New World flower beetles: compact, glossy, patterned scarabs kept as adults for display and as larvae for the simplest rearing project the hobby offers.
The keeping splits by life stage and both halves are easy: grubs develop in deep, compost-rich substrate on decaying hardwood and leaf litter; adults want fruit, warmth, and something to climb. The cycle completes readily in captivity, which makes this one of the few groups where breeding is the default rather than the achievement.
Captive production carries the market, and the economics follow: established cultures generate surplus, prices sit accordingly, and premiums attach to pattern forms on the standard erosion schedule. The genus trades as the accessible entry to beetle keeping, a full metamorphosis on a windowsill, priced like the starter project it is.
The line on each tile: lowest ask per day.
Rarity BETA Rarity is supply, and only supply: the tier is how many sellers have ever carried a species, and for a single seller, how many separate listings. Price is not part of it, and neither is how recently it appeared. Tiers are given to tarantula species only.