do udp ports show up on port scanners?

Only if there is an application listening to that specific port that is programmed to send a response based on the packet recieved to a port the scanner machine has open and is listening to. In short, general purpose UDP port scanning won't work. You have to be looking for a specific service.

From nmap man page:

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UDP scans: This method is used to determine which UDP (User Datagram Protocol, RFC 768) ports are open on a host. The tech- nique is to send 0 byte udp packets to each port on the target machine. If we receive an ICMP port unreachable message, then the port is closed. Otherwise we assume it is open. Some people think UDP scanning is pointless. I usually remind them of the recent Solaris rcpbind hole. Rpcbind can be found hiding on an undocumented UDP port somewhere above 32770. So it doesn't matter that 111 is blocked by the firewall. But can you find which of the more than 30,000 high ports it is listening on? With a UDP scanner you can! There is also the cDc Back Ori- fice backdoor program which hides on a configurable UDP port on Windows machines. Not to mention the many commonly vulnerable services that utilize UDP such as snmp, tftp, NFS, etc. Unfortunately UDP scanning is sometimes painfully slow since most hosts implement a suggestion in RFC 1812 (section 4.3.2.8) of limiting the ICMP error message rate. For example, the Linux kernel (in net/ipv4/icmp.h) limits destination unreachable mes- sage generation to 80 per 4 seconds, with a 1/4 second penalty if that is exceeded. Solaris has much more strict limits (about 2 messages per second) and thus takes even longer to scan. nmap detects this rate limiting and slows down accordingly, rather than flood the network with useless packets that will be ignored by the target machine. As is typical, Microsoft ignored the suggestion of the RFC and does not seem to do any rate limiting at all on Win95 and NT machines. Thus we can scan all 65K ports of a Windows machine very quickly. Woop!

So yes, but it might not be accurate.

-Halo7