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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.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — More than 100,000 live cockroaches that are illegal to keep in Australia were confiscated from a single breeder in the country’s largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates, ...