  Mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of many diseases such as
dengue fever, zika or chigungunya. One way to control the spread of these
diseases is to use the sterile insect technique (SIT), which consists in a
massive release of sterilized male mosquitoes. This strategy aims at reducing
the total population over time, and has the advantage being specific to the
targeted species, unlike the use of pesticides.In this article, we study the
optimal release strategies in order to maximize the efficiency of this
technique.We consider simplified models that describe the dynamics of eggs,
males, females and sterile males in order to optimize the release protocol. We
determine in a precise way optimal strategies, which allows us to tackle
numerically the underlying optimization problem in a very simple way. We also
present some numerical simulations to illustrate our results.
