{"id":77743,"date":"2026-08-22T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/its-pretty-much-a-guarantee-youll-get-stung-jellyfish-keep-swimmers-out-of-delaware-beaches\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:56:08","slug":"its-pretty-much-a-guarantee-youll-get-stung-jellyfish-keep-swimmers-out-of-delaware-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/its-pretty-much-a-guarantee-youll-get-stung-jellyfish-keep-swimmers-out-of-delaware-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Its pretty much a guarantee you\u2019ll get stung\u2019: jellyfish keep swimmers out of Delaware beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beach patrols report hundreds of stings a day as warmer waters and drought create favorable conditions for jellyfish<\/p>\n<p>An unusually high number of jellyfish are crowding Delaware\u2019s beaches this summer amid climate change and other environmental factors \u2013 keeping some beachgoers out of the ocean and stinging lifeguards as well as bathers.<\/p>\n<p>Beach safety patrols in the state have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WBOCTV16\/videos\/the-ocean-city-beach-patrol-is-keeping-sting-treatment-kits-on-hand-as-jellyfish\/1798522164656116\/\">reported<\/a> hundreds of daily stings as the jellyfish have increased with intensifying environmental factors, including warmer waters, hot and dry conditions, and water circulation favorable to the invertebrates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/22\/jellyfish-sting-delaware-beaches\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach patrols report hundreds of stings a day as warmer waters and drought create favorable conditions for jellyfish An unusually high number of jellyfish are crowding Delaware\u2019s beaches this summer amid climate change and other environmental factors \u2013 keeping some beachgoers out of the ocean and stinging lifeguards as well as bathers. Beach safety patrols &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Its pretty much a guarantee you\u2019ll get stung\u2019: jellyfish keep swimmers out of Delaware beaches\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/its-pretty-much-a-guarantee-youll-get-stung-jellyfish-keep-swimmers-out-of-delaware-beaches\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Its pretty much a guarantee you\u2019ll get stung\u2019: jellyfish keep swimmers out of Delaware beaches\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}