Iraq has lots of bugs and critters to eat the bugs. You really don't see too much in the summer as it's very very hot. What you do see are the bats at night (and there can be many of them.) You also don't see many bugs during the rainy season of November to March or April. It last rained here about 2 weeks ago and when it does rain everything is Very muddy. There really isn't soil in this part of Iraq but there is a clay type soil. The ground doesn't perk here neither. Anyway, in a few weeks there'll be small bugs hatching and then larger bugs will come to eat those bug. In March there'll be millions of scorpion beetles and then by April, there'll be many more vector calls for scorpions. Camel spiders eat smaller bugs and a hedgehog will gobble a camel spider in a second. There's a den of foxes that live on base and generally only come out at night but we do see them in the day every now and then.
There are feral cats here as well and if they cause no problems, vector leaves them alone. Animals that do cause problems are caught and given the needle. Then there's the story of the Commanding officer at a nearby base who sorta broke the rules and befriended a cat. A new animal control (vector) guy showed up and on his first day or work caught a cat and proceeded to humanely put the cat down. He basically did his job but that didn't matter when the base commander found out that his cat was dead. Needless to say, the vector guy was transferred the next day.