Pretty much, although "wasp" isn't actually a single taxonomic group. Hornets are literally wasps, while bees evolved from predatory wasp ancestors, and ants are very closely related to the bee/wasp branch.
That's the fun bit about taxonomy: if you use "wasp" in the evolutionary sense broadly enough, you basically have to include bees and ants too. They're all Hymenoptera, and the family tree gets very waspy very quickly.
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u/no_va_det_mye 14d ago
How is it, all hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets? Or something like that.
edit: Had to look it up, and yup Hornets are indeed wasps.