Question: do areca palms attract snakes?
Answer: The hot tip: palm trees, too many tall ones. ... Specifically, the Sorotas look dimly on the "thick, junglelike, dense, 30- foot-high, dark hedge" of areca palms and other neighboring plants that attract "vermin such as raccoons, possums, rats, snakes, mosquitoes like you cannot imagine," Marion Sorota wrote to Town Hall.