Poultry Red Mite
deutonymphs, which in turn require a blood meal before maturing into the adult form. The poultry red mite can live between 5–17 days, depending on the temperature [...] day in cracks and crevices, nests, cribs and roosts, egg conveyor belts, cardboard boxes and transportation cages. They can occasionally be found in clusters [...] especially common to poultry breeding and egg production operations, it is directly responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in egg industry losses