Wildlife officers in Australia seized over 100,000 contraband cockroaches worth over US$100,000 from a commercial breeder in Bathurst. The haul included Madagascar hissing cockroaches and dubia cockroaches, which were being bred for the black market. Officials are euthanising the insects and warning pet businesses about illegal trading.
Wildlife officers 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.
SYDNEY – Wildlife officers have busted an illegal cockroach-breeding operation in rural Australia, seizing a skin-crawling haul worth more than US$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 June 5.
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 Madagascar cockroaches was almost big enough to completely cover the palm of an adult hand.
“We take our job protecting Australia’s unique biodiversity and breaches of national environment law very seriously,” an environment department spokesman said. “We’re seeing illegal breeding and trading of exotic cockroaches and we’re putting pet businesses and pet owners on notice. ”Officials now have the unenviable task of euthanising the creepy-crawlies, an insect so hardy it spawned an urban legend they could survive a nuclear blast. AFP
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