Hey, I might try that! I use those plastic dish scrubbers so have them on hand. Does it recommend any particular flavor or color gatorade?
I don’t mind bringing around more bees. We live next to Corp property and get a lot of honeybees. I would love to find their location out in the woods and steal honey. Our bame is yellowjackets. Those darned things hide nests everywhere. Last year I even had to get one out of the pipe running from our roof gutter into one of my rain barrels!
Once the bee fills up on nectar (or gatorade), it makes a "bee line" to the hive.
A bee, heavily ladened, will fly much slower, but in a direct line back to the hive; the only variable is the height of the nest in a tree.
You can return later with a ladder