Tiny Bugs On Vinyl Siding

Remember the movie arachnophobia.

Tiny bugs on vinyl siding.

Go with vinyl fiber cement or aluminum siding when you remodel. Now you probably won t have to do anything so dramatic to deal with spiders on the siding of your home but there are a few steps you can take to drive the eight. We have these small black spots that look like specks of tar all over our white vinyl siding of our house. I take advantage of these tiny holes using pyrethrin aerosols and an injection straw.

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. Unlike brick or wood homes the sugar particles which may not be detectable to the human eye stick to the vinyl siding causing flies to gather. Insects such as flies are naturally drawn to vinyl siding because vinyl siding attracts build up of airborne sugar particles from nearby trees plants and brush. Insects can t destroy your wood siding if you don t have any in the first place.

First vinyl siding has tiny weep holes at the bottom of each course panel to allow moisture to escape. Find local siding experts. Others have said it s a fungus from mulch. We have thousands of tiny black spots pin head size all over the siding of our house.

It seems they are only on the siding above my mulch beds. It s hard to see shotgun fungus itself because it s only 2 millimeters wide. The movie ended with a huge spider getting shot by a nail gun into a huge barn fire. How to keep spiders off your siding.

I d use dusts but the ready made hole is far to small. There are a few spots in siding where you can successfully introduce insecticides. It goes all the way up to my second story windows and is even under my soffit and on my gutters. It s on the porch my windows but it is worse on the siding.

Vinyl fiber cement and aluminum siding all offer greater durability than wood and fewer problems with rot and moisture as well. Textured vinyl panels have come a. I have black spots all over my vinyl siding thousands of them about the size of a ballpoint pen tip. It was a horror comedy from 1990 about an infestation of killer spiders.