Armadillo Removal in Mobile, AL

The nine-banded armadillo is now firmly established across south Alabama and the Florida panhandle — our mild, wet winters and soft, grub-rich Gulf Coast soil suit it perfectly. The damage comes in two forms:

• Feeding digs — dozens of shallow, conical holes (1–3 inches deep) across the lawn overnight as the animal probes for grubs and earthworms. Fresh sod and irrigated beds get hit hardest because that's where the grubs are.
• Burrows — the serious one. A den burrow runs several feet long under slabs, porches, AC condenser pads, driveways and even home foundations, and can crack concrete or void a termite bond when soil gets excavated from under the slab edge.

Armadillos have almost no natural predators here and females produce identical quadruplets every spring, so a yard problem rarely stays a one-armadillo problem.

1. Locate the burrow and travel paths — armadillos are creatures of habit and run the same fence lines nightly.
2. Set live traps on those paths, usually with natural funneling (boards or existing fencing) guiding the animal in. Armadillos don't respond to bait the way raccoons do, so trap placement is the whole game — this is where DIY attempts usually fail.
3. Remove and relocate or dispatch per Alabama/Florida rules — in Florida, nuisance armadillos generally can't be relocated off-property and must be humanely euthanized; your operator handles the legal side.
4. Fill and collapse the burrow so the void under the slab doesn't settle, and address the grub load in the lawn if it's drawing repeat visitors.

• Trapping setup + first animal: roughly $150–$350.
• Multiple animals or extended trapping: roughly $300–$500.
• Burrow remediation / slab repair: quoted separately; minor fill work is cheap, concrete repair is a contractor job.

Compare with other species on the cost page, and find companies that list armadillo work — not all do — in the Gulf Coast directory.

There's no registered repellent that reliably moves armadillos, and shooting them is illegal inside Mobile and Pensacola city limits (and most subdivisions). What works:

• Low fencing — armadillos are poor climbers; a 2-foot fence angled outward at the top protects beds and slab edges.
• Grub management — treating heavy grub infestations makes the lawn less attractive, though earthworms will still bring some digging.
• Removing cover — dense ground cover, brush piles and overgrown fence lines are prime burrow habitat.
• Fast trapping when digging starts — a new armadillo hasn't built its burrow network yet. Two weeks of digging is a lawn problem; two months is a foundation problem.