Licensed pros connected to Sun City, Berry Creek and Old Town alike
Armadillos dig for grubs, earthworms and insect larvae, and Georgetown gives them plenty of ground to work. Lawns along the San Gabriel River and the greenbelts near Garey Park and San Gabriel Park hold the moist soil and insect life armadillos favor, and a yard backing onto either corridor is more likely to get dug up than one further from water.
New construction is a constant here, Georgetown has been one of the fastest-growing cities in the country for several years running, and each cleared lot in Sun City, Teravista or Wolf Ranch pushes the armadillos that lived there into the yards next door. The animal does not disappear when the land is graded; it moves to the nearest cover and keeps digging.
Late summer brings the fall field cricket flood, and Georgetown's lit storefronts along Austin Avenue and the pump islands near I-35 draw them by the thousands once the weather turns. A porch light left burning past dark pulls in more crickets than a whole can of spray keeps out. Swapping a white bulb for a warmer one, or just shutting outdoor lights off earlier, thins the swarm more than most homeowners expect.
Fire Ant Mounds After Rain
- Size
- About cat sized with a hard shell
- Shell
- Leathery banded plates, not solid bone armor
- Diet
- Grubs, worms and insects dug from soil
- Digging
- Snout first, leaves shallow cone shaped holes
- Activity
- Mostly active at night and near dawn
- Same-Week Availability
- Armadillos dig year-round here, but exclusion works best once nights cool and digging around the porch or shed slows, since no closed season protects them in Williamson County.
- Per Visit
- an estimated $99–$249
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Large digging holes blamed on skunks or groundhogs. A skunk's holes tend to be shallow, narrow cone shapes an inch or two across, dug one at a time. An armadillo's are wider, deeper, and often come with a larger, obvious burrow entrance somewhere nearby along a fence line or foundation, plus claw marks in the surrounding soil that a skunk's smaller feet don't leave.
Bats Need An Exclusion, Not Poison
The licensed pros we connect you with start by finding the active burrow, usually against a foundation, under a shed or along a fence line, and confirm it is still in use before doing anything else. Trapping is set on the travel path between the burrow and the feeding area, since armadillos are slow and predictable once that path is identified.
Longer term, closing off the space under a deck or porch and burying fencing a foot or so below ground along a foundation keeps a new burrow from starting in the same spot. Because armadillos are not on the state's fur-bearing animal list, relocating one does not carry the same permission and reporting requirements that apply to raccoons or opossums.
Roof rats get into Georgetown houses at the top, not the bottom. They travel fence lines and oak limbs into the eaves, then work in wherever the roofline gives them an opening. That's why an inspection here checks soffits and attic vents before anything else. Water Oak and Berry Creek both back onto tree cover that makes this an easy route for them.
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Fast Help Near Lake GeorgetownArmadillos are not classified as a fur-bearing animal under Texas Parks and Wildlife rules, so trapping and relocating one does not require the authorization and monthly reporting a raccoon or an opossum would. The rule that does apply statewide is straightforward: a live armadillo may not be sold. Anyone relying on a specific method should confirm it is still current before using it on a property.
Scorpions, Roof Rats and Fire Ants
The damage in Georgetown is usually a string of shallow, cone-shaped holes across a lawn or flower bed near Garey Park or an older section of Old Town, dug overnight while an armadillo works the ground for insects. Left alone, the same digging can undermine a slab edge or an AC pad, and one working under a shed or deck opens an entry point that keeps widening until exclusion work closes it off.
Store-Bought Bait vs. Roof Rats in Attics
An armadillo is hard to trap without knowing where it currently feeds, and a cage trap set in the wrong spot on a large lot often sits empty for weeks. A humane cage trap placed directly across the active burrow entrance or along a fresh trench, checked daily, is the one DIY method that works, but repeated digging in the same yard usually means more than one animal is working the same ground.
Bats Roosting Under Your Roofline
Armadillos are one of the few animals that can carry the bacterium behind Hansen's disease, so a homeowner along the San Gabriel River or out toward Sun City who finds one digging near the foundation should never handle it by hand. The licensed pros we connect you with in Georgetown use a humane trap and release it away from the property, which keeps everyone clear of direct contact with a live or dead animal.
Ask About Your Property
Whether it's a roof rat that got into the attic off a tree limb near Berry Creek or crickets piling up under a porch light off Williams Drive, the fix starts with knowing which pest you actually have. The licensed pros we connect you with serve Georgetown and out toward Round Rock and Liberty Hill, and they'll ask the right questions before anyone sets foot on the property. Reach out today and get a straight answer instead of a guess.Scorpion visits usually come with an entry point already at fault — a slab crack, a loose weep screen, a gap around a laundry line. Fixing that spot is often folded into the same visit rather than billed as extra, since it's a few minutes of caulk and screen versus a repeat call in July. Roof rat exclusion works the same way: the estimate covers sealing the fascia gap or gable vent that let them into the attic in the first place, not just clearing what's already up there. pricing guide, and the service that handles this is Wildlife Removal.
