Australian authorities seize 100,000 live cockroaches in crackdown on exotic insect trade

Mongabay
Jun 15, 2026, 3:11 pm121 ptsTrending
On June 5, Australian authorities announced that they confiscated more than 100,000 live exotic cockroaches from an unnamed commercial breeder in Bathurst, a town in New South Wales (NSW), about 200 kilometers (124 miles) west of Sydney. It was the largest bust of illegal invertebrates ever made in the country.…

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