Bug

Bug or BUG may refer to:

Common uses

• A terrestrial arthropod animal, usually with at least six legs
• Insect, a six-legged arthropod
• Hemiptera, the true bugs
• Volkswagen Beetle, an automobile nicknamed the "Bug"
• A colloquialism for most minibeasts including arthropods, gastropods and worms
• Covert listening device, used in surveillance and espionage
• Bug (engineering), a defect in an engineered system
• Software bug
• Hardware bug
• BUG (tag), a computer programming comment tag
• Score bug, overlaid display of information in a sports broadcast
• Pathogen, colloquially
• A slang term for annoying someone

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• Bug (Marvel Comics), a superhero in Marvel Comics
• Bug (DC Comics), different characters appearing in DC 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
• 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!, a 1995 video game
• Bughouse chess, or bug, a chess variant played on two boards

Music

Albums

• Bug (Dinosaur Jr. album), 1988
• Bug (Dave Davies album), 2002
• Bug (soundtrack), of the 2006 film
• Bug (Kacy Hill album), 2024

Songs

• "Bug", a song by Feeder from the 2001 album Echo Park
• "Bug", a song by Fontaines D.C. from the 2024 album Romance
• "Bug", a song by Lower Than Atlantis from the 2011 album World Record
• "Bug", a song by Phish from the 2000 album Farmhouse
• "The Bug", 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 group set up to promote cycling issues

People

• Bug Hall (born 1985), an American actor
• Bug Holliday (1867–1910), an American baseball player
• Bug Howard (born 1994), an American football player
• Amy Bug, American physicist
• Enric Bug (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, Southern Buh or Boh, a river in Ukraine
• Bug (Rügen), 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 BÅ«g, 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 of a broadcaster's logo
• Bug, a Morse key design by Vibroplex
• Bug algorithm, a pathfinding algorithm especially for wheeled robot
• Web beacon or web bug, a tracking object embedded in a web page or e-mail

Transportation

• Bond Bug, a British three-wheeled car
• Dudly Bug, an early gas-powered cyclecar
• Sandlin Bug, an American ultralight glider design
• 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, ISO 639 language code bug
• The Bug (horse) (1943–1963), an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse

See also

• Bugg (disambiguation)
• Bugged (disambiguation)
• Bugs (disambiguation)
• Annoyance, an unpleasant mental state
• Pathogen, an organism that causes disease
• Dudley Bug, an extinct trilobite
• Debugging, in computer programming and software development
• Union label or union bug, a label marking a product made by union workers