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Australian Officials Seize 100,000 Exotic Roaches Worth $140K in Illegal Bug Trade

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Most people call an exterminator when they find a cockroach. Australian authorities, meanwhile, just seized 100,000 of them. According to People , officials in Australia announced what is believed to be the largest exotic invertebrate bust in the country's history after confiscating more than 100,000 illegal cockroaches from a commercial breeder in Bathurst, New South Wales. The insects—primarily Madagascar hissing cockroaches and dubia roaches—were valued at roughly 200,000 Australian dollars, or about $140,000 USD, making this one of the most unusual wildlife enforcement cases the country has ever seen. According to Australia's Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, both species are prohibited under the nation's biosecurity laws. That means importing, breeding, keeping, or selling them is illegal, regardless of how they were obtained. Authorities raided the operation on May 26 and later revealed the scale of the seizure, which dwarfs previous exotic insect cases.…

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