jellyfish

This is what you need to know about the mauve stinger jellyfish that are all over our beaches in New Jersey.

Species range from the clinging jellyfish that deliver a "pretty powerful" sting, to Portuguese man o' war whose bite is "definitely serious."

A visitor to Cape May Beach captured an amazing photo of a huge jellyfish that had washed ashore. We know they're stings can be scary, but this jellyfish is a thing of beauty.

Those little, clear, barrel-shaped, and seemingly endless blobs currently swarming the Jersey Shore are salps, and they are nothing to worry about.

Jersey environmental officials issue a warning to swimmers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties after clinging jellyfish have begun populating.

Dangerous jellyfish that first appeared at the Jersey Shore in 2016 have returned already.

Between May and October each year the Barnegat Bay Partnership (on the heels of their State of the Bay Report release), samples with a 50-foot seine net at numerous parts of Barnegat Bay looking for juvenile fish. Officials have come across a variety of estuarine fish since 2012, but among them four are jellyfish species of which certain types have a potent and harmful sting.

There's a video making the rounds about a dangerous species of jellyfish that could return to the Jersey Shore this summer. While it is something to keep in mind -- along with all the other wildlife -- while you swim in the ocean...there are a few other things that you should be much more afraid of at the beach...

Swimmers have had to worry about the increasing presence of stinging sea nettle jellyfish in the Barnegat Bay, but a rare and more dangerous species of box jellyfish with venomous tentacles could reappear in the ocean along the Jersey coast this year.

First posted on the Barnegat Bay Island, NJ Facebook page, take a look at this incredible jellyfish spotted in Point Pleasant Beach!