Voltinism
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Voltinism is a term used in biology to indicate the number of broods or generations that an organism has each year. The term is most often applied to insects, and is particularly in use in sericulture
The Adonis blue butterfly (female and male pictured) is a bivoltine species, having two generations a year.
Bombyx mori
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Bombyx mori, commonly known as the domestic silk moth, is a domesticated moth species belonging to the family Bombycidae. It is the closest relative of Bombyx mandarina, the wild silk moth. Silkworms
Voltinism
…broods or generations that an organism has each year. The term is most often applied to insects, and is particularly in use in sericulture, in which silkworm varieties vary in their voltinism. The following adjectives describe organisms…
Pairedmoths
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Adult silk moth
Cocoon of B. mori