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Piranha Pests are juvenile [[Piranha Plant|Piranha Plants]].  It is in this stage that they leave the ground and travel the skies searching for a place to take root.  With one exception, all Piranha Pests do eventually take root and grow into a Piranha Plant (or Piranha Stalk if in the [[Piranha Grove]]).  However, if it is a juvenile [[Jumping Piranha Plant]], it will instead find a home in a pipe and never lose its flying body.
|image=[[File:piranhapestart.jpg|100px]]<br>A Piranha Pest's artwork from ''Yoshi's Story''
|first_appearance=''[[Yoshi's Story]]'' ([[List of games by date#1997|1997]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' ([[List of games by date#2005|2005]])
|variant_of=[[Propeller Piranha]]
|relatives=[[Piranha Sprout (Yoshi's Story)|Piranha Sprout (''Yoshi's Story'')]]
}}
{{quote|If eaten by a Piranha Pest, [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] becomes tiny, and can't use [[Yoshi's Egg|eggs]]! Don't be sad! Climb up and gather eggs to throw at him!|[[Message Block]] in [[Piranha Grove]]|[[Yoshi's Story]]}}
'''Piranha Pests''' are [[Piranha Plant]]s that appear in two games: ''[[Yoshi's Story]]'' and ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]''.


==History==
Piranha Pests simply resemble the bud of a Piranha Plant with a propeller instead of a stem or stalk. They have tongues almost as long as a Yoshi's, but instead of making eggs, they devour and use the prey for nutrients vital to taking root.  If anything escapes the maw of a Piranha Pest, the prey is shrunk temporarily. The only known way of defeating a Piranha Pest is by shooting it with an egg.
===''Yoshi's Story''===
[[File:PirahnaPestYS.png|left|frame]]
In ''Yoshi's Story'', Piranha Pests each simply resemble the bud of a Piranha Plant with a propeller instead of a stem or stalk. They fly in rectangular patterns very similar to those of [[Propeller Piranha|Hootie the Blue Fish]] in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', though they do not follow the edges of walls. They have tongues almost as long as a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]'s, but instead of making eggs, they attempt to swallow the Yoshi and shrink it temporarily. When the Yoshi is shrunk, no [[Yoshi's Egg|Yoshi egg]]s can be used. Piranha Pests can be defeated with a Yoshi egg only when the Yoshi is in normal size. As with their relatives, they are found in [[Piranha Grove]].


===''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time''===
Piranha Pests are most commonly found in the [[Piranha Grove]], where they weave in and out of the many Piranha Stalks, searching for food. The Piranha Pest first and only appears in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]'', and only in Stage 4-3: Piranha Grove.
[[File:Piranha Pest in PiT.png|thumb|150px|Mario and Luigi fighting a Piranha Pest in ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'']]
In ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'', [[Petey Piranha]] can spit out Piranha Pests (referred to in the [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]] as "'''plant-pendulums'''").<ref>{{cite|author=Hoffman, Chris|title=''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'' Player's Guide|page=53|date=November 18, 2005|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|isbn=1-59812-006-9|quote=When Petey uses his plant-pendulum, a block appears on the top screen with the initial of one of the bros on it. Knock the attack back with the appropriate bro's hammer, then alternate between bros, using hammer strikes to bust the pendulum.}}</ref> These plants use their long tongues to swing on a [[block]], trying to slam into [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]]. If they are hit with a [[hammer]] a few times, they will be defeated.


===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''===
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In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', Piranha Pests are mentioned briefly by [[icaruspedia:Viridi|Viridi]] during [[Smash Taunt#Palutena's Guidance|Palutena's Guidance]] dialogue for Piranha Plant.
{{succession box |
  | title = Life Cycle of a [[Piranha Plant]]
  | game = ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''
  | before = [[Piranha Sprout]]
  | after = [[Piranha Plant]] "Stalk" / [[Jumping Piranha Plant]]
|}}


==Profiles==
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===''Yoshi's Story''===
*'''Shogakukan guide (shared with Piranha Plant and [[Piranha Sprout (Yoshi's Story)|Piranha Sprout]]):''' 新種も増えて、ますます手ごわいパックンフラワー。飲みこまれるて、ミニヨッシーになっちゃうぞ。<ref name=Sho/> (''New species have been introduced to the Piranha Plant family, making them even more formidable. It will swallow you up and turn you into a mini Yoshi.'')


==Names in other languages==
{{Piranhas}}
{{foreign names
|Jpn={{nw|ペロペロパックン<ref name=Sho>{{cite|page={{file link|Yoshi Story Shogakukan P5.jpg|5}}|title=「ヨッシーストーリー 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's Story Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]}}</ref>}}
|JpnR=Peropero Pakkun
|JpnM=「ペロペロ」is an onomatopoeia for licking sound, and「パックン」is from the Japanese name of [[Piranha Plant#Names in other languages|Piranha Plant]]; may play off "''[[Propeller Piranha#Names in other languages|Puropera Pakkun]]''."
|Jpn2=ベロパックン<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario-kun'' volume 36|page={{file link|PeteyPiranhaSMK36.jpg|41}}}}</ref>
|Jpn2R=Bero Pakkun
|Jpn2M=「ベロ」is a colloquialism for "tongue",「パックン」is from the Japanese name of Piranha Plant
|SpaA=plaga piraña
|SpaAM=Plague Piranha
|SpaE=Plaga Piraña
|SpaEM=Piranha Plague
|Fre=Peste Piranha
|FreM=Piranha Pest
|Dut=Piranha Pest
|Ger=Schrumpf Piranha<ref>{{cite|title=Nintendo 64 ''Yoshi's Story'' Spieleberater|page=20|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=de}}</ref>
|Ger2={{nw|Schleck-Piranha-Pflanze}}
|Ger2M=Lick Piranha Plant
|Ita=Parassita Piranha
|ItaM=Piranha Parasite
|Rus=пиранья-вредина
|RusR=piran'ya-vredina
|RusM=Nasty Piranha
|Chi=长舌花
|ChiR=Chángshé Huā
|ChiM=Long-Tongue Flower
}}


==References==
[[Category: Enemies]]
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[[Category: Sub-Species]]
 
[[Category: Piranha Plants]]
{{Piranha Plants}}
{{Yoshi's Story}}
[[Category:Piranha Plants]]
[[Category:Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time enemies]]
[[Category:Yoshi's Story enemies]]
[[de:Schrumpf-Piranha]]
[[it:Parassita Piranha]]

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