Abstract
ABSTRACT In control of wild mosquitoes to fight mosquito-borne diseases, release of mosquitoes with Wolbachia is one of the effective biological control methods. There are three release strategies, namely releasing both Wolbachia-infected females and males, only Wolbachia-infected females and only Wolbachia-infected males. All these three strategies have been confirmed to be capable of speeding up the Wolbachia persistence in mosquito populations. In this paper, we investigate how supplementary releases affect the Wolbachia spread dynamics in mosquito populations. Our aim is to compare the effectiveness among these three release strategies. We obtain theoretical results and provide numerical simulations that show that the first two strategies are more effective than the last strategy. For the first two strategies, the former strategy is either less effective than the latter strategy in each generation, or more effective than the latter strategy in previous generations, and then becomes less effective in late generations.
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