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Considering they're giant vespids the size of gorillas or larger, I doubt it's ever really specified anywhere. When it comes to fictional, monstrous bees/wasps/hornets/whatever, it's a distinction without a difference. For example, our trope page for such creatures is called Bee Afraid (and has a lot of redirects for other types like Wicked Wasp and Horrid Hornet), while the trope for a video game location that has a lot of them is called Hornet Hole.
Consulting a wiki to see what they look like (never played a DK game), I'd put Zingers under "hornet" and Buzzes under "bee", but this one may need a second opinion.
mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.
They take characteristics from both. Visually, the zingers are more similar to wasps or hornets, but they live in large hives and produce honey like bees. So all things considered, they aren't either one; they're a fictional, honey-producing, eusocial, stinging insect.
The buzzes are a moot point really since they're just machines made in imitation of bees/wasps/zingers.
Edited by DarkHunter
If it's for Informed Species, they don't count unless they're canonically called bees or wasps.
Not familiar with Donkey Kong, but I find the Artistic License – Biology entry on the Donkey Kong Country page, claiming that wasps don't make honey, to be silly, at least in the way it's written. They're not wasps, they're "zingers". I mean, I'm no expert, but I don't think wasps have giant spikes on their abdomens either.
Edited by supergod For we shall slay evil with logic...
I've just been informed by Mark Stevenson on Twitter, and the Buzzes are also wasps.
The Zingers and Buzzes from the Donkey Kong franchise, are they supposed to be bees or wasps? There are a few articles here that flip-flop between the two, and I would like to fix it.