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I carefully moved it back into the water, but had the feeling that it was already "on its way out" when I found it. :/

It's the same individual as this: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/63183739 .

A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.

Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, Richmond County, Georgia.

• Mostly sunny, high near 92.
• Sunrise 7:05 AM; Sunset 7:46 PM
• Daylight hours: 12 hrs, 41 min (-2m)
• New Moon
• Journal: http://williamwisephoto.com/photographyblog/labor-day-at-phinizy-swamp-georgia

Several of these male wasps were congregating around another wasp emerging (stuck?) in a wood crevice. They attempted to mate with it, so I thought it was a female. However close examination indicates that it was another male, perhaps trapped while trying to emerge from its pupal cell. Referring to a detailed reference linked on BugGuide, these key to:
Megarhyssa atrata (male, length about 35 mm)
bugguide.net/node/view/6324
That reference is:
Key to the species of Megarhyssa (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Rhyssinae) in America, north of Mexico. Victoria G. Pook, Michael J. Sharkey, David B. Wahl
Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 63 (1) 2016, 137–148 | DOI 10.3897/dez.63.7619
zoobank.org/5C4F5350-2C8E-422C-8C5B-DB8A04300D19

Día 21 // Day 21
3 individuos // 3 individuals

Relacionado con // Related to:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/2413526
www.inaturalist.org/observations/2427215
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2441395
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2446906
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2456420
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2462895
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2468145

De 253 a 265 horas después de haber sido puestos los huevos.

From 253 to 265 hrs after being laid.

Relacionado con // Related to:

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2378919
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2378927
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2381936
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2385407
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2398715
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2400695
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2403826
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2410282
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2410292
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2410296