Screeching Beetle

The Screeching Beetle is a species of kettlebug that produces noises so deafening that Pikmin affected by it won't respond to the whistling of leaders.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin 2... Again?
Screeching Beetles are enemies in Pikmin 2... Again? resembling smaller Antenna Beetles with a speaker-like mouth. They produce deafening screeches over a long distance, preventing Pikmin from hearing the leaders' whistles, or anything else for that matter, for two seconds.