Table 1.

Description of parameters. Here the subscript h where h ∈ {b, s} represents the host type with b representing blood hosts and s representing sugar sources

Variable	Description	Value	Dim.	Source
ε	Duration of immature stage	240	h	Gimnig et al. (2002); Service (1973)
μ l	Immature stage mortality	0.0126	h−1	Service (1971, 1973, 1977)
μ uf	Mortality while unfed	0.0093	h−1	Stone et al. (2009)
μ sf	Mortality while sugar‐fed	0.0017	h−1	Stone et al. (2012b)
μ r	Mortality while resting	0.0026	h−1	Killeen et al. (2007)
μ f,i	Mortality while foraging at hour i	Varies (see Fig. 2)	h−1	Assumed; Saul (2003)
${\mathit{\mu }}_{f_s,i}$	Mortality while sugar‐fed and foraging at hour i	Varies	h−1	Assumed
ρ i	Host‐seeking activation probability at time i	Varies (see Fig. 3b)		Assumed
ρ o	Oviposition‐site seeking activation probability	0.5	–	Assumed
γ h	Encounter rate for host type h	Varied	h−1	–
γ o	Encounter rate for oviposition sites	0.25	h−1	Assumed
σ h	Innate preference for host type h	0.9 or varied	–	Killeen et al. (2014)
δ s	Duration of sugar positivity	24	h	Gary (2005)
δ b	Gonotrophic stage duration	16	h	Gillies (1953)
θ i	Usage of bed nets at time i	Varies (see Fig. 2)	–	Killeen et al. (2006)
${\mathit{\varphi }}_b$	Population coverage of bed nets	Varied	–	–
r	Probability of being repelled by a net	0.6	–	Le Menach et al. (2007)
F	Fecundity	20	–	Manda et al. (2007)