Doodlebug
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Doodlebug or doodle bug may refer to:
Zoology:
Ground vehicles:
Aircraft:
Film and television
Other:
Zoology:
- AntlionAntlionAntlions are a group of insects in the family Myrmeleontidae . The most well-known genus is Myrmeleo. There are about 2,000 species...
- WoodlouseWoodlouseA woodlouse is a crustacean with a rigid, segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs...
- ArmadillidiidaeArmadillidiidaeArmadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals...
, the pill bug family in the woodlouse suborder
Ground vehicles:
- Doodlebug (rail car)Doodlebug (rail car)In the United States, doodlebug was the common name for a self-propelled railroad car . While such a coach typically had a gasoline-powered engine that turned a generator which provided electricity to traction motors, which turned the axles and wheels on the trucks, versions with mechanical...
, a self-propelled railroad vehicle - Doodle Bug scooterDoodle Bug scooterThe Doodle Bug was a motor scooter built from 1946 to 1948 by the Beam Manufacturing Company of Webster City, Iowa. They were sold through the Gambles store chain to compete against Cushman scooters being sold under the Allstate brand by Sears. Gambles sold the Doodle Bug under the "Hiawatha"...
, a motor scooter produced during the 1950s - Doodlebug tractorDoodlebug tractorDoodlebug tractor is the colloquial 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 Ford automobile which was then modified either by the complete removal...
, a 1930s Ford automobile modified for use as a tractor during World War II
Aircraft:
- Heuberger Doodle BugHeuberger Doodle Bug|-See also:...
, an experimental homebuilt aircraft - McDonnell DoodlebugMcDonnell Doodlebug-External links:*...
, an airplane designed by James Smith McDonnell - Doodlebug (flying bomb), a British colloquial name for the V-1 flying bomb
- DoodleBug, a powered hang gliderPowered Hang GliderA foot-launched powered hang glider , also called powered harness, nanolight, or hangmotor, is a powered hang glider harness with a motor and propeller in pusher configuration...
harness
Film and television
- Doodlebug (film)Doodlebug (film)Doodlebug is a 1997 short psychological thriller film by Christopher Nolan.-Plot:The story consists of a somewhat ratty man, in a much rattier flat. There, he seems intent - and possibly even driven to insanity - with catching a doodlebug; ergo the film's title...
, a 1997 short film by Christopher Nolan - Ciara Brady, a character in Days of our LivesDays of our LivesDays of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
who was originally called "Doodlebug"
Other:
- The divining rod used in dowsingDowsingDowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation , without the use of scientific apparatus...
- Doodlebugging, a colloquial term for reflection seismologyReflection seismologyReflection seismology 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 seismic source of energy, such as dynamite/Tovex, a specialized air gun or a...
data collection - Doodlebug, a reflection seismology research submarine in Clive Cussler's novel Night Probe