Nico Moiroux

@nmoiroux.bsky.social

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Research scientist · Mosquito 🦟 and Vector-borne disease Ecology · MIVEGEC @ird-fr.bsky.social 🇫🇷 · Pôle de Zoologie Médicale @ Institut Pasteur Dakar 🇸🇳 https://nmoiroux.github.io/

A living mosquito in a collection box with pinned individuals
An mosquito belonging to the Eretmapodites Genus with nice ornaments (yellow thorax, line of silvery scale from head abdomen, abdomen black with lateral patch of silvery scales)
First page of the article entitled "Efficacy of non-pyrethroid indoor residual spraying or intensive behaviour change communication in combination with long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria control in west Africa: a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, controlled trial"
Weekly number of Chikungunya confirmed cases on Reunion island (2025) showing an exponential trajectory. Data from the Regional Health Agency.
Picture of an anopheles gambiae © IRD - Nil Rahola
Par FX — Lopé National Park river panorama.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10455724
Geographic distribution of members of the A. gambiae complex. A: A. arabiensis (red); B: A. gambiae s.s. (green); C: A. melas (Blue), A. merus (orange), and A. bwambae (cyan); D: A. quadriannulatus (former species A) (yel‐ low), A. amharicus (former A. quadriannulatus B) (magenta) and A. comorensis (cyan circle). In: Speciation in Anopheles gambiae — The Distribution of Genetic Polymorphism and Patterns of Reproductive Isolation Among Natural Populations Written By Gregory C. Lanzaro and Yoosook Lee
A screenshot of the original description of An. gambiae by Giles (1902)
Moustiquaire imprégnée d’insecticide à longue durée au Bénin © IRD - Marc Egrot
Picture of a tree kingfisher taken from my window.
Un simple coup d'œil, jeté sur ce que sera le catalogue complet de l'avenir, suffirait à détruire à jamais le repos d'un entomologiste.
HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan. Reproduction of frontispiece by Robert Taylor Pritchett from the first Murray illustrated edition, 1890: HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan at Monte Sarmiento in Chile.
WHEN eastern Europe has been devastated and its indigenous culture suppressed, it is particularly gratifying to find a band of refugee professors and lecturers combining to keep the stream of their learning from drying up. Polish Science and Learning (No. 2, February 1943, Oxford University Press) is the second of a series of booklets prepared by Polish scholars in Great Britain in collaboration with their British colleagues. An article by Charles Elton on “ The Changing Realms of Animal Life” is contributed as “something new towards maintaining the concept of international co-operation in science after the war is over”,