On Monday, 26 May 2025, the City of Cape Town began replanting trees in the Newlands area after thousands of trees were lost to the deadly and devastating polyphagous shot-hole borer beetle ...

The culprit, the polyphagous shot-hole borer beetle from Vietnam, has spread rapidly through Cape Town, necessitating the removal of mature box elders (Acer negundo) and several other long-standing ...