To study the effect of formaldehyde inducing DNA-protein crosslinks (DPC) and DNA single strand break (DSSB) in insect ceils, this study took Spodoptera litura SL-1 cells as experimental material and made use of KC1-SDS assay and comet assay to determine the amount of DNA-protein crosslinks and effect of DNA damages induced by liquid formaldehyde. From the KC1-SDS assay results formaldehyde can not cause DPC at low levels (25 μmol/L,125 μmol/L), but at higher levels (625μmol/L) can cause DPC obviously (P〈0.01). According to comet ...