Orchard Specialist and Assistant Professor in the Horticulture Department,Oregon State University Extension
Nik Wiman is an orchard specialist and assistant professor in the department of horticulture at Oregon State University. He has been engaged in research on brown marmorated stink bug since 2012. This work has included making many of the initial discoveries of the populations of the pest across the states of Oregon and Washington. He has conducted research on pheromones, traps, flight behavior, and biological control with native predators and parasitoids. He played a role in the recent discoveries of the first populations of the exotic egg parasitoid Trissolcus japonicus in Washington and Oregon and has been heading up efforts to redistribute the parasitoid across Oregon.
