This does not mean that he wore skins like Tarzan but rather that he dressed and lived as a peasant, even though his father was a priest. He wore a woven, camel hair cloak and the working man's leather girdle. The word usually translated as locust probably referred to something entirely different from the grasshopper like insect.
Many commentators think that it was the common carob pod.
The carob pod is brown, flat and hard and about seven inches long and one inch wide. It grows on a low tree and, being wild and plentiful, the poor gathered it for food. The pod is very nutritious. People today, who cannot take cocoa products, sometimes substitute carob flour instead. Neither was wild honey necessarily bee honey.