Speaker
Nick Seiter
Field Crop Entomologist
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Nick Seiter is a Field Crop Entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He develops management recommendations for insect pests of corn and soybean. He has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Entomology from Purdue University and a PhD in Entomology from Clemson University. Current areas of research include managing Bt-resistant corn rootworm, characterizing the pest and beneficial insect population inhabiting cover crops, and developing economic thresholds for soybean defoliators.