{Locusts} (akrides). Also verse  7  and already in  Mt 3:4  Mr 1:6  (diet of the Baptist). The Israelites were permitted to
eat them, but when the swarms came like the eighth Egyptian
plague ( Ex 10:13ff. ) they devoured every green thing. The smoke
was worse than the fallen star and the locusts that came out of
the smoke were worse still, "a swarm of hellish locusts" (Swete).
{The scorpions} (hoi skorpioi). Old name for a little animal
somewhat like a lobster that lurks in stone walls in warm
regions, with a venomous sting in its tail, in N.T. in  Lu 10:19  11:12  Re 9:3,5,10 . The scorpion ranks with the snake as hostile
to man.