Giant wasps kill dozens in China

Remind me to avoid Shaanxi Province next time I go to China...

A series of deadly hornet attacks has led Chinese officials to warn citizens to avoid walking through fields and wooded areas this year. At least 28 people have been killed, and hundreds seriously injured, when swarms of the stinging insects descend without warning on unsuspecting people.

The prime suspect in the killings is the Asian giant hornet — sometimes called the yak-killer hornet (Vespa mandarinia) — which can grow to be more than 2 inches (5 centimeters) in length, and has a quarter-inch-long (6 millimeters) stinger that delivers venom containing a potent neurotoxin.

http://news.yahoo.com/killer-hornets-terrorize-china-214621792.html

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/world/asia/china-asian-hornet-deaths/index.html

I'd probably just have a heart attack if I saw one buzzing near me.