Pink dragonflies! The male Roseate Skimmer Dragonflies are mostly pink.
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The male Roseate Skimmer has a pink body and appendages.
[A top side view of a dragonfly on a white branch. The dragonfly has clear wings and a pink body.]

In this image it's a little easier to see that the tops of the wings are tinted pink.
[A top view of the same dragonfly, but the background is such that the wing color is more visible. There is a patch of color along the very top edge of all four wings.]

The front half of the male is a purplish pink.
[A side view of a male holding onto a vertical stem while its body is horizontal. Its wings are held forward so one sees the thorax through the clear wings.]

The eyes on the male are a dark purple.
[A front view of a male holding onto a seed pod. Not only are the eyes a dark color, the underside of the belly is a magenta color so apparently only the top half is pink.]

I believe this is a juvenile male who has yet to attain his adult rosy hue.
[A dragonfly holds a bare tree branch which is over my head so mostly the underside of the dragonfly is visible. Its color is greyish red.]

A different juvenile transitioning between its tan thorax and pinkish body.
[A dragonfly holds a bare verticle brown branch displaying its left side to the camera. The head and thorax are shades of medium to dark brown with white stripes on the thorax. The back segmented part of the body is a definite pink hue.]

A female Roseate Skimmer.
[A side view of a dragonfly holding a branch which is parallel to her body. She is a tan color with a brown and white thorax and greenish-purple eyes.]

A front view of that same female Roseate Skimmer. Her pterostigma (front sections of the wings) are the same tan color as her body.
[Her head is tilted slightly so we see one eye.]

Female Roseate Skimmer's have a white stripe on their back.
[A side back view showing the tan body with a white stripe along the back which only extends for a few sections of her body and not the entire length.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver