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 ...

Their bodies are also yellow with a dark pattern. The similar colouration and pattern shared by a number of social wasps is a form of Müllerian mimicry. This is where well-defended species have ...

There are dents on its dark-coloured, narrow-lobed labellum known as pseudo eyes, together with a glistening, iridescent wing-like patch, all adding up to a very convincing lady digger wasp. Mimicry ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama's dense rainforest, the bird ...

Sometimes the mimicry is not visual but auditory, as in some harmless flies that emit a sound just like the buzzing of an angry bee or wasp, keeping attackers away. Another, more unusual variety ...