Black Dots All Over Siding

It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding.

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. Small black spots on siding. It goes all the way up to my second story windows and is even under my soffit and on my gutters. I used a product from the home depot called behr premikum deck fence and siding mildew stain remover.

It s hard to see shotgun fungus itself because it s only 2 millimeters wide. We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house. We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house. Artillery fungus is a wood decaying fungus that likes to live in landscape mulch.

Thousands of them about the size of a ballpoint pen tip. 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. Some tell us it s from spiders.

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. I had the same problem of artillery fungus all over my white vinyl fence. 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.

They are even as high up as my gutters up to 15 ft. Others have said it s a fungus from mulch. They are hard and when you pick them off they leave a small brown stain. 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.

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.