Black Dots All Over Siding

Some tell us it s from spiders.

Black dots all over siding.

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. I have black spots all over my vinyl 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. I used a product from the home depot called behr premikum deck fence and siding mildew stain remover.

It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding. It goes all the way up to my second story windows and is even under my soffit and on my gutters. It goes all the way up to my second story windows and is even under my soffit and on my gutters. We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house.

They are even as high up as my gutters up to 15 ft. Artillery fungus is a wood decaying fungus that likes to live in landscape mulch. It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding. Thousands of them about the size of a ballpoint pen tip.

It s hard to see shotgun fungus itself because it s only 2 millimeters wide. We have thousands of tiny black spots pin head size all over the 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. Why do we have these small black spots all over our siding and windows if you re noticing small spots on your home car patio furniture or anything else in close proximity of your mulch beds you have some artillery fungus nearby.

I had the same problem of artillery fungus all over my white vinyl fence. They are hard and when you pick them off they leave a small brown stain. They are almost like tar. Others have said it s a fungus from mulch.

Small black spots on siding.