Before revision:  The method is based on the formulation of the mortality as a combination of cubic splines and it is applied to the  case of Lobesia botrana, the main pest in the European vineyards, with  data collected in a location in the North of Italy .
After revision:  The method is based on the formulation of the mortality as a combination of cubic splines and it is applied to the case of Lobesia botrana, the main pest in the European vineyards, with abundance data collected in a location in the North of Italy .