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]]

|dandori_c = [[Aerial Incinerator]]

|bingo      = [[Stagnant Sea]]

|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]].

These creatures will plummet to the ground if weighed down by a sufficient number of Pikmin, or with a single [[Purple Pikmin]] in ''Pikmin 2'' or a single [[Rock Pikmin]] in ''Pikmin 3''. This renders it susceptible to further attack. [[Ultra-bitter spray]]s may also be used to freeze it in mid-air, causing it to drop to the ground, which is arguably easier, but of course produces no corpse, and may be considered a waste of sprays.

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.

{{Game help|hp|Find out its health value by looking into the game files.}}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{{transcript|A Swooping Snitchbug attacks by snatching its enemies and throwing them to the ground. when a Swooping Snitchbug does this to a Pikmin, the force is enough to bury its victim – this essentially causes the Pikmin to revert to a sprout.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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{{Image|Add an image of a corpse in ''Hey! Pikmin'' and images of wild Snitchbugs in P4.}}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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