HO PLAZA—A festive display of Christmas lights has lit up the streetlamps of Ho Plaza, with the goal of bringing cheer and holiday spirit to campus. Word spread quickly within the local insect community, and all airborne bugs within a one-mile radius migrated to central campus to bask and buzz in luminous ecstasy.
“These lights are really great for the mental health of the hive,” remarked Benjamin, a resident honeybee. “Last night, my good buddy Jeff got eaten alive by a wolf spider at the Slope. But when I fly through the string lights, I feel Jeff buzzing along with me.”
The Ho Plaza glow attracted an unprecedentedly large gathering of roughly 37,000, all self-described as from the Arthropoda phylum. According to a swarm of mosquitoes outside of Cornell Health, this “shimmering paradise” felt like heaven compared to the rotting dumpsters behind student dorms.
Luna, a common spotted house moth, was especially drawn to the radiance outside Willard Straight Hall. “After a long week of flying into windows, the endless strings of lights immediately lifted my spirits. The abundant glow invokes something primal within me—I haven’t been this blissed out since I was in a cocoon.”
Feeling left out, a web-weaving spider community had begun setting up some decorative silk amongst the lights, ready to celebrate the glow with a feast of their own.
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