He made these hornets buzz off!
A quick-thinking Brooklyn superintendent fashioned his own makeshift beekeeper suit — out of a window screen and a painter suit — to rid an apartment of aggressive hornets on Tuesday, just weeks after the NYPD’s bee specialist retired.
“Those hornets are sorry they ever messed with me!” said Moises Ayala, 40, super of the apartment building on Leonard and Scholes streets.
Ayala had been minding his own beeswax , when one of the mean little buggers stung him on his head, he said.
“I was just coming outside and suddenly I feel a terrible burning on top of my head. I realized that a huge hornet stung me!” Ayala said.
“It stings something vicious! It really hurt. I decided to look around and I noticed in one of the trees is a pretty nasty looking nest,” he said.
“I was in pain and pretty angry, so I said, ‘That’s it — it’s either you or me,’” he said.
Fearing for tenants’ safety, he called 311 to remove the football-size nest. The city sent cops, who taped off the area— but claimed they could do nothing else, he said.
“Unfortunately, they couldn’t do anything about it. The reason being is that it was really hard to find a bee expert in Brooklyn,” Ayala said.
“I decided to take matters into my own hands,” he said.
He grabbed an $8 plastic painter suit with a hood, taped a screen over the face, like a mask, and slid on construction gloves to cover the skin on his hands, he said.
“I felt like a bee-buster! This was definitely a first for me,” he said.
Once covered, he stuffed the nest in a garbage bag and blasted it with insect killer, walking away without another sting, he said.
The case comes after NYPD’s resident bee specialist Anthony “Tony Bees” Planakis retired earlier this month — leaving the city to fend for itself.
On Aug. 15, cops battled swarm of yellow jackets in at an Upper West Side playground — using an aerosol can of bug killer to exterminate the buzzing menaces.
Planakis came out of retirement briefly last week to tackle a stunning swarm of 50,000 bees living in the ceiling of a Queens condo.
Cops also corralled a hornets next by stuffing it in a garbage bag in the Bronx last week.
On Tuesday, tenants at the building in Williamsburg were left to depend on Ayala, they said.
They were grateful he pulled the brave move, they said.
“I think it’s really cool…That was pretty bold of him,” said Andrew Carothers, 27, who lives in the building with roughly 25 other residents.
“ I appreciate that he was looking out for me and the other tenants. We all could have easily got stung,” he said.
Carothers had seen the hornets himself— but wasn’t sure what to do, he added.
“My girlfriend pointed it out to me last night. It was so close to our doorway. Seeing Moises in that suit is pretty funny. But at least he got the job done!” he said.