Content of total lipids and correlation of separate classes of tissues of honeybees depending on ecological conditions of environment

L. Kovalska, R. Fedoruk, Y. Kovalskyy

The findings on the overall lipid content and correlation of certain classes of lipids in the tissues of head, chest and abdomen muscles of honeybees in the late spring season are presented in the article. As a result of the studies it was found that the highest content of total lipids was in abdomen, namely in the muscle tissue of comparison with conventionally clean area. As the ratio of separate classes of breast tissue revealed the lowest level of phospholipids in all ecological zones was studied. Obviously, this is due to the fact that in spring many bees are using many lipids in bee breeding and harvesting pollen.

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