This work aimed to study the environmental factors influencing growth stopped of olive
leaf midge Dasineura oleae F. loew (Dipter: Cecidomyiidae) and its host
(Hymenoptera: Platygasteridae) Platygaster demades Walker, such as temperature and
reser
vation period. A series of experiments had been done to end this phenomena of
larvae by changing temperatures from suitable temperature at 20±1 °C accompanied
with different photoperiods 16 L: 8D and relative humidity of 75± 5% during 15, 30,
and 60 days, to low temperature at 7± 1 °C accompanied with complete darkness and
relative humidity of 75± 5% for 15 days. This had been done after 30, 60, 90 and 120
days of growth stopped.
