Using Lawn Treatments To Eliminate Armadillo Digging Activity Armadillos often cause considerable damage to lawns when they dig up their nightly prey, since they are nocturnal feeders that eat insects and bugs. You may want to think about finding a repellent pesticide treatment for your lawn, if you're having a persistent armadillo problem. Used correctly, the right product can be highly effective in deterring nocturnal digging activity. These repellent treatments will usually have inactive and active ingredients. Inactive components may be granules or pellets which offer a hard, protective shell for the active ingredients. This allows active ingredients which may cause irritation or harm to be shielded from your skin. The method of delivery will make for a longer shelf life and also keeps ingredients intact despite the effects of weather. Make sure to get a product that is organically derived. Many such products should be available at your local organic garden supply store, or online, and can be made from a number of natural, food grade minerals, spices, and oils. Make sure that you find out all of the ingredients involved in a repellent pesticide, to guarantee that no harmful substances are introduced into your lawn. In an effective product, there'll be no need for harsh synthetic chemicals and these chemicals could pose many risks to people, both during application and after. Buying a safe, organic product will also help to ensure that you're not doing harm to the environment. An effective repellent should simply create a benign, chemical free layer on top of the soil of the lawn that will deter destructive armadillo digging activity. Since they target armadillos' keen sense of smell, these repellents work perfectly under the right conditions. The repellant, whether in granules or pellet form, should be spread evenly on the lawn. Watering allows the treatment to be activated, as the external shell is softened, and active ingredients are able to extract themselves. Setting up a treated layer in the surface of your lawn's soil, the extracted repellents are absorbed into the soil. This layer will not be enjoyed by any wandering armadillo that's looking for a place to dig. Choose a product that has active ingredients that aren't water soluble, so they won't easily wash away within a couple of days. In truth, depending on your lawns conditions, the protective barrier you create in your topsoil might remain effective for as long as two months. Making use of this type of simple pesticide repellent barrier should deter most animals with very keen sense of smell, and they should learn quickly that there are better places to go digging for a meal. With 33% of the armadillo's brain being devoted to olfactory data processing, it's been stated that their sense of smell is even more developed than that of dogs. This highly-developed sense of smell may help make sense of how armadillos get by with such poor eyesight. Actually, they've been shown to be able to find food buried up to six inches deep with their nose alone. Due to this keen sense of smell, a good, organically-based repellent, carefully placed on your lawn, could go a long way to reducing unwanted digging. Depending on how often and how much the treated area is watered, along with the size of the local population of the armadillos could make a difference in the efficiency of a treatment. You will be able to get the best method of treatment from a local or online retailer. If you utilize Yard Gard all natural garden spray to treat your yard for insects, your pets will be safe BGA Industries, LLC
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