No worries. I've heard of them and that is kind of what they look like. If they're ants, they're probably eating tiny aphids or something and the neem oil will take care of their food source. I'm not too hung up on it because these plants haven't produced super well in the past and they had a pretty hard winter. I'm really just limping them along and trying to salvage them.
ETA thanks for the second opinion. Appreciate it!