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Kenneth Matthew Rogers 12.07.1922 – 21.02.2001 Compiled from personal recollections and the assistance of his family (son Ian and daughter Cathy) By Peter B Munday (A.I.S.T. Rtd.) Copy Right Preface In the late 1960’s I was employed as an Experimental Officer by the Tobacco Research Board of Rhodesia on the Kutsaga Station. At that time I was working in the Entomology Department developing pesticide application techniques and screening insecticides against a number of insect pests in the soil and on the tobacco leaf. Because of the outbreak of the voracious leaf eating caterpillar, commonly called ‘lace worm’ ( Spodoptera littoralis ) in the Centenary farming area north of the then capital city of Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe) we were requested to evaluate the efficiency of an insecticide formulation based on monocrotophos*.(* subsequently de registered and withdrawn from the market) The tobacco field to be sprayed by aircraft was on Phillip de la’ Fa...