Have you ever been irked by the available choices in emojis?
Here is an entertaining article from The Washington Post about which taxa are, and are not, represented by emojis.
The authors aptly coin the phrase “invertebrate injustice.”
Is there any organism you wish there was an emoji for?
Yes! I agree! As for new emojis, maybe a tardigrade? They’re not too obscure, and seriously cute!
My phone doesn’t have dragonflies. It doesn’t even have a fly so that I can use a “dragon” + “fly”. Maybe it’s just this phone and the apps I use.
This emoji is just classified as ‘bug’.
I still find it disturbing that this: 
is found under “Food and Drink.” I recommend against eating this mushroom.
As highlighted in the article linked above, you can advocate for any emoji that you’re passionate about!
You can prepare a submission to the Unicode Consortium.
It’s not the easiest task, but with persistence, you can make it happen! 
Here is a 2-minute video (at 2x) that explains a bit about the process 
You can be the person who brought your invertebrate emoji to life!
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Exactly right!
No tarantulas, no wasps, no dragonflies, no weevils, no cicadas, no slugs, no moths, no isopods, only 1 type of bee, only 2 beetles (some kind of scarab and a lady beetle) and this is just broad categories off the top of my head. Boooo give us more arthropods!! Ohh and sea urchins, I love sea urchins.
Just be careful with emojis as they vary by platform, so your creature could be a completely different species on a different phone.
I mean, it CAN be food. Maybe your last, though? 
unfortunate
Thank you for the unlocked article link. It was pretty fun, especially the instructions for adding the WP-created emojis.
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Perfect!
Not exactly emojis since they’re black and white, but the Egyptian Hieroglyphs has lots of animals. You get not 𓅬, not 𓅺, but 𓅸 birds and other animals too.
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