds some bones washed up on Sullvan's Island...

The diamondback terrapin or simply terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) is a species of turtle native to the brackish coastal tidal marshes of the Northeastern and southern United States, and in Bermuda. It belongs to the monotypic genus Malaclemys. It has one of the largest ranges of all turtles in North America, stretching as far south as the Florida Keys and as far north as Cape Cod.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Elisha Brownfield about the various vaccines available now, to help prevent pneumonia and pneumonia complications in adults. Dr. Elisha Brownfield is a Professor of Internal Medicine and a General Internist at MUSC.

“A” is for Allen University. Allen University had its origins in Payne Institute, a school established at Cokesbury by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1870.

Our next guest’s 16,000-acre coastal nature preserve is home to four permanent research institutes each operated by the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, Coastal Carolina University and Francis Marion University. The property also hosts researchers from over fifty colleges, universities and research organizations around the world. And it all began in 1964 with a bequest from one woman’s will. Mike Switzer interviews George Chastain, executive director of Hobcaw Barony-The Belle W. Baruch Foundation.

Counterpoint, also called polyphony, is the art, in musical composition, of combining two or more simultaneous lines of music.

Pizzicato is the Italian word for “plucked.” Why is pizzicato never translated? Beats me. Maybe just because pizzicato is a delightful-sounding word. It certainly sounds better than “plucked.”

Agent Carmen Ketron, recently on our SCETV program Making It Grow, told us she’d seen the synchronous firefly display at the Congaree National Park. This phenomenon occurs at the end of May or early June for about two weeks every year.

It may be that fireflies first started glowing to warn off predators that they contain a toxin and taste horrible.

The Bombyliidae are a family of flies. Their common name are bee flies or humbleflies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae generally are parasitoids of other insects.