Expert: Walter Hintz - 12/14/2006

Question
Hi I'm doing a report on horseshoe crabs and I want to know how horseshoe crabs mate and where they lay their eggs. Please E-mail me back at the address given.
                                     Thank you,
                                               Brock


Answer
Hi Brock
There is a lot to this so I am going to refer you to a web page explaining everything in detail.  Go to this site:
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/horseshoecrab/history/reproduction.html
A major horseshoe spawing occurs in Chesapeake Bay in Delaware.  I actually observed this a few years back.  It was amazing.  I was wading in the water surrounded by crabs.