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	Organism of the Month: July - The Sea Wasp (Box Jellyfish)
		Sea Wasps belong to the class Cubozoa, order Cubomedusae, and include the genera Chironex and Chiropsalmus, It is found in coastal waters, creeks, and rivers in Australia from November to mid-March, northwards from about 22-degrees south latitude and occurs widely from Queensland northwards to about Malaya.
		The sea wasp is the cause of numerous deaths to swimmers and bathers along the north Queensland coast of Australia, and because of the potent poison injected by the sea wasp, most children who have been stung by the sea wasp have died within minutes of being stung.
		Because the venom from the sea wasp seriously affects the victim's breathing, it may be necessary to perform continuous CPR to keep a victim alive until professional medical assistance can be obtained.
	www.personal.dundee.ac.uk /~amjones/seawasp.htm (700 words)

	Dangerous Sea Animals
		The sea wasp has a large transparent body shaped like a box or a bell, that can be as large as a bucket, and can weigh as much as 2 kilograms.
		The sea wasp is found in coastal waters, creeks, and rivers in Australia north from about 22-degrees south latitude.
		The sea wasp is most prevalent during the Austral summer months from November to mid- March.
	longwood.cs.ucf.edu /~MidLink/seawasps.html (2099 words)

	Dangerous Sea Animals
		The coastal sea inside the barrier reef around Darwin is home to the sea wasp, the Portuguese man-o-war, the blue-ringed octopus, and some pretty nasty salt- water crocodiles.
		The sea wasp is the cause of numerous deaths to swimmers and bathers along the north Queensland coast of Australia, and because of the potent poison injected by the sea wasp, most children who have been stung by the sea wasp have died within minutes of being stung.
		Unlike the sea wasp, Portuguese man-o-war, or the blue-ringed octopus that all use deadly poisons to kill their prey, this particular marine animal kills its prey by brute force and strength.
	www.cs.ucf.edu /~MidLink/seawasps.html (2099 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Sea wasp's sting most deadly in the water 12/5/97
		Unlike most jellyfish, the sea wasp is a fast swimmer, able to propel itself in a darting fashion.
		Although sea wasps have relatives as far away from Australia as the Atlantic coast of South America, most deaths have been reported from the southwest Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
		The sea wasp belongs to the phylum of creatures called coelenterates - or cnidarians, as they are commonly known, a group that includes corals, jellyfish, sea anemones and their kin.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/120797/fea_floyd.shtml (548 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jellyfish
		Binomial name Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Desor, 1848) The stinging sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) is a species of jellyfish occurring particularly in Atlantic estuaries.
		Subphylum/Classes[1] Anthozoa â€” corals and sea anemones Medusozoa:[2] Cubozoa â€” sea wasps or box jellyfish Hydrozoa â€” hydroids, hydra-like animals Polypodiozoa Scyphozoa â€” jellyfish Staurozoa â€” stalked jellyfish unranked: Myxozoa - parasites Cnidaria[3] (IPA: [4]) is a phylum containing some 11,000 species of apparently simple animals found exclusively in aquatic...
		Orders see text Box jellyfish, also known as sea wasps, are jellyfish-like creatures found in Australia and the Philippines, which can be extremely deadly, with venom in their tentacles.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jellyfish (525 words)

	Evrec Productions: Gook
		The good news is that the sea wasps found here are most likely native to the Atlantic Ocean and not as dangerous as their relatives in Australia, said Monty Graham, a jellyfish expert at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama.
		Sea wasps are also called box jellies and are recognized by a cube-shaped bell.
		Observing Caribbean 'sea wolves' (what they were also called) on the coast of Santo Domingo in 1494, Columbus promptly ordered his crew to kill eight of the animals for food, paving the way for exploitation of the species by the European's coming to the new world.
	www.evrec.com /gook_critters.html (0 words)

	Sea Wasp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Like all jellyfish, sea wasps are translucent, boneless creatures whose bodies are made of ninety-five percent water.
		But sea wasps do have up to sixty tentacles as long as ten feet each dangling from their bell-shaped bodies.
		Sea wasps live mainly off the north coast of Australia, and Aussie lifeguards have come up with ways to prevent getting stung.
	amos.indiana.edu /library/scripts/seawasp.html (220 words)

	Welcome - Journal on open sea and coastal kayak paddling
		Sea Kayaker Magazine is still a compulsory subscription for its technical reviews and original stories, changes should be introduced as better information is already available in paddling forums and other internet resources.
		The inhospitable Tasman Sea is rife with deadly creatures as crocodiles, sharks, sea wasps and a toxic jellyfish with tentacles several meters long.
		While originally sea kayaks were used for hunting and fishing in the Arctic; today they allow to experience and enjoy the adventure and freedom of travelling through the sea.
	www.onkayaks.squarespace.com /welcome (1268 words)

	Oceanlink \| marine sciences education and fun
		The sea wasp, or the box jellyfish (Latin name Chironex fleckeri Southcott) is one of the most deadly stinging animals in the sea.
		The sea wasp is most prevalent during the Australia summer months from November to mid- March.
		Sea anemones are brightly coloured, soft-bodied animals which are found in both shallow and deep waters.
	oceanlink.island.net /ask/cnidaria.html (9979 words)

	Cnidarians - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The mouth, surrounded by tentacles, is located at one end of the polyp, and the opposite end of the polyp typically attaches to a rock or other object on the sea bottom.
		Polyps may be solitary, as in some types of hydras, or they may attach to other polyps to form a colony, as corals do.
		Cubozoa consists of about 20 species of sea wasps and their relatives.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562576__1/Cnidarians.html (0 words)

	Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science
		Olfactory sensors on the wasps' antennae can smell chemicals in concentrations as tiny as a few parts per billion in the air.
		For example, a set of wasps is trained to detect the smell of coffee.
		The trained wasps could be used in the public within the next five years.
	www.ivanhoe.com /science/story/2006/07/158a.html (520 words)

	Jellyfish Anemones Sea Cucumbers and Sea Pens
		Sea wasps are strong, graceful swimmers reaching 5-6 inches in diameter and 4-6 inches in height.
		Sea cucumbers are "spiny animals", members of the grouping, or phylum, Echinodermata and relatives of the seastars and sea urchins.
		Sea cucumbers may lack spines and the protection of a rigid skeleton, but they have many different means of defense from predators.
	unsolvedmysteries.com /usm414166.html (0 words)

	Department of Drug and Poison Information Centre - Sea Creatures
		Sea wasps (Box Jellyfish) have tentacles containing thousands of stinging cells.
		Sea urchins are found in tropical and subtropical marine regions.
		The spines of the sea urchins are used to deliver their venom.
	dpic.sgh.com.sg /PlantNAnimalDangers/AnimalDangers/SeaCreatures (603 words)

	Leicester 20 Wasps 19: Varndell puts foot down to sink Wasps - Times Online
		LEICESTER may have leapfrogged Wasps to go second in the Premiership playoff run-in, but the run-ins that counted here were those by Tom Varndell, whose brilliant first-half hat-trick settled this entertaining, high tensile affair in Leicester’s favour.
		Wasps, 20-12 down at half-time, made sure that Leicester sweated all the way to the final whistle when, after 53 minutes, Mark Van Gisbergen ran back an Andy Goode chip before putting Paul Sackey through the gap and then converting to reduce the deficit to one point.
		Wasps proceeded to monopolise possession for most of the first quarter thanks to their control at the breakdown, featuring some slick transference of the ball in contact, with Eoin Reddan’s sharpness at scrum-half, another plus.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,2094-2147848,00.html (978 words)

	Sea Wasp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Like all jellyfish, sea wasps are translucent, boneless creatures whose bodies are made of ninety-five percent water.
		But sea wasps do have up to sixty tentacles as long as ten feet each dangling from their bell-shaped bodies.
		Sea wasps live mainly off the north coast of Australia, and Aussie lifeguards have come up with ways to prevent getting stung.
	www.wfiu.indiana.edu /amos/library/scripts/seawasp.html (0 words)

	Body Does Look Lice
		Since I got tyhe suit 2 years ago, I have never had sea lice on my body---although on a few occasions I had some stings on my face where it was exposed (this is rare for some reason, no matter how thick they are, I don't usually get stings on my face).
		Sea Lice are normally thought to be larva of Thimble Jellyfish.
		Sea Wasps are any of a number of box jellyfish.
	www.apa-letterpress.org /body-does-look-lice.php (360 words)

	Coral Reef: Great Barrier Reef (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sea slugs, or nudibranchs, are some of the more delicate creatures on the reef.
		This sea wasp is the most deadly jellyfish in the world.
		Sea snakes are also found on the Great Barrier Reef but, like the blue-ringed octopus, they are not aggressive.
	www.biosbcc.net /ocean/marinesci/04benthon/crgbr.htm (0 words)

	Jellyfish!
		Sea wasps are found near the coasts of northern Australia and the Philippines.
		The sea wasp is a jellyfish found mainly in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.
		Scyphozoan jellyfish are often seen at the coast and are sometimes called sea nettles.
	www.angelfire.com /droid/dcobb/jellyfish.html (1115 words)

	Sea Wasp \| Marine Stinger \| Box Jelly
		Sea Wasps, or box jellies, are not aggressive.
		For jellyfish, they are pretty fast swimmers (up to 5mph), dangling their long tentacles in the surf behind them until something, usually a fish, gets caught in their practically invisible tentacles.
		Not everyone who has been stung by a Sea Wasp has died, but those who didn't may have wished they had.
	www.extremescience.com /DeadliestCreature.htm (726 words)

	Science Explorations: Investigate the Giant Squid: Jellyfish and Other Coelenterates \| Scholastic.com
		For example, when a sea anemone is feeding, its body and petal-like tentacles extend upward, ready for a tiny animal to swim or drift against one of them.
		The sea anemone is an example of a solitary anthozoan.
		The cubozoan known as the sea wasp, or box jellyfish, can produce welts on anyone who comes in contact with its tentacles.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/explorations/squid/libraryarticle.asp?ItemID=212&SubjectID=110&categoryID=5 (0 words)

	Jellyfish Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most of these have ancestral rod composed of organic material around which is draped the coenenchyme and polyps, the former containing spicules which impart a vivid coloration and form the spines of the red coral which is used in jewelry.
		Some are extremely potent (sea wasps) (Killer Jellyfish Story) and have killed humans...respiratory paralysis.
		Sea slugs are known to pirate Nematocysts (stinging cells) and use them for their own protection.
	darter.ocps.net /classroom/klenk/Jellys.htm (1381 words)

	Dangerous Insects
		There are also about 20,000 species of wasp, including hornets and yellow jackets.
		Wasps usually sting to subdue prey or in self-defense.
		People may be stung if wasps have been attracted to their food, or they have inadvertently disturbed a nest.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/insects1.html (0 words)

	Sea wasps and other nightmares
		Today,there are few educated people who would venture to eat a sea anemone and some anemones turn out to be not only indigestible, but lethal.
		Yet, even today, people still eat the soft inner parts of spiny sea urchins which primitive man probably learned from watching sea birds pluck them out of the water and drop them from a height onto rocks to smash them open so that they could get at the good parts.
		I remind you that escargot, snails, are simply slugs with shells, that bêche-de-mer consists of soft parts of sea cucumbers, and that limburger cheese is the rotting by-products of milk.
	www.microscopy-uk.org.uk /mag/artjun00/rhwasp.html (3043 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Coral
		Anthozoa is a class within the phylum Cnidaria that contains the sea anemones and corals.
		Corals are marine animals from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone-like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals.
		The group includes the important reef builders that are found in tropical oceans, which secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Coral (1105 words)

	Oceans For Youth: Educational Website for Kids of All Ages
		The majority of these animals are described in the phylum Cnidaria, a grouping that includes corals, sea anemones, jellies and hydroids (fire 'corals,' Portuguese men-of-war and sea wasps, etc.).
		Many cnidarians are attached to the sea floor or they are very poor swimmers or 'walkers.' As a result, their toxins need to be powerful and fast-acting because they are their primary means of defense and for capturing prey.
		That is not always the case with jellies, Portuguese men-of-war, sea wasps and the like as these creatures have translucent, or semi-translucent bodies and tentacles.
	www.oceansforyouth.com /whats-that/wt5-01.html (0 words)

	Abaco Jellyfish - everything you ever wanted to know about Cnidaria
		My sting was painful and certainly looked alarming but was not anywhere near as severe as the lash inflicted by the sea wasp.
		They sit on the sea floor, upside down on their flattened "bells," with an array of eight short, stubby tentacles spread to the sky.
		Sea nettles and sea wasps are unfortunately more often felt than seen since they are more regularly found in the ocean than the calm Sea of Abaco.
	www.go-abacos.com /news/conian/8-15-2/abaco-jellyfish.html (802 words)

	Dangerous Animals
		TTX is also found in the Japanese puffer fish, California newts, some Central American frogs, a type of sea star, a species of horseshoe crab, and several varieties of snail and worm.
		TTX is believed to be an ingredient in the preparation used in Haitian and West African voodoo to create zombies.
		The sea wasp is a type of jellyfish found in the ocean off Northern Australia.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/animals4.html (448 words)

	San Carlos -The Sea of Cortez Scuba Center
		Sea of Cortez scuba Center has set the standard on great diving in the Sea of Cortez.
		Scenic beaches, semi-tropical seas with warm, crystal clear waters and an incredible kaleidoscope of underwater life.
		Sea of Cortez Scuba Center may extend a transfer to a later date as it is not our policy to take your money without services rendered.
	www.seaofcortez.com /sancarlos.html (860 words)

	Cnidaria Summary
		Sea anemones are anthozoans, existing only in the polyp form.
		The corals, which are important reef-builders, belong here, as do the familiar sea anemones, jellyfish, sea pens, sea pansies and sea wasps.
		The release of untreated sewage into the sea from, for example, newly built hotels and recreational facilities, is responsible for large-scale destruction of coral.
	www.bookrags.com /Cnidaria (0 words)

	Diego Garcia - Naturalist's Paradise
		Sea Turtles were quite common, with Hawksbills being in the lagoon year round.
		One of the main uses for the sea creatures of DG was as squeeze toys.
		They are the squishiest, slimiest things in the sea, and we used to eat them all the time in Korea.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/nature-seacreatures.html (0 words)

	LHD-1 Wasp class - Navy Ships
		WASP class ships are the first to be specifically designed to accomidate the AV-8B Harrier jump jet and the LCAC hovercraft, along with the full range of Navy and Marine helicopters, conventional landing craft and amphibious assault vehicles to support a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) of 2,000 Marines.
		WASP class ships are 844 feet long with a beam of 106 feet.
		From the Sea." They provide the means to deliver, command and support all elements of a Marine Landing Force in an assault by air and amphibious craft.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/lhd-1.htm (0 words)

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