this stuff isn't easy you know

Macro photography is hard.  I'm not just saying that so that when you see this week's picture you give me a free pass, but it does perfectly demonstrate the day to day difficulties of photographing small things (a common nettle bug in this case) from a small distance.

It's a constant battle (read compromise) between depth of field and getting enough light into the lens while still freezing motion and revealing detail; optimise one and at least one other suffers. 

But isn't all photography like that I hear you say.

Yes, it is.  But with macro work you're facing the battle of the closer you get to your subject, the less of it remains in focus.  Even after stopping down your lens to the tiniest of apertures.  The answer then is, of course, to focus bracket, i.e. shoot a series of images while focusing on a different part of the subject.

However, this isn't always feasible.  If the subject, or the thing it's on is moving then you've got no chance.  And so, in these cases a single shot with all the compromises that brings is the only option.  

Just like this one...

Fujifilm X-H2, TTArtisans 100mm f2.8 macro
1/320th of a second at f5.6, ISO 125
handheld