Sometimes confused with its larger, more venomous Atlantic cousin, the Physalia physalis (or Portuguese Man o’ War), the common bluebottle found in Australia is the Physalia utriculus, which is ...

Among the “blue fleet” is the common bluebottle you might have come across washed up on the shore, or even been unlucky enough to encounter one of their painful stings.

The common bluebottle unlikely to cause so many hospital cases, Dr Gershwin said The rare stinger only appears once every 10 to 30 years It is the size of an adult human hand with multiple ...

A species of swallowtail butterfly known as the common bluebottle butterfly holds the record for having the largest number of different vision cells in its eyes for any insect, scientists say.

Bluebottles are the most common cause of jellyfish stings in Australia. Bluebottles vary in size, and the severity of the sting usually depends on the amount of contact the skin has had with the ...

A common bluebottle (Graphium sarpedon) butterfly. (Photo courtesy Twitter/@randydmm) TOKYO: Scientists have found that a butterfly species from Australasia has 15 classes of light-detecting ...

Up to 30,000 bluebottle stings are reported in Australia every year – mostly in the eastern states, and they also account for most of the one in six Aussies stung my marine stingers.