25 Best Parts About Being From Maine/Buzzfeed (Bangor, Orono: 2014, scorpions)

[Fern435]

Found this link on Bangor Daily News and thought a few people might enjoy it (or have more to add):

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the...ing-from-maine

[Mark S.]

This was my favorite, and so true:

[Submariner]

The ice-fishing was nice.

The list of venomous spiders did seem rather lengthy.

[New2Tucson]

Originally Posted by Submariner

The ice-fishing was nice.

The list of venomous spiders did seem rather lengthy.

From #23 ... "Take that, American Southwest...."

We also have scorpions and rattlesnakes !!

[beltrams]

# 19

[foglover]

Spiders. Venomous. Lack of.

When I was a student in Orono, I had a work-study job in a food science lab - me the liberal arts snob helping to design tests for detecting glycoalkaloid levels in deep-fried potato skins. The young scientist that I worked for was a fascinating woman who had come to Maine from some state, I've forgotten which, that has a lively population of creepy-crawlies.

While we waited for test reactions she would narrate tales of her eccentric genius parents and her two genius sisters. It was narrative gold and I was hooked on hearing her nonchalant delivery of stories about growing up in a place she did not like and within a family whose ostentatious oddness distressed her.

She got her degrees and then struck out for a job in a state that was absent the two species that had terrified her. No venomous spiders. No venomous snakes.

[slyfox2]

I'd swear that for four days in the spring the black flies are venomous. And for anyone living with Fire ants, in a group they can be pretty venomous.