Iridescent Glint Beetle

The Iridescent Glint Beetle is a golden, sparkling, harmless flint beetle. It hides under the ground, emerging only when approached by Pikmin or leaders, and can be harmed only by a direct Pikmin throw to its back. Doing so causes the creature to tumble forward and release a reward. Once an Iridescent Glint Beetle has spent enough time running around, it will quickly scurry back underground; it will also do this if it has dropped all it was carrying.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin Kart
The Iridescent Glint Beetle is an item in Pikmin Kart that appears in item boxes commonly. When used, an Iridescent Glint Beetle appears directly behind the user's kart. All opponents that drive by it are drawn closer to it and sometimes swerve out of control and crash. The Iridescent Glint Beetle will last for a while before burrowing underground and disappearing. If a player throws any type of Pikmin onto an Iridescent Glint Beetle, it'll flip over and give the player that hit it an item box that has a higher chance than normal of containing a rare item.

In Pikmin V
The Gilded Flint Beetle is a flint beetle that appears in Pikmin V. Brittany, due to her having taken over as the biological notetaker, renamed the creature from the Iridescent Glint Beetle and reclassified it as a proper member of the Flint Beetle family. The creature has also been redesigned to match real-world insect biology more closely; most notably, what used to be its bronze antennae are now silver eyestalks. Instead of wandering in bursts like a regular Iridescent Flint Beetle, the Gilded Flint Beetle will run in a straight line to a nearby source of cover. The drop pattern has also been altered slightly: it will drop three blobs of nectar on the second hit and a random spray on the third hit. If found somewhere without Onion access, such as in a cave, it will always drop a spray. Certain Challenge Mode levels will fix which spray it drops, as well.

In Pikmin: Connection of the Worlds
In Pikmin: Connection of the Worlds, the Iridescent Glint Beetle behaves exactly as it did in. Only Olimar's notes on the creature have changed.