# Bug

Bug or BUG may refer to:

## Common uses

* A terrestrial arthropod animal (with at least six legs)
** Insect, a six-legged arthropod
*** Hemiptera, the true bugs
* 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

## 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
* 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
* video games, a type of thing that breaks the game

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