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#### New Home Acrophobic fireflies

I really would like my fireflies to swarm a little higher, but no matter how I try to coax them and even adding high flying ones from chakra phool they still refuse to fly above my head, most flying at waist height, Are they Acrophobic now they are above ground? Also they seem to swarm to the right of their hive rather than around it, this is true of both my front and back yard swarms.
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Posted 8 months ago by Faereluth | Permalink

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- Seconded, would love to see my precioussss fly higher and a bit more spreaded
  Posted 8 months ago by Granny Firefly | Permalink
- Not only do they like to hover at a low level, they do not like to stay spread out on the street. I have been releasing them at the far ends of my street, but they all gather back at the hive, (on the right side).
  Posted 8 months ago by MaryLiLamb | Permalink
- You can get them to fly high, but then they might mostly be ornamental. I spread fireflies all over my front & back yards and through both levels of my house. The single hives can't quite support that, though, and mine are sort of sparse, but very high-flying. Especially in the back yard, they seem to fly extra high. I think they're trying to swarm with the upstairs house flies.
  Posted 8 months ago by Aleph Zero | Permalink
- It does not matter how high or where I release them, they will be next to the hive at a low level when I return to my home :(
  Posted 8 months ago by Granny Firefly | Permalink
- I don't exactly see how this is a bug. You want the fireflies to swarm in a bunch so that when you open a jar they will all be lured into the jar. If the fireflies spread out then you can't capture them. Yes they are pretty and all, but fundamentally fireflies are meant to be harvested rather than used as decoration.
  Posted 8 months ago by WalruZ | Permalink
- I really do enjoy having them all clustered next to the hive. But! Granny, if you release fireflies in your house they should stay there, especially if you release them upstairs. And then the upstairs flies oughta entice the back yard flies to reach for the stars, or at least to reach for the second floor. Unless they've changed firefly dynamics since R2 started ...
  Posted 8 months ago by Aleph Zero | Permalink