Seedbagger

Seedbagger
Appears in	Hey! Pikmin
Scientific name	Saccusporum pellucida
Family	Seedbag
Areas	Echo Cavern
Attacks	None

The Seedbagger (ハナビムシ^?, lit.: "Fireworks Bug") is an enemy found in Hey! Pikmin. It is a large gelatinous creature that stores many Sparklium Seeds inside its body. When attacked, it will try to retreat by burying itself into the ground. It is found only in the area Echo Cavern. Because of this creature's rarity, and how it doesn't even drop a treasure, it can easily be missed.

Stats

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Weight	Max. carriers	Seeds	Value	Health	Regen.
N/A	N/A	N/A	× Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

Behavior

The Seedbagger is a large, passive creature that stores Sparklium inside its translucent body. It moves fairly slow, and doesn't have any methods of attacking.

Locations

• Sparkling Labyrinth
  • Echo Cavern

Strategy

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Seedbaggers are large and have quite a bit of health. Despite this, they are completely passive and lack any means of defending themselves or attacking Pikmin. Simply lobbing Pikmin at them repeatedly will defeat them, causing them to drop all of their loot.

Notes

Hey! Pikmin logs

“These timid creatures are more afraid of you than you are of them. If you can defeat one, it will send seeds spraying everywhere. It's quite a send-off...”

Naming

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• Common name: Seedbagger. It relates to the enemy storing Sparklium inside its body.
• Japanese nickname: ハナビムシ^?, lit.: "Fireworks Bug".
• Japanese name: イロナシキノミムシ^?, lit.: "Colorless Nut Bug".
• Scientific name: Saccusporum pellucida. Pellucida may stem from the Latin word 'pelluceeo', meaning to be transparent. This would be in reference to the creature's translucent body.
• Internal names: Unknown.
• Prerelease: None.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ハナビムシ? Hanabi Mushi	Fireworks Bug
Dutch	Ploftor
French	Sakagraine	A contraction of sac à graine, which means seed bag.
German	Feuerwerkskäfer	Fireworks Bug
Italian	Spargigrani
Korean	불꽃놀이벌레
Spanish	Bezurrón	From becerro (bull calf) and zurrón (leather bag).

Gallery

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  The creature, scurrying away.

Trivia

• The Seedbagger is based off the real-world Sea Pig.
• Its color scheme and appearance make it similar to a Metroid.

See also

• Stuffed Bellbloom