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.
Horseshoe crabs are a keystone species within the Delaware Bay ecosystem. Description: Horseshoe crabs look like prehistoric crabs. They have a hard exoskeleton, ten walking legs under the shell, spines on the abdomen and a long tail.ost horseshoe crabs will not even make it to the larval stage before being eaten. If the egg survives, the larval horseshoe crab will hatch from the egg after about 2 weeks or more. The larva looks like a very tiny version of an adult horseshoe crab without a tail.