Sea Lice Have Invaded the Jersey Shore Beaches!
Ewww! I had regular lice when I was 6 and I was so traumatized by it, I can STILL remember it so vividly!
Since the beginning of August, there have been several complaints from beachgoers about sea lice, according to Avalon Beach Patrol Lieutenant Ryan Black.
While the creatures are often called sea lice or seabather’s eruption, they’re actually the larval form of a very small jellyfish called thimble jelly, according to experts.
“What happens is that because they’re so small they tend to especially get under our clothing and then once that water with those larva are kind of trapped in there, the stinging cells start to go off and that’s when you start to get that irritation,” Dr. Paul Bologna, the Director of Marine Biology and Coastal Sciences at Montclair State University, told NBC10.