Bug

A bug is an insect of the order Hemiptera, known as the true bugs.

Bug or BUG may also refer to:

Biology

• Informally,most arthropods, excepting most crustaceans, including insects and non-insects as well such as spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks, centipedes, millipedes, and woodlice and sometimes non-arthropods as well such as land snails, slugs, and earthworms.
• Bacterium, or any microorganism, that cause illness and have a superficial resemblance to an insect, or bug, when viewed through a microscope
• Bug, a hybrid dog that is a cross between a pug and a Boston terrier
• One of several species of slipper lobster, such as
  • Moreton Bay bug
  • Balmain bug

Technologie

• Software bug, or a software defect; errors in hardware with close affinity to software may also be labeled as bugs
• Covert listening device, or bug, is commonly used in espionage and in police investigations
• Web bug, a technique to track who has read a web page or e-mail
• Pathfinding algorithms for sensor-based intellectual agents

Art and media

• Bug AS (company), a full service production company based in Norway.
• Bug (play), a play by Tracy Letts
  • Bug (2006 film), a film adaptation of the play directed by William Friedkin
  • Bug (2006 soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film
• Bug (2002 film), comedy-drama about a chain of events begun by a boy squashing a bug
• Bug (1975 film), a film directed by Jeannot Szwarc in 1975
• Bug (Starship Troopers), a fictional alien race from the novel and film Starship Troopers
• Bug (Dinosaur Jr. album), a 1988 album by Dinosaur Jr.
• Bug (Dave Davies album), a 2002 album by Dave Davies
• BUG Magazine, Croatian magazine
• Bug! a video game
• A watermark-like digital on-screen graphic of a broadcaster's logo.
• "Bug," a song by Phish from their 2000 album Farmhouse
• Bug, a character in the Marvel comic book series The Micronauts
• Bobby "Bug" Guthrie, a character in the TV series Life Unexpected
• The Bug, one of several projects lead by Kevin Martin (British musician)

Other

• Brooklyn Union Gas, now known as KeySpan Corporation
• Bug (car), a nickname for the Volkswagen Beetle automobile
• Bug (poker), a restricted wild card
• A holdout device for a card cheat
• BUG Acronym for Back Up Gun
• Southern Bug, a river in Ukraine
• Western Bug, a river in Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus
• Buginese language, has an ISO 639 code "bug"
• Bicycle User Group, a group set up to promote cycling issues