Bedbugs on the Big Island

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As summer travel comes to an end, I have to share that we went to WA State and stayed in a series of 4 hotels, each one very nice, and came home bitten by bedbugs. My friend and her family went to Vermont and a few surrounding states, stayed in a nice resort for a week, and came home bitten by bedbugs. Another friend just returned from San Diego, bitten by bedbugs, stayed at a nice place. And yet another friend came back from New York bitten up too.... this was all in the same month of August.

So, yes, it does seem inevitable that these infestations are traveling. What can be done as a prevention measure? Any natural method suggestions?

I did have a customer in my lavender shop a few months ago who mentioned traveling in Europe and every night she was instructed to rub the pile of milled lavender onto her bed before she went to sleep to ward off pesky bugs.....

Enjoy the day! Ann