"Bugs" make great subjects. You can learn what your camera can and can't do up close in a hurry by shooting them. Great pic - thanks for sharing it.
Here's one I took a couple months ago. Not perfect, but I was probably 15' away and zoomed in to 27X with the digital - hand held. Not bad from such a small package that is hard to hold steady, and the wind was really blowing as well (image is not retouched - just cropped and a border added).
Ladobe