Maine is one of just three US states with no venomous snakes, alongside Alaska and Hawaii, but that does not mean it has no snakes at all. The state is home to nine native species, none of them dangerous to people. A tenth, the timber rattlesnake, once lived in southern Maine but was hunted out by the mid-1800s and is now considered extirpated. Maine’s snakes are long-established, not recent arrivals, and several of them live in and around water. 

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