What is "gortyna nitela"

Stalk \Stalk\ (st[add]k), n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. st[ae]l, stel, a stalk. See Stale a handle, Stall.]

1. (Bot.)

   1. The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

   2. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

2. That which resembles the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
   --Grew.

3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.]

   To climb by the rungs and the stalks.
   --Chaucer.

5. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

   2. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

   3. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

   Stalk borer (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a noctuid moth ( Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants, often doing much injury.