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Fried egg jellyfish
John Ensor
SPANISH authorities have warned about a distinct type of jellyfish that is becoming increasingly common along its coastline and beaches.
As the name suggests they look very similar to a fried egg and experts warn their appearance is becoming more frequent around Spain, according to a news source on Saturday, July 1.
There have been numerous warnings about sea creatures recently but this year there is an alert about this new type of jellyfish, which up until now has not populated the beaches of Spain in the same way.
With tourism being such an integral part of the Spanish economy, authorities are concerned about the proliferation of jellyfish. However, it is a wise move to get to know more about the ‘fried egg’ jellyfish and the area of Spain where they have arrived.
The term ‘fried egg jellyfish’ is used to describe the species Cotylorhiza tuberculata.
These jellyfish are characterised by their large size and their striking similarity to a fried egg, complete with thin tentacles.
It has been reported that many bathers have been alarmed by their presence in the Mar Menor area, near Cartagena, where they are seen daily and in great quantity. The good news for locals and tourists is that they are not dangerous to humans, since unlike other species, they do not have stinging tentacles.
However, they are increasingly becoming a nuisance to bathers due to large numbers of them. Experts put this down to a combination of factors, including higher sea temperatures due to climate change and the transparency of the sea which makes them more visible.
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Recently back from our twice a year trip to Spain.
No respect could not agree more. My teachers were always called Sir and even if we met after I had left were always still called Sir (though they all had nicknames).
Re Harry & Megan Bet365 are getting back to me!
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I always enjoy reading local papers when on holiday, but this almost illiterate ‘Scotland stats’ published letter without any evidence or actual facts made me raise my phone and reply...
Right from the start this letter by Jamie JKL Swanson can’t be that accurate, he clearly can’t read. He’s made up stats and blurted them out...
Half educated? Kids in Scotland leave school better or comparable with the UK.
Queen Nicola? not yet.
Violent rapist choose to be gaoled in a women’s prison? Nope, didn’t happen, look into the facts. There was a rather important review to stop this happening.
Four times usual rate of post natal deaths? Are you serious? Nowhere near, the UK is bad in the EU table, well, before England and Wales voted us all out the EU, but you get the gist... This is an outright lie, and a particularly poor taste one.
Salmond bad...? Well as opinions go fair enough, but exonerated.
Humza crooked? Well you’ve got half of Westminster leadership literally getting done for parties during Covid lies, covering for lies, wasting billions during Covid, giving millions in contracts to their friends etc.. and Scotland’s FM has done nothing wrong to be called crooked... yet.
Jamie needs to look at his own life and get that chip off his shoulder.
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I just love reading your articles. Although it has been said that I am further right than Genghis Khan, I think I am towards middle of the road, which my life’s experience tells me most people are.
You constantly write what most people sit and say to each other: sane, intelligent people that is.
Of course trans people should not be allowed to compete against normal people. It is completely nuts. I am glad to see that homosexual people are trying to put a distance between LGB and the rest of the alphabet! Quite correct. Homosexuality has always existed.
My complaint is that, in recent years, those people are not happy just to be accepted, they seem to want to shout about what they are and tell us all that it is ‘better’, when it is obviously not, because if we were all homosexual the human race would disappear.
Don’t you think, Lee, that the current age will go down in history as the ‘whinging age’. Situations with which we coped and just ‘got on with it’ now need parliamentary discussion. Our mortgages at one time went up to 18 per cent!!! We got on with it. In 1973/74 there was a threeday week because of lack of electricity, the generation of which was severely restricted owing to industrial action by coal miners and railway workers! We managed without extra help.
When I first married, we worked for six years without a holiday in order to save for a house. That house we lived in without carpet on the floors. I knitted the children’s jumpers; made dresses, darned socks, without complaining; and worked doing accounts at home at the same time. My husband was an employed butcher. We were ordinary people.
We did not have international holidays, expensive mobile phones, new cars, Xboxes, takeaway food. We did not smoke or drink. I now have a large house in Spain with a swimming pool. People tell me that I am lucky!!!
Nowadays we are supposed to cosset absolutely everybody who does not have whatever. Why can’t they just get on with it and work. The work ethic has disappeared.
And the latest I read was that a woman who was scammed out of life savings thinks that the banks should protect people’s money and it is ‘not our fault’. Why should the rest of us pay for stupidity.
You know, I think that is what I abhor most in life: stupidity.
Going on again sorry Hugs Jane
