Dots In My Sidings

I am getting small dark spots on windows and the white siding of my house.

Dots in my sidings. Others have said it s a fungus from mulch. But sun damaged siding diminishes gradually and evenly not in splotches. Siding is purposely put up loose for expansion and contraction and so your duster tip or injection straw usually fit nicely. I have black spots all over my vinyl siding thousands of them about the size of a ballpoint pen tip.

By sandy feather penn state extension q. We have thousands of tiny black spots pin head size all over the siding of our house. It s hard to see shotgun fungus itself because it s only 2 millimeters wide. 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. It is true that sun can fade vinyl siding. They are even as high up as my gutters. The vinyl siding institute yes there really is such an organization offers some helpful and specific tips for dealing with stubborn moldy spots on your siding.

It seems they are only on the siding above my mulch beds. Artillery fungus seeing black tar spots on the sides of your house or vehicles. It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the 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.

Neither theory in my opinion stands up to logic. 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. The spots are about the size of the head of a pin and appear to be black or.