Bugs Emojis 🐌 🦋 🐛 🐜
Browse all 16 bugs emojis from the Animals & Nature category. Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard instantly, or open its page for meanings, Unicode codepoints, shortcodes and skin-tone variants.
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What bugs emojis are used for
Insects here are used less for entomology than for feelings and jokes. 🐛 is a software defect far more often than a caterpillar, 🦋 stands for transformation or nervous butterflies, 🐝 signals busyness or a fandom, and 🕷️🕸️ decorate Halloween. 🦠 microbe shipped in Emoji 11.0, two years before the pandemic that made it a daily character.
Bugs in the Unicode Standard
Unicode files 16 emojis under Bugs, inside the Animals & Nature group. The set was built up over 7 Unicode releases, from Unicode 6.0 (2010) to Emoji 13.0 (2020), so the newer members are the ones most likely to show as a box on an older phone. The most recent additions are 🪲 beetle, 🪳 cockroach and 🪰 fly.