author(s)
AC Parab, SD Desai, VS Desai, SK Mehendale and GM Golvankar

abstract
The present study was carried out on the efficacy of different attractants for management of fruit flies infesting mango in Konkan region at Horticulture Nursery, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Dapoli during May to July 2017. The data on total number of fruit flies trapped during May to July 2017 per trap revealed that the fruit flies trapped per trap were in the range of 0.00 to 363.67. The maximum (363.67) number of fruit flies were trapped in the treatment T₂ (Black Ocimum + Malathion) which was significantly superior over the rest of the treatments except treatment T₈ (Black Ocimum + Spinosad) which recorded 325.33 number of fruit flies and both the treatments were at par with each other. The next best treatments in order of efficacy were T₁ (Green Ocimum + Malathion), T₇ (Green Ocimum + Spinosad) and T₃ (Black Jaggery + Malathion) which recorded 258.67, 222.67 and 211.33 number of fruit flies, respectively. The minimum fruit flies were recorded in the treatment T₁₀ (common Jaggery + Spinosad) which recorded 90 fruit flies per trap. Among the bait material used for attracting fruit flies all were more or less effective but the treatment T₂ (black Ocimum (leaf extract) + Malathion) and treatment T₈ (black Ocimum (leaf extract) + Spinosad) attracted the maximum number of fruit flies.