🪰

Fly Emoji 🪰

Call yourself this and you mean a silent witness: "fly on the wall" is the idiom doing more work for this emoji than any literal insect complaint. It still shows up for spoiled food and general filth too, buzzing around whatever got left out too long.

What 🪰 means

Shown full length, this fly has a black body, a pair of translucent wings on its back, a tiny head with bright red eyes, and six legs, three on each side.

The 🪰 Fly emoji refers to the Fresh Fly, but it can be used to represent any fly species. It signifies short life span, tasting food with their feet, decay, dirt, and a sense of being unclean, which is usually a welcome sign.

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone about a filthy gossip topic or something similarly disgusting that you either overheard or read in a thread, you can use 🪰 to refer to the people who are gossiping.
If you're posting or reposting close-up photography of a fly, you can use 🪰 in such captions too.
Besides, art comes in all shapes and sizes. You can do the previous point even while sharing a spectacular sketch of a fly that you created or that you came across while scrolling through your feed.
If you're sharing the picture of a hoverfly in your garden this morning, either via direct message (DM) or even as a social media story or post, you can use 🪰 within a text message or even a caption/story.
If you like flies or you just find the fly emoji really cool or you're a huge fan of Bloodwitch, then feel free to use 🪰 in your social media profile name!

Other Names

🪰 House Fly
🪰 Fresh Fly
🪰 Insect
🪰 Vermin
🪰 Hover Fly
🪰 Horse Fly
🪰 Blow Fly
🪰 Fly - Bloodwitch

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-bug
Codepoints: U+1FAB0
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :fly:
Keywords: animal, disease, fly, insect, maggot, pest, rotting

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.