What's eating my kentucky wonder pole bean?

Kentucky Wonder pole beans are targeted by Mexican bean beetles, bean leaf beetles, aphids, and Japanese beetles. Slugs damage young seedlings. Rabbits and deer browse foliage. The Mexican bean beetle is the worst pest — larvae and adults skeletonize leaves from below, rapidly defoliating entire plants if not caught early.

Skeletonized leaves with only the upper epidermis remaining; larvae feed in groups on leaf undersides Hand-pick egg clusters and larvae, apply neem oil or spinosad, introduce Pediobius foveolatus parasitoid wasps

Skeletonized leaves with intact veins; adults feed in groups on upper foliage Hand-pick adults in the morning into soapy water, apply pyrethrin, use milky spore on lawn grubs

Sticky, curled growing tips; stunted pods; sooty mold Water blast, insecticidal soap, encourage hoverflies and ladybugs

Clean-cut stems and browsed foliage, especially on young plants near garden edges Hardware cloth fencing 2–3 ft tall (rabbits) or 8 ft (deer), repellent sprays, or plant adjacent deterrent herbs