There's a species of ant that is so rare, only a handful of records exist from across the entire eastern United States. North Carolina State University researcher Michelle Kirchner not only found ...
A Goldsboro couple had one of the largest pine trees in the state sitting in their yard. It was 13.6 feet around and 84 feet tall. That made it the fifth-largest pine in the state and the largest in ...
A frontal view of an Aphaenogaster mariae worker ant. This ant species had rarely been documented, but N.C. State student Michelle Kirchner collected a colony of the ants from trees in Wake County. A ...