Fly

Unicode lists 🪰 Fly among the bugs in the Animals & Nature group. In practice it comes up around animal, disease, insect and maggot. Unicode also files it under pest and rotting, which shows how widely it is read.

🪰 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Animals and Nature. Added in 2020 with Emoji 13.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1FAB0.

• A single 🪰 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about animal, disease, insect and maggot.
• Often seen near 🪱 Worm, 🦂 Scorpion and 🦟 Mosquito.

• 🪰🪲 – Fly and Beetle
• 🪰🦠 – Fly with Microbe
• 🪰🪳 – Fly plus Cockroach
• 🪰🕷️ – Fly and Spider
• 🪰🪱 – Fly with Worm
• 🪰🦂 – Fly plus Scorpion
• 🪰🕸️ – Fly and Spider Web
• 🪰🐞 – Fly with Lady Beetle

Easy to mix up with 🪱 Worm, 🦂 Scorpion or 🦟 Mosquito. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.