Blue button photographed on the white quartz sands of Cape San Blas, Florida.
Below is a table showing all of the sightings of blue buttons (Porpita porpita) reported to me via emails by my website and blog visitors. As you can see, I get reports of sightings from all over the world, but mainly from Florida and Texas. I’ve been seeing an increase in reports from North Carolina and a few from South Carolina. I can’t say whether this trend is indicative of an increase in sightings, or whether Google has made it easier to find me in the search results, thereby causing me to get more reports. If you’d like to report a sighting to me, contact me via email [beachhunter(at)beachhunter.net], or use the contact form in the menu above this article, and report the following items: date of sighting, city and state where sighting occurred, and name of beach if known. If you took a photo and would like to share it, please send it to me along with information on how you’d like to be given credit.
Blue Button in shallow water in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Photo contributed by Ashley in 2009.
Blue buttons washing ashore in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Photo contributed by Ashley in 2009.
Close-up of a blue button. Photo contributed by Jim Smith. Isn’t this beautiful?
Blue button found on Redington Shores beach, FL by Sandy Kyros. August 8, 2015.
Patricia Reynolds of Merrill, Michigan shared this photo of a beautiful Blue Button jellyfish she encountered at Corolla Beach, Outer Banks, North Carolina.
Blue Button, Otres Beach, Sihanoukville, Cambodia by Philiponfire aka Philip Wakeman August 2016
