Welcome to the Skeeter Buster home page.
Skeeter Buster is a detailed model of
Aedes aegypti populations, developed at NC State University by a team led by
Fred Gould (Entomology Dept.) and
Alun Lloyd (Mathematics Dept.)
It is a stochastic, spatially-explicit model that models cohorts of mosquitoes at a very fine spatial scale, down to the level of individual breeding sites for immature cohorts, or individual houses for adults.
The biology of
Ae. aegypti is described with great detail on the previously developed CIMSiM model (Focks
et al., 1993). Skeeter Buster additionally includes a detailed genetic component,
and can therefore model the genetics of
Ae. aegypti populations, making it a crucial tool in the evaluation and development of genetic control strategies.
On this website, you can: