Its very woodsy here in the South and Ive been finding their corpses laying ontop of my covers in the morning.
I happen to have been taking Ivermectin horsepaste for the past 2 weeks and I'm pretty sure they're dying when they bite me. Also, their bites end up being no more than a red dot. No infection, no itch, nothing. They used to turn into painful, solid, infected knots that would last 3 months or more.
Ivermectin appears to kill the original perp, then kills the parasites and viruses they pass on to you.
Its a good pre-emptive measure that I have now seen real-world results with my own eyes.
Lonestar Tick, been around a while. There's a molecule in the saliva of the tick which can cause alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy to red meat. We've had these suckers down here in Texas for well over 20 years, reddish brown with a white spot, not a red spot. Red spot ones are a species of dog tick, which can carry hantavirus in some areas, which is far far worse lol.