There once was an African mantis named Jade
Who laid quietly in wait for a bug in the shade.
She focused her eyes, of which she had five
Looking for spiders, crickets—even a beehive.
She wiggled her antennae and looked in the sky
Where she saw birds and bats and one blue fly.
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Read this tale, which is based on a true story,
to see what happens when a mantis finds a fly…