Delay induced dynamical behaviors in a stochastic insect outbreak model in presence of Michaelis-Menten type harvesting

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we have considered stochastic insect outbreak model in presence of Michaelis-Menten type of harvesting. The growth of the insect species is taken as delayed logistic type together with a multiplicative noise term. The impact of internal environmental disturbances on the insect population is taken into account by adding an additive noise term in the model. The effects of the noises, cross correlation strength of the noises and time delay on the insect population are investigated and observed very rich dynamical behaviors. It is ascertained that multiplicative noise reduces population size greatly than additive noise. As usual, increase of harvesting of insect species reduces the population size at faster rate. Regime shift is possible depending on multiplicative noise only in contrast it is not possible via only additive noise. One of the key finding is the noise-delayed switching phenomenon for negatively correlated noises.