{"id":15586,"date":"2013-06-26T10:36:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2014-02-06T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:38:15","slug":"life-cycle-of-the-kings-crowns-egg-hatching-to-down-the-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/life-cycle-of-the-kings-crowns-egg-hatching-to-down-the-hatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Cycle Of The Kings Crowns- Egg Hatching to Down The Hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most fascinating part about being a daily beach comber is having the opportunity to witness life stages of creatures of the sea. Over the years, we’ve been so fortunate to see KINGS CROWNS\u00a0(Melongena corona)\u00a0<\/i>in different life phases which I will show you today to round out the latest cool stage I saw this week at low tide. \u00a0The first amazement about KINGS CROWNS is looking at the empty shell. We have been lucky enough to find quite a few empty KINGS CROWN seashells washing up on our beaches in Southwest Florida. They’re so beautiful!<\/p>\n

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To find a shell occupied with the MOLLUSK responsible for making such an architecturally brilliant home is always marveling to me. Two years ago, Clark found a ginormous LIVE KINGS CROWN<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>in the shallow water. We were both in awe to see such a magnificent site of a warrior and king of his territory to grow to that size. We were happy to return it to it’s home in the water to reign over his kingdom.<\/p>\n

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There have been other KINGS CROWNS also happy and healthy after finishing a meal of CRAB de jour<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And we’ve seen them delighting in the main course of SOUTHERN QUAHOG sashimi<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But then, we’ve also seen the other side of the battle in the food chain. This huge LIVE TRUE TULIP made an appetizer<\/strong> <\/a>out of this little guy. Now you see why these MOLLUSKS’ shells are perfectly empty at times- they get eaten by larger MOLLUSKS. This KINGS CROWN had no chance against this very strong large TULIP.\u00a0Down the hatch, little KINGS CROWN.<\/p>\n

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We’ve \u00a0also seen remnants of a different part of their life… We’ve found dried KINGS CROWN EGG CASES on the beach…<\/p>\n

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Speaking of EGG CASINGS…. One of the coolest things we’ve ever seen is this momma KINGS CROWN laying her eggs<\/strong><\/a> on an old shell. Clark picked up this whole mass not realizing she was right in the middle of giving birth. After I snapped a quick photo, Clark gently eased her back in the water and she went right along on her merry way to spit out a few more segments. A natural wonder we’ll never forget!<\/p>\n

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Notice that I said “One of the coolest things…”. I’ve got just as cool or maybe even cooler! I witnessed another miracle a few days ago… Baby KINGS CROWNS hatching out of their EGG SACKS!<\/p>\n

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This was such an awesome site to see! This was one of those days when I so wished I had one of those mack daddy cameras with the big macro lens. These babies were so itty bitty and I could see they still had the embryonic fluid….. okay honestly, I dont know if it was actually embryonic fluid… but I do know they had cute little slime trails on each of the EGG CAPSULES. So amazing!<\/p>\n

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We’ve seen so many different cycles in a KING”S CROWN life, I wanted to reminisce about them with you before I showed you the video of these babies\u00a0in action? Yes! I have video! At the end of the movie, I made a slo-mo to make sure you see the little guy on the right wiggling away. Adorable! Enjoy! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most fascinating part about being a daily beach comber is having the opportunity to witness life stages of creatures of the sea. Over the years, we’ve been so fortunate to see KINGS CROWNS\u00a0(Melongena corona)\u00a0in different life phases which I will show you today to round out the latest cool stage I saw this week […]<\/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":[1343,13,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egg-casing","category-kings-crown","category-kings-crown-egg-case","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-43o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586","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=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18340,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions\/18340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}