A ladybug (ladybird, lady beetle), a beetle with a round, red shell with black spots. Generally depicted as a seven- or nine-spotted ladybug shown from above on its six legs, with antennae and its distinctively red-and-black, halved shell.

May be used a symbol of good luck. May also be used for metaphorical senses of bug, such as a software bug.

Facebook’s ladybug is shown on its legs facing forward, though an earlier design depicted it from above.

This emoji predates the inclusion of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by au by KDDI in 2003.

Lady Beetle was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.