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The bees are not 15 feet long... And that's missing the point entirely. I'll admit I was wrong about the Komodo dragon. I was not aware of its poisonous nature.

HOWEVER, it seems that you've misinterpreted what I was saying. While many, okay, ALL pokemon based on real animals are overblown versions of what they are based on, in most all cases, they do not change the essential nature of the animal they are based upon, like Meowth doesn't have dragon wings and all that. Salamanders, to use the example you provided, are NOT what salamanders were originally thought to be, and is in fact a name given to creatures long after the concept of Salamanders was thought up. Salamanders were thought to be literal fire lizards, being more or less a fire hazard to all they interacted with. THAT'S why Charmander is a flame lizard. And Beedrill also does not betray the essential nature of a bee (Wow, my Philo class is talking... ihhh, nevermind), even though it is a blatant exaggeration thereof. It's hard to put into words what I really mean all this. Let's put it this way. While Randonimity is good, too much Randonimity is not. For example, if I made a pokemon based off of the lucky cat statues that I decided should instead be malevolent and bring bad luck, that would be random. If I decided it should make rainbow sprinkles rain out of the sky, that would be TOO random, and in no way related to the original idea my new idea was based on.

If you can find your way through all that mess, I applaud you. Hopefully it may have even added some more suggestion as to general rules of logic to apply when making Pokemon.