Voltinism
Number of generations or broods of an organism per year / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Voltinism is a term used in biology to indicate the number of broods or generations of an organism in a year. The term is most often applied to insects, and is particularly in use in sericulture, where silkworm varieties vary in their voltinism.
- Univoltine (monovoltine) – (adjective) referring to organisms having one brood or generation per year
- Bivoltine (divoltine) – (adjective) referring to organisms having two broods or generations per year
- Trivoltine – (adjective) referring to organisms having three broods or generations per year
- Multivoltine (polyvoltine) – (adjective) referring to organisms having more than two broods or generations per year
- Semivoltine – There are two meanings:
- (biology) Less than univoltine; having a brood or generation less often than once per year
- or (adjective) referring to organisms whose generation time is more than one year.[1]