"bug off" is an idiom that can be used in written English.
It can be used when someone is telling someone else to leave or go away. For example: "I've had enough of your complaining - bug off!".
Mr. Bailey landed at a small airstrip by the bay, allowing Mr. Miller to scrape the bug off the lens.
turned pest-control professional, Linares announced, one rainy day last week, that Bug Off had become "bedbug central".
If there weren't any, Eriksson asked himself, why hadn't the C.O. simply told him to bug off from the word go?
Of Mr. Kelly, he opined, "not only should he not apologize for doing that, he should tell any politician who doesn't like it" to bug off, though he puts it more crudely.
(See: "Yahoo! To Icahn: Bug Off").
Every so often, he has to explain that a chicken on the ground is not dead, "all she's doing is taking a dust bath to get the bugs off, same as you taking a shower every day".
On the other hand, he translated a book with the heavy metal title, De Re Metallica, and "was an orphan whose first job was picking bugs off potato plants, for which he was paid a dollar per hundred bugs".
You can pick the bugs off by hand or spray the leaves with soapy water to keep the pests away.
Pesticides are not recommended for use with ferns, so shaking or hand picking the bugs off will be the best route for removal.
It can be worn wet to cool you down and if you purchase one that has been impregnated with insect repellent, it'll keep the bugs off too.
