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.
If you want to see one of the worldâs oldest natural phenomena, then make a journey to the Delaware Bay in late spring. During full and new moons and high tides in May and June, hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs converge on the Delaware Bay to breed.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.