Complete remediation of dusts can eliminate most SHS symptoms. The use of domestic steam treatment for the control of house dust mites. Directly above, clean backing can be see in 14X cross-section. At above right, 150x SEM illustrates hyphal growth across tops of fiber loops. Individual h yphae, and conidia can be seen at right in SEM at 2000x.
Settled dust is the source of nutrients.
The female beetle lays its eggs in a dead insect or animal. The larvae also feed on hides and wool carpet fibers. The frass from a dermestid beetle that fed on a bee and the dead bee are in the photograph in Fig. 5 above. To the right in Fig. 6 is an exuvia of a carpet beetle, with frass.