Bug or BUG may refer to:

Common uses

* A terrestrial

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animal, usually 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 (DC Comics), different characters appearing in DC Comics * Bug (Starship Troopers), Bug (''Starship Troopers''), an alien race from the novel and film * Bug, Michael Lee (The Wire), 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), ''Bug'' (1975 film), an American horror film * Bug (2002 film), ''Bug'' (2002 film), an American comedy film * Bug (2006 film), ''Bug'' (2006 film), a psychological horror film adaptation of the Tracy Letts play * ''Bug'', a 2017 film starring Gene Jones (actor), Gene Jones * Bug (Breaking Bad), "Bug" (''Breaking Bad''), a 2011 TV episode

Gaming

* Bug (poker), a limited form of wild card * Bug, a Gameplay of Pokémon, ''Pokémon'' type * ''Bug!'', a 1995 video game * Bughouse chess, or bug, a chess variant played on two boards

Music

Albums

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

Songs

* "Bug", a song by Feeder from the 2001 album ''Echo Park (album), Echo Park'' * "Bug", a song by Fontaines D.C. from the 2024 album ''Romance (Fontaines D.C. album), Romance'' * "Bug", a song by Lower Than Atlantis from the 2011 album ''World Record (Lower Than Atlantis album), World Record'' * "Bug", a song by Phish from the 2000 album ''Farmhouse (album), Farmhouse'' * "The Bug", a 1992 song by Dire Straits

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* Bug (magazine), ''Bug'' (magazine), a Croatian magazine * Bug (play), ''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 List of railway stations in India, 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