Two species of leaf beetles from Chrysomelidae family i.e. the cereal leaf beetle Oulema melanopus (Linnaeus 1758) and the blue leaf beetle Oulema gallaeciana (Heyden 1970) can cause considerable damage to cereal crops. Improvement of short-term forecasting was focused on determination of optimal time of control of these pests that takes place at mass larval hatching. Thus long term studies were carried out to evaluate a correlation between duration of egg incubation, temperature and air humidity. The length of egg incubation was examined at temperatures of 16°C, 20°C and 25°C and air humidity 60% in a growth chamber and under field conditions. Based on linear and curvilinear multinomial regression analyses the influence and significance of such independent variable (x) as: sum of temperatures (sums of mean daily temperatures), mean air humidity, sum of effective temperatures and mean effective temperature versus duration of egg incubation of O. melanopus and O. gallaeciana (dependent variable – y) were evaluated. Analyses of 32 interactions (x, y) showed that only four were insignificant i.e. mean air humidity in the growth chamber at 20°C had no effect on the length of egg incubation of O. melanopus and at 25°C on the length of egg incubation of O. gallaeciana. Also under field conditions sums of effective temperatures showed no effect on duration of egg incubation of both species