IMPACT OF SAGO FACTORY EFFLUENT ON BIOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS IN DIFFERENT TISSUES OF MALE LARVAE OF DRAGONFLY Bradinopyga geminata

The antepenultimate larvae of dragonfly were treated in sublethal concentrations of sago factory effluent. Under effluent stress, biochemical constituents like total free amino acids, total proteins, total free sugars, glycogen content, reducing sugars, total lipids, triacylglycerol and cholesterol were found to decrease in the haemolymph, fat body and testis thus showing physio-metabolic dysfunction in the larvae. It is implied that the metabolic stress caused by the effluent could alter the reproductive process in the male dragonflies.