The invention relates to lipid producing microalgae, in particular relates to a method for detecting the oil content of microalgae, comprising the following steps of: 1) taking microalgae-cultivated algae liquid, and computing the quantity concentration C of microalgae cells; 2) observing the lipid of the microalgae: adopting a BODIPY (boron-dipyrromethene) 505 / 515 staining fluorescent recording method; staining for 1-2min by adopting dye use liquid with concentration of 1-2mM, and observing and recording accumulation change conditions of single-celled lipid in a photographing way by using excitation light with wave length of 488nm under a fluorescence microscope; recording the number (n) of single-celled oil drop grains according to a photograph, detecting the diameter (d) of each oil drop, and computing the volume of each oil drop according to a ball volume formula, wherein the content of each cell lipid is the sum of the volume of all the oil drops; and computing the lipid content of the algae liquid in unit volume according to the quantity concentration C of the microalgae and the lipid content of a single cell: Vt=CV, wherein C is the concentration of tetraselmis cells, V is the lipid volume of the single cell, and Vt is the lipid content in the unit volume.