Abstract
Honeycomb waxes from European, African, and Africanized hybrid honeybees were analyzed by Curie-point pyrolysis-mass spectrometry to determine the feasibility of using the technique as a rapid method for bee identification. Principal component analysis of the resulting mass spectra segregated the African, Africanized hybrid, and European waxes. The mass spectral peaks responsible for the discrimination between the different waxes corresponded to identified biomolecules. African, Africanized hybrid, and European waxes showed differences in the relative intensities of several compounds; however, no unique biomolecules were found that were distinctive for a particular type of wax.
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