Texas, Jan. 20 -- Texas agricultural authorities issued new alerts on January 15 after hundreds of residents reported receiving unidentified seeds through the mail that they had not ordered, according to a report by The Epoch Times (TET).

During the first 15 days of the year alone, officials collected 126 bags of unsolicited seeds that appeared in mailboxes across Texas, the Texas Department of Agriculture said. The state had already logged more than 1,100 bags of such unsolicited seeds over the previous year.

"These packages are arriving faster and spreading wider than ever," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a January 15 statement. Officials fear that seeds delivered through the mail could be invasive plant species or ...