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Title Date of sighting reporter Image Lat / Lng Description Type of organism Other type
Satellite Beach, Florida… Jellywatcher 27.860 / -80.490

Blue Velellas: 'By the Wind Sailors' scattered

Velella Velella
Velella saradanger Alt text 28.140 / -80.580

There were about a thousand by the wind sailors on the be

Velella Velella
large jelly Android Alt text 51.380 / 1.340 Box Jelly
beautiful clean beach chayatamal Alt text 59.770 / -151.870 Clean sea
clean beach chayatamal Alt text 59.600 / -151.420 Clean sea
jelly ragnarok Android Alt text 27.910 / 34.370 Jellyfish
jelly ukarld Alt text 51.380 / 1.340 Jellyfish
Two Male Alatina Tesserazoa 15.560 / -61.470

Two males (ripe) on night of March 8, 2016.

Box Jelly
so many jellies Android Alt text 27.890 / 34.330

they wash up all day

 Jellyfish
Velella at Point Pinos… John Pearse Alt text 36.640 / -121.930

Large numbers of Velella in high tide strand line evening

Velella Velella
Velella West Cork 3.8.… Jellywatcher 51.600 / -9.630

We initially reported this sighting on Mon 3.8.16.

Velella Velella
Jelly on 2016-3-6 ukarld Alt text 51.390 / 1.350 Jellyfish
Other jelly on 2016-3-6… Android Alt text 27.890 / 34.330 Jellyfish
Velella -- Bodega Bay,… jsones Alt text 38.330 / -123.070

The recent storm brought many Velella velella (millions?)

Velella Velella
Other jelly on 2016-3-5… Android Alt text -41.640 / -73.820

probably Chrysaora spp.

 Jellyfish
Velella velella Jellywatcher Alt text 37.020 / -122.220

I saw many small Velella velella, ranging from <1 cm t

Velella Velella
huge jelly bloom Android Alt text 27.890 / 34.330

they have been coming by the thousand since early Februar

Jellyfish
Bathocyroe in Monterey… beroe Alt text 36.700 / -122.030

And other organisms: Pyrosomes were abundant.

Other Ctenophora
Hula skirt siphonophore… mosskids Alt text 29.190 / -94.960

We found one hula skirt siphonophore freshly washed up on

Other Hula skirt siphonophore
Janthina -- Bodega Bay,… jsones Alt text 38.330 / -123.070

Just a note that Purple Sea Snails (Janthina umbilicata)

Other snail
clean beach/clean sea,… chayatamal Alt text 59.770 / -151.870 Clean sea
large jelly ukarld Alt text 51.380 / 1.340 Jellyfish
Jelly mobile_jellywatcher Alt text 29.260 / -94.830

1 ft diameter

 Jellyfish Mushroom Cap Jellyfish
(part of an) octopus chayatamal Alt text 59.770 / -151.870 Squid
By-The-Wind-Sailor lizava2 27.590 / -97.220

Texas gulf coast; Padre Bali Beach; winds-Southeast.

Velella Velella