Blue button
The blue button is a small sea creature that floats on the surface of warm oceans. It looks like a jellyfish, but it is really a colony of tiny animals called polyps. Its sting is not powerful, but it can cause slight skin irritation.1

Maziviro ayo
- A round, almost flat, hard golden brown float about one inch (2.5 cm) wide1
- Bright blue turquoise to yellow polyps hanging from the float1
- Blue strands with knobs of stinging cells at the tips1
- Looks similar to a jellyfish, but each 'individual' is a colony of polyps1
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: It looks superficially like a jellyfish. It is related to Velella and to the Portuguese man o' war, which are also colonial animals that float on the surface.1
Simba reuturu
Zviuru zvemasero madiki anobaya zvinopfura kana chimwe chinhu chazvibata.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
It has stinging cells called nematocysts at the tips of its tentacle-like strands. The sting is not powerful and may cause slight irritation to human skin.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ngozi shomaSenyuchi kubaya kana kushoma. Kazhinji haina ngozi kuvanhu.The sting is not powerful and may cause slight irritation. In recent years, the first recorded case of contact dermatitis (a skin rash caused by contact) from this species was reported in Japan.1
Kana ikabaya
- Buda mumvura ubvise matentacle ose (nemagirovhosi kana nejira).
- Kune jellyfish yebhokisi yekunzvimbo dzinopisa: dira vhiniga pakabayiwa kwemasekondi 30 zvishoma, shevedza rubatsiro ugare wakagadzirira kuita CPR. Kune bluebottle nedzimwe zhinji: suka nemvura yegungwa, wozoshandisa mvura inopisa kuderedza marwadzo.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana imwe ikakubaya: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Kupi pasi rose?
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
inenge kureba sechibatanidzo chemapepaBlue button yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
Each apparent individual is actually a colony of hydrozoan polyps, not a single animal.1
Young Malabar trevally fish shelter under the floats and panic when removed from them.1
Young Malabar trevally fish appear to prefer a particular colony and will return to their own partner when separated and put back in the same tank.1
It is preyed on by sea slugs known as blue dragons and by violet sea-snails of the genus Janthina.1
The blue button has a single mouth under its float, which it uses for both eating and removing waste.1
Kuputsa ngano
Ngano: A blue button is a single jellyfish-like animal.
Chokwadi: Each blue button is a colony of hydrozoan polyps, which are related to anemones, corals and jellyfish.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Porpita porpita (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Porpita porpita (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
Chokwadi chimwe nechimwe pane peji rino chine nhamba inoratidza kwachakabva. Kana takakanganisa, ruregerero, tiri vanoda mhuka, kwete magazini yesainzi. Tiudze pa[email protected] tichazvigadzirisa.
Matentacle anobaya

