Yellow-hairy longhorn beetle (likely)

Found in eastern and central North American forests, woodland edges, gardens, and around dead or dying hardwoods. Adults often visit flowers and foliage in summer.

Larvae tunnel into dead, dying, or stressed hardwood branches and trunks, feeding on wood. Adults mainly consume pollen, nectar, and occasionally plant tissue.

Adults are active by day and often mimic stinging insects through their yellow-and-black coloration. Females lay eggs in bark crevices; larvae develop within wood before emerging as adults.

Harmless to people and unable to sting; it is not considered a structural pest. Larvae help decompose dead wood, while adults contribute to pollination.