tags: Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly, Image of the Day
I am thinking this is an old and very worn Roseate Skimmer pink-form male (actually redundant since the females are never pink). This one posed nicely for a telephoto shot this evening under less-than-ideal light conditions. Dragonflies are evocative of the late Paleozoic and the Mesozoic, having flitted around reptiles in the coal swamps and then marked the rise and demise of dinosaurs. How is that for alliteration? West 11th Street Park.
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