Hornet's kin (4)

I believe the answer is:

wasp

(Other definitions for wasp that I've seen before include "Influential American" , "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" , "colonist" , "spiteful person?" , "A hymenopteran" .)

I've seen this clue in The Star Tribune and the King Feature Syndicate.

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