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.
It's Spawning Season: Are Horseshoe Crabs Down For the Count? Horseshoe crabs spawning on Kitts Hummock Beach near Dover, Del. Most of the year they live out in the ocean but in late spring and early summer they migrate toward shore where females bury eggs in the sand and males fertilize them. Typically there are many more males than females.