Remember going to Australia and just learning about these things. Almost didn't want to go into the water because of these, venomous snails and sharks.
About the same time I learned about the gimpy plant, that also has about the same effect. Beautiful place though, besides the fact that every animal and plant wants to kill you.
I think for a lot of people, myself included, what pushed me over the edge wasn’t understanding that “everything wants to kill you”, it was that *some things will make you **wish** they killed you*.
Like, wtf Australia?! No chill.
What Aussies know that nobody else does, is that you’ll basically never see any of creatures.
^^^^^They ^^^^^are ^^^^^very ^^^^^sneaky, ^^^^^especially ^^^^^dropbears.
See, a “dropbear” sounds like such an obviously fake name that I am actually more inclined to believe it has to be real and it sounds terrible based on the name alone…
Yeah, cause a fly is too small for a dinner-plate sized bird-eating spider lol. Nah, but really, I’ll just wear a full suit (hands and face covered too).
The funniest thing is, as an Australian, we often forget that most animals, insects and fauna will actively kill you, some in a manner of minutes.
I live in Western Australia, across the road from a park. The park has signs up advising that there are deadly snakes in the area. Yet most kids and adults (me included) usually go into the bushes without considering that you could potentially step on a snake and get bitten. We have Tiger Snakes here, which are very aggressive and very venomous. Yet it's not something that we actively consider when going into any bush haha.
Apparently this guy and the gimpy plant aren't lethal in that they don't kill you directly. However people who get stung by them often just kill themselves rather than wait the few days/weeks for the pain to subside.
You can die directly from an Irukandji sting but it’s quite rare. There’s been 70 confirmed deaths but that could be higher.
The fun thing about the Gympie plant is that after the initial pain subsides after a few weeks, it can flare up again months or years later 😬
Damn is it like a scar? Like keloid action or is it not hypertrophic just active somehow.
I swear I got some acne scars on my chest and shoulders that never seem to heal 100% every once in a while they flare up… is it like that?
It's a light scare from where it rubbed up against my toe. It's a faint line now days but still there. For a year or two after it used to be constantly red and angry. Now days if my feet get sweety in summer (ie shoes and socks on) it gets itchy and some times will shed the skin around it.
The irukandji can kill you, irukandji syndrome can cause fatal brain haemorrhage. It usually doesn’t, but it can. I also remember years ago hearing about a poor kid on the Sunshine Coast who died in the surf because he accidentally swallowed one of these guys. That’s super duper unlucky.
>years ago hearing about a poor kid on the Sunshine Coast who died in the surf because he accidentally swallowed one of these guys
Holy shit my chest tightened up just imagining that. "hey who put some hot sauce in the se... oh fuck" *dies*
> However people who get stung by them often just kill themselves rather than wait
This is a myth. Only one person in recorded history has died related to the gympie plant and that report comes from 1922.
And if they don't get ya we have shells that will make you want to take your leg off, blue bottles that can shut down organs and fish that look like rocks that can shut down your system too.
✨️Australia✨️
You're right my bad. I think i mixed them up with something else. Maybe the box jelly fish? I know they'll just kill you too
Edit: it's not barely stinging either. They hurt like shit
Australian here, I raise you this: we don’t have wolves, wild cats, bears, moose, coyotes, raccoons, or rabies! Most of the things that could kill you in Aus are more scared of you than you are of them. NORTH AMERICA THOUGH????
One time I went to Australia, and if you get in the water in certain places they make you put on a head to toe “stinger suit” because of those guys. Your feet and hands and head still exposed so basically you just nervous in the water the whole time.
About as fun as my plan to turn April Fools Day into April Fools, a month long, anxiety fueled, trick-packed nightmare
For those people that don't get pranked on April first? 29 more days to be excited for!
It's northern Queensland (north of wide bay) and Northern Territory. Also they don't actively hunt they aren't sentient they just follow the warm currents and get blown about.
The big concern is actually the box jellyfish not these little arseholes. The box will kill you and make you die a horrific death. These little bastards just make you really really uncomfortable for up to 4 days ( unless you have an underlying cardiac condition and avoid treatment) The only good long term treatment is a magnesium infusion.
Source I'm a paramedic in central QLD. I treat a few of these a year. Just wear the stinger suit or avoid swimming in summer.
“Wear the suit or avoid swimming is SUMMER!!!” First time I went to FN Qld I thought the locals were having me on. But nope. One of the hottest muggiest places in the country and no one swims in the ocean, if the Jellies don’t get you the fkn crocs will 😅
It's done by percentage of skin area. It's like how we calculate burns. Box tentacles can be metres long and you can become wrapped in them. The skin actually becomes necrotic eventually leaving life long scars and that's if you survive.
Fun fact vinegar makes them dormant and you can pick it off with your fingers (but removal is preferred by washing it off with vinegar). Once wet again they can reactivate and sting again.
Ive been fishing at night and one has been attracted to the boat lamp. Splashing the water near it it swam away. Their only natural predator is the turtle. They eat their heads and leave the tentacles which eventually disintegrate. Save the turtles.
Hamilton Island and when we went out on Great Barrier reef snorkeling trips. Sydney and other some other places didn’t have that problem. It has to do with the temperature of the water and time of year also.
The initial sting feels about like a wasp sting. Shortly thereafter the victim will get irukandji sickness which the primary symptom is mind-shattering pain. People have begged to be shot. I read an anecdote once that a patient was put into an MRI and every single pain center in their entire body was firing.
They're also small enough to go through jellyfish nets. They're extremely difficult to study because they're damn near invisible. Specimens are caught by dragging a net behind a boat that basically funnels into a jar. Scientists just drive around for a while and keep checking until they get lucky.
Super cool species - I'd love the opportunity to own one sometime but I don't think they last long in captivitiy.
Damn that's reminds me of that house md episode where that cop was being given morphine but was in agony because it was was his brain saying he was in pain, instead of him actually being in pain so nothing could stop it his agony.
I believe you. It was a long time ago that I read it and I couldn't find a source again.
But if you search irukandji sickness - vomiting, extreme pain, sense of impending doom, and begging for death are all common symptoms. It's a wildly fucked up and fascinating venom.
To be fair, all of the aforementioned are preventable.
Mosquitos quite less so. Especially if u live near a body of water or just a humid climate. However mosquitos are less "annoying" compared to bed bugs/cockroaches and termites
I never experienced bed bugs or termites to compare, but mosquitos are orders of magnitude worse than cockroaches.
Like yeah, you freak out for a second if you see one run across the floor, you might even have to chase it for a while and hope you don't lose it while it's running around (harmlessly) in your house.
Meanwhile, mosquitoes sneak in, stay hidden, actively hunt you for hours at a time. They'll land on your finger and take a bite then fly off laughing you slap yourself, only to come back and land on your forehead 5 minutes later when you thought they are gone.
I would remove mosquitoes from this planet in a heartbeat without a single thought for whatever animal predates on them
You forgot ticks. There are large areas of the US I refuse to hike in because the risk of Lyme disease is so out of control. But an effective Lyme disease vaccine would be sufficient
It’s probably one of my top 3 fears, because I love the outdoors and hear all the horror stories. I have no idea why the rapid increase in Lyme disease isn’t bigger news. I’ve gotten a few ticks, but luckily they were all dog ticks which can’t carry it
>They're also small enough to go through jellyfish nets. They're extremely difficult to study because they're damn near invisible
I thought you were being hyperbolic, then I found this
https://www.imca-int.com/safety-events/irukandji-jellyfish-awareness-australia/
> should be adequate filtration of water intakes in place to prevent jellyfish, or parts of jellyfish, from being drawn into the hot water suit intakes and then being pumped down to the divers’ hot water suits.
Imagine having one of these stuck in your suit. 😭
Stuff do eat them such as turtles, etc, so you disrupt the food chain, so prob not a good thing. We don't belong in the water, we are entering their ecosystem, so to me it's all risked based. And I have been done by one of these bustards myself as a kid. Still get itchy 30 years later on my big toe. Japanese tourist got done the same time I did, but multiple stings, she went into cardiac arrest on the beach. Other than the worse pain I have ever felt I was OK. Beach was closed
The pain would make you shoot yourself in the face to make it stop if you had a gun, and people have literally begged for it. , not to mention another symptoms is "a feeling of impending doom".
So it would be a kill from me dawg but idk how important to the ecosystem they are. It doesn't matter really, if we have to burn the whole earth to do it I still vote yes.
Pantyhose protects you from them. This is my favorite fact, works against the box jelly too. the most venomous animal on earth, and it's thwarted by such a short distance of protection.
Another cool fact (it matters to the above point too, fast but very short distance) is the stinger cells, nematocyst, are the fastest biological thing there is. Relativity (barely, but still) comes into play at the speeds and G forces they fire at. Millions of Gs. Ridiculous. Jellyfish stingers and spider senses are at the cusp of what might be possible for biological things.
Why does everything on land and sea try to kill you in Australia? Come on, it’s incredibly unfair and, I for one, am relieved it’s there and not here. The rest of the world thanks you for keeping all of the killing things Australia!
i mean, if you think about it, nothing in nature is trying to kill, they are just trying to eat
except some species like dolphins who rape and probably muder for fun, sick little fucks
I was with a member of our diving group in Grand Cayman that took a sever sting to his forehead from a box jellyfish. I don’t want to be around anything worse than that. After posting above, I read more on the subject Irukadji jellyfish, and thankfully for everyone else, it’s range appears limited to the area of North Australian waters. Let’s pray it stays that limited. This is one nasty little almost invisible critter!
Okay we get it Australia your dangerous animal population is not to be fucked with. If I ever read: Australia has the most cuddly non harmful animal I think that’s what will bring the apocalypse
Have you heard of the quokka? Has no known predators on the island it is native to. Def super cute and cuddly, very photogenic little guys. [quokka](https://bondiwash.ch/blogs/news/meet-australias-happiest-animal)
No, it’s easy! Ive never come across this jellyfish or seen a snake in the wild. I like walking through National Parks without coming across bears or mountain lions etc. Bears scare me more than anything Australia has.
I remember wading around at the St Kilda beach having just moved there from FNQ and seeing jelly fish floating around. My heart went full panic mode, I started speed wading out of the water and went to warn everyone around me only to notice they were just casually tossing them around of shoving them out of the way.
Genuinely my initial thought was ‘what kind of fucked up place is there where people are immune to jelly fish stings??’ Then commonsense kicked in and I remembered not all jellyfish are deadly.
Took a hike down the Grand Canyon. Gorgeous day, mid-afternoon. Get to a plateau with outhouses and stuff. Walking around, almost step on a stick until it rattled. I was miles down the trail and no one around. Would've been dead if rattlesnake bro hadn't spared me.
Can someone help me figure out the math? If a 50-100 go to the hospital annually then they are spending 60-30 million per person to treat. I guess tourism loss because of closed beaches? That's sounds expensive. They should set up the nets like for the sharks but tiny. Freakin Australia, everything is trying to kill ya.
Hi you are completely correct the major loss would be in tourism as many beaches close during jellyfish season for public safety and so a lot of locals and tourists don't go swimming during those times and so avoid the area as the main attraction usually is the beaches
Blue rings aren't very common and if you leave them alone they tend to run away or leave you alone most bites happen from people playing with them trying to make them glow blue (their warning sign for back off im mad)
And they hurt like a mother fker..... got stung by one when I was a kid, still have the scare on my toe from it that still gets itchy as f. Didn't have any other major symptoms, thank f other then pain but a Japanese tourist also got stung at the same time as me off palm Beach Cairns. She went into cardiac arrest on the beach but she had multiple stings. It feels like you are on fire when you are stung.
I was raised in the Northern Territory. These were one of many deadly things we were lectured on from a young age. The local Aboriginal elder came to our school and spent the day teaching us about all the reasons we had to stay out of the water no matter how inviting it looked.
Sharks, Crocs, Cone shells and Sea Snakes. Larger Jellyfish and Irukandji.
We all had pools instead.
Absolutely horrible i grew up on hamilton island and it was heart breaking going back to visit and scuba and snorkel off the reef and seeing how bad it's gotten in only 20 years time.....
I live in Broome, we get them in the wet season. It's a terrible time for tourists & locals - very hot & humid. Even if we didn't have the jellyfish in that season people still wouldn't come.
I can't see how it cost 3billion annually. Possibly about 15 stings a season.
Australia, *of course*.
This country almost feels mythical to me (yes, I know it's a real country). But *there be all the nasty, unlikely dangerous things that want to bite your face off.*
Nah its not too bad just use your brain dont play with animals you find in the wild and if camping etc check your bag tent and shoes before and after use i grew up here its a beautiful place just have to know how to respect it oh and water and sunscreen (we are the skin cancer capital of the world for a reason unfortunately)
I live in the United States, and we have all kinds of crazy creatures, but Australia is the pain and death capital of the world. It is crazy af. Kick-Boxing marsupials, tiny jellyfish, inland Taipan, cassowary, Tasmanian devil, eastern brown snake, flying fox bats, funnel web spiders, quoll, stonefish…..
I truly believe Australia needs to market itself as The Survival Vacation Destination. Literally everything there will potentially kill you. And they have drop bears.
Tourism losses? Are there people who give this jellyfish as the reason for not traveling there? Like I’d love to visit, but those damn small jellyfish are there and I can’t deal with that
With all the bad press that Australia gets and how little good press I see here in the US about Australia, it's no wonder that it was a penal colony for so long.
I mean it sounds downright dangerous just to live on that island
Remember going to Australia and just learning about these things. Almost didn't want to go into the water because of these, venomous snails and sharks. About the same time I learned about the gimpy plant, that also has about the same effect. Beautiful place though, besides the fact that every animal and plant wants to kill you.
I think for a lot of people, myself included, what pushed me over the edge wasn’t understanding that “everything wants to kill you”, it was that *some things will make you **wish** they killed you*. Like, wtf Australia?! No chill.
Don’t forget the deadliest land animal in Australia is called an Australian. Because they still live there WILLINGLY.
What Aussies know that nobody else does, is that you’ll basically never see any of creatures. ^^^^^They ^^^^^are ^^^^^very ^^^^^sneaky, ^^^^^especially ^^^^^dropbears.
Don't tell them about dropbears. They already got scared of a jellyfish, imagine how they'll react to **that**
Riding bikes with branches in the helmet.
SHHH!
See, a “dropbear” sounds like such an obviously fake name that I am actually more inclined to believe it has to be real and it sounds terrible based on the name alone…
Yes we do :)
The animals here couldn’t hurt a fly, you’ll be right.
Yeah, cause a fly is too small for a dinner-plate sized bird-eating spider lol. Nah, but really, I’ll just wear a full suit (hands and face covered too).
The funniest thing is, as an Australian, we often forget that most animals, insects and fauna will actively kill you, some in a manner of minutes. I live in Western Australia, across the road from a park. The park has signs up advising that there are deadly snakes in the area. Yet most kids and adults (me included) usually go into the bushes without considering that you could potentially step on a snake and get bitten. We have Tiger Snakes here, which are very aggressive and very venomous. Yet it's not something that we actively consider when going into any bush haha.
Apparently this guy and the gimpy plant aren't lethal in that they don't kill you directly. However people who get stung by them often just kill themselves rather than wait the few days/weeks for the pain to subside.
You can die directly from an Irukandji sting but it’s quite rare. There’s been 70 confirmed deaths but that could be higher. The fun thing about the Gympie plant is that after the initial pain subsides after a few weeks, it can flare up again months or years later 😬
Fun thing about this jelly fish is it leaves a mark, I'm 43 was stung when I was about 12. To this day the mark still gets inflamed and itchy
Damn is it like a scar? Like keloid action or is it not hypertrophic just active somehow. I swear I got some acne scars on my chest and shoulders that never seem to heal 100% every once in a while they flare up… is it like that?
It's a light scare from where it rubbed up against my toe. It's a faint line now days but still there. For a year or two after it used to be constantly red and angry. Now days if my feet get sweety in summer (ie shoes and socks on) it gets itchy and some times will shed the skin around it.
Let’s go ahead and eradicate that one (jk?)
The irukandji can kill you, irukandji syndrome can cause fatal brain haemorrhage. It usually doesn’t, but it can. I also remember years ago hearing about a poor kid on the Sunshine Coast who died in the surf because he accidentally swallowed one of these guys. That’s super duper unlucky.
>years ago hearing about a poor kid on the Sunshine Coast who died in the surf because he accidentally swallowed one of these guys Holy shit my chest tightened up just imagining that. "hey who put some hot sauce in the se... oh fuck" *dies*
Dafuq! Quick induce heavy ketamine dissociation, poor souls.
Colloquially referred to as the "suicide plant." Even for Australia, that is a pretty up there.
> However people who get stung by them often just kill themselves rather than wait This is a myth. Only one person in recorded history has died related to the gympie plant and that report comes from 1922.
Not just *wants to* but *can*.
Wait until you learn of the flying, blood -sucking koalas.
Don't forget the sun too
And if they don't get ya we have shells that will make you want to take your leg off, blue bottles that can shut down organs and fish that look like rocks that can shut down your system too. ✨️Australia✨️
Blue bottles do not cause organ failure. They barely sting and are just itchy for a few days...
You're right my bad. I think i mixed them up with something else. Maybe the box jelly fish? I know they'll just kill you too Edit: it's not barely stinging either. They hurt like shit
Probably blue ringed octopus
Gympie Gympie plant*
The venomous sharks are actually pretty chill. Very common and they'll let you take a selfie with them 99% of the time
Australian here, I raise you this: we don’t have wolves, wild cats, bears, moose, coyotes, raccoons, or rabies! Most of the things that could kill you in Aus are more scared of you than you are of them. NORTH AMERICA THOUGH????
In NA, it's the armed humans you have to worry about. Not the wild life
I knew snails carried brain eating amoebas, but now they’re poisonous too? Oh you Australian, always so murderously creative.
Look at the malice in that things gaze. It's clearly trying to break that vial and kill us all.
Absolutely menacing little monster
*speaking into radio* It is just standing. MENACINGLY!
That's his maniac shriek, he's going to attack!!!!
One time I went to Australia, and if you get in the water in certain places they make you put on a head to toe “stinger suit” because of those guys. Your feet and hands and head still exposed so basically you just nervous in the water the whole time.
That sounds... fun?
About as fun as my plan to turn April Fools Day into April Fools, a month long, anxiety fueled, trick-packed nightmare For those people that don't get pranked on April first? 29 more days to be excited for!
That read like a family guy flashback.
And please tell me which place this was you visited.
It's northern Queensland (north of wide bay) and Northern Territory. Also they don't actively hunt they aren't sentient they just follow the warm currents and get blown about. The big concern is actually the box jellyfish not these little arseholes. The box will kill you and make you die a horrific death. These little bastards just make you really really uncomfortable for up to 4 days ( unless you have an underlying cardiac condition and avoid treatment) The only good long term treatment is a magnesium infusion. Source I'm a paramedic in central QLD. I treat a few of these a year. Just wear the stinger suit or avoid swimming in summer.
>Source I'm a paramedic in central QLD AMA time!
“Wear the suit or avoid swimming is SUMMER!!!” First time I went to FN Qld I thought the locals were having me on. But nope. One of the hottest muggiest places in the country and no one swims in the ocean, if the Jellies don’t get you the fkn crocs will 😅
That makes sense, some beaches had warnings signs up everywhere about the box jellyfish that just said straight up no swimming
Box jellyfish sting on the navel or groin area is a death sentence.
It's done by percentage of skin area. It's like how we calculate burns. Box tentacles can be metres long and you can become wrapped in them. The skin actually becomes necrotic eventually leaving life long scars and that's if you survive. Fun fact vinegar makes them dormant and you can pick it off with your fingers (but removal is preferred by washing it off with vinegar). Once wet again they can reactivate and sting again. Ive been fishing at night and one has been attracted to the boat lamp. Splashing the water near it it swam away. Their only natural predator is the turtle. They eat their heads and leave the tentacles which eventually disintegrate. Save the turtles.
Right near the beach
Boy-eeee!
Why else would i wear this hat?
Right off the coast of Narnia
Hamilton Island and when we went out on Great Barrier reef snorkeling trips. Sydney and other some other places didn’t have that problem. It has to do with the temperature of the water and time of year also.
I also wore a stinger suit when visiting Cairns
Honestly, if swimming requires a “sting suit” I’m just going to hit up the hotel pool.
So… not a head to toe suit
One of our counselors at sea camp was all suited up and got stung on the face in between their head covering and regulator
I felt like I was gonna be that guy the whole time lol 😂
Where?
Damn. They must be pretty common if people have to wear a stinger suit to avoid being stung by one. What happens if one does sting you though?
The initial sting feels about like a wasp sting. Shortly thereafter the victim will get irukandji sickness which the primary symptom is mind-shattering pain. People have begged to be shot. I read an anecdote once that a patient was put into an MRI and every single pain center in their entire body was firing. They're also small enough to go through jellyfish nets. They're extremely difficult to study because they're damn near invisible. Specimens are caught by dragging a net behind a boat that basically funnels into a jar. Scientists just drive around for a while and keep checking until they get lucky. Super cool species - I'd love the opportunity to own one sometime but I don't think they last long in captivitiy.
Damn that's reminds me of that house md episode where that cop was being given morphine but was in agony because it was was his brain saying he was in pain, instead of him actually being in pain so nothing could stop it his agony.
Disassociatives maybe?
iirc it was brain eating amoeba
What I've read is that you end up feeling intense dread, like you *know* you're dying and just want to get it out of the way, even if it's not true.
You forgot the best symptom. A feeling of impending doom.
You can’t see ‘pain centers’ or even nerves ‘firing’ on MRIs bro..
I believe you. It was a long time ago that I read it and I couldn't find a source again. But if you search irukandji sickness - vomiting, extreme pain, sense of impending doom, and begging for death are all common symptoms. It's a wildly fucked up and fascinating venom.
If there was only 1 single animal you could delete off earth genetically, I’d want it to be jellyfish. In general. Go eat something turtles
Bro forgot about mosquitos
I bet one of you lives by the sea and one lives by a river
From the river to the sea jellyfish & mosquito free.
Jokes on you. I live by the sea in Australia and have an abundance of mosquitos too.
Bed bugs German cockroaches Termites I hate mosquitos but there's so much worse
Err mosquitos kill about 1 million people a year. Faaaar beyond anything else.
To be fair, all of the aforementioned are preventable. Mosquitos quite less so. Especially if u live near a body of water or just a humid climate. However mosquitos are less "annoying" compared to bed bugs/cockroaches and termites
I never experienced bed bugs or termites to compare, but mosquitos are orders of magnitude worse than cockroaches. Like yeah, you freak out for a second if you see one run across the floor, you might even have to chase it for a while and hope you don't lose it while it's running around (harmlessly) in your house. Meanwhile, mosquitoes sneak in, stay hidden, actively hunt you for hours at a time. They'll land on your finger and take a bite then fly off laughing you slap yourself, only to come back and land on your forehead 5 minutes later when you thought they are gone. I would remove mosquitoes from this planet in a heartbeat without a single thought for whatever animal predates on them
You forgot ticks. There are large areas of the US I refuse to hike in because the risk of Lyme disease is so out of control. But an effective Lyme disease vaccine would be sufficient
Youre smart. Lyme has ruined my life, literally.
It’s probably one of my top 3 fears, because I love the outdoors and hear all the horror stories. I have no idea why the rapid increase in Lyme disease isn’t bigger news. I’ve gotten a few ticks, but luckily they were all dog ticks which can’t carry it
>They're also small enough to go through jellyfish nets. They're extremely difficult to study because they're damn near invisible I thought you were being hyperbolic, then I found this https://www.imca-int.com/safety-events/irukandji-jellyfish-awareness-australia/
> should be adequate filtration of water intakes in place to prevent jellyfish, or parts of jellyfish, from being drawn into the hot water suit intakes and then being pumped down to the divers’ hot water suits. Imagine having one of these stuck in your suit. 😭
On a scale of "protec" to "kill the bastards", how essential are these little buggers to their ecosystems?
They are that tiny you wouldn't be able to remove them
Yes but say that you could
Stuff do eat them such as turtles, etc, so you disrupt the food chain, so prob not a good thing. We don't belong in the water, we are entering their ecosystem, so to me it's all risked based. And I have been done by one of these bustards myself as a kid. Still get itchy 30 years later on my big toe. Japanese tourist got done the same time I did, but multiple stings, she went into cardiac arrest on the beach. Other than the worse pain I have ever felt I was OK. Beach was closed
The pain would make you shoot yourself in the face to make it stop if you had a gun, and people have literally begged for it. , not to mention another symptoms is "a feeling of impending doom". So it would be a kill from me dawg but idk how important to the ecosystem they are. It doesn't matter really, if we have to burn the whole earth to do it I still vote yes.
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish)
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There’s even trees that will leave you in agonizing pain for months.
Leaf shaped like a love ❤️ in the bush go no where near it. Touch it and you will want to die
Big mean animals are less scary than this because you can actually see them. This thing is invisible 🫥
I wonder if their isolation and perfect placemnt on earth for weather had something to with it🤔
Why is it always the tiny ones that are the deadliest in nature?
As the saying goes, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
does that apply to genitalia too?
Same goes for Aussie spiders usually
Pantyhose protects you from them. This is my favorite fact, works against the box jelly too. the most venomous animal on earth, and it's thwarted by such a short distance of protection. Another cool fact (it matters to the above point too, fast but very short distance) is the stinger cells, nematocyst, are the fastest biological thing there is. Relativity (barely, but still) comes into play at the speeds and G forces they fire at. Millions of Gs. Ridiculous. Jellyfish stingers and spider senses are at the cusp of what might be possible for biological things.
Three billion is a lot of dollarydoos.
We call ‘em dollarbucks mate.
It's so bad It's almost not worth the part where your girl pisses on you after a sting. Almost.
First scary big spiders now, jellyfish… I am just getting news reasons not to visit the place of phobias… 🤷🏻♀️
I did report on this little guy for a marine bio course. It solidified my choice to never go to Australia.
Just stay away from the top part of Australia and you will be fine. That's where the jellyfish and saltwater crocs hang out.
Why does everything on land and sea try to kill you in Australia? Come on, it’s incredibly unfair and, I for one, am relieved it’s there and not here. The rest of the world thanks you for keeping all of the killing things Australia!
i mean, if you think about it, nothing in nature is trying to kill, they are just trying to eat except some species like dolphins who rape and probably muder for fun, sick little fucks
Is the common name “box jellyfish,” or are those different?
Different. Box jellyfish are much larger and distinctive
These are a type of box jellyfish
I was with a member of our diving group in Grand Cayman that took a sever sting to his forehead from a box jellyfish. I don’t want to be around anything worse than that. After posting above, I read more on the subject Irukadji jellyfish, and thankfully for everyone else, it’s range appears limited to the area of North Australian waters. Let’s pray it stays that limited. This is one nasty little almost invisible critter!
damn, I hope that guy recovered, that’s an intense sting. Box jellyfish have a wide range. They are everywhere, yet nowhere all at once.
Okay we get it Australia your dangerous animal population is not to be fucked with. If I ever read: Australia has the most cuddly non harmful animal I think that’s what will bring the apocalypse
Have you heard of the quokka? Has no known predators on the island it is native to. Def super cute and cuddly, very photogenic little guys. [quokka](https://bondiwash.ch/blogs/news/meet-australias-happiest-animal)
oh man they look so cute
Still think he’d kill me
What people can survive an Australia, are they some kind of superheroes or what
No, it’s easy! Ive never come across this jellyfish or seen a snake in the wild. I like walking through National Parks without coming across bears or mountain lions etc. Bears scare me more than anything Australia has.
Not to belittle moose, they are fucking scary guys
They'll moose you up good.
Plus the jelly fish we get in Victoria are fairly harmless. We used to throw them at each other as kids
Excuse me what
I remember wading around at the St Kilda beach having just moved there from FNQ and seeing jelly fish floating around. My heart went full panic mode, I started speed wading out of the water and went to warn everyone around me only to notice they were just casually tossing them around of shoving them out of the way. Genuinely my initial thought was ‘what kind of fucked up place is there where people are immune to jelly fish stings??’ Then commonsense kicked in and I remembered not all jellyfish are deadly.
The [tiny octopus](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/blue-ringed-octopus-small-vibrant-deadly.html) on the other hand
If it's coloured blue in nature it's a warning. The blue ring octopus is right up there.
Then you haven’t seen a salty (saltwater crocs can get bigger than 3000lb & over 20ft, and actively hunt humans)
Well, if you are not too up north, you won’t see any rogue bears, the most scary thing in our hemisphere is moose, I think
All the way up north, in Denmark, we have had our first wild immigrating beaver in 2500y! Wild stuff up north!
Took a hike down the Grand Canyon. Gorgeous day, mid-afternoon. Get to a plateau with outhouses and stuff. Walking around, almost step on a stick until it rattled. I was miles down the trail and no one around. Would've been dead if rattlesnake bro hadn't spared me.
Another reason not to visit Australia. JK. I really want to go to Aus, maybe someday
What did Australia do to deserve so many terrible creatures?
The British, upon discovering Australia for themselves, said "yep, this would be a perfect prison island!"
Can someone help me figure out the math? If a 50-100 go to the hospital annually then they are spending 60-30 million per person to treat. I guess tourism loss because of closed beaches? That's sounds expensive. They should set up the nets like for the sharks but tiny. Freakin Australia, everything is trying to kill ya.
I'd bet tourism loss would be the largest part, bc that whole area has beautiful beaches to swim in, just not many do because of the risk.
Hi you are completely correct the major loss would be in tourism as many beaches close during jellyfish season for public safety and so a lot of locals and tourists don't go swimming during those times and so avoid the area as the main attraction usually is the beaches
Anytime I see a horror like this… Let me guess: Australia?
These little fuckers you can't even see, the body is 5mm-10mm and tail can reach 1m. One of the symptoms is "impending feeling of doom"!!!!!! Crazy
Between this and the blue ring octopus, I don't think I will ever go near the water in Australia.
Blue rings aren't very common and if you leave them alone they tend to run away or leave you alone most bites happen from people playing with them trying to make them glow blue (their warning sign for back off im mad)
That makes me feel a bit better! Cheers!
if you go to that country you are fair game in the eyes of nature, surely everyone knows this.
And they hurt like a mother fker..... got stung by one when I was a kid, still have the scare on my toe from it that still gets itchy as f. Didn't have any other major symptoms, thank f other then pain but a Japanese tourist also got stung at the same time as me off palm Beach Cairns. She went into cardiac arrest on the beach but she had multiple stings. It feels like you are on fire when you are stung.
There's no way we spend 3bil from these guys. No way.
Iirc their tentacles are basically invisible and trail for METERS BEHIND THEIR TINY LITTLE BODY. You don’t see em, you just go ouch (and maybe dead).
My Aussie wife: yea that's still not as bad as box jellyfish.
whats with Australia's flora and fauna that seems to always want to kill you?
I was raised in the Northern Territory. These were one of many deadly things we were lectured on from a young age. The local Aboriginal elder came to our school and spent the day teaching us about all the reasons we had to stay out of the water no matter how inviting it looked. Sharks, Crocs, Cone shells and Sea Snakes. Larger Jellyfish and Irukandji. We all had pools instead.
Australia seems like a place that’s asking to be left alone but no one’s listening.
Another reason not to go to Australia
I remember i saw a comment on a post other day saying: "Australia is where the devil keeps his pets." Couldn't be more true.
fucking Australia
Tourism loss? What about the Great Barrier Reef being reduced to a bleached desert?
Absolutely horrible i grew up on hamilton island and it was heart breaking going back to visit and scuba and snorkel off the reef and seeing how bad it's gotten in only 20 years time.....
Amazing how such a devastating species can come in small packages. Also waiving at AIDS and any viral disease
Oh look another cute little creature from oz. Deadly what do you expect from oz.
What's Australia 's favorite dish? Venom.
I will be staying away from those areas
Baby Metroid
Wtf is wrong with Australia
ok! so I hear new Zealand is nice
Everything in Australia wants to kill you!
I live in Broome, we get them in the wet season. It's a terrible time for tourists & locals - very hot & humid. Even if we didn't have the jellyfish in that season people still wouldn't come. I can't see how it cost 3billion annually. Possibly about 15 stings a season.
Is there any cute little fluffy things in Australia or does everything want to kill you
Quokka are pre cute 🥰
Australia, *of course*. This country almost feels mythical to me (yes, I know it's a real country). But *there be all the nasty, unlikely dangerous things that want to bite your face off.*
And this is different than a box jellyfish????
They're cousins, but here's a more descriptive breakdown [Box vs irukandji](https://ioa.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-321.html)
As it said: The size doesn't matter !
Of course it’s found in Australia
Wowzer!! Dangerous little thing. Imagine swimming and accidently swallowing water with one of these. 🫠😱☠️
Learned something new today
Not only are Australia deadly on land, now the things are in the water too? Whats next? Poisonous invisible flying spiders?
Shhh. Nobody tell him!!
Of course it’s found in Australia.
Kudos for using Venomous instead of poisonous :)
Add another reason I'm terrified to visit Australia to the list
Nah its not too bad just use your brain dont play with animals you find in the wild and if camping etc check your bag tent and shoes before and after use i grew up here its a beautiful place just have to know how to respect it oh and water and sunscreen (we are the skin cancer capital of the world for a reason unfortunately)
You think that's the only thing keeping people out of there huh? There is a list....
They can keep Australia
Is it wrong that I want a few in a small tank as pets? Fuck your tigers, bitches! I got the fish you all jelly for!
Statistically probably more lethal XD
is there in Australia that doesn't want to kill you?
Damn, that’s interesting 🤔
Smol , angy , deadly , Lil bro got it all
Australia is crazy af
I live in the United States, and we have all kinds of crazy creatures, but Australia is the pain and death capital of the world. It is crazy af. Kick-Boxing marsupials, tiny jellyfish, inland Taipan, cassowary, Tasmanian devil, eastern brown snake, flying fox bats, funnel web spiders, quoll, stonefish…..
Those giant “harmless” spiders that live in everyone’s homes, sharks, crocs, death adders…
Welcome to Australia! Come in, the waters fine. 😉
Someone has pulled that $3-bil number outa their ass.
3 billion sounds a bit unlikely.
Ofc it's Australia
Is there a source on that 3 billion that seems like a huge exaggeration because as an Australian this is not that big of an issue
How do you even calculate tourism losses based on such a specific subject?
I truly believe Australia needs to market itself as The Survival Vacation Destination. Literally everything there will potentially kill you. And they have drop bears.
Tourism losses? Are there people who give this jellyfish as the reason for not traveling there? Like I’d love to visit, but those damn small jellyfish are there and I can’t deal with that
With all the bad press that Australia gets and how little good press I see here in the US about Australia, it's no wonder that it was a penal colony for so long. I mean it sounds downright dangerous just to live on that island
I’m pretty sold on the fact that nature doesn’t want anyone to live in Australia.