Author: Lana Lam/Australian Correspondent

By Lana Lam/Australian Correspondent More than 100,000 illegal exotic cockroaches – some as big as the palm of a hand – have been seized by Australian authorities from a commercial breeder in New South Wales. The seizure, worth $AU200,000 ($143,000; £106,000), included Madagascar hissing cockroaches and dubia cockroaches from a breeder in Bathurst, 200km west of Sydney. Both species cannot be legally imported into Australia or kept, bred or sold. It is the largest seizure of illegal exotic invertebrates, authorities said. The illegal insects can spread disease and harm native wildlife and agriculture, they added. The illegal cockroaches, often fed…