@futurebird
I felt it necessary to check whether you were implying that ALL ants are in fact wingless wasps. And then I felt it necessary to share what I found:
* Yes, but probably not what you meant
* Ants, bees and wasps are all hymenoptera, and either we call them all wasps, or wasps are paraphyletic. It looks the ancestral groups were wasps, but I may not be reading correctly. You can probably correct me here.
* You are probably referring to groups like velvet ants ... 1/2