• blackbrook@mander.xyz
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      23 days ago

      I think we’re just supposed to infer something generally heartwarming and nod vaguely and approvingly.

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          23 days ago

          I copied it via Google Lens and pasted into a file to read.

          YMMV.

          Dear

          Thank you for you

          I am so glat you are interested in stick insects Tattoo and when I was your age talve kept son. They are indred fascinating

          There are at least two thousand five hundred different species world-wide Most come from the tropics and only a love spectes ever reach this coustry. Sowstifically speaking they belong to groep called the Pharmaton which coesaink bei enguthe left and the stick insects

          Suck insects exally do Soksactly like this gyvonvo impossible to spot to the wars they move. They don’t, in fact, dering the day but quite a lot during the night. The kind that is usually brought er here are nearly freies and lay eggs that are fertile without having being fortlined by the The egy look actly like their dropping and sometimes people who keep them don’t one that and throw them away when they are duning out their sages

          The one of which you sent me a photograph, however is tot, howeverak sext. ft’s a leaf insect. There are many many ferent species of these as well They vary in the food they prefer and many eat other kinds of leaves than the hawthorn and be and which you say yours perfer. Many of them are even more Chelves than yours, with owtht on their legs that look

          • vivavideri@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            Fascinatingly enough, Samsung’s text from image produced this:

            G00 000 000

            Dear

            Thank you for your letter

            5 Park Road, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6NS 6.9.22

            I am so glad you are interested in stick insects. Iam too and, when I was your age I also kept some. They are indeed fascinating.

            There are at least two thousand five hundred different species world-wide. Most come from the tropics and only a few species ever reach this country. Scientifically speaking they belong to a group called the Phasmatoidea which contains two main groups - the leaf insects and the stick insects. Stick insects really do look exactly like thin green sticks and are almost impossible to spot in the wild - unless they move. They don’t, in fact, move much during the day but quite a lot during the night. The kind that is usually brought over here are nearly females and lay eggs that are fertile without having being fertilised by the male. The eggs look exactly like their droppings and sometimes people who keep them don’t know this and throw them away when they are cleaning out their cages.

            The one of which you sent me a photograph, however is not, however a stick insect. It’s a leaf insect. There are many many different species of these as well, They vary in the food they prefer and many eat other kinds of leaves than the hawthorn and bramble which you say yours prefer. Many of them are even more like leaves than yours are, with outgrowths on their legs that look exactly like leaves. Wicle

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      22 days ago

      Source. I found it in about 2 minutes. I would say “OP should have done the same instead of reposting this” but actually I can’t find this image anywhere and it may be an original screenshot.

      Anyway, here’s the letter: