The fruit flies are pests of international importance that are difficult to manage as they are polyphagous,multivoltine and have high mobility and fecundity. Only adults are exposed, while eggs and maggots remain protected in thehost tissues and pupae are in the soil. Thus most insecticidal treatments are ineffective. The stage of the pest that can betargeted is the adult insect. Keeping this in view and the seriousness of the problem, the review work was conducted ondifferent aspects of management of fruit flies with particular reference to trapping. Various trapping strategies viz., baitsprays, traps and lures have been discussed along with the bait composition used by different workers.