ARMADILLOS

[wcrites307]

So, Saturday morning, I drove from Columbia to the Clinton area using I-26 North. I counted 14 dead armadillos on the side of the road between Little Mnt and Clinton. Two years ago, I made the same trip and don't remember seeing any. Ridiculously quick explosion in population. I wonder what preys on them. Do coyotes eat them?

[Duck cutter]

I have a squirrel dog that hates them with a passion

[centurian]

seems most predators.

https://earthlife.net/10-armadillo-p...lo-earth-life/

[Gander]

I see more and more every year in Sandy Run.

[USMCsilver]

I got a lesson on them Saturday as we drove from Camden to N. Charleston for baseball playoffs. I noticed a few and my wife read some facts from the web.

I do recall her mentioning no natural predators.

Another interesting factoid is that they can run 35mph.

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[Rubberhead*]

I think they're rutting now...

[theoldblackdog]

I have a squirrel dog that hates them with a passion

Just one? unfortuante. Jake is hell on em for sure. Need to get Hondo to step it up

[ceddy]

We just had the 53rd Armadillo Festival this past weekend. They aren’t going anywhere so might as well have a little fun.

[Carolina Counsel]

Interesting factoid- they make a very satisfying "pop" when run over with a Polaris.

[DRDUCK]

They everywhere around the lake my propery included, bastards

[DoubleSprig]

southern gardeners’ nemesis.

[nitro5x6's]

Interesting factoid- they make a very satisfying "pop" when run over with a Polaris.

They also can show an impressive vertical leap height when plugged with a 22 LR ..

[DRDUCK]

They also can show an impressive vertical leap height when plugged with a 22 LR ..

Damn sure do! I have heard horror story's about people running over them with a car and tearing up stuff underneath the car.

[Fireman]

The ole Tactical Possum. Knew a couple Mexicans back home in Clinton that cooked them in the shell, then pulled them out and minced them into taco meat. Said they ate damn good. I never had the hunger to try it.

[Birddawg]

You can walk right up to them at night.

[Bownut]

Possum on the half shell.

[Palmetto Duck]

Not trying to eat anything known to carry leprosy. At least so I’ve heard.

[Gone South]

So, Saturday morning, I drove from Columbia to the Clinton area using I-26 North. I counted 14 dead armadillos on the side of the road between Little Mnt and Clinton. Two years ago, I made the same trip and don't remember seeing any. Ridiculously quick explosion in population. I wonder what preys on them. Do coyotes eat them?

Are you saying they ain’t established in clinton yet? I know they’ve been down here for a good 10+ years from when I first saw em. Hard to say if anything eats them, buzzards don’t touch the ones on the side of the road

[Model12]

I keep a dedicated scoped .22 with light for armadillos........Shot one in the yard about a week ago. At The shot he started running in circles.......Second shot stopped that.

[Palmetto Bug]

Only a very small percentage of humans are susceptible to leprosy and it can be knocked out with antibiotics. It's not something I worry about much. I'd probably taste one if someone knew how to cook it. Plenty of edible critters carry diseases....pigs, rabbits,deer,etc.

Armadillos don't cause me any real problems. They dig their holes mostly into ditchbanks and not where I'll step in them. We don't have them near my house so they aren't rooting up my lawn. At the farm, all they seem to do is root up bugs and worms. I've seen digging after mole crickets so they're on my side of that battle.

When they first showed up 20 or so years ago, I considered them invasive. Then I remembered that they migrated here on their own so they're not introduced and I dropped my shoot-on-sight mandate.

My dog still has them on his kill list. He brought a dead baby back to camp last week.

I've seen buzzards eat them. Buzzards in general have not been eating roadkill like they used to. Deer carcasses stay unmolested on the road shoulders lately. I think avian flu must have hit the vulture population pretty hard.

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