Wings in insects come in many forms. I will show how coloration and wings in insect wings are shaped by different and conflicting selection pressures. I will do this by presenting results and conclusions from several studies. 1) By estimating damselfly wing reflectance, and use receptor noise models we have explored the visual discriminability of wing coloration in a three level system: bird, damselfly and fly. Results show that males are more discriminable. 2) I will also show how bird predation selects for wing shape and wing coloration in a damselfly system. 3) By using a phylogenetic approach we have shown that wing shape and wing coloration are associated. Our results show interesting differences in wing shape among species that probably are shaped by sexual selection. 4) Finally, I will present results from a study exploring how range size and migration affects wing shape in North American dragonflies.