• Help Support TNDeer:

Is thus a armadillo

P

peytoncreekhunter

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 12, 2004
Messages
3,342
Reaction score
5,675
Location
Hermitage
Does this look like a armadillo to ya'll?

IMG_0047.JPG
 
Yes. I got pictures of one on the Cumberland Plateau recently and was really surprised by it. It's still on a card but I'll try to find it.
 
This is in Riddleton, just outside of Carthage. I've seen them run over on Hwy 25 right there at the farm, just hadn't see any in the wild.
 
peytoncreekhunter said:
This is in Riddleton, just outside of Carthage. I've seen them run over on Hwy 25 right there at the farm, just hadn't see any in the wild.
Click to expand...
Just wait, you will be seeing a lot more on camera. Prior to 2006, we had none. Now I get a dozen on trail-camera every time I pull the cards. Invasive little boogers.
 
BSK said:
Yup. First showed up in Middle TN around 2006.
Click to expand...
Sooner than that. I remember catching one by hand in New Johnsonville around 2001. We were working on a right a-way there. I asked a TWRA agent about it and he speculated they were following the fire ants, but said that was purely his opinion.
 
hillbillyfab said:
Sooner than that. I remember catching one by hand in New Johnsonville around 2001. We were working on a right a-way there. I asked a TWRA agent about it and he speculated they were following the fire ants, but said that was purely his opinion.
Click to expand...
That's what I have always heard too.
We have them where I live now but I have yet to find a fire ant hill.
Hope I never do too.
 
I brought a dozen or so armadillos with me when we moved here. You're welcome.

Lived in Texas for years. Frickin everywhere. Best thing, people put beer bottles in their hands when the get killed on the road and are laying upside down. LOL
 
Antler Daddy said:
Any idea why they have moved into the state? What has caused it?
Click to expand...
I also heard the "following the fire ants" idea, but armadillos have far outstripped the range of fire ants. Armadillos are now up into central KY. The most likely scenario is they are expanding their range while they can. They cannot withstand extremely cold weather, and the shift towards warmer winters we've had of late is allowing them to expand northward.
 
hillbillyfab said:
Sooner than that. I remember catching one by hand in New Johnsonville around 2001. We were working on a right a-way there. I asked a TWRA agent about it and he speculated they were following the fire ants, but said that was purely his opinion.
Click to expand...
As I travelled a lot at the time, I followed their progress northward out of AL and northwestward out of the Memphis area by looking at those killed on I-65 and I-40 respectively. I finally got my first one on trail-camera on the western edge of Middle TN in 2006. Although I'm sure some outliers existed earlier.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top