What insect is in the PHP bugs logo? Well, maybe this is a question more suited to Stack Overflow, but anyway, I am curious, **which insect is the one in the logo of thePHP bugs site**? Is it an actual insect or just a generic "bug"? ![enter image description here]( It seems like some kind of Hemiptera for me, probably some kind of "true bug". A quick google search about these insects and I found the Hemiptera suborder Heteroptera, and this critter is probably from this group. I tried to search by the image in google images, but only found the logo itself, in the same low resolution is the image above (I was not able to find a better version of it). I tried to remove the background from the image then, but still I didn't get any photo of the possible species of this logo. **EDIT:** this was the PHP bugs logo up until 24th July 2017; the next day it was changed to another different "bug". This question is about the former logo, not the current one.

It is an actual insect, _Lethocerus americanus_ , also known as **Giant Water Bug**. See:

![Giant Water Bug \(Lethocerus americanus\) - London, Ontario 01.jpg from Wikicommons](

Matches the colors, body shape and small eyes and head. And yes, they are very annoying. As expected from real bugs. You know, like the first one.