A Portuguese man o' war, like this one in Cuba, was spotted at a Nova Scotia beach.
With a little help from the warming Gulf Stream, Nova Scotia beachgoers are encountering a strange creature with a balloon-like body whose sting packs a bigger punch than that of jellyfish.A Portuguese man-of-war, like this one in Cuba, was spotted at a Nova Scotia beach. They're becoming more common on Nova Scotia's inshore.
" is quite a painful sting. It is just like a jellyfish sting but significantly stronger that lasts around 20 minutes," Johnston said in an interview. A sign warning of a Portuguese man-of-war sighting at Lawrencetown Beach Provincial Park in Lawrencetown, N.S., on Thursday, July 4, 2024. "You could swim without ever seeing the sail or the organisms that could be some 10, 20 or 50 feet away, but the tentacles might still drift behind and sting you," Worm said.
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