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Once the cell is capped the bee will emerge in about 9 days.
The queen usually starts laying in a circle about the center of the frame. Working her way outward. The center bees usually hatch first.
If you pick up a frame that the center has hatched or is hatching then you know the next batch will hatch tomorrow.
This is not set in stone but you get the picture.
 

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When they have a frame the way they want it there will be a honey/pollen band coming up the sides and over most of the top. Generally just an inch or two wide.
This depends a lot on where in the box the frame came from and how well they have their nest set up.

If you looked at the hive in 3-D the brood nest would be a roundish ball in the lower center. It would be surrounded by honey on top with honey/pollen on the sides.
 
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