Floury Baker

Aleeta curvicosta, commonly known as the "floury baker" or "floury miller", known until 2003 as Abricta curvicosta, is an Australian native species of cicada, and one of Australia's most familiar insects. The song of the male floury baker is a distinctive hiss that can be heard at any time of the day. It starts with short one-second hisses and speeds up into a long continuous hiss that, on warm evenings, can last for up to 20 minutes. It is deafening, to say the least, but it's a wonderful summer sound. The adult cicadas feed on tree sap. Food species for a variety of birds including: grey fantails, noisy minors, peewees, pied & grey butcherbirds, torresian crows and tawny frogmouths. Frogmouths and bearded dragons (lizard) have also been observed feeding on emerging nymphs, and both adults and nymphs can also be preyed upon by cicada killer wasps.