Bites from a yellow sac spider can be painful and mildly necrotic, meaning that the venom will damage and kill skin tissue. People often misdiagnose these wounds as brown recluse bites, even though they are much less severe. Reactions to a bite may include a slow-healing sore, itchiness, and swelling.Read More →
Sac spiders are known occasionally to bite on humans, but they are not aggressive biters. Bites usually occur when the spider becomes trapped against a person’s skin in clothing or bedding. How bad is a sac spider bite? Bites from a yellow sac spider can be painful and mildly necrotic,Read More →
Basidiomycota are filamentous fungi composed of hyphae (except for basidiomycota-yeast) and reproduce sexually via the formation of specialized club-shaped end cells called basidia that normally bear external meiospores (usually four). These specialized spores are called basidiospores. What are fungal asexual spores? Although fragmentation, fission, and budding are methods of asexualRead More →