Haven't seen many deer flies here either although we had a ton of them growing up in S NH. The mosquitoes are coming out now and the black flies were only a 7/10 tonight compared to 10/10 the past week.
Nice. Yeah all of mine were grown from seed from eaten ones as well. I probably have 8 of them in total....I may cut back to 2-3 next winter since they hog up so much grow light space.