Dots In My Sidings

Use these simple landscaping tips to prevent this from happening.

Dots in my sidings. Small black spots on siding. 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. Artillery fungus is a wood dwelling fungus commonly found in mulch. We have found that this is just another specie of mildew spore.

We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house. It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding. Out here if you don t get them under controll the little black dots will grow into big black dots and pretty soon they will take over the whole house and turn it black. You have the infamous artillery 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. 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.