Bruce with a Canon wrote:
25mm extension tube, tripod, and if those suckers are RED ants, as in FIRE ANTS, find a flower to shoot.
Fire ants will change your whole day
Maybe tell an Ant joke?.get them to slow down and smile........
What about capturing a few, cool them off in the freezer to slow them down and then put them on something sticky, then you'd stand a chance of getting closer??