Kat2

If they're ridding the area of insects that would damage my plants, I'd prefer to have them visit daily and figure out how to work with them. If they're eating insects the armadillos want, I really would like to keep them around until the "food" runs out. I just don't know why they chose my backyard or what they found so intriguing and apparently quite tasty.

I had starlings or possibly grackles (ugly birds) when I lived outside of DC. Everyone hated them; I didn't. I had absolutely no Japanese beetles because they ate the grubs on my property. We had a box we set up for some bird to nest in; my black birds raised a brood in it. I watched mama teach babies to fly from the back fence to my den window sill. Those babies were bigger than she was!

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