1.   Seymour said people could eat the highly venomous box jellyfish if they cut the tentacles off, although he remains fairly unimpressed with jellyfish as a food source.

2.   In fact, he had been more concerned with the danger posed by box jellyfish.

3.   James Cook University jellyfish expert Jamie Seymour said there had also been an unusually high number of the toxic box jellyfish in north Queensland waters at the weekend.

4.   On some Queensland beaches, swimming is impossible for six months each year because of box jellyfish.

5.   Scientists believe the culprits are box jellyfish.

6.   The Irukandji jellyfish is related to the more common but highly dangerous box jellyfish.