author(s)
MM Dubale, VN Jalgaonkar, KV Naik, AY Munj and GM Golvankar

abstract
The present experiment was carried out on studies on incidence of fruit flies in relation to weather parameters on ridge gourd in Konkan region during kharif season of 2017 at Central Experimental Station, Wakawali, Dist. Ratnagiri. The results on seasonal incidence revealed that there were marked differences in infestation of fruit flies. The infestation of fruit flies was started after fruit setting in the third week of August (33^th SMW). Minimum (16.67 ± 18.25) per cent infestation of fruit flies was recorded in 36^th SMW (03 - 09 September), while maximum (50.00 ± 18.25) per cent infestation was observed during 40^th SMW (01 - 06 October). The data on correlation between per cent infestation of fruit flies with different meteorological parameters showed that the significant negative correlation (r= -0.720) with morning relative humidity, while remaining various meteorological parameters were found to be non-significant.