Weedle

As precious as Caterpie is, Weedle is a lot more interesting. It's a non-Lepidopteran larva, for one, which is rarely ever portrayed in popular culture at all. How often do you see grubs or maggots in cartoons, compared to caterpillars? Heck, there aren't even many other pokemon representing non-moth, non-butterfly larvae. What's up with that?

Poor little Weedle, lone grubworm in a caterpillar's world. It's such a silly, charming little design to boot, with that big pink nose and the conical "stinger" on top of its head. A grub with a head-sting! Interestingly, there are wasps in the real world with caterpillar-like larvae - they're called sawflies - but most baby wasps and bees are just pale, rounded, limbless globs. Weedle is pure fantasy! Interestingly, Weedle wasn't always going to be the larval stage of a Hymenopteran at all. An early, prototypical Weedle was once previewed on Gamefreak's official website, first evolving into some sort of fatter grub-monster and finally into some sort of beetle. This would have definitely been the insectiest-looking bug type of the first generation, had it not been scrapped. Shame.