#013
Names
Weedle (proper name)
Beedle (distinctive name)
Hairy Bug Pokémon (descriptor name)
Typing
Bug/Poison
Range
Native to Kanto. May be found in Viridian Forest and along Routes 2, 24, and 25 in Kanto, in Ilex Forest, the National Park, and Routes 30 and 31 in Johto, in Eterna Forest and along Route 204 in Sinnoh, Vien Forest in Almia, and in the Pattern Bush in the Sevii Islands.
Habitat
Usually confined to forests and adjoining grasslands, some live in quiet, protected reserves with few to no predators.
Egg Groups
Bug
Difficulty Ratings
Location Difficulty: 2. Lives in just a few areas, but these are easy to hike through, and they crawl practically everywhere in those areas.
Acquisition Difficulty: 1. Goes into a Poké Ball very easily, and is weak enough that any other Pokémon can exhaust what little resistance it has.
Ownership Difficulty: 1. No problem at all to care for; needs practically no special preparations at all.
Diet
Prefers fallen leaves, tree bark, and other such forest detritus; any dry food "small arthropod vegetarian mix" will do as a substitute, as will bowls of salad. Enjoys bits of fruit as a treat.
Physical Description
Crawling insect, primarily dull yellow. Segmented body, with a head segment and seven thoracic/abdominal segments. Stinger on the end of final segment and similar barb atop head. Fourteen visible feet, covered in pink hemispheres. Black eyes, small in proportion to face, above a large pink nose. Average size 1 foot (0.3 meters). Cry: A medium-pitched screech.
Shiny coloration: Iridescent, primary coloration either lime green or bright gold depending on how it is seen; nose and feet either pink or golden, also depending on angle.
Behavior
Crawls about the forest floor, trying to remain unnoticed among leaves and bushes. Sometimes lives in large colonies with other members of its evolutionary line. Mostly unmindful of humans. If attacked, defends itself with Poison Sting and Bug Bite, and reduces its opponent's agility with String Shot. Begins most confrontations by rearing up on several of its back segments and wiggling its stinger, shuffling back and forth, or bouncing up and down. In domestic situations, shy and complacent. Generally finds a favorite area and stays there.
Proper Care
A Weedle is no problem at all to care for. It usually likes to stay at or near floor-level, especially if there's lots of furniture or other objects it can lurk behind. It may need a little while to adjust to you after you bring it home. During this time, try not to scare it, or it may instinctively use a mild dose of poison on you; nothing bad, but there will be painful swelling associated. Once it's gotten used to the new arrangement, you won't have to worry about this. You won't really have to worry about anything except the occasional bit of string or shed skin.
Notes
A Weedle is a comparatively big eater, often consuming its own weight in leaves every day. For this reason, their owners often make extra income in the autumn by renting their Pokémon out to those who can't or won't rake their yards.
In battle, a Weedle will weaken opponents with the one-two punch of binding them with string and debilitating them with injections of toxins from its barb and stinger. It may also bite and steal a berry if they have one. The Shield Dust it's coated in is a natural protection against the by-products of many attacks.
Because of its coyness, its quiet attitude, and how simple it is to capture, a Weedle is a good Pokémon for a beginning trainer to make as an early acquisition.
#014
Names
Kakuna (proper name)
Cocoon (distinctive name)
Cocoon Pokémon (descriptor name)
Typing
Bug/Poison
Range
Native to Kanto. May be found in Viridian Forest and along Routes 2, 24, and 25 in Kanto, in Ilex Forest, the National Park, and Routes 30 and 31 in Johto, in Eterna Forest and along Route 204 in Sinnoh, and in the Pattern Bush in the Sevii Islands. The population of Weedle that live in Almia's Vien Forest migrate away to one of the other areas shortly before their evolution.
Habitat
Usually confined to forests and adjoining grasslands, some live in quiet, protected reserves with few to no predators.
Egg Groups
Bug
Difficulty Ratings
Location Difficulty: 3. A little harder to find than Weedle, but still not rare by any stretch of the imagination.
Acquisition Difficulty: 4. Bulky enough to take a moderate licking and keep on ticking, and to have a better chance at escaping from a Poké Ball.
Ownership Difficulty: 1. Not much more difficult to take care of than a piece of furniture.
Diet
Prefers fallen leaves, tree bark, and other such forest detritus; any dry food "small arthropod vegetarian mix" will do as a substitute, as will bowls of salad. Enjoys bits of fruit as a treat. Eats very little; some quickly evolving specimens may not eat at all in this stage.
Physical Description
Vertical chrysalis, bright yellow. Skin a set of hard plates fitting tightly together and overlapping. Plates can open slightly around the mouth; two on the front can also unfold and extend forward like arms. Eyes black, large, and triangular. Average size 2 feet (0.6 meters). Cry: a loud screech that drops sharply in pitch at the end.
Shiny coloration: Chrysalis plates leafy green.
Behavior
Spends most of their time clinging to tree trunks, dangling from branches by silky strings, wedged in the nooks of trees, or hiding in the undergrowth. Rarely moves, and is awkward when doing so, using its tip as a pogo stick to bounce along; can balance almost perfectly on this tip. Sometimes lives in large colonies with other members of its evolutionary line. If attacked, uses Harden to withstand blows until the aggressor grows weary and leaves; rarely retaliates, although more mobile members of its colony may attack an aggressor in its stead. Begins most confrontations by extending its "arms," shaking its head up and down, vibrating its whole body, wriggling back and forth, or shaking its tip and bouncing quickly. In domestic situations, still and composed. Very hard to bother.
Proper Care
A Kakuna can pretty much take care of itself. Give it water, some food (if it's one of the specimens that likes to eat), and clean up the occasional layer that might molt off, and you're basically done. Its psychological needs are pretty much the only things you really need to worry about. In nature, it likes to cling to or dangle from trees, so you need to replicate this in your home. Book cases, entertainment centers, and other similar structures will help fill this need. If you have a small child, you can actually hang a Kakuna from a mobile, making both human and Pokémon happy; otherwise, a ceiling fan can serve the same purpose, though it's not recommended you ever turn the fan beyond the low speed setting. It will almost certainly bond closely with whoever it spends time with during these clinging or dangling sessions, whether they be human, Pokémon, or ordinary animal.
Notes
A Kakuna's tip is the stinger it possessed as a Weedle covered in plating. It is capable of sliding the plating aside to use the stinger in an emergency. It may also Shed Skin, healing itself of a negative status ailment by detaching the affected area.
A wild Kakuna will play a purely defensive game if attacked, but one that evolved from a Weedle in the care of a trainer is willing to attack back with the moves it knew in its previous form. In the wild, where a battle will typically put its life at risk, it forgets its old attacks to remove any enticement to use them. With a human, however, it knows that it will be all right even if it loses a battle, so it's prepared to try a riskier, more offensive strategy.
A Kakuna, despite its lack of energy and excitement, can be a close member of your family and a good choice for a friend.
#015
Names
Beedrill (proper name)
Spear (distinctive name)
Poison Bee Pokémon (descriptor name)
Typing
Bug/Poison
Range
Native to Kanto. May be found in Viridian Forest and along Routes 2, 24, and 25 in Kanto; specimens in other locations migrate to Kanto after their first mating in their final evolution. Some vagrants may be found in trees in Johto while gaining their bearings.
Habitat
Usually confined to forests and adjoining grasslands.
Egg Groups
Bug
Difficulty Ratings
Location Difficulty: 5. Rarer than Weedle or Kakuna. Does not live in dangerous areas, and often settle in large colonies.
Acquisition Difficulty: 7. Possesses quite the resistance to being pulled into a Poké Ball, and is very aggressive and spiteful in battle.
Ownership Difficulty: 3. Very loyal after it thinks of its trainer as a member of its colony. Needs space to fly. Enormous poison barbs can be tricky.
Diet
Prefers pollen, nectar, and meat; a blend of dry food "pollinator mix" and "small carnivore mix" will do as a substitute.
Physical Description
Bipedal bee, primary color yellow. Red eyes, large in proportion to face. Arms and legs both thin and black. Arms end in huge poisonous barbs. Abdomen encircled by two black stripes and ends in large stinger. Large transparent wings with visible veins. Antennae that bend at a forward right angle. Average size 3 feet 3 inches (1 meter). Cry: Loud buzzing.
Shiny coloration: Primary coloration green, eyes blue (exact shading of both change in differing light sources).
Behavior
Spends much of its time collecting pollen and nectar from flowering plants within its territory or (more commonly) its colony's territory. If the territory is breached by an intruder, a warning is given; if the intruder does not retreat, it will attack with Fury Attack, Twineedle, Pin Missile and Poison Jab. If it is victorious, it will drag the intruder back to home for consumption. Begins most confrontations by gesturing with its barbs, rapidly flapping its wings, drifting from side to side, or hovering up and down. In domestic situations, fiercely loyal and protective. Defends other members of the household, to the death if need be.
Proper Care
A Beedrill requires a delicate touch at first. If caught in the wild fully evolved, it will take some time to adjust to the idea of the household as its new "colony," and will be very prickly and irritable. On the other hand, it has been a member of the household for sometime prior to evolution, it will be incredibly overprotective, threatening those visitors it does not know very well without any provocation. Thankfully, whichever phase it goes through will be over in roughly a week; two at max. Afterwards, it will be protective but not overly so, and will have learned what does and does not constitute a serious threat. This helps make them a popular Pokémon in high-crime areas, as most criminals will retreat rather than risk being on the business end of a Beedrill's barbs and stinger. Should it successfully defend the household, it will instinctively want to feed on the defeated intruder, and though it can be talked out of this, it will be disappointed; make it up to it by preparing a large, juicy peppered steak. Also, it will need room to fly, either indoors or out.
Notes
Although capable of flight, Beedrill are not Flying-type. Their diets do not include many Bug or Grass-types and so they are not protected from them, and their spindly limbs do not have any extra defense against Fighting-type moves. They fly low enough that Ground-type moves do not hurt too bad, their wings are thin and flexible enough to shrug off Ice and Rock-moves, and their barbs act as a kind of lightning-rod that cancels out what would normally be a large vulnerability to Electric-typed moves.
As Beedrill tend to usually live in vast colonies, attacking one can be dangerous. In battle, one will fight with blindingly fast jabs, stab with both barbs at once, or impale its opponent on its stinger, flying at high speeds in hit-and-run fashion, and if the battle goes poorly, think of the Swarm that's depending on it to increase its determination and attack power. Now imagine being on the end of several dozen of those attacks at once. For this reason, do careful scouting at first and learn where the colony's territory ends. Only there should you attack, and even then make sure just to go after a lone specimen on a scouting mission so that it cannot summon help.
All three of these Pokémon can form a strong bond with you and your family, and will protect you for years to come once that loving connection has been established.
For Further Reading: Sting Like A Beedrill by Professor Muhammad Api