The eastern lubber grasshopper: the American Southeast's giant, flightless, slow-marching insect in warning colors it has earned, since its chemical defenses make it foul to predators and its confidence makes it the most approachable large insect in its range.
The keeping is a browser's program: fresh greens in volume, warmth, room to climb, and tolerance for an appetite that treats husbandry as agriculture. Handleable, harmless to keepers, and theatrical when it hisses and froths on cue.
The lifecycle sets the market: a single season, eggs overwintering, populations rebuilt annually, availability tracking the southeastern summer. Collection is trivial where they occur, prices sit at seasonal-abundance levels permanently, and the genus trades as the summer spectacle it is, a warning-colored tank on a lettuce budget.
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.