Midnight Cannon Beetle

The Midnight Cannon Beetle is the adult form of the Midnight Cannon Beetle Larvae who both appear in Pikmin: Spark. The name is gained from the deep purple-hued shell that glows under the light of the moon, that shell also protects its body from direct attacks like other adult cannon beetles. It has learned to finally harden the sludge it shot out as larvae and now is able to shoot sludge-covered boulders from its mouth. Like the larvae, which leaves behind a trail of toxic sludge which slows captains down and poisons any creature that walks on it, this sludge can only be destroyed by White Pikmin. However they are still in danger as the boulders still leave the risk of crushing and killing them, making these beetles deceptively dangerous. Like all armored beetles, one needs to clog the beetle's air hole when it sucks in air before their attack and hit its exposed weak point when that opens up.