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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:24:48 +1100
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- Subject: Re: Nancy's Science/Nature Question
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- >Even in Sri Lanka I never heard of "sea wasps"...I, too. always considered
- >Portugese Man-o-Wars the most venomous...is there another name for "sea
- >wasp" (not P MOW, but another?)...perhaps that'll spark a memory.
- >
- >I remember rowing out w/friends to a kind of atoll on the Trincomalee side
- >of Sri and trailing my hand the water...right through what seemed a sea of
- >billowy, iridescent jelly fish...stings and a burning sensation were a
- >powerful reminder that what may look beautiful and harmless can often be
- >just the opposite.
- >
- > //anne//
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- I couldn't find any specific information on the sea wasp, but I don't think
- it is a very large jellyfish. OTOH a Portuguese Man O'War is not a true
- jellyfish, it is actually a colonial creature - a colony of many small polyps.
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- Carolyn
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