{"id":168995,"date":"2025-09-20T04:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168995\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:13:06","slug":"missouri-department-of-conservation-gives-tips-on-treating-armadillos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168995\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Department of Conservation gives tips on treating armadillos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">AROUND THE OZARKS, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; Armadillos have been spotted ripping up yards. One critter caused yard damage to an east Springfield neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Experts say armadillos may be creating burrows. Or, they could be digging for food. They do like insects and grubs, so there are ways you can try to keep them from making a mess of your landscaping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cIf you have a problematic armadillo, something that\u2019s digging around your house, digging around your garden, the Wildlife Code of Missouri does allow you to dispose of that animal. I mean, you can live trap it and move it, but you can also just shoot it too if it\u2019s causing problems,\u201d said Francis Skalicky with the Missouri Department of Conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">They can carry leprosy, so remember to wear gloves if you need to move an armadillo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">To report a correction or typo, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2025\/09\/20\/missouri-department-conservation-gives-tips-treating-armadillos\/mailto:digitalnews@ky3.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">digitalnews@ky3.com<\/a>. Please include the article info in the subject line of the email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KY3. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AROUND THE OZARKS, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; Armadillos have been spotted ripping up yards. One critter caused yard damage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[101521,101519,101520,99872,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-168995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-armadillo-missouri","9":"tag-armadillo-treatment","10":"tag-armadillo-treatment-springfield","11":"tag-armadillos","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}