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.
Copperhead snakes can have many eggs depending on the condition of breeding. Once the snake is four years old it is ready to mate and then lay eggs. Depending on how well the breeding went the snake can have as many as 1-14 babies. add a comment.