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Tribune News Service (TNS) Blue Moon on Halloween, Northern Lights creeping south, and now Jupiter and Saturn snuggling close for the first time since the Middle Ages. So goes the year 2020 and all of its memories. To The Garden Guy all of these “Twilight Zone” moments may pale in comparison to the Halley’s Comet-type events that have been happening in the butterfly world thanks to the Heliconian or longwing butterflies. Even though the zebra longwing is the state butterfly of Florida, I assure you it is tropical in nature and like its cousins I’ll be mentioning, is much more common in Central and South America. So, imagine looking out your Georgia window in the summer of 2020 and seeing three at a time feeding on your Truffula Pink gomphrena and swirls of multiples feeding on Luscious lantanas. ....