 
          You can easily build your own kits (see our blog at beeinformed.org), but if you’d rather purchase a kit that has everything
        
        
          you need, see these kits from Brushy Mountain (
        
        
        
           or at Mann
        
        
          Lake (
        
        
        
          ).
        
        
          For more information about the Mite-A-Thon, please visit 
        
        
        
          .
        
        
          For more information about Varroa mites, monitoring and treating, the Honey Bee Health Coalition has done a great job in
        
        
          providing current, vetted materials here: 
        
        
        
          .
        
        
          Karen Rennich,
        
        
          Executive
        
        
          Director of the
        
        
          Bee Informed
        
        
          Partnership, Inc.
        
        
          Early heat map of MiteCheck showing mite levels across the country.
        
        
          (Courtesy of MiteCheck.com)
        
        
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