>>42635159Like I said I think the Venomoth thing could of just been a concept art thing. Parasect looked better and they just used the Venomoth design somewhere else. Bee's aren't really know for crawling around as worms and hatching from cocoons, but giant beetles that Heracross and Pinsir are based on are. Maybe they just thought it would be too Japanese for western audiences and changed it to a bee and butterfly. Maybe Heracross wasn't designed yet, but the beetle idea was there at some point. I've also heard people say that they might of just mixed up the Butterfree and Venomoth sprites in Red and Blue, but I think it's more likely they probably swapped around concept art from one 'mon to the other. A lot of gen 1 lines aren't really consistent like Dratini's and Shelder's (in comparison to the thing on Slowbro's tail) and that just makes me think they had different ideas for a lot of mons but they didn't care to much about consistently since it was right when the franchise started.
