What feeling do you have when you discover an insect around your house? You probably simply want to reach for anything and stomp on them immediately, and for good reasons too. Some of them carry horrible chemicals and can sting you painfully and even fatally.

The creepies are the ones that make you feel the worst; those small, scary critters with so many legs usually make you want to squeeze the life out of them right away.

However, after reading this, you might be hesitant to kill those horrifying-looking centipedes the next time you see them lurking in your toilet.

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.