While photographing Dactylorhiza sambucina orchids, I spotted a cricket moving abnormally on one of the inflorescences. Only after I approached the cruel crime scene, I noticed that the cricket was actually trying to escape the strong fangs of the spider, perfectly camouflaged, among the yellowish flowers. The colour mimicry strategy employed by the female Misumena vatia female spider was so perfect that even in my visual spectrum (more complex than that of the cricket’s), she remained almost invisible and hard to detect at first sight. Crab spiders are solitary ambush predators, also known as sit-and-wait predators, which have the ability to change their colour to match the background of the orchid flowers. Once landed, the cricket was attacked by the formidable hungry hunter that started to devour its body (Camera: Nikon D850).