Need advice on how to kill/trap armadillo

They probably have a hole near your foundation by the bushes. You probably are just gonna have to catch em out rooting and kill em.

tenfoe is right.

To further that, if its dry, run the hose in the area you intend to trap, set a funnel against a boundary and bait said trap with a marshmallow.

OR - and in my opinion this is much more fun.

Set an alarm for somewhere between 1:00 and 4:00, get up, go outside and take a whiz, shoot one or more armadillos and go back to bed like a boss.

Nah I have a big canal thats grown up that borders my yard.
That's where they live on the bank.

The Armadillo Trap is legit. We got my dad one for Christmas one year and he caught the hell out of those bastards. Get the pre-scented one. It's worth the extra $$. Basically they scent the trap with an armadillo so the ones around your house smell it and come to investigate. My dad has caught dozens and dozens of armadillos since starting to use the trap.

Second thing I'll say is to sprinkle cayenne pepper around your yard. They hate it and it's a really effective deterrent. After the flood last year in BR, the armadillo population seemed to skyrocket and the trap couldn't keep up (they were catching 2 or 3 a week and not making a dent). My dad talked to someone who recommended sprinkling cayenne pepper around the flower beds and it worked like a charm until the next big rain washed it away.

I've killed more than one with a shovel, works well, especially if its sharpened a bit.

Further, the front of their skull is pretty thin, if you hit them right across the top of their eyes with much of stick, that'll do them in.

My step dad is a trapping fool. He takes 20 feet of board and makes a v-shape. At the closed end he places the trap. They are blind. Hit the board and work their way to the trap. Works really well

My dogs kill them at the farm.

I didn't realize armadillos can carry leprosy but my vet said "don't worry about it unless they are eating the armadillo."

My grandpa was having issues with them a few years back. He had a couple of storage buildings out back, and they would root around at the base of them. He had motion activated floods and when the lights came on he would go out there. Left a nice pattern of dents from the shotgun in his metal building. My uncle told him to use a .22 and feed him one. Basically shoot straight into his face. Anything else and you risk it bouncing off. That's what the shotgun had done. I think it actually killed the armadillo, but still left dents all in the metal from the pellets that bounced off his back.

This works. I've lost count of how many I've caught this way. No bait needed. I did learn that the standard live traps may not hold a large adult one. Their claws are so strong they can bend the trap door and escape. Had to get a heavy duty Tomahawk trap. Also I've found that you can trap them without the boards if you find their path leading out of the brush into mowed area. They seem to use the same route over and over. Easy to see when their is a dew in the early morning. Just set the trap in the path.