How to fix the "Table 'database.teches' doesn't exist" error?

Not sure why migrate is looking for 'teches' rather than the real table name 'techs'??

File: TechsTableSeeder.php

class TechsTableSeeder extends Seeder {

/**
 * Run the database seeds.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function run()
{
    Eloquent::unguard();

    Tech::create(
        [
        'name'=>'technology',
        'description'=>'...',
        'year'=>'2014'
        ]);

}

} 

Upon php artisan db:seed --class="TechsTableSeeder", I get the following error in Terminal:

[Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'database.teches' doesn't exist (SQL: insert into teches (name, description, year, updated_at, created_at) values (technology, ..., 2014, 2013-12-30 03:23:39, 2013-12-30 03:23:39))

Model Tech.php does exist and was auto-generated through php artisan generate:model

Tech as follows:

class Tech extends Eloquent {
    protected $guarded = array();

    public static $rules = array();
}