Memorial Day Weekend 2013 brought with it strong, gusty southeasterly winds, so I was expecting to get some reports of jellyfish washing ashore around the state. I got reports from The Guisingers of Blue Buttons (Porpita porpita) coming ashore on Cocoa Beach. They were kind enough to send photos, which I’ve posted here. I’ve received […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
