Green beans coming up with no primary leaves.?? Pics

[trunkman]

I planted some 50 green and wax beans about two weeks ago, most of them came up but at least a third of them have no primary leaves, were they cut by some kind of bug or just defective seeds? I haven't seen any insect that does this.. :/

sorry about the small picture, I resized it wrong..

 

[beavis]

I have a few of my beans coming like that as well.

I would also like to know what causes that....

 

[digitS']

Every varmint out there seems to like chewing on bean seedlings.

Two that come immediately to mind are slugs and rabbits.

I bet mice should also be likely suspects . . .

Steve

 

[bid]

Don't count out pill bugs aka roly poly. They are wearing out my squash seedlings right now. They are eating them about as fast as they pop up.

 

[seedcorn]

there is also bean beetles.

 

[wifezilla]

At my house the culprits are rolly pollys and earwigs. Fortunately DE and/or finely crushed eggs shells seems to keep them from destroying my beans. Chinese red noodle beans are the ones I seem to have the most problem with.