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.