Vector bionomics and vectorial capacity as emergent properties of mosquito behaviors and ecology
Fig 3
The structure of an egg laying attempt bout in MBITES.
The flowchart follows the progression of a mosquito through simulated events, from the launch, choosing a habitat or trap from the eggQ (aquamarine diamond), and the events that follow depending on whether the mosquito chose a habitat or a trap (yellow rectangles). If a mosquito approaches the habitat, it could lay eggs. Alternatively, a mosquito could approach a trap and fail in the approach (thus surviving) or die (light grey ovals). If a mosquito is deterred in the approach to its habitat or the trap, it fails (green pentagons to green rectangle). After a successful approach to a habitat, a mosquito lays eggs (blue rectangle). After laying eggs or failing, a mosquito must land and survive (yellow diamonds). If not all eggs were laid, a mosquito can choose another habitat to lay (light blue diamond). At any point when failure occurs or during landing, a mosquito could choose to leave the haunt and initiate a search on the next bout. This condition is checked after completing the bout (pink diamonds). At the end of a bout, the mosquito’s behavioral state and other state variables are updated. The outcome of each bout is either death (light grey ovals), a repeated egg laying attempt bout (dark blue ovals) or a state transition to either an egg laying search (light blue ovals) or a blood feeding attempt (red or pink ovals).