Abstract:The book louse, Liposcelis bostrychophila Badonnel, is an important stored insect pest.The key issue is the development of resistance to insecticides and controlled atmospheres. In order to assess the risk of resistance of Liposcelis bostrychophila to controlled atmospheres (CAs) and insecticides, the booklice were exposed to the conditions with high concentration of carbon dioxide (hypercarbia: 35%CO2, 21%O2, 44%N2), low oxygen and high carbon dioxide (hypoxia with hypercarbia: 35%CO2, 1%O2, 64%N2), and insecticides (DDVP and PH3) respectively for 20 generations at the selection pressure of 35% adult mortality, twice selection for per generation. After 2 years‘ (2000-2001) selection, four resistant strains (R), HCO2-R tolerant to hypercarbia, HCLO-R tolerant to hypoxia and hypercarbia, DDVP-R and PH3-R resistant to DDVP and PH3, were obtained in laboratory. The resistance factor (RF) values were 3.3, 5.2, 4.5 and 10.2, respectively. Analytical results of the developing strand about the different resistance strains showed that L.bostrychophila had genetic potential to develop resist- ance.The h2of the 4 resistant strains,HCO2-R,HCLO-R,DDVP-R and PH3-R were 0.388, 0.155, 0.341 and 0.594, respectively. The results of risk assessment of resistance showed, to achieve 10-fold resistance at the selection pressure of 50% and 90% mortality, it takes 62.30 and 28.10 generations for hypercarbia-exposure, 44.17 and 20.08 generations for hypoxia with hypercarbia-exposure, 26.46 and 11.98 generations for DDVP-exposure, and 38.48 and 17.39 generations for PH3-exposure, respectively. For the two CA-exposure strains, the resistance risk of HCLO-R was higher than HCO2-R; for the two insecticide-resistant strains, the resistance risk of DDVP-R was much higher.