Scarab

The Beetle is an enemy encountered in the Egyptian-themed levels in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. It closely resembles a scarab, a special type of beetles that was molded into artifacts in the Ancient Egypt. The body contains a greenish colour which is the same green as the Frog from the Medieval levels Toad Village, Gee Wiz, and Double Header. The Dragon from Wizards and Lizards, and a Crocodile from the other Egyptian levels like Tomb Time, and Bug Lite. and is found in certain Egyptian levels like Tomb Wader. The beetles main form of attacking is crawling back and forth across Crash's path, acting as an obstacle that Crash must avoid. They can be easily defeated by simply jumping on them, slide dash, or spinning them away. In the level Tomb Wader, the beetles appear in the water drainage areas. They crawl on the ground when the water level is going down low, but will fly into the air when the water level rises up in the air. While they are in midair, Crash must try to avoid them while jumping. He can still defeat them though by spinning them away or jumping them or Fruit Bazooka after defeating Doctor N. Gin or Body Slam on them if Crash gets closer to the scarab beetles they will turns him into a angel.

Beetles reappear in Crash Twinsanity in the levels Boiler Room Doom and Cortex's section of Classroom Chaos. In Boiler Room Doom they are primary red spit acid at Crash and Cortex and can only be defeated with Twin Slam. Then a different species are primary purple pursues Cortex in Classroom Chaos in a chase. However, they can be blasted away with Cortex's ray gun during the chase sequences.

Scarab Beetles also appear in Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced in the Egyptian levels Slip-N-Slidin' Sphinx, King Too Uncommon, and Wild Nile Ride they crawl and flies they play the same role like in Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped.

Trivia

 * In Crash Twinsanity, beetles are orange/red and purple, while the ones in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped and Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced are green, which is the same colour as the frog and the crocodile.
 * In Crash Twinsanity, the beetles chase Doctor Neo Cortex at Classroom Chaos it was referenced from 1999s film The Mummy movie as they chase the same.