N duplicated queries nested model - django

Question

I've got an Area model allowing sub areas (you might think of it as categories with subcategories). I reached this by nesting one field to self as foreign key.
class Area(models.Model):
area = models.CharField(max_length=120)
parent = models.ForeignKey('self', models.CASCADE, blank=True, null=True, related_name='subarea')
def __str__(self):
return self.area
With the django rest framwork I've manages to get the correct output. The problem is that when I analyze the request with django-toolbar multiple duplicated requests are made (N*Area(parent=None)). I've solved similar issues by using prefetch_related or select_related. But never done it with a nested model. Is there any way to solve this? Or is this design of the model bad?
I manage to serialize the correct output with the following view and
class ListArea(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
serializer_class = AreaSerializer
queryset = Area.objects.prefetch_related('parent').filter(parent=None)
and serializers
class SubAreaSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Area
fields = ('area','id')
class AreaSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
subarea=SubAreaSerializer(many=True)
class Meta:
model = Area
fields = ('area','id','subarea')
Or might those extra calls be due to the browsable API?
Solution
I solved this with help of the following thread Django: Does prefetch_related() follow reverse relationship lookup?
Instead of
queryset = Area.objects.prefetch_related('parent').filter(parent=None)
I should use
queryset = Area.objects.prefetch_related('parent').prefetch_related('subarea')