I have seen the darn things several times in areas.
I was just talking to a guy the other day about them.
He had never heard of the dreaded kissing bug.
Then we also have the dreaded grey blister bug/beetle farther up north.
Never seen them here but the ranch I stayed on about 100 miles north had thousands of them on the front porch at night in July.
Something else I am in great fear of.