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Also called a rock lizard. 'fish with paws' :lol:

Yes, that's correct. No snakes. The only native reptiles are skinks. Actually an endemic species.

I had a rat run at me out of a Chinese fan palm, and I've lost count of the roaches and ants. Good thing Bermuda doesn't have snakes or scorpions. Getting a shower of palm compost...yuk, yukky, one has to shut off your imagination and spit it out, bleagh!

Nope nuh uh never.

I HATE date palms. Will not take a job to prune one, or price it way high. Washies, yep rope over top is best. I was once spiking up a washie and at one point my spike sank in with no resistance, it was all punky, scared the whatsit out of me. Got it done, last time I spiked that one, mind you...

Ditto the excess removal of fronds to supposedly increase maintenance intervals. As older fronds age they relocate resources to the newer ones, so excessive removal of lower fronds can slowly starve a palm. Also the older fronds help support the newer ones, removing them can lead to the new ones...

But the fronds don't leak sap. Anyway, at the end of the day de-nutting coconuts, it's a refreshing drink ready packed, and the rest can go in the truck for the next day!

I have no idea what what the reference to honey and honey -ish is! As the OP asked specifically about coconuts, the safety issue of loose frond bases is not as serious as other species, they tend to shed the fronds and bases and fabric fairly well, especially if there is a hurricane or two that...

With the very acute angle between the bases of the fronds, getting a line up and over and down without it getting jammed is the issue for transition to SRT pruning. Not to mention retrieval. It's been done somewhere though. The ones I climb (have climbed) were on a beach down a hill, steps and...

What Stig said, tree bike common name for Swiss Climber.

Indeed, being monocots the vascular system is quite different. Spiking, while not ideal (any injury is potential entry point for problems) it does not have the same immediate impact as spiking a dicot.

Someone here bought a tree bike...

So, I've been spike climbing coconuts for years. It's easy and effective. Whilst of all the trees I've climbed are still growing, producing nuts and stable, the tracks are ugly. I've not had one tree die from spike climbing, but it's ugly after a few years. There are many who do it spikeless, if...