[en] The paper reviews the work done on resistance of various vegetable crops (excluding potato and sweet corn) to common insect pests (excluding mites) in different countries. Results on source of resistance to melon aphid, striped and spotted cucumber beetles, squash bug, squash borer, pickleworm, red pumpkin beetle, fruit fly in different cucurbits; to cabbage maggot and aphid in cabbage; to aphid in spinach; to fruit and shoot borer and stem borer in brinjal; to jassids in okra; to jassid, bean weevil, mexican bean beetle, potato leaf hopper, melon fly in different beans; to pea aphid, pea weevil in pea; and to leaf miners, flea beetle, fruitworm, Drosophila in tomato have been high-lighted. Genetic basis of insect resistance has been reported to be monogenically dominant in muskmelon to melon aphid and in pumpkin and watermelon to fruit fly, whereas, additive gene action have been reported for resistance to both striped and spotted cucumber beetles and squash bug in squash. In interspecific crosses of muskmelon with wild melon 2 pairs of complimentary genes are reported to be involved for resistance to fruit fly. Maternal influence has also been indicated in intervarietal crosses of squash for resistance to spotted cucumber beetle. Breeding methods involving conventional as well as induced mutations have been discussed. (author)