Tick Management and Prevention

common in this area and my father has had both of those. Ticks are rampant in our area here. Ticks are rampant because there's so many deer. The overpopulation of deer and this this is like the trifecta of everything. the overpopulation of deer, the introduction of coyotes, which has taken away a lot of the ground foul that would be eating these ticks. In other words, I don't see any quail anymore. I never see any quail. I never hear any quail. There aren't any quail left. Quail are what help control all those little bugs. If you go deer hunting and you you uh get a deer, when as soon as you raise their leg up to look at their stomach, they are absolutely wrapped up, covered in ticks. And I'm not talking about six ticks. I'm talking about 600 ticks. Anywhere the deer are walking, that's where we're getting ticks. So, just something to to let you guys know. There is some uh a product that I put on me myself now. It's from Murphy's uh oil and it's a uh a spray-on product that I put on my skin. I don't advise putting like deep woods off or anything like that on your skin. Put it on your clothing if you want to do that. Just protect yourself. And in areas like this, and it's all the way up to Ohio, it's down in Florida. It's in Arkansas. It's making its way out west. It's everywhere. Protect yourself. A number one thing is if it itches, investigate. And the tick that bit me had set up camp in my belly button, which was odd. It was just strange to me that a tick had set up camp in my belly button. And I noticed something itched, but I really didn't investigate it as well as I should have. And after that tick was on there for around 24 hours, then I had the problem. So, there's a lot to think about here. There's also the tick bite that brings the little bullseye up. Um, this is not the same kind of tick. I