What is honeydew and why is it especially problematic in interiorscapes?
What will be an ideal response?
Honeydew is an aphid excretion that is concentrated with plant sugars and leaves a sticky residue on
anything underneath the aphid. Add hundreds of aphids and you have a clear, but sticky mess on
client’s fine wooden tables, marble flooring or luxury upholstery. At this stage, a client may think the
plant is gently weeping some type of plant sap and may call the problem to the technician’s attention.
What can make matters worse is that the excrement does not stay clear for long, but allows for the
growth of black sooty mold, a fungus that grows on top of honeydew. The mold makes honeydew
more visible, but actually, the problem is from above, in the new growth regions of the plant. The
fourth problem associated with an aphid infestation is that carbohydrate-rich honeydew attracts ants.
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What will be an ideal response?
Herbert Simon noted that managers generally fail to make rational decisions because they
are limited by their own values, skills, habits and unconscious reflexes as well as by incomplete information. What name did Simon give this phenomenon?
a. Satisficing b. Bounded rationality c. Irrational decision making d. Goal displacement e. Means-end inversion
What is the local interconnect network (LIN) bus?
What will be an ideal response?
The chemical energy in fuel is converted to heat by the burning of the fuel at a controlled rate. This process is called ________
A) Torque B) Combustion C) Power D) Consumption