In order to elucidate the effects of testing density, age and gender on the results of dry film bioassay method, the toxicity of the trichlorphon, abamectin and β-cypermethrin to the female and male adults of oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis(Hendel)with different density and age were determined in this paper.The results showed that the mortality of B. dorsalis adults with different density were different after treated by the above 3 insecticides. The mortalities of adults with 5-10ind./bottle treated by trichlorphon was the highest as 62%-72%,then descreased gradually to below 10%,and tended to be stable .At the abamectin treatment ,the adult mortalities overall showed a S shape(eg.high-lou-high-low)change,and the top was with 30-50 ind./bottle.The adult mortality was the least when 5 ind./bottle,and varied from 35.5%-46.4%for the other 9 densities at cypermethrin treatment.The 3 models to describe the relateionships between the adult mortality and desity at the 3 insectticide treatments were presented.the adult mortalities with differeng day-old varied obviously when treated by the same insecticide, Treated after the trichlorphon,the mortalities 4 and 74 old male were the highest,and the least with 14 day-old ,and the mortalities for 4,54and 64 day-old males were higher while the lowest with 14 day-old. Johnson Schumacher models could be constructed to represent the relationships between the female/male age and the motality.At the cypermethrin treatment ,the mortalities of the 4 day-old male and female adults were the least,and then increased obviously,and tended to be stable after 24 day-old adults.Quadratics Ratio models were given to simulate the relationship between the mortality and the adult age .For the same day-old males and females ,their motalities with trichlorphon treatment were not significantly different ,but the ones for the females were mostly higher than those of the males for the cypermethrin treatment .According to the above results,the appropriate densities for the boassary of the the insecticides to B. dorsalis adult were put foward as 0.04-0.06 ind./mL(volume of container)or 27.4-18.2 cm2 per adult (membrane area). |