Speargrub

Speargrub
Appears in	Hey! Pikmin
Scientific name	Dentefaber himeagea
Family	Mandiblard
Areas	Crystal Tunnels
Attacks	Stabs Pikmin

The Speargrub (トゲデムシ^?, lit.: "Thorned Bug") is an enemy found in Hey! Pikmin. It serves as an obstacle and cannot be killed.

Behavior[edit]

Speargrubs act as obstacles during puzzles that involve throwing Pikmin. They appear and out of holes in walls and move along set paths before disappearing and reappearing into other holes. They cannot be killed, and any Pikmin aside from Rock Pikmin will die if they touch them.

Locations[edit]

• Sparkling Labyrinth
  • Crystal Tunnels

Strategy[edit]

Speargrubs are invincible and cannot be killed. Players must work carefully to avoid accidentally letting their Pikmin come into contact with them.

Notes

Hey! Pikmin logs

Naming[edit]

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See more: Mandiblard family#Naming.

• Common name: Speargrub. From "Sheargrub", a word present in the names of various members of the mandiblard family, and "spear", referring to the spikes on its back.
• Japanese nickname: トゲデムシ^?, lit.: "Thorned Bug".
• Japanese name: トゲヒメアギト^?, lit.: "Thorn Small Jaw". From ヒメアギト科^?, the Mandiblard family's Japanese name.
• Scientific name: Dentefaber himeagea.
• Internal names: Unknown.
• Prerelease: None.

Names in other languages[edit]

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	トゲデムシ? Toge De Mushi	Thorned Bug
Dutch	Stekelgruppie
French (NoA)	Boufpon à pics
French (NoE)	Boufpon à piques
German	Stachler	"Spiner"
Italian	Tarlospino
Korean	돌기벌레
Spanish	Larvaspín	From "larva" and "puercospín" (porcupine)

Gallery[edit]

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  Speargrubs in a room with Bouncy Mushrooms in Crystal Tunnels.

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  More Speargrubs in another room in Crystal Tunnels.

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  Speargrubs near the Snack Vault.

See also[edit]

• Shearblug
• Sporegrub

Hey! Pikmin enemies

Crumbug •  Coppeller •  Mockiwi •  Spornet •  Crested Mockiwi •  Sparrowhead •  Male Sheargrub •  Puffstalk •  Shooting Spiner (Female) •  Puckering Blinnow •  Eye-Stalker Bulbeel •  Large Splurchin •  Shearblug •  Widemouthed Anode Beetle •  Young Yellow Wollywog •  Crystalline Crushblat •  Speargrub •  Crammed Wraith •  Seedbagger •  Skutterchuck •  Grabbit •  Fireflinger Groink •  Flatterchuck •  Shooting Spiner (Male) •  Sporegrub •  Red Bubblimp •  Starnacle •  Elongated Crushblat •  Electric Spectralid •  Spiny Coppeller •  Flying Spotted Jellyfloat •  Yellow Wollywog •  Fireflap Bulborb •  Fiery Blowlet •  Fiery Dwarf Bulblax •  Electripede •  Firesnout Beetle •  Fiery Young Yellow Wollywog •  Clicking Slurker •  Stuffed Bellbloom •  Puffy Blubbug •  Blubbug •  Centipare •  Stony Flint Beetle •  Adult Centipare •  Muggonfly •  Swooping Snitchbug •  Bulborb •  Long Water Dumple •  Armurk •  Electric Cottonade •  Queen Shearwig (Shearwig) •  Fiery Blowhog •  Luring Slurker •  Emperor Bulblax •  Leech Hydroe •  Berserk Leech Hydroe