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The '''Swooping Snitchbug''' <span style="line-height:20px;">(サライムシ) </span>is a creature found in all [[Pikmin (series)|Pikmin games]]. They are legless, round, flying insects that have devolved wing-like antennae as a means of locomotion. They swoop down, as their name suggests, and grab their prey with their claws. 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 leaf-receptacle state. These creatures will plummet to the ground if weighed down by a sufficient number of Pikmin, or with a single [[Purple Pikmin]], rendering it susceptible to further attack. [[Ultra-bitter Spray]] 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. Occasionally in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'', the caves such as the [[Subterranean Complex]], a Swooping Snitchbug might accidentally throw a Pikmin into the abyss below, killing it. Should it throw a [[Yellow Pikmin]] that is holding a [[Bomb Rock]], the bomb-rock will explode, killing the Yellow Pikmin, all Pikmin caught in the blast, and the Swooping Snitchbug. The position of the Swooping Snitchbug in the [[Enemy reel]], which is otherwise alphabetical, indicates that the creature's name may originally have started with "flying". In [[Pikmin (game)|Pikmin]] , it only appears in the [[Forest of Hope]] on day 15 and forward, and in the [[Distant Spring]] on day 4 and forward.