Habitats: costal or wet habitats. Host plants: low vegetation at water margins, Reed and Reedmace. Food: scale insects and aphids. Overwintering sites: leaf litter and moss.

Habitats: Harlequin ladybirds are noted for being habitat generalists.  Like the 2-spot ladybird, the species is considered to be arboreal, and many records are from urban areas where deciduous trees are abundant.  This species can be readily found on mature lime or sycamore trees, for example in churchyards and parks.  However, harlequin ladybirds also occupy mature woodlands (both deciduous and coniferous), scrub, grassland, marshland and reed beds.  Crops and orchards are common habitats for harlequin ladybirds.  Harlequin ladybirds overlap with a number of other species of ladybird including 2-spot, 7-spot, 10-spot, 14-spot and pine ladybirds. 

Host plants: The host plant list for the harlequin is diverse and extensive; however, it undoubtedly has a preference for lime and sycamore trees.  It is also commonly associated with herbaceous plants such as nettle, thistles, cow parsley, rosebay willowherb and fat-hen.  Harlequin ladybirds are common in gardens where they can be found on many ornamental plants.

Food: aphids, coccids, coccinellids. 

Habitats: In Britain the bryony ladybird is found in urban habitats, commonly gardens and carparks.  However, in Surrey there are recent sightings from more natural habitats on chalk and sand.

Host plants: In Britain it feeds solely on white bryony but in other parts of Europe it has been noted feeding on melons.

Food: leaves of white bryony and other curcurbits.  

Overwintering sites: Bryony ladybirds overwinter in low herbage. 

Habitats: Pine ladybirds can be found in a number of habitats including deciduous, coniferous and mixed woodland, grassland, coastal habitats (cliffs and dunes), heathland and marshy areas.  This species is common in urban habitats.  Pine ladybirds overlap with a number of other species of ladybird and are commonly found with pine-specialist ladybirds, plus 2-spot, 7-spot, 10-spot, 14-spot and harlequin ladybirds. 

Host plants:  The pine ladybird is so named because it is the most common species of ladybird found on pines.  Whilst its name suggests specialisation on pines, it is found on a very diverse range of plants.  These include needled conifers (particularly Scots pine), scale-leaved conifers, yew and many deciduous trees such as ash, birch, sallow, willow, oak, beech, lime, hazel, sycamore, maples and horse-chestnut.  It is also commonly found in gardens on plants such as thistles, nettle, camellia and firethorns.

Food: coccids, adelgids and other woolly aphids.

Overwintering sites: Pine ladybirds overwinter in leaf litter, foliage and bark crevices of evergreen trees and shrubs.