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In June 2016, popular posts on social media claimed that sea lice had invaded beaches in Florida. As the term sea lice is not widespread, especially among social media users residing in the northern states, these messages were viewed with skepticism. However, these posts stemmed from genuine news articles: The claim that these creatures have invaded the United States' southern shores is something of an exaggeration, and may have led some to believe that this is a new phenomenon. Actually, the term sea lice has been used since at least the 1950s, although researchers preferred the term seabather's eruption as there is an unrelated marine parasite known as a sea louse: While the term sea lice can refer to the larval form of several stinging marine creatures, seabather's eruption is commonly caused by thimble jellyfish larvae: Sea anemone larvae (and other larval cnidarians) also possess nematocysts that may cause seabather's eruption.
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