###### Abstract
Conversely, if the released pheromone is too abundant, then less fit males will be able to reach the female, resulting in low-quality offspring. Female moths thus adapt several strategies such as changing the onset, duration, frequency, and intensity of the mating call, though there is a lack of quantitative experimental data on pheromone production fitness and physiological costs ([PERSON] et al. [17], [PERSON] et al. [18]). Understanding how pheromones are secreted and followed may be useful in pest control, since ad hoc chemical blends may be synthesized to attract crop-damaging moths and may disrupt the mating process. From a neuroscience perspective, moths represent a useful model system for studying olfactory information processing, learning, and memory ([PERSON] et al. [19], [PERSON] et al. [20], [PERSON] and [PERSON] [21], [PERSON] and [PERSON] [22], [PERSON] et al. [23], [PERSON] and [PERSON] [24]). From an engineering perspective, moths may serve as a paradigm for odor source localization over long distances while subject to large perturbations from a highly dynamic environment, guiding the design of prototype plume tracing, hybrid robot-insect machines, and algorithms for the control of autonomous vehicles ([PERSON] et al. [25], [PERSON] and [PERSON] [21], [PERSON] et al. [26], [PERSON] et al. [27], [PERSON] et al. [28], [PERSON] et al. [29]). While there are many variations of male navigational patterns, the key features are well understood: male moths search randomly until they encounter female-generated and wind-advected pheromone plumes, after which they surge, i.e., fly directly upwind, toward the odor source: the female. If the scent is lost, they undergo a meandering motion where the male adopts a zigzag trajectory perpendicular to the direction of the wind, termed casting, to reenter the plume ([PERSON] [30], [PERSON] and [PERSON] [31], [PERSON] and [PERSON] [32], [PERSON] and [PERSON] [21], [PERSON] et al. [28], [PERSON] et al. [33]). However, female pheromone release strategies are more diverse and vary in call length, amount and pattern of pheromone released, and onset time ([PERSON] et al. [17], [PERSON] et al. [18]). It is worth noting that, although the process described above is the most common, in some polyandrous species, females mate more than once, with the last male to arrive physically displacing any previously deposited spermatophore ([PERSON] and [PERSON] [34]). Female/male selectivity may also change dynamically, depending on seasonal effects or trade-offs between reproductive benefits and costs ([PERSON] et al. [35]). Finally, in species where male reproductive efforts are costly, it may be the male that chooses which female to mate with. For example, _Achroia grisella_ male moths select for more fecund, heavier females due to sperm production limitations ([PERSON] and [PERSON] [36]). To understand how female pheromone-release strategies affect mating, we perform large-scale agent-based simulations where a stationary female varies the characteristics of her calling strategies while male moths navigate toward her. More specifically, females will vary call length (the amount of time per night spent calling males) and the emitted pheromone titer (the amount of pheromone released per call) over the course of a typical one-week mating period. The dynamic pheromone plume will then attract male moths depending on their detection capability. First, we present a simplified agent-based model where the female generated plume is assumed to be static and circular and where the male search is dominated by the time to first reach the stationary plume. We call this model the Male Random Flight Model since males perform a two-dimensional Brownian motion search until the plume is reached. Although many physical traits can be associated with male quality, in this work, we focus on two primary markers: flight speed/diffusivity and ability to sense small concentrations of pheromone, i.e., chemosensitivity.