Rigorous experimentation in a laboratory is essential to develop a method to control a pest. Therefore, obtaining a simple and inexpensive method for breeding pest organisms is a fundamental task. Drosophila suzukii (Masumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is a pest of agricultural importance in much of the world, because it causes great economic loss in fruits of various cultivated plants. The objective of this work was to optimize a rearing method based on banana (Musa paradisiaca L. Musaceae) in semi-synthetic diet for D. suzukii, estimate biological parameters, length of development time and mortality, and population parameters in laboratory conditions. To verify effectiveness of the diet, a bioassay was used to estimate parameters of a life table for D. suzukii. Biological parameters from the bioassay and the intrinsic growth rate value (0.09183) indicated the banana-based diet can support and increase abundance of D. suzukii through generations.