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Blue Bottle Invasion on coastal beaches | Mollymook News Blue bottles have been washing up on our coastal beaches by the bucket loads recently With their annual arrival, many questions and myths about these creatures seem to be drifting around as well
Bluebottles: Mysterious ocean dwellers | South Coast Sun BLUEBOTTLES are a curse to sea-loving residents of coastal towns The bubble-looking animals wash up on beaches and at some point, everyone has experienced the fiery sting, but few know more about
Beached as! All you need to know about your local beach critters So why do blue bottles wash up on shore? It depends on ocean currents and wind direction Jellyfish are 98 per cent water so they’re highly susceptible to these environmental factors If you head down to the beach and find a full bloom of jellyfish, it’s best to turn right back around and find another location
Want to avoid a bluebottle sting? Heres how to predict which beach . . . If all bluebottle sails pointed the same way, an entire group might pick up a prevailing wind and be blown to shore But when half the group has sails facing the other way, some individuals are blown in a different – and hopefully less perilous – direction
Bluebottle – Ocean Education Conservation Bluebottles can be “left-handed” or “right-handed” – an attribute that stops all of them being blown into shore at once The ridge on top of the float projects either left or right, forming a sail that either sends them in to shore or out to sea, depending on the wind direction
Facts on Bluebottles - Ocean Blue Adventures These strange organisms float in open waters of most oceans and are cast ashore after strong onshore winds (easterlies here in Plett) They have long venomous tentacles typically 3m (can reach up to 10 m) in length hanging below a gas filled bladder that keeps it afloat
Durban beachgoers, beware the sting of the bluebottle - IOL Out in the ocean, blue bottles feed on tiny fish and other floating animals that they immobilise with their stinging cells Bluebottles are related to corals, anemones and jellyfish," the
Bluebottles - Marine Life - South Africa Bluebottles feed on fish, fish larvae and cephalopods They can be found in tropical and temperate oceans across the world Bluebottles belong to the Physaliidae family which is a part of the Siphonophora order It comprises of four distinct individuals – the float, tentacles, organs and sexual organs
Bluebottle winds: north easterly winds bring the bluebottles ashore. Bluebottles can sail either to the right or left depending on which way a crest on the float is angled This means that the wind will push parts of the armarda in different directions to avoid the entire group from being washed ashore However, when the wind is right they are often stranded in large numbers along the east coast of Australia
Bluebottles: Mysterious ocean dwellers - Coast KZN Bluebottles are siphonophores, an odd group of colonial jellyfish Rather than being a single organism like the jellyfish, these are actually made up of several colony members called persons These members include feeding persons, reproductive persons and stinging persons