A 77-year-old grandmother from eastern Pennsylvania is recovering at home after she pinned down a rabid fox that bit her and held it until help arrived.

Avis Blakeslee was attacked as she tended to her petunias outside her Stroudsburg farmhouse.

She said she pushed the animal to the ground after it bit her, and held its jaws shut with one arm as she flagged down a passing driver with the other.

Blakeslee’s teenage grandson, who lives next door, heard the motorist’s cries and ran to help, followed by Blakeslee’s son, who shot the animal.

Blakeslee lost a large amount of blood. She underwent surgery to clean out her seven leg wounds and arm wound, and spent four days in the hospital after the Monday attack.

“I’ve been on a lot of antibiotics and pain medicine,” she said.

Cory Bentzoni, a wildlife conservation officer for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, said tests confirmed that the fox was rabid.

Blakeslee said she initially thought the animal was a dog.

“I had never seen a fox,” she said. “I’ve seen a dead one once.”

— It was just a little bee that nearly caused a catastrophe in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.

Wood County authorities say an Oklahoma man was piloting a crop-dusting helicopter that crashed after a bee got sucked into the cockpit and stung him.

Deputy Ted Ashbeck says the chopper was only four feet off the ground, and the pilot was unhurt when the tail rotor smashed into the ground Friday.

Ashbeck says the pilot was spraying a cranberry marsh, where beehives are set up to promote pollination. As the helicopter flew above the hives, at least one bee was sucked inside.

Sixty-five-year-old Terry Solf of Aline, Okla., told investigators the bee stung him, diverting his attention just long enough for him to crash. No one else was aboard.