If a Mantis Finds a Fly in the Sky

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. … Read this tale, which is based on a true story, to see what happens when a mantis finds a fly…