Figure 2

Mosquito movement during resource seeking. In the spatial ABM, female mosquitoes move in Blood Meal Seeking or Gravid states in order to seek resources (houses or aquatic habitats, respectively) in an eight-directional Moore neighbourhood. If a resource is perceived in the neighbourhood, the mosquito directly moves to it in the next time-step. Otherwise, it moves in random direction to an adjacent cell. In subfigure (a), if the current location is not a house, the Blood Meal Seeking mosquito moves in order to find a house. In subfigure (b), if the current location is not an aquatic habitat, the Gravid mosquito moves in order to find an aquatic habitat. In both cases, the mosquito would transition to subfigure (c), which represents the detailed view of movement activities (that may occur in a single time-step) in subfigures (a) and (b).