Unmarked Spectralids

Unmarked Spectralids (or Unmarked Spectralid, see below; ) are insects in. They resemble small butterflies and can be red, purple, or yellow. They are one of the harmless enemies in the Pikmin series, having no means of attack and doing nothing but fluttering around. They are located in specific patches of plants and appear upon being disturbed, though in some caves they are readily visible. They will leave the area's boundaries some time after Pikmin and leaders come within range of a swarm of them. Their color indicates what they drop when killed - a drop of ultra-spicy spray (red), ultra-bitter spray (purple) or nectar (yellow). Underground, they only have a 20% chance of dropping these rewards. These creatures instantly collapse and die if touched by a single Pikmin. Upon being petrified, they will fall down to the ground and crumble; in the Piklopedia, however, they will remain intact.

The only area aboveground they appear in is the Awakening Wood, with one group hidden in a Margaret near the Sunseed Berry, and another in a nearby Figwort (next to the bridge there). Red and purple Spectralids do not appear above ground, and can only be found with yellow Spectralids in rest sublevels of certain caves, usually found in clusters of 20 or more. In the Awakening Wood, only four of them appear together in each spot.

Unmarked Spectralids do not appear in or, and have been replaced with Red Spectralids, Yellow Spectralids, and White Spectralids.

Interactions
Unmarked Spectralids seem to not fear creatures that are idling. If there is a Mamuta in the same level as a swarm of Unmarked Spectralids, it is possible to spot some of the Spectralids land on the creature as it idles. In addition, after both the Unmarked Spectralids and the Red, Orange, and Hairy Bulborbs have been added to the in-game Piklopedia, the Spectralids can be seen flying around the former two bulborbs in their respective Piklopedia files.

Spectralids merely flutter about without waking up the bulborb and may occasionally land on it, but due to the way collisions work in the game they are unreasonably strong. As a result, they can push the bulborb around, sometimes even shoving it out of the regular map boundaries.

Strategy
If you have many Pikmin with you, throw them rapidly into the air in all directions in an attempt to knock them down. Otherwise, you can spray a large group with an ultra-bitter spray, since spraying them makes them fall to the ground, burst, and instantly die.

They cannot be damaged with punches in any way, not even while petrified or resting atop a Mamuta.

Trivia

 * Although their health is specified to be 200 in the game files, they are programmed to die instantly when a Pikmin is thrown at them, making this health value unused.
 * In addition, even if they are hit by a bomb rock's explosion, their health will drop to 0, but they will continue to be alive.
 * Unmarked Spectralids are the only creatures to appear in another creature's Piklopedia file.
 * If the Spectralids is resting on a Mamuta, and the player sprays the Mamuta, the Spectralids will fly off and flutter about for a bit. Killing the petrified Mamuta and leaving the scene can cause the Spectralids to return to its original position, which means it will stand in mid-air.
 * The Beady Long Legs is fully programmed to drop 25 Unmarked Spectralids upon death if it has no treasure. However, due to a mistake from the programmers, this does not occur, and it simply drops nothing.
 * While Unmarked Spectralids fall to the floor and shatter when petrified, this is not the case in the Piklopedia.