FIRST STINGS FIRST: Well, the recently arrived clinging jellyfish is all the “I’m stung!” rage.

The manic sector of media has pounced upon these tiny marine creatures after an actual victim was hospitalized from what was most likely a caress from a clinger swimming about within Barnegat Bay.

And clinging jellyfish can get grabby. Despite being one of the more mobile jellies you’ll ever see in, say, a five-gallon bucket of bay water, they survive by moving about, from one piece of subaquatic…