Dots In My Sidings

We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house.

Dots in my sidings.

They are even as high up as my gutters. This is the spot i ll dust most often for pests like scorpions or occasional roaches for ants i most often use a non repellant spray such as arilon termidor or other and don t even worry about getting a product up and under. Artillery fungus seeing black tar spots on the sides of your house or vehicles. It goes all the way up to my second story windows and is even under my soffit and on my gutters.

It is true that sun can fade vinyl siding. Others have said it s a fungus from mulch. They are hard and when you pick them off they leave a small brown stain. Neither theory in my opinion stands up to logic.

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. 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. It s hard to see shotgun fungus itself because it s only 2 millimeters wide.

I am getting small dark spots on windows and the white siding of my house. It seems they are only on the siding above my mulch beds. I have black spots all over my vinyl siding thousands of them about the size of a ballpoint pen tip. Siding is purposely put up loose for expansion and contraction and so your duster tip or injection straw usually fit nicely.

Store bought cleaners such as windex will usually do the job for these kinds of spots but if you want to make your own chemical free solution you can use a natural mixture of. The spots are about the size of the head of a pin and appear to be black or. Some tell us it s from spiders.