{"id":10557,"date":"2012-05-07T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T11:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=10557"},"modified":"2014-07-30T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T21:18:42","slug":"breaking-the-case-of-lightning-whelk-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/breaking-the-case-of-lightning-whelk-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking The Case of Lightning Whelk Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lightning<\/a><\/p>\n

I wasn’t able to enjoy the shelling while the super moon tides were at the lowest this weekend since I was tied up with other “stuff”. But high on the wrack line there are still so many LIGHTNING WHELK EGG CASES on the east end beaches of Sanibel.<\/p>\n

\"lightning<\/a><\/p>\n

Since I’ve been dissecting some of the BEACH BLING I’ve found over the last week (like the SEA WHIPS), I decided to go ahead and open up one of the dried out LIGHTNING WHELK EGG “disks”.<\/p>\n

\"whelk<\/a><\/p>\n

\"open<\/a><\/p>\n

There are teeny tiny little LIGHTNING WHELK shells in some of the disks.<\/p>\n

\"whelks<\/a><\/p>\n

Isn’t that just a wonder? Talk about miniatures!<\/p>\n

\"juvenile<\/a><\/p>\n

There can be up to 40 babies in each capsule. Isn’t that incredible?<\/p>\n

\"close<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0I didn’t find that many discs with baby WHELKS in them in this case because it looks like most of them “hatched” already. You can see a little round hole on top side of the discs… this is escape hatch! They use this when they are ready to explore their brave new world.<\/p>\n

\"lightning<\/a><\/p>\n

Just to show you how teeny tiny the WHELKS I popped out of the case were, I’ve added one of these little juvies in this Wheel of Whelks surrounding a penny.<\/p>\n

\"whelk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t able to enjoy the shelling while the super moon tides were at the lowest this weekend since I was tied up with other “stuff”. But high on the wrack line there are still so many LIGHTNING WHELK EGG CASES on the east end beaches of Sanibel. Since I’ve been dissecting some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1343,38,1858,2007,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egg-casing","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","category-lightning-whelk-egg-chain","category-whelk","category-whelk-egg-casing","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-2Kh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10557"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20319,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions\/20319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}