two unusual yard critters

this has to be another 'quickie'!
i'm off to work in about 45 minutes, but i wanted to post these pictures that i took yesterday!

sam and i rode the 4wheeler across the street...into the field where i usually find most of the BoNES i collect.
on the way back home...while passing the front fence...where the Cherokee Rose Vine grows wild...

sam spotted this caterpillar...




the Automeris Io which becomes the Io Moth, or Peacock Moth.  i haven't seen one...but i copied the picture they have on the Discover Life link....

(this is NOT my picture!)

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so...we get back home...i'm wandering around with the camera...when i spot a PINK dragonfly!! i've seen and taken pictures of the blue ones, the emerald green ones...grayish ones...but i've never seen THIS one!! and i actually got a picture!!

i looked it up...i'm pretty sure it's a male Roseate Skimmer. 

and no...i didn't enhance...or change the color!!

(remember, you can click on my photos to enlarge)

anyway...gotta run. just wanted to get this 'out there'!!

stay cool. have a good week.

laura  :]