Poultry Red Mite
04 inches) and have long legs. They are typically nocturnal feeders and remain hidden during the day in cracks and crevices, nests, cribs and roosts, egg [...] roost mite, is a major pest of fowl, pigeons, and other caged birds worldwide. A parasite especially common to poultry breeding and egg production operations [...] transmit several viral diseases (Newcastle disease paramyxovirus; St. Louis encephalitis virus; the Eastern, Western, and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis viruses;