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porpita

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 blue [...]

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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 pages [...]

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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 enclosed [...]

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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 tide. They [...]

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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 to [...]

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