Other tell-tale badger signs include scratch marks on trees, hairs caught on barbed wire or nesting material near the sett that they've brought out to air. Badgers eat frogs, rodents, birds, eggs, lizards, insects, seeds, berries and bulbs but earthworms are their favourite food. One badger can consume up to 200 in a night. Female badgers are called sows and males boars. They can breed at any time of the year and have litters of between one and six cubs.
Badgers range from Europe to southern China.
In Britain, they re found in south west England, Wales and parts of north east England. There are urban badger 'hotspots' too like Brighton, Birmingham and Bristol. Over 200 setts have been recorded around London. In the UK it s an offence to kill, injure or capture a badger, or to interfere with its sett.