Principal English Translation:
a type of caterpillar that turns into a butterfly; it lives among the maguey plants; it is beautiful; it is spiky and spiny; long ago it was called the pazotl of the teotl (divinity); another name for it is payatl
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 103v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/103v/images/e026aeac-... Accessed 7 November 2025. See also fol. 104r.