Simulation basics

[fcooper8472]

Overall:

1. Initialisation of world, including locations of target. Allowing spatial clumping of things.
2. Initialisation of mosquitoes in each life stage.
3. Loop:
   • Calculate rates of each different class of event.
   • Calculate time step.
   • Choose event.
   • Implement event.

Mosquito (basic):

• Eggs are laid in water body
• Eggs hatch into larvae
• Larvae change to pupae
• Pupae to adult
• If female: search for mate (random number of eggs) search for blood, search for water body to lay eggs
• If male: search for swarms to be in

[ben18785]

That's an excellent understanding of mosquito ecology Fergus! One thing to note, is that different mosquitoes may execute these steps (or a different set of steps) in different orders. Also, some models include sugar feeding as a necessary part of ecology.