What emotion do you experience when you see an insect around your home? You probably just want to grab something and stomp on them right away, and with good reason. Some of them can sting you fatally and horribly and carry nasty poisons.

The creepy ones make you feel the worst; those tiny, frightful creatures with so many legs typically make you want to suffocate them as soon as possible.

But now that you’ve read this, you might be hesitant to kill those ominous-looking centipedes when you encounter them in your toilet the next time.

When you see centipedes moving around the house, it can be quite difficult to resist the urge to squash them. Centipedes can cause you quite the shock. But after hearing how helpful they have been around the house, you might want to just thank them by avoiding killing them going forward.

As it turns out, those squirmy, swiftly moving organisms have been protecting your house from other tiny insects. Around the home, there is an unique kind of centipede that is a little bit shorter than its other wormy cousins and has around 20 legs wrapped around their body.

Those little creatures have served as your home’s invisible pest control, keeping cockroaches, spiders, silverfish, bedbugs, and ants out of your home. They almost devour every arthropod they discover around the house because of their ravenous appetite.