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Uh, where did you get that notion from?

• aidenn0 4y ago
  Multiple deaths per year in Australia from honeybee stings. Box jellyfish average less than one per year. Conflicting sources put bees (or bees and wasps together) at just behind, on par with, or ahead of venomous snakes in terms of mean annual deaths in Australia.
  • hilbert42 4y ago
    …But also honeybees are not natives. As I've said below, most of us survive despite some frightening encounters.
    • TheHappyOddish 4y ago
      Are you a honey bee?
      • hilbert42 4y ago
        Not when I last looked. I'm their victim—they having stung me on multiple occasions.
  • jerrre 4y ago
    When I have an encounter with a potentially deadly animal, I don't care about the absolute number of deaths its species have created. I care about the percentage for 1 encounter.
    • aidenn0 4y ago
      Agreed, there's a big difference between "what is most likely to kill me" and "what is most likely to kill me if I encounter one." However, given that honeybees are so high up there, the average Australian must encounter them a whole lot more than these other animals.