Bioinformatics to protect coconut trees from weevils

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The crowdfunding campaign is to raise money to build an app to give Sri Lankan farmers and any other palm tree farmer piece of mind from red palm weevils. Weevils breed inside the tree, eating it from the inside. The tree shows no external signs until it is too late, yet Thrish has discovered a way of detecting the weevils using the a combination of the processing power of the brain and a smart phone. Thrish's research helped us understand the behaviour of weevils and now with the device we can detect them.

The crowdfunding campaign is to raise money to build an app to give Sri Lankan farmers and any other palm tree farmer piece of mind from red palm weevils. Weevils breed inside the tree, eating it from the inside. The tree shows no external signs until it is too late, yet Thrish has discovered a way of detecting the weevils using the a combination of the processing power of the brain and a smart phone.