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 buggy-foxy being named Pepper (the very one you see happily wagging their brush in greeting above this text!), a little insect-vulpine critter with a collective of various arthropods residing in my rather fluffy coat. This is my Digital Forest, a place where I coexist in this little forest 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-June 2026

Happy Pride Month to you all! Yip! ^w^

Bug of the Month-June 2026

Hagenius brevistylus (Selys, 1854), the Dragonhunter dragonfly.

A dragonfly of the Gomphidae family, Hagenius brevistylus is a truly spectacular dragonfly species! The only described member of the Hagenius genus, this lovely dragonfly is endemic to North America (with a wide distribution across the eastern United States and extending far north into Canada) and is one of the largest known species within the continent (with adults on average measuring at a size of around three inches). The nymphs of this species are incredibly distinct in appearance, with the species possessing a markedly broad and flat shaped abdomen that is considerably wider than the head and thorx. The adults possess a striking yellow and black striped colouration, with a distinct clubbed posterior of the abomden (a trait common to all members of the Gomphidae family, hence the family earning the common name of clubtail dragonflies).

Hagenius brevistylus is notable for actively preying upon other dragonfly and damselfly species, hence the highly befitting common name of Dragonhunter. Hagenius brevistylus is also known to commonly hunt other flying insect prey such as moths, with some reports even of this species even being observed catching (though not consuming) Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris).

They are a wonderful species of dragonfly, with a common name that is so evidently fitting! ^w^

Taxonomy: Insecta, Odonata, Anisoptera, Gomphidae, Hagenius.

Photograph by Author D. Gordon E. Robertson (sourced via Wikimedia Commons), 2010.

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Stridulations from the Deep Forest...

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^

8th February 2026

I have (finally) added the Fox Plush Adventures page to the site, yippee!! As stated on the page itself, it is an area of the Forest that will receive consistent updates on a fairly perennial basis, namely in relation to when I have further photographs to share of my plush foxies. :3

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