A delay suppression model with sterile mosquitoes release period equal to wild larvae maturation period.

ABSTRACT

Based on the idea that only sexually active sterile mosquitoes are included in the modeling process, we study the dynamics of the interactive wild and sterile mosquito model with time delay, which consists of three sub-equations. Due to the fact that the maturation period of sterile mosquitoes bred in the lab or mosquito factories is almost the same time period of wild adult mosquitoes matured from larvae, we particularly assume that the waiting period for two consecutive releases of sterile mosquitoes equals the maturation period of wild mosquitoes, as a new practical sterile mosquito release strategy. We first ingeniously solve the delay model with the initial functions that are solutions of the corresponding equation without delay and we call them "good" solutions. Using these "good" solutions, we then surprisedly obtain sufficient and necessary conditions for the trivial solution and a unique periodic solution of the delay model to be globally asymptotically stable, respectively. We provide a numerical example to demonstrate the model dynamics and brief discussions of our findings as well.