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UV light won't kill bed bugs. While it can make bed bugs easier to spot — their shed skins and fecal stains can fluoresce under certain wavelengths — it doesn't harm them or drive them away, as professional bed bug treatment can. Unfortunately, bed bugs are resilient pests that require direct, sustained exposure to lethal conditions to be eliminated.
The treatments that actually work against bed bugs involve heat, steam, or professional-grade insecticides. Heat treatment, for example, raises temperatures in infested areas to levels that are deadly to bed bugs at all life stages, including eggs. UV light simply doesn't generate that kind of lethal effect.
You can read more about our full range of bed bug treatment techniques to understand what actually works. Or, fill in the form below to get in touch with a local bed bug expert — we're always happy to help.
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