My toddler was amazed when I introduced him to edible bugs (grasshoppers in our case, but we have a jar of ants around as well).
His eyes lit up, it was like a toddler dream come true! Bugs he could eat!
Related, recently I accidentally ordered some blood soup at a restaurant[1], and when he asked what it was I was about to say "blood, icky" but I remembered to not let my cultural biases predetermine what he ate, so I let him try some instead.
tl;dr Toddlers love eating ants.
[1] The menu listed it as shrimp cake soup, blood was a major ingredient that was not mentioned. Given every soup above it did list blood cubes, I should have asked.