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WE came across missouri on us44 yesterday dead armallos every mile or 2 after we crossed river at st louis we didnt see any more all way home are they in ill or ind
 
I'm in southern Illinois (Murphysboro area). I hear of people finding road kills occasionally. Neighbor of mine picked up one near my place a couple of years ago but I never seen one here myself. Did just see on Facebook a couple days ago that someone just saw a road kill. God help us when they get established here. The groundhogs we have are bad enough! We were in north central Arkansas last year on vacation. Guy at the resort said you should avoid hitting an armadilo with you car if there is any way possible because they can do a great deal of damage. Said a few people have hit them on purpose and were sorry that they did!
 
People in Florida call them "mile markers". If there are too many of them around they are lookig for food and are out there in the night.
 
rlh22,

They've moved into southern Tennessee in the last couple of years. There was a carcass in our driveway a few weeks ago. The buzzards picked it clean and then I carefully shoveled up what was left and buried it.

Nasty creatures.

Tom in TN
 
Yea good many Texas speed bumps seen in Missouri any more. Depending on how far you drove on I-44 you may have been with in 25 miles of me. Reason you do not see them on the other side of the Mississippi is they get hit on the bridges before they can get across and they do not know how to swim good enough to get across before they reach Mississippi
 
people around here used to take a dead one turn it belly up and take a empty beer bottle and put it between the legs and got alot of cars to slow down to look and got alot of laughs too
 
Hi Gary - we got game camera pics of one here on the place about a year ago. A few months later, Linda and our dog encountered him in the daylight on one of their walks. Then a day or two later, she and I were walking and spotted him again. A .38 Spl slug will penetrate an armadillo shell - something us Southern Illinois boys don't readily know offhand. Last Sunday morning, there was one lying upside down on Main Street in Ava. A friend of ours who lived a couple of miles south of us, thinks one was digging up his sweet corn seed. After seeing a dead one nearby on the highway, his seed problem ended. You can see the one in the game camera pic - he's in the lower right hand corner. I guess he crossed the Chester bridge? They don't look like good swimmers, but what do I know about armadillos. . .

Paul
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Armadillos have a defensive reaction when they are startled, they jump straight up. So, even if a vehicle passes harmlessly over them, they jump out of fright and get clobbered by the undercarriage. They can swim as well as any animal.
 
We hit one with the combine just south of Pinckneyville il. I have seen 4 road kills around here too. I guess they will get as thick as the deer are here someday.
 
You can have all them critters you want. It took me a month staying up late with a 12 gauge or a 22 to get rid of them. They root like a hog and tear your yard ,garden or the little womans flower beds up. Leave 6" round and 4" deep craters all over rooting for grubs or earthworms.
 
They are plentiful here in Texas, but we believe they keep the number of snakes down. We use to be bothered with ticks and snakes, now it is "Feral Hogs and Fireants.
 
Just like so many other species, they are migrating to places where they have never been seen. We have the danged things in North Carolina now. Just did some checking and according to the NC Wildlife Commission there are no restrictions on killing them. We have coyotes, which did not exist around here until just a few years ago, and skunks are becoming more plentiful. Oh, happy daze.
 
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