I'm in the NorthEast. MA to be specific.
So I went down to the coop 48 hours later, with my trusty can of bug spray and low and behold... I couldn't find a single one of those buggers. There were hundreds on the outside wall two days earlier, but then... nothing.
I left the can down...
I thought I was going crazy. With a clean bucket, and inspecting every egg, as I was collecting eggs, yet still finding the bugs in my bucket when I got it back to my house. How in the world did they get in the bucket?!?
I found them!
They are on the outside wall of the chicken coop. Where...
I have been finding these little critters in my egg buckets. I have a stash of them in a cabinet I built into my chicken coop, accessible from the outside, right next to the nest box hatches where I collect the eggs. Some start in the buckets, but sometimes even a clean bucket will end up with...