Toxic Dweevil

The Toxic Dweevil is a dweevil appearing in Pikmin 2: New Year. It is a relative of the Munge Dweevil, and flees when Pikmin or leaders get close. When attacked, a Toxic Dweevil will release a cloud of poison that endangers the lives of all Pikmin but White Pikmin. Toxic Dweevils will pick up and carry nearby objects such as treasures and corpses and use them as a disguise by ducking down and hiding under them.

Toxic Dweevils are primarily black and green, having a black body and green legs with black markings. Their mandibles have the same coloration as their legs and have yellow mandibles, and their eyes are also green.

Toxic Dweevils pose little danger and are easy to kill. Rapidly throwing Pikmin onto its underside is the most effective way to take one down, although damage can not be inflicted to the creature while it is holding an object. A Toxic Dweevil in the range of a Purple Pikmin pound will be stunned and have an object it may have been holding knocked from its grasp.