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Abstract a. A very highly significant increase in total lipid content was observed by duplicating the larval density from 200 to 400 till reach 800 larvae/30g beef meat, while a very highly significant decrease was observed in case of 200 larvae/30g beef meat as compared to control. Increasing the larval density to 1600 larvae/30g beef meat did not significantly affect the total lipid content as compared to larval density 200 larvae/30g beef meat. There is no significant difference between 1600 larvae/30g beef meat and control. b. By increasing the larval density to 200 larvae/30g beef meat a non significant increase in total protein was obtained. By duplicating the larval density to 200, to 400, to 800 till reach 1600 larvae/30g beef meat a non significant decrease was obtained. Increasing the larval density from 100 to 400 larvae/30g beef meat did not significantly affect the total protein. c. The whole body proteins of 100 larvae/30g beef meat (control group) were electrophoretically fractionated into 17 bands. This band number was not affected by duplicating the larval density to 200 and 400 larvae/30g beef meat. When the larval density increased to 800 larvae/30g beef meat, the number of bands increased to 20 bands while at 1600 larvae/30g beef meat the number of bands decreased to 15 bands. Among these, 11 bands were common for all larval densities. Intraspecific competition affected the Rf value, mol. wt. and protein content. Band (no. 12) was specific for control |