freshwater jellyfish

Jellyfish in Montana?  Unfortunately YES!
Jellyfish in Montana? Unfortunately YES!
Jellyfish in Montana? Unfortunately YES!
According to Bruce Auchly of the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, FWP recently found Craspedacusta sowerbyi, a freshwater species of jellyfish in an artificial pond on an abandoned golf course near Great Falls.  The tiny creatures (about the size of a penny)  are actually from China, but had been found in all of the lower 48 states other than Montana, North and South Dakota...