I'M SORRY PLEASE DON'T KILL ME

"Just posting something for Hope-On-Wings don't mind me please and please don't kill meh just 'cuz i'm a small scavenger I HAVE POWER DON"T THINK I WON'T USE IT!!!!!,anyway here's what i am posting and by the way it's kinda a role-play invite anyway here's my message: Dear Hope-On-Wings you have been invited to the role-play "The past in the present" although you will have to look for the role-play on Victory's wall i hope you will join P.S i am reserving a spot for StarDust just so you know! ok,now i leave"  *vanishes on the back of a Utahraptor*

You ARE probably right, and Blue should be named after the Blues like you said, but I don’t think Tui knows that. I am pretty sure she just found a list of butterfly names and chose the prettiest. She hasn’t done too well on scientific accuracy so far.

A prime example is when she wrote that a Bullet Ant bit the Librarian to inject venom, when in fact they sting. Don’t get me wrong, I believe they can give a nasty chomp, but it is very simple knowledge that the sting injects venom, not the bite.

In case you can’t tell, this really peeves me.

Oh my.... I just realized that we don’t know the Librarian’s real name. This is... interesting.

What if he’s just named Blue...because he’s blue. :O

That's true, but Tui has a much better track record with butterflies. Like I said, I didn't know that the Xenica or Sunstreaks were butterflies until I read TLC. 

Also, I did some searching: I just googled "butterfly" and things like the Xenica and Sunstreaks don't show up while the Lycaenidae (the family that includes the blues) do. Xenica and Sunstreak don't show up if you look up "prettiest butterflies" either. On the Butterfly wikipedia page, Lycaenids are the third family on the list, after the moth butterflies and the skippers. And some of the blues have made headlines, for instance, the Palo Verdes Blue is the rarest butterfly in the world, with only around a hundred left in the wild. (For an insect, that's practically extinct already!)

Also, Tui mentioned being inspired to create the SilkWings after she played a game where you raise butterflies and moths. I think I know what game she's referencing, and if I'm right, that game has the Cycad Blue and the Silvery Blue as common butterflies you can raise. So she also would have contact with the blues that way. 

(Tui also mentioned having an intense fear of bugs, which made researching for the HiveWings difficult. Since entomophobia doesn't always include butterflies, it's likely that she just found it easier to research butterflies than ants. I can't blame her, I'm researching flies for a family tree and I could barely make it through the bot fly section.)

Tl;dr, there's evidence that indicates that Tui spent more time researching butterflies than the bullet ant.

(Also it's true, we don't know the Librarian's name. Poor kid.)

Also, I seriously doubt that his name would be Blue because he's blue, that would break already established naming patterns, as there's no SilkWings with color names that aren't also butterflies. Orange, for instance, could be named after the Banded Orange, or the Orange-tips. The color blue would only be a name for a SeaWing.

Did you know that Luna moths, Polyphemus moths, and Atlas moths don’t have mouths? Strange but true. Also, what is that game called?

Good points, and you are probably right. I admit that I know very little about butterflies, and of course I have no idea how Tui names each and every one of her characters.

It may even be slightly deeper than either of us realize, and Tui could have taken inspiration from multiple different kinds of butterflies for both design and name when creating Blue. This may actually be the most likely case, as Tui would probably want to think hard about names for main characters.

Agreed!

I like how this conversation is partially about Morphos and your user name is Morpho

XD