What's the difference between a bluebottle and a jellyfish? Isn't one a type of th other?
Bluebottle Jellyfish
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Australian beachgoers can look forward to summer with the hope that a new app could help to prevent jellyfish stings.
The Jellyfish App will contain information regarding jellyfish locations and identities, as well as first aid treatment.
The App is the brainchild of Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services director Lisa-Ann Gerswhin, who came up with the idea over a year ago as two fisherman friends constantly picked her brain for information on jellyfish.
'I would get so many emails and calls from around the world asking for advice about summer holidays, and I thought this would be the best way to give people the information in the palm of their hand,' Dr Gerswhin told AAP.
The app, due to be launched soon, will feature 230 species of jellyfish, with more to be added.
Australian waters are home to deadly jellyfish such as irukandji and box jellyfish.
'But, so many of the jellyfish in our waters are harmless and incapable of stinging,' Dr Gerswhin said.
Australian waters are home to deadly jellyfish such as irukandji and box jellyfish.
Australian waters are home to deadly jellyfish such as irukandji and box jellyfish.
AAP
The quote above was accompanied by a photo of a blue bottle. They mustn't have a picture of a jellyfish![]()
Jim VK2MAD
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'17 Isuzu D-Max
What's the difference between a bluebottle and a jellyfish? Isn't one a type of th other?
Bluebottle Jellyfish
A bluebottle is usually ... blue, but a jellyfish can be white?
A jellyfish has tentacles with stingers attached. A bluebottle has a stinging thread which can be up to metres long, and it wraps around you.
Jellyfish sort of swim whereas bluebottles float with an air sac and are blown and washed around
Jim VK2MAD
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'17 Isuzu D-Max
No mixed messages... I just keep away from them all.. No prob then!![]()
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