The present study reports the insects associated with Black plum, Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels from Amba reserved forest of Kolhapur district. It is a well distributed medicinal plant found in all forested area of the Kolhapur district. The observations on the insect herbivores associated with Black plum revealed that it is infested by 14 species of insects belonging to the 03 orders distributed within 10 families. The survey on the larval breadth diet revealed that Lepidopteran and Coleopteran species were polyphagous in nature. These polyphagous pests are Metanastria hyrtaca Cramer, Trabala vishnu Lefebvre, Parsa lepida Cramer and Apoderus tranquebaricus Fabricius. The life cycle of these pests was also studied in the field as well as in the laboratory. The present investigation also provides data on larval food preferences of these pests from present study area.