Flint Flicker

The Flint Flicker is a species of flint beetle that kicks up small pebbles as it skitters along.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin 3: Return to the Pikmin Planet
Flint Flickers are enemies in Pikmin 3: Return to the Pikmin Planet. They have the general appearance of an Iridescent Flint Beetle, but are much larger and have a black shell. They appear from the ground in the same fashion as any other flint beetle, but only in caves, typically on rest sublevels or sublevels with lots of flint beetles. They will scamper around, looking for other flint beetles, and upon finding one, they will flick out an extremely long tongue and eat it. It does not deliberately eat Pikmin, but any that touch the creature's tongue will become stuck to it and devoured. Any treasures inside an eaten flint beetle will be produced by the Flint Flicker upon being hit, and they also always drop a spray dose.