What is the life cycle of a Caribbean hermit crab?
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Here is what i found for you:\n\nThe Life Cycle of the Carribian Hermit Crab\n\n The reproductive organs of hermit crabs are located near and just below the crab’s heart and open to the outside at the base of the last pair of walking legs in the male. In the female, they’re located at the base of the middle pair of walking legs. Female hermit crabs usually lay their eggs shortly after copulating,  however they can also store sperm for many months. The eggs are fertilized as they are laid by passing through the chamber holding the sperm. The eggs are carried and hatched in a mass attached to the abdomen inside the shell.\n\n      The number of eggs is usually large, but depends on the crab’s size. The developing crabs go through four stages, two of which (the baupilus and protozoea) occur while still in the egg. Most crabs hatch at the third stage, the zoea. This is a larvae stage wherein the crab has several long spines, a long narrow abdomen, and large fringed antennae. The fourth stage of development is the magelops.\n\n      Hermit crabs are usually born in the ocean, near the shore. Because of this, hermit crabs cannot reproduce in captivity. After the crabs are born, they move inland away from the water, where they search for abandoned shells to inhabit. Hermit crabs then begin growing and developing through a process call molting. In this process, the crabs sheds their exoskeleton. During this, the crabs are extremely vulnerable and inactive, and usually find protection by burrowing in the ground. It takes around 10 days for their new exoskeleton to harden, and during this period the crab is able to regenerate any lost or broken claws or legs. A hermit crab can molt as often as every other month when they’re young, or every 18 months when they’re older. The life span of the hermit crab in the wild is up to 30 years, while those in captivity live 15 years at the most.\n\nTC
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Crabs, also known as pubic lice, are parasitic insects found in the genital area of humans. \n\nPubic lice have six legs, but their two front legs are very large and look like the pincher claws of a crab; this is how they got the nickname "crabs." Pubic lice are tan to grayish-white in color. Females lay nits and are usually larger than males. To live, adult lice must feed on blood. If the louse falls off a person, it dies within 1-2 days.\n\nThey don't have ears.
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Sponges are able to reproduce sexually or asexually. Most sponges are monoecious. Sperm are formed from choanocytes; and oocytes derive from choanocytes in some sponges, and archaeocytes in others. Sperm are released into open water. Some sponges have oviparous fertilization where sperm and eggs meet in open water. In other species sperm are taken into the bodies of other sponges and fertilized inside; this is known as viviparous fertilization. The free-swimming larvae, known as parenchymula, serve as one of the main forms of dispersal for this largely sessile phylum. Asexual reproduction of sponges is through budding, where a small piece of sponge falls off of the main sponge and grows into a new one. Many freshwater sponges form small structures known as gemmules, which function as overwintering devices. These are similar to a bacterium's endospore. Gemmules are made up of amoebocytes surrounded by a layer of spicules and can survive conditions that would kill adult sponges. When the environment becomes less hostile, the gemmule resumes growing.
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the life span of a walrus is about 32 years
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The Carribean is an archipelago of many islands, some big and some small. Not all of which are inhabited. Off the top of my head I cannot remember the names of any which arn't inhabited, but basically they would just be too small to be inhabited.\n\nSome of the islands would just be sand and a few palm trees, nothing substantial enough to build or live off.
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Honeybee life cycle\n\n\nHoneybees are social insects that live in a colony. As such, the honeybee life cycle depends greatly on this social structure.\n\n \nHoneybee swarm pitched on a high limb[edit]\nColony life\nUnlike a bumble bee colony or a wasp colony the life of the honeybee colony is perennial. There are three castes of bees: queens, which produce eggs; drones or males, which mate with the queen and have no stinger; and workers, which are all non-reproducing females. The queen lays eggs singly in cells of the comb. Larvae hatch from eggs in 3 to 4 days and are fed by worker bees and develop through several stages in the cells. Cells are capped by worker bees when the larvae pupates. Queen and drones are larger than workers and require enlarged cells to develop. A colony may typically consists of tens of thousands of individuals.\n\nDevelopment\nQueens complete development in 15.5 days, drones in 24 days and workers in 21 days for larvae and pupae stages. Only one queen is usually present in a hive. New virgin queens develop in enlarged cells through differential feeding of royal jelly by workers. When the existing queen ages or dies or the colony becomes very large a new queen is raised by the worker bees. The virgin queen takes one or several nuptial flights and once she is established starts laying eggs in the hive. A fertile queen is able to lay fertilized or unfertilized eggs. The unfertilized eggs develop into drones and the fertilized eggs develop into either workers or virgin queens. A queen may live three to five years; drones usually die before winter; and, workers may live for a few months.
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I think what you are thinking of is not a lobster but a species of crab.\n\nThere have been a number of documentaries about the Christmas Island Red Crab, which are a species of land crab.\n\nThere are 14 species of crab that can be found on Christmas Island but the red crab is far the most common. \n\nI've put some links with more information for you below:-
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It may be that the stress of producing young is enough to do her in; cuttlefish are not exactly the most hardy critters.  Typically, most species only live about year or so, anyway, so they only go through a single breeding season before dying.\n\nAccording to the amateur breeder/enthusiast listed below, females can lay several clutches of eggs, and can live for months after egg laying.
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I'm partial to crabs. They are misunderstood. Each one has their own personality and temperament. Some even do tricks. It's a shame we execute them so quickly upon discovery.
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crabs, sea birds, sea stars, humans
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Hate to tell you, but it sounds like your hermit crab is dead.\nMake a little coffin and have a little funeral for him... I know this sounds weird but we used to do this with all family pets and it was easier on us kids to cope with the loss.\nThen perhaps take her to a pet shop and get her to pick out a new one?
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http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/csp_amis.htm\n\ntypically 1 year
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In the wild fiddler crabs are scavengers, eating bits of organic matter they find in the sand/mud. In captivity, they can be fed sinking crab food, fish food meant for scavengers (sinking tablets, shrimp pellets, etc), and freeze dried plankton and shrimp. \n\nSigns of health in fiddler crabs include growth and regular molting. Once a crab molts, their previous exoskeleton will likely be whole in the tank, looking eerily like a ghost. It is a good idea to leave the exoskeleton in the tank, at least for a week or so. Often the crabs will ingest part of the shed exoskeleton, and it serves as an excellent source of calcium (which they need to produce their new exoskeletons). Claws and legs may be lost but will regenerate over a couple of molts. \n\nFiddler crabs may produce eggs in captivity (the female carries eggs on her belly), but successful rearing of the young in the aquarium is next to impossible due to the way their natural live cycle works (the larvae grow in deeper ocean waters and return to shore at maturity).
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Sponge larvae aren't sessile.\n\nThey catch their prey and eat them, and they don't photosynthesize.
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How big is she?? Normally smaller crabs will molt every few weeks.... but I have a couple big boys who molt whenever they feel like it. It is Normal and is a sign that they are happily growing.\n\nMake sure you provide lots of clacium, protein and color enhancing foods. Plenty of fresh and oceanic/marie de-chlor water and she should be good to go!\n\nMake sure also that you keep a good selection of shells rotating in and out of the tank.. eventually she will slow down and will need a shell that is just right!\n\nP.S. most pet stores know little or nothing about them.. they only can tell you to read the handbooks which are ALL outdated and most websites are equally outdated except a handful that I know of.
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Sadly according to Oceanlink, a Candian science website, there is no one life cycle.  Different types of mollusks can have very different life cycles.
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martha's vineyard, puerto rico, virgin islands