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 ...

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, in a paper on the Social Hymenoptera (Bees, Wasps, and Ants), especially with reference to their habits, senses, and power of communication with one another, pointed out with ...