Australia seizes 100,000 cockroaches in bug-breeder bust

SYDNEY, Australia — Wildlife officers have busted an illegal cockroach-breeding operation in rural Australia, seizing a skin-crawling haul worth more than $100,000 on the black market for exotic bugs. More than 100,000 contraband cockroaches were found in a raid on a commercial breeder in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, Australia’s environment department said on Friday. READ: Malaysian scientists recruit bed bugs as crime scene sleuths They found Madagascar “hissing” cockroaches, a bulky insect named for its noisy defence mechanism, and dubia cockroaches, an invasive critter bred as a snack for pet lizards. Photos showed one of the seized […]...

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