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I found this bug months ago (August, in southern Maine): I found it crawling on my wall, (second floor), only time I've ever seen one of these particular bugs in my house.

Edit: I managed to get a rough measurement based on another photo I had, and it seems to have been about 0.7 inches long (from top of head to bottom end of body) and 0.2 inches wide at widest part ("shoulders")

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  • I'm guessing a longhorn borer of some sort.
    – bob1
    Jan 31, 2021 at 7:57

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Found it - almost certainly the Poplar-borer beetle (Saperda calcarata). Distinguishing characteristics are the golden/yellow spots under the black speckles. Borers all have that shape to the head and thorax. Longhorn indicates the long antennae.

These are quite a destructive pest of poplar and a few other species in much of North America.

Note I'm not an entomologist of any sort, or even from North America - just good at googling things.

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  • Oh No!! Sob!!! Chestnut, hemlock, ash, boxwood, now poplar?
    – ab2
    Jan 31, 2021 at 19:14
  • @ab2 - not just poplar, this one will go for a bunch of different trees, including aspens and cottonwoods.
    – bob1
    Feb 1, 2021 at 0:46

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