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  "description": "Officials now have the task of euthanising the creepy-crawlies, an insect so hardy it spawned an urban legend that they could survive a nuclear blast.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T01:00:45.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Pee Kay\n_No Minister_\n\n**Australia seizes 100,000 cockroaches in bug-breeder bust.**\n\nWhat some people do to make a quick buck...\n\nApparently a massive, unchecked population of these oversized insects can strip crops in fields, orchards, and greenhouses. They leave behind a trail of waste, including faeces, shed skins, and foul-smelling secretions that spoil stored grains and harvested food, making entire supplies unfit for sale or human consumption.\n\nhttps://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/australia-seizes-100000-cockroaches-in-bug-breeder-bust\n\nWildlife officers have busted an illegal cockroach-breeding operation in rural Australia, seizing a haul worth more than A$200,000 ($243,000) on the black market for exotic bugs.\n\nMore than 100,000 contraband cockroaches were found in a raid on a commercial breeder in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, Australia’s environment department said on Friday.\n\nThey found Madagascar “hissing” cockroaches, a bulky insect named for its noisy defence mechanism, and dubia cockroaches, an invasive critter bred as a snack for pet lizards.\n\nPhotos showed one of the seized Madagascar cockroaches was almost big enough to completely cover the palm of an adult hand.\n\n_“We take our job protecting Australia’s unique biodiversity and breaches of national environment law very seriously,”_ an environment department spokesman said.\n\n_“We’re seeing illegal breeding and trading of exotic cockroaches and we’re putting pet businesses and pet owners on notice.”_\n\nThe department said the illicit insects had an estimated value of **A$200,000**.\n\nOfficials now have the task of euthanising the creepy-crawlies, an insect so hardy it spawned an urban legend that they could survive a nuclear blast.\n\nThis article was originally published by No Minister.",
  "title": "Who Knew?",
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