Mortality factors and life‐budgets for immature stages of the olive fly, Dacus oleae (Gmel.) (Diptera, Tephritidae), in Corfu

Dissection of fruit, plus trapping of larvae entering the soil and adults emerging, were used in a quantitative study of the mortality factors acting upon the immature stages of Dacus oleae in Corfu at different times of the year. The results were used to construct a series of life‐budgets covering the stages from egg to newly emerged adult for the four main generations per year.