April 3, 2011

Middlebush

Middlebush Reformed Church, Somerset, New Jersey


Built in 1918.












A lamp from the original 19th-century building.

Thanks to Rev. George Montanari for describing the history of the Church and of the Middlebush area, and for opening the building for the interior photographs.

Hutcheson Forest, April 3, 2011


Holly Vuong, Rutgers disease ecologist, explains how black-legged ticks spread Lyme Disease between animals and human beings. Here, Ms. Vuong describes how a tick-drag works.














Dragging for ticks.


Examining the drag for ticks.


A vial [vile?] of ticks.




Man-made habitat for wood-dwelling bees.


Bee larvae.


What kind of bee is it?


Caretaker's cottage.