Jellyfish season has started!

I would try to avoid them as best as I could, as I am probably allergic to them too! I live in New Jersey & we do get jellys on occasion. I haven't been down the shore in a while, as I live on the top half now, as far away as you can get & still be in the state! I have always heard New jersey's state bird is the mosquito, but not sure if that is right, although sometimes they seem that big! We have all the standard creatures, bees, wasps, dogs cats, birds...

I have a swimming pool so we have not pests. My cat Abigail puts her tail and paws in the pool but she is loved so not a pest. LOL. A friend went to Mexico and got a bunch of jelly fish under her swim suit and came home with a swim suit shaped rash. I did not see it but I guess it was horrible. I went to Mexico and was stung by a jelly fish. I did not see it but my forearm sure got bitten/stung. You could see whip like areas on my arm. It burned and itched. Good luck with your foot.

Oh my... i don't like to swim when they're around. When I was young there were quite a few harmless ones around and sometimes a few nasty ones. I was never stung by any of them, but I was stung by a fish called.... not really sure if I remember the name in English. The translation is something like spider fish, it sits on the sand close to the shore and has a few spikes that are poisonous and when you get stung it's really painful or worse if you're really allergic to it. I didn't realize I had been stung, I thought I had stepped on some broken shell or something, it was just a few minutes after when it started to really hurt that I realized how bad it was. I didn't want to tell my parents because they had warned me that there were lots of those fish on the beach and told me to wear the special sandals to avoid being stung - and I didn't listen LOL But after a while I couldn't pretend it was nothing anymore.

We have sharks. they really don't cause too much trouble but once in awhile they will attack .we also have bugs that are called no see ums. pain in the butts they are. you don't see them. they attack then ya start itching like crazy.I don't know if we have jelly fish down here. I 'm not too familiar with all the critters down here

i haven't even checked yet-i bet they're out up here also.we get the manowar jellyfish-they're nasty individuals too. they usually make a huge cloud in the bay,i don't bother going in when they are,it's almost impossible not to get stung.

OH MY GOD that thing is horrible. I would never nevr go in the water with something like that. We get jeyllfish here but they are more of a pink color and they look like bags of gut floating in the water. I was stung by one oce as a child and have avoided water with any sign of them since. We also get leaches in our freah water here and the bugs seem to get worse every year, bigger and more of them and new species too. I live in Eastern Canada and we have wasps now that the internet says are native to South Virginia, I don't know how they got here but I wish Virginia would take them back. That's the only thing the really suck about summer, the wierd fish and the bugs.

Well, being born and raised in Florida, I can't say that I miss the jelly fish or the Man-o-war. Those suckers are not always easy to see and from what I have seen with my sister...hurt like heck!!!! But a year and a half ago, I moved to a landlocked state. Go figure! I left sunny Florida for Oklahoma! ha ha Here...the mosquitoes are painful! Don't get me wrong, they can be bad in Florida too. But here, the bite swells up like a wasp sting! Ouch!

Pigeon, For us here in TN its the snakes, copperheads and rattlers. @ weekends ago, my Son was clearing a friends back forty, he stepped of the mower to remove some debris in his way, and a copperhead latched down on his boot. The fangs went through the leather of the boot but missed the foot itself thank god. Another thing that we have although not to dangerous is the wood scorpion, they are a small scorpion, but pack a nasty sting. If stung it will be painful and swollen for a few days. They live around any wooded dark places. Even get into the house if they get the chance.

Here in Western Canada, we have Jellyfish too. I'm not sure what kind they are, but we've seen hundreds of them floating by in the water, when we've been watching the Crabbers at the local marine park. Strangely enough, I haven't seen too many down at the beach, though in saying that, I do tend to keep out of the ocean as much as possible. Our beach has a lot of sharp jagged rocks and I don't really like swimming in the beach sandals so much lol.

Well, since I live inland the only thing we have to worry about at the lakes are snakes. Texas has all 4 kinds of poisonous snakes found in the U.S., rattlesnakes, water mocison (also called cottonmouths,) copperheads and coral snakes. Venom wise, the coral snakes is the worst, they are related to the cobras. But they also put out the last amount when they bite, so the other ones, all pit vipers, kill more people.

Here jelly fish in our seas are brown in color. I don't swim in sea water so have no experience of direct contact with them. What we are fed up with in our home is lizards. They can always be seen on the walls in the kitchen. If any food stuff is kept exposed they are sure to go and lick that. My wife gathered from some magazine that if we keep one or two fresh egg shells they will go away and we did it. It is true that for some hours no lizard can be found. After some time however they come again.

ACK Have they always been so profuse? we went to visit my folks down in south texas and there were tons of them on the beaches of north and south padre island. (gulf of mexico) but I can scarsely remember any being in the oceans when we lived in Panama Canal Zone. weird. That one on the beach seems huge to me, such a lovely purple coloration. the nasty thing! what is their purpose in the eco system anyhow?is it Australia that has those micro mini ones that wallop a deadly venom? why does their poison have to be so strong, what are they planning on doing, eating a whale?Our troublesomest pest (other than poisonous snakes, but more difficult to avoid than snakes) is neither of the air or sea, but in the house hiding waiting... the fiddleback or brown recluse spider.

This reminds me of something that happened when I went years and years ago to Miami Beach---there were actual warnings about swimming in the ocean because of the jelly fish,..and we aren't talking about little teeny guys either..we're talking about those big man of war types...Well one day I decided to swim regardless...so did a lot of other people...sure enough a lot of people were screaming bloody murder..and running for their lives...a whole school of them (the man of wars) were swimming about--BUT none bothered with me..still did get out...what was funny in a way, was that this wasn't too long after those Jaws movies came out...so here we all are worrying about potential shark dangers (had them too there) but instead had to worry about these monster jelly fish. also when I was there, while one day swimming, I did see this big enormous thing come at me...it was a stingray...I wasn't frightened of it..just wishing I had some kind of underwater camera!!

I actually thought the little bugger was cool looking. I have never seen one except on SpongeBob lol. They are kind of pretty. I am sure there are some water pests in the area but since I don't go to the lake I really can't tell you what they are. The pests I can tell you about are the little blood sucking flying ones that love to leave itchy red lumps where ever they can. Those are nothing compaired to those beautiful but creepy critters you have.

OH NO! I really hate them things. I got stung so many times when I was younger on the beach. Its very painful and lasts for awhile. Why do they sting us?

Don't go into the water!!!! Well I have experienced how it was like to be stung by a jellyfish, and it wasn't a very pleasant one. At first I felt something soft caress through my thigh which made me put my hand on my thigh to feel what it was, and so I had been stung on my thigh and my hand. It didn't feel as bad when I was still in the water, but as soon as I got out, it felt so bad. It stings, and hurts sooo bad! The skin becomes really red, I even cried because the pain was so intolerable. But then I think there also are those kinds that do not sting, when I was in the beach with some friends before, there were little jellyfishes and they said that those kind didn't sting. So that was fine.

Where I live in New England most of the pests that we have to deal with are insect. In the spring and summer the ones that I find the most annyoing are the black flies and the ticks. Black flies are very small and annoying, but they pack a major bit, not only do the bites hurt, but they pack a major wallop. I have a horrible reaction to them, the bites swell up huge. Ticks are also horrible. They can carry some really bad diseases, like Lyme disease. So ticks are really dangerous to humans and animals. After being outside (especially in long grass) it is super importnat we check ourselves for ticks. last year my sister had one get under her sandle strap...it bit her so she hasd to go on antibiotics to make sure she didn't get some other illness from it. Evil little things!

Hi pigeon. Years ago, I went to swim with my friends at a beach resort. While dipping myself below the water, I noticed that my whole body was itchy. It became unbearable that I roused up from the water and was surprised to see a lot of marks all over my back and legs. All my friends didn't have any marks at all. After a few minutes, the marks turned to rashes. Being a bunny born with allergies, I came prepared. I immediately took one anithistamnine tablet and applied herbal ointment. There is something in my blood that tend to attract a lot of allergens. It was an experience I can't forget until now. Since then, I stayed away from beach and simply enjoyed swimming in the pool. I don't like to have another jellyfish attack on me, LOL!

Yes i agree, we should really watch for those little transparent creatures. Since some of them can really pack a very painful sting. I definitely wouldn't want one near me.