Table 1.

Estimated number of wild female Ae. aegypti/ daily survival in Babinda and Machans Beach

Locale	Parameter	Adult daily survival
		0.7	0.8	0.9
Babinda	Mean BGS collection before, after release		0.32, 0.95
	Expected no./ premise for DS = 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9	4.54	6.52	11.12
	Estimated no. collected/BGS/day	0.95	0.95	0.95
	Wild female Ae. aegypti/premise	2.25	3.24	5.52
	95 % CI	1.2–3.3	1.8–4.7	3.0–8.0
Machans Beach	Mean BGS collection before, after release		0.86, 1.75
	Expected no./ premise for DS = 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9	9.08	13.24	22.58
	Estimated no. collected/BGS/day	0.89	0.89	0.89
	Wild female Ae. aegypti/premise	8.77	12.80	21.82
	95 % CI	5.8–11.8	8.4–17.1	14.4–29.2

Estimated number of wild female Ae. aegypti/premise based on three levels of daily survival in Babinda and Machans Beach. Wild female Ae. aegypti populations estimated from estimated number of released mosquitoes and relative increase change in BG-S collection as the recapture rate. Confidence intervals of the estimated female population were calculated by multiplying the estimated population by the CIs (as a proportion of the mean) for the BGS collection from 2 weeks before release