Bug may refer to:

Common uses

* A terrestrial

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

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 pairs ...

, a six-legged arthropod ***

Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order (biology), order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, Reduviidae, assassin bugs, Cimex, bed bugs, and shield bugs. ...

, 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), a defect in the design, manufacture or operation of machinery, circuitry, electronics, hardware or software **

Software bug A software bug is an error, flaw or fault in the design, development, or operation of computer software that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways. The process of finding and correcting bugs i ...

, an error, flaw or fault in computer software ** Hardware bug, 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 M ...

'' * 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 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 Sep ...

'', a 1995 video game *

Bughouse chess Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, cross chess, swap chess or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug) is a popular chess variant played on ...

, 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'' * "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 FarmHouse (FH) is a social Fraternities and sororities in North America, fraternity founded at the University of Missouri on April 15, 1905. It became a national organization in 1921. Today FarmHouse has 33 active chapters and four associate ch ...

'' * "

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 Ba ...

", 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 (born 1985), an American actor *

Bug Holliday James Wear "Bug" Holliday (February 8, 1867 – February 15, 1910) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball for ten seasons, in the 1885 World Series and from through . He was the first player to make his major league debut in ...

(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 Enric Bug, also Enric Bug Lapedra, pseudonym Bug Rogers (born April 15, 1957) is a Spanish comic book writer and industrial designer. Career Enric Bug Lapedra was born in Portbou on April 15, 1957. He is the only son of Enric Bug Ramis, ra ...

(born 1957), pseudonym Bug Rogers, a Spanish comic book artist and industrial designer * The Bug (musician), a recording alias for British musician Kevin Martin

Places

* Bug (river) or Western Bug, a river in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus *

Southern Bug , ''Pivdennyi Buh'' , name_etymology = , image = Sunset S Bug Vinnitsa 2007 G1.jpg , image_size = 270 , image_caption = Southern Bug River in the vicinity of Vinnytsia, Ukraine , map = PietinisBug ...

, 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 Bug is an unincorporated community located in Clinton County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It bor ...

, 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 (Scyllaridae), a number of species of which are called "bug" * Bug, a

digital on-screen graphic A digital on-screen graphic, digitally originated graphic (DOG, bug, or network bug) is a watermark-like station logo that most television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen area of their programs to identify the channel. They are ...

of a broadcaster's logo * Bug, a Morse key design by

Vibroplex Vibroplex is the brand of side-to-side mechanical, semi-automatic Morse key first manufactured and sold in 1905 by the Vibroplex Company, after its invention and patent by Horace Greeley Martin of New York City in 1904. The original device became ...

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 s ...

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 Tamw ...

, a British three-wheeled car *

Dudly Bug The Dudly (also known as the Dudly Bug) was a Brass Era, gas-powered cyclecar manufactured in Menominee, Michigan, by the Dudly Tool Company from 1913 to 1915. The Dudly had an ash-wood ''Fraxinus'' (), commonly called ash, is a genus of ...

, 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 Bug railway station ( ur, ) is located in Pakistan. See also * List of railway stations in Pakistan * Pakistan Railways Pakistan Railways ( ur, ) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan. Founded in 1861 and headquarte ...

, 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 Bu ...

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