WESTPORT — Portuguese man-of-war sightings have been bobbing up along area beaches, including in Westport, and beachgoers should take care around these venomous, jellyfish-like sea critters. Sightings ...
Right on schedule, the vibrant but venomous Portuguese man-of-war are washing onto beaches in the Hilton Head Island area. Even after its death, a sting from the species’ barbed tentacles can induce ...
JAMESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Nathan Leonard isn’t afraid of the ocean, but the Jamestown native knows firsthand of the dangers that lurk beneath the water. Leonard tells 12 News that, when he was younger, ...
Sunbathers aren’t the only ones lying belly-up on North Carolina beaches as Memorial Day kicks off the 2025 summer travel season. That beautiful indigo-tinted squish monster, the poisonous Portuguese ...
The creatures are turning up every few feet on some Mississippi Coast beaches, bright-blue but dangerous to the touch. “They’re all along the beach,” Sammy McCardle, a sandbeach foreman in Hancock ...
Rhode Island has its first reported Portuguese man-of-war sting of the summer. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said someone was stung Tuesday at Roger Wheeler State Beach in ...
In this Feb. 20, 2003 file photo, Portuguese men-of-war were plentiful on Fort Lauderdale Beach. The long, dangling tentacles with powerful stinging cells are not visible as they are on the bottom ...
Portuguese men-of-war are marooning themselves on South Florida’s beaches in high numbers this year, likely due to higher winds. While seeming completely harmless, the bluish balloon-like man-of-war ...
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Texas beachgoers report Portuguese man-of-war sightings. What to know and how to treat a sting.
With the weather turning warmer, people visiting beaches in Galveston and other spots along the Texas coast are reporting more Portuguese man-of-war sightings. The species may look pretty and blue or ...
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — Beach attendants at Scarborough State Beach picked up more than 20 Portuguese man-of-war, sea creatures often mistaken for jellyfish, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental ...
WESTPORT, Mass. (WJAR) — Dangerous beach conditions closed a popular Massachusetts beach Sunday evening. Portuguese man-of-wars and intense rip currents were to blame. Horseneck Beach has since ...
Their balloon-like shape and colors of blue, purple or pink can be alluring, but avoid the Portugese man-of-war in the water and on land. The sting is extremely painful, and tentacles can release ...
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