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The15thMember:
I thought of that, but she doesn't have the shovel nose of the dung beetles (although maybe some females don't), nor that "linebacker" looking pronotum (the thorax section above the wing casings).  We see dung beetles on our farm all the time, and they also usually reflexively dig between our fingers when we pick them up, and she didn't do that.  My biggest concern is that maybe she was only reflecting green in the sun, and if she hadn't been in direct sunlight, she might just be shiny black.  Here's a picture of a rainbow dung beetle for contrast.     

Terri Yaki:
Depending on how bad you want to know, Reddit has subs where people always know what the bug is when people ask.

The15thMember:
Yeah, I was thinking about maybe putting it on Bugguide's ID request section.  It's a shame the NC Biodiversity Project doesn't have their scarab beetles up yet, or that would be another great place for me to look. 

The15thMember:
The BugGuiders were able to ID it to genus level for me.  It's some sort of earth-boring scarab of the Geotrupes genus.  I was looking in right superfamily, but the wrong family.  :embarassed:  https://bugguide.net/node/view/12537

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