Tiny Tuesday - Tiny Hoverfly

This looks so much better in LARGE

It started off dull and damp, brightened up for a bit and now it can't make up it's mind. Supposed to be scorchio by Thursday though!

On the way home from table tennis a parked car suddenly rolled into the middle of the road. Fortunately I wasn't going fast so had time to break. I got out and went to have a look at the lump in front seat! It wasn't a dead body but a laundry bag. I manged to find the owner, who much to her embarrassment, reversed it back into it's parking space and we drove home.

This tiny hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta) is also on a tiny poppy seed head. Extra is of a Speckled Bush Cricket nymph on a poppy stem.

According to bugsandweeds.co.uk they are not given to darting about, drawing attention to themselves, but go about their business in a quiet, almost shy manner.
That said, they are not shy when it comes to reproduction. It has been suggested that, given the right environmental conditions (temperature, humidity and food supply), a complete generation can develop from egg to egg laying adult in as little as 16 days. And it is possible for as many as 9 generations a year to appear.