PESTS IN MESOPOTAMIA
Scorpions, Spiders, and Locusts. Some of the discomforts our troops have to put up with in Mesopotamia are described in a letter from a despatch rider. He states that the temperature at the time of writing had been for some days 125 in the shade and over 150 in the sun. Corporal Kelly continues:— "A standing joke out here is the insect community. I think every beastly insect under the sun is well represented There are spiders with bodies about the size of a large plum, with a head as large as a cherry, and a beak like a bird, which go chasing all over the place, much to our consternation. Locusts are here in thousands and there are beetles the size of young elephants, and, unfortunately, scorpions, which have to be treated with great respect. As we sleep on the "round out in the open we have thousands of different insects walking all over us at night."
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Lake County Press, Issue 2737, 6 June 1918, Page 7
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