On Thursday, a 14-year-old boy was stung by a bluebottle and suffered serious rash and pain, according to a lifeguard at the beach, in suburban Mumbai.
According to the lifeguard, quite a few people have suffered stings in the past few days when they either came in contact with the creature on the sand or tried to pick it up, unaware of the dangers posed by the creature.
Bluebottles cannot move about on their own, but are moved about with the wind and tides. They vary in size and the severity of the sting usually depends on the amount of contact the skin makes with the tentacles.
The symptoms, like in the case of the boy who was stung, is itching with pain that can continue for a couple of hours.
Bluebottles, also known as the Portuguese man-of-war, is often mixed up with jellyfish. It differs from jellyfish in that it is not a single organism, but made up of many minute bodies that are physiologically integrated and cannot survive separately.
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