Shawnee County received a grant in 2021 to continue mosquito surveillance activities in our community. We are able to monitor mosquitoes weekly with the help of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Biological Survey. We use the data collected to be proactive with control activities in Shawnee County to protect the public from diseases such as West Nile Virus.

The graph below is updated weekly and provides weekly cumulative totals from all Shawnee County trap locations in 2025 compared to the corresponding totals from 2022, 2023 and 2024. Due to a reduction in State funding the 2025 Mosquito Surveillance season did not start until June 27 (week 7) and will end October 22 (week 24):