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Some of the nearer offshore cays also offer good opportunities: Coffin Island off the southern coast near Guánica and Cat Island off of La Parguera still have clear waters; both are accessible via a short boat trip.
Nearer to Syntagma, in Koloktroni Square, is the National Historical Museum with a collection of artifacts dating from post-Classical times.
Nonetheless, (1) the low motility of females, and the fact that they live mostly on long-lived woody plants, means that maternal kin may interact over long timescales, as in social insects; (2) some scale insects appear to make relatively sophisticated social decisions about where to settle, settling nearer to (and thus possibly competing more closely with) non-kin than kin (Kasuya 2000); (3) although most scale insects use phloem sap, an almost inexhaustible resource, armored scales use parenchyma tissues (Rosen 1990), which may be locally exhausted, and therefore may compete against neighbors for food.
This water garden was only established after World War II, and despite being nearer to the eruption, it was spared serious damage.
But all the while the shadow of doom was creeping nearer and nearer, till came a day when it pulled off its whiskers and pounced.