Re: Re: Gardening and depression

We started getting armadillos here about 4yrs ago.  I grew up in this 
area and hadn't seen any before that.  Now they litter the roads, like 
someone else said, they don't have good eyesight and lots end up as 
roadkill.  Mostly they stay out of the iris, but the fields are littered with 
those wedge shaped holes.  I raise pheasants and chickens and when 
they decide to get into a pen they just burrow underneath.  They don't 
harm the birds, but they allow for other things to get in there.  I hope 
they stay out of the iris here, I can only imagine the havock they'd cause.  
I'm pretty far north (SW MO) compared to you Linda, so watch out, they 
could be on the way.  It looks like they've crossed the mississippi.  You 
might need to copy/past this link.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-
0503180231mar18,1,3428288.story 
Will Warner
SW MO zone 6 

> 
> From: Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net>
> Date: 2005/08/06 Sat PM 06:40:53 CDT
> To: iris- talk <iris@hort.net>
> Subject: [iris] Re: Gardening and depression
> 
> We don't have armadillos here (tho global warming may change 
that...),
> but I was curious about natural predators, so did a web search and 
found
> alligators (not exactly a nice addition to the garden!), cougars/pumas
> (ditto), dogs, coyotes, and highway traffic.  And the aforementioned
> shotguns and traps, which I include as 'natural predation' because
> armadillos are apparently edible by humans.  "if properly prepared".
> ick.
> 
> Most interesting trap is a pipe slightly smaller in diameter than the
> armadillo, which is pounded into the exit/entry to the armadillo's
> sleeping quarters - critter tries to leave its den and gets stuck.
> 
> Also ran across reference to the Screaming Hairy Armadillo, which 
sounds
> like a joke, but apparently is a real creature!
> 
> Knew the rest of you would want to hear all this <g>
> 
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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