Overview
- Guardamar del Segura closed a seven-mile stretch of beach following confirmed appearances of Glaucus atlanticus.
- Mayor José Luis Sáez urged the public to avoid the small, brightly colored animal because contact can cause painful stings.
- The city launched preventive searches for specimens carried ashore by currents, and local police and lifeguards issued warnings to beachgoers.
- The pelagic nudibranch floats at the surface, preys on jellyfish such as the Portuguese man o' war, and can deliver stings using stored nematocysts.
- The coverage reports no new envenomations from this event and recalls a 2018 Portuguese man o' war case that prompted bans and a hospitalization.