Univoltine

A univoltine species is a species that has one brood of offspring per year. Many species try and coincide their life cycle with that of another species (such as a food plant) on which they rely. Some univoltine species have long-lived adults.

In the UK, many species of butterfly are univoltine and have just one brood per year. In many cases the butterflies over winter as a chrysalis before emerging and reproducing the following year.

An adult female orange tip butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines. This species is univoltine in the UK.

Related terms

• Bivoltine
• Life cycle
• Multivoltine
• Semivoltine
• Voltinism

Related groups of terms

• Insect life cycles

Related pages on this web site

• Insect life cycles

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