These bees had expensive taste.

A wayward swarm with high-class tastes descended on a tree outside the luxurious Bulgari boutique at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street yesterday.

It was the latest to hit the city since the Board of Health lifted a ban on beekeeping last year.

“It’s swarm season, and someone within a couple hundred yards of here has a hive that hasn’t been inspected” to prevent mass escapes, said Andrew Cote, president of the New York Beekeepers Association.

A passer-by reported the swarm at about noon, 12 feet up a ginkgo tree on 57th near Fifth.

NYPD Officer Anthony Planakis — the department’s bee expert — scooped up most of the 5,000 bees by hand.

The rest were sucked up by a gentle vacuum and all were deposited into a “swarm box” and taken to hives Planakis keeps in Queens.

But the swarm hardly caused a buzz as New Yorkers and tourists passed by mostly unaware.

“Hey, they came to go shopping,” Cote said of the bees.