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Main Authors: Hussein, Ruqaya, Kryzhevich, Sergey, Tajbakhsh, Khosro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17519
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author Hussein, Ruqaya
Kryzhevich, Sergey
Tajbakhsh, Khosro
author_facet Hussein, Ruqaya
Kryzhevich, Sergey
Tajbakhsh, Khosro
contents The sterile insect technique controls mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, and yellow fever through either eradication or depressing the associated vector population. We formulate a three-dimensional delayed mosquito population suppression model with a saturated release rate to explore the interactive dynamics between wild, sterile, and non-sterile mosquitoes, focusing on the delay and residual fertility in the interactive dynamics among insects. We investigate the stability of the positive equilibrium and derive the Hopf bifurcation conditions. We establish the stability conditions for the positive equilibrium and examine how the time delay ($τ$) and residual fertility affect the non-sterile insects' dynamics. Below the critical values of the delay, the system remains stable, while beyond that, the Hopf bifurcation is guaranteed under certain circumstances. However, analysis shows a clear band of non-sterile insect population values as residual fertility varies within a very narrow range. This suggests that within this interval, the system exhibits sensitive dependence on the fertility parameter, likely due to underlying nonlinear dynamics. Numerical simulations are presented to support our analytical results, followed by a brief discussion of the findings.
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spellingShingle Residual fertility and delay in sterile insect population dynamics
Hussein, Ruqaya
Kryzhevich, Sergey
Tajbakhsh, Khosro
Dynamical Systems
The sterile insect technique controls mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, and yellow fever through either eradication or depressing the associated vector population. We formulate a three-dimensional delayed mosquito population suppression model with a saturated release rate to explore the interactive dynamics between wild, sterile, and non-sterile mosquitoes, focusing on the delay and residual fertility in the interactive dynamics among insects. We investigate the stability of the positive equilibrium and derive the Hopf bifurcation conditions. We establish the stability conditions for the positive equilibrium and examine how the time delay ($τ$) and residual fertility affect the non-sterile insects' dynamics. Below the critical values of the delay, the system remains stable, while beyond that, the Hopf bifurcation is guaranteed under certain circumstances. However, analysis shows a clear band of non-sterile insect population values as residual fertility varies within a very narrow range. This suggests that within this interval, the system exhibits sensitive dependence on the fertility parameter, likely due to underlying nonlinear dynamics. Numerical simulations are presented to support our analytical results, followed by a brief discussion of the findings.
title Residual fertility and delay in sterile insect population dynamics
topic Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17519