Australian authorities have confiscated more than 100,000 illegal cockroaches from a breeder west of Sydney in what officials are calling the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.
The haul, valued at roughly AU$200,000 or £104,000 ($139,000), was seized from a commercial breeding facility in Bathurst, New South Wales, according to Australia's Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water. Officials confirmed the operation involved Madagascar hissing cockroaches and dubia cockroaches, both prohibited species under Australian biosecurity laws.
