Tag: Cutiefly

Is it creepy to name your cutiefly after your crush, or sweet?

Well, that depends on your crush, I’d imagine. Plenty of people name “romantic,” cute, or otherwise favored pokémon after people they care greatly for. Sometimes, the objects of affection find it flattering or even adorable. Others might not be so comfortable with the idea. I would recommend not telling your crush, however, unless you’re absolutely certain they’re amicable with you.

Are you thinking of that time you accidentally let it slip to the girl who runs the Goldenrod Flower Shop that you named an eevee after her? —LH

I am always thinking of that, but thank you yet again, Lanette. —Bill

My beedrill and I have been together since he was a weedle, so I can usually read him pretty well. However, as of late, my friend has gotten a cutiefly, and my beedrill gets really agitated and aggressive when it’s around. Can you help explain this?

It could perhaps have something to do with the fact that beedrill eat cutiefly.

Contrary to popular belief, beedrill are not herbivores that feed off nectar or pollen. Rather, they’re carnivores that attack prey with the three stingers on its body, then drag the corpse off to their hives to feed themselves and their weedle hatchlings. While beedrill will generally attack and eat anything that’s both smaller than them and considered meat, they gravitate especially towards other bug-types pokémon. Cutiefly, being part-fairy, are a bit of a delicacy in particular.

In short, I would consider keeping your beedrill as far away from your friend’s cutiefly as possible.

I think I attract cutiefly! Whenever i go out cutiefly swarm to me and sometimes nestle in my hair, shoulders, and lap, especially when i sit or stand in one place for more than a few seconds. Why is this? they’re not attacking me or anything, just being friendly.

Are you sure you aren’t a fomantis, anonymous?

Bill. —LH

Edit: In all seriousness, it’s very likely that you smell appealing to them. Sometimes, even subtle, floral soaps can draw attention from cutiefly.

Or alternatively, you’re secretly an animated princess.

Bill. —LH

Fomantis and Lurantis

Fomantis
The Sickle Grass Pokémon
Type: Grass
Official Registration #: 753
Entry: This small, bud-like pokémon is nocturnal in nature, largely because daylight leaves it largely defenseless. During the day, it hides in tall grasses and gathers sunlight for sustenance as it sleeps. However, because fomantis are by and large fragile pokémon, it never stays in the same spot as either it or other fomantis had rested the day before. Rather, every night, each fomantis becomes active, seeking out entirely different areas of refuge to settle into as soon as the sun rises. For the most part, fomantis can go completely undetected, but because of its subtle but enticing aroma, cutiefly have been known to gather around fomantis during the day, thus revealing sleeping fomantis to potential prey. Cutiefly, of course, don’t actually feed off fomantis; they simply enjoy fomantis’s scent … and are also generally vicious, vindictive pokémon.

Lurantis
The Sickle Grass Pokémon
Type: Grass
Official Registration #: 753
Entry: The evolved form of fomantis, by battle experience, when exposed to sunlight. Noted for its beauty (and highly fashionable “pants,” for that matter), lurantis are highly sought-after by collectors, even though it takes a lot of time and effort to maintain its signature vivid coloration. In the wild, lurantis give little thought to their own coloration, opting instead on perfecting their sickle-shaped petals. These petals, when properly honed, can fire beams of sunlight and slice effortlessly through predators that may have harassed them as fomantis … including and especially cutiefly.

Cutiefly and Ribombee

Cutiefly
The Bee Fly Pokémon
Type: Bug/Fairy
Official Registration #: 742
Entry: To most pokémon and humans, this small, fuzzy bee fly pokémon is both adorable and essential to the environment. Their abundance of soft fur and love for resting in flowers make them ideal pollinators, and the docile natures they have as adults make them highly popular pets. Given these traits, it should really come as no surprise to anyone who had read this blog for very long that young, wild cutiefly are vicious predators of other insect pokémon and that it singlehandedly controls certain insect populations of its native Alola by way of laying eggs in their nests and burrows, forcing them to take care of the hatchlings, and allowing said hatchlings to feast on the eggs and young of their own victims.

Ribombee
The Bee Fly Pokémon
Type: Bug/Fairy
Official Registration #: 743
Entry: The evolved form of cutiefly, by battle experience. This bee fly-like pokémon gathers pollen from a wide variety of flowers to roll into balls. The easiest way to tell the difference between a male and female ribombee is by what each specimen does with these balls: males will roll them up and give them to females, and females will keep both the balls they form and the balls given to them on their bodies. These balls are highly nutritious and vital to the health of a ribombee’s young, and as such, they’re normally given to newly hatched cutiefly that have consumed the young or eggs of their host species. It’s also possible to harvest these pollen balls for human consumption, as they’re thought to be excellent probiotics and general nutritional supplements in the same way honey is for our species. However, this is ill-advised for two reasons, other than the obvious fact that wild ribombee are more than capable of defending themselves. First, there isn’t enough evidence to definitively prove that a ribombee’s pollen balls are as nutritional to humans as they are to cutiefly. Second, to be blunt, whereas male ribombee carry their pollen balls in their scarves (because they handle so few of them at a time), female ribombee not only utilize their scarves but also the fur on their backsides, and yes, farmers aren’t particularly discerning as to which part of the ribombee pollen balls are harvested. According to the very same people who take ribombee pollen balls as daily herbal supplements, the “added organic matter” is a bonus. Make of that what you will and take at your own risk.