The Deep Forest beckons...

You find yourself stood in the deep forest; large, lumbering beetles stomp about the leaf litter as a small raccoon dog nuzzles a broken VHS tape.

Hello there! I am a Bugfox critter named Pepper (the very one you see happily wagging their brush in greeting above this text!), a little vulpine critter with some chitinous limbs and a collective of various arthropods residing within my rather fluffy coat. This is my Digital Forest, a biome where I coexist with various critters and other beings that live here, as well as those that at the very least seem to be here often. There's some edible wild berry bushes over there, so help yourself to some if you're peckish and when you're ready, why not explore for a while?

I am the custodian of this forest, a tiny patch that I have been cultivating in the vast digital landscape of the internet as a dedicated place for what I produce with my Bugfox tarsal-paws, as well as my dearest special interests! Across this Digital Forest you will find my critter art and comics (including my main webcomic project, God Animal!), pages and writings dedicated to my special interests such as biology, fox plushes and Pet Monster media and a clearing in the forest that contains a myriad of links to other locations online that I have cached. There may also be some areas of the Digital Forest that are a little off the beaten path, which may or may not contain some silly critter antics and fun...!

This Digital Forest is a constantly growing and evolving entity, with new areas or developments appearing often! However you choose to explore the Forest and engage with it, I hope that you enjoy your time here. Yip! ^w^

Recent featured sightings from the Forest...

Featured Critter Art-July 2026

(Older art) Pelt is waiting for the arrival of a certain being...

Bug of the Month-July 2026

Trigona crassipes (Silverstri, 1902), a species of Vulture (or Carrion) Bee. Note: The photograph above displays multiple individuals of T. crassipes, feeding upon a Blue-fang Skeleton Tarantula (Ephebopus cyanognathus).

Trigona crassipes is a species of eusocial stingless bee that has an endemic range around Central America. This species is notable for being an obligate necrophage, therefore feeding exclusively upon carrion; T. crassipes, in addition to the two sister species of the Trigona genus (T. necrophaga and T. hypogea) are referred to as the Vulture or Carrion Bees, as they the only known species of bee to feed exclusively upon carrion in favour of other more typical food sources for species of bee, such as pollen.

Individuals within a colony will regurgitate proteinaceous secretions derived from carrion into designated "pots", to later be fermented into a sweetened substance that is used to nourish the larvae of the species. Adults of this species possess some strong serrated mandibles, adapted to tear and consume flesh from carrion sources; their mandibles are also likewise used defensively to attack potential predators that approach the nest of the colony.

Taxonomy: Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Trigona.

Photograph by Guillaume Delaitre (sourced via Wikimedia Commons), 2022.

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Stridulations from the Deep Forest...

25th July 2026

I am in the process of adding some new links to the Links page. I have also created and added a small pixel icon, to indicate the most recently added pages! Wow!! :3

12th June 2026

I have just implemented a set of new navigation menu icons on all applicable pages, all of which I had produced myself. Yay!! :3

22nd April 2026

I have added some additional links to the section containing my Bugfox links cache. Yippee!! :3

4th April 2026

I have created another subpage for the Gallery section, which I have designated as a page for my sketchbook samples. Yip! :3

24th March 2026

I have made some minor tweaks to the Fox Plush Adventures page, creating thumbnails for each of the extant photographs on the page and also resizing each of them (as the previous files were needlessly large in size). In the coming days, I intend to add more photographs of my plush foxies (in addition to a subpage with bios pertaining to each of my plush friends, as per the earlier incarnation of the Fox Plush Adventures page)! :3

On a more tangential note, I also hope to finally produce some pixel icon assets for the navigation menu, in addition to updating other site assets (such as the Gallery page header GIF).

19th March 2026

I have updated the Links page. Among some other minor additions, I have added a section for miscellaneous links. It is where I intend to cache links that do not quite fit into the other designated categories on the page, containing items such as browser toys and other assorted sites. Fun!

7th March 2026

After quite a prolonged period since adding the Biology Writings section of the Digital Forest, I have finally added the first article I have written for the section. It is a short article discussing a rather peculiar and fascinating little stag beetle species, Sinodendron cylindricum! You can read it here! I hope in the coming months to produce some articles that are more extensive in depth, about more of my favourite species of organism, as well as biological and evolutionary phenomena that fascinates me deeply. :3

9th February 2026

My participation in Hourly Comics Day 2026 has now been added to the Hourly Comics Day archive! Yippee!! ^w^

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