| Name |
Description |
| Amateur Entomologists' Society |
The website of the Amateur Entomologists' Society, a UK-based organisation focused on educating about entomology and related topics, such as the ecology of insects. It's a splendid website with many resources about many entomological topics, such as insect anatomy and taxonomy. The Entomologists' Glossary is a particularly useful resource! |
| Ann Brokelman Photography |
A blog of some wonderful wildlife photography by Ann Brokelman. Of particular interest are many lovely photos of foxes! :3 |
| AntWiki |
A very expansive wiki site dedicated to information about the biology, evolution, taxonomy, distribution and ecology of ant species across the world! |
| Anura-Emanuele Biggi |
The website of naturalist and photographer Emanuele Biggi. It contains many excellent photographs of various arthropods, as well as amphibians and reptiles, with the intention of educating the public about lesser known animal species and their conservation. The site also contains articles about said species and their pertinent ecology, as accompaniments to his photography. |
| A.N. Lucas's Web Lounge |
A very cosy little site that encapsulates the feel of personal websites in the 1990s and 2000s, ran by A.N. Lucas. Her site contains her own artwork, links to places of interest and some pages containing some excellent collections of old 88x31 buttons and GIFs (containing those made by A.N Lucas herself as well as a collection of others). Very worth exploring! |
| Arachne.org.au |
A website detailing families and species of spider endemic to Australia, encompassing those within both the Araneomorph and Mygalomorph suborders. |
| Asilidae
| A website dedicated to flies of the family Asilidae, known by the name of Robber Flies for their predatory habits, typically involving capturing other flying insects in mid-flight. It contains a lot of information about the morphology, taxonomy, distribution and other aspects pertaining to the many genera within this family of Dipterans! |
| AVID (Audiovisual Identity Databse) |
A huge wiki site dedicated to documenting on-screen logos, television channel idents and other forms of audiovisual media. Since I was a larval bugfox, I have had a fascination with on-screen production logos and outros in media such as television shows, so this is a site very worth perusing if you likewise have an interest in them! |
| Black Foxes UK |
A Great resource for information on the red fox Vulpes vulpes and aspects of their biology, with some particular emphasis on fur colour morphs of the species that occur naturally as mutations in wild populations or those that have been bred in captivity. |
| Bogleech |
The website of artist, TTRPG designer, biologist and writer Jonathan Wojcik. His site is full of many articles written about topics including entomology, parasitology, reviews of creature designs in popular media and a plethora of others. The website is also home to his monster-collecting TTRPG Mortasheen and webcomic Awful Hospital. I've been a fan of Bogleech for many years, and his site has often been a source of comfort for me. |
| British Bugs |
A website dedicated to documenting and providing online identification guides for the various species of true bugs (order Hemiptera) found across Britain.
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| British Myriapod and Isopod Group |
The website of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group, an organisation dedicated to spreading awareness about Isopod and Myriapod (the athropod subphylum containing both millipedes and centipedes) species found across Britain and their conservation. It contains a wealth of information on the biology and taxonomy of such species, as well as identification guides and information on their distribution across Britain. |
| BumpWorthy |
A vast archive dedicated to preserving many (and I do mean many) bumpers and station IDs for the Adult Swim programming block on Cartoon Network. Lots of intriguing and obscure pieces of Adult Swim history here. |
| Chilobase
| An online database that serves to catalogue all described species of centipede globally, as well as informaton about the biology and anatomy of arthropods in the Chilopoda subphylum. |
| Coleoptera.org.uk |
A wonderful website containing information about beetle species found across Britain, as well as Ireland and the surrounding smaller islands. There is a lot of documentation of the Coleopteran families found in the aforementioned regions, as well as many images, identification tools, links to resources about beetles and a feature to submit recordings of beetle sightings! Coleoptera is one of my very favourite insect orders (and a number of genera of individuals species are even some of my kintypes as a bugkin!), so this is a site that makes me a happy bugfox! ^w^ |
| Computers in Crisis |
An intriguing miniature virtual museum created by Perry Chen, this contains some discussion about the phenomenon (and the retrospectively often greatly misinformed and needlessly panicked perceptions in the media of the time) of the Millennium Bug Problem, or Y2K, in the latter years of the 1990s. Worth a look if you (like me) have a fascination with the Y2K Bug! |
| Coyote Watch Canada |
The website of Coyote Watch Canada, a non-profit organisation that aims to educate the public on the ecology and biology of the coyote (Canis latrans) in North America, as well as the welfare and co-existence with the species around urban environments. |
| Coyote Yipps |
A wonderful website and blog ran by Janet Kessler, dedicated to her fieldwork, studies and observations related to the coyote population in San Francisco. There is a huge amount to read and view on this site, with Kessler's careful observations of the ecology and behaviour of these lovely canids being an absolute joy to immerse in. |
| Digi-Battle |
A website dedicated to the original Digimon Trading Card Game, documenting all of the cards in each set and providing some high-quality scans of the cards themselves. Even though I never played the Digimon TCG myself, I find this site to be a great resource for viewing the often fantastic card artworks (with cards such as Downgrade and Even Steven being a couple of my personal favourites!).
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| Digimon Library |
An archive of the various Digimon books that were published exclusively in Japan. As a bugfox who is a massive fan of the early Digimon media, this is a very pleasing site to peruse! |
| Digimon World Evolution Tool |
Designed for the original Digimon World game by SydMontague, this excellent tool allows one to check the current evolution trajectory of your current partner Digimon. A highly useful accompaniment for the game! |
| digital humus |
A wonderful website about nature and biology, that is very worth exploring and immersing in! A particular personal highlight is the NaSauns (or Nature Saunters) section, containing some excellent interactive explorations of woodland environments. |
| Egg Baby |
A simple and incredibly charming in-browser game created by Splendidland (see artist links section below) in which the player cares for a small creature that initially hatches from an egg, with the form of said creature changing in accordance with how they are interacted with and treated by the player. Very much reminiscent of virtual pet toys like Tamagotchi and Digimon, this is one of my favourite games and is a wonderful love letter to virtual pet franchises as well as being so very endearing in its own right. |
| Fennec and Arctic Foxes |
A very informative website written by Emily Smith, detailing and comparing the biology of fennec foxes (Vulpes zerda) and arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus). It is very well researched and thorough on discussing and comparing the biology of the two fox species, with emphasis on facets such as the morphological and physiological adaptations that they have each evolved to adapt to each of their respective endemic environments. |
| Fossil Huntress |
A lovely blog about natural history, evolutionary biology and paleontology written by Heidi Henderson, with particular emphasis on species both extant and extinct that are or were endemic to Canada. The blog has a vast archive of entries and is very worth reading! |
| Foxpedia |
A blog about the True Foxes, with entries containing information such as the physiology, ecology and ranges of members of the canids comprising the genus Vulpes.
Browsing note: This blog contains entries written in both English and Spanish. |
| Games That Weren't |
An archive dedicated to documenting the histories of a number of video game titles that were cancelled in development, or otherwise never released to the public. |
| Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles |
A website ran in association with the University of Nebraska State Museum, this website presents a lot of information about beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (comprised of a number of beetle families such as Scarabaeidae and Lucanidae). It focuses on providing information about the identification and taxonomy of such beetles found across North, Central and South America, in addition to the Caribbean. |
| Grindosaur |
Video game guide wiki for many of the Digimon RPG video games, as well as a number of other titles; it's especially a great source for information on the original Digimon World, one of my dearest pieces of comfort media to this day. |
| HARMONY ZONE |
(CW: Potential eyestrain due to very bright and saturated colours on most pages) The website of Stephen Gillmurphy, better known as thecatamites. He is the creator of many wonderful surreal games, with the RPG Maker game Space Funeral (!) arguably being one his most well known (and one of my favourite video games!). |
| HopperWiki |
A splendid Wiki dedicated to the insect order Orthoptera, a project ran by the Global Locust Initiative at Arizona State University. It has a wealth of pages about the evolution, ecology, taxonomy and identification of families and species within the order, in addition to information on the management and research relating to Orthopteran species classified as agricultural pests. Orthoptera happens to be one of my very favourite Exopterygote insect orders, so this Wiki makes me a very pleased bugfox! |
| Humulos |
Home of the Digitama Hatchery, this is a great resource for information on the Digimon virtual pet toys, specifically concerning the evolution trajcetories for the variable species spanning the different versions and models, presented in a very cohesive (and in my own view, very pleasing too) series of phylogenetic-style trees for the Digimon in each version. |
| IUCN SCN Canid Specialist Group |
The website of the Canid Specialist Group, which serves the purpose of providing information and data on the biology and conservation of wild canine species. |
| Keeping Insects |
A great website with a wealth of information related to the care and husbandry of various insects and other terrestrial arthropods in captivity, with a particular emphasis on information pertaining to the care of a plethora of mantis and Phasmid species. |
| KERBTIER.DE-Beetle Fauna of Germany |
A splendid website dedicated to documenting and providing information and photographs on the beetle species found throughout Germany. It also has some excellent pages detailing the general morphology of beetles, as well as their phylogeny and evolutionary history! |
| Know Your Insects |
A splendid website ran by field biologist and science writer Leslie Mertz, Know Your Insects hosts an identification key that serves to assist one in identifying any insects one has found, from the level of order and below. The site also contains a database of insect orders and species within them. |
| Lost Media Wiki |
(CW: Discussion of a fair amount of triggering or mature subject matter; the Wiki does a good job of highlighting articles with potential warnings and disclaimers, however.) An incredibly expansive wiki site to document and discuss pretty much every type of media that is (or was previously) lost and no longer available. The entry on the the previously lost final episode of The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald is a personal recommendation! |
| MetalKid (Digimon World 2 guide) |
A guide for Digimon World 2, containing info on the Digimon species found in the game, such as the locations they are found in as well as crucial information on their compatible evolution trajectories. |
| Monster Pulse by Magnolia Porter |
(CW: Depictions of mild body horror, as well as depictions of injuries and death.) An absolutely fantastic (complete!) webcomic by Magnolia Porter. Monster Pulse tells a coming-of-age story about a group of young human friends with body parts that have turned into powerful monster companions, their creation linked to a mysterious and sinister government organisation known as SHELL. I wanted to link this here as not only is it a wonderful love letter to pet-monster media such as Digimon that resonates with me a lot, but it's also an astonishingly well-written story with a degree of emotional maturity and sincerity that I have seldom seen elsewhere. Monster Pulse is one of my favourite pieces of media and was even one of the main inspiriations that led to me producing my own webcomics! |
| Museum of Obsolete Media |
A virtual museum curated by Jason Curtis, containing a wealth of images and information about old and often delightfully odd video, audio and data storage media from days gone by. Very cool if you're like me and hyperfixate on old media storage formats (and lament the fact that as a small larvalkit your parents wouldn't buy you the GBA Video cartridges of Pokémon or Shrek)! |
| Mushroom Color Atlas |
A great little site that contains a vast catalog of natural dye colours derived from mushrooms, as well as the corresponding fungi species used to produce said pigments and dyes. |
| My Triops |
A website primarily dedicated to information about the husbandry of Triops, the genus of Branchipod crustaceans belonging to the order Notostraca that inhabit vernal pools in the wild. The website contains much information about raising these lovely animals in captivity, as well as their biology and taxonomy. I myself have raised some of the species Triops longicaudatus in previous years, they are an absolute joy to observe and one of my very favourite arthropods! |
| Nicky Bay's Macro Photography |
The website of photographer Nicky Bay, who specialises in the macro photography of insects and other terrestrial arthropods around Singapore and across the world. His work is absolutely phenomenal and an absolute joy to view; it gives me much pleasant species euphoria, even. |
| Open Tree of Life |
An online collaborative project documenting the phylogenetic tree of life for described living organisms. As someone who adores evolutionary biology and natural history immensely, browsing this and looking at the branching nodes and phylogenetic clades makes me a happy stimming bugfox!! |
| Orb.farm |
A fun little online simulation toy or game, in which you can create an adorable virtual closed ecosystem in a glass orb! You can play around with adding fauna, flora, microbes and even substrates and other organic matter and minerals to nourish the range of different organisms available. It's absolutely worth your time if you love biology (and like me, have a big fasciantion with manufactured closed ecosystems such as jarrariums). I am genuinely so impressed and enchanted by the level of detail and depth this cute little game entails! |
| Orthoptera Species File |
A large taxonomic database of for insects in the order Orthoptera, containing data on described species both extant and extinct. |
| Palaeos |
A beautiful website detailing the cosmological, abiotic and biological evolutionary history of the universe, the formation of planet Earth and the life inhabiting our world. It is a vast and very well written website that is a wonderful place to be deeply immersed in! |
| Parasite of the Day |
(CW: Discussions of endoparasites, ectoparasites and general parasite-related pathology and illnesses.) A fantastic blog showcasing and discussing parasitic animals and other organisms. It has a vast archive and is wonderfully written and presented. |
| PMD Sprite Repository |
A vast archive of sprites and character portraits from the GBA and DS Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games. It also contains fan-made sprites and character portraits in the style of the aforementioned games, for all Pokémon species from Generation 5 onwards! |
| Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Code Generators-Syphist's Website |
A website with a directory for multiple Wonder Mail and SOS Mail generators for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team, developed by Syphist (hosted on her website linked here). The Wonder Mail generator is especially useful if you need to obtain a specific item in either of these games and don't want to grind for potentially hours attempting to find them! |
| Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Textbox Generator |
A fun little in-browser tool created by Ignisiumz, which allows one to create custom character textboxes in the style of those from the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games! |
| RayWiki |
An expansive wiki site concerning the Rayman video game franchise, with many articles pertaining to just about every aspect of the franchise involving the limbless, vaguely-humanoid protagonist with a fleshy proboscis. I played many of his games as a larval bugfox and am a longtime fan! ...Even if I could never reach the end of the absurdly difficult first game, albeit... |
| Read Nekojiru |
(CW: Discussion and or depictions of suicide, death, violence, abuse, gore and drug and alcohol use) A website containing an ongoing English fan translation project of the comics by the mangaka Chiyomi Hashiguchi, who was better known by her pen name, Nekojiru. Very few official English translations of any material from Nekojiru Udon were ever produced (one of the very few available being in the alternative manga anthology Comics Underground Japan, published in 1996), so this is a great place to find some English-translated versions of the comics. |
| ribo.zone |
A phenomenal site ran by a molecular biologist named Loren, with a great plethora to see. They have many pages about biology (especially around microbiology and biochemistry), entomology and insects, the history of science, media recommendations and Loren's own artwork in the form of clay critters and sketches. The presentation of the site has a lovely mixed media aesthetic, too. This site makes me a very happy bugfox and can't recommend exploring it enough! |
| Roeselien Raimond Photography |
Some genuinely lovely photography by Roeselien Raimond, of particular interest to myself as red foxes are a very common subject in her work. There are some genuinely wonderful photos of red foxes that present them with the integrity they are very much deserving of (and bring me much euphoria to look at!). There are also galleries of other wild subjects, such as macrophotography of insects and arachnids, which I also thoroughly enjoy and recommend viewing! |
| Sawflies.org.uk |
A site dedicated to information, resources and documentation concerning sawfly species found around Britain, including a list of all known species known to be distributed within the region. |
| Solifugae |
A website dedicated to educating about the biology and taxonomy of arachnids forming the order Solifugae, often known by common names such as camel spiders or wind scorpions (though these fascinating arachnids are in fact neither spiders or scorpions!). Given how sadly misunderstood and at times outright demonised Solifugids are, this website has a lot of great information and citations about these lovely arachnids. |
| Songs of Insects |
A lovely website dedicated to the many insect musicians of our world, and their delightful stridulated songs. This website contains a wealth of information and media related to the songs and sounds made by Orthopteran species (in addition to the songs made by cicadas, too!), including information on identifying species by their songs, the physiological adaptations that allow certain insects to stridulate and many audio recordings of their highly varied songs. As a bugfox who loves the sounds of insects stridulating, this makes me very happy! |
| Springtails |
A lovely little site written and managed by Philippe Garcelon, dedicated to basal hexapod animals of the class Collembola, known by the common name of Springtails. It has a plethora of articles about the general biology, taxonomy and evolutionary history of springtails, as well as many excellent photographs produced by Garcelon of these lovely little arthropods!
Browsing note: The website contains a feature to toggle the language of the page, with options for English and French. |
| Summitpedia |
A wiki site dedicated to the games developed by the independent video game studio, Summitsphere. I'm adding it here as I've grown rather fond of Antonblast! |
| The Bunnyrom Site |
A grand little site dedicated to detailing the gameplay of the widespread "Bunnyrom" software (known officially as Jia Yuan) found in many cheap virtual pet units, as well as documenting the various shells and formats of said virtual pet toys. |
| The Cephalopod Page |
A lovely website ran by marine biologist Dr. James B. Woods, dedicated to our endearing marine mollusc friends, the cephalopods. It has plenty of information about the biology of cephalopods generally, in addition to a number of pages about specific species. It also has an excellent list of other resources about cephalopods!
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| The Comic Adventures of Left and Right by Brian Lee |
An old webcomic by Brian Lee, about a pair of broadly mammalian critters, eponymously named Left and Right, often joined by a cast of others such as the perennially malcontent Owldog. I'm linking this here as it was one of the very first webcomics I ever read, and I think it had an irreversible influence on my sense of humour. A personal highlight is the strip titled Burgerking.
See also, another excellent comic by Brian Lee: Buntain Simpson |
| The Cutting Room Floor |
A wiki dedicated to documenting unused content hidden within the files of video games. Unused and cut content from video games has been a special interest of mine since I was larval bugfox, so it's very worth a look if you are intrigued by this sort of thing too! A couple of personal recommendations are their articles on Digimon World and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. |
| The Deep Sea |
A wonderful interactive site made by Neal Agarwhal, it delightfully demonstrates the sheer vastness and depth of the ocean, from the surface of the Epipelagic Zone, all the way down to the mysterious inky depths of the Bathypelagic Zone and beyond. It is also a lovely illustration of the biodiversity of animal life in the ocean. As a bugfox with a lifelong special interest in marine biology (and indeed the deep sea), this makes me very happy! |
| The Dragonfly Woman |
A blog written by Chris Goforth, an entomologist who specialises in the study of aquatic insects, such as dragonflies, damselflies and aquatic members of the order Hemiptera. Her blog is a joy to read, as well as having some lovely photographs of insects. She has even written some excellent practical guides, such as one on how to create a hand-made kicknet and another on preserving insect specimens in hand sanitiser gel (the latter of which I have found most helpful for preserving some of my own specimens!). |
| The Horseshoe Crab |
A lovely educational website dedicated to information about our very old Chelicerate friends, the Horseshoe Crabs. It contains information about their biology, evolution and natural history, as well as even a section for artwork and writings celebrating these wonderful ancient arthropods! I spend a lot of time thinking about Horseshoe Crabs and their evolutionary history (not to mention contemplating how long they have lived and survived in this world), so this site makes me a happy bugfox. |
| The Natural History Collections of the University of Edinburgh |
A website dedicated to the Natural History Collections that have been curated at the University of Edinburgh, containing many preserved zoological specimens. |
| The Plush Archives
| A lovely website ran by an individual named Youplush, containing a wiki for his wonderful collection of canine plushes. It's a joy to read through the bios for each of them, as well as peruse the image galleries pertaining to them! |
| Toy Animal Wiki |
A lovely little wiki site with many images of toys such as small figurines modeled from just about every phylum, class, order and even basal taxon you can think of from the kingdom Animalia (not to mention even some inclusion of toys based on Bacteria and Fungi)! |
| Trilobites.info |
A site with an immense expanse of information on the fascinating and endearing ancient trilobites! |
| Unseen64 |
A website dedicated to documenting cut content from beta builds of video games, as well as games that were cancelled in development or never released to the public. |
| Virtual Pet |
An old blog dedicated to discussion of virtual pets, namely toys such as Tamagotchi and Digimon, as well as the media related to and developed in relation to them. A very neat little blog for a lifelong special interest topic of mine! |
| Wayne's Word |
A textbook on many topics related to biology and natural history, in the form of a website! It is all written by a former university educator who taught subjects pertaining to the life sciences for 40 years. There is a lot to see on this lovely site, with a personal highlight being a great directory of pages about the major orders of insects and arachnids! |
| Web Design Museum |
A great online museum, dedicated to archived screenshots and footage of old websites, software and applications from the 1990s to the mid-2000s. As a bugfox with a fascination and nostalgia for the old web, I find it very pleasing to browse. |
| Wikifang |
A very extensive wiki site documenting Keitai Denjū Telefang and other related pet-monster games and media released in Japan in the early 2000s (such as Network Adventure Bugsite), run by a very dedicated group of fans. An absolute treasure trove if you're a critter like me who has had a lifelong fascination with other critters and games about them! |
| Wikimon |
A wiki for Digimon that's been run by members of the fandom for around 20 years as of writing! It covers a wide range of topics related to various Digimon media, from the original virtual pet toys from the 90s to the video games and animated adaptations! It's very fun to just browse and look at entries on individual species of Digimon. |
| Wildlife Online |
A website written and ran by biologist Marc Baldwin, Wildlife Online is an excellent resource for information on the biology and ecology of (predominantly) vertebrate animals found across Britain. The website has much to see and is very well written and researched, with a personal highlight being the pages dedicated to the behaviour, life cycle and general biology of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). |
| World Strepsiptera Database |
A database dedicated to documenting described species of insects within the order Strepsiptera, ectoparasitic insects that are otherwise known by the common name of twisted wing parasites. They are one of my very favourite insect orders, as the species comprising it exhibit such fascinating (and rather elusive) lifestyles (not to mention they are closely related to the order Coleoptera, with which they together form the superorder Coleopterida!). |
| Wygol Village |
A wonderful website containing much wonderful art, essays and shrines by a werewolf named Shinoa. I am linking this page here specifically as it has an excellent shrine, titled The Wolf Den, about being wolfkin, which I found to be incredibly meaningful and moving to read in a way that speaks to me deeply (as someone who is a foxkin). |
| Yokai.com |
A vast illustrated database comprised of entries about yōkai, a myriad of fascinating and peculiar monsters, spirits and ghosts described in Japanese folklore. Yōkai are a special interest I have had since I was a teenage bugfox! |
