The city's mosquito control program is doing well so far this summer, helped along by dry conditions and provincial funding to help fight the West Nile virus, says the city's parks planner, Claude Morin.

Due to the West Nile, the city applied for provincial funding and received matched funding up to a maximum of $10,000.

Morin said Weyburn has always had a mosquito control program where they larvicide standing water and creek water to kill off mosquito larvae before they hatch. The larvicide is non-lethal to other organisms, including humans.

"We've been treating since early spring, in May and early June. We did see a fair number of larvae. We map out the areas that we treat. By the latter half of June and early July, those sites have dried up. There are some creek beds with larvae that we're treating and have found very few left," said Morin.

The city also has mosquito traps for the province, and the insects are sent in regularly for testing to see the particular carrier of West Nile has shown up here yet. It's been so dry lately, said Morin, there are some days when no mosquitoes are caught at all.

The city likely won't use its maximum allotment of funds this year, Morin said.

As for signs of West Nile, dead crows found in Regina and Estevan have tested positive for the disease, but no crows from Weyburn have tested positive yet. Collection of dead crows in this area is being done by conservation officers.