Here's an interesting safety item from the Georgia Market Bulletin, published monthly by the Georgia Department of Agriculture.

Africanized bees killed a 73-year-old man in early October near the south Georgia city of Albany, according to entomologists for the Georgia Department of Agriculture. It was the farthest north the killer bees have ever been found on the East Coast. The bees, a hybrid of African and European honeybees, killed the farmer after he hit a beehive while clearing brush with his tractor. He was reportedly stung more than 100 times. The bees, which do not survive in cold weather, were possibly brought into Georgia from a more tropical area in central or south Florida by a migratory beekeeper who was probably unaware that he was transporting a "feral" colony.

Now you have to admit that's ONE advantage of Bemidji... (22 degrees F this morning)

Joe might want to think again about climbing in south Georgia. We all know how them bees like his ***sweet*** nectar.

Joe, I await your response... He He He

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I can only say...from experience....that if I had to choose between another meeting with the bees and facing off with a wild grizzly that I would take on the grizzly bear any day. The one time that I observed a grizzly, from less than thirty yards, the critter just gave a snort and kept right on rooting in the dirt for whatever he was digging for. Actually, I think I would just start running like hell if I met up with either of them.