From the results,T1 is 551C and T0 is 411C for adults; T1 is 541C and T0 is 401C for eggs. The model fits best for adults and eggs with m=7.8 and 8.2, respectively.Fig. 4 shows the closeness of fit between the experimental and simulated curves for adults and eggs. Table 1 gives the mortality model constant for adults and eggs when the rice temperature is between T0 and T1. The constant A is smaller for adults than eggs, which indicates that eggs are more susceptible to temperature than adults. The m value for eggs is larger than that for adults, reflected by the steeper lethal curve in Fig. 4. The m value is higher than the values obtained from LIMO, which were 4.5 and 4 for adults and eggs, respectively (Zhao et al., 2004). The A values from LIMO were 0.0857 and 0.1586 for adults and eggs, respectively, and T0 was 431C for both adults and eggs (Zhao et al., 2004). This suggests that the effect of temperature on pest mortality is greater and the
pest is more susceptible to microwaves from an industrial continuous microwave oven. This may be due to a more
symmetrical spread and stronger radiation intensity of microwaves within an industrial continuous microwave oven.