Fly Pods are large, gelatinous structures encountered in several areas on board the BOTTLE SHIP in Metroid: Other M. They appear to serve as a hive for different creatures, depending on location, spawning Reos in the Biosphere and Main Sector, Mellas in the Pyrosphere, and Himellas in the Cryosphere. They are usually mottled in red and green leaf-like patterns (perhaps a form of camouflage), although they are also sheathed in fire in the Pyrosphere or encased in ice in the Cryosphere. All variants are immune to the Power Beam, but they are all vulnerable to the Plasma Beam and Wave Beam, and all except the Himella hives are vulnerable to the Ice Beam and can be destroyed by three conventional Missiles or one Super Missile or a Power Bomb, excluding those that appear in the Pyrosphere, whic