Doodlebug or doodle bug may refer to:

Animals

Cockchafer The cockchafer, colloquially called Maybug, Maybeetle, or doodlebug, is the name given to any of the European beetles of the genus ''Melolontha'', in the family Scarabaeidae. Once abundant throughout Europe and a major pest in the periodical ye ...

or doodlebug, a European beetle *

Woodlouse A woodlouse (plural woodlice) is an isopod crustacean from the polyphyleticThe current consensus is that Oniscidea is actually triphyletic suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda. They get their name from often being found in old wood. ...

or doodlebug **

Armadillidiidae Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unre ...

or doodlebug, a family of woodlice *Doodlebugs, the larvae of

antlion The antlions are a group of about 2,000 species of insect in the neuropteran family Myrmeleontidae. They are known for the predatory habits of their larvae, which mostly dig pits to trap passing ants or other prey. In North America, the larva ...

s, a group of species of insect.

Film

* ''Doodlebug'', a 1997 short film *Caroline "Doodlebug" Bichon, a character in the 1995 film '' Something to Talk About'' *Doodlebug Simkins, a character in the 1975 film ''

Cleopatra Jones ''Cleopatra Jones'' is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by Jack Starrett. Tamara Dobson stars as an undercover government agent who uses the day job of supermodel as her cover and an excuse to travel to exotic places. Bernie Casey, ...

Transportation

Aircraft

V-1 flying bomb The V-1 flying bomb (german: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry () designation was Fi 103. It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug and in Germany ...

or the Doodlebug *

Flylight Doodle Bug The Flylight Doodle Bug is a British powered hang glider that was designed and produced by Flylight Airsports starting in 1999.Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, page C-33. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. Bertra ...

, a British powered hang glider *

Heuberger Doodle Bug The H-1 Doodle Bug is a single place homebuilt aircraft designed in the 1950s by Continental Airlines DC-6 pilot Lawrence K. Heuberger. Design and development The prototype was designed and built in Heuberger's garage in El Paso. Heuberger mark ...

, an American home-built aircraft *

McDonnell Doodlebug The McDonnell Doodlebug is a light aircraft that was built to win a 1927 safety contest by McDonnell Aircraft founder, James Smith McDonnell. Design and development The Doodlebug was built in response to a 1927 safety contest sponsored by the Da ...

, a 1920s light aircraft

Rail and road

Doodlebug (rail car) Doodlebug or hoodlebug is a nickname in the United States for a type of self-propelled railcar most commonly configured to carry both passengers and freight, often dedicated baggage, mail or express, as in a combine. The name is said to have ...

, a self-propelled railroad vehicle *

Doodle Bug scooter The Doodle Bug was a motor scooter built from 1946 to 1948 by the Beam Manufacturing Company of Webster City, Iowa, US. They were sold through the Gambles store chain to compete against Cushman scooters being sold under the Allstate brand by Sear ...

, a 1950s motor scooter *

Doodlebug tractor Doodlebug tractor is the colloquial American English name for a home-made tractor made in the United States during World War II when production tractors were in short supply. The doodlebug of the 1940s was usually based on a 1920s or 1930s era Fo ...

, an American World War II home-built tractor *

Texaco Doodlebug The Texaco Doodlebug (also called the Diamond T Doodlebug) was a futuristic American tanker truck of the 1930s. The vehicles were streamlined and highly aerodynamic. The overall shape, a flattened half-cylinder rounded at the front and tapered at t ...

, a 1930s tanker truck

Other uses

Dowsing Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations ( radiesthesia),As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly 10,000 active dowsers i ...

or doodlebugging *

Reflection seismology Reflection seismology (or seismic reflection) is a method of exploration geophysics that uses the principles of seismology to estimate the properties of the Earth's subsurface from reflected seismic waves. The method requires a controlled seis ...

data collection or doodlebugging {{disambiguation Animal common name disambiguation pages ja:ドゥードゥルバグ