The jellyfish arrive! On Almuñécar's Playa El Tesorillo one the size of a dustbin lid turned up, apparently!

The normal blighters are a browny colour, tiny and arrived in chanting hordes, like football hooligans just waiting to bump into somebody from an opposing club – humans!

But back to the briny WMD known as a Rhizostoma Luteum, or just “Sir if you come across one when you’re snorkelling. With its trail of tendrils that can measure up to two metres in length this beastie can weigh as much as 40 kilos, which is quite a lot if you find yourself wearing one.

According to a marine boffin at the University of Granada, it’s the biggest type of jellyfish that you can find in our wet bit, adding that its cap can measure up to 60cm in diametre.

The fact is when you get winds and current coming from the East, they get carried along, so there you have it, if you don’t want to glow in the dark after a massage from a Rhizostoma Luteum, go to the beach when the wind and current are coming from the West.

So what do you do if you are stung by one? Have your mother-in-law put you down, which she will not object to. Otherwise you can crawl to the nearest Red Cross post where they’ll probably snigger but treat you all the same.

Be careful, about approaching one as the wave action can loosen some of its finer, sting tendrils, which will be drifting in the water, and will give you a nasty sting, as well.

(News: Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: ideal)