Bug Zombie

Bug Zombie and Bug make a great team.

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Bug Zombie
Bug carries zombie over ground defenses and lifts him over barriers.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Solid
Speed	Speedy
In-game statistics
Health	350 (only bug)
Weakness	(butter instantly destroys bug, drops the zombie) (kills bug without dropping zombie) (eliminates both the bug and the zombie mid-air) (blocks flight) (Plant Food, blocks flight) (killing the bug on an empty tile will spawn a copy of itself, while also destroying the zombie) (prioritizes zombie) (can instantly destroy any Zombie Bugs when planted)
First seen	Lost City - Day 11
Code name	lostcity_bug
Other code names	lostcity_bug_armor1 (carries a Conehead) lostcity_bug_armor2 (carries a Buckethead)
Bug Zombie and Bug make a great team. Partly because Bug gives Bug Zombie great mobility, but mostly because they share an intense disinterest in horses.

Not to be confused with the Bug Bot Imp, the Imp variant in Far Future.

Bug Zombie is the eighth zombie encountered in Lost City in Plants vs. Zombies 2. The bug can carry a Basic, Conehead, or Buckethead Adventurer Zombie. It greatly improves the zombie's speed, making it easier for the zombies to advance. The Kernel-pult's butter can destroy the bug instantly, while using Blover or Hurrikale will kill both the zombie and the bug, just like all other flying zombies. Additionally, Tall-nut and Infi-nut's shield can stop it from moving. The bug has separate health from the zombie it is carrying. When it is destroyed, the zombie will fall to the ground and advance normally.

Origins

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The Bug is most likely based of the Meganeura, an extinct species of giant dragonfly that lived during the Carboniferous period.

Almanac entry

TOUGHNESS Solid SPEED Speedy	Bug Zombie
Bug carries zombie in over ground defenses and lifts him over barriers. Bug Zombie and Bug make a great team. Partly because Bug gives Bug Zombie great mobility, but mostly because they share an intense disinterest in horses.

Bug Zombie

TOUGHNESS: Solid
SPEED: Speedy

Bug carries zombie in over ground defenses and lifts him over barriers.

Bug Zombie and Bug make a great team. Partly because Bug gives Bug Zombie great mobility, but mostly because they share an intense disinterest in horses.

Overview

The bug absorbs 350 damage and degrades upon absorbing 175 damage, before dying at 350 damage. After its death it drops the zombie that it was carrying.

Encounters

• Player's House: Piñata Party
• Big Wave Beach: Piñata Party
• Lost City: Days 11-32, Temple of Bloom, and Piñata Party
• Modern Day: Day 34, and Highway to the Danger Room (portal only)
• Arena: Dandelion's Brainstorm Tournament

Strategies

Bug Zombies are dangerous zombies due to their speed and the amount of damage they absorb, especially because they sometimes carry a Buckethead Adventurer Zombie. Because of this potential health boost, it is a bigger threat than the Seagull Zombie and Jetpack Zombie. Like the aforementioned zombies, Blover or Hurrikale will blow them off the screen, killing them instantly, and making usage of the two plants an easy way to get rid of Bug Zombies. Kernel-pult is also a choice to consider, but it relies solely on luck (butter) and it kills only the bug, leaving the zombie behind. Using this plant is not recommended if Parasol Zombies are also present, as they can deflect its kernels and butter. Bonk Choy is a good choice against Bug Zombies as long as it lands the last hit on the Bug, as their bugged Uppercut will cause the carried zombie to die instantly. Plants such as Cherry Bomb, Jalapeno, Squash, Spore-shroom, Toadstool, and Chomper can instantly kill both the bug and the zombie it carries. Tall-nuts and Infi-nut/Moonflower's force field will also stop this zombie. Since Bug Zombies usually come in hordes at later levels of Lost City and at Temple of Bloom levels, the only reasonable solution is a Blover since Hurrikale only covers a single lane. It can be very dangerous in Beghouled, too. Try to make matches of four to kill this zombie quickly.

Like other flying zombies, flying Bug Zombies cannot be dragged by Grimrose, so avoid using this plant against them. However, if a Buckethead Adventurer goes inside too deep, you'll have to use this plant if you don't have anything like a Blover.

Lost City - Day 32/Modern Day - Day 34

Bug Zombies can be a threat in these levels. Since Bug Zombie can fly past the defensive plants and reach the player's house without much of a problem. If the bug dies, the carrying zombie could activate some boulder trap tiles and nuke your defenses.

Highway to the Danger Room

Bug Zombies should not be a problem here, as only regular Bug Zombies appear from the portals. Still, the player should be wary incase a group of them appears early.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Bug Zombie
Simplified Chinese	失落昆虫僵尸	Lit. "Lost Insect Zombie"
French	Zombinsecte
German	Käfer-Zombie
Italian	Zombi insetto
Brazilian Portuguese	Zumbinseto
Spanish	Zombicho

Trivia

• When it is killed, a green ooze-like splash is visible. This is supposedly the bug's blood and guts.
• Electrocuting it will show a tiny zombie inside the bug body pedaling it and powering it mechanically.
  • This suggests that the bug is not actually a bug at all, but rather a vehicle for a tiny zombie inside.
• It is referred to as "Zombug" in social media by PopCap.
  • The french, spanish and portuguese translations of his name seem to be based on this version.
• Although there are Conehead and Buckethead variants, only the regular variant is shown in the Almanac.
  • This trait is shared with Ducky Tube Zombie from the first game and 8-Bit Zombie.
• Magnet-shroom could not steal buckets from Buckethead Adventurer Zombies carried by them before the zombie was dropped.
  • However, after a certain update, if Magnet-shroom is planted, all of the buckets will disappear, but after the zombie is dropped, the buckets re-appear again.
• Summer Nights Bug resembles a firefly instead of a dragonfly.
• The dropped zombie is intangible for about a second when the bug is destroyed. This can be observed with dense-firing projectiles. If you use a Plant Food on a Peashooter, it will kill the bug quickly and you will see a few peas that pass through the zombie instead of hitting it.
• In the Neon Mixtape Tour Side B Piñata Parties, after a bug is killed, the dropped Adventurer Zombie changes into a Neon Zombie.
  • This also happened with Zombie Bull in Summer Nights: when the Bull Rider Zombie was launched, the Imp immediately turned into Hot Dog Imp.
• When it is stalled by Stallia, poisoned by Shadow-shroom, hypnotized by Caulipower or Enchant-mint, or chilled by ice-based plants, the effect is removed if the Bug somehow dies.

Specific to the Chinese version (China only)

• Before the 1.7.0 update, the zombie it carried would always be at level 1, regardless of the bug's level.
• Currently, Bug Zombie incorrectly doesn't drop the zombie itself upon death in most scenarios, with only a few specific attacks such as Electric Blueberry's lightning clouds causing him to work as intended.

See also

• Balloon Zombie
• Balloon Imp
• Seagull Zombie
• Pelican Zombie
• Jetpack Zombie

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