Editing Swooping Snitchbug

|image       = Pikmin Garden Swooping Snitchbug render.png

|size       = 250px

|name       = Scarpanica kesperens

|family     = Scarpanid

|areas       = [[The Forest of Hope]], [[The Distant Spring]], [[Perplexing Pool]], [[Wistful Wild]], [[Tropical Wilds]], [[Distant Tundra]], [[Formidable Oak]], [[Blossoming Arcadia]] ([[Story Mode]] and [[Olimar's Shipwreck Tale]]), [[Olimar's Madcap Ride]]

|underground = [[Subterranean Complex]], [[Frontier Cavern]], [[Snagret Hole]], [[Citadel of Spiders]], [[Cavern of Chaos]], [[Hole of Heroes]], [[Subterranean Swarm]]

|challenge  = [[Abduction Den]]

|missionct  = [[Twilight Hollow]], [[Twilight Hollow Remix]], [[The Rustyard]]

|missionbe  = [[Tropical Forest]], [[Tropical Wilds Remix]], [[Garden of Hope Remix]], [[Distant Tundra Remix]], [[Clockwork Chasm]]

|sidestories = [[Creature Hunting]], [[Land, Sea, and Sky]], [[Looking for Louie]], [[Another Part Found]]

|attacks1    = Kidnap and throw Pikmin

|attacks2    = Kidnap and throw Pikmin

|attacks3    = Kidnap and throw Pikmin and leaders

|attacks4    = Kidnap and throw Pikmin and leaders

|attacksh    = Kidnap Pikmin and drag them off screen

}}

The '''Swooping Snitchbug''' ({{j|サライムシ|Sarai Mushi|Kidnapping Bug}}) is a [[enemy]] found in the main four [[Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' games]] and {{hp}}. Swooping Snitchbugs are legless, round, flying insects that have evolved wing-like antennae as a means of locomotion. They swoop down, as their name suggests, and grab their prey with their claws – a maximum of two at once. After carrying them for a few seconds, they violently throw them towards the ground. This action would harm most prey, whereas [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] are simply replanted and reverted to their original [[Maturity|leaf stage]] in the first two games (in ''[[Pikmin 3]]'', their maturity remains the same). They are also able to pick up the [[leader]]s in ''Pikmin 3'', much like [[Bumbling Snitchbug]]s do in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'' – if they don't [[button mashing|escape]], they will be tossed to the ground and [[health|damaged]].

Should the enemy throw a [[Yellow Pikmin]] that is holding a [[bomb-rock]] in ''Pikmin'', the bomb-rock will explode, killing the Yellow Pikmin, all Pikmin caught in the blast, and likely itself, too. In ''Pikmin 3'', it will carry the bomb rock and not the Pikmin, and throwing the bomb-rock merely activates it instead of causing an immediate explosion. Although the creature is not as interested in killing Pikmin as much as it is chucking them, it may end up throwing a Pikmin at a hazard.

In {{p1}}, it can and will grab Pikmin from the leader's hand, if [[Captain Olimar|the captain]] is holding on to it before [[throw]]ing, but in ''Pikmin 2'', it will ignore any held Pikmin; it can still steal it from the hand if it began swooping prior to the grab, however. In ''Pikmin 3'', every time it dives, it randomly chooses to catch Pikmin or leaders, and if it chooses the former, it will never succeed in grabbing a held Pikmin. If it snatches two Pikmin in a single dive, the way it throws them will also differ between games – in ''Pikmin'', it will throw one Pikmin first, fly around some more, and then throw the second one, but in ''Pikmin 2'' and ''Pikmin 3'', it will throw both of them at once. In ''Hey! Pikmin'', they will attempt to swoop straight down, grab Pikmin, and fly back up without coming back again, counting as a death to the player's Pikmin. They are incredibly rare in this game, as only a few appear, in [[Olimar's Madcap Ride]].