Also known as starling mite or tropical fowl mite, a bird mite is a tiny eight legged parasite that feeds mainly on the blood of its host. This barely visible organism is flatly shaped and translucently white in color. However, when a bird mite infest on blood, it could turn to a brown/red color. Due to the smallness of its size and shape, the bird mite is often been wrongly referred to as ‘bird lice’. Although, bird mites are classified under a group of arthropods because th