Assorted catch of cichlids from Lake Malawi (Photo Credit: Copyright Olaf Weyl)

A typical Malaise trap set-up in indigenous forest at the Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve: Malaise traps capture many Diptera if put in so called ‘fly patch’, long stretches of open vegetation in forests that insects use to disperse. Malawi, November 2016. (Photo credit: Kurt Jordaens)

Burgert Muller from the National Museum Bloemfontein (South Africa) pinning insects. The pinned insects are then prepared for transport to the collections. Malawi, November 2016. (Photo credit: Kurt Jordaens)

Laban Njoroge (right) from the National Museums Kenya (NMK) and Kurt Jordaens (left) from RMCA inspecting the Syrphidae (hover flies) in the collections of the NMK. December 2016. (Photo courtesy of Kurt Jordaens)

The National Museums of Kenya (shown is a the building at the Nairobi National Museum) is one of the partners in the project. (Photo credit: Kurt Jordaens)

Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs (left) and Burgert Muller (right) from the National Museum Bloemfontein (South Africa) with Kurt Jordaens from the RMCA at the end of their fieldwork in Southern Malawi. November 2016. (Photo courtesy of Kurt Jordaens)

Burgert Muller (left) and Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs (middle) from the National Museum Bloemfontein (South Africa) with Stephen Mphamba from the Forest Research Institute of Malawi checking the capture results of a 6 meter Malaise trap over a stream at the Zomba Plateau, Malawi. November 2016. (Photo courtesy of Kurt Jordaens)