| B+S | Bee bread plus sucrose diet |
| BH | Benjamini–Hochberg |
| ESI+ | Positive electrospray ionization mode |
| ESI− | Negative electrospray ionization mode |
| FC | Fold change |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| HILIC | Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography |
| HMDB | Human Metabolome Database |
| JH | Juvenile hormone |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LC-MS | Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry |
| LC-QTOF/MS | Liquid chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry |
| Leu/Ile | Unresolved leucine/isoleucine signal |
| LIPID MAPS | Lipid Metabolites and Pathways Strategy |
| MPP | Mass Profiler Professional |
| MS | Mass spectrometry |
| MSI | Metabolomics Standards Initiative |
| m/z | Mass-to-charge ratio |
| OECD | Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PA | Phosphatidic acid |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PI | Phosphatidylinositol |
| PS | Phosphatidylserine |
| RH | Relative humidity |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| RT | Retention time |
| S | Sucrose-only diet |
| TCA | Tricarboxylic acid |
| UHPLC | Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography |
| UPLC-QTOF/MS | Ultra-performance liquid chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry |