Our knowledge of the fauna across the United States is patchy, with certain important and diverse regions having little existing data available. The southeastern coastal plain of Georgia and the Carolinas is exceptionally diverse in insects, yet few researchers have documented it. A notable exception was Richard Dominick, who led a massive collecting effort in South Carolina’s Santee delta between 1965 and 1976. His collection of ~30,000 moths and butterflies is held at the University of South Carolina but has not been databased nor has any data from it ever made publicly accessible. Dr. Eric LoPresti was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to photograph and database every specimen held in that collection, and digitize modern collections from both the Santee delta and other under sampled regions of South Carolina and Georgia. In totality, this project will greatly increase the available knowledge of the insect fauna of the southeastern United States.