Black Dots All Over Siding

I have black spots all over my vinyl siding.

Black dots all over siding.

I used a product from the home depot called behr premikum deck fence and siding mildew stain remover. We have thousands of tiny black spots pin head size all over the siding of our house. 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. We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house.

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. Some tell us it s from spiders.

Thousands of them about the size of a ballpoint pen tip. Others have said it s a fungus from mulch. It s hard to see shotgun fungus itself because it s only 2 millimeters wide. Artillery fungus is a wood decaying fungus that likes to live in landscape mulch.

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. They are hard and when you pick them off they leave a small brown stain. 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.

They are almost like tar. 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. You have the infamous artillery fungus. It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding.

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