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Thank you for sending us your gardening question. There are several reasons why your plant may not be producing fruit, i.e. improper planting, lack of sunlight, insufficient temperatures, lack of pollination, and too much nitrogen.

Here are a couple of articles you might find helpful:

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/cantaloupe/growing-cantaloupe.htm

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/watermelon/watermelon-not-producing.htm

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If you are in an area where there are very few natural insects that pollinate these plants, then they will not produce. I like to grow melons in my indoor tent with LED, and to do this I must hand pollinate the female flowers with the males. You can tell the difference easily. There are more male flowers, and the females have a small fruit growing on the bottom of them. Just take a paintbrush, or q-tip and get pollen from the males, and transfer to the female.

Here is an article for more information: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/melons/hand-pollinating-melons.htm

I have read that rabbits sometimes eat melon vines and leaves... It also sounds like something slugs and snails might do. Cucumber beetles eat melon plants, but I don't think they would act so fast and leave no trace.

This article will help you.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/raise-acid-level-soil.htm

Do you mean Fruit Flies?
Make a DIY fly trap: Take a jar and pour in a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, two tablespoons of water, and fruity-smelling dish soap. Cover the top of the jar with plastic wrap, tighten it with a rubber band, and lightly puncture part of it with toothpick-sized holes. Like the pushy uninvited guests they are, fruit flies will find their way into the jar. But they'll have a hard time finding a way out.

Contact fungicides should be the backbone of most cantaloupe and watermelon spray schedules. Two contact fungicides for this purpose have the active ingredient chlorothalonil or mancozeb. They may be used all season-long.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/cantaloupe/growing-cantaloupe.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/cantaloupe/harvesting-cantaloupe.htm
https://plantvillage.psu.edu/topics/cantaloupe/infos