Orbeetle is Needle’s fourth Pokemon that Needle encountered during their vacation to the Galar Region and is considered their Partner pokemon.

Training a Blipbug in a region where none of his own kind resided did making the whole process tougher due to having no environmental reference to work with.
But Needle truly believed that Blipbug could be a threat to be recon with and faced every trial and error to help him become the mighty Orbeetle he is today.

Whenever Orbeetle isn’t in battle, he helps Needle with bugs research and with his natural intellect and ability to psychically communicate with Needle, he makes a really great research assistant.

Volcarona is Needle’s third Pokemon ever and was originally gifted to bugs as an Egg by a Pokemon Ranger at Castelia City during a festival.

When the Egg hatched into a Larvesta, she was jumping for joy at the sight of her and automatically swore to train her to be the most powerful Volcarona ever.
Even as a Larvesta, Volcarona was also considered the most elegant and polite member of the team, this showed not only during battles but how she would interact with humans and her fellow teammates.

Volcarona isn’t only one of the most powerful members as well, but also provides Needle with the vitamin D that bugs needs and attempts to take care of them when Needle is overworking themselves. (Either with research or battling)

Vespiquen is Needle’s second Pokemon who she spent everyday after daycare hunting for till she finally found and caught her all by themself.

Alongside her Galvantula when she was a Joltik, the two of them were Needle’s only Pokemon for a very long time and even as a low levelled Combee, Vespiquen was as motivated and unshakeable as Needle when it came to battling and becoming the strongest they could be.

Vespiquen always takes the role as de facto leader due to the nature of being a Vespiquen and also being one of the first Pokemon to join in the first place.
(Galvantula wouldn’t ever fight her on this and instead just follow Vespiquens lead.)

Galvantula is Needle’s Starter Pokemon, the first one she’s ever caught and has been by their side throughout their journey from the start.

Galvantula is rather shy, even and has been since she was a Joltik, making training really hard when she'd attempt to flee both wild pokemon and trainer battles.
But even though Needle was commonly known for being impaitent, with her Joltik she was practically the most paitent trainer ever.
Needle was really forgiving towards her because they knew that some Bug-type Pokemon just needed a lot of care, training and time in order to show their true might and they weren’t going to give up on her so quickly.
Even with many years of losing, Needle always encouraged Galvantula to do her best and promised that one day they’d become the strongest Bug-Type team ever...Which happily came true as Galvantula stands as one of Needle’s ace Pokemon.

Outside of battles, Galvantula will commonly roam the walls and ceiling of Needle's work enviroment and help power any of bugs electrical equipment.

Araquanid is Needles fifth Pokemon and was the the first species of bug-type Pokemon that Needle began in-depth research on after catching Araquanid as a Dewpider.

During Needle’s research of Dewpider bugs was also training her as bugs already had a soft spot for spider-like Pokemon but also was absolutely fascinated by it’s evolution line. This continued long into her evolving into a Araquanid and during her first real battle, Araquanid developed a confidence that could only rival Needle’s and became a intimidating force to be reckoned with.

Araquanid also began help Needle in bugs research to give back the love and care bugs gave her, she would do this by cleaning up the work environment and taking care of any baby Bug-Type Pokemon brought in for research purposes, basically mothering them similar to how her kind would a Dewpider.

Heracross is Needle’s sixth and last team member Pokemon bugs has caught during the early days starting Needle’s Bug-type research career.

Heracross was the most ‘difficult’ Pokemon to train due to his mischievous and child-like nature causing disturbances amongst Needles other Pokemon. That didn’t stop Needle though as bugs basically had to butt heads with Heracross in order to gain his respect.
After coming to the realisation that they both loved fighting, Heracross became more receptive to Needle’s training and eventually bonded with his trainer and began making an effort to get along with his fellow team members.

Heracross is more battle focused then research focused, but will occasionally help with tracking different kinds of sap or destroying obstacles during field explorations.