Major pests: Pumpkin beetles, leafminer, melonfly, aphids 

Apply neem cake 250 Kg/ha to soil immediately after germination and repeat at flowering.

Destroy cotyledon leaves infected with leaf miners after germination as the primary infestation occurs on cotyledon leaves. Clip leaves infested by miner at weekly intervals upto 20 DAS. If the incidence is high remove all severely infested leaves and destroy.

Mechanically collect and destroy pumpkin beetles if the pest incidence is low. Spray carbaryl 50 WP 4g/L or DDVP 76 EC 1 ml/L

 For fruit fly control, crush pumpkin 1 kg and add 100g Jaggery and 10 ml malathion and keep in the plot (4-6 places /acre). Adults of fruit fly get attracted to the fermenting pumpkin and lay eggs and get killed. Repeat 2-3 times in cropping season. Alternately, erect cuelure traps at 10 traps/acre to annihilate male flies or spray deltamethrin 1 ml/L+ 1 % Jaggery or Carbaryl 50 WP at 3g/L + 1 % Jaggery at fruit formation/ ripening stage.

To control fruit fly, apply bait-traps prepared by adding 1 g protein hydrolyzate and 1 ml Malathion in 1 litre of water during flowering stage. 

For mite control mix Neem soap or Pongamia soap at 10g/ L with Ethion 50 EC at 1ml/L

For thrips control Spray Acephate 75 WP 0.75 g/L + Pongamia oil (2 ml/L)+ sticker 1ml/L (for emulsification)

To control thrips spray Demecron(1/2ml) litre along with 4% Neem seed kernel (NSK) extract at an interval of 8-10 days immediately after germination to till harvest.

Spray Acephate 2g/lit.of water to control thrips, followed by reagent alternatively till 90 days.

For leaf eating caterpillar control, spray Bt at 1 ml/L when oviposition is noticed on the leaves. Spray contact insecticide carbaryl 50 WP at 3 g/L or Indoxacarb 14.5 SC at 0.5 ml/L. Alternatively spray Neem or Pongamia soap at 7.5 g/L.