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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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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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Numerous Reports of Blue Button Jellyfish on Florida’s Atlantic Coast

May 31, 2010

For the past week or so I’ve been getting quite a few reports of thousands of blue button jellyfish washing up on the beaches from Jacksonville to Daytona Beach. According to most reports, these jellies do not normally sting, but I’ve had one report that a person believed she was stung by one. I consider [...]

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Blue Button Jellyfish in Gulf Shores

September 22, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlotTheBeach.com. I’ve been getting lots of reports and photos of blue buttons this summer. Most are from either the northern gulf coast, or from the central and northeast Atlantic coast of the state. Several people have commented that they’ve been coming to Florida beaches for decades and have never seen [...]

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Blue Button Jellyfish on Daytona Beach

September 11, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com. I just received an email from Janet U. of Michigan who discovered this blue button jellyfish on Daytona Beach. Amazingly (or perhaps not), no one at the hotel knew what it was. Janet was able to make an identification on the internet and finally ended up on my web [...]

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Blue Button Jellyfish on Guam

September 5, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com. I’ve been getting reports from people spotting blue buttons all around the southeastern US, but this is the first time I’ve had a photo and report from Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean. Here is what Mark wrote: My wife and I too are beach hunters here in Guam, I [...]

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Blue Button Jellyfish Photos from the Florida Panhandle

August 16, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com Here is what Kristi wrote about her encounter with the blue buttons: We were at St Joseph Peninsula State Park on Florida’s panhandle the first weekend in August. We had never seen these jellyfish before, but the beach was littered with them, and more were floating in on the [...]

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Blue Button Jellyfish on Texas Gulf Coast

July 6, 2009

By David McRee of BlogTheBeach.com. Over the 4th of July weekend I’ve received 3 reports from Texas beachcombers of large numbers of blue buttons (Porpita porpita) washing up on the beach. Two specified that they were  on South Padre Island. The photos on this page were sent to me by Kathryn G.  who had this [...]

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Blue Buttons in Destin, Florida

May 12, 2009

Discovering new things is part of the beach experience. Davis Crosby, age 6, shows off his catch of a blue button jellyfish and a tiny crab, found in Destin, Florida. As some readers have pointed out in other posts, the blue button is not a true jellyfish. Rather it is a colony of tiny animals [...]

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