Pinching Sheargrub
Enemy
Family	Mandiblard

The Pinching Sheargrub is a species of mandiblard that pinches Pikmin.

In fanon games

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In Pikmin: Decayed Leaf

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Pinching Sheargrub

Scientific name

Mandibulosa pinchusi

Family

Mandiblard

Carry weight

Max. carriers

Seed worth

Poko value

× 1

Attacks

Pinches Pikmin

“	Watch out for its powerful pincers!	”	– The ship, upon discovering the Pinching Sheargrub

The Pinching Sheargrub is an enemy that appears in Pikmin: Decayed Leaf. The creature is an uncommon sheargrub, mainly being found in caves. Pinching Sheargrubs resemble the physical form of most mandiblards, but it has a completely orange coloration with thin, yellow stripes. The sheargrub is also uncharacteristically smooth and rubbery. Along with two small eyes with black sclera, the sheargrub has extremely powerful pincers which are much larger than most sheargrubs.

Pinching Sheargrubs will remain buried underground. When approached, they will burrow out of the ground and slowly pursue Pikmin. Once they get close, they will snag up to three Pikmin at once. It will take a few seconds to violently squeeze these Pikmin, resulting in their immediate deaths. Once they perform a single attack, they will immediately turn around, return to their origin point, and burrow back underground. Afterward, it will burrow back up when approached, repeating the process.

A Pinching Sheargrub can be dangerous if in larger groups. Other than that, they are very weak, like most mandiblards. Any Pikmin type can easily kill a Pinching Sheargrub, for it has no weaknesses or resistances. Attacking the enemy when it's fleeing is the easiest way of taking it out.

In Overlord mode, the Pinching Sheargrub can pinch up to five Pikmin instead of three. They are also much faster, and will no longer back down when performing an attack.

Notes

Data file #1: When a Pinching Sheargrub pinches Pikmin, it will flee after doing so. Take it out as it flees!

Olimar's notes

“The Pinching Sheargrub is a ferocious mandiblard with a deadly set of pincers. Well, they're mainly ferocious to very small insects. When this species takes out its prey, it stores its juices in its pincers. Once a Pinching Sheargrub takes out enough insects and has enough fluids, it will return to its nest, where it will feed its young and weak with the prey's juices. Due to constant juice storage, this creature's skin is extremely soft and rubbery.”

Louie's notes

“This creature's strange texture makes it an interesting substitute for boiled potatoes in a meat stew.”

President’s notes

“This small bug may look friendly, but it gave me a nasty bite! Can't any bug on this planet be friendly?”

Overlord's thoughts

“This bug...

I'm de-pincering the entire mandiblard species when I'm done with these writings.”

User versions

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DonoPik's version

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Pinching Sheargrub

Scientific name

Pinchus grubbus burrowus

Family

Mandiblard

Carry weight

Max. carriers

Seed worth

Poko value

× 3

Attacks

Pinches Pikmin

The Pinching Sheargrub is a sheargrub that may look squishy and harmless but can pinch and kill up to three Pikmin at once. However, it will not attack if left alone.

Pikmin: Wide World

Locations
Planets	Main (PNF-404) • Side (Hocotate) • Mentioned (Koppai)
Areas	Balmy Highlands • Arid Oasis • Frigid Tundra • Ancient Metalworks • Colossal Hollow • Sprawling Swamp
Dens and caves	Temperate Retreat • Grassy Grotto • Dune Den • Sunken Sands • Desolate Ditch • Humid Burrow • Snowy Recess • Lonely Quarry • Watering Hole • Warm Sett • Flaming Trench • Sunbaked Sauna • Gritty Getaway • Wasted Waterworks • Dim Greenhouse • Clogged Pipeline • Wooden Fortress • Stone Dugout • Icy Crevasse • Hidden Scrapyard • Frozen Lodge • Castaway Cove • Concrete Compound • Chemical Reservoir • Subterranean Spring • Dreary Sepulcher • Fungal Jungle • Dank Depths • Forgotten Mine • Wayward Citadel • Lost Kingdom • Polluted Pond • Corroded Complex • Robot Workshop • Sunless Sanctuary • Watery Grave • Overgrown Garden • Muddy Murk • Buzzing Reserve • Webbed Lair • Secluded Hideaway • Divers' Blight • Sunlit Pit • Black Abyss • Pest Nest • Neglected Aqueduct • Cursed Chasm • Destiny Cavern
Battle Mode stages	Close Quarters • Forest Frenzy • Tan Battleground • Cold War • Planked Peril • Hard Fought • Reinforced Fortress • Frantic Factory • Tiled Tossup • Mashup Mayhem
Challenge Mode stages	Pretty Prairie • Dingy Dugout • Forgotten Garden • Serene Shore • The Colossal Cottonade • Weathered Field • Arctic Abode • Preserved Pit • Frozen Fields • The Brumal Arcticlops • Rocky Road • Cement City • Rebar Labyrinth • Steel Stronghold • The Plasm Wraith • Sandstone Citadel • Perplexing Paradise • Corroded Catwalk • Jellyfloat Pool • The Titan Weaver Dweevil • Impenetrable Prison • Foreboding Forest • Timber Maze • Mandiblard Nest • The Hydroe Host • Study Floor • Wooden Expanse • Mosaic Maze • Breadbug Den • The Grimacing Cremblub

Characters

Main (Olimar • Shacho • Marie • Louie • Dolphin Lander) • Side (Alph • Brittany • Charlie • Dorris • Hunnigan • Granny Marma • Libra • Margot • Sagittarius • S.S. Drake • S.S. Dreamstride) • Mentioned (Bulbie • Freight Voyager • SPERO)

Pikmin

Main (Yellow Pikmin • Blue Pikmin • Red Pikmin • Rock Pikmin • Green Pikmin • Purple Pikmin • White Pikmin • Winged Pikmin) • Other (Alien Pikmin • Captmin • Mushroom Pikmin) • Parasitic Pikmin (Blue Bulbmin • Breadmin • Burrowing Snagmin • Cannon Beetlemin • Dweevilmin • Groinkmin • Hairy Bulbmin • Orange Bulbmin • Red Bulbmin • Spinermin • Spotty Bulbearmin • Wollymin) • Utilities (Onion • Pellet)

Piklopedia

Enemies (?)

Acid Dumple • Acidic Jellyfloat • Adult Green Centipare • Adult Red Centipare • Agitated Flint Beetle • Alloy Spectralid • Ancient Bulblax • Angler Bulblax • Anodestool • Aquatic Cannon Grub • Arctic Cannon Grub • Ardent Dirigibug • Armored Cannon Beetle • Armored Cannon Grub • Armurk • Baldy Long Legs • Ballistic Groink • Balloon Mitite • Battering Groink • Beady Long Legs • Bearded Amprat • Berry Bloyster • Bilious Bulbot • Black Spectralid • Bladed Greater Beeb • Blazing Cannon Grub • Blubbug • Blue Bulborb • Bombardier Beeb • Bomber Dweevil • Breadbug • Briary Burrow-nit • Brilliant Glowstalk • Brumal Arcticlops • Bubble-Blowing Blowhog • Bug-Eyed Crawmad • Bulbear Larva • Bulborb Larva • Bullhop • Bumbling Snitchbug • Buoyant Blubbug • Burrow-nit Larva • Burrowing Snagret • Buttery Breadbug • Calcified Crushblat • Carbonated Goolix • Careening Dirigibug • Carnation Bulborb • Carnivorous Candypop • Cave Bulbat • Ceiling Slurker • Ceramic Joustmite • Chaotic Kettlebug • Charred Skitterleaf • Chemical Bulblax • Chill Dirigibug • Cinnamon Breadbug • Clawed Long Legs • Clicking Slurker • Cloaking Burrow-nit • Clod Dirigibug • Clumsy Blubbug • Colossal Cottonade • Common Kettlebug • Coppeller • Coriaceous Elephog • Corpulent Breadblax • Corrosion Beetle • Crammed Hermer • Crawbster Young • Cream Spectralid • Creeping Chrysanthemum • Crested Mockiwi • Cryoplasmic Slooch • Crystalline Crushblat • Daddy Long Legs • Dangling Splurchin • Decorated Cannon Beetle • Decorated Cannon Grub • Deranging Bloyster • Desiccated Skitterleaf • Diamond Long Legs • Dousing Dweevil • Dwarf Blue Bulborb • Dwarf Electric Bulbeel • Dwarf Searing Bulblax • Dwarf Hairy Bulborb • Dwarf Orange Bulborb • Dwarf Puckering Bulbeel • Dwarf Red Bulborb • Dwarf Spotty Bulbear • Dwarf Stubborn Bulblon • Dwarf Vampire Bulbear • Dwarf Vitreous Bulborb • Dwarf Whiptongue Bulborb • Dwarf Yellow Bulborb • Electric Bulbeel • Electric Cottonade • Electric Spectralid • Electric Starnacle • Electripede • Elongated Bulborb • Emberglow Phosbat • Emperor Bulblax • Emperor Bulbot • Empress Orange Bulblax • Empress Red Bulblax • Empress Spotty Bulblax • Fandangled Isleclops • Female Sheargrub • Female Shooting Spiner • Ferrying Coppeller • Fiendish Flytrap • Fiery Wollyhop • Firebreathing Blowhog • Firebreathing Blowlet • Fireflap Bulborb • Fireflinger Groink • Flaming Mitite • Flatterchuck • Flatulent Flint Beetle • Flittering Glowbelly • Floating Oobuoy • Flourishing Blowhog • Fluttery Splurchin • Flying Joustmite • Foraging Cottonade • Foundation Dweevil • Fountain Crawmad • Framewing Spectralid • Freezing Skeeterskate • Frosted Breadbug • Frosthop Blowhog • Frosty Bulblax • Fuzzy Blubbug • Galvanic Jellyfloat • Gambler Clamclamp • Gatling Groink • Gaudy Crawmad • Gelidity Dweevil • Gemstone Kettlebug • Ghost Wolpole • Ghost Wollyhop • Giant Breadbug • Giant Buttery Breadbug • Giant Cinnamon Breadbug • Giant Frosted Breadbug • Giant Ginger Breadbug • Giant Licorice Breadbug • Gilded Flint Beetle • Gilled Mawdad • Ginger Breadbug • Glassed Wollyhop • Golden Clamclamp • Goolix • Grabbit • Greasy Jellyfloat • Greater Bubblimp • Greater Jellyfloat • Green Bulbot • Green Centipare • Grimacing Cremblub • Grouchy Goblax • Hailstorm Dandelfly • Hairy Bulborb • Harvester Mamuta • Headdress Slurker • Heir Bulblax • Hermit Crawmad • Honey Bubblimp • Honeypot Skeeterskate • Honeywisp • Hopping Clamclamp • Hopping Flint Beetle • Humming Kettlebug • Humped Bloyster • Hungry Starnacle • Hydroe Host • Ignition Dweevil • Immaculate Whiskerfly • Incandescent Beeb • Incendiary Spectralid • Inky Waddlepus • Iridescent Flint Beetle • Ivory Waddlepus • Jamboree Blowhog • Joustmite • Juggling Dirigibug • Juicy Capstool • King Mawdad • Large Splurchin • Leech Hydroe • Lesser Bubblimp • Lesser Jellyfloat • Licorice Breadbug • Little Long Legs • Loafling • Lofty Mockiwi • Long Dumple • Luminous Long Legs • Lurking Lotus • Maggot Whiskerpillar • Magnetic Joustmite • Male Sheargrub • Male Shooting Spiner • Mamuta • Man-at-Legs • Medusal Slurker • Mephitic Mitite • Mesmerizing Sputtlefish • Metal Shearwig • Mighty Grabbit • Miniature Mudleech • Mitite • Mockiwi • Monochromatic Pinchipede • Monster Dumple • Moon Jellyfloat • Mossy Long Legs • Mouthy Mimitator • Muddy Meerslug • Mudleech • Mudwisp • Muggonfly • Mung Dweevil • Naked Amprat • Nectar Goolix • Nectarous Dandelfly • Needlesnout Blowhog • Neon Blinnow • Noxious Crawbster • Oily Groink • Orange Bulborb • Orebagger • Overcharge Blowhog • Painted Whiskerpillar • Pale Wolpole • Pale Wollyhop • Peacap Puffstalk • Peach Bulborb • Pearl Sparrowhead • Pearly Clamclamp • Peckish Aristocrab • Pellet Beetle • Pellet Poser • Phosbat Nymph • Pileated Snagret • Pinching Sheargrub • Plain Spectralid • Plasm Wraith • Plated Kettlebug • Plump Sheargrub • Poison Dart Wollyhop • Praying Skittermantis • Prickly Splurchin • Prodigious Beeb • Puckering Blinnow • Puckering Bulbeel • Puffstalk • Puffstool • Puffy Blowhog • Puffy Blowlet • Putrid Bulbear • Pygmy Jellyfloat • Pyroclasmic Slooch • Quaggled Mireclops • Queen Shearwig • Raging Long Legs • Rainwisp • Ranging Bloyster • Ravenous Loccut • Red Bulborb • Red Bulbot • Red Centipare • Red Spectralid • Reef Blowhog • Regurgitating Twistool • Ringed Spiner • Robust Bulbot • Rocket Beetle • Rocky Hermer • Ruby Jellyfloat • Rusted Cannon Beetle • Sable Flint Flicker • Sandbelching Meerslug • Sandy Speargrub • Saplapper Mockiwi • Satchel Snitchbug • Scornet • Scornet Maestro • Searchlight Snitchbug • Searing Bulblax • Seedbagger • Segmented Crawbster • Shady Sparrowhead • Shaggy Long Legs • Shearblug • Shearpion • Shearwig • Shelled Meerslug • Shock Dumple • Shore Dweevil • Shrimpy Hydroe • Silent Glowbelly • Skeeterskate • Skitterflake • Skitterleaf • Skitterlion • Skitterreed • Skittish Piddlepoddler • Skutterchuck • Sky Dumple • Sleepy Bulbear • Slick Dweevil • Slithering Shallock • Smoky Progg • Snaglet • Soaring Jellyfloat • Sparkling Dirigibug • Speargrub • Spectral Slurker • Spiked Snagret • Spinose Mockiwi • Spiny Coppeller • Spitty Blowhog • Spitty Blowlet • Sporegrub • Spornet • Spotty Bulbear • Spouting Bellbloom • Sprinting Dirigibug • Sprouting Coppeller • Sputtersplash • Sputtlefish • Stamping Long Legs • Starnacle • Steely Flint Beetle • Stingwig • Stubborn Bulblon • Studded Greater Beeb • Stuffed Bellbloom • Sulfuric Dweevil • Surge Dweevil • Swarming Sheargrub • Swooping Snitchbug • Tainting Blowhog • Tan Sparrowhead • Tantrum Snagret • Telescoping Pumphog • Titan Dweevil • Titan Weaver Dweevil • Toady Bloyster • Tombcarver Mawdad • Trampling Mamuta • Translucent Wollybot • Tropical Bloyster • Twilight Spectralid • Twinkle Beetle • Vampire Bulbear • Vapor Goolix • Vehemoth Phosbat • Venomous Scornet • Virescent Pinchipede • Vitreous Bulborb • Volatile Splurchin • Volt Beetle • Voracious Whiskerpillar • Waddlepus • Water Dumple • Water Wraith • Weaver Dweevil • Web-Slinging Spiner • Webbed Mockiwi • Whiptongue Bulborb • White Spectralid • Widemouthed Corrosion Beetle • Widemouthed Volt Beetle • Winged Snagret • Winter Snownet • Withering Blowhog • Withering Blowlet • Wolfish Mitite • Woolly Mammhog • Worker Beeb • Wracknid Hatchling • Wracknid Mother • Yellow Bulborb • Yellow Bulbot • Yellow Spectralid • Yellow Wolpole • Yellow Wollybot • Yellow Wollyhop • Young Fiery Wollyhop • Young Ghost Wollyhop • Young Pale Wollyhop • Young Yellow Wollyhop

Vegetation

Asphyxiating Moldclump • Bloominous Stemple • Bouncy Mushroom • Bramble • Browncap • Burgeoning Spiderwort • Capstalk • Carnation Candypop • Colossal Glowcap • Common Glowcap • Crimson Candypop • Demantoid Candypop • Flukeweed • Golden Candypop • Hydroe Bramble • Ivory Candypop • Kingcap • Lapis Lazuli Candypop • Lilypad • Monarch Candypop • Mouthy Shootplant • Nectar Grass • Orbular Pollenspout • Pellet Posy • Pellet Vine • Shockcap • Slate Candypop • Sparklium Candypop • Spiny Spiderwort • Spotcap • Springpetal • Sunset Spiderwort • Thorned Posy • Vine • Violet Candypop • Weeping Posy • Wickweed

Collectibles

Data file (Pikminology, Wildlife Survival, Explorers' Tales) • Fruit (list) • Nugget • Sparklium • Treasure • Upgrades
Black nectar • Hammer seed • Knuckle seed • Nectar • Ultra-bitter spray • Ultra-hot spray • Ultra-minty spray • Ultra-spicy spray • Ultra-sweet spray • Ultra-toxic spray • Whip seed

Hazards

Acid • Adhesive • Blunt force • Bubble • Electricity • Explosion • Fire • Ice • Lubricant • Mud • Panic • Poison • Spore • Water

Obstacles and objects

Acid pool • Bamboo gate • Bomb rock • Boulder • Brick gate • Burrow-nit nest • Cardboard box • Climbing stick • Clipboard • Clog • Cobblestone block • Conveyor belt • Conveyor switch • Cryogenic bomb rock • Crystal • Crystal gate • Crystal nodule • Crystal stalactite • Dazzling bomb rock • Egg • Electric bulb gate • Electric wire gate • Electrical wire • Electrode • Elevator block • Elevator platform • Escape geyser • Fire geyser • Fire rhizome gate • Flame • Flukeweed dam • Fragment bridge (bridge fragment) • Frozen surface • Gas pipe • Glowstem • Hay slope (hay stack) • Ice chunk • Incendiary bomb rock • Iron ball • Jackwig hive • Liftable elevator • Metal block • Metal pipe • Mine • Mine rock • Mitite bomb • Mud puddle • Nectar pool • Oil slick • Phosbat pod • Pit • Plasm • Poison rhizome gate • Pulley elevator • Rain droplet • Rectangular paper bag • Reinforced gate • Rhizome gate • Rock • Rubble • Rusted rod • Sand pit • Sky Dumple cluster • Smoke bomb rock • Snowball • Soil block • Soil gate • Soil mound • Stick bridge • Sweetgum pod • Tin box • Triangular paper bag • Trowel • Tunnel • Water geyser • Water pool • Web • Wooden stake

Gameplay

Achievements • Caravan • Dialogue • Hints • HocoPad • Options • Pikpik carrot • Soul • Soundtrack • Squad desertion • Sunset • Temperature • Weather • Game modes (Story Mode • Battle Mode • Challenge Mode • Bottomless Abyss • Randomizer)

Other

Changes during development • Gallery