The giant insects were allegedly being bred for the reptile food market despite strict laws banning the import, sale and breeding of the species.

The seizure included dubia cockroaches and Madagascar hissing cockroaches, a larger species that uses a loud hiss as a ...

In early June, Australian officials announced the seizure of 100,000 live exotic cockroaches. The cockroaches are worth an ...

More than 100,000 live exotic cockroaches have allegedly been seized from a commercial breeder in Central West NSW.

Officials are warning others in the exotic insect trade that prosecutions are coming ...

Australian authorities confiscated 100,000 illegal cockroaches from a commercial breeder, officials announced Friday. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the 100,000 contraband cockroaches found in a raid on a commercial breeder in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney (Handout ...

Australia has been shocked by the discovery of approximately 100,000 giant cockroaches, which are banned from being bred in ...

A video showing a post-1999-born man from Zhoukou, Central China's Henan Province, reportedly earning around 30,000 yuan ($4,100) a month by breeding cockroaches has gone viral online, local media ...

A seizure of dubia cockroaches from a Bathurst breeder (inset) has sparked a crackdown that's prompted zoos in Melbourne ...

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.