Does stachybotrys smell? Yes, but I think it also persists longer than the smell.

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Jill,

Dried-out Stachybotrys definitely does smell. Mold percolating through walls

can smell like wet wood, or like

tobacco smoke in another apartment, slightly peppery.

Or sometimes, you also can get al algae-y smell.. with lots of humidity.

Just thinking about it makes me feel a little ill.

I think that its also quite probable, though that the toxins long outlast

the smell.

In my own limited experience Stachybotrys is rarely (is it ever?) found

without other molds..

it usually coexists with

asp/pen in my experience, although a mold mat in my old apt. building that

looked

just like the stachy on the other (slightly warmer and wetter) wall

turned out to be ullocladium almost exclusively.My guess is that it changes,

just like a patch of grass changes.. the various species that are there ebb

and wax like the tides, depending on the time of year, the climate, etc.

The toxins created remain. I don't think they are bio-remediated. (eaten)

A healthy growing colony of stachy is greasier and slimier and does not

stick to tape well.

Then the tape does not stick well, either, to anything.

Result in those cases, almost always: Stachybotrys (Abundant)