Fig. 3

Modeling SIT in Ceratitis capitata. SIT males were released into a population of medflies (with 50,000 adult females) with a variable effort represented by the release ratio. This represents the number of standard SIT males released per week as a fraction of the normal adult male population and an equivalent effort for SCIC-radiation and pgSIT-based methods on the same amount of food in the rearing area. A The female population through time for each of three SIT techniques with three release ratios. The B time to population elimination or C average number of females during the last 20 weeks with varying release ratio for each system with weekly releases. Additional simulations with varying release intervals for CcPub.1 × GuideA.2 showing D time to population elimination or E average number of females during the last 20 weeks. The release interval represents the weeks between releases (the total release number for the whole time period remains the same, so large numbers mean fewer but larger releases