MULTIPLE blue jellyfishes have been washed up and found by walkers on Hampshire beaches – and residents are being warned to stay away.

One of the sea creatures were first spotted on Hills Head by resident Denise Satchwell, who said she had “never come across a jellyfish of this kind” and believed that the blue jellyfish had come all the way from Australia.

And later that day, a similar-looking species of jellyfish was found by walkers on another beach that stretches along the same coastline.

This took place when Gary Lee from Stubbington was walking along Lee-on-the-Solent with his 7-year-old son Jensen Hudson, pictured, and came across a giant blue jellyfish.

Gary said: “My seven-year-old son Jensen came across this rare blue jelly fish. We have never see one before or any jellyfish at all.

“We normally only see big crabs along there. He was very excited to have found it.”

But an animal expert claims the blue creatures were most likely not washed onto Hampshire shores from Australia.

Marine conservation lead at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Tim Ferrero said: “There is a blue jellyfish here called a cyanea lamarckii. I don’t know if they are a globally distributed species but they are stingers, so we advise people not to touch them.

“There are big batches of blue jellyfish out at sea and they end up being washed ashore due to wind, tides and currents, and to some extent they can swim. But the blue blubber jellyfish is a completely different species.

“It is highly unlikely that the species being seen are from Australia.”