Cub-Light Jelly

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The Cub-Light Jelly is a fresh water jellyfish, usually only blooming in clean, clear, and warm bodies of water but the microscopic polyps can survive in muddy and silty conditions for a long time. Blooms tend to take place in late spring through mid summer due to temperature needs. When grown to their full adult form the jellies are capable of emitting soft pulses of light (much like a night light to keep a young cub feeling safe) to attract small aquatic life such as very small fish, little fresh-water prawns, and sometimes amphibian young. The jellies then paralyze their prey with a shock and draw them up into their stomachs where the prey is kept paralyzed and slowly digested. While this may sound like a horror show, the jellies are not dangerous to even cubs and kits. Contact may tingle or sting enough to surprise, but there is no lasting damage or danger.

Observers on land tend to only be able to see the the lights at night, and only when in the water and looking down on a group of jellies during the day. Large blooms can be especially spectacular to watch on a clear summer night because the lake can appear to be a second sky.