Description
English: Dermanyssus Gallinae poultry mite on a sheet of paper, taken using a Canon PowerShot A700. Mite is approximately 1mm in length, and was taken from my chicken house.
Date Thur, 21 June 2007
Author AW
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dermanyssus_gallinae_mite.jpg

Dermanyssus gallinae (also known as the red mite, poultry mite, red poultry mite, roost mite and chicken mite) is an ectoparasite of poultry and other bird species. The mites are blood feeders and attack resting birds at night. They are generally white or greyish in colour, becoming darker or redder when engorged with blood. After feeding, they hide in cracks and crevices away from daylight, where they mate and lay eggs.
Order: Mesostigmata
Family: Dermanyssidae
Genus: Dermanyssus
Species: Dermanyssus gallinae (De Geer, 1778)