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thanks again mate :D leaves only started going yellow after the borer attacked before that they were fully green. ill do the test anyway ***** hurt:) thanks again for all your help.

I sort of treated gardening like set and forget besides pruning :eek: ill have to be more on the ball now! Yeah good point on why the other mop top caught the bug, guess ill have to keep eliminating all your suggestions. If the mop top comes good will it grow any new leafs in autumn?

deffintly borer dug around 10 out all up! i'am the gardener haha :)

Thanks perth guy really appreciate all your problem solving i dug out 10 tic tac sized bugs out of different parts of the tree. the nursery recommend everything you had said:) they said if i could get my hands on some randor to syringe that into the hole where i pulled the bug out of then...

Yep your right borers are in the left tree aswell! Is their anyway to test the soil, could the bugs of been in the wood chips or the golden duranta as the trees took a turn for the worst around two weeks after they were installed? I don't over water, lawn has a sprinkler system which gets...

thanks mate, trees looked a million dollars 7 days ago! the one on the right looked like the left one 6 days ago couldn't believe how quickly they turn. i will try the metho method tomorrow thanks again:)

thanks Libgs hard to tell exactly how many there are, any idea if i remove them and replace will the bugs stay in the soil and attack the new ones?

Hopefully theirs a horticulturist or someone that has experienced the same thing?! Our Robina Mop Tops have gotten a borer and i ***** find anything online on how to kill the bug, hopefully someone has a cure. Very frustrating as they are only 6 months old