Top Ten Most Beautiful Dragonfly Species

It's a species of broad-winged damselfly found in New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, and Southeastern Canada. The males have a metallic blue-green body and black wings, while the females have a dull brown body and smoky wings with white near the tips.

It's a damselfly species found in Europe. The males have metallic blue wings with metallic blue-green bodies and eyes, while the females have iridescent brown wings with a white patch near the tip of the wings and metallic green bodies with bronze tips of the abdomen.

It's a small dragonfly native to Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and occasionally found in Australia. As the name suggests, it has a scarlet body and eyes, and is the smallest dragonfly known.

It's a broad-winged damselfly that belongs to a group called azure damselflies and is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Males have blue and black bodies with dark wings, while females have brown and yellow-green bodies with smoky wings.

The wings of this damselfly are the widest in its genus (Diphlebia).

It's a common dragonfly native to western North America. Males' bodies and wings are entirely red or dark orange, while females are dark brown with thin yellow markings.

It's a skimmer dragonfly found in North America. Males have eight white spots and some black spots on their wings. Females sometimes can have white spots on their wings too.

It's a dragonfly found in the Eastern United States and Northern Mexico. Its colors range from orange to golden-yellow, and it has some golden on its wings (hence the name).

Pretty little guys. The roseate skimmer is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. They are native to the Americas, where their distribution extends from the United States to Brazil.

The male of this species has a rose pink and red abdomen. They are a pretty common and widespread species, eating any soft-bodied flying insects, including mosquitoes, flies, small moths, mayflies, and flying ants and termites.

So these guys are pretty important to society and very pretty.

I love how the colors blend together and how pink turns into purple.

It's a large, striking dragonfly and is the longest species in Britain. It's the only member of its genus (Cordulegaster) and is found in the United Kingdom. As the name suggests, its body is black with golden-yellow rings.