Es soll der bislang größte Fund illegal gehaltener Wirbelloser in der Geschichte des Landes sein: In Australien sind Kakerlaken im Wert von rund 120.000 Euro sichergestellt worden.

Australian officials say they confiscated more than 100,000 illegal live cockroaches from a breeder in May in the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.

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.