Abstract:The resistance of fourth instar larvae to the insecticide increased 90.27-folds under the new insecticide, butene-fipronil pressure which used to diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) for 13 generations. Estimation of realized heritability (h2) of resistance was studied based on the Tabashnik’s method. The results suggested that the realized heritability estimated from early selection stage was significantly higher than that from later stage, the realized heritability was 0.2332 for F0-F6, consecutive selection for 7 generations and 0.0203 for F7-F14, during which there a total of 2 generations without selection. h2 for the entire selection experiment was 0.2206. Assuming that the h2 of field Plutella xylostella population was half that of indoor populations, it required 22.8-10.3 generations for butene-fipronil to obtain 10-fold increase in LD50 under selective pressure of 50%-90% mortality for each selective generation.