Centipedes aren’t eating your wood and they aren’t carrying a fatal disease. House centipedes just want to go after the bugs. Here’s how to keep millipedes and centipedes out of your house.

Centipedes eat everything from silverfish to bed bugs to cockroaches (doing the Lord’s work, my man!). So, if you see a centipede, some experts say, don’t kill them.

Rat lungworm isn’t confined to Asia and the Caribbean anymore: It’s in the U.S. And you don’t have to knowingly eat raw bugs for the disease to strike you.

'House centipedes forage at night for small insects, their larvae, and spiders to eat, so getting rid of spiders and other small pests through vacuuming will help aid with control,' says Scot Hodges.

Hatching out in the spring — which is why people start seeing them in the summer — House Centipedes eat ants, silverfish, beetle larvae, spiders and roaches.

Since house centipedes — which only have 30 feet rather than 100 — like cool, moist places, they are usually found in bathrooms and basements when inside.

When I saw two centipedes in my house last week — one in the kitchen and another in the living room — it occurred to me that I don’t know all that much about them. So, I did some digging.

Centipedes eat everything from silverfish to bed bugs to cockroaches (doing the Lord’s work, my man!). So, if you see a centipede, some experts say, don’t kill them.

Centipedes eat everything from silverfish to bed bugs to cockroaches (doing the Lord’s work, my man!). So, if you see a centipede, some experts say, don’t kill them.