The toxicity information of twenty-two insecticides on the diamondback moth was obtained by testing a native susceptible I-lan strain. Top five insecticides of all tested compounds are synthetic pyrethroids. Decamethrin is the most effective insecticide and carbaryl is the worst one. Mevinphos and carbofuran are the most effective compound for organophosphates and carbamates respectively. The overall result of toxicity test of I-lan strain is quite comparable to that of a susceptible strain introduced from France. Carbofuran can rapidly induce the resistance developed in the diamondback moth with only minor cross resistance problem in other insecticides. Fenvalerate induced the resistance at a rate slower than that of carbofuran, hut it cau...