Black Dots All Over Siding

It goes all the way up to my second story windows and is even under my soffit and on my gutters.

Black dots all over siding.

We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house. It s sometimes referred to as shotgun fungus due to the shotgun like pattern of black specks all over the car as well as the way the fungus is shot onto the vehicle more on that later. I have black spots all over my vinyl siding. Some tell us it s from spiders.

I had the same problem of artillery fungus all over my white vinyl fence. They are even as high up as my gutters up to 15 ft. They are almost like tar. It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding.

We have thousands of tiny black spots pin head size all over the siding of our house. It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding. Also known as artillery or cannonball fungus sphaerobolus it uses internal water pressure to forcefully fire its spores similar to seeds up to 20 feet away the fungus sets its sights on bright areas so that means it will aim for any pale surface that reflects light such as the siding on your house. They are hard and when you pick them off they leave a small brown stain.

I used a product from the home depot called behr premikum deck fence and siding mildew stain remover. Others have said it s a fungus from mulch. Artillery fungus is a wood decaying fungus that likes to live in landscape mulch. We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house.

It s hard to see shotgun fungus itself because it s only 2 millimeters wide. This is a five foot open picket vinyl fence and was literally covered in black dots i could not even see the white in some areas. You have the infamous artillery fungus. Small black spots on siding.

The black tar like spots that are all over your vinyl siding are more than likely a fungus called sphaerobolus stellatus better known as artillery or shotgun fungus although it s most often found on the east coast it can grow anywhere and especially thrives in areas that have cool damp springs or rainy fall weather conditions.