Early Detection of Red Palm Weevil, (Olivier), Infestation Using Data Mining.

In the past 30 years, the red palm weevil (RPW), (Olivier), a pest that is highly destructive to all types of palms, has rapidly spread worldwide. However, detecting infestation with the RPW is highly challenging because symptoms are not visible until the death of the palm tree is inevitable. In addition, the use of automated RPW weevil identification tools to predict infestation is complicated by a lack of RPW datasets.