The image is filled by burdock heads. 2 fill the background, as mid green spiky balls, out of focus while the foreground has the top of 2 further heads. Both showing purplish florets amongst the hooked spikes. Atop the main head in the centre of the image is a small brown fly with bright green eyes, black striped transparent wings and an upward pointing black abdomen. The flower heads in the background occupy the top two thirds of the frame roughly. The one on the right is larger. Both have yellowy centres at the top of the head. The foreground head on the left is larger, occupying maybe half the frame, with the background head above it proportionately smaller. The heads are spherical and covered in small hooked spikes. The hooks look like tiny crochet hooks and snag passersby when the heads are ready to seed. The right head is only just visible in the corner, and on the top has petals showing. The petals are a pale purple each a Y shape. The main head has colour showing but no petals. The insect is a brown lacewing probably. It is perched in the exact centre of the image. The eye cell structure can just be seen. The thorax is mustard coloured with long curved black spiny hairs. The wings stretch back from the rear of the thorax to roughly the end of the abdomen and each one is about the size of the abdomen. Each is transparent with 4 variegated brown black stripes across them and thin brown longitudinal veins. Between thorax and abdomen the diptera marking this as a true fly are clearly visible, looking like green drumsticks sticking out and down. The abdomen is tapered with 5 segments, each with a fine brush of white stubble along the rear edge. The abdomen ends in an upturned brown spike, the same shade as the wing stripes, and has a black tip. It seems likely that is an ovipositor. The legs of the fly are grasping the hooked spines to keep the body just clear of the hooks which are big enough to catch one of the legs under them easily.