Bug may refer to:

Common uses

* A terrestrial

arthropod Arthropods (, (gen. ποδός)) are invertebrate animals with an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages. Arthropods form the phylum Arthropoda. They are distinguished by their jointed limbs and cuticle made of chiti ...

animal (with at least six legs) **

Insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three ...

, a six-legged arthropod *** Hemiptera, the true bugs, insects with piercing–sucking mouthparts *

Covert listening device A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. The use of bugs, called bugging, or wiretapping is a common technique in surveillance, espionage and ...

, used in surveillance, espionage and policing *

Bug (engineering) In engineering, a bug is a defect in the design, manufacture or operation of machinery, circuitry, electronics, hardware, or software that produces undesired results or impedes operation. It is contrasted with a glitch which may only be transient. ...

, a defect in the design, manufacture or operation of machinery, circuitry, electronics, hardware or software ** Software bug, an error, flaw or fault in computer software **

Hardware bug A hardware bug is a defect in the design, manufacture, or operation of computer hardware that causes incorrect operation. It is the counterpart of software bugs which refer to flaws in the code which operates computers, and is the original context i ...

, a defect in the design, manufacture or operation of computer hardware ** BUG (tag), a computer programming comment tag

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

* Bug (comics), a superhero in Marvel comics * Bug (''Starship Troopers''), an alien race from the novel and film * Bug, Michael Lee's younger brother in ''The Wire'' * Bug, in the TV series ''

WordWorld ''WordWorld'' (also sometimes referred to as ''Word World'') is an American children's CGI animated television series that is based on the books and the wooden puzzles of the same name. ''WordWorld'' debuted on PBS Kids and was created by Don Mo ...

'' * Bobby "Bug" Guthrie, in the TV series ''Life Unexpected''

Film and television

* ''Bug'' (1975 film), an American horror film * ''Bug'' (2002 film), an American comedy film * ''Bug'' (2006 film), a psychological horror film adaptation of the Tracy Letts play * ''Bug'', a 2017 film starring Gene Jones * "Bug" (''Breaking Bad''), a 2011 TV episode

Gaming

Bug (poker) A bug in poker is a limited form of wild card. One or both jokers are often added to the deck and played as bugs. In draw poker played for high and pai gow poker, the bug is considered to be an ace, unless it can be used as a missing card to ...

, a limited form of wild card * Bug, a ''Pokémon'' type * ''

Bug! ''Bug!'' is a platform video game developed by Realtime Associates and published by Sega originally for its console, the Sega Saturn. It was first released in North America, in 1995, just weeks after the Saturn's launch there; in Europe on ...

'', a 1995 video game * Bughouse chess, or bug, a chess variant played on two boards

Music

Albums

* ''Bug'' (Dave Davies album), 2002 * ''Bug'' (Dinosaur Jr. album), 1988 * ''Bug'' (soundtrack), of the 2006 film

Songs

* "Bug", a song by Feeder from the 2001 album ''

Echo Park Echo Park is a neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California. Located to the northwest of Downtown, it is bordered by Silver Lake to the west and Chinatown to the east. The culturally diverse neighborhood has become known f ...

'' * "Bug", a song by Lower Than Atlantis from the 2011 album ''

World Record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...

'' * "Bug", a song by Phish from the 2000 album '' Farmhouse'' * "

The Bug "The Bug" is a song written by Mark Knopfler and originally performed by Dire Straits on the final studio album by the band, '' On Every Street'' (1991). It was covered by Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1992, and also recorded on the albums ''Blues B ...

", a 1992 song by Dire Straits

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* ''BUG'' (magazine), a Croatian magazine * ''Bug'' (play), by Tracy Letts, 1993

Businesses and organizations

Bicycle User Group A Bicycle User Group (BUG or B.U.G.) is a group set up to promote cycling issues in, for example, a place of employment or a local government area. A BUG might be part of or affiliated with a bigger organization representing cyclists' interests at C ...

, a group set up to promote cycling issues

People

Bug Hall Brandon "Bug" Hall (born February 4, 1985) is an American actor. He is best known for his childhood roles as Alfalfa Switzer in ''The Little Rascals'' (1994), Newt Shaw in ''The Big Green'' (1995), and Buster Stupid in ''The Stupids'' (1996). ...

(born 1985), an American actor * Bug Holliday (1867–1910), an American baseball player *

Bug Howard Johnathan "Bug" Howard (born November 28, 1994) is an American football tight end for the Philadelphia Stars of the United States Football League (USFL). He played college football at North Carolina. Early years Howard, who was given the nickn ...

(born 1994), an American football player * Enric Bug (born 1957), pseudonym Bug Rogers, a Spanish comic book artist and industrial designer *

The Bug (musician) Kevin Richard Martin, often known under his recording alias The Bug, is an English musician and music producer. Martin moved from Weymouth to London around 1990 and is now currently based in mainland Europe. He has been active for over two decad ...

, a recording alias for British musician Kevin Martin

Places

Bug (river) uk, Західний Буг be, Захо́дні Буг , name_etymology = , image = Wyszkow_Bug.jpg , image_size = 250 , image_caption = Bug River in the vicinity of Wyszków, Poland , map = V ...

or Western Bug, a river in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus * Southern Bug, Southern Buh or Boh, a river in Ukraine *

Bug (Rügen) Bug is the name both of the westernmost tongue of land (''Landzunge'') on the peninsula of Wittow on the German island of Rügen, as well as the name of the former village there. Bug begins south of the village of Dranske and belongs territori ...

, a spit and former village on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany * Bug, Kentucky, a settlement in Clinton County, Kentucky, in the United States * Bag, Qasr-e Qand, also called Būg, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran

Science and technology

Slipper lobster Slipper lobsters are a family (Scyllaridae) of about 90 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda clade Reptantia, found in all warm oceans and seas. They are not true lobsters, but are more closely related to spiny lobsters and furry ...

(Scyllaridae), a number of species of which are called "bug" * Bug, a digital on-screen graphic of a broadcaster's logo * Bug, a Morse key design by Vibroplex *

Web beacon A web beaconAlso called web bug, tracking bug, tag, web tag, page tag, tracking pixel, pixel tag, 1×1 GIF, or clear GIF. is a technique used on web pages and email to unobtrusively (usually invisibly) allow checking that a user has accessed ...

or web bug, a tracking object embedded in a web page or e-mail

Transportation

Bond Bug The Bond Bug is a small British two-seat, three-wheeled automobile which was designed by Tom Karen of Ogle Design for Reliant Motor Company, who built it from 1970 to 1974, initially at Bond Cars Ltd factory, but subsequently at Reliant's T ...

, a British three-wheeled car * Dudly Bug, an early gas-powered cyclecar * Sandlin Bug, an American ultralight glider design *

Volkswagen Beetle The Volkswagen Beetle—officially the Volkswagen Type 1, informally in German (meaning "beetle"), in parts of the English-speaking world the Bug, and known by many other nicknames in other languages—is a two-door, rear-engine economy car, ...

, an automobile nicknamed "Bug" * Bug railway station, in Pakistan * Bagaha railway station, Bihar, a railway station in India, station code BUG * Burgess Hill railway station, a railway station in Sussex, England

Other uses

Buginese language Buginese or Bugis (Buginese: ) is a language spoken by about five million people mainly in the southern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia. History The word Buginese derives from the word '' Bugis'' in Malay. In Buginese, it is called while the B ...

, ISO 639 language code bug * The Bug (horse) (1943–1963), an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse