Tip: Get rid of carpenter bees.

I have the same problem & pesticides r not too successful. Do u mean citronella tea lights arranged inside rafters of gazebo?

Thank you! Do you know the carpenter bees come back every year? What a nuisance, and the wood shavings on the porch. Grrr!

I has a nest of bee's under my railroad landscaping timber. Used husbands carberator and sprayed the nest. This was right out of my door and did not want anyone stung.

Interesting that it deters bees too. I've only ever used citronella candles for mosquitoes. Another way of keeping bees away is to entice them to blossoming flowers in a whiskey barrel or other attractive container a safe distance away from the home. Other natural remedies include spreading cucumber peels around the yard, spraying almond oil in the hive and mixing soap, sugar and water in a basin to replicate honey, as this lures them in and drowns them.

Carpenter Bees are a beneficial insect, I've never known them to sting...But if citronella works, use it...but you can put up a board [away from the areas most used by humans] that you drill holes into that are the same size that the carpenter bees are making, they will quickly take up residence there [they are making holes in wood to deposit their eggs along with dead insects like hornets as food for their hatching young].