omg kill it with fire

Awww he's cute!

Carpenter bee (Xylocopa micans)?

Lol... kill him with fire, that is what all the boys in my house would say.... I like him, at least I could see him coming!

I think it's a carpenter bee, too. Every year we have one that flies back and forth, back and forth in front of our front porch.

Yes, carpenter bee.

Per Google: Carpenter bees are much maligned because they bore into wood to make their nests, but they are valuable pollinators and should be protected. Usually the damage they do to wood is just cosmetic. They pollinate many spring flowers, though they sometimes slit blueberry flowers and steal nectar without pollinating them.

Yes, any native bee is a valuable ally. Sheesh...I thought everybody knew that by now!

The one thing you really, really shouldn't do is swat at it. One of my neighbors was annoyed by one while working in his yard so he flapped at it with a flyswatter and that bee never forgot. For months afterwards every time Bill came out the bee would be waiting to zip back and forth in front of his face and tell him what he thought.