Multivoltine

A multivoltine species is a species that has two or more broods of offspring per year.

Multivoltine species are often short lived insects such as mosquitoes. They have a short adult lifespan and often die soon after mating. The larvae then develop quickly and multiple generations occur within a year.

In the UK some of our commonest mayflies have more than one brood per year but other species have a single brood (univoltine).

Mayflies are very short lived as adults. Most only live between one and four days.

Other names for (or types of) Multivoltine include:

• Polyvoltine

Related terms

• Bivoltine
• Life cycle
• Semivoltine
• Univoltine
• Voltinism

Related groups of terms

• Insect life cycles

Related pages on this web site

• Insect life cycles

See other words beginning with M