GNU Screen is one of the most useful application for a system administrator. It is almost necessary when combined to SSH access but it is often subject to terminal emulator bugs and non standard compliance.
If you are running an Apple Macintosh, you are probably using iTerm.app as terminal emulator instead of Terminal.app, because it is more polished and more Apple like (blur and transparency docet).
Unfortunately iTerm, SSH and GNU screen over Ubuntu combination is not so happy and GNU Screen doesn’t detect backspace correctly as it decodes it to delete command.
How to fix? Well just create a new .screenrc in your home directory and put these lines inside:
bindkey -d ^? stuff ^H
bindkey -d ^@ stuff ^H
Restart screen and have fun 
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Wow that worked! Thank you!
Ah yes, thanks.
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