A Blue Dragonfly

In the world of Odonata, more often than not, the males are more colourful and brighter than the females.  And in a lot of cases, the females are of a paler, lighter colouring than the males...

I have mentioned a few red dragonflies before and even the pink dragonfly... they are all the males of their respective species.

So now, here's a young, almost mature male of the Diplacodes trivialis.  The mature male has blue colouring.  A pruinose blue...

 

 

As you can see here, this young half-mature male still has some of the yellow markings of an immature male and shiny wings that will eventually thicken with maturity.  The immature male is shown in an earlier entry titled A Tiny Visitor.

Another half-mature male found at a different location...

 

 

Once he has developed the full colours of a mature male, he can stake out his territory and lie in wait for the female, which is what this guy here is doing...

 

 

And here's another adult male dragonfly watching over his territory...

 

 

That's the life of the dragonfly...