Might be a TX problem.
Used to have bad deer and seed ticks here when I was a young thing. Ditto chiggers. Could walk across the fields to my uncle’s farm and get literally covered in seed ticks.
Haven’t seen any of those in probably 30 years now.
I make sure to keep a mound or two near the house in the front yard. Just because.
Your page says you are in Canada; bigger problem for importing a invasive species into your country.
Do NOT tell people to bring in Fire Ants!