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We saw our 1st Armadillo while in Arkansas recently. It was dead on the side of the road. Are they a nuisance, pest, varmint or are they pretty much harmless? Do they dig in the garden, make burrows and such? We plan to move to Arkansas soon and my wife loves ro garden both for vegetables and flowers. Are they protected or do people shoot them? Do some folks eat them?

School me on Armadillos please.

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They carry leprosy.

I don't touch them too much. wink


Don't mind having them around, but I don't have any flower gardens either. Pretty neat critters.


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Yes they dig, especially in mulch/garden beds. Pretty harmless except they supposedly can carry some nasty diseases, leprosy being one of them. They dig for insects primarily. I’ve heard that you can eat them but I never got that hungry.
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Little bastid are a nuisance, dig up gardens, shrubs, flowers, lawns. I stay at defcon 1.
See'um shoot'um.


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I kill 2-3 Hoover Hogs (a depression era name for 'dillos) every year that decide to root around the yard causing washes and making a mess.

I've been trying to kill one for a couple of weeks now.


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Love shooting them with a 22 magnum, the Hispanic folks here eat them. We are covered up with those nasty things (armadilos )

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Saw a dead one on the hiway in southern Ks last week. And have found a couple dead ones on our land on the Ks/Ok border. Guess they’re moving north.


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Shoot them and leave for coyotes . They eat them like a shrimp .

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They are much more fun to shoot with a deer rifle. They tend to explode like a watermelon. They are real up and down with their populations. Some years you don’t see very many, some years you are absolutely covered up with them.

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The first armadillos I ever saw in southern Missouri was about 1990. Gradually I started seeing more and more of them until now I think they are quite common. They don't have any more luck crossing roads than opossums do.


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Yes, they will dig up your flower garden and lawn looking for grubs. One friend who owns a pecan orchard likes them. He claims they "aerate" the ground in his orchard.

I have eaten armadillo. It was good, white meat. The leprosery thing keeps me from doing it again.


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Originally Posted by rockinbbar
They carry leprosy.

I don't touch them too much. wink


Don't mind having them around, but I don't have any flower gardens either. Pretty neat critters.
Can buts rare.


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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Make soup bowls.

YUP


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They've been in west Tennessee for a long time. About 10 years ago they managed to cross the Tennessee river/Kentucky lake area, and we've got a bunch of 'em south of Nashville around the Alabama state line area. They dig up the yard and flower beds, leave them looking like the craters of the moon. Damp, loose soil seems to be their favorite kind of playground. They make a pretty satisfying POP and splatter when hit with a high speed hollow point from a .223 or a .22-250.


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Had one digging a hole getting under our house in Florida. They cause structure problems under houses there. Could not shoot in the area so I plugged the hole with cement with wire mesh along that area. No more digging.

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I was homeskooled. Never learned about em in our Christian scientz book

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