In the summer of 2018 I travelled to Novosibirsk, Russia, to do field work in southern Siberia with Galina Azarkina of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals. We travelled to the Kazakhstan border, the beautiful Altai, and the magical Tuva — I in search of Pellenes, Galina in search of aelurillines. I blogged the expedition in my personal blog, and have compiled all the posts here.