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Although a few critics find it too heavy with "only-in-the-movies claptrap" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), most praise the film because "it never slides down that slippery slope of sap that you keep expecting" (Jami Bernard, New York Daily News ). (Find out about the young-adult novel that is the basis for this film.)
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.
--but in some sophisticated way that makes it great for everyone except the staff of Salon . Although the fun of calling David Talbot a sap must be diminished by the fact that last week his assets were zero, this week he's got $3 million.