Poultry Red Mite
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 [...] Poultry red mite Belied by its name again, the poultry red mite is only red following a recent blood meal, otherwise the mite appears white, grey or black [...] adult. After mating, female mites lay 4–8 eggs per day over a period of three days, taking a blood meal between each batch. Larvae resembling the adult