You Can Stop Armadillos From Destroying Your Yard

 

If your Cross Creek yard hasn’t been visited by an armadillo, consider yourself lucky. Those little guys can really do some damage to lawns and gardens digging for larva and insects. If you provide a good food source and make life comfortable for them, your yard could end up looking like this.

• Keeping your lawn from getting too moist will cut back the population of many of the insects.
• Trimming your bushes will provide less places for insects to call home. And since armadillos prefer to dig under cover, opening your lawn by trimming bushes and trees will make it feel less comfortable.
• Treating your lawn for grubs will help to eliminate one of their favorite meals.
• You can also treat your lawn with a castor-oil solution that will coat their food, upset the armadillo’s stomach and it will go and go and hopefully, go away. He will then associate your lawn with not feeling well. Obviously, not good if you have pets.

Dollars and Scents
A large portion of the armadillo’s brain is devoted to the sense of smell. They are very sensitive to spicy smells like cayenne pepper. Sprinkling some cayenne around your yard will help keep them away, but your dogs and cats probably won’t like it either. Then there’s the cost. Cayenne pepper isn’t cheap. But neither is repairing your lawn.
 
It’s A Trap
Traps are a humane way of getting rid of an armadillo. Just make sure you conceal the trap with shrubbery or leaves. Place a smelly piece of fruit inside (bananas are good). They will walk into the trap to check out the fruit, but they can’t walk out. Then you can take them into the woods, somewhere far far away from your property.
 
Hope these helped. If not, there are eleventy-billion websites and podcasts devoted to the subject of ridding your lawn of armadillos, so search away.