Chinese man dies after 50 wasp stings during hunt for larvae, second man critical

One man died and another was in critical condition in eastern China after being stung over 50 times by wasps while on a hunt to find and eat larvae from their nests.

The two men, aged 52 and 30, set off into the hills outside the city of Hangzhou after work last Thursday, and began hitting wasp nests and using sticks to extract the most developed larvae, or pupae, from the nests’ honeycomb-like interior, local media reported.