As far as I know, they do live in burrows but I've never seen a burrow. They will dig for insects and love grubs. Moles do, too. We have also had moles tunneling in the yard, but I read that they are harmless and the little tunnels are actually good for aeration so we just let them be.
Hate those moles and voles! They can tear up a yard, flower beds, and landscaping terribly by digging all those tunnels. We set traps out for them if they decide to visit the neighborhood. Cats are pretty good at ambushing them as well. I thought armadillos carried leprosy and a person wasn't supposed to touch them directly even after killing them? You should use a big shovel with a long handle, I'm guessing? I don't know that much about armadillos but they have been showing up in a lot of states.
I have never heard this. I got the following from a critter control website: While they can host parasitic worms and even rabies on rare occasions, most of the conversation surrounding armadillo diseases is about leprosy. Besides humans, nine-banded armadillos are the only animals that can carry M. leprae, the bacteria that causes leprosy. Several human cases of the disease linked with the pests have been reported in Texas, though these animals have also tested positive for M. leprae in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. I had no idea.
I was surprised to learn that too. My SIL is a nurse and one of the doctors came into the hospital one day and mention he had an armadillo show up in his yard, and he went on to say that they carry leprosy.
It's one of those diseases that only comes up in conversations regarding the Bible, and I don't recall armadillos playing a role in either testament. Cobbled from Wiki: Leprosy is spread between people, although extensive contact is necessary. Leprosy is not highly contagious…people with leprosy can live with their families and go to school and work. Leprosy occurs more commonly among people living in poverty. Most new cases (± 200,000 per year) occur in 14 countries, with India accounting for more than half. About 200 cases per year are reported in the United States. Also from Wiki: The nine-banded armadillo, also known as the nine-banded long-nosed armadillo or common long-nosed armadillo, is a mammal found in North, Central, and South America, making it the most widespread of the armadillos. Them buggers are everywhere...in the Western Hemisphere. So to get back on topic regarding Nancy's digs...if leprosy is so difficult to transit from human to human, I gotta think the risk of Nancy's getting it from an armadillo is darned near impossible.
I never touched it. Just turned it over with a stick to look at it closely. The oddest thing was hairs growing out of the armor plates and all over its stomach. They are called "curb feelers." I think they must be related mentally to opossums. Just going by road kill observation.
That's a cool vid. Here's the link to Second Chance Wildlife Center, the 501c3 in Kentucky that saved Arnie's life (and the lives of other critters.) Armadillos are not part of the rodent family. They are more closely related to koala bears and kangaroos, if you can believe that.
Leprosy requires prolonged extensive contact to spread unless you are immune-suppressed. I also believe armadillos are the arch enemy of fire ants, so they ain't all bad. I understand the spread of fire ants is why armadillos are spreading.
The Mark III Armadillo APC The Armadillo, after passing the tryouts of inspection, was of very limited production. It was supposedly a "secret war machine" to the UN. In all, only 3 were built.
8/23/22 I ordered the new phone from a little AT&T store on the edge of town. Usually only one employee, no customers and no waiting if you go at the right time. The girl there was very helpful. But when I went to pick up the phone there was a young man who was not helpful at all. He said he'd activate the new phone, but wouldn't transfer other stuff over from the old phone. They have always been willing and eager to do this in the past. Why not this time? "Because their network was too unstable, it would cut out in the middle, and we'd have to start over." Why would you need a network? (see later) After I told him I had deleted all the pictures, videos, and downloads from the phone, he agreed to move some things over, like contacts. Anything else I could do easily myself using WiFi? YouTube videos didn't do it using Wifi. The charger cord that came with the new phone had a mini USB-C port on both ends. All you needed to do was hook both phones together and EVERYTHING transferred in less than 5 minutes. It used a free Samsung application called Smart Switch. I'm pretty sure that's the way they did it last time. I remember them hooking the two together and leaving them off to the side while they helped other customers. Anyway I wasted a lot of time, but learned something, and the new phone is now set up exactly like the old one. Even the wallpaper and ringtones, settings, apps, phone and text logs, moved over. I know how to do it next time. I love this little phone already. It will: (1) fit in a pocket, and not slither out when you try to sit down, (2) can be removed from said pocket when a call comes in without hitting the 'reject' icon, or getting stuck on a locked screen, and (3) will not type 7 lines of gibberish while in said pocket, and send them to your cousin as a text message all by itself. It has an option to set it so it answers a call by opening the phone just like the old flip phones. But it folds gradually, with some resistance continuously, not with a snap shut/open. Will hold at almost any angle, sit up by itself like a little laptop, or sideways to take a full size video with no hands. I couldn't care less about a barely visible crease in the screen at the fold. In fact I wish it just had 2 completely separate screens, one above the other.
Good job, @Nancy Hart . Now you know how to do it yourself so you don't have to rely on some clerk who doesn't want to be bothered. Glad you like the new phone; it's fun to get a new "toy."
I got a case and a wall socket adapter. They had a current deal: buy 2, get one free (of lesser value, except earplugs). I was forced to decide quickly, and picked a little external Bluetooth speaker. Played with that last night. It's not as good as the pc speakers, but much better than the phone speakers. And very loud. Not worth carrying around unless you want to listen to music. You can hang it in the shower.