Black Dots All Over Siding

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Black dots all over siding. The fruiting body of this fungus orients itself toward bright surfaces such as light colored houses or parked automobiles. I have black spots all over my vinyl siding. It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding. It seems they are only where my mulch beds are.

They are even as high up as my gutters up to 15 ft. They are hard and when you pick them off they leave a small brown stain. It s sometimes referred to as shotgun fungus due to the shotgun like pattern of black specks all. Bet your boat will have spots too if you have one.

The artillery fungus shoots its black sticky spore mass which can be windblown as high as the second story of a house. The artillery fungus is a white rotting wood decay fungus that likes to live on moist landscape mulch. Thousands of them about the size of a ballpoint pen tip. Davis of penn state.

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. We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house. In the absence of direct sunlight it shoots the spores at highly reflective surfaces such as white house siding. In nature the artillery fungus shoots its spores towards sunlight.

These spots are often caused by spiders especially true when you re near water. It goes all the way up to my second story windows and is even under my soffit and on my gutters. They are almost like tar. Black spots on siding.

Are those spots alive. And of course the black spots show up better on white surfaces so they are noticed more easily. Shotgun fungus can shoot black spots on your house here s how to avoid the mess if you re seeing dark specks on your siding the culprit could be hiding in your mulch. Small black spots on siding.

What are these black spots on your house siding. The tiny dots are caused by what s called artillery fungus that grows in certain types of mulch.