Iridescent Glint Beetle

Iridescent Glint Beetles are enemies in Pikmin 2.

Appearance
It is a gold beetle and it glitters all the time.

Strategy Guide Stategy
Like Flint Beetles, Glint Beetles surface for only a few seconds at a time. When one appears near your troops, you'll have a couple of chances to aim before it goes below the surface again. In a few rare circumstacnes, Iridescent Glint Beetles hold treasure.

Strategy
Once Olimar encounters an Iridescent Glint Beetle underground, Olimar must use Purples to squash them to drop a treasure. When a treasure drops from it in Hole of Heroes before battling the Man-at-legs, the treasure will drop after it falls off the bottomless pit.

Once Olimar encounters it again, it will have no treasure, instead, it drops Random Nectar.

If Olimar wants to kill it, he should spray Ultra-bitter Spray at it and doing this will not give any Pikmin or him some nectar or spray.

In Secret Testing Range (Challenge Mode) a Gattling Groink can shoot it down, but it drops a treasure.