So let's talk about the lone star tick, because as a, a student of medicine and diagnosis, there is a fascinating side effect that can occur when the lone star tick infects human beings, isn't there?

The lone star tick, full disclosure, it's my favorite tick.

It's gorgeous.

It is very striking.

Again, in its adult form, it's a relatively large tick, and the females have this lovely shiny white dot on the back.

So it is easy to, to notice.

We do get lone stars in Canada on occasion.

So let's start with some of the individual actions that we can do to protect ourselves from, from tick bites.