Biting Flies

[aquaticbiology]

no eat jellyfish! well, to be accurate you could eat the top organism part and just stay away from the stingy bits, but it would probably taste like salt water

wait - water, gelatin, a little food coloring...

great party ice idea - quick search says there aren't any to be found - a jellyfish mold - put some gummy worm pieces in the bottom for the chromoblasts (they would shed color too), fill with water, add some booze if necessary and poof - a frozen jellyfish floating in your punch bowl!

oooh! make little molds and add gelatin and more booze - jellyfish shooters!

YEE-HAW!

I'm off to try to get a copyright/trademark on this little honey! Thanks! Maybe we'll all be on the New Martha Stewart!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Ran out of peanut butter & bread!

Eat 'em, really? Can you?

Is it like the BLOWFISH? Tastes really good but it numbs your mouth & could kill you!

I have not heard of people eating them, but since you captured the Jelli, I thought you may be taking it home for dinner. Why else would someone try to catch one?

 

[Miss Kitty]

I have not heard of people eating them, but since you captured the Jelli, I thought you may be taking it home for dinner. Why else would someone try to catch one?

Maybe to get it out of the water? I've had many hours of enjoyment watching kids catch them with their nets and then scream with fear when they dump them in a bucket of water!

 

[katie blue]

My brother and i used to build above ground "swimming pools" out of sand, fill them with jellyfish, then stick a GI Joe or Barbie face down in it, with the legs sticking out. It would crack us up, year after year, we never seemed to tire of it. We'd watch from the sidelines as beach walkers came up on it and proceeded to react in difffernt ways.

 

[OhioBeachBum]

My brother and i used to build above ground "swimming pools" out of sand, fill them with jellyfish, then stick a GI Joe or Barbie face down in it, with the legs sticking out. It would crack us up, year after year, we never seemed to tire of it. We'd watch from the sidelines as beach walkers came up on it and proceeded to react in difffernt ways.

Especially the one's who stepped in/on the jellies... :shock:

 

[wintersbk]

I have not heard of people eating them, but since you captured the Jelli, I thought you may be taking it home for dinner. Why else would someone try to catch one?

The little stinger was too close to the kids playing on the sandbar.

 

[Smiling JOe]

My brother and i used to build above ground "swimming pools" out of sand, fill them with jellyfish, then stick a GI Joe or Barbie face down in it, with the legs sticking out. It would crack us up, year after year, we never seemed to tire of it. We'd watch from the sidelines as beach walkers came up on it and proceeded to react in difffernt ways.

 

[Beach Runner]

Seriously, we haven't experienced biting flies in the past few years. Think they'll be there next weekend? No home games for UF or GT.

 

[aquaticbiology]

no eat jellyfish! well, to be accurate you could eat the top organism part and just stay away from the stingy bits, but it would probably taste like salt water

wait - water, gelatin, a little food coloring...

great party ice idea - quick search says there aren't any to be found - a jellyfish mold - put some gummy worm pieces in the bottom for the chromoblasts (they would shed color too), fill with water, add some booze if necessary and poof - a frozen jellyfish floating in your punch bowl!

oooh! make little molds and add gelatin and more booze - jellyfish shooters!

YEE-HAW!

I'm off to try to get a copyright/trademark on this little honey! Thanks! Maybe we'll all be on the New Martha Stewart!

as usual we're way too late on the idea - there is a type of dried jellyfish delicacy in japanese cooking and a mold to go with it made about 1800 and patented - mold structure was very easy - just make a wax or ice dummy and cover with hobby shop mold making compound - let it dry, rinse, repeat, add jello and booze and hey, jellyfish shooters!

 

[redfisher]

on the subject of flies, I understand that winds out of the north bring the flies to the beach....my question is - does the time of year matter?...we have typically spent out weeks here in early april, late oct and the holidays and have never experienced the flies before now...certainly northerly winds are common enough that we would have been bitten before now...