Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world's social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females-the queen and her sterile female workers.
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bilal muzaffar
can we have two wasps, wasps together?wouldnt it be redundant
Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species
of the world’s social wasps, wasps
Although this looks strange, this is actually a very common construction: an appositive phrase used to define a term. So "wasps living in..." is all an appositive phrase that defines "social wasps."
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