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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The Australian government announced a recent contraband haul that would make even the most hardened agent’s skin crawl.

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.