Researchers at Melbourne University looked at hospital admissions data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, as well as Australian coronial records.

Between 2000 and 2013 bees and wasps killed 27 people and the same number died from snake bites. However, 74 Australians died after falling off a horse, or being trampled by one.

Horses also killed more people than sharks, even though shark attacks regularly make the headlines in Australia.

“I looked at the same database, we have 26 deaths in the same period from sharks and I thought that was really interesting — 19 deaths from crocodiles, and 74 deaths from horses,” said Welton.