#Repost @igersjax ・・・ ♻️♻️♻️ #904ThingsToKnow Don’t eat the blue beach candy! 😲 “Porpita Porpita” aka Blue Buttons, or Sea Buttons are not baby jellyfish, as they may first appear, although related... but are a colony of thousands of “hydroids” and are more closely related to the Portuguese Man o’ War, which is often mistaken as a jellyfish itself. ➡️ Jellyfish are singular organisms... ➡️ The Man o’ war and Buttons are entire colonies of smaller, integrated organisms. Blue Button hydroids are basically tiny polyps that bud new hydroids, each becoming an individual life form of their own, and continuing the process of budding until there are chains. They form the disc of the button first, and eventually grow chainlike tentacles in hopes of catching food. Buttons and PMOWs drift around with the current, wind, and waves... whereas jellyfish can propel themselves in a forward direction. In the case of the Blue Button, their tentacles can sting much like the majority of jellyfish, but the poison and pain is relatively minor in comparison. Still... Not good for sandwiches. • 📷: @jacksonvillebeachphotos ↗️↗️↗️↗️Thank you!↖️↖️↖️↖️ • ▶️ #igersjax ▶️ #jaxsquared • @jaxsquared ▶️ #igers_staugustine • @igers_staugustine https://www.instagram.com/p/ByIOGd_n3kc/?igshid=4042nj1603lw