Stanardsville is mentioned 20 times on our forum: Latest news from Stanardsville, VA collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: United States (17.2%), German (13.1%), Irish (12.2%), English (8.1%), Subsaharan African (6.7%), Polish (1.4%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Elevation: 668 feet.
A male selects a female and clings to her back. The female digs a hole in the sand and lays her eggs while the male fertilizes them. The female can lay between 60,000 and 120,000 eggs in batches of a few thousand at a time. The eggs take about two weeks to hatch; shore birds eat many of them before they hatch. The larvae molt six times during the first year. Raising horseshoe crabs in captivity has proven to be difficult.
First, not all snakes lay eggs. Many species of snakes, including all vipers (including rattlesnakes), boas, and all members of the garter and ribbon snake family, give birth to live young. Among those species that do lay eggs, the number of eggs laid depends on both the species, and the size of the female. Larger snakes lay larger clutches of eggs than smaller snakes of the same species. Some snakes may lay as few as 2 or 3 eggs, while some very large constrictors may lay up to 100. Some species of snakes will lay 2 clutches per year, or even 3 clutches (such as African House Snakes), but most species lay one clutch per year. For the majority of species (at least, non-equatorial ones), the breeding season is in the early spring, and eggs are laid in early summer.