Posted by Texasmark1 on June 14, 2013 at 17:00:40 from (162.72.24.133):
In Reply to: Armadillo? posted by notjustair on June 14, 2013 at 15:12:14:
They eat worms. I have large white earth worms by the 10's of thousands. They make a little dirt pile about an inch high wherever they work and the dirt granules (for Houston Black Clay) are coarse; about twice the size of pepper granules from a manually operated pepper grinder. That's how you recognize them.
The Armadillos have an extremely keen sense of smell and long snout and can smell them. They also have a bodacious set of fore foot claws and they just dig them up.
Wherever they work they tear up the soil and anything planted down to the depth of the worm. At night they keep you awake banging around under your house.
You can run them off with a hammer on a big piece of sheet iron. At 2 am it works wonders.....on skunks too.
Their eyesight is horrible. If you are quiet and one is working the worms, you can walk right up to it. That's nice because at point blank range it's hard to miss.
Rumor has it that they carry Leprosy but that is rumor from one person and never heard it from anyone else nor verification from a legal authority.
One of their trademarks is getting on the roadway and getting run over. We refer to it as road kill and how fresh depends upon the kill date obviously. The buzzards survive around here on road kill till they find your young born calf.
One of the problems with road kill is that if you run over it, it might cost you a tire. That's because down here, the local beer, Texas brewed, in the brown long necks, is "Lone Star" and you usually find fresh road kill hugging an empty lying on it's back.
Some of this is fact and some folklore. You figure it out. Grin
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