Producing or having two generations or broods in a single year, especially used to describe insects.
From 'bi-' (two) + Latin 'voltina,' from 'volta' (turn, generation), borrowed from Italian. Entomologists use this term to classify insects by their reproductive cycles.
Bivoltine silkworms—which produce two generations per year—can create two separate harvests of silk, which is why sericulture carefully chooses bivoltine versus univoltine strains; this single word determines farming schedules and profits.
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