Long hoverfly

Description:

The Long hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta is a European species of hoverfly. They can complete a full life cycle in as little as sixteen days (egg to egg-laying adult), and a maximum of nine generations may occur in a single year. Τhe female of Sphaerophoria scripta has the body of the typical hover fly: long, broadened somewhere near the middle and ending conically.The male looks very different: it has a long, slim, stick like body, ending suddenly without tipped end. The pictured insect was spotted on a glebionis coronaria flowered bush, in my garden, Nea Demetrias, Volos city, Greece.