A sterile insect technique pilot trial on Captiva Island: defining mosquito population parameters for sterile male releases using mark–release–recapture

Table 4 Male Aedes aegypti population estimation from the MRR studies performed in 2019 and 2020 on Captiva Island

MRR	Mosquito seasonality	Fisher-Ford index	Sterile:wild ratio
MP01	High ↑	13167.6	0.059
MP02	High ↓	26857.9	0.160
MP03	Low ↓	652.8	21
MP04	Low ↑	6055.8	0.98
Average		11683.5	5.55

Arrow direction indicates increasing (upward-pointing arrow) or decreasing (downward-pointing arrow) wild Ae. aegypti populations in the respective period

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