Earlier this summer, the IMF lowered its global growth forecast for the current year to 3.3% from its previous projection of 3.5%, while dropping the forecast for gross domestic product growth in the U.S. from 2.8% to 2%.arlier this summer, the IMF lowered its global growth forecast for the current year to 3.3% from its previous projection of 3.5%, while dropping the forecast for gross domestic product growth in the U.S. from 2.8% to 2%.
A female horseshoe crab may lay between 60,000 and 120,000 eggs, laying a few thousand at a time. Most of the eggs are eaten long before being able to hatch.
1 Horseshoe crabs grow by molting and emerge 25 percent larger with each molt. 2  After 16 molts (usually between 9 and 12 years) they will be fully grown adults. 3  Horseshoe crab eggs are important food for migratory shore birds that pass over the Delaware Bay during the spring mating season.