Dakos is the most important enemy, an olive insect. We also call insects enemies because we humans consider them our enemies in the fight for food, we consider them to eat our food.
The fathers set traps for mass fight against the dakos. This method is biological because the olive trees do not come into contact with chemicals, insecticides as is done with sprays.
The traps are small bags in size A5 which are impregnated with insecticide on their outside while inside they contain attractive substances.
So, the dakos, smelling something like a favorite food, tries to find it, leans against the trap and absorbs the insecticide on its hairy legs, and a little later its short life ends while the olive continues to swell, filling with olive oil free of chemical insecticides.
The dakos could be said to be a beautiful insect, with a nice snug belly, shiny wings and big eyes. He prefers cool temperatures with humidity and that is why he usually flies in the morning and in the afternoon, while when the summer progresses by raising temperatures above 30 degrees, he stops his tours and feeds, hides and takes summer vacations. But when he returns in early autumn, he has a big appetite.
The female dakos carries on the edge of his belly something that looks like a sting, the ovary. With it he bites the olive before it even reaches the stage of hardening of the core. These stings are called barren because at this time it does not leave its worm in the olive tree, but in these stings fungi grow which cause fruit fall and create substances that adversely affect the quality of olive oil.
After the hardening of the nucleus, the worm that deposits multiplies the previous adverse effects and arriving in the autumn with large populations makes the complete attack. But with the traps we do not allow him to make large populations.
Of course for dako we will say it several times over the course of time.