Swooping Snitchbug

The Swooping Snitchbug is a common species of Scarpanid found around the landscape of PNF-404. It is one of the first members of this family to be discovered.

Description
Evolving from ground-dwelling insects, the Swooping Snitchbug only has two long legs, which had developed into a pair of hooked hands. They are covered in a green exoskeleton like most insects, and have compounded eyes. Their antenna are exceptionally large, and can flap at five beats per second, enough to keep the creature in flight.

The Swooping Snitchbug gets its name due to its hunting strategy, which in aspect resembles that of some predatory birds of prey: spotting a suitable prey item below, it will fly down and grab its unsuspecting prey, carrying it off of the ground. Rather than killing them while in the air, it will violently throw them onto the ground. It will keep doing this process until it kills the victim, to which it can eat at its leisure.

If this is done on Pikmin however, this act will actually replant the Pikmin into the ground if thrown hard enough.