Fortunately, I was able to intercept and save the life of the female and most of the egg mass and to learn of this taste preference. The adult Broad-Winged Hawks are not as tolerant of campers as originally thought. Most campers are detouring. A microscopic examination of Porcupine quills showed that there is not one barb per quill but a series of barbs ascending up the shaft. The Greenhead flies are earlier this year and vicious.
Blueberries are ripe.
It took only one week for a porcupine carcass to be reduced to bones. I am starting a collection of animal skeletons using roadkills. The dead animals are placed under rocks, or in a wire cage. It is amazing how quickly the bones are cleaned by beetles and larvae, with very little odor. You have to keep checking on the process.