Armadillo Removal in Peachtree Corners, GA
Woke up to a lawn full of small cone-shaped holes and mulch thrown across the walk? In Peachtree Corners, armadillos spend the day in the office-park woods and dig in the watered lawns next door at night. Call us and tell us about the job — we will confirm the local crew for your county before any work starts.
Armadillos digging up your Peachtree Corners yard
Armadillos have become more common across Georgia every year, and Peachtree Corners suits them. The office campuses keep large, irrigated lawns and soft ground around the stormwater ponds, with wooded buffers next to them for daytime cover. The neighborhoods next door add their own watered lawns and mulch beds. An armadillo can sleep in the campus woods, dig in the turf and pond banks at night, and finish in your yard before morning.
What it's after is grubs, earthworms and beetle larvae, and moist soil keeps them close to the surface. The damage is small cone-shaped holes, mulch thrown across the walk, and new plantings pushed up out of the ground. Some people say it looks like hogs dug up the lawn. The common remedies people try first don't stop it. Here's what does.
Why repellents and mothballs don't work
Mothballs, castor-oil granules, predator urine and ultrasonic stakes all get tried, and none of them stops an armadillo. It digs by instinct and finds food by smell, and none of those products changes that. At best it moves a few feet to the next soft spot. Mothballs shouldn't be spread around a yard for any animal problem anyway. Every week spent trying products is another week of holes.
Don't treat the lawn for grubs
It sounds logical: get rid of the grubs and the armadillo has nothing to eat. In practice, grub treatment usually makes the damage worse. As the grubs thin out, the armadillo digs more holes and goes deeper looking for what's left. Leave the lawn treatment alone until the animal is gone.
Trapping depends on where the trap goes
No bait reliably draws an armadillo into a trap, so the skill is all in placement. Armadillos use the same routes every night: along a fence line, the edge of a patio, the side of a house, or across the strip between the campus trees and your yard. A pro reads the holes and tracks, finds that route, and sets a trap (often a pre-set wooden box) directly on it, with boards or fencing to steer the animal in. Set in the right spot, it often catches the armadillo within a few nights.
Burrows under decks, sheds and slabs
The holes in the lawn are cosmetic. The burrow is the bigger problem. Armadillos like to dig under decks, sheds, AC pads and the edges of slabs, where the soil is soft and the structure overhead gives cover. A long tunnel can wash out the soil under a footing or pad. If you see a hole about the size of a dinner plate next to a structure, have it looked at.
Close the burrow so it isn't reused
An empty burrow next to the campus woods won't stay empty, because the next armadillo will move in. Once the animal is out, and no young are left inside, the pro fills or blocks the burrow and installs a barrier around the deck or shed. That's usually wire mesh bent into an L and buried so a new one can't dig under. Trapping without this step leaves the burrow ready for the next armadillo.
Timing and the law
Georgia doesn't have special restrictions on trapping armadillos the way it does for raccoons. You still need to deal with the animal humanely and get it off the property for good, which is why most people hire it out. Armadillos are active year-round in Georgia's mild winters, and the digging picks up after rain softens the ground. If new holes show up every morning, the armadillo is living close by.
Common armadillo questions in Peachtree Corners
Something is digging cone-shaped holes in my lawn in Peachtree Corners — what is it?+
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There's a burrow under my deck or shed — is that an armadillo?+
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Other Peachtree Corners problems that come with armadillos
Our wildlife crew handles these closely related problems — the ones that most often turn up with a armadillo issue.
Got more than armadillos in Peachtree Corners?
Armadillos are rarely the only animal working a Peachtree Corners yard at night. See everything we handle locally on the Peachtree Corners wildlife removal hub, or jump to Georgia wildlife removal.
Want the background before you call? Read our statewide guide: Armadillos tearing up your Georgia lawn.
One call to your Peachtree Corners armadillo crew
An armadillo digs every night it's on your property, and a burrow under a deck or slab keeps getting bigger. Call us and tell us about the job — we will confirm the local crew for your county before any work starts.
- Local to Gwinnett County. Georgia DNR-compliant handling — call to ask about licensing and insurance.
- Traps on the path, not repellents. Traps set on the trails it uses, plus barriers to close off burrows. Sprays and granules don't work.
- Done right. Removal, exclusion and cleanup.