author(s)
Zahid Abass Wazir, Amit Kumar Singh and N Ramana

abstract
In the present experiment, Green victory Methyl Eugenol (ME) fruit fly traps were used to determine the seasonal incidence of fruit fly for 2017-2018 and further effect of weather parameters on population dynamics of fruit fly Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) was obtained. The studies revealed that, for seasonal incidence the fruit fly was found damaging and remained active on summer squash attaining peak value in the 26^th Standard week (317 fruitflies/trap). The correlation studies showed that the fruit fly population was highly significant and positively correlated with mean relative morning humidity, relative evening humidity and rainfall but highly negatively correlated with maximum temperature.