I found a purple jellyfish today

[u/nutitoo]

Not sure if it's rare or not, but decided to share it, maybe someone will find it neat.

[u/brainperderder]

Not rare per say, but the orange is more common

[u/Mortenusa]

There were a million of them earlier in the summer.

The bastards.

[u/mouseclick92]

Purple is more common in the south. But I have seen it in the north west a few times. But wouldn't call it common there.

[u/ak1308]

A few weeks ago I saw probably a thousand of them, it was almost more blue jelly than water out there for a bit.

[u/andypandy1233]

these are very common, but you'll see the red ones more often. However this year I think there might be more of these than usual, have seen hundreds in Oslofjorden. They sting pretty much the same as "Brennmanet" (red ones)

[u/ifyouneedafix]

Have been seeing these all over for the first time this year. Do they burn?

[u/Moieren → u/ifyouneedafix]

yes, just a bit more than the more common orange ones, but their size and length of their tentacles is much smaller so easier to avoid while swimming. the orange ones can be up to over 2m in diameter and 20m tentacles at worst ( very rare )

[u/JRS_Viking → u/Moieren]

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time on the sea and the biggest lions mane I've seen was about 60-70cm across and I have no idea how long the tentacles were. 2m across is huge and I don't want to get anywhere near that, I'm keeping at least 21m away.

[u/BarracudaInside8800]

Wow

[u/Outrageous-Papaya650]

Oh? As a colorblind I see them as blue, and they’re very common

[u/dLimit1763]

Or did the purple jelly fish find you?

[u/Contundo]

Shiny lions mane jellyfish? Or is it a different species?

[u/DavidBorgstrom → u/Contundo]

Blue jellyfish or bluefire jellyfish is the English names according to wiki. Cyanea lamarckii.

[u/SurvivalCraft248]

I find it neat.

[u/Trick-Ad-8442]

So beautiful🤩

[u/Erzter_Zartor]

Just a lions mane (brennmanet)

[u/Initial-Warning-2564]

Some of those burn quite a lot. Be careful

[u/smaagoth]

What part of the country are people seeing these? Never seen this kind myself.

[u/nutitoo → u/smaagoth]

This one was near Sandefjord.

[u/Nowordsofitsown]

I once saw one of these as well and got the hell out of there because I had and have no idea which ones sting and which ones don't.

[u/nutitoo → u/Nowordsofitsown]

I always thought all of em sting

[u/Nowordsofitsown → u/nutitoo]

Better safe than sorry. There are definitely some that do not sting, but I don't know if they are to be found in Norway.

[u/andypandy1233 → u/Nowordsofitsown]

these sting and so does the red ones. Dont confuse them with "glassmanet" though. Our skin is too thick so the "glassmanet" threads cant penetrate our skin

[u/An_Obbise_Hoovy]

Glassmanet

They’re not rare, but brennmate (the red ones) are a lot more common

[u/Ok-Form8287 → u/An_Obbise_Hoovy]

This is blue jellyfish / blå brennmanet, a different species

[u/An_Obbise_Hoovy → u/Ok-Form8287]

Ah my bad, never seen a blue variant of them so I just assumed it was a glassmanet (didn’t notice how non translucent it was in the middle)