Fig 4. Egg laying and egg deposition.

The availability of aquatic habitats (Q) the patch sum of habitat search weights ($Q=\mathcal{N}·w_{\nu }$), and the egg distribution matrix ($\mathcal{U}$) describes the locally normalized search weights. Available habitat determines per-capita oviposition rates (ν) by the population of gravid mosquitoes (G) in a patch through a functional response to availability, F_ν(Q). The net egg laying rate, per-patch, is Γ = χνG. The eggs are distributed among the aquatic habitats ($\mathcal{U}$) so that the egg deposition rates in habitats is $\eta =\mathcal{U}·\Gamma$.