U.K Based Hobby Breeder Of Snails, Slugs, Isopods, Millipedes, Phasmids & Native Bugs.

Welcome to collective-creatures.com

We started keeping inverts many years ago to give our home educated children something different to study, this gave them a bit of a head start with their biology studies & entomology and then we found out just how addictive bugs can be!

As their interest & our collection grew we set up a one page website in 2012 to share our invert photos & experiences and now after all these years of keeping & studying them we have lots to spare and will soon be adding them to an online shop as they become available.

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As well as keeping inverts I also enjoy gardening and spend just as much time outside as I do in the bug room so I have decided to sell some of the plants that me & the kids have grown on from seeds or cuttings, please keep an eye on our shop for our plant section to be ready - most of our plants are good for pollinators & caterpillar food and we have a few herbs growing on which should be available soon.

Plants for Wildlife


We only ever sell surplus offspring that we have bred ourselves.

​We keep our small creatures purely as a hobby for our children to raise. 

We do not sell wild caught inverts and we do not buy in livestock for sale purposes.


Unwanted inverts & eggs...

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 Prohibits the release into the wild, any animal species not native to Great Britain.
​Non native species can seriously damage our own fragile ecosystem.​
If you ever have unwanted snail eggs, please freeze & crush them properly BEFORE disposal.