🐛

Bug Emoji 🐛

Say "there's a bug in the code" and this is the emoji people paste beside it, a software complaint, not an insect one. It also covers catching a bug in the emotional sense: a travel bug, a fitness kick, restless energy that showed up out of nowhere.

What 🐛 means

A full-length profile of a bug with a cylindrical, greenish body with darker lines along the body and tiny legs of the same color. The character has an orangish face and a pair of black eyes and antennas.

The 🐛 Bug emoji refers to a caterpillar or a worm rather than a bug, however, different platforms have different versions of it. This emoji signifies the path towards change and transformation, the ability to eat through stuff, and a really tiny and wriggly stature.

How and when to use it

If you're on the way to goofily destroy something or someone, you can use 🐛 in such contexts (because bugs can be on their way to absolutely no good). For instance, "I'm going to destroy you with this one ugly picture of yours. Bwahahah 🐛".
If someone or something's been 'bugging' you, you can use 🐛 to indicate that irritant, like "Oh man. Here we go again. He never tires or what 🐛".
The 🐛 emoji does not look like a caterpillar on all platforms. So, if the platform you're using shows this little guy as a caterpillar, you can use it in captions or quotes that speak about change and transformation along with the 🦋 Butterfly emoji.
Use 🐛 while posting pictures of bugs. It can be picks from your camera roll or even a repost. This can be done even while sharing bug memes, funny bug videos, newsworthy content, etc.

Other Names

🐛 Green Bug
🐛 Caterpillar
🐛 Insect
🐛 Worm
🐛 Wriggly Creature
🐛 Bugs Bunny (hahahhahah)

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-bug
Codepoints: U+1F41B
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :bug:
Keywords: animal, bug, garden, insect

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.