Adults can be encountered from May through August, completing their life cycle in two year. These polyphagous beetles develop in dead wood of various deciduous trees. The imagos fly the second year. Larvae mainly feed in the dead wood of small branches of Rhamnus (hence the specific name), Castanea, Quercus, Ficus, Ulmus, Pyrus, Prunus species.Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) of the West Palearctic region The adults are very common flower-visitors.
