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-October 2026

"Me and Dhh found somethin' odd in that field...I ain't sure what it is, but it keeps followin' us."

Bug of the Month-October 2026

Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758), the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab.

The Atlantic Horseshoe Crab, despite their colloquial name, is not actually a crab or even a crustacean at all! Rather, it is an arthropod belonging to the Chelicerata subphylum, being much more closely related to arachnids and sea spiders (Pycnogonida). Like other chelicerates, the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab possess jointed mouthpart appendages (chelicerae) and their body is divided into two major regions: the prosoma (or cephalothorax) and opisthosoma (or abdomen). Horseshoe crabs also possess an articulated tail-like protrustion known as a telson, which is an adaptation that assists them in righting themselves if they have fallen onto their back.

This species is endemic to the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and eastern United States, often inhabiting nearshore habitats such as mudflats. They prey upon other animals inhabiting the seafloor, such as molluscs and worms. During the breeding season, which can vary by locality but directly correlates with high tide conditions, Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs will emerge in large numbers along the coastline to breed. The females will lays her eggs in the sand, which are then fertilised externally by males. The eggs are then subsequently washed away by the tide.

Limulus polyphemus is one of my all-time favourite species of organism (extant or otherwise) and one I have for many years had much reverence for! I The Atlantic Horseshoe Crab belongs to the family Limulidae, a very ancient group of arthropods that has existed for around 250 million years (since the Triassic period)! Only three other extant members of the family remain, with said species being endemic to the coastal regions of South East Asia.

I spend much time thinking about and contemplating the beautiful and long evolutionary history of the Limulidae (and broader Xiphosuran order of arthropods), with it being something that I find to be so incredibly comforting. I had been meaning to feature the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab as a Bug of the Month for quite some time now! ^w^

Taxonomy: Merostomata, Xiphosura, Limulidae, Limulus.

Photograph by Karelj (sourced via Wikimedia Commons), 2009.

(Click here to view the Bug of the Month archive!)

Stridulations from the Deep Forest...

31st August 2026

I have just added a new background tile, which is now in active use on the Links page! I intend to produce and add more in due course, as I have wanted a more expansive range of them for the Forest for quite some time now. Yip! ^w^

1st August 2026

I have just added a new subpage for the Gallery section, containing the pieces from my participation in Artfight for this year! Yip! ^w^

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!

Click here to access the Changelog Archive.