wildrider666
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Sounds simple enough, no bait. A person might consider a large enough water container to "submerge and rinse the trap".
http://www.wildlife-removal.com/armadillotrap.html
http://www.wildlife-removal.com/armadillotrap.html
It is bacterium that causes hansen disease:Sounds simple enough, no bait. A person might consider a large enough water container to "submerge and rinse the trap".
http://www.wildlife-removal.com/armadillotrap.html
I would thoroughly spray with something that will kill that particular bacterium. Bleach is the standard as long as it does hurt the surface of your trap.the disease is caused by a bacillus (rod-shaped) bacterium known as Mycobacterium leprae.
I go stronger myself.1:49 diluted household bleach (mixing 10ml of bleach with 0.5litre of water) is used to disinfect surfaces or articles contaminated with vomitus, excreta, secretions or blood.
Topics: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | Ober, Holly K | Mizell, Russell F. III | Armadillos
Baiting the Nine-Banded Armadillo1
The Search for Bait Materials
Two types of materials have strong potential to serve as bait to lure armadillos into traps: food items and smells from other armadillos.
Armadillos are generalists, meaning they consume a wide variety of foods. Approximately 75% of their diet by volume is insects, mostly beetles (Coleoptera). The remainder of the diet consists of other invertebrates (worms, insects, spiders), small amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, eggs, fruit, other plant material, and carrion (dead animals). This wide variety in armadillo diets makes the selection of a single item to use as a bait challenging!
Smells from other armadillos also have potential to attract armadillos. It is believed that armadillos communicate with one another through odors they emit through their anal scent glands. Odors produced by the scent glands of one armadillo may stimulate the curiosity of another.
To determine which materials have the greatest potential to serve as bait, we set up several tests. We captured 40 wild armadillos and maintained them in outdoor enclosures. We then compared armadillo interest in a variety of items including invertebrates commercially available from bait shops and pet stores, eggs, fruits, and scents collected from armadillo anal glands. The following materials were tested:
crickets (Acheta domesticus)
pond worms (Lumbricus terrestris)
red worms (Eisenia fetida)
wigglers (Pheretima hawayanus)
meal worms (Tenebrio molitor)
big red worms (Eisenia hortenis)
glow worms (Eisenia hortenis, dyed bright colors)
millipedes (Dipolopda)
chicken eggs
quail eggs
avocado
banana
strawberry
peanut butter
vanilla wafer cookies
pads containing odors from armadillos of the same gender
pads containing odors from armadillos of the opposite gender
unscented pads
Of the materials we tested, worms and crickets performed best. These baits attracted the attention of armadillos more quickly than the other materials, armadillos visited the locations where these baits were placed more often than locations with other potential baits, and armadillos spent significantly more time at the locations where these baits were placed than at all other locations.
Interestingly, although armadillos are known to eat eggs of quail, turkeys, sea turtles, gopher tortoises, lizards, and snakes in the wild, our tests suggested that eggs from domestic bobwhite quail and chickens were less attractive than worms and crickets. Eggs from domestic birds seem to have limited potential to serve as bait for armadillos.
Our tests also showed that armadillos have an extremely short perceptual distance: they do not recognize the presence of food items until they are within a few feet of the material. For this reason, it is unlikely that placing any of the preferred baits (or any other naturally occurring materials) in a trap will effectively lure armadillos into traps over long distances.
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