Roy's Bees

In the 90s a parasitic mite devastated wild bee populations. My dad's friend Roy had this huge bee hive in his barn and somehow they lived through the mite infestation like they were immune somehow. When word of this got out, the military paid him and moved the entire bee hive out of his barn. Nobody knows where they took them or why, they claimed it was to study their immunity to the mites, but then I heard the military was breeding super attack bees, so it must have had something to do with that.