Your trees look fine. Look closer.

A 2 mm beetle is killing trees across South Africa. Apex Agri finds it and treats it.

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It starts at the top.

Leaves wilt and branches die back. Most people blame drought, and wait.

Then the bark.

Holes the size of a pen tip, with sap weeping from them or a white crust like sugar. If you can see them, the beetle is already inside.

Inside, she is farming.

The polyphagous shot hole borer carries a fungus into the wood and grows it in the tunnels she bores. It feeds her young, and it cuts off the water your tree needs.

Pause to see what you're looking at.

Left untreated, an infested tree can die.

And it does not stop at your fence. The beetle moves from tree to tree down the street, which is why we assess your whole property, not one trunk.

We treat it. Then we come back.

An on-site assessment of every tree on your property, treatment with registered products, and a courtesy visit a year later to check the beetle has not come back. Nationwide, for homes, estates and municipalities.

Over 90% of the infested trees we have treated in Johannesburg are still standing.

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