A young girl is lucky to be alive after she was savaged by a swarm of wasps that stung her as many as 300 times.
Evie Clark was playing in a creek close to her home in Canberra, Australia when she fell onto a wasp nest.
After a singular insect stung the seven-year-old a whole swam went after her.
Evie's friends ran to find help but by the time her father Troy arrived the schoolgirl had passed out.
He grabbed his daughter and fended off wasps as he drove to the nearby Braidwood Hospital.
There Evie was given an adrenaline shot while nurses sucked wasps from her body and hair using a vacuum cleaner.
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Samara Zeitsch, her mum, told the Canberra Times : "They were in her underwear, in her shoes. It was terrifying.
"This was an unprecedented number of stings she sustained, it was a bit unknown how it would unfold from there."
Evie was airlifted to Canberra Hospital in an emergency helicopter.
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The following day her head and face had started to swell up.
Doctors kept on a drip to keep her hydrated and, despite the fact she spent several days covered in painful welts, Evie made a full recovery.
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"She's back home and she's doing well," Ms Zeitsch said.
"It's very hard to face that reality that it was touch and go, we could've lost her."
Wasps in Australia are typically twice as big than they are in the UK.
It is advised that people that find themselves surrounded by a swarm cover their nose and mouth and get to hospital as soon as possible.
The Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council has since found and removed two wasp nests from the overgrown creek area.
