Italian hive

Beautiful day today so I inspected the hive with the Italian queen.

The bottom box had lots of empty comb, a little honey and several frames of capped brood.
The middle box had nectar, honey, several frames of capped brood and the queen!
The top box had a little nectar/honey on a couple of frames
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I think the dearth might be occurring now and that might be why the bottom box has more space in it. The queen is still laying eggs and there are more bees in this hive than in the other one so I think it is still expanding. I put a new bucket of syrup on top of the 3 boxes to support continuing growth.

Both hives appear to be healthy right now, but I'm going to start thinking about a mite treatment before the cold weather comes.