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Caterpillar emoji Whatsapp

🐛 Bug

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🐛 Emoji meaning

Larva, caterpillar, big eater, pupa, butterfly, disgust "ew" reaction.

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🐛 Meaning

The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Caterpillars hatch from an egg, eat their way through all groceries, pupate and become a butterfly. As a larva usually thick and hairy, therefore also used to express aversion: That is disgusting and fulsome!

Examples

How tiny is that thing? 🐛
It’s crawling so slowly. 🐛
Ew, there’s a caterpillar in my salad! 🐛

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Bug

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Bug vs spiral shell; both small green or brown shapes, mis-taps on keyboards can swap them.

Bug

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Fly vs bug; both generic insects without strong distinguishing colors.

Same Shape

Bug

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Bug vs butterfly; both long/winged insects associated with nature and gardens.

Bug

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Cockroach vs bug; both represent unpleasant insects, and cockroach details are tiny.

Bug

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Worm vs bug; both small segmented, crawling creatures.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Bug” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + garden

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ bug

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ insect

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- bug

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Mason 1/27/2026
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