The 34th largest lake in Europe and (some) bugs!

On Thursday I walked on a wooded hill in the town of Riva del Garda, which is on the northern shore of Garda Lake, the largest lake in Italy. The northern portion of the lake is quite narrow. The northern shore is about as long as a small city is wide. Riva del Garda is a small city. The hill, Monte Brione, isn't very high (about 1,200ft) but was a strategic location for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There are numerous small forts built in the late 1800's speckled about the hill in differing degrees of decay. The hill was, however, invented mostly for its views of the lake. I took some photos. I also took a lot of photos of bugs, naturally (pun included for free).

 Lake Garda is known for its predictable winds.

 There are always windsurfers and sailboats on the water.

 That's Riva del Garda and the end of the Sarca river.

 Notice the mountains forming the typical shape of a moraine valley.

 Paleolithic glaciers were big and heavy.

 This picture seems very dramatic. Actually being there was very unstressful.

 One of the relatively well kept forts built prior to WWI.

 The view up a valley to the town of Arco and the ruins of ancient Arco Castle.

 This one is a picture of the lake.

There were a lot of flowers and butterflies on the hill.

 I don't know why this flower was crying.

 This hornet was excelling at hide and seek.

This beast of a bee was not as good at hiding.

 I enjoyed photographing bugs.

 Coccinella is Italian for ladybug.

 The Coccinellidae are a family of beetles, of which there are over 5,000 species, found worldwide.

 This one's name was Amelie.

 There are two types of poisonous spiders in Italy, the Italian Tarantula and the Violino spider. 

This was neither.

 I didn't catch its name.

 Some flowers are shaped is such a way as to make it possible for water to be retained.

 This one was purple.

 This one was green, and not a flower.

 This is Vanessa, the Red Admiral.

Specifically a Vanessa atalanta, one of the last types of butterflies to be seen before winter starts.