It is not a single animal but a colony of animals living together, each performing a specialised function such as hunting, digestion and reproduction.

More than 40,000 marine stings are reported every year. But this could be the last summer bluebottles invade without warning.

UNSW Sydney researchers are working on technology that can go so far as to predict which beaches and on what days bluebottles will wash ashore. Experts can now use wind and swell forecasts ...

Knowing where and when bluebottles will appear could soon be as simple as checking the weather, with scientists currently working on a world-first tool to predict the location and time the ...

Beachgoers in the Eastern Cape have had a traumatic start to their holiday season after they were painfully stung by ...

The activity forced the closure of busy beaches. Bluebottles are often seen on Australia's east coast during summer. But a SLSQ spokesman described the latest influx as an "epidemic", while some ...

Bluebottles are what we typically think of when we think of flies: big, black and buzzing. Bluebottles are actually green-blue, as the name suggests, and are most active in spring and summer.

Trekking to the beach only to find the surf full of stinging bluebottles could soon be a thing of the past as scientists investigate how to predict when they are likely to wash ashore.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This could be the last summer beachgoers are ambushed by bluebottles as researchers gun to develop a new prediction system in time ...

The new moon around New Year will influence the tides which will be higher and lower than usual. Swimmers are urged to be cautious.

And she wants to see investigation of an unusually huge bloom of sea nettle jellyfish around Kangaroo Island off South Australia, and the presence of bluebottles inside Tasmania's Storm Bay for ...