Window Help - how to block bugs from entering

I recently posted this information on the LG site and hope it might help with your problem, or at least give you some ideas.  I found there are tiny gaps on both sides, as well as the top and bottom, of my windows to let in skeeters and other unwanted six-legged creatures.  There have been solutions discussed elsewhere, including one excellent one I saw somewhere with pictures, but I can't remember where or by whom and a search of this site did not turn up anything.  Perhaps it was on the Yahoo Group site.

My solution was to take round foam that comes in rolls and stuff it along the sides and top of the windows.  It can be found at hardware stores.  If you can’t find the round, almost any store will have the square type.  I’d suggest the kind without the sticky side as it will be easier to maneuver.  This stuff is about the size of my little finger (I know that's rather ambiguous because my little finger may be larger or smaller than yours, but you get the general idea).  Take a look at the channels at the side and get a thickness that will fill them up.  Be sure to take a blunt object, like the erasure end of a pencil, and stuff it way back into the track along which the shade and screen slides so as not to interfere with its operation.  Do just one side and test the up-and-down motion of the shade before proceeding.  Same with the area at the top where the shade rolls up when it is raised.  You want to be sure the foam does not interfere with this operation as well.  You will need to reach up under the shelf at the top of the window, but it can be done rather easily.  Just don’t pull out too hard as you don’t want to break the plastic frame.

I then took some very small screws and fastened the bottom of the window frame to the walls of the T@B.  There is a gap there to the outside large enough for bugs to enter.  These screws need to be short enough not to go through the wall to the outside.  This operation is made easier by starting the hole with a drill bit smaller than the screws you use.  I know some of you are averse to drilling into your walls, but the screws are in the window frame, then the wall and are not very noticeable.  You will need more than one or two because of the material they are screwed into and you don’t want them to pull out.  I understand some windows may already have some time of foam insulation here, so nothing may need to be done.  If you can find some very thin type of foam to stuff up under here, the screws may not be necessary.

No more skeeters.