where d E , d L , d P and d A are the temperature dependent developmental rates; m E , m L , m P and m A are the temperature dependent mortality rates; n E is the average number of eggs laid in one oviposition; K E is the carrying capacity of eggs; the term 1=2 in the fourth equation accounts for the sex ratio (sex ratio is 1:1, as reported in [21] ). The four developmental rates correspond to egg hatching (d E ), pupation (d P ), adult emergence (d L ) and gonotrophic cycle (d A ). Length of the gonotrophic cycles subsequent to the first one and number of eggs laid at each gonotrophic cycles are not significantly different within a range of temperature between 20 0 C and 35 0 C [21] . Therefore, we consider only one equation for modeling adults (and not a set of equations, describing transitions through gonotrophic cycles of different length, as in [23] for Aedes Aegypti) and the number of eggs laid in one oviposition does not depend on temperature. 