Overwintering Aurelia medusae

Description and Comments

Spotted this moon jelly mid-winter, as well as a couple of others in the week prior. The relatively large sizes (>10cm) suggest to me that these are overwintering medusae. Bloom dynamics here tend to be strongly seasonal but seeing the odd winter medusa suggests that a few survive from the previous year.

Author

Type of organism

Jellyfish

Quantity

1

Latitude

49.32

Longitude

-122.94