Abstract
Abstract Assessment of quality of male insects has been done primarily in area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programs that have a sterile insect technique (SIT) component. Routine monitoring of sterile male quality needs to be carried out both in the mass-rearing facility and in the field. Simple bioassays, which can be conducted in the laboratory or under semi-field conditions, would be potential surrogates for laborious field tests that are usually very costly. In the laboratory, a flight mill system was used to assess the quality of males of the litchi stem-end borer, Conopomorpha sinensis (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), in terms of flight distance, flight duration and speed. Flight distance, duration, mean speed and greatest speed of non-irradiated adult males were 13,926 m, 29,365 s, 0.42 m/s, and 1.01 m/s, respectively, during a 24 h period. Although the values of these parameters of non-irradiated males were greater than corresponding values for moths irradiated with 150 and 200 Gy, there...
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