Although a few kinds of jellyfish can cause life-threatening stings, mostly it just burns, swells, itches, and leaves tracks along your skin. Here's how you treat it Rinse your skin in salt water.

They’ll face traffic jams, algae blooms, sunburn and a rising threat – painful jellyfish encounters ... touched against what she thinks was a mauve stinger, a small jelly with long tentacles ...

Their stings are like minute harpoons fired by springs and are not powerful enough to pierce our thick skin. These are smaller than moon jellyfish, roughly the diameter of a ruler - 30cm or ...

This phyllosoma, a lobster larva, is just 1.2 centimetres across. With a flattened body and eyes on stalks, its spindly legs grip the empty bell of a small dead jellyfish, a mauve stinger. When alive, ...

In September 2022, over 200 people were stung by thousands of Mauve stinger jellyfish, which rose from ... most victims report skin irritations and rashes that last up to two weeks.

The report cited another example in which overpopulation of Pelagia noctiluca jellyfish, known commonly as ”the mauve stinger,” contributed to fish populations dropping in the Adriatic about ...