What is the best way to get them out of my yard and flowerbeds? I live in the burbs so I can't shoot them with my shotgun.

gotta treat yard from grubs....thoroughly...that helps but won't get rid of them completely.

and then like another user said, trap but in confined space. They liked to dig in one spot against my foundation so I put trap there. It has a bunch of shrubs that made somewhat of a funnel. Took a couple weeks but ultimately they went in. Relocated several miles away

Wait until they run back to tunnel, then pull them out by the tail! Easy!
When I was a younger man we would catch armadillos for the races in our town, take a bicycle rim tie rip some netting on rim then add a hoe handle and sneak up on them. Their first move is to jump straight up into the net and their claws get hung up in the netting. If you have kids it's a blast watching them sneak up and trap them. Just wear leather gloves if you handle them. Those claws cut.

https://thearmadillotrap.com/

This worked for me. Better than a metal trap. I still used funnel technique and caught a lot of them.

This is the way. They will destroy a wire trap.

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Steel-Magnum-5-Foot-Blowgun/dp/B0061R3CWE

Legal and deadly.

jpb1999 said:

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https://thearmadillotrap.com/

This worked for me. Better than a metal trap. I still used funnel technique and caught a lot of them.

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Well hell, saw one of those in my hood and didn't realize they were dillo specific. We back up to a green belt and the best defense is no grubs. They still get in and root around the beds some, but the yard stays pretty well intact. Had one digging under my foundation and left a gas soaked rag there for a while and he never came back.

TikkaShooter said:

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This is what rimfire silencers were made for.

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What is the easiest, fastest, cheapest way to get a rimfire can?

SMH at recommendations for "pellet guns" and "blow darts". Obviously these folks have zero experience with the efficacy of these against a dillo. Even a .22LR is iffy and unethical at best.

I have found a suppressed 300blk w/Sub-X is quite effective/easy. Though our ranch doesn't have such legal restrictions as the OP.

That said, while I'm not advising you legally, there was some discussion on the OB a couple years ago as to whether or not the prevention of property destruction is a defense of the discharge of a firearm in such situations. It was generally directed at hog damage in the suburbs but referenced the below:

"Texas Penal Code Section 790.15, does not apply to a person lawfully defending life or property"

Get a game camera so you can know their routine. When you find consistency plan on staying awake with a .22 or strong pellet gun. They're pretty predictable.

We had an armadillo tearing up my front yard. He was too smart for the trap. Wound up spraying my yard with Molemax from Lowes. It is completely safe. Uses castor oil as the repellent. It has been working so far.

SanAntoneAg said:

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They pay two-fifty down in Hallettsville

3 dollars, maybe more

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But, they don't take 'em alive...

They don't have the ability to know and maliciously want to purposely tear up your yard. They are eating bugs for goodness sakes. You want to kill them, that's fine. It's your yard and land. I'm hopping your just being cute and joking about " make them suffer". Right?

I released it at a greenbelt park along a bayou. No houses anywhere nearby

Buford T. Justice said:

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What is the best way to get them out of my yard and flowerbeds? I live in the burbs so I can't shoot them with my shotgun.

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Any way you can post pics of the damage?

Nope and I make tamales out of neighbors cats too.

High quality pellet gun with a good scope light will do the trick.

Traps usually catch the wrong critters. Don't use an open trap; wandering cats will make your life hell trying to get them out of one... not that I would know.

Neighbor and I have a deal that if either happens to hear a shotgun blast, it is likely some hooligan on the other side of the tracts.

I built one of these and have caught lots of them. To get the first one I made funnels on each end. Now that its scented I just put it next to the edge of a flower bed.

Don't leave the trap set and go on a long trip.

Lord forbid if he would build a armadillo proof fence around his yard to keep them out. He might restrict whitetail movement if he did.