Jellyfish

Product Review: First Aid Kit for Marine Animal Stings: Jellyfish, Stingrays, Urchins, Fire Coral

January 2, 2012

I’ve just created a video review of some products that I think will be very helpful to anyone who plays in the sea or to any first responders who encounter marine envenomations and punture wounds from marine animals. These First-Aid Kits and other products are designed to have everything you might need to treat an [...]

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Jellyfish Remain in the Florida Newspaper Headlines

August 17, 2011

This has been a big year for jellyfish. It seems like every few weeks they are making headlines by “invading”some Florida beach. Well, now they’re back. In southeast Florida. Apparently they’ve heard that the weather is nice in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton. Moon jellies (Aurelia aurita) are hitting the beaches by the thousands. Though [...]

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Blue Jellyfish Washing Up on Texas Beaches

July 31, 2011

July has brought a lot of Blue Button jellyfish to the Texas beaches. These beautiful jellies are quite harmless. Have you found Blue Buttons? Report your sighting by leaving a comment below this blog post. Visit my Blue Button sightings web page to see where else they are being found and to see more photos. [...]

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Cannonball Jellyfish Common Along Florida’s Atlantic Coast

May 25, 2011

Jason Cristofalo took some great underwater photos of some Cannonball Jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris) swimming off Cocoa Beach, Florida this week and was kind enough to share them with everyone. Here’s what he said in his email to me: I found your website (beachhunter.net) and thought you might be interested in these pictures and video for [...]

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Jellyfish reports from the Florida Panhandle Beaches

March 31, 2011

Oliver Rhudy sent me these photos back on March 10, 2011. He wrote: “I am currently stationed in Pensacola and on a recent trip to Pensacola Beach, there were hundreds of Man-of-War washed up on the beach. I did get stung by a couple on the ankle but did not get medical attention. It was [...]

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Purple-striped Jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca)

March 7, 2011

I get quite a few images of jellyfish emailed to me. Once in a while I receive an image that is unusually beautiful, like this one. I’ve identified this jellyfish as Pelagia noctiluca, commonly known as a Purple-striped jellyfish. It is reported to have a rather strong sting. This jelly was photographed by Chris Kiely [...]

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Box Jellyfish Appearing on Volusia County Beaches

October 19, 2010

The last 2 weeks have been rather quiet as far as jellyfish reports are concerned. Usually I get two to five reports a week. But suddenly  a large number of box jellyfish are being reported in the surf off Volusia County, Florida beaches. Photographer and artist Kem McNair has generously shared the photos he took [...]

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Blue Button (Porpita) Sightings

September 10, 2010

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 [...]

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Blue Button Photo: Porpita porpita from Texas Gulf Coast

August 29, 2010

2010 has been the year of the Blue button. They are washing up in large numbers from Texas beaches through Florida and up the Eastern seaboard to the beaches of North Carolina. This particularly beautiful photo was shared by Leah Miller. It was taken near San Luis Pass / 8-Mile Beach in Galveston Texas in [...]

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When is a Jellyfish NOT a Jellyfish?

July 12, 2010
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Question: When is a jellyfish NOT a jellyfish? Answer: When it’s a siphonophore or a chondrophore. Prefer to listen to this blog post rather than read it? Click the play button on the player below. It’s about 5 minutes of me blathering on about jellyfish: Recently I was taken to task in a politely pedantic [...]

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