Topic: What's eating my broad beans?

[kippers garden]

Has anyone got an idea what could be eating my broad beans?  There are nibbles around all the leaves.  I've found a little beatle thing on one that is brown colour but i can't tell if it has wings or not.  It is about 2-3mm long....has anyone got any idea..will they kill my beans or can i ignore them?  (i garden organically).

Thanks

I've just been on the internet, i think it is the pea and bean weevil.  What do i do?  Will they kill my newly planted beans as well as the ones i planted a couple of months ago?
Does anyone know how i can get rid of them organically?

[Multiveg]

Yep, pea and bean weevil, the little sods. Organic - well, finger and fumb method is what I use. You can gently shake the broad bean plant and if you have a piece of paper underneath, you can catch the blighters and massacre how you wish.
On larger plants, damage may be minimal, but on seedlings, well, vigilance is required.

[kippers garden]

Thanks...i'm just hoping they are big enough to survive.  I only planted my last lot out two days ago (these are approx 8cm high)  hope they survive!...wish me luck!

[saddad]

Mine always look tatty at this time but usually grow through it... not getting going the same in this dry spell though!
 :-\

[pye]

Is this weevil damage?

These are about 16" tall, are they big enough to grow out of it or do I need to Take Measures >:(?

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

damage? they're nearly perfect

[Robert_Brenchley]

Something's obviously had a nibble, but unless the leaves start looking like colanders, it won't bother them. Every year my Great Mullein gets reduced to lacework by Mullein Moth caterpillars; every year the moths pupate, and the mullein shoots up and produces five foot high flowering spikes.