author(s)
Vinutha B, YK Kotikal and Shankar Meti

abstract
The study was conducted on screening of oriental pickling melon, Cucumis melo var. conomon genotypes against fruit fly and red pumpkin beetle. The results revealed that least infestation of fruit fly was recorded in genotypes Sirsi local (42.3%) and BCMCO-02 (42.7%) which were on par with GR-3-1 (42.9%), Mysore local (44.0%), Soubhagya (44.3%), BCMCO-01 (44.0%), Koppa Local (44.5%), Mangalore Local (46.4%), BCMSO-03 (46.6%). The highest infestation was found in the case of Sirsi-2-13 (68.1%) followed by Sirsi-1-13 (63.8%) which was on par with BCMSO-04 (61.3%) and BCMR-1 (59.6%). All the genotypes, GR-3, Tattisara, GR-3-1, GR-4-1 and GR-2-1, BCMCO-02, GR‑1-1, Sirsi Local, BCMSO-03 and BCMR-01 were on par with each other against red pumpkin beetle.