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Pokémon Go Bug Out 2024: all Research Tasks

Why did it have to be bugs?

Marco Wutz

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Hope you’re not grossed out by virtual bugs crawling all over your screen, because the latest Pokémon Go event, Bug Out 2024, is basically like being thrown into a pit filled with insects – well, you can banish them into your Poké Balls, at least. 

Starting on April 12, 2024, at 10am local time and lasting until April 17, 2024, 8pm local time, this is the perfect event for those bug freaks you always find in the mainline games.

On the bright side, Bug Out comes with a variety of neat bonuses – double XP for catching with Nice Throws or better, additional Candy for Nice Throws or better, and an increased chance for Candy XL for Nice Throws or better. Yeah, it’s about time you practiced your throwing game. In addition, the event comes with exclusive Field Research and Collection Challenges to complete.

Find all Pokémon Go Bug Out 2024 tasks and rewards below.

Pokémon Go Bug Out 2024: Field Research Tasks

Field Research Tasks can be acquired by spinning PokéStops during the event’s runtime, which ends on April 17, 2024, at 8pm local time. Once you’ve got them in your storage of tasks, you can complete them whenever you want, so there’s no time pressure involved.

Here are all Pokémon Go Bug Out 2024 Field Research Tasks:

  • Catch 5 Pokémon: Burmy (Plant Cloak), Burmy (Sandy Cloak), or Burmy (Trash Cloak)
  • Make 3 Curveball Throws: Paras or Venomat
  • Make 3 Great Throws in a row: Dewpider or Wimpod
  • Trade a Pokémon: Karrablast or Shelmet
  • Evolve 3 Pokémon: Beedrill Mega Energy x25, Pinsir Mega Energy x25, or Scizor Mega Energy x25

Pokémon Go Bug Out 2024: Collection Challenges

Collection Challenges are available exclusively during the event’s runtime, so you’ll need to catch all Pokémon listed in each Collection Challenge before Bug Out ends on April 17, 2024, at 8pm local time to claim all the rewards.

Here are all Pokémon Go Bug Out 2024 Collection Challenges:

Bug Out Collection Challenge 1

  • Caterpie (wild)
  • Metapod (evolution)
  • Butterfree (evolution)
  • Weedle (wild)
  • Kakuna (evolution)
  • Beedrill (evolution)
  • Rewards: Beedrill, Beedrill Mega Energy x50

Bug Out Collection Challenge 2

  • Sewaddle (wild)
  • Swadloon (evolution)
  • Leavanny (evolution)
  • Combee (wild)
  • Vespiquen (evolution)
  • Rewards: Pinsir, Pinsir Mega Energy x50

Bug Out Collection Challenge 3

  • Dwebble (wild)
  • Crustle (evolution)
  • Kricketot (wild)
  • Kricketune (evolution)
  • Cutiefly (wild)
  • Ribombee (evolution)
  • Rewards: Scizor, Scizor Mega Energy x50

Bug Out Collection Challenge 4

  • Nincada (wild)
  • Ninjask (evolution)
  • Rewards: Shedinja

There is a lot of Mega Energy on the table during this event, which is great news for fans who don’t like to participate in raids to harvest it. If you already have enough Mega Energy to make one of your Bug-types mega evolve, make sure to do so – this will provide nice bonuses when catching Pokémon of the same type.

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Marco Wutz

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg