Our present study extends the
results from previous study that selected terricolous insects had
different fatty acid composition profiles. The differences in fatty
acid patterns of whole insects may be dependent on stages in
development, dietary regimes, intertissue differences within an
organism, unusual features of particular insect species and the
environment. Besides the effects of development, changing levels
of dietary PUFAs result in alteration of fatty acid compositions of
whole insects (Stanley-Samuelson et al., 1988).