Poultry Red Mite
chicken mite or roost mite, is a major pest of fowl, pigeons, and other caged birds worldwide. A parasite especially common to poultry breeding and egg production [...] nocturnal feeders and remain hidden during the day in cracks and crevices, nests, cribs and roosts, egg conveyor belts, cardboard boxes and transportation [...] larva, protonymph, deutonymph and adult. After mating, female mites lay 4–8 eggs per day over a period of three days, taking a blood meal between each batch