Model Description

This project models the hardships of caterpillars to survive as they continue in their life cycle. In our model, caterpillars turn into larvae which turn into butterflies, whom lay eggs and birth new caterpillars. However, they are a breed of caterpillars that are smaller and are susceptible to predators such as ants that can prey upon them. As they go through their life cycle we want to model the increasing chance of predators to find them.

Our models revolves around the idea of movement and how it affects the caterpillar's death rates. In reality, very few caterpillars reach adulthood, 98% of the eggs will not reach butterfly form, due to nature. There are many reasons for this but the ones we chose to model is the pupa's and caterpillar's susceptibility to predators and the risk of starvation.

We will showcase the progression of our model, from a super simple caterpillar model that has no death factors, to showcase the known exponential growth that will occur, to adding a predator variable that affects the population of caterpillars that will survive, to another hunger variable with food that caterpillars have to scavenge.