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

abstract
The field study was carried out on the varietal performance of ridge gourd on the incidence of flea beetle(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) during kharif season of 2017 at Central Experimental Station, Wakawali, Dist. Ratnagiri. During the present investigation, fifteen ridge gourd cultivars were screened against flea beetle infesting ridge gourd. The infestation of flea beetle was started from seedling stage of ridge gourd. The results revealed that the highest mean infestation of flea beetle was recorded in cultivar RG-2 with 9.69 ± 1.69 shot holes/three leaves/plant) followed by NRG-9 (7.75) and RGH-1 (7.72). Lowest mean infestation (2.91 ± 1.69) was recorded in cultivar JRGL-13.