Zoë Kravitz actually turned a honey lure on the purple carpet this week — a bee bee-lined straight at her … however fortunately for her, Austin Butler buzzed in as her knight in shining armor!

Catch the excitement — Zoë was slaying the carpet on the “Caught Stealing” movie premiere in London with costar Austin and director Darren Aronofsky Wednesday … till somebody warned her a bee was circling. She immediately freaked, asking the place it was like she was in a horror flick.

The second Zoë noticed the bee, she misplaced it — straight up declared she was accomplished, and bolted off the carpet. Just a few beats later, she got here again … however so did her winged stinger-stalker!

Not Austin’s first rodeo with rogue bees — he pulled the identical clean transfer at Cannes in the course of the “Eddington” premiere when Emma Stone was the one getting buzzed.