author(s)
Yasir Ali, Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Israr and Sana Ullah

abstract
The study was conducted at the Fruit fly rearing laboratory in Agricultural Research Institute Tarnab, Peshawar during 2020. Aim of the study was to evaluate some synthetic insecticides against` fruit fly to find the most effective one. The study showed the percent mortality of adult’s B. cucurbitae exposed to a series of concentration of some selected neonicotinoids insecticides. Numbers of dead fruit flies were counted and observed percent mortality of adults flies calculated after 24 and 48 hrs post treatment at 2ppm, 4ppm and 8ppm. Among all treatments, Trichlrofon showed highest mortality rate followed by Acetamiprid while minimum percent mortality was observed by Imidacloprid.