Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100,000 illegal insects

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — More than 100,000 live cockroaches illegal to keep in Australia were confiscated from a single breeder in the country’s largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates, officials said Friday. The haul of Madagascar hissing cockroaches and dubia cockroaches, worth 200,000 Australian dollars ($142,000), was seized in May from a commercial breeder in the city of Bathurst in New South Wales state, according to Australia’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water. READ: Cockroach movement gives voice to India’s angry youth The Madagascar hissing species is one of the world’s biggest cockroaches, measuring 2 to 3 inches in length. […]... Keep on reading: Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100,000 illegal insects