[Optimization of the storage of housefly pupae as a utilizer of organic wastes in a human biological life support system].

The method of experimental orthogonal planning was used to study the combined effect of three factors (ambient temperature, humidity, and storage time) on the yield characteristics of the storage of Musca domestica L. pupae as utilizers of organic wastes in the biological life support system. The application of the type 2(3-1) fractional factorial experiment with the generating ratio x3 = x2x1 and analysis of the resultant regression equation showed that the pupal viability tended to grow as the temperature increased and the time storage and humidity decreased. Step-by-step optimization according to Box-Wilson gave the following optimal conditions for pupal storage (without viability losses); ambient temperature +16 degrees C, relative humidity 37-39%, and storage time 15 days.