Icerya seychellarum

Widespread on crops (avocado, breadfruit, citrus, guava and mango), ornamentals and native plants (birch or copperwood, manceypot and Mountain cotton) Large populations covered the host plants with honeydew which provides a medium for growth of black sooty mould.(Malumphy, C. (2020). Annotated list of invertebrates observed in Montserrat, West Indies, November 2019. FERA). Crop pest. Recent introduction found on native plants in Centre Hills (Malumphy, C. (2020). Annotated list of invertebrates observed in Montserrat, West Indies, November 2019. FERA); Airport, on undetermined herbaceous plants; Brades, Backyard farm, on Citrus spp.; Mongo Hill, Blackwood Allen Nature Trail, on Bursera simaruba, manceypot and ‘Mountain cotton’; Waterworks, on breadfruit, orange, lemon, mango, avocado and several palms; Woodlands, Farm, on guava, and orange and avocado, Yellow Hall, DMCA, on several unspecified plants; Dick Hill, on A. altilis. Widespread in tropical and subtropical regions. In the Caribbean it has been recorded from Dominica, Guadeloupe and Martinique. Broadly polyphagous, feeding on a wide range of forest and ornamental species, agricultural crops and weeds. iNaturalist record Ajhermae (Montserrat Invertebrate Species List Version 3. August 2023. Dataset);