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Doodlebug or doodle bug may refer to: Animals. Cockchafer or doodlebug, a European beetle; Woodlouse or doodlebug Armadillidiidae or doodlebug, a family of woodlice;
Doodlebug is a 1997 short psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. [2] It follows the story of a man anxiously trying to kill a bug-like creature in his flat. Nolan created the film during his university days using 16 mm film .
The Doodlebug disaster was a railway accident that occurred on July 31, 1940, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, in the United States. A Pennsylvania Railroad , gasoline -powered " doodlebug " passenger rail car collided head-on with a freight train ; the impact and resulting fire caused the deaths of all but three of the 46 onboard.
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. [1] The term has been used interchangeably with jitney.
The common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha), also colloquially known as the Maybug, [1] [a] Maybeetle, [3] or doodlebug, [4] is a species of scarab beetle belonging to the genus Melolontha. It is native to Europe, and it is one of several closely-related and morphologically similar species of Melolontha called cockchafers, alongside ...
Doodlebug tractor is the colloquial American English name for a tractor home-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 Ford automobile which was then modified either by the complete removal or alteration of some of the ...
Doodlebug (antlion) doodles and pit traps in the Grand Canyon. The exact meaning of the name "antlion" is uncertain. It has been thought to refer to ants forming a large percentage of the prey of the insect, the suffix "lion" merely suggesting "destroyer" or "hunter". [2] In any case, the term seems to go back to classical antiquity. [3]
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. [ 1 ] The overall shape, a flattened half-cylinder rounded at the front and tapered at the end, has been described as a "pill" [ 1 ] or "breadloaf". [ 2 ]