Vector bionomics and vectorial capacity as emergent properties of mosquito behaviors and ecology
Fig 7
In MBITES, vectorial capacity (VC) is computed directly as the average number of infectious bites (i.e., probing) arising from all the mosquitoes blood feeding on a single human on a single day; it is effectively the number of pairs of events where a blood meal by a mosquito is followed at least EIP days later by that same mosquito probing in attempt to feed on a human, measured per human, per day. Summary VC A,B,C: and number of human blood meals per mosquito over its lifespan (D,E,F; referred to as the stability index by Macdonald) are shown by column for 0%, 50%, and 100% peri-domestic habitats. Each histogram gives the distribution of VC or the number of human blood hosts across mosquitoes for that percent peri-domestic habitats.