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Bed bugs under uv light.
Uv light comes primarily from the sun but there are also man made sources of uv light including tanning beds and the currently buzzed about uv disinfection lamps.
Finding bed bugs in a dark room is a difficult task but uv light can make it easier to see them.
Hotel rooms and furniture dormitories.
Bed bugs communicate to one another by secreting chemical signals that have a musty sweet odor 2.
That is why you can use uv light to detect bed bugs.
Bed bugs are hiding experts so anything that makes detecting bed bugs easier can be beneficial.
Here is an important fact.
A phosphor is luminescent.
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Uv light interacts with the phosphors substance.
When we shine a uv light on phosphors they absorb that uv light and emit visible light back at us.
By utilizing a specific uv frequency that causes bed bug droppings and eggs to fluoresce our bed bug uv detection light can be used to quickly scan bedding mattresses and more to detect the presence and or location of bed bugs.
According to michael f.
Potter extension entomologist of university of kentucky college of agriculture expresses his opinion on why the bed bug threat has re occurred in the usa.
The bed bug uv light is used to find and detect bed bugs.
Phosphors in many insects shells absorb ultraviolet light and give off visible light.
Bed bug uv detection light.
While there are not many studies on fluorescence in insects to look at there are some like this one from victoria l welch.
Uv light appears dark purple or blue which is the highest wavelength of visible light.
In nature bed bugs are hiding experts but they must appear under uv light anyway.