It is possible to run an electric current through Tarountula silk, which possesses both the elasticity and strength of the wires used to make power lines, and is far cheaper than artificial wiring. However, early experiments in using these pokemon to electrify Paldea were doomed not through any failings of their own, nor by the birds they occasionally trapped, but by the hostility of Scyther.
Scyther are (apart from their infamous habit of sexual cannibalism) herbivorous pokemon whose blades are used to harvest tree bark when not for self-defense. Yet a dulled Scyther's blade is for good reason a metonym for weakness, and Tarountula silk, in Paldea, provides a common test of strength and a means to sharpen their blades.
One might imagine that Scyther restrict their aggression to stray wires, that they would not mistake a Tarountula ball for the Gordian Knot. Yet it is a surprisingly common sight to witness a Scyther with its blade stuck inside a Tarountula ball. Trapped Scyther will swing at Tarountula with their free blade, but landing a hit against these tiny pokemon with such a restricted range of motion (and typically with their off blade) is no easy feat; still, it is remarkable that so many of them survive.
It speaks to Scyther's credit and size that they, alone among bug pokemon, are imagined in fiction as Tarountula's rival, famously serving as the final enemy in the popular manga "I'm a Tarountula? So what?" although it should be remembered that the protagonist is half human, half Spidops by that point in the story. Most bugs, from Nymble and Scatterbug to even Vespiquen, just get eaten – for the tensile strength and stickiness of Tarountula silk more than compensates for the user's small size.