The mimicry is near-perfect. For example, the Australian hammer orchid has taken advantage of a mating ritual of the Thynnid wasp, which involves a female wasp waiting on top of a branch or plant ...

They use their mimicry skills to imitate the female cicada response to the male cicada mating call, luring unsuspecting male ...

Mimicry in nature likewise can charm or repel ... They look and act just like—a female solitary bee. Before long, they start releasing a pheromone mimic, and now they smell like a female bee ...

If not cryptic mimicry, why did the orchid mantis behavior evolve this way? By evolving to be larger and more flower-like, female mantises increase their chances to catch insect prey. It's called ...