Looks like borers have gone after my apricot. 
I have some Captain Jack’s Deadbug. Do I want to peel the sap back before I spray it? Thanks for the advice!!
Where are you? Where I live in Maryland that would be bacterial canker, not borers. Apricot wood is hard and I never get borers in it, unless the apricot is grafted to peach and it is right at the base. Another sign it is not borers is there is no sawdust in the sap. There is always frass if it is borers.
The lower injury definitely looks like canker with the cloudy sap. The upper ones may just be reacting to the lower one. Even a big rain after a dry spell can cause clear sap to ooze, with no disease issue at all. For that lower one though it is almost certainly canker.
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I looked at some photos online and I think you’re right about it being canker. We’re in New Mexico and my trees are in a flood irrigated pasture-- very hot and dry here, and we flood the whole field from the acequia every 2-3 weeks. So as you say, the upper sap spots might be responding to the last time we watered.
Recommendations for the lower canckerous sap spot? I have a cherry tree that had horrible bacterial canker a few years ago. The trunk and branches still looks terrible but doesn’t bleed like before, and is growing and fruiting and looking happy otherwise.
Under the sap do you see holes?