Comments on: Jellyfish

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:00:00 +0000

And as a bit of trivia, “Phialella zappai” is a jellyfish, discovered and named after musician Frank Zappa.

By: David S

David S — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:26:41 +0000

A good few years ago now, a friend and I went to Belgium and and when visiting the coast we found the beach to be littered with jellyfish, hundreds of them. I identified them best I could, at the time, as Man O’ War. I’d seen the Moon variety washed up before and ruled this out. These were definitely of the “floating bag of air” variety. I see from the information above that the Man O’War isn’t actually a jellyfish. I didn’t know that.

By: kevin dbrain

kevin dbrain — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:35:57 +0000

In westerly, RI, jellies apear in anormous amounts in august. Mostly footwide man’o'wars and lions mane. But a rare occurance of box jelly have appeared, strangely attracted to the warmernwater in RI. I have found many remedies successful for these different stings. Please email!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kevin
MD

By: Darcy

Darcy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:51:29 +0000

I live in Atlantic Canada, and we don’t have any deadly jellyfish here, just the Arctic Red Jellyfish, and their stings just..well..sting, and lately there have been bigger (averaging half a foot in diameter to 1 and a half feet) ones with longer tentacles compared to last summer. Sadly my first sting this summer was down in my shorts, which to say the least was uncomfortable since i dove into it and a tentacle came off and got stuck down there.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:56:24 +0000

I lived in Hawaii for a while and there were tons of Portugese Man’o'Wars there. I got stung by one once but it must not have been for very long because it didn’t hurt all that much. I applied some meat tenderizer and was back in action in about thirty minutes. Seems like I grew up taught to be really afraid of all jellyfish but have not had very many bad experiences to back up the fear. Same goes with sharks too…. they are soooo much fun to swim with (mostly little ‘uns of course- I might be stupid but I don’t have a death wish).

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:08:21 +0000

GTT, I read in several places that urine doesn’t help at all. Vinegar is only useful to make the tentacle let go; it doesn’t alleviate pain or neutralize the venom.

By: GTT

GTT — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:49:50 +0000

Is vinegar more effective than pee on a jellyfish sting? Or are they the same? I have (thankfully) never had the “pleasure” of being stung but I had always heard the pee thing and would like to be prepared just in case!

By: heather

heather — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:33:20 +0000

Ugh…Man-o-war. That brings back painful memories.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:08:00 +0000

I lived in Taormina, Sicilia for a summer a few years ago… we went to this beach called something like Lido di Pirata and it was amazing… then we went to Isolabella… which because of the coves that go into the coast, collect jellyfish. Not amazing. It looked like soup, with golfball to baseball sized jellyfish in every inch of the water. Needless to say, we didn’t go in.

By: Lalita

Lalita — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:28:22 +0000

bryn, I’m with you. On evening walks with my honey along the beach on vacation, I’m always the one to break the romantic mood, as I step squarely in the middle of a jellyfish that’s suicided on the beach.

Jellyfish are ugly and evil (peal of thunder-flash of lightning).